David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Comment - Lapse risk, SFCRs and getting more transparency into Italian insurers

    22 April 2024

    Nine data cells reveal the stress that sent one prominent lifer to the wall

  • Rescuers of Eurovita divulge details of IVASS' bail-out plan in SFCRs

    22 April 2024

    Lifer faced redemption and solvency pressure before rivals took on assets, and policies

  • Prudential Life buys into shipping green bond for 1.175% coupon

    19 April 2024

    While Nippon Life develops precinct in Kobe city

  • Chart of the Week - Uniform SCR-breakdown for IM users becomes possible, for non-UK Insurers, at least...

    19 April 2024

    A new EIOPA reporting template has made it possible to see uniform breakdown of IM and PIM users' Solvency II risk modules

  • Comment: EIOPA fires its own starting gun on actually implementing Solvency II reform

    18 April 2024

    Small yet pivotal parts of SFCRs for non-UK firms have been amended, with significantly better transparency one result

  • Comparable SCR data appears for internal model users in Europe, from revised reporting requirements

    18 April 2024

    New and amended Solvency II data templates are now being published by non-UK internal model users

  • "Bonds are back" - Goldilocks appears for Lloyd's syndicates' fixed income holdings

    18 April 2024

    Not a big bad bear was in sight when syndicates published annual reports in March, but many warned of elevated geopolitical instability risks

  • 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