David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Coal business resorts to "haphazard coalition" of insurers as giants retract

    09 June 2022

    Financiers and governments at risk if they accept inexperienced underwriters, says Insure Our Future

  • Insurers at danger of underpricing risk if post-Covid growth means price competition

    08 June 2022

    Asian industry heads urge CROs to view inflation risk through appropriate lens

  • Prices for cyber more than double in past year, says Howden

    07 June 2022

    Broker says compounding increases now "unsustainable"

  • GDV issues fresh call for post-Bernd natcat mitigation

    07 June 2022

    German homes have been rebuilt on flood-risk sites since last summer's disaster

  • CBIRC gives insurers one year to implement green guidelines

    07 June 2022

    Insurers should rewrite contracts to encourage ESG improvements among customers, rules say

  • Peak Re issues $150m Japan typhoon ILS in Hong Kong

    06 June 2022

    Reinsurer doubled initial issuance volume amid demand

  • Bigger does not mean better for insurers

    02 June 2022

    Expanding an insurance business in good times typically meant growing profits. In today's tougher economic environment, Europe's largest insurers are being much more prudent about spending capital, and are only considering very careful expansion, as David Walker writes

  • Europe's insurers repair Covid damage to solvency ratios

    01 June 2022

    Eiopa data reveals patterns of ratios, premiums and claims

  • Australian Q1 flood costs hit A$4.3bn

    01 June 2022

    IAG's Mark Leplastrier warns climate change's effects are "impacting communities now"

  • Full complexity of Europe's insurance groups revealed

    31 May 2022

    Despite Amanda Blanc's simplification drive, Aviva remains the UK's most complex insurer