David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • China's Insurance Industry (almost) in eight charts

    27 April 2022

    David Walker draws on diverse data sources, to chart eight exhibits that give glimpse into the insurance industry of the world's most populous country and second largest economy

  • Rothesay investment result drops 99% but income remains stable

    26 April 2022

    UK life insurers responded to interest rates moving in 2021

  • Royal London reveals first year's benefit using MA

    25 April 2022

    Some 18 UK life undertakings got £76bn capital relief from mechanism, in 2021

  • Chart of the Week: UK life CIOs' reactions to pandemic revealed

    22 April 2022

    UK life CIOs are getting more of the risk budget, and 'picking their ride'

  • CIOs win more of insurers' risk budgets in pandemic

    22 April 2022

    SFCRs reveal early trends in COVID-era allocating by Europe's CIOs

  • China's Sunshine Insurance reveals outsourcing details and fees for affiliate

    22 April 2022

    Chinese insurers formally announced IPO plans in Hong Kong

  • Allianz sees promise, in a life of less promises

    22 April 2022

    Once, lifers gave CEOs headaches and ate up their capital. But now, David Walker finds, it's their CEOs hungry for more, in a 'capital-lite' world

  • IVASS consults on significant investment reform of pension products

    22 April 2022

    And warns insurers about "complex" capital optimisation tools of asset managers

  • Russian insurers free to ditch falling-market scenarios in capital calculations

    21 April 2022

    Sector can now count reinsurance payouts barred by European sanctions in capital calculations

  • Tokio Marine VC fund takes off

    21 April 2022

    Fund aims to aid insurer's digital ambitions, and people's lives