Aviva Investors has appointed Catriona Allen as fund manager, Real Estate Multi-Manager. Allen joins from Blackrock Investment Management, where she was portfolio manager of the Blackrock UK Property Fund of Funds which transferred from Blackrock to Aviva Investors in late November along with the Blackrock European Property Fund of Funds.
Aviva Investors has appointed Catriona Allen as fund manager, Real Estate Multi-Manager. Allen joins from Blackrock Investment Management, where she was portfolio manager of the Blackrock UK Property Fund of Funds which transferred from Blackrock to Aviva Investors in late November along with the Blackrock European Property Fund of Funds.
Both funds have now been rebranded and are now known as the Aviva Investors UK Real Estate Fund of Funds and the Aviva Investors European Real Estate Fund of Funds respectively*.
Reporting to John Gellatly, head of Real Estate Multi-Manager (REMM) in Europe, Allen’s responsibilities will include day to day management of both the Aviva Investors Fund of Funds, as well as providing broader UK and European real estate expertise to the Multi-Manager team.
Allen began her career in 1995 at Investment Property Databank and was Senior Property Analyst at Alecta until 2005 working on their European portfolios.
