David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Apex, Mosaic and Aon launch innovative ESG fund D&O cover

    12 January 2023

    Policy can cut premiums as fund ESG ratings improve

  • Versicherungskammer buys properties in Munich from fellow insurer

    11 January 2023

    Plans to run the real estate inhouse

  • Going off-piste - how French CIOs are embracing alternatives

    10 January 2023

    As French insurers venture 'off-piste' in their general accounts, David Walker examines if the 'black runs' of alternative asset classes will be simply exciting - or could break a leg or two

  • Heading for a fall? Sovereign CDS prices, and investor nerves, leap

    06 January 2023

    In the past year, investors' concerns about sovereigns defaulting have, on average, doubled - or so say CDS prices

  • Comment - Why stranded assets (already) involves much more than fossil fuels in general accounts

    04 January 2023

    Insurance Asset Risk hears properties are being 'stranded' as much as fossil fuel firms

  • Comment - Is climate change disempowering the value of VaR?

    30 December 2022

    In global warming, CIOs will have to face down our climate's answer to Chuck Norris

  • Comment - How EIOPA helps Europe's insurers 'keep up with the Kardashians'

    28 December 2022

    EIOPA - and, separately, Insurance Risk Data - is helping practitioners to learn the latest about Europe's insurers, and their outsourcing preferences. By David Walker

  • Chart of the Week - Europe's general account since 2017

    23 December 2022

    A €6.8tn investment pot reveals its treasures...

  • How German CIOs are doing well, in 'doing good'

    21 December 2022

    Germany's CIOs are a fairly heterogeneous group, but one thing - or actually three - fairly unites them these days: E, and S, and G. And the theme stretches from Allianz, almost all the way 'down' to the smallest GA-minnow the country has to offer. David Walker reports

  • Comment - Did the Deutsche Reichsbürger have a functioning general account?

    16 December 2022

    The German extremists had been running insurance, so presumably a 'GA' existed, somewhere