Biography
Main responsibilities
Ed is a Senior Fund Manager in Aviva Investors’ UK Real Estate Equity team, with more than 20 years’ experience across real estate fund management, investment, transactions and valuation.
He is responsible for investment strategy, portfolio construction, performance, transactions, origination, investment management, risk governance and senior client engagement across a range of UK and European mandates with assets under management totalling over £4bn.
Experience and qualifications
Ed is currently the Fund Manager for the three Heritage Friends Life property funds with assets under management of approximately £1bn.
Ed also manages approximately £2bn of With-Profits property portfolios, setting and executing investment strategy to balance long-term performance and liquidity requirements.
Ed led on the successful wind-downs of both the Aviva Investors Pensions Limited Property Fund and Aviva Investors Property Fund, overseeing investor communications and structured disposal programmes that maximised value and supported the orderly return of capital.
Prior to joining Aviva Investors in 2021, Ed worked at Cushman & Wakefield, latterly as Head of Investment Valuations, where he led a 30-person team advising institutional investors on portfolios valued at more than £6bn. Earlier roles included Head of UK Industrial Valuations and five years in the Business Space Investment team.
Ed holds a BA (Hons) in War Studies from King’s College London and an MSc in Estate Management from London South Bank University. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.