Roger Webb to leave Aviva Investors

Roger Webb, head of credit portfolio management at Aviva Investors, will leave the company in the autumn.

Webb runs both the £402m Higher Income Plus fund and the £1bn Corporate Bond fund. He has been with Aviva Investors – and before that, Morley – for 24 years. Webb is leaving for personal reasons, according to an Aviva Investors' spokesman, and there are no immediate plans to replace him. His co-managers, Chris Higham and Dominic White, will take over running the Corporate Bond fund and the Higher Income Plus fund respectively. Both will report to Mark Wauton, head of credit, who joined the firm this year. The performance on each fund has been lagging, with the Higher Income P...