David Walker

• French units go 'lite' on solvency reporting in truncated reports

  02 August 2023

  SFCRs are already not all uniform in their length or format, Insurance Risk Data finds

• Paper losses swipe over 20 percentage points from European lifers' investment results

  01 August 2023

  Sector was 25% short of meeting its promises, based on all-in investment result

• German affiliated managers push further into real assets

  31 July 2023

  Munich Re and Signal Iduna managers announce deals and recruitment

• Comment - In a time of climate crisis, what might the superhero Captain Hindsight tell Europe's CIOs?

  28 July 2023

  CIOs and CUOs need to start twisting thumbscrews on fossil fuel, if the worst is still to come

• Chart of the Week - Breakdown of market risk SCR of AEMA group subsidiaries, 2022 (%)

  28 July 2023

  A 'group market risk SCR' can mask very divergent risk-taking at subsidiaries

• Differing readings of IFRS risk creating a "Tower of Babel" for insurers, Compensa Life says

  27 July 2023

  Same contract can be classed as life or unit-linked, depending on underwriter's interpretation

• Robert Oppenheimer's world already being used in investment optimisation, German actuaries say

  26 July 2023

  Nexinsur says similar maths that quantum computing uses to optimise portfolios helps investigate energy in atomic systems

• IVASS admits Eurovita rescue talks were "long, and not easy"

  25 July 2023

  Rescuers "acted in awareness of their own interest", IVASS president says

• UnipolSai unit has one-third of investments in BTPs

  24 July 2023

  And making 2.1% more on investment than life policies promise

• Comment - When non-life insurance policies become long-term costs, for general insurers

  21 July 2023

  A few weeks ago we asked, half-jokingly, what investments could a CIO possibly use, for a life policy bought by Dorian Gray, the character of Oscar Wilde's imagination who trades his soul for eternal life (and youth)?