Aviva Investors hires UK equities manager from Columbia Threadneedle

Mathew Parker will co-manage the UK Equity Unconstrained and UK Small and Mid-Cap strategies

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Aviva Investors has appointed Mathew Parker as a portfolio manager within its UK equities team.

Based in London, he will be co-manager on both the £193m Aviva Investors UK Equity Unconstrained strategy, and the £163.8m Aviva Investors UK Small and Mid-Cap strategy.

Parker joins the firm from Columbia Threadneedle, where he led the firm’s UK All Cap and UK Mid Cap equity strategies for the CT Universal Multi-Asset Portfolios range.

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He holds over 20 years’ experience in various roles including portfolio manager, portfolio assistant and analyst roles at BMO Global Asset Management, prior to its acquisition by Columbia Threadneedle, and F&C.

The move is the second addition to Aviva’s UK equities team this year, following the hire of Kunal Kothari as a portfolio manager in February, who also joined from CT.