Archive

  • Aviva Investors acquires two Dutch logistics hubs

    20 November 2019

    The assets were bought from Delin Property

  • Aviva Investors invests £250m in Cambridge commercial property

    04 November 2019

    Investment made in partnership with PSP Investments

  • 80% of insurers expect to increase their real asset holdings

    23 October 2019

    Aviva Investors' survey finds nearly half of insurer respondents are concerned by financial instability

  • Sustainability and Solvency II: an imprudent regime

    17 October 2019

    Aviva Investors' Steve Waygood and Ben Carr, discuss integrating sustainability risk to Solvency II capital requirements, and why in some respect the prudential regulation is ‘imprudent’. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Sustainability and Solvency II: Is the frog dead yet?

    10 October 2019

    If the planet is a frog in a saucepan heated by the market, at the moment we are only taking the temperature and not reducing the heat, according to Steve Waygood, chief responsible investment officer, and Ben Carr, analytics and capital modelling director, at Aviva Investors. Interview by Vincent Huck

  • Absence of US insurers in global climate initiative eye-opening

    04 October 2019

    Climate Action 100+ releases first progress report as pressure on climate-aware investing grows

  • Spurring sustainable investments with capital charges

    19 September 2019

    The question of capital charges punishing ‘brown’ investments or incentivising ‘green’ investments has come to the fore. While regulators are asking for risk-based evidence, stakeholders are not all in agreement on how to proceed. Vincent Huck reports

  • Will BBB come back to bite?

    17 September 2019

    Is the end of the credit cycle really in sight and, if so, are European insurers at risk of seeing their high yield assets coming back to bite them? A wave of credit downgrades could significantly impact solvency ratios and put insurers in the position of forced sellers. But how worried should they be? Vincent Huck reports

  • Aviva Investors hires head of ESG for real assets

    16 September 2019

    The firm has a £45bn real assets portfolio

  • Netflix set to move into Uxbridge development owned by Aviva Investors

    20 August 2019

    Streaming giant reportedly agreed to sublet unit as a production facility