David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Taiju Life buys into Inter-American Development Bank bond

    25 June 2024

    Proceeds will be assigned to sustainability projects benefitting the Amazon rainforest

  • BMA said to tighten screws over re/insurers' related-party investments

    25 June 2024

    Pre-approval now needed, as PE ownership structure under microscope again

  • French regulator tightens screws on insurers and greenwashing risk

    24 June 2024

    Retail investment products form the focus on group organised by the ACPR and AMF

  • Sumitomo Life issues sustainability-linked loan under new financing framework

    21 June 2024

    Five-year loan links to GHG cuts by Nippon Thomson

  • South Korea's FSS warns of "fallout from increasing uncertainty and volatility" in financial markets

    21 June 2024

    But conglomerates grew capital adequacy as K-ICS kicked in

  • COTW - Round the World with SFCRs - Iberian peninsula where core fixed income is king

    21 June 2024

    High-grade corporates and debt, mainly local, were dislodged rarely by other investments in Spain's and Portugal's GAs last year

  • Investment strength helps Japan's largest insurers improve profits and solvency in 2024

    18 June 2024

    But FX hedging costs rose nonetheless, FSA finds

  • Chart of the Week: Round the World - with Scandinavian/Nordic SFCRs

    14 June 2024

    Equities stormed on, but in other ways insurers' solvency filings revealed last year was "a mirror image of 2022"

  • German insurers had about two-thirds of basic capital requirement in market risk in 2023

    13 June 2024

    New analysis examined solvency data of 178 German firms on standard formula

  • Frankfurter Leben reveals further dive into private markets in 2023

    13 June 2024

    Private and real estate debt, as well as infrastructure equity, got additional injections from consolidator last year