David Walker

• Raising the stakes in fund management

  07 December 2016

  Insurer-affiliated managers are punching above their weight in a competitive market, taking more than one-third of all fund managers' new business in the first three quarters. David Walker examines the evolving relationship between insurer-parents, affiliates and independent managers.

  

• Industry turns up the heat on MA reform

  05 December 2016

  The industry's opportunity to recommend changes to EU regulation in a post-Brexit world has delivered a comprehensive criticism of the MA. David Walker and Asa Gibson report.

  

• Chinese insurers set for foreign investment spree

  02 December 2016

  Diversifying risks and slumps in yields at home cited as reasons

• Swiss Life affiliate expands property management for Germany

  01 December 2016

  Organic growth complements recent M&A-led expansion in UK

• Dutch insurance watchdog notes significant hurdles to more SME financing

  30 November 2016

  Lack of analysis skills and non-uniformity of market hold sector back, DNB says

• Allianz plans unit to attract more Chinese investors

  28 November 2016

  Intention revealed as Beijing warms again to foreign managers

• Swiss Re urges action on tradability of infrastructure

  25 November 2016

  Change needed for laudable words to become tangible commitment, insurer says

• Investing against terror

  23 November 2016

  Pool Re's chief investment officer Ian Coulman speaks to David Walker about investing on behalf of the UK's terrorism reinsurance pool.

  

• Insurers have stakes in 15% of European fund managers

  22 November 2016

  The business stakes give insurers indirect interest in €2.4trn of assets

• Talanx signals surge in infrastructure investing

  18 November 2016

  Counters sceptics who claim German life insurance "is dead"