David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Comment: How filling in 'underwriting climate data gaps' will help CIOs, too

    29 March 2023

    IAG has divulged significant anonymised exposure data for natcats

  • Provinzial boosts property expertise

    28 March 2023

    Jan Schlüter brings local and global experience in asset class

  • The many forking paths in Asia's net-zero transition

    27 March 2023

    Financing the energy transition across Asia is often described as one uniform path whose trajectory differs from Europe's and North America's due to APAC's fossil fuel reliance. But there may be as many paths taken within APAC as there are nations involved, David Walker finds

  • Comment: What's in a name? How investors are a 'proxy-SCR' for insurers' reputation risk

    27 March 2023

    Reputations contain much value quickly lost, especially in the financial sector reliant on trust

  • Chart of the Week - China's insurance solvency under C-Ross Phase II

    24 March 2023

    Solvency has headed mainly downwards, as expected, under China's revised regulations

  • Helvetia adds CHF 170m to property fund in asset raising

    23 March 2023

    Proceeds plus leverage will buy CHF 230m worth of properties

  • 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