David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Alte Leipziger welcomes ZZR bill vanishing in 2022

    22 March 2023

    Life unit's investment result plunges 42% as sales pressure for interest reserve vanishes

  • PensionDanmark SFCR stress tests 10 years of rising rates plus inflation

    20 March 2023

    Dane's tests also ponder, 'what if all our life customers live like the Japanese - or die in a plane crash?'

  • Chart of the Week: Will insurers join an 'orderly queue', outside Silicon Valley Bank?

    17 March 2023

    From Silicon Valley Bank to Signature Bank, Silvergate to Credit Suisse, all eyes are on financials exposure

  • Realised gains plunge 98% at Talanx - as life unit head heralds no ZZR bill

    16 March 2023

    German group indicates "room for manoeuvre" as interest rates rise

  • Derivatives to produce "significantly higher" earnings under IFRS 9 and 17 for AIA

    14 March 2023

    How hedging derivatives are treated largely the reason for CFO's prediction

  • FWD reveals outsourcing rates, volumes and fees

    14 March 2023

    PineBridge, Apollo and SCB AM have significant mandates with Hong Kong insurer

  • The CBIRC's legacy - a safe pair of hands for Chinese insurance regulation

    14 March 2023

    The CBIRC is reportedly being dissolved and its duties transferred. David Walker finds an industry praising the modernising, improving impetus behind its work on C-ROSS Phase II, to benefit risk management and China's society more generally

  • China industry practitioners praise CBIRC as dissolution flagged

    10 March 2023

    New set up suggests a more centralized regulatory mechanism

  • Chart of the Week: Solvency capital charges, and what a cactus and CIO (should) have in common

    10 March 2023

    Average Solvency II capital charges by insurers' GA sizes reveal some unexpected findings

  • China proposes folding CBIRC into new body

    09 March 2023

    New regulator would sit directly below State Council