David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Pimco seals definitive deal with Unicredit for Italy's largest bad loan transaction

    17 July 2017

    Affiliate of Allianz will run special purpose vehicle, along with hedge fund Fortress

  • UK insurers can combat expiry of transitionals, say practitioners

    14 July 2017

    Experts say risk margin and transitional measures expiry need not trigger risk asset sell-off, as predicted by the Bank of England

  • UK life sector appetite for risk assets to drop by one-third

    07 July 2017

    Bank of England posits influence of Solvency II risk margin as the main driver

  • German life underwriters favour funds for new investments

    06 July 2017

    Fund-based investments attracted 43% of fresh allocations made by the sector in 2016

  • Prudential affiliate joins Allianz in emerging markets infrastructure foray

    30 June 2017

    Eastspring Investments commits $500m to World Bank programme

  • Why Aegon, Allianz, Aviva and NN are well prepared for rising rates

    30 June 2017

    Many loans and mortgages offer resilience to interest rate volatility, and with talk of rising rates becoming more frequent – whether through optimism or anticipation – IAR unmasks the largest life insurers' allocations to the lesser-used asset classes. David Walker Reports

  • Solvency II filings reveal extent of life insurers' illiquid investments

    28 June 2017

    Insurance Risk Data, the data service offered by the publishers of IAR, examined the QRTs of Europe's largest life companies that together run €1trn of investments and found they had allocated €375.7bn to five illiquid asset classes. David Walker reports

  • Market risk accounts for almost half of German non-life sector's SCR

    16 June 2017

    Exclusive analysis by Insurance Risk Data shows the German life sector is not alone in facing investment challenges

  • Issues around investment data disappoint insurers and regulators alike

    14 June 2017

    Eiopa expresses surprise at quality of data on mainstream investments

  • Industry surprised by regulators' lack of knowledge about private debt

    13 June 2017

    But practitioners say underwriters need to familiarise themselves, too