David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Gothaer to build and buy kindergartens in Germany

    04 October 2018

    Investment adds to €150m in domestic care homes

  • Italian insurers' path to diversification

    02 October 2018

    Industry veteran Michele Gaffo, formerly the CIO of Allianz Italia and Poste Vita now at asset management firm DWS, tells David Walker how Italian reinsurers are reacting to the latest spike in volatility and getting ready for the next one.

  • French want US special relationship crown

    24 September 2018

    Home bias in credit and debt investments revealed by Insurance Risk Data analysis

  • Non-life sector turns to investing as underwriting falters

    21 September 2018

    Analysis by Insurance Risk Data of combined ratios reveals reallocating is one of many 'levers' insurers can pull to bolster profits. David Walker reports

  • Vaudoise investment results stable at H1

    19 September 2018

    Annualised returns from its CHF 7.4bn investment portfolio were 1.4%

  • Private equity and co-investing hotspots for outsourcing

    18 September 2018

    Survey finds continued high interest in private market investing

  • 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