David Walker

• FWD announces jump in investment result

  01 September 2023

  Thanking Apollo for better returns on assets backing Japanses business

• Secret plans - CIOs reveal how market risk's SCR elements (should) develop in future

  30 August 2023

  Insurance Risk Data has unearthed strategic data about how Europe's insurers expect the six sub-modules of their market risk SCR to evolve out to 2026. David Walker investigates

  

• Chart of the week - BoE expects increased corporate debt servicing stress

  25 August 2023

  And what do non-UK European insurers think of UK plc and UK gilts?

• OP Ryhman sets sector-specific bond emissions targets

  25 August 2023

  Energy, agriculture and home loans now have specific reductions goals

• UnipolSai reveals 'exotic' and somewhat luxurious investments

  22 August 2023

  Italian's GA complements rivals' stakes in art, maritime loans, holiday homes and "a Danish ship"

• IAG pulls out of hedge funds but holds firm on PE

  21 August 2023

  Full-year results revealed the HF redemption today

• Chart of the Week - 'Build it and they will come' - German insurers and Spezialfonds

  18 August 2023

  Since 2009 German institutions made 3.9% in their Spezialfonds - and expanded allocations by 167%

• Aegon to hone focus on alternatives as rates bite into core fixed income

  18 August 2023

  US financial asset exposure being trimmed in favour of strategic assets

• Talanx plans further fixed income rotations in 2H

  14 August 2023

  German group posts record half year net income for 2023

• Chart of the Week - European insurers and US debt

  11 August 2023

  CIOs were cutting back their US debt well before Fitch cut its rating this month