Aviva Investors has made nine hires to its global equities team, including a raft of stock-pickers from the investment business of rival Aberdeen Standard Investments. It marks the first big wave of recruits since David Cumming, the former head of equities at Standard Life Investments, took over as chief investment officer at Aviva Investors at the start of the year. The...
Nine members of the merged Aberdeen Standard Investments global equities team have left to join Aviva Investors. Except for one, the latest flow of employees to Aviva are all ex-Standard Life (SLI); they follow ex-SLI recruits Iain Forrester, now head of Aviva’s insurance investment strategy, and David Cummings, who joined as CIO at the start of the year, working alongside former colleague Aviva CEO Euan Munro. Mikhail Zverev, Jaime Ramos Martin, Stephanie Niven and Ross Mathison will join Aviva’s global equity team while Alistair Way, Jonathan Toub and Will Malcom will join emerging market equities.