David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • EIOPA reveals lifers lost money investing in 2021

    02 August 2022

    Performance was life firms' worst since 2017, risk dashboard shows

  • Intesa San Paolo insurance grows H1 operating income

    01 August 2022

    Contributing 8% to group's consolidated operating income

  • Generali and Unipol assessed for BTP exposure as Italy demoted

    01 August 2022

    S&P Global Ratings has Italy's outlook to stable

  • Chart of the week - German insurers' 'happiest' line of underwriting

    29 July 2022

    A clue: Germans are not most joyful when in traditional policy units, GDV finds

  • Shareholdings and Russian impairments halve Swiss Re's 1H investment returns

    29 July 2022

    But reinvestment yield more than triples

  • IFRS 9 lops 16% off 1H investment returns at Scor Investments

    28 July 2022

    Unit's 4.1% reinvestment yield almost doubled year on year

  • Barmenia buys, modestly, into CLOs in 2021

    28 July 2022

    Allocations - firsts for each undertaking - came amid "strong demand" for alts

  • Rechabite Friendly says outsourcing to abrdn will help maximise ethical returns

    27 July 2022

    abrdn and Legal & General singled out in good year for insurer's investments

  • Folksam backs concept of 'road safety bonds'

    27 July 2022

    Issues would promote safe motoring, akin to green bonds for the environment

  • Some bumpy investment income hits Bupa in 2021

    26 July 2022

    While regulatory interventions hit foreign underwriting of health firm