David Walker

• Are insurers' outsourcing agreements contracts 'made in heaven'?

  29 January 2024

  Investment management agreements lock in some tasty fees for managers signing on the dotted line, but insurance CIOs increasingly expect a wide scope of 'extras' to boot

  

• Comment - Evergrande fails to live up to its name, but will China's insurers survive its death-knell?

  29 January 2024

  Hong Kong court today told Chinese property developer seeking a stay of its liquidation, 'enough is enough'

• Chart of the Week - Sumitomo Life's yen for outsourcing, and plans for more of it, in the future

  26 January 2024

  The Japanese lifer has fresh independent asset managers in its sights

• Dai-ichi group reveals where JPY 109bn in outsourcing deals with new AMs went

  26 January 2024

  Japanese group plans further young-manager allocations, it says

• Sumitomo Life invests in dementia care specialist Trinity

  26 January 2024

  Japanese insurer uses Sumisei Innovation fund

• Meiji Yasuda Life plans "full-scale" introduction of generative AI from April

  25 January 2024

  While revealing how it already use the technology in its investments

• Comment - Contract terms, from fees to T&Cs, in insurance outsourcing agreements

  25 January 2024

  Investment management agreements say how CIOs and asset managers should work together. David Walker peeks inside...

  

• WR Berkley reports eye-watering improvement in interest income

  25 January 2024

  Almost 75% of total portfolio is of fixed maturity

• Sumitomo Life highlights macro HF outsourcing among new manager allocations

  25 January 2024

  Japanese lifer spells out investment and delegating plans to 2030

• PE backers to stoke US annuity market even as lapse payouts top premiums

  23 January 2024

  AM Best sees new PE- and AM-backed underwriters as fuelling competition