Market Insights

This edition of The Investors Journal introduces a retirement theme, an area which is a central focus for Aviva Investors around the world.

• Is investing in last year’s winners a winning strategy?
  Jason Josefs | Fund Manager
  Investing in last year’s winners is a statistically significant strategy for picking top performing multi-asset fund managers.
• A global pension problem
  Andrew Clare | Chair of Asset Management at the Cass Business School and Chairman of Fathom Financial Consulting
  While every country has used slightly different approaches to the pensions problem, ultimately they all seek to ensure that the pensions promise will be met.
• High yield bank loans: the case for a strategic allocation
  Christopher C. Langs | High Yield Portfolio Manager
  There are compelling arguments for high yield bank loans as a standalone strategy or asset class, or to complement a high yield bond strategy.
• Behavioural finance: putting the most interesting field in modern investment theory into practice
  Graham Elliott-Shircore | UK Equity Fund Manager
  Although behavioural finance is largely a qualitative subject,it may be possible to quantify certain aspects into a practical investment philosophy framework.
• A turbulent year brings securities finance into the mainstream
  Jerome Nunan | Client Portfolio Manager, Securities Finance
  The credit crisis raised awareness of securities finance and proved that, when properly managed, it generates significant risk adjusted returns for pension funds and should be integral to their investment process.
• Credit investing: using long/short techniques to maximise opportunities
  Keith Kelsall | Head of Fixed Income Client Investment Development
  Credit has become a core asset class for many institutional investors but little is known about the framework by which credit portfolios are best managed.

The Investors Journal may include articles written by employees of various Aviva Investors affiliated companies.