David Walker

• Italy's lifers tap general accounts, and parental purses, as lapse risk endures in 2023

  17 April 2024

  SFCRs describe levels, and ways to combat, lapse risk

• Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights

  17 April 2024

  The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers

  

• SFCRs shine light on German legacy life books, and investments, of Zurich and AXA

  16 April 2024

  Groups have planned, with mixed success, to sell the back-books to consolidators Viridium and Athora, respectively

• Aviva reveals make-up of MA investment portfolio

  16 April 2024

  MA assets now represent about 42% of general account

• Insurance Risk Data collecting key data and reports from breadth and width of Europe's insurance industry

  12 April 2024

  Undertakings have published their annual solvency filings for 2023

• Chart of the Week - Do PE-linked Lloyd's syndicates take more investment risk?

  12 April 2024

  With PE links to insurers in the sights of regulators worldwide, we investigate the fair value hierarchy of some at Lloyd's

• New research unpicks shortcomings in LDI industry during 2022 gilts crisis

  11 April 2024

  Researchers say Bank of England intervention "offset dysfunction" in gilts market

• Syndicate linked to hedgie David Einhorn halves losses in 2023

  11 April 2024

  Lloyd's syndicate backs fintechs backed by Einhorn's reinsurer

• What lurks below - Lloyd's syndicates shine a light on 'level 3' illiquid holdings

  11 April 2024

  While liquid bonds dominate syndicates' general accounts, liquidity analysis reveals there is more to investment portfolios at Lloyd's

  

• Dai-ichi Life makes first sustainability-linked loans worth JPY 12bn

  10 April 2024

  Lifer plans more such lending "as a responsible institutional investor"