David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Europe's insurance giants unite for Net-Zero Insurance Alliance

    12 July 2021

    Climate campaigners unite in qualified praise for net-zero coalition

  • Swiss Re heralds carbon sequestration industry as big as oil and gas sector

    08 July 2021

    But reinsurer acknowledges long-tail liabilities of insuring CO2 storage

  • Insurance industry's complexity revealed by Insurance Risk Data

    08 July 2021

    UK groups have 85 entities on average; Aviva has close to 900

  • UK insurers reveal climate change readiness in SFCRs

    05 July 2021

    Some divulge extent of rise in claims from climate stress-tests

  • China Post Life solvency expected to improve upon AIA's stake-building

    30 June 2021

    Hong Kong life firm is investing RMB 12bn for a 25% stake

  • Dieselgate now German legal insurers' costliest event ever

    29 June 2021

    Losses top €1bn, but SFCRs show yet more reserving

  • Australian High Court denies insurers reliance on BI exclusion clause

    28 June 2021

    Non-life industry testing other BI policy wordings in court

  • Not reserving judgement: German life firms pull no punches on ZZR

    25 June 2021

    Most of the contributions to the interest rate reserve were paid by just a few in 2020

  • Public sector most threatened by, but least aware of, climate risk, says Swiss Re

    25 June 2021

    "Biggest cost is policy inaction," argues Jerome Haegeli

  • Swiss Re forecasts mild solvency uptick after selling Phoenix stake

    23 June 2021

    Sale unlikely to fully repair 17 points fall in SST ratio in 2020