David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • 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)?

  • Chart of the Week - SFCRs as EIOPA's answer to the 'Barbenheimer dilemma'

    21 July 2023

    SFCRs will tell you if market crashes hurt insurers' solvency more than pandemics - but not whether to watch Robert Oppenheimer or Margot Robbie...

  • Brussels' Solvency II reform hits German life firm's solvency only 60% as hard as Putin's war, SFCR finds

    20 July 2023

    IDEAL Leben stress-tests Solvency II reform, Vladimir Putin's bellicosity, property values and climate change

  • Comment - Brussels sprouts green proposals for Solvency II reform

    19 July 2023

    Brussels vote bets almost all chips on 'green' - and implies insurers should do the same

  • Ortec builds out climate and ESG team for CIOs

    19 July 2023

    Andrew Flynn joining from Clarity AI

  • 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