All Aviva Investors articles – Page 3

  • The Specialist
    Features

    The Specialist: Investment trends – October 12 2015

    2015-10-12T00:00:00Z

    How are schemes responding to the latest twists in the investment landscape, including interest rate speculation and global market wobbles? Download The Specialist here to find out how your scheme can raise its defences while gaining returns.

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    News

    PiP captures £131m for solar investment

    2015-06-18T00:00:00Z

    The Pensions Infrastructure Platform has closed the first round of financing for its solar photovoltaics fund, as schemes continue to weigh the benefits of less familiar alternative assets such as renewable energy.

  • Features

    What does the future hold for LDI?

    2015-03-17T00:00:00Z

    Aviva Investors' Mark Versey, Legal & General Investment Management's Laura Brown, KPMG's Simeon Willis, AMNT committee member and Lend Lease Pension Scheme trustee, Alan Gander, Pan Trustees' Mike Roberts, Buck Consultants at Xerox's Celene Lee and State Street Global Advisors' Howard Kearns, take a look into the future of liability-driven investment strategy, in the final part of this debate.

  • Features

    How can small schemes get smart with LDI?

    2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Aviva Investors' Mark Versey, Legal & General Investment Management's Laura Brown, KPMG's Simeon Willis, AMNT committee member and Lend Lease Pension Scheme trustee, Alan Gander, Pan Trustees' Mike Roberts, Buck Consultants at Xerox's Celene Lee and State Street Global Advisors' Howard Kearns, discuss how LDI can benefit small schemes given the correct advice, in the second part of this roundtable.

  • Features

    How will LDI portfolios withstand current inflation falls and low yields?

    2015-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Aviva Investors' Mark Versey, Legal & General Investment Management's Laura Brown, KPMG's Simeon Willis, AMNT committee member and Lend Lease Pension Scheme trustee, Alan Gander, Pan Trustees' Mike Roberts, Buck Consultants at Xerox's Celene Lee and State Street Global Advisors' Howard Kearns, debate whether now is a good time to embark on a liability-driven investment strategy, in the first of a four-part discussion.

  • News

    Compliance concerns prompt employers to rethink AE providers

    2014-02-04T00:00:00Z

    News analysis: Some large employers are considering switching their auto-enrolment provider as their administration needs are not being met, fanning a growing secondary market.

  • Opinion

    EMD report: how to take advantage of the market dip

    2013-06-24T00:00:00Z

    While emerging market assets have been battered in recent weeks, the debt sell-off could in fact provide added opportunity for pension schemes.

  • Features

    Heineken boosts transparency with statement of investment principles

    2013-06-06T00:00:00Z

    Heineken’s scheme governance committee has produced a statement of investment principles to improve transparency for members, despite there being no legal requirement for contract-based defined contribution plans to do so.

  • News

    Hackney: equities better than bonds over long term

    2013-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Equities are more attractive in the long term than bonds, according to the London Borough of Hackney Pension Fund, which is even modelling the impact of a 100 per cent equity allocation on the scheme’s investments.

  • Opinion

    Infrastructure debt: the long-term alternative?

    2013-05-29T00:00:00Z

    A consequence of the restructuring of banks’ loan books is that UK pension funds are going to be spoilt for choice when it comes to infrastructure debt offerings. 

  • Opinion

    How real assets fit into your inflation battle

    2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

    ‘Uncharted territory’ is the common presage increasingly heard across the industry whenever inflation and pensions are uttered in the same breath.

  • Opinion

    Schemes hold off infrastructure investment while Pip develops

    2013-05-08T00:00:00Z

    Continued deliberation over the Pensions Infrastructure Platform is slowing overall investment in the asset class as schemes await detail on how the initiative will be set up, investment experts have reported.

  • Features

    Index-linked assets valued in low gilt yield environment

    2012-12-26T00:00:00Z

    In this edition of Investment Blueprint, Aviva Investors' Chris Laxton looks at the various options for schemes seeking to hedge their inflation liability through index-linked assets such as housing and infrastructure.