David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • 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

  • Mosaic blends investment management and cyber cover in new offering

    23 February 2024

    Package combines professional indemnity, investment management insurance, directors and officers, crime, and cyber cover

  • Pimco earns €2m a day in performance fees in 2023

    23 February 2024

    Voya IM pays €29m dividend

  • Nippon Life plans foreign bond buying for foreign-FX endowment insurance

    23 February 2024

    Among other insurers YoY foreign-FX exposure is fairly immobile