David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Nippon Life plans VC and start-up fund investments

    23 February 2024

    Plans hatched as insurers trumpet emerging manager allocations

  • Dai-ichi Life and Tokio Marine ring personnel changes

    23 February 2024

    Appoints new CIO

  • Thomas Buberl courts alternative asset managers able to enhance Axa's position

    22 February 2024

    Life book actions are ended, heralding stabilisation of asset management outflows after 2023

  • Comment: Will Japan's FSA succeed where hedge fund activists once failed?

    22 February 2024

    Japan's financial regulator is unpicking a web of shareholdings once decried, in vain, by a UK hedgie

  • 'Great foreign-FX sell-off' misfires among Japan's insurers in 2023

    20 February 2024

    Asset management solvency-risk amounts rise by 17% from March to December

  • Irdai statistics reveal private sector lifers' enthusiasm for infrastructure

    20 February 2024

    Non-state firms' proportion of life fund allocations to real assets double that of state-owned rival

  • T&D Life, Japan Post Insurance and Nippon Life join buyers of Tokyo's 'GX' transition debt

    20 February 2024

    Bond aims to raise JPY 20bn for nation's JPY 150trn decarbonisation push

  • JP Morgan, Amundi win unexpected shout-outs in Thai regulator's insurance ESG disclosure framework

    20 February 2024

    Managers' funds are among ways OIC says CIOs can invest in ESG themes

  • 777 Re demoted again as illiquid asset problem lingers

    19 February 2024

    AM Best wants decrease to affiliated investments to boost 777 Re's capitalisation

  • Sompo brands strategic equities a "Japanese governance issue", which it plans to axe

    19 February 2024

    Incoming CEO wants "nothing" of such holdings, as sell-down accelerates