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Aviva Investors
Your future, our future
For today’s investor
Welcome
Aviva Investors is a global asset manager, we have expertise
across major asset classes – fixed income, equities, real assets,
multi-asset and solutions. We’re part of the Aviva Group, the
UK’s largest insurer, and it’s our level of scale, experience and
reach that enables us to deliver the outcomes that matter to the
end customer.
Here at Aviva, we have over 250 years of investment experience,
we've been through every market cycle – which means we're
better prepared for the next one. For our clients this means we
can be innovative in how we solve their needs. We believe only by
fully understanding their goals can we create the right solution.
For us to achieve our goals, we believe we have to help you
achieve yours. We are looking for highly talented people to join
our teams, build careers and drive this business forward.
We are an organisation that values our people; our strength as
a business comes from nurturing diversity of talent through an
inclusive, collaborative culture. The more we welcome people
from all sectors, countries, backgrounds, ages, disabilities,
gender and skill sets, we will better understand our client base
and make more robust investment decisions.
We are driven by talent. By actively identifying, nurturing and
rewarding people’s unique skills, we build a better working
environment and a more effective and innovative service for
our clients.
Thank you for exploring Aviva Investors as your next career step
and we wish you every success in the process.
Euan Munro
CEO Aviva Investors.
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What do we do?
About Aviva Investors aiming to grow the value of their
money. For example, the money
We are a global asset manager with Asset class £m
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well as the changes taking place in our life and retirement, through the ups
industry and the world around us. and downs of life, and always with a
view to investing responsibly.
What is Asset Management?
As an Asset Manager we pool
together money from investors with
a common investment goal. We then
invest the money in different assets,
Aviva Investors Your future, our future 3
What makes us unique?
“ Aviva Investors
gave me the full
Client-centric construction
asset management We make it our business to know what’s important to our
experience with real clients. Listening is the foundation for creating investment
responsibility and portfolios around them. We skilfully combine our expertise and
investment capabilities across asset classes to help us meet
incredible insights.
their specific needs.
I can truly say that
the internship was the
Connected thinking
best I have ever been
We connect people, data and perspectives, across asset classes
a part of.”
and the globe, to generate new investment ideas. Expertise
Amy, from over 1,500 people in 14 countries connect seamlessly as
Summer Intern one team to deliver the best of our diverse expertise with
every investment.
Responsibility built in
Responsibility is built into everything we do. Doing the
right thing for our people, clients and their investments is
fundamental to our legacy and long-term success. Acting and
investing responsibly makes financial sense and helps create a
sustainable future for us all.
What makes us standout
We’re an inclusive and connected business. Currently, we’re in Stonewall’s top
50 ranking of LGBT friendly workplaces, who have commended our ‘Aviva Pride’
network. We also have our own international Women’s Network. We partner with
Investment 2020 who are driven by bringing more diverse talent into all aspects
of investment management through school leavers and graduate trainees. We
are championing the Diversity Project, with our CEO, Euan Munro sitting on the
advisory board, as we aim to achieve diversity across all dimensions, including
gender, ethnicity, socio-economic background, LGBT+, age and disability.
One of Aviva’s core values is Care More, and this is bought to life through the
flexible ways we like to work. This may include working from home some of the
time, or flexible work schedules to accommodate parent and carer responsibilities,
further studies and hobbies. What’s important to us is that you are supported to do
the best work of your life, and that you find it rewarding.
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Responsible investing
across everything we do
Ever wondered where your pension will be invested?
At Aviva Investors we aim to build a better future for
our clients, the companies we invest in, and the planet
– not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because
it makes financial sense. We’ve always believed that
companies conducting their business in a responsible
and sustainable manner are more likely to succeed
over time, benefiting our customers and society as a
whole. That’s why we embed environmental, social
and governance (ESG) issues into our investment
decision-making. We also use our influence as a large
investor to promote sustainable business practices
in the companies and projects we invest in, as well as
voice concerns about ESG issues to governments and
regulators around the world.
Letting Our Values Lead Us Forward
Care More – We’re in it together. Only by genuinely caring about our customers, communities and
our world we can achieve the long-term results and transformation we set out to accomplish.
Create Legacy – We encourage innovation and invest with courage to make lasting change happen,
helping to build a bright and sustainable future for everyone.
Never Rest – We are driven by desire to disrupt convention, ask tough questions, and challenge the
status quo to find new ways in which we can improve what we do.
Kill Complexity – We operate within a complicated industry. So we embrace simplicity
to deal with inefficiencies and to do the right thing for our customers.
Aviva Investors Your future, our future 5
Aviva Investors, will work closely with the real assets,
equities, multi-asset and macro and
Growing credit teams to manage and develop
distinctive solutions for both internal
Opportunities and external clients.
Our investment desks share a common
We’ve got big plans for our future, and
investment goal which is to deliver
yours. Discover your potential with our
the specific and meaningful outcomes
early careers programmes.
that matter most to today’s investor.
We understand that a career is more than Our innovative multi-strategy range,
a job; it’s a progression of experiences. launched in 2014, brings together our
full global investment capabilities
Through our early careers programmes, across a broad range of disciplines.
you will have the opportunity to These strategies do not seek to beat any
explore and learn about a career in specific benchmark, but instead aim
Asset Management. You will be aligned to provide a more certain investment
to one business area to allow you to outcome for clients.
contribute and add value from day one
by collaborating with the teams to help Real Assets: We offer investment
deliver our clients outcomes. solutions targeting secure long income,
highly diversified portfolios targeting
Our Business Areas income and growth, as well as specialist
funds targeting tactical, higher growth
Global Client Solutions: The Global
outcomes. We invest in specific
Client Solutions (GCS) division is
sectors, in single countries, regionally
responsible for the distribution of our
or globally, and invest across the real
investment capabilities, as well as
estate spectrum, both directly and
developing, growing and protecting our
indirectly, and in equity and real estate
client relationships. Our clients are all
debt. We offer management services
investors – pension schemes, insurance
targeting benchmark relative, cash
companies and financial intermediaries,
relative or absolute returns.
such as banks, plus their advisors and
investment consultants. Working in GCS We also provide investors with access
will provide you with an understanding to alternative income asset classes,
of how Asset Managers bring their through a multi-strategy solution as
investment expertise to market, how we well as single asset class strategies.
develop client relationships, and give These include investments in areas such
you exposure to one of the most quickly- as infrastructure (both debt and equity),
evolving areas of the Asset real estate financing, structured finance
Management industry. and corporate private placements.
Global Investment Solutions: We Multi-asset and Macro: Our team takes
provide bespoke portfolio solutions to a top down approach to investing and
meet investors’ needs. The team gives follows the economics and politics
asset allocation and structuring advice across both developed and emerging
across the full spectrum of global asset economies. In doing so we hope to
classes. The new solutions function
6 Aviva Investors Your future, our future 1
Source: Aviva Investors as at 30 September 2017.
uncover long term investable trends
such as an improving growth outlook
Our equity team’s interaction with
our global network of investment
“
You’ll come away
with a huge array of
for an economy which will impact professionals gives us a holistic view. marketable attributes;
central bank policy or equity inflows. Local market intelligence is constantly both technical skills
The team aims look through short-term shared and investigated, as are
and in-depth knowledge
market noise to come up with a central macroeconomic perspectives. Equity
of investment
economic scenario (our house view) fund managers and analysts use these
management. All
and strategically allocate our assets insights to help in identifying profitable
in long term positions on that basis. new investment opportunities for learned in a friendly
At the same time, we must navigate our clients. environment where
short term market volatility, keeping you can add real value.”
As managers of around £69 billion1
up to date with economic and political
of equities, we often have privileged Oliver,
developments so we can react and
access to the companies in which Summer Intern
protect our portfolio. In a constantly
we invest. We take this responsibility
changing world this team strives to
seriously. As committed, long-term
find a steady path which will provide
investors we believe in the highest
the best return for our clients. Debating
standards of corporate governance and
this path both internally as a team and
work closely with senior management.
collaboratively with the fixed income and
equity teams makes this area a diverse Credit: The Credit team invest in bonds
and stimulating place to work on a daily which are loans that are borrowed for
basis. a defined period of time. They act as
lenders to companies across a range
Equities: The Equities team are long
of markets. Credit is a broad and
term investors offering a range of
diverse asset class, meaning that many
global and regional strategies from
investments are evaluated from both a
income through to capital appreciation.
bottom up and a top down perspective
This is achieved by investing across
(examine various economic factors,
the full spectrum of large and
that affect the overall market). Portfolio
smaller companies.
managers and analysts evaluate each
Collaboration is our strength. It is our opportunity based on macro-economic,
active engagement with clients, with fundamental, valuation and technical
each other and with the companies attributes in order to assess where price
we invest in that can deliver the best has deviated from fair value.
outcomes for our clients.
Aviva Investors Your future, our future 7
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Training and Development
We all want to stay ahead. We all want to be Because your career here matters to us all,
the best. So at Aviva Investors we never stop we’ve designed our Talent Management
questioning, reviewing and analysing what we programme to help open up dialogue between
can do to help us all work better, smarter, and you and your manager. These regular,
add more value across the board. collaborative reviews help us both to clarify,
understand and appreciate every aspect of your
As part of our graduate programme you career progression and the steps you will need
will be supported to achieve 2 professional our support on to reach your goals in the way that
qualifications; the IMC and CFA Level 1. We’ve also works best for you.
built a selection of expert online Training Modules
you can download whenever you need to upskill
or improve your existing talents.
Aviva Investors Your future, our future 9Starting your career with us
About you
Our people come from a wide range of backgrounds, allowing them to bring diversity of ideas and unique
perspectives to our investment decision-making process. Therefore you don’t need a specific degree to
apply to our programmes.
The qualities we do look for are:
• Curiosity, people who have an insatiable • Initiative, self starters who can solve problems
hunger to learn, discover and question the
• Collaborate, people who can communicate
world around them
well and share ideas with colleagues
• Innovative, people who can think
• Data Driven, people who can assess vast
differently and create unique solutions
quantities of information to make their
to meet our clients’ needs
investment decisions.
Spring programme: Interns: Graduates:
Key features: Key features: Key Features:
• 4-day programme during • 10-week programme • Two year programme
Spring vacation
• You will be responsible for • Aligned to one
• Gain an insight into the a project which helps the business area
business areas team deliver their goals
• At the end of your two
• Have exposure to two lines • Aligned to one business years you will have:
of business of your choice area
• Professional Qualification
through work shadowing
• Develop an understanding
• Developed a broad
• Assessment centre of Aviva Investors and
understanding of
skills sessions the wider Investment
Aviva Investors
Management industry
• Established fundamental
• Opportunity for those who
and transferable business
are successful to be offered
skills such as; presenting,
a place into our graduate
negotiating and networking
programme, the
to name a few – Built a great
following year
network of intelligence and
Who: Who: diversified thought
• A degree in any discipline • A degree in any discipline Who:
• Have 2 years of course • Be in your penultimate • A degree in any discipline
remaining. year of study
• You should be available
• Available during Spring • Available for the duration for full time work from
vacation of the 10 weeks September next year
10 Aviva Investors Your future, our futureNext steps
Visit our website – https://careers.avivainvestors.com/ – and then apply.
Stage one: The Application
You will be asked to select which
Stage three: Video Interview
Our Video Interview is a great chance
“ We don’t employ robots.
We don’t want sheep. We
business area you are interested in, for us to get to know more about you value the independent
upload your CV and fill in a few basic and your aspirations. thinkers, the curious, the
questions such as your contact details disruptors. The positive
– it’s that easy! Stage four: Assessment Centre
people who set out to
This is our final stage. Making it to this make a genuine, lasting,
Stage two: Online Testing
stage means we think you’ve got what positive difference.”
You will be invited to complete 3 we are after. You will be invited to
online tests designed to assess your our offices for a dynamic day during
abilities. You will have 7 days to which we will assess your potential
complete these and can be done at through several different assessments
any time during those 7 days. and give you the opportunity to meet
members of the business area you
have applied to.
Aviva Investors Your future, our future 11We know that everyone is different and that’s what makes
you unique. We want you to bring your unique talents
to Aviva Investors and we will help you to use them as
effectively as possible. We have a large client base and
by reflecting all aspects of society and having diversity of
thought, we believe we will be able to provide the best
ideas and best solutions to help our clients achieve what
they need.
We invest in the long term and aim for long lasting impact
and success, and we want you to be part of building
that future.
I would encourage you to explore our website, follow us
on twitter, and LinkedIn. Come to our events and meet us.
Our assessment centres are designed to find out about the
real you – what motivates you, what your strengths are,
and what your values are, rather than judging you on what
you’ve already done and achieved. We are investing in
your potential, your future and our future.
We look forward to meeting you.
Kirsty Baldock
Head of Talent Acquisition
Important Information
Except where stated as otherwise, the source of all information is
Aviva Investors Global Services Limited (“Aviva Investors”) as at
[insert date]. Unless stated otherwise any views, opinions and future
returns expressed are those of Aviva Investors and based on Aviva
Investors internal forecasts. They should not be viewed as indicating
any guarantee of return from an investment managed by Aviva
Investors nor as advice of any nature. The value of an investment
and any income from it may go down as well as up and the investor
may not get back the original amount invested. Past performance is
not a guide to the future returns.
Some of the information within this document is based upon Aviva
Investors estimates. It is not to be relied on by anyone else for the
purpose of making investment decisions. Full terms and conditions
of Aviva Investors products and services are available on request.
Issued by Aviva Investors Global Services Limited, registered
in England No. 1151805. Registered Office: St Helens,
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