Aviva Investors

Aviva Investors has launched RDR-ready share classes for a number of its most popular funds, as well as removing initial charges from all its onshore portfolios.

Panic about house prices, asset bubbles and China caught our readers' attention this year, with the views of leading hedgies and controversial industry figures featuring in our list of the 20 most read stories of 2012.

Multi-asset managers are exploring alternative low-risk bond investments as they prepare their portfolios for a more constrained fixed income environment in 2013.

Aviva Investors' head of multi-asset funds, Yoram Lustig, is set to leave the firm.

Aviva's programme of job cuts, which will see 800 staff made redundant, is on track to save the insurer £250m by the end of the year, according to latest results.

Aviva Investors' Andrew Lake is set to join Mirabaud Asset Management in the new year.

Aviva Investors has proposed the closure of its Global Listed Real Estate Securities business, including the Global REIT fund run by Paul Van De Vaart, as it has "insufficient scale".

Aviva is to axe four products to new business, including its self-invested personal pension (SIPP), blaming duplication in the product range for the move.

The managers of the £83m Aviva Investors UK Smaller Companies fund, Toby Belsom and Robin West, name five UK smaller companies set to benefit from an uptick in consumer spending.

Aviva has vowed to turn around the performance of its struggling funds business - Aviva Investors - after operating profits fell 13% year on year.