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With a history stretching back over 300 years, 45.5 million customers worldwide and £402bn of client assets under management and 45,000 employees, Aviva Group is the sixth largest insurance group in the world and the largest in the UK. Our focus is on delivering prosperity and peace of mind to our customers.
As part of Aviva Group, Aviva Investors has assets under management in excess of £259 billion across a range of real estate, equity, fixed income, money market and alternative funds, Aviva Investors gives their clients unique access to local markets along with the availability of considerable global resources.
They employ around 1,300 people across 19 countries and their clients range from large corporate and institutional investors including pension schemes and local government organisations to wealth managers to individual investors.
Source: Aviva (Aviva Group data as at 30 June 2011) and Aviva Investors (AUM data as at 30 September 2011 and staff data as at 24 November 2011)
Kames Capital is the new name for AEGON Asset Management UK.
We are a specialist investment management company with £49 billion under management and 247 employees. We manage fixed income, equity, property and multi-asset investments for individual and institutional investors in the UK, Europe and Asia.
We focus on assets and markets where we have experience and genuine expertise. We combine our fund managers' talents with a proven investment process which is not constrained by any single investment style. We aim to outperform in all market conditions by taking advantage of the opportunities that occur throughout the business and market cycles.
All figures were correct as at 30 June 2011.
Neptune believes a truly active approach to investment offers the best opportunity for superior returns.
Our investment philosophy has been at the core of our performance and is driven by the belief that equities should be viewed by global industry sector rather than the more traditional regional, index-driven approach. This unique global sector focus, combined with extensive in-house macroeconomic research and stockpicking, has been key to our success.
Neptune was founded in 2002 as an independent and privately owned investment management company. Current funds under management stand at £6.3bn (as at 30.12.11).
Founded in 1805, Pictet is wholly owned by eight Managing Partners who are also active in the management of the Group. Pictet is today Switzerland's largest private bank with assets under management and administration totalling £251 billion as at 30 September 2011**.
Pictet's sole business is asset management and related services.
The Pictet Group provides investment management services worldwide with an integrity and a dedication to client service, established over two hundred years of tradition. With 20 offices worldwide, Pictet prides itself in having a global reach.
Pictet is considered one of the leading specialist investment houses in Continental Europe, managing assets for a wide variety of institutional and private clients. Pictet's asset management expertise covers the areas of Private Banking, Institutional Asset Management and Investment Funds.
Pictet has a long-standing experience in fund management and administration which started in 1910 with the creation of its first investment company focusing on North American equities, still in operation today. Pictet has over 100 funds comprising Regional Equities, Emerging Equities and an exciting range of Fixed Income and innovative Thematic Funds.
*Pictet in this context refers to Pictet & Cie.
**Source: Pictet & Cie (total assets including custody and management as at 30 September 2011).
Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) is one of the UK's leading investment companies, managing assets on behalf of a wide range of wholesale and institutional clients, as well as for its parent company, Royal London Group. Founded in 1861, Royal London Group is the UK's largest mutual life and pensions provider and continues to grow both organically and through acquisitions. Established as a separate company in 1988, RLAM has built a strong reputation as an innovative manager, investing across all major asset classes and delivering consistent long term outperformance combined with high standards of client servicing. RLAM manages £44 billion of assets (as at 31 December 2011), split between equities, fixed interest, property and cash. In the wholesale market, clients include private client stockbrokers, wealth managers, discretionary fund managers and funds of funds, while institutional clients include listed companies, charities, universities, friendly societies and smaller insurers. Products include funds and segregated accounts investing in government bonds, investment grade, high yield and unrated credit, equity income and equity growth across global developed markets, as well as UK property and cash and short-term money market instruments.
Guinness Asset Management - Long term, long only
Guinness Asset Management is a specialist London-based investment management company offering a range of quality funds that focus on compelling global investment areas and ideas for long-term investors.
Guinness believes that active investment management, when coupled with the discipline and intellectual integrity of an investment process, is the best way to achieve superior returns in its specialist areas. Our portfolios are intelligently constructed to enable investors to benefit from the new structural drivers of growth in today's economy.
Investment approach
Guinness's core investment process applies intelligent screening tools to identify a pool of potential value investments with good growth potential. This enables Guinness's portfolio managers to identify anomalies and value opportunities in the market that other investors haven't yet noticed, while controlling the impact of emotion or sentiment-driven investing in their portfolios. By defining the list of candidates for potential purchase or sale, they can prioritise their fundamental research while screening out the impact of short-term noise, to deliver clear and simple portfolios for superior returns in the long term.
All the funds are run as concentrated portfolios with a value bias, low turnover and strong sell discipline. Guinness seeks to invest with conviction for the long term.
Structure
Guinness is wholly independent, and has a strong, stable management team. The company is 100% owned by employees and management.
