Aviva promises £32bn pension fund will meet 2050 climate target

Pension giant Aviva promises £32bn fund belonging to 2m savers will meet 2050 green climate target Aviva is the second major pension provider to declare new climate strategy  State-backed Nest announced plans to switch investments of its 9m members Nest’s move affects more savers, but its fund is worth around £12.2bn Celebrity film director Richard … Read more

Struggling Aviva selling Singapore arm for £1.6bn

Struggling Aviva selling Singapore arm for £1.6bn as new boss Amanda Blanc fights to turn company around By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 11 September 2020 | Updated: 22:19 BST, 11 September 2020 Struggling Aviva is selling its Singapore arm for £1.6billion as new boss Amanda Blanc fights to turn the … Read more

Insurance giant Aviva tests part-time working in its offices

Aviva trialling part-time home working for staff in latest sign that workers may never return to office full-time following coronavirus lockdown By Helen Cahill, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 22 August 2020 Aviva is trialling part-time home working for staff in the latest sign that workers … Read more

Aviva appoints its first-ever female chief executive

Aviva appoints its first-ever female chief executive after Maurice Tulloch surprisingly resigns By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 6 July 2020 | Updated: 22:07 BST, 6 July 2020 Aviva has appointed its first-ever female chief executive after Maurice Tulloch surprisingly resigned.  Industry veteran Amanda Blanc took the reins yesterday, as the … Read more

Allianz starts 2020 off as UK’s second-largest insurer after Aviva

Allianz starts decade as the UK’s second-largest general insurer after completing deals worth £820m The Munich company has completed two £820 million deals The move puts the company just behind Aviva in the general insurance market By A Daily Mail Reporter Published: 23:00 BST, 2 January 2020 | Updated: 10:08 BST, 3 January 2020 Allianz … Read more

Aviva stopped my 96-year-old mum’s annuity over an address mix-up

John and Chrissie Wade: ‘We still feel that we and Mum in particular have been very badly treated by Aviva’ A Devon couple have won a year-long battle with Aviva after it cut off a frail 96-year-old woman’s £100 a month annuity payments. Ellen Wade’s son and daughter-in-law got embroiled in a bizarre misunderstanding over her … Read more

Travel insurance for summer travel could be tricky – here’s how Saga and Aviva are reacting 

The mention of ‘travel bubbles’ across Europe, and countries such as Greece hoping to reopen to holidaymakers later this summer, keeps hopes of a sunshine break alive. But there’s a big sticking point — travel insurance. Whatever your age, it is impossible to renew or take out a travel insurance policy which will cover you … Read more

AVIVA UK LISTED EQUITY INCOME: Fund aims to deliver through thick and thin

AVIVA UK LISTED EQUITY INCOME: The fund that aims to deliver returns through thick and thin By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:00 BST, 23 November 2019 | Updated: 11:11 BST, 25 November 2019 Fund manager Chris Murphy has worked in the City for more than 30 years – running money both … Read more

FTSE LIVE: Aviva to axe 1,800 jobs; Joules shrugs off retail blues with sales rise

FTSE CLOSE: Aviva to axe 1,800 jobs; Ford to close Bridgend plant; Fiat Chrysler walks away from Renault merger Insurance giant Aviva to cut 1,800 jobs in a bid to save £300million   Fiat Chrysler has shelved its ambitions to merge with Renault  Sales at fashion firm Joules rose 17% to £218million in its last full … Read more