David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Falling investments sends Australian health firms' profits down 33%

    01 March 2023

    Medibank singles out "manager underperformance" in property mandate

  • Chart of the Week - Russia's insurers, one year on...

    24 February 2023

    Insurers in Russia face a regulatory and investment landscape that would be hardly recognisable from pre-war times

  • AXA's investment spread quadruples for new German life & savings policies

    23 February 2023

    German spread benefits from withering of guaranteed policy rates

  • Some alternative capital investors feel "taken advantage of," says Swiss Re CFO

    23 February 2023

    Investors withdrawing capital will stay away until industry addresses climate natcat concerns

  • Comment - Russian CIOs confront their own 2032 'transitional measure'

    22 February 2023

    Bank of Russia's GA write-down warnings put Frank Grund's words in Germany in the pale

  • Traditional risk management fails for timing transition investments, ACPR says

    22 February 2023

    Regulator's research examines when best to buy/sell biomass and coal assets

  • Hansainvest extends Cologne office rental for PwC

    22 February 2023

    Decade added to consultancy's tenancy

  • Oliver Bäte offers comfort, reassurance and hope

    21 February 2023

    With Structured Alpha 'behind' it, Allianz is applying the lessons learned to best effect, it told analysts at this month's full-year results presentation. David Walker reports

  • PRA already working on widening MA eligibility rules, and junk bond treatment

    21 February 2023

    Sam Woods told ABI it will consult on implementing reforms in June and September

  • Allianz outlines net $850m US regulator settlements over Structured Alpha - and lessons learned

    19 February 2023

    AllianzGI and PIMCO still took net new business into alts in 2022