Aviva Investors expands responsible investment team
Aviva Investors has expanded its responsible investment team within its Real Assets unit.
The global asset management business of Aviva plc has appointed Phillipa Grant (pictured above) as director of sustainable investments, Elizabeth Ortiz as an associate and Jeremy Ho as an analyst.
Grant is a chartered engineer and joins Aviva Investors after eight years at AESG, a global advisory business, where she was a partner and global director of sustainability. In her new role, she will be responsible for delivering sustainability outcomes for clients across Aviva Investors’ real assets sustainable fund range.
Ortiz joins from KPMG where she was an assistant manager, leading on climate strategy development for corporate clients.
Ho is a graduate of Durham University and Imperial College Business School and will be responsible for delivering sustainability research and due diligence for the growing private lending business at Aviva Investors.
The appointments follow findings from Aviva Investors’ latest Real Assets Study that more than half (51%) of institutional investors globally cite the ability to evidence sustainability-related impact as a factor driving them to invest in real assets.
