David Walker

• Historic correlation assumptions set to change, actuaries warned

  02 May 2024

  Function of commodities and interest rates in portfolios may be tested in new world order

• Comment - Insurance regulators confront crypto currencies

  02 May 2024

  Pronouncements by watchdogs about digital tenders seem to be softening, though not warming, to the asset class

• Hong Kong regulator sets out stance on insurers' capital and crypto asset investments

  02 May 2024

  But door perhaps left ajar, for central banks' digital currencies

• CIOs act further on climate investing in 2023, as Nat Cats give underwriters a 'breather'

  02 May 2024

  In severe 'Nat Cat years' before 2023, CIOs at Lloyd's acted as 'cash registers', disgorging cash to meet steep property claims. Last year, a 'break in the weather' let them 'take stock', and many seized that 'down-time' to progress climate-investing with managers and funds

  

• French insurers emphasise liquid investing, as lapse risk keeps biting

  01 May 2024

  French insurers emphasise liquid investing, as lapse risk keeps biting

• Sterling LDI fund managers face 300bps liquidity buffer

  01 May 2024

  Asset managers gave mixed reviews of CSSF's proposals during consultation

• Newton IP wins Japanese insurance engagement outsourcing

  30 April 2024

  As part of insurer's emerging managers programme

• Chinese life investment yields in 2023 revealed

  30 April 2024

  Fitch welcomes cooling in major firms' investment return assumptions

• Hong Kong considering future capital-factor incentives for infrastructure investments

  26 April 2024

  Green bond discount, and rejection of time-lag for asset valuations, published by Insurance Authority today

• Chart of the Week - Hong Kong's RBC rules and their capital charges for CIOs

  26 April 2024

  The risk-factor charges Hong Kong's CIOs will apply under RBC appeared in a long document today, for various asset classes and risk types