David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Insurer of Danish academics could suffer complete collapse of shareholdings and remain solvent

    13 June 2024

    Akademikernes Pensionskassen SFCR reveals fate of solvency ratio after stress-tests

  • Alternatives prove their worth, again, for Germany's DEVK group

    13 June 2024

    Non-mainstream assets did better than fixed income and were steadier than shares since 2022

  • Moody's upgrades Hanwha Life for tackling negative spread in legacy book

    12 June 2024

    But agency warns about ongoing "elevated" asset risks with "sizeable exposure" to local project finance and foreign CRE

  • Comment - 'Energy wars' reopen the political risk frontline for renewables in Australia

    12 June 2024

    Investors rightly skeptical about backing renewables in Australia, as politicians backflip

  • RGA names Axel André its next CFO replacing Todd Larson

    12 June 2024

    André joins from American Equity Investment Life Insurance this month

  • Nippon Life takes solvency hit for boosting investment risk

    10 June 2024

    Investment yield margin improved in the year to March 2024

  • Japan's earthquake risk reinsurer buys into social bond

    10 June 2024

    Underwriter now holds 46 social, green and sustainability-linked issues

  • Alternative asset expansion in Europe's GAs topped core fixed income growth in 2023

    07 June 2024

    Infrastructure funds' 10.3% increase more than tripled core fixed income build-up

  • Comment - Why EIOPA's latest investment statistics have 'something for everyone'

    07 June 2024

    From alts to the core of GAs, and local government debt exposure, everyone had something to cheer about

  • Round the World with SFCRs - German insurers welcome interest rates tailwinds, but explore alts 'just in case'

    07 June 2024

    Fixed income and equities performance in 2023 wiped out write-downs many German insurers made in 2022