Kunal Kothari

Kunal is responsible for the UK Equity Income strategy and within the UK Equities team also has lead analyst responsibilities for the Consumer Discretionary sector. Prior to joining Aviva Investors, Kunal was a Deputy Fund Manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments on the CT UK Fund, and lead manager on two segregated mandates. He began his career at Schroders on the Pan Euro Small & Mid Cap equity team and subsequently worked at Santander Asset Management and Merian Global Investors (now Jupiter) on UK All Companies strategies including UK Equity Income, UK Alpha and UK Long/Short. Kunal graduated from the University of Warwick in 2007 with a M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honours, and is a CFA Charterholder.