Aviva Investors

Schemes will find opportunities in actively managed inflation-linked bonds next year due to the differential between RPI and CPI-linked bond yields, an asset manager claims.

Aviva Investors has launched a global real estate fund of funds to help UK local authority pension schemes access unlisted property and still comply with LGPS regulations.

British Steel Pension Fund has added a television studio and planned digital media centre in Cardiff to its property portfolio after purchasing both sites from Aviva Investors.

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Gearing equity mandates towards outperforming quarterly benchmarks could be undermining attempts to improve long-term investing, Aviva Investors says.

The £8.5bn Aviva Staff Pension Scheme is looking to increase its allocations to real estate related assets to 15% over the next two years as it looks for long-term, liability matching assets.

Pension funds are being encouraged to support plans for a state-backed green investment bank to help stimulate investment in clean technology business and a low carbon economy.

The threat to pension funds posed by soaring inflation and interest rate rises can be cushioned using absolute return strategies, Aviva Investors says.

The Pension Protection Fund has recruited four new managers alongside its existing manager to develop its globally diversified real estate strategy.

The future of the eurozone remains under threat despite the Irish economic bailout and could eventually collapse, fund managers believe.