How the fund works

To help the fund managers manage fund volatility and aim to meet their return target over rolling three-year periods, they pick diverse strategies that can take views on asset classes, currencies, interest rates and volatility. The managers pick a range of strategies which they expect to work well together whether markets are rising or falling.

Their multi-strategy approach is different to traditional investing in many ways. Some traditional funds aim to deliver returns by investing in only one type of asset class such as equities, bonds or property. Other funds invest in a mixture of asset classes, so might hold equities, bonds and property at the same time. By contrast, the Aviva Ireland Multi-Strategy Target Return Fund seeks to deliver returns by identifying investment opportunities (also known as investment ideas) across and within asset classes.

Having evaluated these ideas the fund managers decide how to implement a select number of them in investment strategies within the portfolio in light of our objectives. Strategies may involve buying a share on the market or buying a derivative with the option to buy the share at a future date. Multi-strategy investing provides them with many ways to reflect their ideas more precisely than possible in traditional funds.


The fund is availableacross Aviva’s pension and investment product range. You can now download the AIMS Financial Broker Guide and Sales Aid. To find out more about how the new AIMS Fund can benefit your customers, see www.avivabroker.ie and talk to your Broker Consultant.


You can register for our AIMS Fund CPD Webinar on 11th November by clicking here