David Walker

• Comment - Do inflation-linked bonds cover the rate of 'claims inflation' in kidnapping ransoms?

  05 June 2023

  The clouded world of insurance for the costs of ending kidnaps raises some intriguing questions

  

• Inga Beale: Don't be surprised if Lloyd's GA beats its underwriting from time to time

  02 June 2023

  Former Lloyd's CEO says lifers can sometimes be nervous to ask customers what products they want

• Chinese insurer funds making 5.24% in Q1, regulator reveals

  02 June 2023

  Deterioration in solvency ratios decelerates

• Chart of the week - Sex, drugs, and 'actuarial best practice'

  02 June 2023

  Insurance actuaries are having to rethink what 'sex' means, as a differentiator for pricing policies

• Actuaries urged to apply skills to unearth investment greenwashing

  01 June 2023

  International Congress of Actuaries discusses climate scenarios, inter-disciplinary work and portfolio risk management

• The (very) fine art of triangulating investment risk, reward and Solvency II capital

  31 May 2023

  Europe's CIOs are being challenged as never before to get investment and regulatory trade-offs right in portfolios. David Walker finds a tool built to help

  

• FWD names successor to CFO Jon Nielsen

  31 May 2023

  Sid Sankaran will join from Oscar Health

• 'Green' capital charges risk under-reserving for risk, actuaries told

  30 May 2023

  Actuaries warn of "moving away from the strict actuarial approach" as climate change looms

• Equities exposures - feast, then famine, for Europe's CIOs

  29 May 2023

  Whether they love them or hate them, Europe's CIOs hold shares, directly and in funds they came to about one-fifth of their GAs in Q3 2023. Appreciating or reviling the exposure may rather depend on the year, David Walker reports

  

• Chart of the Week - Solvency II ratios and general account debt holdings

  26 May 2023

  As debt holdings devalued in 2022, so did insurers' Solvency II funds, and ratios