David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • UK insurers safe from 'hard Brexit' house price falls

    14 September 2018

    Insurance Risk Data reveals profile of residential investments

  • EU supervisory body warns insurers over Turkish exposures

    12 September 2018

    Report urges regulators and underwriters to step up risk monitoring

  • Just to challenge PRA over treatment of equity release mortgages

    06 September 2018

    Company considers more reinsurance in case consultation ends badly

  • Volatilità spurs Italian insurers to review portfolios

    04 September 2018

    Italy's underwriters long understood their sovereign debt was not riskless. This year's jolts only intensified their search for other investments, as David Walker reports

  • Moody’s warns Apollo about shifting Aspen’s investments

    29 August 2018

    Caution comes even though Aspen UK holds only 5% in shares

  • Selling investments pushes German life firms into safe territory...just

    24 August 2018

    More than one in every five euros of return comes from selling assets

  • Munich Re and Guggenheim deal talks fall flat

    24 August 2018

    German insurer was to buy stake in asset manager or US financial conglomerate

  • Austria: Eastern Promise Beckons for Asset Managers

    23 August 2018

    Austrians' expanding businesses in eastern Europe, a commitment to ESG and their suffering at the hands of miserable debt yields, makes the country a market worth investigating in. David Walker reports.

  • Allianz doubly affected by Italian bridge collapse

    22 August 2018

    Investment formed part of Allianz’s infrastructure push

  • Low-yield environment increases insurers appetite for illiquid assets

    22 August 2018

    Corporate bonds remain most popular investment for non-life insurers