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29/11/2013

ING IM recrute deux gérants dette émergente

ING IM a recruté deux gérants pour son équipe dette émergente et va embaucher un analyste crédit, est en mesure de dévoiler Citywire Global. Marcin Adamczyk, qui sera basé à La Haye, a déjà rejoint l’équipe, et Alia Yousuf, qui sera basée à Singapour, rejoindra l’équipe en janvier. Les deux sont nommés gérants senior devises locales. Marcin Adamczyk vient de MN, un gérant fiduciaire de fonds de pension néerlandais, tandis qu’Alia Yousuf travaillait chez ACPI Investment à Londres.
29/11/2013

Fisher Investments completes Dutch team

The US asset management firm Fisher Investments has recruited Victor Hoekstra from Van Lanschot Bankers to direct its Dutch office, located in Amsterdam, Fonds Nieuws reports. Fisher is present in the Netherlands and fosues on high net worth retail clients (from EUR0.4bn), to whom it offers institutional management expertise The team is also composed of Karen Schreiber (formerly of Morningstar), Eduard Holtz, Marco Laumen, Mike van de Meer and Walter Jans (formerly of BBOC).
29/11/2013

ING IM adds to EMD team

ING Investment Management International (ING IM) on 28 November announced two appointments to its Emerging Market Debt team. Marcin Adamczyk joins ING IM as Senior Portfolio Manager EMD Local Currency, based in the Hague. Alia Yousuf joins ING IM as Senior Portfolio Manager EMD Local Currency, based in Singapore. The two managers, who join a team of over 25 specialists, will report to Marcelo Assalin, Lead Portfolio Manager EMD Local Currencies, based in Atlanta, US. Adamczyk has more than 15 years of experience in the area of emerging market bonds, and previously worked at MN, a Netherlands-based pension fund manager, as senior emerging market bond manager. Marcin had previously been an EMD manager at Lombard Odier Investment Managers in Amsterdam and Geneva, and a trader for local emerging markets at several banks in London and Warsaw. Alia Yousuf has more than 13 years’ experience in the management of emerging market bond portfolios, and previously worked at ACPI Investment in London as head of EMD. Alia has also served in several rols in the area of fund management at Standard Asset Management and First State Investments. She began her career at the World Bank as an analyst.
29/11/2013

All asset managers will have to adopt an ETF strategy

ETFs have entered their next phase of growth, according to PwC, which estimates that all asset management companies “need an ETF strategy,” the Financial Times reports. “In the future, there will be more suppliers, more users and more penetration of ETFs into the global asset management market,” says John Siciliano at PwC. He says ETFs are simply a container for the investment expertise that asset management firms can use to repackage their existing products or strategies, or as “bricks” for allocation funds.
29/11/2013

Islamic finance expected to post double-digit growth

Global growth in the Islamic finance market is expected to continue in 2014 as part of the trend observed this year, on the strength of double-digit growth, the agency Standard & Poor’s claims in a study published on 28 Noember (“Islamic finance 2014: We Expect Continued double-Digit Growth, An A Push For Regulation And Standards.”)“We estimate that worldwide, assets compliant with Sharia, which we value at over USD1.4trn, will post double-digit growth in the next two to three years,” says Zeynep Holmes, regional head for Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Standard & Poor’s.However, Islamic finance remains a market which is strongly driven by demand, with a limited range, still held back by a reduced number of Islamic finance centres with different regulations.
29/11/2013

Hedge funds from new managers outperform older rivals

Hedge funds launched by new managers offer the best prospects of returns compared with funds launched by companies of the sector which have a shop window already, according to a study published recently by Preqin, which also finds that institutionals’ interest in budding asset management firms is continuing to fall. A long/short strategy launched by a new manager since 2007 has an annualised net return of 8,80% in the first three years, while the same strategies offered by well-established managers earn returns of only 5.38% in the same period. But the outperformance of funds from new managers does not translate into inflows. Preqin states that even the percentage of investors interested in hedge funds from young investors has fallen to 38% this year, compared with 42% in 2012. And 605 of public or private pension funds say that they would not invest in a budding manager.
29/11/2013

Active management needs retooling, says Casey Quirk

Most current active investment strategies are becoming outmoded. Investors’ requirements and frameworks are moving away from rigid benchmark-based allocations towards risk-factor and outcome-based mandates. Thus, the Casey Quirk consultancy stresses, next-generation “New Active” strategies will represent nearly 45% of industry revenue opportunity worldwide through 2018. New Active strategies will attract USD3.4trn of inflows through 2018, while legacy active portfolios will lose more than USD1.8trn. In comparison, passive strategies will attract only USD1trn during the same time frame, according to the new report Life After Benchmarks: Retooling Active Asset Management.There will be six categories of New Active strategies, all of which erase the line between traditional and alternative investments by incorporating more innovative techniques in friendlier packaging: broad debt investments, benchmark-agnostic equity, private capital strategies, trading strategies, dynamic multi-asset class solutions and real assets platform.Asset managers can employ any of three levers to retool legacy strategies: resetting risk guardrails, expanding the investment universe, and obtaining new capital market skill sets. The optimal path forward will vary according to manager credibility, current client footprint, and institutional appetite for change.
29/11/2013

Investors ready to pour money in emerging markets

Most of the 105 pension funds, central banks, endowments, insurers and asset management firms – representing cumulative assets of over USD1.6trn, have announced that they are planning to increase their exposure to emerging markets, according to a survey by Morgan Stanley, cited by the Financial Times. Analysts at the bank estimate that there may be an overall increase in the global allocation of 1.3% over 1 to 2 years, which corresponds to USD1.6trn. In the 3 to 5 years to come, the increase is estimated at 2.2%, corresponding to EUR2.75trn.
29/11/2013

Towers Watson updates rankings of extreme risks

TheTowers Watson consultancy at the beginning of this month published its updated biannual list of extreme risks (PDF document attached), including the chronological likelihood (from 10 to 100 years), the gravity / intensity of impact of the incident, and the geographical and temporal field of impact / scope of the repercussions.The three largest major risks, with a probability of one in ten years are famine, water and energy shortages, with stagnation and collapse of global commerce, while climate change and a backlash in terms of backfiring progress on health may have “trans-generational” consequences.
29/11/2013

UBS launches ETFs on the London Stock Exchange

UBS Global Asset Management has launched a series of ETFs which re expected to allow investors to better manage currency risk. The sterling hedged MSCI Canada, the sterling hedged MSCI EMU and the sterling hedged MSCI Switzerland are the first of their type. The other ETF is the sterling hedged MSCI Japan. The four ETFs are available in distribution and capitalisation share classes.
29/11/2013

Kames Capital preparing to launch a real estate fund

Kames Capital is planning to launch a real estate investment fund (PAIF) in first quarter 2014, Funds Europe reports. PAIF are open-ended investment funds which invest in real estate, shares in British REITs and in shares in some foreign entities similar to REITs. The new vehicle, which is named Kames PAIF, will be managed by David Wiese and Alex Walker, will as a top priority make direct investments in real estate (80%), as well as in shares in companies specialised in real estate. Assets under management at Kames Capital, based in London and Edinburgh, total about GBP53bn.
29/11/2013

Major investment by Deka in London

The German firm Deka Immobilien has announced that it has invested EUR500m to acquire the St. Rodolph Buliding, an office property (51,900 square metres) in London, from the insurer Jardine Lloyd Thompson. The City property was completed in 2010; it is certified “very good” under BREEAM sustainable development standards. The property will be added to the portfolio of the open-ended real estate fund Deka-ImmobilienEuropa (DE0009809566), whose assets total EUR12.4bn.
29/11/2013

Hwang selects BNP as custodian for four UCITS funds

Funds People reports that the largest independent asset management firm in Malaysia, Hwang Investment Management, has selected BNP Paribas Securities Services as global custodian for the four Asian UCITS-compliant funds which it will launch in January 2014.BNPP SS will provide administration and transfer agency services; it will also establish performance and risk reports, in addition to acting as custodian.
29/11/2013

iii-investments becomes BNP Paribas REIM Germany

The German asset management firm Internationales Immobilien-Institut GmbH, known by the name iii-investments, recently acquired by BNP Paribas Real Estate (see Newsmanagers of 18 September) from Bayerische HypoVereinsbank (UniCredit group), on 20 November adopted the name BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management Germany GmbH (BNP Paribas REIM Germany).
29/11/2013

MFS IM plans to develop in Singapore

The US asset management firm MFS Investment Management has appointed Jonathan Tiu to the newly-created position of CEO for its Singapore entity, while MFS is also waiting for a license from the Singapore monetary authority (MAS) to offer its asset management services to institutional investors in the city-state, Asian Investor reports. Personnel at MFS IM in Asia total about 70, distributed between Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia.
29/11/2013

Lombard Odier recruits from Société Générale in Japan

Keiichi Hirano has been appointed as managing director of Lombard Odier for Japan, effective from 16 December. He will also be president & representative director.Hirano, who joins the firm from Société Générale Japan, where he had most recently been director of the private banking unit, replaces Norbert Joué, who will serve in other management roles at Lombard Odier in Asia in the area of private clients.Hirano will work in close collaboration with Vincent Magnerat, local managing director at Lombard Odier in Singapore.
29/11/2013

Pioneer adds to sales personnel in Switzerland

Matthias Inderbitzin, head of the “buy-write” strategy for precious metals at Dendro Partners, has been recruited as senior wholesale sales manager for the Swiss team at Pioneer Invesments (UniCredit group), finews reports.Inderbitzin will be based in Zurich, and will primarily be responsible for developing private banking clients, wealth managers and family offices. He will report to Rainer Lenzin, country head for Switzerland.
29/11/2013

IOSCO launches a market statistics web portal

The International Organization of Securities Commissions on November 28 launched a statistics web portal that provides the public with a global overview of specific securities markets.The objectives of the new portal are threefold. First, it seeks to provide a centralized point for monitoring global trends, risks and vulnerabilities; second, to provide a mechanism for comparison of how well markets are recovering in light of the crisis; and finally, to provide IOSCO members and the broader financial community with easy access to key statistics, charts and indicators on a number of securities markets (corporate debt, covered bonds, securitized products, islamic finance, equity IPO volumes, equity market valuations, syndicated loans and housing price indices).The portal will be updated on a monthly basis.
29/11/2013

Asset management firms called on to be more visible

Earlier this month, Helena Morrissey, head of the British asset management firm Newton, called on fund managers to make themselves heard and to be more visible, in a speech to the CFA Institute in London, the Financial Times reports. She feels that one of the most serious threats facing the sector is that asset management firms are lumped in together with bankers. This situation is partly the fault of managers, as few of them are able to speak openly about their activity in a proactive and human fashion. On the contrary, asset management firms tend to hide, avoiding difficult questions about fees and even economic trends. “I would like to see more managers on the radio, on TV, in schools …” says Morrissey.
29/11/2013

Deutsche Bank does not want British millionaires any more

Serving the “middle class” millionaires in Liverpool or Manchester is no longer profitable for Deutsche Bank, which is now planning to concentrate on “super-rich” clients in London, Die Welt reports. That is the reason the German group is reported to be in talks to sell its loss-making wealth management activity, the former Tilney, to the private equity investor Permira.Tilney, now Deutsche Private Wealth Management, only deals with “normal” millionaires, and has EUR5.5bn in assets under management. The firm was acquired by Deutsche Bank seven years ago for GBP300m (EUR359m), but because since then assets have fallen and accounts have gone into the red, the sale price will be considerably lower, according to a source familiar with the matter.
29/11/2013

First State unveils SRI charter

First State Investments on 28 November published several «Global Stewardship Principles,” which will be adapted to the company, and which will respect the current requirements of the British “Stewardship Code” and other good governance codes.The principles have been developed by the global responsible investment committee at First State, composed of the CEO and representatives of investment and distribution teams. This committee supervises the responsible invesment strategy at First State and will revise the principles once per year. In addition, the asset management firm has pledged that the application of the Global Stewardship Principles should be subject to an annual verification process, starting from this year.
29/11/2013

Lyxor AM bets on RDR

Ben Thompson, director at Lyxor Asset Management, has explained the company’s plans to win ETF market share to Investment Week. He hopes that the RDR will drive advisers to turn more to passively-managed products. Thomson observes that the US ETF market is distributed 50/50 between retail and institutional. That may be a model for the United Kingdom, where ETFs are currently widely popular with institutionals.
29/11/2013

Aton acquires UFG CM from Deutsche Bank

The Russian firm Aton has announced the acquisition of all capital in Deutsche UFG Capital Management (DUCM) from Deutsche Bank, which the German bank had acquired two years before (see Newsmanagers of 14 November 2011). The completion of the transaction is still subject to permission from the anti-monopoly commission of the Russian Federation. The price of the transaction has not been disclosed.The deal creates one of the largest actors on the Russian asset management market, with RBY3.8bn in “onshore” investment funds (which makes it the local number 6) and over RBY11.3bn in institutional products (aimed at pension funds).
29/11/2013

L'inflation en zone euro dépasse le consensus

L’inflation en zone euro a été supérieure aux attentes en novembre, selon une première estimation d’Eurostat qui corrobore le mouvement observé la veille en Allemagne. Les prix à la consommation ont ainsi augmenté de 0,9% au cours du mois contre une hausse de 0,7% en octobre et un consensus des économistes à +0,8%. Ces derniers estiment cependant que l’inflation va rester faible dans la région dans les prochains mois, et loin de l’objectif proche de 2% de la BCE.
29/11/2013

La Suède renoue avec la croissance

L'économie suédoise a renoué avec la croissance au troisième trimestre, avec une hausse de 0,1% du PIB par rapport au deuxième trimestre après un recul de 0,1%, selon l’Office de la statistique. Cette augmentation est toutefois inférieure aux attentes puisque les économistes avaient anticipé en moyenne une progression de 0,5%. Par rapport au troisième trimestre 2012, la croissance est ressortie à 0,3%.
29/11/2013

L'Ukraine continue à tourner le dos à l'UE

Le président ukrainien a ce matin bloqué un compromis de dernière minute visant à relancer les négociations en vue de la signature d’un accord d’association et de libre échange entre Kiev et l’Union européenne au sommet de Vilnius. Viktor Ianoukovitch assure que l’Ukraine a toujours l’intention de signer cet accord à l’avenir, mais insiste sur l’obtention d’une aide financière pour faciliter le rapprochement. Il a qualifié d'«humiliante» ces derniers jours la somme de 600 millions d’euros proposée par l’UE.
29/11/2013

Le gouvernement veut mettre les collectivités sous surveillance

Le gouvernement français réfléchit à l’instauration d’un plafond pour le nombre d’emplois dans les collectivités locales et à la fixation de normes de dépenses de fonctionnement pour ces dernières, écrit jeudi Le Monde. Ces réflexions devraient faire partie du chantier de remise à plat de la fiscalité lancé par Jean-Marc Ayrault. Un dispositif de bonus-malus serait appliqué aux collectivités en fonction du respect de ces normes de dépenses, afin de ne pas se heurter au principe constitutionnel d’autonomie des collectivités.
29/11/2013

LBP AM a déjà investi 70 millions d’euros dans de l'immobilier

La Banque Postale AM (LBP AM) avait investi fin octobre 115 millions d’euros sur les 500 millions collectés (pour une grande part auprès de CNP Assurances) en mars dernier par son fonds dédié à la dette immobilière et infrastructure senior (LBPAM European Debt Funds). Sur ce montant, 70 millions d’euros ont été investis dans de l’immobilier et une dizaine d’opérations représentant environ 3,5 milliards d’euros sont dans le pipeline.
29/11/2013

L'Erafp attribue trois mandats pour un fonds de petites capitalisations

L’Etablissement de retraite additionnelle de la fonction publique (Erafp) a attribué un mandat actif de gestion d’un fonds d’actions de petites capitalisations françaises à Sycomore Asset Management. Amiral Gestion et Moneta Asset Management sont les gérants suppléants. Les montants investis à horizon de trois ans pourraient être de l’ordre de 150 millions d’euros.
29/11/2013

L'inflation allemande surprend à la hausse

Harmonisée aux normes européennes (IPCH), l’inflation de novembre est ressortie à 1,6% sur un an et à 0,2% sur un mois en Allemagne, première économie de la zone euro, selon des chiffres publiés jeudi par l’Office fédéral de la statistique. Les économistes avaient anticipé en moyenne une inflation sur un an de 1,3%. L’inflation en zone euro, publiée demain et attendue à 0,8% sur un an par le consensus, pourrait dès lors ressortir à 0,9%.

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