David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Comment: What (and when) Bermuda's re/insurers pay hedge fund managers

    21 November 2023

    Details of service agreements between 117 re/insurers and 87 managers are in Insurance Risk Data's latest Bermuda outsourcing report

  • Comment - More money than God? Manulife delivers Michael Hintze (perhaps) his biggest payday

    17 November 2023

    As CQS is bought by Manulife IM, one wonders 'are hedge fund managers paid too much'?

  • Chart of the week: How insurers' market risk SCR looks - in a time of crisis

    17 November 2023

    When markets slump CIOs don't just watch their market risk SCR gyrate - they act on it

  • Insurance Risk Data to publish third annual Bermuda insurance outsourcing report

    14 November 2023

    Research analysis outsourcing, IMAs with managers, changing regulations and more

  • Chart of the Week: Where foreign FX non-life premiums may need backing with foreign-FX assets

    10 November 2023

    Europe's non-life insurers underwrite (and so, must invest) globally

  • Distilling complexity for CIOs' benefit

    06 November 2023

    Various pressures have come to bear on insurance CIOs in recent years - and not always because of mercurial investment markets. Schroders' Alberto Scarsini distils the challenges to find the basic elements

  • Chart of the Week - The world's mutual insurers and ESG/climate investing

    03 November 2023

    From impact to renewables to SDGs - mutual insurers show appetite for 'doing good'

  • Mutual insurers align over $1trn of assets to sustainable frameworks

    02 November 2023

    ICMIF survey shows 32% annual jump in global sector assets aligned to frameworks

  • Chart of the Week - What MA reform is likely to cost UK life insurers

    27 October 2023

    The PRA totted up what it estimates MA reform will cost the 19 lifers using it. The answer, it seems, is, 'quite a lot'

  • In the Know - Schroders' Alberto Scarsini

    23 October 2023

    A background rooted firmly in the world of insurers and their investing habits has equipped Alberto Scarsini very well indeed, for advising EMEA and global insurers, at the asset manager Schroders, as David Walker discovers