David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • NN's CEO feels personal relief in settling unit-linked sales litigation

    29 February 2024

    Risk of further litigation "limited" in part by previous compensation, NN says

  • SJP's surrenders topped £7.5bn in 2023

    28 February 2024

    But life wealth manager's funds hit record high

  • Comment: Why working from home matters for insurers' solvency capital requirement

    28 February 2024

    The 'future of work' is tied, via Solvency II rules, to the future of European insurers' capital requirements

  • German lifers' optimism for fund-linked sales outshines all other policy types

    27 February 2024

    GDV surveyed lifers, and other underwriters, in Q4 2023

  • T&D Financial Life helps customers see the future of their investments - using AI

    27 February 2024

    Japanese lifer is offering an AI engine to foretell direction of fund unit prices

  • Insurers lead South Korea financial firms in KRW 32trn foreign property allocations

    27 February 2024

    Financial Supervisory Service has published data for September

  • Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG

    26 February 2024

    Shareholders of Japan's insurers pocketed 150% since Q1 2020 while the Topix made 98% - so do the sector's governance issues matter?

  • Alpha from outsourcing jumps five-fold since 2023 at Suncorp

    26 February 2024

    But CFO expects it to more than halve in future

  • New head of asset management at Dai-ichi Life

    26 February 2024

    Takashi Iida takes on new role

  • Chart of the Week - How IMAs could spell out the future of PE ownership of insurers

    23 February 2024

    Fee rates, and other T&Cs in the IMAs of PE houses and the consolidators they own, may attract (unwanted) regulatory attention