David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Japanese lifer picks JP Morgan AM as new equities outsourcing partner

    09 October 2024

    TDF Life selected manager from August for part of variable annuity's asset portfolio

  • Meiji Yasuda injects start-up with capital to improve detection of colon cancer

    09 October 2024

    Boston Medical Sciences in Tokyo benefitted from insurer's CVC fund's injection

  • Chart of the Week - Do European lifers' liquid assets cover their recent policy lapses?

    04 October 2024

    We examine GA and UL/IL asset volumes in light of inaugural data on life policy lapses in 2023

  • APAC Weekly - Forking paths for insurers in APAC's powerhouses: China and Hong Kong

    01 October 2024

    S&P Global Ratings sees a resurgent Hong Kong, but a struggling Mainland China

  • Chart of the Week - Solvency capital at Bermuda's re/insurers, revisited

    27 September 2024

    Bermuda's underwriters took 2023 as an opportunity to replenish, and grow, eligible capital

  • The thorny regulatory issue of PE and Bermudian re/insurers

    23 September 2024

    The BMA has its sights set on parent-originated illiquid investments in the GAs of Bermuda's underwriters

  • Chart of the Week - Are PE owners stripping capital out of Bermudian re/insurers they own?

    20 September 2024

    Any insurance regulator's concern is an owner who takes more than it gives, in capital terms

  • Chart of the Week: IMAs between Bermuda's re/insurers and asset managers revealed in forthcoming research

    13 September 2024

    Terms of Sirius Point's redeeming from Third Point is one part of Insurance Risk Data's study

  • APAC Weekly - Equity returns take off in Chinese giants' 1H results

    10 September 2024

    But another peripheral class - CRE debt finance - takes the sheen off otherwise glowing investment outcomes

  • Illiquidity in Bermudian investment portfolios

    09 September 2024

    Bermudian groups' fair value hierarchies in 2023 analysed by Insurance Risk Data