David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Allianz invests $1bn in China’s Taiking Life

    07 November 2019

    Goldman Sachs sells 4% stake in the fifth-largest Chinese life underwriter

  • Generali investment AuM soar on boutique purchases

    07 November 2019

    External assets more than double at Italy’s largest underwriter

  • German insurers call on Christine Lagarde to normalise monetary policy

    05 November 2019

    ‘Unconventional policy measures’ should be for crises only, says GDV

  • Brexit blows hot and cold for insurers' outsourcing relationships

    05 November 2019

    In the face of growing uncertainties around the date and terms of Brexit, underwriters with UK operations are leaning ever more heavily on their chosen asset managers for help, advice and expertise. David Walker reports

  • AMP Capital sets ambitious ESG targets in decade-long programme

    04 November 2019

    Manager to create conservation project as large as its property portfolio

  • AIG hikes credit holdings but warns of low rates' impact on the industry

    04 November 2019

    Customer annuity buying habits is limiting surrender risk, US insurer adds

  • IMF calls for compulsory holdings of liquid investments amid rising risk

    17 October 2019

    Fund points to risk of cross-border contagion as life insurers seek better yields in foreign investments

  • Axa Equitable Life seeds AllianceBernstein’s loan business

    15 October 2019

    The syndicated loan and CLO venture expands on the relationship between AB and Axa Equitable Holdings

  • Länsförsäkringar warns non-European managers to raise their game on ESG

    15 October 2019

    Swedish mutual has fired managers unprepared to apply its exclusion criteria

  • Länsförsäkringar introduces transition criteria to coal divestment policy

    14 October 2019

    Swedish insurer hopes to encourage corporates on a sustainable pathway