David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • EIOPA finds riskier investing going on at with-profits providers

    07 July 2022

    Authority finds with-profits solvency ratios fall further in stress-testing

  • Junk bond holdings helped decide IVASS on insurers' 2021 dividends and bonuses

    06 July 2022

    Some Italian insurers wanting to pay shareholders and staff bonuses were knocked back

  • Insurers facing repeated margin calls on interest rate swaps, EIOPA warns

    06 July 2022

    In EEA, about 240 insurers have relevant swaps structures

  • IVASS reveals where, and why, paper losses sit in insurers' general accounts

    05 July 2022

    Regulator let lifers stress-test negative rates environment in 2021 mid-year trials

  • EIOPA quantifies how solvency fares, if all Russia/Ukraine exposure collapses

    05 July 2022

    Authority also spells out insurers' sectorial exposure to warring countries

  • Europe's life CIOs to trim risk-taking, predicts S&P Global Ratings

    04 July 2022

    Yields on mainstream classes now enough to satisfy some guarantees

  • IVASS reveals €25bn reduction in BTP exposure in 2021

    04 July 2022

    Trimming left general accounts 38% exposed, on average

  • Insurers slowed down buying of credit, again, in 2021

    04 July 2022

    COVID stress led sector to net-sell financial paper last year

  • Chart of the Week - Veni, vidi, vendidit ('I came, I saw, I sold [my BTPs]')

    01 July 2022

    Julius Caesar obviously loved the Roman Empire. Insurers' CIOs who kept selling off BTPs in 2021 seem less convinced

  • Italian insurers in first net capital loss position "for several years" as rates rise

    01 July 2022

    IVASS head leaves door open for re-emergence of non-unit linked products