Aviva Buyers, the worldwide asset administration arm of Aviva, has appointed Vas Gkionakis as senior economist and strategist.

Gkionakis will likely be based mostly in London and report back to Michael Grady, the top of funding technique and chief economist at Aviva Buyers.

He’ll cowl macroeconomics and main asset lessons with a specific concentrate on the UK and Europe.

Till July 2023, he labored because the EMEA head of FX technique at Citigroup and earlier than that, he was the worldwide head of overseas alternate technique at Lombard Odier Wealth Administration.

Previous to that, he was co-head of technique analysis (Equities, Charges, Credit score and Cross Asset) & head of overseas alternate technique at UniCredit Financial institution Analysis in London.

Grady stated: “I’m delighted to welcome Vas to the crew. He has a powerful monitor document inside macroeconomic evaluation and technique. His huge expertise throughout markets and asset lessons will likely be extremely worthwhile in serving to the continued improvement of Aviva Investor’s Home View and funding technique.”

In November 2023, Aviva Buyers appointed Oskar Geldof as head of Benelux.

Geldof relies in Amsterdam and can report back to Torben Dunkel, head of Europe at Aviva Buyers. He will likely be accountable for Aviva and its institutional enterprise improvement throughout the Benelux space.

He additionally brings over 20 years’ expertise within the sector and joins after a decade and Constancy Worldwide the place he was most just lately head of institutional gross sales (private and non-private markets) for the Netherlands.

Previous to this and the Aviva function, Geldof held senior roles in asset administration and funding banking in London, New York and Benelux.

He succeeds Catrinus Van Willigen, who has retired after virtually 13 years with Aviva Buyers.

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