David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Chart of the Week - Swedish property woes and homeland GA tilts

    10 February 2023

    Sweden's heavy homeland GA property tilt exposes it to an above-mean domestic price risk

  • Use of hedging derivatives in Europe hits multi-year high, EIOPA finds

    09 February 2023

    Authority ascribes peak figure since at least 2020 to interest rate hedging

  • AIG's life sale could fund repurchase of half its stock by 2025, Third Point says

    09 February 2023

    Hedge fund took stake in US giant last quarter

  • Fitch spells out reasons for C-Ross Phase II solvency falls

    08 February 2023

    Ratings agency says investment charges hurt lifers, while insurance charges played role for non-lifers

  • Full-scale GA change not expected this year South Korea new regulatory regime

    08 February 2023

    Fitch expects "adjustments" at some South Korean insurers in May/June reporting

  • JGB yields rising a "probable game change" for Japan's lifers, Fitch says

    08 February 2023

    Sector is already selling off US treasuries

  • Suncorp doubles real assets exposure in December half-year

    08 February 2023

    Investment income rockets in part thanks to linkers

  • Comment: Time to rethink Solvency II and capital charging 'liquidity risk'?

    07 February 2023

    Is a different capital charge justified if a fund's redemption terms prevent one insurer encashing its investments compared to a directly-invested rival?

  • Solvency II capital benefit from diversification grows 14.4% at 56 groups, in 2021

    07 February 2023

    But market SCR of the cohort grows faster, Insurance Risk Data finds

  • Comment - Is Australia on the verge of needing large ranks of CIOS?

    03 February 2023

    If hard-to-insure communities turn to mutuals as climate change intensifies losses, as private sector property insurers 'run from the hills', CIOs are going to be in demand