David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • VIG unit subjects balance sheet to repeated rates tests as monetary policy fears materialised

    23 September 2022

    Uncertainty of monetary policy plans drained liquidity from Treasury markets, Wiener noted in 2021

  • Chart of the week - Sharp volatility hits interest rate risk SCR, in CIOs' market risk budgets

    23 September 2022

    Insurance Risk Data reveals, at a time of rising interest rates, just how hard CIOs are working to control the risk

  • DWS seeking solutions to APAC's next big challenge - funding retirements

    21 September 2022

    As the APAC population ages, insurers, asset managers and governments are among those seeking solutions to an emerging challenge: funding retirement. DWS's Ellen Yang is working to bring reinsurers' balance sheet to that equation, for the benefit of all, she tells David Walker

  • Insurer of French landscapers plants a fresh hedge - around its equities

    21 September 2022

    Agri Prevoyance has outsourcing mandates for equities and bonds

  • Zurich's Orion unit slices interest rate risk by moving into property fund

    21 September 2022

    Ortec ALM study leads second Swiss insurer to buy property/mortgage funds, too

  • Chart of the week: How MAF and its managers are planning their investment risk-capital budgets

    16 September 2022

    Insurance Risk Data has broken the 'market risk' of 120 groups across Europe into its six risk elements, to analyse 'what gives'

  • Asset manager steps in to help CIO by training up insurer's staff in Belgium

    16 September 2022

    Degroof Petercam has seven-year mandate for health underwriter

  • Dutch insurer outsources subordinated loan investing via SME fund

    15 September 2022

    Gravenhage also introduced an LDI mandate, in 2021

  • GSAM, BNP Paribas AM, DWS retain outsourcing gigs in Italy

    15 September 2022

    Delegations ranged from TAA to HY to fixed income multi-asset

  • Dutch insurer says price inflation already outrunning investment returns

    14 September 2022

    Dutch group's investment returns in 2021 almost doubled expectations