David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Curious and curiouser - the quirky and weird risks, that Lloyd's syndicate CIOs are backing

    15 May 2024

    Got a satellite, a nuclear reactor, a Degas, or a body part to insure? A Lloyd's syndicate will do that - and back the risk in its GA. David Walker peers inside Lloyd's cabinet of insured curiosities

  • South Korean insurers to help lend KRW1trn to struggling project finance sector

    14 May 2024

    Financial Services Commission announced various measures for non-viable projects

  • Chart of the Week - A Eurovision of how insurers' general accounts are composed, by EEA country

    10 May 2024

    Significant diversity in allocations appears, across EIOPA's 30 national industries

  • Sumitomo and SBI Life fund buys into non-cognitive skills promotion

    10 May 2024

    Investee Energize will help develop businesses for childhood education

  • Dai-ichi Life gives coffee trading platform a shot in the arm

    10 May 2024

    Investment is 'responsible', but insurer expects "high returns" too

  • German life consolidators reveal lapse and liquidity risk details in latest SFCRs

    08 May 2024

    All life undertakings discussed experiences, mitigations and examinations of surrenders, in 2023

  • Core competency - Lloyd's syndicates go outsourcing, and not just for peripheral assets

    08 May 2024

    Lloyd's syndicates hire external help for the core of their general accounts, even if delegating makes more headlines when non-mainstream assets are involved

  • 26 North grows assets to $22bn after reinsurance deal with US lifer

    08 May 2024

    Reinsurer of multi-asset investor will work for US National Life Group

  • Viridium adds to investment burden, by doubling guarantee for Generali Leben's policyholders

    08 May 2024

    CEO Tilo Dresig addresses BaFin's stopping Viridium's planned back-book deal with Zurich

  • Dan Loeb's Third Point on a wave, by founding asset-intensive reinsurer Malibu Life Re

    07 May 2024

    Reinsurer already has $3bn quote share deal with annuity underwriter