David Walker

• Arch Capital delivers 'mixed messages' about external outsourcing in 2023

  14 August 2024

  Returns undershot complex benchmark in 2023, but beat it the year before

• French lifers sigh in relief as products still beat the Livret A alternative

  14 August 2024

  But life and group policies' revaluation rates in 2023 lagged both OATs and elevated inflation

• APAC Weekly - European M&A sits high on APAC insurers' agendas (and, seemingly, vice versa, too)

  13 August 2024

  But Allianz's Singapore deal shows 'two can play that game'

• Japan P&I Club boosts investment target as equities and bonds hit previous goal

  13 August 2024

  Cites prospect of higher local interest rates for change

• Nippon Life makes first start-up investment with JPY 5bn LP

  13 August 2024

  Nippon AM and Nissay Capital have JPY 35bn funds for local, early-stage investments

• Sumitomo Life puts JPY 1bn behind its first university VC firm allocation

  13 August 2024

  Tokyo's Keio University gave birth to the KII Impact Fund

• Allianz raises prospect of M&A to grow Pimco unit, not to sell AM businesses

  12 August 2024

  Fixed income-focused affiliate drove net inflows to Allianz in H1

• QBE to lose $1.6bn of investment assets in North American reinsurance deal

  09 August 2024

  Australian groups also building a HTM portfolio to improve rates risk

• Strategic equity sales boost quarterly result at Tokio Marine

  08 August 2024

  But Japanese group reveals provisioning for CRE loan losses in international business

• PIMCO leads Allianz's third-party asset gathering in 2024

  08 August 2024

  Insurer has kept reinvestment yields fairly stable year on year