David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • 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

  • 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