David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chart of the Week - Liz Truss breathes easy, as Rishi Sunak takes the reins of UK political investment risk

    12 January 2024

    CIOs go 'risk-on' for 'other' category sovereigns, as elections loom in 64 nations behind 40% of global GDP, in 2024

  • Aviva Investors insurer is one of just seven building solvency every year under Solvency II

    08 January 2024

    Insurance Risk Data analysed 974 undertakings' solvency data since 2016

  • Comment - How life insurers might respond to the IMF on private equity risks

    08 January 2024

    The IMF listed various risks of growing PE involvement in the re/insurance industry

  • Comment - BTPs remain the 'dagger to the heart' of Italian CIOs

    05 January 2024

    Life CIOs have scythed local debt exposures, but Ivass data shows the wild ride they still underwent in 2021/2022

  • Fitch expects GA returns to support Sumitomo Life during M&As

    05 January 2024

    Sumitomo is buying Singapore Life entirely, including S$14.4bn assets

  • Chart of the New Year - Where Europe's CIOs choose to invest GAs in funds

    05 January 2024

    If you want to launch a fund for a European GA, you could do worse than using Germany, France or Luxembourg...

  • Market share of UK lifers in pension risk transfer market revealed

    04 January 2024

    Fitch expects no let-up in annuity writers' hunger for illiquids in 2024

  • Ivass reveals Italian lifers' sharp swings from fixed income gain to loss - and not just from their BTPs

    03 January 2024

    Local debt generated €35.5bn gross gains in 2021, then plunged to €27.6bn losses

  • Indian insurers grow investment income nearly 20%

    02 January 2024

    Total investment pot grew by 10.4%

  • Charts of the Year - A dozen charts that encapsulated 2023 for the world's insurers...

    29 December 2023

    From inflation to high interest rates, Solvency II reform to ESG, Insurance Asset Risk selects 12 charts to sum up the past year...