David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • French lifers sigh in relief as products still beat the Livret A alternative

    14 August 2024

    But life and group policies' revaluation rates in 2023 lagged both OATs and elevated inflation

  • APAC Weekly - European M&A sits high on APAC insurers' agendas (and, seemingly, vice versa, too)

    13 August 2024

    But Allianz's Singapore deal shows 'two can play that game'

  • Japan P&I Club boosts investment target as equities and bonds hit previous goal

    13 August 2024

    Cites prospect of higher local interest rates for change

  • Nippon Life makes first start-up investment with JPY 5bn LP

    13 August 2024

    Nippon AM and Nissay Capital have JPY 35bn funds for local, early-stage investments

  • Sumitomo Life puts JPY 1bn behind its first university VC firm allocation

    13 August 2024

    Tokyo's Keio University gave birth to the KII Impact Fund

  • Allianz raises prospect of M&A to grow Pimco unit, not to sell AM businesses

    12 August 2024

    Fixed income-focused affiliate drove net inflows to Allianz in H1

  • QBE to lose $1.6bn of investment assets in North American reinsurance deal

    09 August 2024

    Australian groups also building a HTM portfolio to improve rates risk

  • Strategic equity sales boost quarterly result at Tokio Marine

    08 August 2024

    But Japanese group reveals provisioning for CRE loan losses in international business

  • PIMCO leads Allianz's third-party asset gathering in 2024

    08 August 2024

    Insurer has kept reinvestment yields fairly stable year on year

  • GSAM and Digital Bridge win fund-based infrastructure mandates in Japan

    06 August 2024

    Sumitomo Life and Dai-ichi Life are making separate infrastructure fund investments