{"id":8767,"date":"2008-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"aviva-investors-to-boost-hedge-fund-style-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/aviva-investors-to-boost-hedge-fund-style-products.html","title":{"rendered":"Aviva Investors to boost hedge fund-style products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The British arm of asset management group Aviva Investors is betting that investor interest in hedge fund-style products will survive the credit crisis and rebound once market turmoil abates.       <\/p>\n<p>Paul Abberley, UK CEO, told Reuters Aviva Investors would boost its high alpha and absolute return business in the coming months and expand its investment team across the board.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds and similar products have come under scrutiny as investors question how modest performance in a market turmoil chimes with the high fees charged by the industry. Hedge funds claim to be able to generate returns in bad times and good.<\/p>\n<p>Abberley, CEO of Aviva&#8217;s London office since the beginning of August, said: &quot;We believe clients will look for more higher alpha (excess returns) products than in the past and we need to be able to offer excellence in those areas.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/hedgeFundsNews\/idUSLNE49200820081003\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The British arm of asset management group Aviva Investors is betting that investor interest in hedge fund-style products will survive the credit crisis and rebound once market turmoil abates. Paul Abberley, UK CEO, told Reuters Aviva Investors would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[284,534,346,2413,229,1133,1312,117,1748,83,1934,3003,1188],"class_list":["post-8767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-best-performance","tag-biannual-survey","tag-board-of-directors","tag-energy-coordinator","tag-eton-park","tag-fellow-shareholders","tag-humdrum","tag-investment-arm","tag-law-professor","tag-medallion","tag-old-mutual-plc","tag-pensioners","tag-recyling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}