David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • AMP Capital develops taste for passive management

    19 April 2017

    Affiliate's mandates for UBS Asset Management show not only pensions in Australia want low cost

  • Japanese pension interest in hard assets contagious for insurers, says AMP Capital

    12 April 2017

    Affiliate manager expects global deployment of capital into infrastructure and property

  • Lloyd's syndicates slide down credit spectrum to boost returns

    12 April 2017

    Reduced exposure to sovereign and AAA-rated bonds

  • Japanese insurers urged to engage directly as shareholders

    11 April 2017

    Firms have four weeks to comment on revised stewardship guidelines

  • German watchdog gets tough over 'closet-tracker' funds

    06 April 2017

    New prospectus rules designed to help insurers identify true active management

  • Baloise hires two property experts from independent asset managers

    06 April 2017

    Appointments to help Swiss insurer expand sales of investment products

  • 'Trump effect' and alternatives boost 2016 returns for Lloyd's syndicates

    06 April 2017

    Illiquid credit, equities and hedge funds favoured by some at the expense of sovereign exposure

  • Alternatives shine for Lloyd's syndicates

    05 April 2017

    Following the insights gleaned on rising manager fees and falling yields for Lloyd's syndicates, David Walker shines light on the well-performing fraction of alternative investments made by the sector in 2015.

  • Investment expenses jumped as yields fell for Lloyd's syndicates

    03 April 2017

    As Lloyd's syndicates begin to report their 2016 results, David Walker looks back at the 2015 figures and finds that investment expenses rose about 10% in 2015, but yields fell almost 40%.

  • Vaudoise engineers investment pragmatism into design of life insurance

    29 March 2017

    Swiss group seeks property and mortgages in 2017