David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Pricing tools generally disappoint actuaries and underwriters, survey finds

    19 July 2023

    Commercial/specialty underwriters spend three hours day just typing in data, says Hyperexponential

  • French insurer's SFCR reveals nine-year history of lapse risk development

    18 July 2023

    Prepar Vie's solvency report also lays out three-year plan for its life underwriting SCR

  • Gerhard Stahl: "We will all have to be Picassos in the future"

    18 July 2023

    Systemic risks such as climate change, pandemic and cyber are posing questions about the role of insurance. Talanx's former chief risk officer discusses how actuaries, governments and regulators should step up to the challenge, in this interview with David Walker

  • Singapore regulator considering more structures, risk data, to propel ILS market

    14 July 2023

    MAS says more informed local investors will also be needed

  • Viral load: how actuaries used democratised data to beat Covid-19

    13 July 2023

    The flood of public data on Covid-19 became a silver lining for actuaries amid the dark clouds of the pandemic, as David Walker reports

  • ABI cautions nailing source of cyber attacks will be "inherently difficult"

    13 July 2023

    Many policy improvements for cover still "largely untested", trade body warns

  • Actuaries must find sweet spot of pricing for risk and societal ends

    11 July 2023

    DAV actuary Frank Schiller warns pricing for social acceptance alone can lead to anti-selection bias

  • Eiopa analyses nat cat insurance cover reluctance in Europe

    06 July 2023

    Authority revealed the reasons for low adoption vary

  • Probitas syndicate pulls out of Adani cover

    06 July 2023

    Insurance actuaries reveal also helping to fight further coalpits in Australia

  • Eurovita rescue plan will prevent contagion in Italy, says Moody's

    06 July 2023

    The rescuing insurers will share assets and liabilities, while banks cover liquidity from November