Active equity solutions that start with you
Drawing on our extensive heritage and research capabilities, we offer investors a focused range of equity and bespoke solutions. Our equity team manages £18 billion* in active equities across a focused range of strategies with portfolio construction designed to deliver enhanced returns through stock selection.
Core equity
We offer core equity capabilities in Global, UK, Emerging Markets and Asia-Pacific strategies that aim to deliver a modest level of alpha within a lower risk approach through portfolios underpinned by a diversified set of our best fundamental ideas across sectors.
Income
We leverage our heritage in UK and global equity income investing to offer differentiated solutions for income-driven investors. Our flagship Global Equity Income strategy looks outside the traditional income sectors to maximise income and capital growth through the cycle.
High alpha
We manage a range of high conviction solutions for investors looking to complement their core equity allocations, such as our Global Equity Endurance and UK Equity Unconstrained strategies.
Sustainable
For sustainable-minded investors, we can create bespoke solutions based on our Stewardship range, and Natural Capital and Climate focused equity strategies. These solutions can invest in companies that aim to turn their positive sustainability credentials into profitable growth.
Equity solutions
We harness our heritage and collective expertise to deliver solutions across a focussed equities universe aiming to meet your needs.
A range of global equity strategies underpinned by a robust process to meet clients' objectives across capital growth, income and sustainability.
A range of strategies that aim to capture the attractive growth potential of the broader emerging market and Asia-Pacific equity asset class.
We manage c.£10bn in UK equities (as at 31 December 2024) across a range of strategies that aim to meet our clients’ needs for capital growth, income and sustainability preferences.
Fundamentally-driven equity investing
We leverage more than 50 years of experience investing with a fundamentally-driven approach, underpinned by a culture of collaboration through our industry sector hub research process.
Fundamentally driven
Fundamentals underpin our idea generation process. We invest with a long-term, bottom-up approach, focusing on the best opportunities globally.
Connected across capabilities
Investment decisions are enhanced by our industry ‘sector hub’ model, which connects our equity team with insight from investment professionals across other geographies and asset classes.
Solutions that start with you
We believe we are well-placed to help our clients with equity solutions that span across our range of Core, Income, High Alpha and Sustainable strategies, as well as tailored solutions to address your specific needs.
*Source: Aviva Investors as at 31 December 2024. The AUM figures shown above are for the group of companies. Trading as Aviva Investors, the fund management arm of the Aviva Group.
Equity insights
Investment thinking that brings together the collective insight of Aviva Investors’ teams from across the globe on the key themes influencing markets.
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Boosting low-carbon investment in the UK: 2025 Roadmap Update
11 Dec 2025
In 2024, we outlined our view on the most important public-policy interventions to unlock private investment in the low-carbon economy. In this update, we take stock of policy developments since, and look ahead to 2026 and beyond.
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Controlling the controllables: Investing with focus amid constant noise
13 Nov 2025
Global equity income portfolio manager Richard Saldanha explains why investors need to tune out the endless stream of headlines to focus on what's within their control.
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Peak fear, prime opportunity: Why healthcare stocks could be on the mend
13 Oct 2025
In the third of our global equity sector hub discussions, Joanna Tucka, healthcare sector hub lead, and Richard Saldanha, global equity portfolio manager, explore why all is not doom and gloom in healthcare.
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Energy-intensive industries: Unlocking low-carbon investment
16 Sep 2025
Vital industries for UK growth like steel or cement are also energy intensive, and their decarbonisation is essential. We convened a roundtable of experts to discuss barriers and solutions to unlocking low-carbon investment opportunities.
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The power of governance: Our key takeaways from the 2025 AGM season
20 Aug 2025
While fewer shareholder resolutions were tabled at company AGMs, we continued to encourage high standards of corporate governance practice, recognising individual company context and the importance of long-term value creation.
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Slow and steady wins the race: The importance of diversification and dividends in uncertain markets
25 Jun 2025
Global equity income fund manager Richard Saldanha explains why it’s time to be the tortoise, not the hare, when approaching today’s evolving and volatile market.
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Uncertainty and the correlation conundrum: Why it’s time to look at liquid alternatives in a new light
23 Jun 2025
The current macro environment poses significant challenges for investors. Our AIMS Target Return team explain why a less conventional approach can help maintain portfolio resilience and unlock return opportunities.
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Decarbonising agriculture: Unlocking investment in sustainable land use
17 Jun 2025
Agriculture is integral to reaching net-zero emissions and reversing nature loss. Its transition also presents huge investment opportunities. We held a roundtable of experts to discuss challenges and solutions.
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AI and beyond: Opportunities amid tech turbulence
3 Apr 2025
In the second of our global equity sector hub discussions, Josep Bori, technology sector hub lead, explains where the team is finding its strongest investment convictions in artificial intelligence and beyond.
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2025 voting trends: Four themes to watch
17 Mar 2025
As AGM season gets under way, we look at the key trends that will shape resolutions and lay out our guiding principles for voting.
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Mix and match: The questions and charts that matter to multi-asset investors
24 Feb 2025
Are global equities as diversified as they seem? Can bonds offer reliable protection? Do alternatives enhance the risk-return profile? In this article, we examine these questions and what they mean for investors navigating today’s complex market.
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Spend and save: Three key trends shaping the consumer sector
4 Dec 2024
Our regular sector hub discussions delve into the trends shaping global equity markets. In this article, Harsharan Mann, consumer sector hub lead, explains what investors should look out for in the sector.
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US election 2024: Some initial thoughts from our fund managers
6 Nov 2024
Aviva Investors fund managers Edward Hutchings, Liam Spillane and Max Burns offer their initial thoughts on what the US election means for financial markets.
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Multi-asset allocation views: Where next for markets after the summer storms?
9 Oct 2024
Volatility returned to markets in the third quarter of the year. While the short-term drivers are not unduly worrying, Sunil Krishnan argues multi-asset investors will need to be watchful over the medium term.
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Equity income megatrends: Four themes reshaping the landscape for income investors
9 May 2024
In this article, we look at four megatrends that are likely to transform companies and markets over the coming years, and how they might create opportunities for equity investors.
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Casting a wider net: Equity income investors find opportunities in global tech and industrials
26 Apr 2024
Large tech firms such as Meta have announced they will pay dividends for the first time in 2024, illustrating the opportunities equity income investors can find beyond “traditional” dividend-paying stocks.
House View
No one can predict the future. But our quarterly House View sets out the collective wisdom of our investment teams on the current state of global markets – and where they might be heading.
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Key risks
Investment risk and currency risk
The value of an investment and any income from it can go down as well as up and can fluctuate in response to changes in currency and exchange rates. Investors may not get back the original amount invested.
Equity expertise
Meet our equity investment team.
Nicholette Macdonald-Brown
Global Head of Active Equities
Matt Bennison
Head of UK Active Equities
Max Burns
Global Equities Portfolio Manager and Head of Equity Research
Will Malcolm
Head of Global Emerging Markets and Asian Equities
Barney Goodchild
Head of Fixed Income and Equity Investment Specialists
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With a global presence, far-reaching expertise, and extensive capabilities across major asset classes, we are well placed to help achieve the outcomes our clients demand.
The Investment Manager endeavours to comply with the requirements of the UK Stewardship Code when managing the Funds’ assets. Stewardship is the responsible allocation, management and oversight of capital to create long-term value for investors leading to sustainable benefits for the economy, the environment and society. Environmental (particularly climate) and social factors, in addition to governance, have become material issues for fund managers to consider when making investment decisions and undertaking stewardship. The Investment Manager therefore considers a range of financial and non-financial information when assessing investments and to inform its stewardship activities, including considering the potential or actual material risk that sustainability issues may have on an investment. For more information on how the Investment Manager carries out this activity and meets the requirements of the UK Stewardship Code, as well as details about Aviva Investors’ firmwide policy, please see our website: https://www.avivainvestors.com/en-gb/about/responsible-investment/policies-and-documents/
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