David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Meiji Yasuda Life makes locally-beneficial fund investment

    01 February 2024

    JPY 5bn invested in equity investment trust established and run by affiliate Meiji Yasuda AM

  • Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation

    01 February 2024

    PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal

  • Comment - Are PE owners facing the end of their life backbook consolidation journey?

    31 January 2024

    After BaFin's move on Zurich and Viridium, the future seems uncertain if 'PE ownership' breaks deals

  • Nearly 2,000 European insurers have GAs smaller than in Zurich/Viridium's scuppered deal

    31 January 2024

    BaFin has stopped life backbook deal involving €21bn of assets

  • Zurich's German life backbook deal, with €21bn assets, with Virdium falls apart

    30 January 2024

    'Project Sander' was to involve investment assets linked to 724,000 policies, German unit's SFCR said

  • China Life reveals asset size, and investment plans

    30 January 2024

    Group divulged aspects of its GA at a January conference

  • Meiji Yasuda Life reveals private assets and outsourcing plans

    29 January 2024

    Japanese group has over $4bn earmarked for private assets

  • 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