Aviva Investors

Aviva Investors publishes three early-careers pathways, each set up for a different stage:

• Graduate Programme – a two-year structured programme; entrants join as permanent Aviva Investors colleagues from day one, rotating across investment and business teams. All degree subjects are welcomed.
• Traineeship Programme – a 12-month programme for school leavers, delivered in partnership with Investment 20/20, the industry's school-leaver training body.
• Internships – a six-week summer programme for penultimate-year university students, recruited through the firm's upReach outreach partnership.

All three feed into three named business tracks: Distribution (institutional client work with pension funds, insurers and intermediaries), Private Markets (real estate, infrastructure and private debt) and Public Markets (equities, credit and multi-asset). The two partnership-routed programmes (Traineeship via Investment 20/20, Internship via upReach) are the operational consequence: a candidate cannot apply to those two routes through Aviva Investors' own Workday – they need to be in the partner's pipeline, which is a separate application before the programme application even opens.

First, Aviva Investors is the asset-management arm of Aviva plc, one of the UK's largest insurance and savings groups, which gives the early-careers cohort a development frame ("One Aviva development – shared learning, networks and opportunities across the wider Aviva community") that crosses asset management, life insurance and general insurance – broader exposure than a standalone asset manager offers. Second, the firm runs its two non-graduate routes through formal partner organisations: Investment 20/20 for the school-leaver Traineeship, and upReach for the summer Internship. The upReach partnership in particular is an explicit social-mobility filter, which narrows but also defines the cohort the internship is meant to reach. For a candidate from a non-traditional or first-in-family background, the upReach route is the relevant one to look at, not the general Workday postings; for a candidate without that profile, the Graduate Programme is the primary direct route in.