David Walker

• China's insurance asset managers reveal their confidence in equities, fixed interest and macro variables

  02 February 2024

  China Insurance AM Association has published Q1 2024 survey of sector

• Chart of the Week - As a €21bn deal is scuppered by BaFin, have PE owners run out of road for life book sales?

  02 February 2024

  German regulator's refusal to Zurich and Viridium seems bad news for insurers owned by PE

• German backbook deals and run-offs - a €150bn asset industry since 2014

  01 February 2024

  Moody's examined 14 deals, completed, pending and scuttled

• Meiji Yasuda Life makes locally-beneficial fund investment

  01 February 2024

  JPY 5bn invested in equity investment trust established and run by affiliate Meiji Yasuda AM

• Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation

  01 February 2024

  PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal

• Comment - Are PE owners facing the end of their life backbook consolidation journey?

  31 January 2024

  After BaFin's move on Zurich and Viridium, the future seems uncertain if 'PE ownership' breaks deals

• Nearly 2,000 European insurers have GAs smaller than in Zurich/Viridium's scuppered deal

  31 January 2024

  BaFin has stopped life backbook deal involving €21bn of assets

• Zurich's German life backbook deal, with €21bn assets, with Virdium falls apart

  30 January 2024

  'Project Sander' was to involve investment assets linked to 724,000 policies, German unit's SFCR said

• China Life reveals asset size, and investment plans

  30 January 2024

  Group divulged aspects of its GA at a January conference

• Meiji Yasuda Life reveals private assets and outsourcing plans

  29 January 2024

  Japanese group has over $4bn earmarked for private assets