David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • 2,150 - the magic number for European insurers and outsourcing

    05 October 2023

    Rising investment yields not dampening CIOs' appetite to delegate

  • Chart of the Week - How to spice up the MA? Loosening cashflow fixity for MA assets

    29 September 2023

    The UK MA is to open its door to more assets, but not before the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street fires off a warning-missive...

  • Chart of the Week - Does risk-taking pay off in the long term for CIOs?

    22 September 2023

    One Norwegian CIO comes up with somewhat mixed answers to this age-old investment question

  • Chart of the Week - Where Europe's marine mutual insurers weigh anchor with their GAs

    15 September 2023

    Armed with investment and risk statistics for 400 European mutual insurers, David Walker finds the world is his data-oyster...

  • Dortmunder draws on 'bank of mum and dad' for ETF programme

    13 September 2023

    German hedges FX risk of its ETFs

  • Chart of the Week - Europe's insurers reveal more strategic planning details

    08 September 2023

    It's not just breakdowns of market risk SCRs that CIOs are telling the world about...

  • Chart of the Week - Love me tender? Europe's CIOs' complex relationship with currency risk

    01 September 2023

    Diversifying GAs can expose CIOs to FX risk. Not all of them simply 'hedge it out'

  • 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?