Velvet revolution

Gently does it. Andrew Moss didn’t have scope to take a kitchen sink to his first results meeting as Aviva boss. As the United Kingdom insurer’s former finance director, he was associated with the acquisitive strategy which left Aviva’s share price in the doldrums. But in prioritising the knitting rather than the shopping, he’s gone a long way to signalling a change of tack. Andrew Moss certainly has some work to do. His predecessor, Richard Harvey, was big on transformational deals. He demut...