David Walker

• Equities and hedge funds inspire Varma's best quarterly result

  29 April 2021

  Investments made 6%, led by private equity

• NNIP's greatest challenge lies ahead as NN mulls "strategic options"

  28 April 2021

  Breadth of offering may come in handy for NN's affiliate

• UK lifers reveal more about their matching adjustment investments

  27 April 2021

  And where solvency ratios would go, without the MA

• The Famous Five - How CIOs trumped underwriters, again, at Lloyd's

  26 April 2021

  If you want to know when the underwriters at Lloyd's last beat its investors, cast your mind (all the way) back to 2015. The bad luck of Lloyd's underwriters is clear. The good run of its investors is largely to plan, David Walker finds.

  

• Axa commits €2bn to COVID loan fund for SMEs

  26 April 2021

  French insurer reveal their support in 2020 solvency and financial condition reports

• COMMENT: German fixed income - a love affair turned sour, or about to?

  23 April 2021

  What keeps German insurers' CIOs awake at night

• Chart of the week: Why cross-sectional GA analysis matters...

  23 April 2021

  ...and not just for BaFin's Dr Frank Grund

• German life insurer seeking fresh infrastructure and PE funds

  22 April 2021

  VPV made initial investments in classes using Spezialfonds last year

• Hannover Digital finances car cover automation firm

  22 April 2021

  Clearcover will use backing to expand digital insurance

• Consider ditching high climate-risk clients, APRA tells insurers

  22 April 2021

  Scenario testing should include temperatures rises exceeding 4 degrees Celsius