Aviva Investors appoints Kevin Talbot to oversee expansion in Asia

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Aviva Investors appoints Kevin Talbot to lead its investment management business in the region as chief executive officer, Asia Pacific and is concurrently chief investment officer for Asia. 

Kevin joined Aviva Investors in December 2010 as chief investment officer for fixed income, Asia. He has over 30 years of financial market experience and held investment roles including chief investment officer, Asia for AMP Capital Investors in Australia and Singapore. Kevin has been based in Singapore since 2007.

At Aviva Investors, its high yield expertise is spread across the US, the UK and Singapore. An experienced, global team with local trade execution capabilities which adopts a disciplined investment process, it strives to outperform the market with less risk over a default cycle coupled with a focus on capital preservation. 

Aviva Investors’ real estate multi-manager teams currently manages US$9.8bn of assets for institutional clients spanning financial institutions, corporate pension schemes, government pension schemes, mutual organisations and government agencies. Its mandates cover regional, global income focused as well as opportunistic strategies, driven by investment teams based in New York covering the Americas; London, Paris and Amsterdam covering Europe; and Singapore covering Asia Pacific.

Besides the typical top down assessment of the macro environment and real estate markets, Aviva Investors’ real estate multi manager is focused on themes and trends in the market place.

Following the global financial crisis, it has observed many dislocations in real estate markets. Today, it is still seeing knock-on impacts of the global financial crisis which it leverages on. Clients stand to benefit from Aviva Investors’ investment expertise in providing access to private real estate niche opportunities, high return real estate debt opportunities and co-investments across the risk spectrum.