Aviva Investors is an investment management company and is part of the Aviva group.
4-534: The London unit, previously known as Morley, was founded in 1971 as Geoffrey Morley and Partners. This was bought by Globe Investment in 1988 and then sold to Commercial Union , before being absorbed into CGU and then Aviva plc. The Central Bank of Ireland fined Aviva Investors in July 2011 for failing to have proper controls and procedures surrounding the safeguarding of client assets. The company has made significant investments in biomass and wind energy . Some of
8-788: The Commercial Union Assurance Company. The company established its head office at 24-26 Cornhill in London in 1897. It purchased the Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society , the world's oldest fire insurance company, in 1905 and The Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation in 1910 and it continued to grow by further acquisitions. The acquisition of the British General Insurance Company followed in 1926. Then, after completing
12-577: The investments in biomass have attracted local and national opposition, due to the increase in pollution and the contributions to fossil fuels. In September 2021, Aviva Investors signed a long-term lease deal with Netflix to operate and expand the Longcross Studios . Commercial Union Commercial Union plc was a large insurance business based in London . It merged with General Accident in 1998 to form CGU plc . Commercial Union
16-586: Was established following a conflagration near London Bridge in 1861, known as the Great Tooley Street Fire , which destroyed a number of warehouses and wharves along the River Thames as a result of which the fire insurance companies were hit by a series of massive claims. Consequently, they increased their fire insurance rates so dramatically that a group of local merchants and brokers decided to form their own company. This became known as
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