David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Insurance actuaries must be data gatekeepers and teachers, profession is told

    15 June 2023

    Actuaries have drawn positive and negative lessons from the 'data democratisation' during Covid

  • IAG expects costs for natural perils to increase further in 2024/25

    15 June 2023

    Group now paying 19% of relevant premiums for perils claims

  • Insurtech has failed to meet its promise so far, Ping An innovation chief says

    14 June 2023

    Jonathan Larsen said underwriters must be hungrier to embrace new technologies to tackle "massive" insurance gaps

  • Danish FSA warns insurers about low loss ratios and product pricing

    14 June 2023

    Regulator says insurers should have more relevant data about target customer groups

  • Portuguese actuaries forecast when next pandemic may occur

    13 June 2023

    Plans for new pandemic product stymied by IFRS 17 and inflation

  • Dave Ingram urges the sector to utilise crowdsourcing data

    13 June 2023

    Veteran actuary used method to gather Covid-related data in real time during 2020 and 2021

  • Diversity can help drive a growth mindset, say actuarial associations

    13 June 2023

    IFoA says continuing professional development regime can lead to a backward-looking view

  • Non-life actuaries urged to train models on customer behaviours and profitability

    12 June 2023

    Restricting modelling to policy pricing and reserving misses valuable opportunity

  • Actuaries warned against automatically opting for most complex model

    12 June 2023

    Model selection must balance predictive power and explicability to colleagues, Reacfin says

  • Are life policies sold to fossil fuel miners "green insurance"?

    09 June 2023

    Life actuaries mull some curly questions at the International Congress of Actuaries