David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Axa plans €1.2bn life sale to private equity group

    01 August 2018

    Cinven move for Axa Life Europe complements purchases in Germany

  • Avoid regulatory overkill on climate change, insurers tell IAIS

    27 July 2018

    Sector sees risks of global warming, but can handle these with current rules, industry argues

  • Scor solvency ratio survives US tax-related charge

    26 July 2018

    Insurer trims US cat exposure with "careful management of Florida exposures"

  • Accounting standards a bigger threat than cyclones to Gulf insurers' capital

    25 July 2018

    AM Best rates UAE particularly at risk if more prudent approach taken to write-offs

  • Beazley bolsters property reserves in H1 2018 as profits fall

    20 July 2018

    Property line losses not from natcats, UK insurer says

  • Solvency II reporting: most mistakes found in crucial solvency ratios

    20 July 2018

    Missing and imprecise figures not ironed out in second year, Insurance Risk Data research finds

  • NN's Jan-Hendrik Erasmus: finding the win-win in insurtech

    19 July 2018

    NN Group has been an eager participant in the insurtech revolution. Chief risk officer and global IT leader Jan-Hendrik Erasmus tells David Walker how the Dutch insurer's tech strategy has evolved

  • Generali sells non-core units to Life Company Consolidation Group

    19 July 2018

    Recent deals to boost group Solvency II ratio by 8%

  • Reserving method could save €10bn on German ZZR in 2018

    18 July 2018

    Researchers call proposed formula for life cash stockpiling a "palpable unburdening"

  • UK Defence Club picks Cyprus as EU base post-Brexit

    16 July 2018

    UK insurers expanding to Continent wrote £4bn in EU ex-UK in 2017