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Chris Higham
Aviva Investors UK Fd Serv Ltd, Aviva Investors Luxembourg S.A
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Chris oversees a range of bond funds which invest across fixed-income assets, including investment-grade corporates, high-yield corporates, government, and emerging markets bonds. Chris Higham, James Vokins and the team were recently awarded the Investment Week Fund Manager of the Year 2015 in the High Yield Bond category. In 2014 the Aviva Investors Strategic Bond Fund was the winner of the Investment Advisor 100 Club Sterling Strategic Bond Fund of the year. In 2013 the Aviva Investors Managed High Income Fund was awarded the Lipper Fund award. Chris has managed the Strategic Bond Fund from launch in 2008. Chris has extensive investment experience. Prior to joining Aviva Investors he worked as a portfolio manager for Old Mutual Asset Managers. He joined the industry as a credit analyst. Chris graduated from Durham University with a BA (Hons) in Economics. He is an associate member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals and is a CFA® Charterholder.
Total return for Chris Higham
Manager career performance
Rolling Alpha Quartile: Discrete three year periods
Rolling Alpha Quartile shows a manager's alpha score in quartile terms, plotting his or her risk adjusted performance against all other managers in the UT & OEICs universe. The best managers are those who are consistently ranked in the first or second quartile.
 
Quartile 1
Quartile 2
Quartile 3
Quartile 4
 
 
 
 
 
53-89m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
65-101m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
77-113m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
89-125m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
101-137m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Discrete calendar year performance : Chris Higham

Manager career performance
Discrete performance
  0-12m 12-24m 24-36m 36-48m 48-60m 60-72m 72-84m 84-96m 96-108m 108-120m
Chris Higham 7.0 -6.7 -2.9 16.7 -4.5 1.2 0.8 8.1 -0.4 7.5
Peer Group Composite 6.7 -6.8 -2.4 16.5 -4.0 2.2 2.6 9.2 -1.3 6.4
Over / Under 0.3 0.1 -0.5 0.2 -0.5 -1.0 -1.8 -1.1 0.9 1.1
Performance vs peer group composite: Chris Higham
How a manager matches up against their peers gives you some idea of how talented they are. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.
 
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5 years
out of a possible 10
 
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5 years
out of a possible 10
 
Rising markets
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Outperformed peer group composite
3 years
out of a possible 6
 
Falling markets
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2 years
out of a possible 4
Funds currently managed
Fund Sole/Co-managed Sector Periods
Aviva Inv Strategic Bond Co-managed IA Sterling Strategic Bond since Sep 22 2008 to present
Aviva Inv Higher Income Plus Co-managed IA Sterling Strategic Bond since Nov 01 2009 to present
Aviva Inv Managed High Income Co-managed IA Sterling Strategic Bond since Nov 01 2012 to present
Aviva Investors Global Investment Grade Corporate Bond Co-managed FO Fixed Int - Global since Mar 01 2023 to present
Funds managed previously
Fund Periods
Aviva Inv High Yield Bond since Nov 01 2012 to Jan 31 2022
Aviva Inv Corporate Bond since Jul 20 2009 to Jun 28 2016
Aviva Investors Global High Yield Bond since Sep 22 2008 to Aug 04 2014
Aviva Investors Short Duration Global High Yield Bond since Feb 29 2012 to Aug 31 2014
Aviva Inv Managed High Income since Mar 01 2008 to Aug 31 2010
Aviva Inv Monthly Income Plus since Mar 01 2008 to Dec 31 2009
Jupiter Monthly Income Bond since Sep 01 2006 to Jul 31 2007
Aviva Inv High Yield Bond since Nov 01 2009 to Jun 30 2010
Aviva Inv High Yield Bond since Sep 22 2008 to Nov 30 2008
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