David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • S&P Global sees UK industry trimming of illiquids

    01 May 2023

    EMEA life customers to "remain loyal", curbing lapse risk, rating agency says

  • Chart of the Week - When the MA goes 'the wrong way' for Spanish lifers

    28 April 2023

    Ideally the MA, with life liabilities backed by predictable income assets, should improve users' capital coverage. Often, that's not been so in Spain.

  • From Great Depression to Germany leaving the euro, Danes reveal what 'investment stress' really means

    27 April 2023

    Some SFCR stress tests outdo FSA's planned national testing

  • Danish supervisor spells out national stress tests

    27 April 2023

    Market scenarios more severe than those presented in some SFCRs

  • How the matching adjustment has 'misfired' at many Spanish lifers

    27 April 2023

    The MA has saved UK lifers truly vast sums of Solvency II capital. In Spain it's delivered some very mixed outcomes, David Walker reports.

  • Large insurance groups' solvency budged only mildly, if spreads worsen

    26 April 2023

    Analysis by IRD backs Moody's findings on major groups' strong ratios

  • Half of European insurers' investments are rated Baa or worse, Moody's estimates

    26 April 2023

    But AT1 debt under 1% of rated underwriters' financial bond holdings

  • Aviva Capital Partners to inject £20m into low-carbon modular housebuilder

    25 April 2023

    Sustainable infrastructure "central" to UK net-zero, CEO says

  • Japan's life insurance trade body polls lifers and investees on key investment issues

    25 April 2023

    JLIA unearths moments of discord on key issues affecting both parties

  • CBIRC pulls industry up on sometimes "weak" investment look-through

    24 April 2023

    Non-standard asset transparency sometimes lacking, warns Chinese regulator