David Walker

• French mutual's SFCR asks, 'whither our GA, if teleworking triggers a mental-health breakdown?'

  18 July 2023

  Underwriters also question restorative firepower and readiness, of central banks

• French insurer reveals solvency ratio benefit from equity hedging

  18 July 2023

  Total return swap limited damage from falling markets in 2022

• German insurer cites infrastructure investments for plunging equity SCR

  17 July 2023

  Part of analysis of over European 100 groups' market risk capital requirements since 2016

• Comment - CIOs may feel the heat from health claims, as disastrous summer-furnaces intensify

  17 July 2023

  Climate change is not just about having GA liquidity to rebuild property - mortal risk is rising, too

• Croatian currency SCRs vanished as country joined euro

  17 July 2023

  Some insurers took advantage of assured conversion rates to calculate a nil FX risk, SFCRs show

• Singapore regulator wants better-informed local investors to grow region's ILS market

  14 July 2023

  Better catastrophe data also necessary to help model and understand risks, says MAS

• Chart of the week -what equity sectors cause, and get hit by, crises and contagion?

  14 July 2023

  Researchers in Brazil analyse US markets from sub-prime to the COVID-19, via the 'Trump-effect'. They tell David Walker which sectors fared worst as Donald Trump rose to power? Was the AIG bail-out 'worth it'? And when it comes to crisis, 'will markets ever learn'?

  

• French and Dutch insurers using standard formula plough own furrow with GA capital charges

  13 July 2023

  Aesio Mutuelle and ASR Schade apply modified property charges

• Regulatory intervention still possible as Australian climate reporting unfolds

  12 July 2023

  Taylor Fry warns insurers

• Actuaries give cautious welcome to Whitehall's private assets push

  12 July 2023

  Chancellor of Exchequer wants institutions to buy more into unlisted companies