Aviva Traders appoints senior economist and strategist

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

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

He’ll cowl macroeconomics and main asset lessons with a selected deal with 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 mentioned: “I’m delighted to welcome Vas to the crew. He has a powerful observe file inside macroeconomic evaluation and technique. His large expertise throughout markets and asset lessons can be extremely invaluable in serving to the continued improvement of Aviva Investor’s Home View and funding technique.”

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

Geldof relies in Amsterdam and can report back to Torben Dunkel, head of Europe at Aviva Traders. He can be in command of 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 nearly 13 years with Aviva Traders.

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