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  • Manulife IM creates emerging markets equities CIO role

    08 November 2024

    Charlie Dutton to oversee alignment of Asia team with EM

  • Manulife IM hires Aviva Investors alum for public markets CIO role

    11 December 2023

    Colin Purdie takes the reins from Christopher Conkey

  • Manulife IM appoints Colin Purdie as CIO for public markets

    27 June 2023

    Daniel McHugh appointed CIO of Aviva Investors, takes on Purdie's old liquid markets remit

  • Aviva makes senior leadership appointments

    11 February 2020

    Iain Forrester and Cyril Martin move into newly-created roles

  • Green Bonds: a primer

    12 March 2018

    Insurers are looking more closely than ever at the current trend of green bond investment. But is this just a fashion? And what should investors be aware of when putting money into this still nascent sector? David Turner reports

  • Aviva Investors: flexibility and a broad perspective needed in fixed-income investment

    23 July 2015

    Quantitative easing in Europe, renewed risk from Greece and China and a predicted rate rise in the US are all giving fixed-income investors headaches. Spare a thought, then, for Aviva Investors' Colin Purdie, with £96bn of IG credit to oversee. Sarfraz Thind reports on his strategy

  • About 90% of Aviva Investors' clients now ask about ESG criteria

    22 June 2015

    Colin Purdie says green bonds are a way of showing ESG credentials

  • Insurers see the gold in green

    09 April 2015

    Green bonds are looking increasingly attractive to insurance companies which want to meet their risk and return objectives while producing a positive environmental or social impact. But there are concerns about the definition and capacity of the market, as Mark Nicholls explains