Our approach
With a global presence, far-reaching expertise, and extensive capabilities across major asset classes, we are well placed to help achieve the outcomes our clients demand.
We listen
By listening to our clients’ aspirations and understanding the challenges they face, we are able to create relevant investment solutions and strategies.
We collaborate
Our global business acts as one team. By bringing together our knowledge, skill and creativity across major asset classes, disciplines and regions globally we look to unearth great investment opportunities for our clients.
We focus
Everything we do is driven by our long-term perspective and our focus on building strategies and funds that are built to last. This ensures we develop long-lasting partnerships with our clients.
Investment risk
The value of an investment and any income from it can go down as well as up and can fluctuate in response to changes in currency and exchange rates. Investors may not get back the original amount invested.
Capabilities by asset class
Offering exhaustive capabilities and investment excellence across major asset classes.
Our views
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Real Assets
Relative value in private markets: Positive but selective
29 Jan 2025
Using proprietary data, our private markets research team compares risk and return across sectors.
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Economic Research
Decarbonising buildings: Five barriers and how to overcome them
28 Jan 2025
The built environment generates almost two-fifths of global emissions, but decarbonising the sector will require a coordinated effort. We brought together experts across the value chain to discuss shared challenges and solutions.
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Real Assets
Illiquidity premia in private debt: Q4 2024
27 Jan 2025
In our latest private markets deep dive, our research team crunches the data to see how evolving macroeconomic conditions are reflected in private debt returns.
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Fixed income
Can credit hold firm in 2025? The outlook for investment grade credit and climate transition
24 Jan 2025
Credit spreads remained largely immune to turbulence in 2024 despite concerns for a reacceleration in inflation, an unprecedented scale of global elections and volatility on economic data and changing rate cut expectations. Where to in 2025?
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Responsible Investing
Infrastructure debt in 2025: Investor research and discipline are key to unlocking value in the sector
23 Jan 2025
European infrastructure debt issuance should pick up as governments look to stimulate their economies and support the energy transition. But with banks keen to fund some of the best opportunities, investors need to maintain their discipline.
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Fixed income
Liquidity outlook for 2025: Credit, yield, regulation, positioning – what to expect for the year ahead
22 Jan 2025
The conditions for investing in liquidity look broadly favourable for 2025, but that’s not to say it will be plain sailing.
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Multi-asset allocation
Five big trends to watch in 2025: Trade, tech and tensions to shape the year ahead
17 Jan 2025
From AI breakthroughs to rising risks of trade wars and energy crunches, 2025 is shaping up to be a year of big shifts. Here are five key trends every investor needs to watch to stay ahead of the curve.
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Fixed income
Bond Voyage: A journey into fixed income
13 Jan 2025
With a new US president poised to take office, central banks diverging and ongoing political uncertainty, how are the key fixed income asset classes positioned for the year ahead?
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Fixed income
Sovereigns’ state: Analysing the new challenges facing global sovereign bonds
13 Dec 2024
The expected policies of a Republican administration in the US bring added uncertainty to the global growth cycle. Steve Ryder and Daniel Bright examine the probable impacts of a world with more tariffs and political strains.
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Fixed income
40 years of lending lessons: How four decades in real estate debt has shaped Aviva Investors’ approach
12 Dec 2024
From navigating market crashes to embracing ESG and technology, Adrian Poole and Gregor Bamert reveal how 40 years of real estate debt investing have moulded Aviva Investors’ strategy – and what it takes to stay ahead in a rapidly changing market.
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Equities
What’s next for nature? Key takeaways from Biodiversity COP16
11 Dec 2024
Following our participation at COP16, the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, we reflect on the key themes that emerged, outstanding challenges, and what this all means for investors.
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Fixed income
Buy-and-maintain credit: Taking the road to net zero
10 Dec 2024
Long-term trends like climate change are particularly important for buy-and-maintain investors. How can they integrate climate objectives, such as net zero by 2050, into their portfolios?
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Fixed income
Bond Voyage: A journey into fixed income
9 Dec 2024
This month, we explore how US Treasuries are taking a breath, why 2025 could be the year of carry for high yield, what increasing dispersion means for emerging markets, and how surging M&A activity could affect investment-grade bonds.
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Equities
Spend and save: Three key trends shaping the consumer sector
4 Dec 2024
Our new series shares insights from our sector hub discussions to delve into the trends shaping global equity markets. In the first instalment, Harsharan Mann, consumer sector hub lead, explains what investors should look out for in the sector.
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Fixed income
The case for ReturnPlus: A capital efficient enhanced liquidity strategy
29 Nov 2024
The ReturnPlus strategy invests in a broad range of liquidity sub-asset classes, while consuming limited regulatory capital. Our ReturnPlus team explains why investors should consider an allocation to the strategy.
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Multi-asset & multi-strategy
Beyond bonds: Finding diversification in an era of higher rates volatility
27 Nov 2024
Bond markets are jumpy once again following recent political developments. Rising deficits and renewed inflation risk mean bond market volatility, and with it the search for alternative sources of portfolio diversification, looks to be here to stay.