David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • China Life eyeing Hong Kong listing with key China assets

    17 February 2020

    Beijing group's foreign subsidiaries step up support for coronavirus patients

  • Japan Post Insurance finds silver lining to sales ban

    17 February 2020

    Company lifts full-year profit guidance on expected lower sales expenses

  • No need for new models for coronavirus, says top German actuary

    14 February 2020

    MunichRe chief life/health actuary says Spanish flu still the benchmark of one-in-200-year event

  • Group-wide contributions help NN lift operating profits 10%

    13 February 2020

    Only domestic life business disappoints Dutch insurance and asset management group

  • Australian life insurers arm up on the frontline of climate change

    13 February 2020

    Climate change is not just a worry for property and casualty insurers. In Australia, whose recent natural disasters are widely seen as harbingers of global warming, life and health firms recognise complacency is no option. David Walker reports

  • IAG urges Australian government to act on global warming

    12 February 2020

    Half-year results show 43% fall in insurers net profits

  • Suncorp's Australian insurance half-year result falls 4%

    11 February 2020

    Group calls for more spending on natural hazard mitigation

  • Australian insurers face A$45m flood bill

    10 February 2020

    Flooding over the past week has been declared a catastrophe

  • Insurance donations near $150bn in coronavirus battle

    07 February 2020

    Regulator introduces new actuarial rules for life and health cover

  • Australia and reinsurance: continuing the affair

    04 February 2020

    Australia's insurers make extensive use of reinsurance and reinsurers like to take on the risk - and the relationship looks set to survive the recent catastrophes that have beset the country, as David Walker reports