Aviva Share Discussion Threads

[spud] 15/12/2023 20:38

I'll let this debate run over the weekend, but come Monday we'll move on please. And Geck, moderate your language please. spud

[1tcm1] 15/12/2023 20:30

Gecko, you aver that your smallish group is in the majority. Just wait until the next General Election, mate...

[cjac39] 15/12/2023 20:25

gecko bit yawn now perhaps? weve identified that woking practices are annoying but do we need to bang on? and maybe each to their own? personally im more worried about biological engineering than climate change for eg but thats not for here

[1tcm1] 15/12/2023 20:19

RoundtheWorld. I think if you study carefully you will find that it is the hard-right that calls everybody who disagrees with their silliness "woke".

Therefore, as a middle-of-the-road non-left non-right English person I am proud to be WOKE.

[cjac39] 15/12/2023 20:03

PJ all good and thanks for reply. its only stemming from an intellectual curiosity of whether higher rates are good or bad. my instinct is high is better but i understand the argument that cashflows upgrade in value as ir lower. insurance cos are complicated and a gift that keeps giving.

[roundtheworld] 15/12/2023 19:50

mondex

Give it a rest. I was giving an opinion as to what it’s probably like for the hiring teams with AB poking her nose in with a clear agenda against more white males appointments. Any reasonable person knows the pressure that will create down the corporate line so please stop being an ar*e.

Itcm.

Bully for you. Sorry you get annoyed with a bit of push back. I believe I’m pretty middle of the road in politics and have noticed that anyone who disagrees with the Woke Left is immediately labelled the ‘far right’ or as you say ‘extremist right’. That ain’t true or fair.

We are the balanced, decent majority.

[1tcm1] 15/12/2023 19:27

I am one of the woke, moderate, majority in this great country of England. I am tired of this noisy minority bunch of right-wing extremists pushing their anti-woke hate ideology. It has nothing to do at all with Aviva, now a proven well-run shareholder-serving company.

[martyre] 15/12/2023 17:44

I have read her comments as nothing to do with hiring non white males.She is pushing for more females to be employed. This follows on from her comments on misogyny in financial services.From my perspective, having worked for 52 years in financial services, she is out of touch.In the last 20 years females have been appointed to senior roles, and a lot were appointed not on merit but their gender

[mondex] 15/12/2023 16:28

Round The World you say "she won’t have had to interfere many times to reject senior appointments as I suspect most if not all will suddenly have been non white male appointments. She will have achieved this by creating an environment of fear within hiring teams. To be fair, I’d like to see what the statistics actually are since her personal oversight vetting and veto rule was introduced. I think we all know the answer."

What an extraordinary remark to make. What knowledge do you have to say this?
FYI the Executive Committee comprises all white, 7 males & 6 females.

Stop expressing your prejudices. This is 2023 not 1923.

Joe Say "Go woke, go broke" really. Aviva is an excellent company & well run under AB. So if you want to sell, go ahead. I for one am staying to enjoy both income & growth.

[tornado12] 15/12/2023 14:44

I agree that AB has been heads & shoulders the best CEO for Aviva for many years and certainly since I started investing. In the end, she knows how to get the best out of this company and working tireless to reach it (as we will see by the stella FY results in Q1). The question about diversity is important, but as said in other posts, it must be aligned with the right competences and results. Having a clear non-descriminitive and respect policy is key for any company. I am firm hold with plan to add after divi payment day.. GLA

[joe say] 15/12/2023 14:26

I've reduced my holding (at a profit)

Go woke, go broke

[essentialinvestor] 15/12/2023 11:42

Best CEO of Aviva since lord knows when.. that's what matters.

[roundtheworld] 15/12/2023 11:05

I think most people want her to stay but we all need someone to have a quiet word with us from time to time to keep us on ‘the level’ and AB isn’t exempt from this.

We also all want the FTSE 100 to be more diverse but it must be on merit.

Dr Bio

You’re losing sight of the fact that she won’t have had to interfere many times to reject senior appointments as I suspect most if not all will suddenly have been non white male appointments. She will have achieved this by creating an environment of fear within hiring teams. To be fair, I’d like to see what the statistics actually are since her personal oversight vetting and veto rule was introduced. I think we all know the answer.

[andyble] 15/12/2023 10:36

There will be a non-diverse reaction by the board preserving the blancer than blanc, and some press will lose a friend after the click bait reporting. Which also means that this will blow over really quickly as it should, merit rules ok. The other opportunistic theme though is will this be the moment that predators have been waiting for, as they do and so watch out for this episode being pumped up by the dividers and conquerers. I agree with most comments on here but back to business, Amanda will be.

[whatsup32] 15/12/2023 10:27

AB is doing a fantastic job. If there are some out there who would like a male , we could always bring back Tulloch who was absolutely brilliant (wasn't he :))

I supported AB at the beginning and continue to do so . I suspect she may have a few Christmas treatments for us soon and this would have been all forgotten .

[cyberian] 15/12/2023 10:06

cfro...well stated comment on our CEO. Personally think she played a tough hand quite well under CURRENT circumstances. We all know that she is astute and clearly she conducts the overview of top candidates fairly in practice. A total over-reaction by some posters but then we all have varying opinions and therefore I don't have a problem provided a comment/opinion is reasonably balanced.

[roundtheworld] 15/12/2023 09:56

Yes but people are quickly waking up to wokeness in society and the damage it and the Left wing are causing.

Our universities have become a shell of what they used to be with fear, sneering and intimidation rife. I know older students who say they are genuinely frightened to admit they voted for Brexit or support the Tory party. Any lecturers who are slightly right wing are demonised and even hounded out. Similarities exist with working for the BBC who still manage to say they are unbiased with a straight face. Impressive I have to admit.

A great example of this is the BBC who just refuse to report or have any journalistic curiosity into the material red flag corruption allegations against President Biden. You would think that rogue nations giving over $50m to a drug addict son (Hunter Biden) who has no expertise or legitimate business services would raise a few eyebrows but apparently not. Nor the fact that the Biden family set up multiple shell and nominee offshore companies to try to hide the money going to the family. Classic red flags of money laundering and financial crime. Of course, we know the payments were all about buying influence to Joe Biden over a protracted period of time. Yet our beloved BBC looks the other way claiming nothing see here people, waiting for Trump to sneeze without using a tissue. Now that’s newsworthy. For what it’s worth I think Trump is a rogue but Biden is just much much worse but frustratingly gets a free ride from the Left wing who rule the western world at the moment. No middle ground unfortunately.

The BBC and others now have Musk in their sights to bring down. Scary times..

Rant over.

[cfro] 15/12/2023 09:45

Couldn't agree more and all we can hope is quietly in the back-ground that is what is really happening at AV..

[spud] 15/12/2023 09:44

Appointments should always be made based on suitability and merit - End of.spud