David Walker

• 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"

• NN still hunting at home for higher investment yields

  18 November 2016

  Dutch insurer could buy yet more mortgages

• Insurtech VC fund aims to halve Solvency II capital charge

  16 November 2016

  Insurer-only fund should quality as strategic investment

• Generali to spearhead investment sales with volatility-controlled strategies

  11 November 2016

  Reveals rich pickings from unit-linked sales

• Can investment consultants build a bridge to insurers?

  09 November 2016

  Chief investment officers tell many tales of incompetent and tactless advisors, but admit they do sometimes need help navigating the investment landscape. David Walker investigates the future of the relationship