David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Sustainable assets do not equal low-risk, warns German regulator

    03 May 2018

    BaFin cautions against ESA review creating “bureaucratic monster”

  • PRA to review life insurers' risk taking in "complex" illiquid investments

    09 April 2018

    A lack of external credit ratings and observable market prices makes it difficult to assess insurers' risk-taking in increasingly popular illiquid asset classes, according to the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).

  • Swiss Re US earnings face volatility from GAAP accounting change

    04 April 2018

    Swiss Re has warned investors that new US accounting methods for equity and some alternative investments could lead to greater volatility in its US earnings when stock markets fluctuate.

  • BaFin issues blunt warning on infrastructure investments

    03 April 2018

    Germany's insurance regulator has warned underwriters against making infrastructure investments unless they fully grasp the "high complexity and heterogeneity" of the popular asset class.

  • Equity volatility: how safe is your portfolio?

    19 March 2018

    Equity volatility is back. After a muted 2017, things went a little haywire for equities in February. But are these tremors or the start of something bigger? And how should insurers react? By David Walker

  • Talanx equity sales help feed life reserve fund

    19 March 2018

    Talanx posted an 11.3% rise in income from investments in 2017 and crystallised gains—largely on its shareholdings—to help feed the mandatory reserve fund for its life business.

  • Partner Re's equity-like investments leap in 2017 ahead of possible equity market fall

    14 March 2018

    Partner Re saw its investment results jump from $414m in 2016 to $720m last year, thanks to rising share markets and price increases as spreads in fixed income tightened.

  • Hannover Re attributes record investment result to sale of listed equities

    13 March 2018

    Overall return of 3.8% helped by private equity portfolio

  • French insurers welcome EC sustainable investment proposals

    12 March 2018

    "FFA joins growing support for EC paper"

  • Aviva tells affiliate manager to find more illiquid investments

    08 March 2018

    Aviva has put finding more external business and more illiquid assets on this year's agenda for its affiliate manager, Aviva Investors.