Long-standing expertise in sustainable investing
Our 40+ strong sustainable investing team works closely with colleagues across the business, leveraging their skills and knowledge to contribute to clients’ sustainability goals and investment outcomes.
We aim to work in partnership with our clients to understand their specific sustainability needs and identify the right solutions for them. As an asset manager with scale and global reach, we use engagement, voting and investment decisions to support the transition to a sustainable future. We also engage with stakeholders at multiple levels in the financial system, including with policymakers and regulators, to unlock long-term value for investors – an approach we call ‘holistic stewardship’.
Actions to unlock value
We maintain a fundamental conviction that material ESG factors can have an impact on investment returns and client outcomes. By integrating financially material ESG insights in decision making, we aim to better support delivery of long term risk-adjusted returns. Our holistic approach to stewardship aims to further unlock value for investors through engagement.
Solutions that start with you
We understand there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach when it comes to sustainable investing. We work in close partnership with our clients to understand their specific needs, identifying the right solutions to meet their goals.
Designed to last
Through harnessing the learnings and experience we have developed over the past three decades in sustainability risk management, the identification of investible opportunities and an understanding of trade-offs, we believe we are well positioned to address the sustainability challenges of today’s investors.
Focus on climate and nature

Navigating nature
Our society, economies and financial systems are embedded in nature, not external to it. This paper sets out the actions we are taking to understand nature-related risks and opportunities to deliver outcomes that meet our clients’ needs, and to support nature-related global goals.

Boosting low carbon investment in the UK
Our in-depth Roadmap for the UK’s journey towards a low-carbon economy contains policy recommendations to unlock private investment in the transition.
Our latest views
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Fixed income
Sovereign engagement: Driving positive change while delivering long-term value
14 May 2025
Investor engagement with governments on their climate commitments can be a powerful complement to other forms of stewardship. It can also help investors identify opportunities and mitigate risks, says Thomas Dillon.
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Responsible Investing
Decarbonising power: Challenges and solutions
28 Apr 2025
Decarbonising power is essential to provide affordable, clean energy and deliver net zero ambitions. It also brings significant investment opportunities. We convened a range of industry experts to discuss the barriers and how to overcome them.
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Economic Research
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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Economic Research
Transition finance: How the UK can lead as transition finance reshapes investing and economies
18 Feb 2025
As a member of the UK’s newly formed Transition Finance Council, Mark Versey explains why and how a transition finance lens can transform investing.
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Economic Research
Decarbonising buildings: Five barriers and how to overcome them
28 Jan 2025
The built environment generates almost two-fifths of global emissions, but decarbonising the sector will require a coordinated effort. We brought together experts across the value chain to discuss shared challenges and solutions.
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Fixed income
Can credit hold firm in 2025? The outlook for investment grade credit and climate transition
24 Jan 2025
Credit spreads remained largely immune to turbulence in 2024 despite concerns for a reacceleration in inflation, an unprecedented scale of global elections and volatility on economic data and changing rate cut expectations. Where to in 2025?
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Responsible Investing
Infrastructure debt in 2025: Investor research and discipline are key to unlocking value in the sector
23 Jan 2025
European infrastructure debt issuance should pick up as governments look to stimulate their economies and support the energy transition. But with banks keen to fund some of the best opportunities, investors need to maintain their discipline.
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Fixed income
40 years of lending lessons: How four decades in real estate debt has shaped Aviva Investors’ approach
12 Dec 2024
From navigating market crashes to embracing ESG and technology, Adrian Poole and Gregor Bamert reveal how 40 years of real estate debt investing have moulded Aviva Investors’ strategy – and what it takes to stay ahead in a rapidly changing market.
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Fixed income
Buy-and-maintain credit: Taking the road to net zero
10 Dec 2024
Long-term trends like climate change are particularly important for buy-and-maintain investors. How can they integrate climate objectives, such as net zero by 2050, into their portfolios?
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Economic Research
Decarbonising transport: Five key challenges and how to overcome them
26 Nov 2024
Creating sustainable transport solutions is vital to meet net-zero pledges, but progress has been patchy. To encourage mobilisation across value chains, we brought together a range of sector experts to identify key blockers and potential solutions.
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Economic Research
Building bridges to net zero: Mobilising value chains for decarbonisation
25 Nov 2024
From aviation to heavy industry, achieving net zero requires a collective unlocking of entire ecosystems. This is what our sector roundtables aim to do, by bringing together stakeholders from across the value chain of high-impact sectors.
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Economic Research
Striking a balance: Key themes from the first eight months of 2024 AGMs
21 Oct 2024
Annual general meetings (AGMs) are an opportunity for responsible investors to share their priorities with companies and express their views on key elements of strategy and governance. Our Stewardship team reviews our 2024 AGM engagement and voting activity.
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Economic Research
Navigating nature: Opportunities for the investor of tomorrow
16 Oct 2024
Our society, economies and financial systems are embedded in nature, not external to it. This paper sets out the actions we are taking to understand nature-related risks and opportunities to deliver outcomes that meet our clients’ needs, and to support nature-related global goals.
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Economic Research
Only connect: How a holistic approach to investment stewardship can enhance client outcomes
27 Sep 2024
From direct investments and engagement with companies to dialogue with governments and regulators, we believe stewardship efforts can deliver better outcomes for clients.
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Real Assets
Get networking: Will the next decade be a golden age for UK infrastructure?
3 Sep 2024
While there are obstacles to overcome, the coming years could see new opportunities for the UK government and the private sector to work together on infrastructure projects, says Darryl Murphy.
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Real Assets
Real asset stories: Curtain House
8 Aug 2024
In the first instalment of a new series of case studies on our real asset investments, we look at Curtain House, a Victorian warehouse Aviva Investors is converting into a modern, environmentally friendly office building.
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About us
We are a leading global asset manager with expertise in connecting the right investment capabilities with individual client needs. We use the full scope of our capabilities to design solutions that last – solutions that start with you.
Capabilities
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.
Investment risk
The value of an investment and any income from it can go down as well as up. Investors may not get back the original amount invested.