David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • 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

  • Hannover Re pockets nearly €500m from linkers as GA returns beat plan

    09 March 2023

    Nearly a quarter of 2022 ordinary income came from the inflation instruments

  • Europe's life giants trip the lite switch firmly 'on'

    08 March 2023

    Thomas Buberl, and Oliver Bäte are men with a mission, to preach the gospel of low-capital product. But will their customers buy it? David Walker asks

  • Comment: CIOs enjoy strong tailwinds of goodwill in 'transition GAs', in a ride that CUOs might only dream of

    08 March 2023

    Why a CIO's life with the media can be so much touchy-feelier than a CUO's, in our era of climate change

  • Italian lifers keep more unit-linked product returns than customers led to expect

    03 March 2023

    IVASS reveals unit-linked policy sales growth