David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Insurance Risk Data publishes 200-page Europe & Bermuda outsourcing report

    17 September 2019

    Details provided for 1,100 investment mandates

  • Longer-term products push Chinese life firms into more property, alternatives

    16 September 2019

    Fitch expects Hong Kong-listed companies to want more strategic equities, too

  • How Europe's insurers are falling out of love with their governments

    16 September 2019

    Local sovereigns often took biggest culls from general accounts in 2018, Eiopa data shows

  • Eiopa reveals 12.9% of insurers’ investments exposed to climate risk

    13 September 2019

    EU financial regulators publish report on risk and vulnerability in EU financial system

  • Investment returns of median insurer fail to cover guarantees

    12 September 2019

    Eiopa reveals a 1.4% shortfall

  • BlackRock takes top prize in insurance mandates, Insurance Risk Data reveals

    11 September 2019

    BlackRock, Neam, Conning and Goldman Sachs are underwriters’ ‘favourites’ by the number of mandates awarded

  • European insurers fall short on FX scenario testing

    05 September 2019

    Less than one-quarter of Europe’s largest firms publish results of currency stress testing, according to research by Insurance Risk Data. David Walker reports

  • Reinsurers increasingly exposed to asset risk, but liability risk still the main focus

    03 September 2019

    Rating agencies Moody’s and S&P Global have published their 2020 reinsurance outlook noting slight changes in investment risk appetite. Though marginal at this stage, the change could become significant in five to 10 years’ time. David Walker and Vincent Huck report

  • Europe's non-life sector relies on investments as one-third of underwriting loses money

    30 August 2019

    Irish underwriters did worst in 2018 while investment teams struggled, too, Insurance Risk Data finds

  • French insurers continue push into unit-linked world

    23 August 2019

    But their net sales of investment products slowed appreciably in 2018