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Aviva Investors appoints new credit portfolio manager
06 October, 2009
Aviva Investors has appointed Paul Whelan as a credit portfolio manager with immediate effect. Paul is part of the London-based Credit team and reports to Stephen Lee, head of credit portfolio focus group, Aviva Investors.
Paul joins Aviva Investors from Henderson Global Investors where he managed the interest rate portfolio within a fixed income hedge fund. Prior to this he worked at UBS Global Asset Management and has extensive management experience of both benchmarked and absolute return funds.
Mark Wauton, head of credit said: “Paul will be focusing on risk analysis and portfolio engineering, leveraging his experience of managing global aggregate and absolute return funds.
“He will contribute to and develop initiatives aimed at refining and improving our credit investment process as well as co-managing existing client mandates, as part of Stephen Lee’s Portfolio Focus Group.”
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For more information contact:
Allister Fowler
Corporate Affairs
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7809 8313
E-mail: allister.fowler@avivainvestors.com
Notes to editors:
Aviva Investors
Aviva Investors is the global asset management business of Aviva plc. The company delivers investment management solutions, services and client-driven performance to clients worldwide. Aviva Investors operates in 15 countries in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and the United Kingdom.
Aviva plc
Aviva is the world’s fifth largest insurance group*, serving 50 million customers across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
Aviva’s principal business activities are long-term savings, fund management and general insurance, with worldwide total sales of £24.4 billion for the six months to 30 June 2009 and funds under management of £352 billion at 30 June 2009, of which Aviva Investors manages £222 billion.
* Based on gross worldwide premiums for the year ended 31 December 2008
