David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • 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

  • Munich Re actuary urges careful forethought on what gives a product 'ESG' credentials

    11 July 2023

    Frank Schiller cautions actuaries, credibility may not always rest on investment reserves

  • UK government unveils reforms to prod insurers towards private assets

    11 July 2023

    Six UK insurers sign up to Chancellor of Exchequer's investment aspirations

  • Chart of the Week - Eurovita's general account over time, % (2017-2021)

    07 July 2023

    SFCRs show the Italian lifer being rescued by five peers, and banks, shunned risk - including heavy BTP weightings - in its GA