David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Comment - On your marks, s-e-e-t, go (sell more life backbooks)!

    19 July 2022

    Jefferies analyst Philip Kett fires starting gun in possible race to sell life backbooks

  • Analysts welcome Axa's €661m German backbook deal

    18 July 2022

    Axa Deutschland's SFCR reveals "complete overhaul" of life product range

  • Admiral appoints former asset manager CRO as group chief risk and compliance officer

    18 July 2022

    Keith Davies will join from Federated Hermes Limited in September

  • Axa IM wins outsourcing mandate from parent's €610m German life book deal

    15 July 2022

    Deferred annuities and endowments had average guarantee of 3.2%

  • Chart of the week - Axa's German life sale in Grand Investment Pivot

    15 July 2022

    CEO, climate champion, oil-tanker captain, is there no job Thomas Buberl cannot do?

  • Asian investors hunger for novel assets - including digital ones

    14 July 2022

    Schroders survey reveals 12% annual return desire in Hong Kong

  • A eulogy to traditional life insurance

    14 July 2022

    Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today at the death of traditional life insurance.

  • China's insurers suffer expected fall in solvency as C-Ross Phase II takes effect

    13 July 2022

    Fitch warns long-term equity and credit investors to expect lower ratios

  • Jefferies urges AXA to sell German life back-book

    12 July 2022

    Bank praises Thomas Buberl for pivoting business model from asset risks

  • Allianz cuts average life promise by one-third since 2011

    11 July 2022

    Moody's raised outlook for group and various undertakings