David Walker

• Chart of the Week - The MA's £482bn 'capital gift' to UK lifers (and their CIOs)

  21 April 2023

  UK infrastructure, gilts and credit on the GA menu for most lifers' MA portfolios

• French lifers emphasise GA asset liquidity in fight against lapse risk

  21 April 2023

  Moody's report yesterday highlighted French insurer vulnerability to lapse risk as interest rates rise

• Comment: Re/insurers risk being at cross purposes with conflicting climate stances

  20 April 2023

  Hannover Re, Munich Re and Zurich are staunch NZAOA members, but recently left the corresponding body for underwriters

• GamaLife asset deal helps deplete Zurich unit's solvency coverage to 102%

  19 April 2023

  But Italian welcomes deal for facilitating focus on unit-linked and capital-lite products

• SFCR Season - How Europe's CIOs investments paid off, or not, in 2022

  18 April 2023

  Insurance Asset Risk launches a season of features analysing how European CIOs won, and lost, money for their employers, in 2022

• P+ Pensionskassen for Akademikere's illiquids perform in falling year

  17 April 2023

  But Dane writes down alts harshly to prevent iniquity between members payouts

• HK think-tank proposes 'green' and infrastructure investment benefits

  17 April 2023

  HK Federation of Insurers' body responded to government report

• Mapfre's Spanish unit says Ukraine conflict rendered economists' forecasts "useless"

  14 April 2023

  Outlook for 2023 "looks very confusing", it added

• LDI turmoil "challenged clients' ability to provide additional cash" to LDI funds, L&G unit says

  13 April 2023

  Urgent LDI fund cash calls exceeded internal liquidity buffers, L&G Assurance Pensions Management says

• R+V joins up to NZAOA

  12 April 2023

  Already signatory to UN Principles for Responsible Investment