David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Insurers must ask society what is acceptable data and AI use

    08 June 2023

    Otherwise industry risks being branded "data-hungry, exploitative", actuaries hear

  • Slovakian regulator petitioning to liquidate Novis

    08 June 2023

    Life insurer plans contesting the NbS order in court

  • If ageing is not inevitable, what future for life and health insurance?

    07 June 2023

    Scientific advances offer opportunities for underwriters, according to Phoenix's Roy Ben-David

  • Life industry globally has largely failed to close mortality gap, says Swiss Re

    07 June 2023

    Complex product suite still being "bought, not sold"

  • Value of new business leaps 35% at FWD as China reopens Hong Kong border

    07 June 2023

    Switch to IFRS 17 will increase shareholders' equity and raise operating profit figures

  • BaFin warns life firms about using reinsurance

    07 June 2023

    German regulator is watching insureds' profit-participation is not eroded

  • Inga Beale: product innovation is not achieved by adding exclusions

    07 June 2023

    The former Lloyd's chief talks to David Walker about her frustrations with the insurance sector and why firms must be more diverse, use technology and think more creatively, in order to better serve their customers

  • Climate adaptation is "poor second cousin" to emissions reductions investments, actuaries told

    06 June 2023

    Profession has key role in enhancing analysis of investments in adaptation measures

  • Françoise Gilles replaces Renaud Guidée as Axa's group CRO

    06 June 2023

    Several reassignments revealed, and CUO position created, in top-level reshuffles

  • Volatility in mortality improvement is highest among poorer populations

    05 June 2023

    Mortality trends affected by economic conditions, Canada Life UK actuary says