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02/05/2013

Hausse de l'encours des fonds du Popular à fin mars

Les fonds d’investissement du Banco Popular ont affiché au 31 mars un encours de 7.546,4 millions d’euros contre 7.271,9 millions fin décembre et 7.437,1 millions douze mois auparavant, indique le rapport trimestriel publié le 30 avril.Les actifs gérés en gestion de fortune ont augmenté à 744 millions d’euros contre 720,4 millions au 31 décembre, mais ils ont diminué par rapport aux 837,5 millions fin mars 2012.Enfin, l’encours des fonds de pension a augmenté de 1,3 % au premier trimestre, à 4.977,7 millions d’euros, un montant supérieur de 3,9 % à celui du 31 mars 2012.Le Popular a réalisé au total un bénéfice net distribuable de 104,22 millions d’euros contre 100,18 millions pour la période correspondante de l’an dernier.
02/05/2013

DWS nomme le cogérant de trois fonds en remplacement de Klaus Kaldemorgen

DWS a nommé Lars Ziehn cogérant de trois fonds précédemment géré par Klaus Kaldemorgen, dont le DWS Akkumula fund et le DWS Invest StepIn Akkumula fund, indique Citywire. Il assistera André Köttner, qui a rejoint le gestionnaire en décembre en provenance d’Union Investment. Lars Ziehn a rejoint DWS en 2006 et gère actuellement le DWS-Merkur-Fonds.
02/05/2013

Henderson: l'effet marché et de change supérieur aux remboursements nets

Par solde, si ses fonds retail ont affiché des souscriptions nettes de 188 millions de livres après deux années pleines de sorties nettes, Henderson Group plc accuse pour le premier trimestre 2013 des remboursements nets, Phoenix Group compris, de 1.269 millions de livres. Les sorties nettes imputables à la clientèle institutionnelle, hors Phoenix, ont représenté 1.248 millions de livres.Cependant, grâce à la hausse des marchés et à l’effet de change, qui ont représenté 4.496 millions de livres pour le groupe, dont 2.839 millions pour les produits retail, l’encours a augmenté à 68.877 millions de livres au 31 mars contre 65.650 millions au 1er janvier, dont 33.293 millions contre 30.266 millions pour le retail.
02/05/2013
Fonds

MPL gèle temporairement les remboursements du Traded Policies Fund

Selon Investment Week, Managings Partners Limited (MPL) a suspendu les remboursements de son fonds Traded Policies «dans l’intérêt des porteurs actuels et futurs», sous la forme d’une «gate» temporaire.Ce fonds, qui investit dans un portefeuille d’assurances vie négociées (traded life policies ou TLP), a généré une performance annualisée de 8,94 % en moyenne depuis son lancement en juillet 2004.En novembre, la FSA avait annoncé qu’elle interdirait la commercialisation auprès des particuliers de TLP, jugées "à haut risque et toxiques».
Fonds
02/05/2013

BNP Paribas SS étoffe son offre de services outre-Manche

BNP Paribas Securities Services vient de lancer sa solution globale Dealing Services au Royaume-Uni. Cette solution offre aux investisseurs institutionnels l’accès à un réseau d'équipes qui traitent la réception, la transmission ainsi que l’exécution des ordres. Les services couvrent l’ensemble des classes d’actifs.Cette solution se concentre sur la recherche de liquidité sur tous les marchés et pour tous les types d’actifs.
02/05/2013

AXA IM recrute un ancien de la FSA comme directeur de la conformité

Axa Investment Managers vient de nommer Garry Murdoch, un ancien de la Financial Services Authority (FSA), au poste de directeur de la conformité.Basé à Londres, l’intéressé sera responsable de la coordination des équipes de conformité à l'échelle internationale et travaillera en étroite collaboration avec les services juridiques et de gestion des risques d’Axa IM, indique un communiqué. Il sera rattaché à Christian Gissler, directeur des risques et des contrôles, qui a la responsabilité globale d’un pôle regroupant les risques, le juridique, la conformité et le lobbying. Avant de rejoindre Axa IM, Garry Murdoch était spécialiste technique au sein du département gestion d’actifs de la Financial Services Authority, en charge de la conduite de projets thématiques et de rapports sur les sujets de place de l’industrie. Auparavant, il s’est construit une expérience de 17 années dans différents postes spécialisés dans la conformité. De 2002 à 2008, il était responsable mondial de la conformité chez AllianceBernstein Ltd (anciennement Alliance Capital Limited) où il a dirigé les départements de conformité de la société au niveau international.
02/05/2013
Fonds

Matthews Asia lace un fonds petites capitalisations

Matthews Asia vient de lancer le Matthews Asia Small Companies Fund, un fonds investi sur les petites capitalisations en Asie hors Japon, rapporte Investment Europe. La société de gestion étoffe ainsi sa gamme de fonds UCITS domiciliée au Luxembourg.
Fonds
02/05/2013

Progression de 4% des actifs sous gestion de Pohjola au premier trimestre

Les actifs sous gestion du groupe de services financiers Pohjola, l’un des plus importants en Finlande, ont progressé de 4% au premier trimestre pour s'établir à 34,2 milliards d’euros, contre 32,7 milliards d’euros à fin décembre 2012.Les clients institutionnels reprèsentent 19,8 milliards d’euros, les OPC 10,3 milliards d’euros et la banque privée 4,1 milliards d’euros. Le pôle gestion d’actifs est légèrement bénéficiaire mais le coefficient d’exploitation s’est détérioré à 58% au premier trimestre, encore loin de son objectif de 45%.
02/05/2013
Fonds

FinEx fait coter le premier ETF sur la Bourse de Moscou

Funds Europe rapporte que FinEx Group se targue d’avoir fait admettre le premier ETF à la négociation sur la Bourse de Moscou. Il s’agit en fait du FinEx Tradable Russian Corporate Bonds UCITS ETF qui est coté à Londres depuis deux mois.Ce fonds réplique l’indice Barclays EM Tradable Russian Corporate Bond.BNY Mellon est le conservateur et l’administrateur du fonds.
Fonds
02/05/2013

Matthews Asia launches a small caps fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Matthews Asia has launched the Matthews Asia Small Companies Fund, a fund which invests in Asia ex Japan small caps, Investment Europe reports. The product comes as an addition to the range of Luxembourg-domiciled UCITS funds from the asset management firm.
02/05/2013

US MMFs reduced their exposure to the euro zone in March

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Exposure of US money market funds to euro zone banks in the month of March fell due to concerns on the part of investors about recent events in Italy and Cyprus, according to a statement released by Fitch Ratings on 30 April.As of the end of March 2013, allocations by US money market funds to euro zone banks represented 13.2% of assets under management in the Fitch sample, compared with 16% as of the end of February. Despite this decline, allocations to euro zone banks were up by more than 70% compared with the end of June 2012.
02/05/2013

BlackRock accounts for 12% of net subscriptions this year

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Since the Bank of Spain has recommended that financial institutions limit returns on savings accounts, flows have been redirected to investment funds, to the tune of about EUR8bn in first quarter. And, Expansión reports, BlackRock alone attracted EUR1.192bn, equivalent to 12% of net subscriptions to funds in Spain.This endangers the traditional supremacy of JPMorgan among foreign asset management firms, as BlackRock comes in with EUR6.289bn in assets (of which 55% are in traditional funds and 45% in ETFs) as of the end of March, while JPMorgan AM had EUR6.399bn. BlackRock alone accounted for 38% of the rise in assets under management by foreign firms.The other actors are far behind: assets at La Caixa were up by EUR879m, while Bankinter was up by EUR764m, Allianz Popular by EUR676m, and Santander by EUR556m.
02/05/2013

Record assets in foreign hedge funds in Spain

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to statistics from the Spanish Inverco association of asset management firms, assets in foreign funds in Spain reached a total of EUR58bn as of 31 March, which would correspond to an increase of 9.4% in first quarter, Funds People reports.This estimate extrapolates from the EUR42.363bn in assets declared by the 23 foreign asset management firms which disclose their flows to Inverco. They reported net subscriptions of EUR3.111bn, which would suggest an estimate of net inflows for all foreign asset management firms of about EUR4bn in January-March.The top three players in terms of net subscriptions in this period are BlackRock, with EUR1.161bn, Franklin Templeton, with EUR491m, and Swiss & Global AM, with EUR369m.The strongest increases in assets in first quarter were at Threadneedle, with 42.2%, to EUR593bn, Allianz Global Investors, with 34.9%, to EUR760m, and Swiss & Global AM, with 25.6%, to EUR1.292bn.
02/05/2013

Madoff: Thema lawsuit against HSBC opens

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } A lawsuit filed by the fund Thema International against HSBC began on Tuesday in Dublin, Agefi Switzerland reports. The fund, whose promoter had been Genevalor, is suing the bank on the grounds that it failed to fulfil its role as depositary, including verification of the existence of assets. Thema is seeking EUR1bn, according to Bloomberg. HSBC is facing 50 lawsuits related to the Madoff scandal in Ireland, and claims it has solid arguments in its defense. According to a lawyer for Thema, HSBC is responsible for losses, as it appointed Madoff as sub-depositary for the fund.
02/05/2013

Carlyle hires former head of Petroplus

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Carlyle Group has recruited Marcel van Pecke, former head of Petroplus, to head its investments in the energy sector in Africa and Europe, the Financial Times reports. Van Poecke, from the Netherlands, had managed Petroplus when Carlyle controlled a part of it between 2005 and 2007. A team of five other managers will join the US firm this month. The team will raise a dedicated fund of about USD1.5bn.
02/05/2013

State Street investor confidence index up in April

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The global investor confidence index released by State Street rose 5.5 points in April to 93.6 from March’s revised reading of 88.1. Driving this gain was a surge in confidence among North American institutions, whose confidence increased 10.2 points to 105.8 from the revised March reading of 95.6. In contrast, confidence among European and Asian institutions declined marginally. The European ICI registered a decrease of 3.9 points to 87.8, while the Asian Index fell 2.1 points to 85.2. “The North American ICI is now at its strongest level since May 2011. We would note that, at a sectoral level, flows favor defensive sectors, such as utilities, and this may signal some caution around both the natural resource sector, and global growth prospects more generally,” the authors of the study remark.
02/05/2013

Fund managers trade too much

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to a study by the Economist, relayed by Fondsnieuws, the average turnover for investments funds has risen from 15% in 1950 to about 100% in 2011, which has resulted in a rise in transaction costs.The total expense ratios total 1.39% and 1.07%, respectively, for US small cap and large cap funds, but the average transaction costs total an average of 3.17% and 0.84%.Funds with the highest transaction costs were also the ones which had the worst returns.
02/05/2013

SSgA market indicator raised from “low aversion to risk” to “normal”

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In first quarter 2013, the Market Regime Indicator (MRI) published by State Street Global Advisors was raised from a level of “low aversion to risk” to a “normal level.” This macroeconomic indicator developed by the Investment Solutions team at SSgA is used to identify the level of aversion to risk on several markets, and its levels help to determine investors’ appetite for risk. The MRI level is calculated on the basis of the implicit volatility of equities, the volatility of currencies and spreads on fixed income. “First quarter 2013 brought a succession of major political events. The devaluation of the Japanese yen, the Cypriot crisis, and the lack of political stability in Italy had a direct impact on the markets,” SSgA commented.
02/05/2013

Assets up for Popular funds as of the end of March

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Investment funds at Banco Popular as of 31 March posted assets of EUR7.5464bn, compared with EUR7.2719bn as of the end of December, and EUR7.4371bn twelve months previously, a quarterly report released on 30 April states.Assets under management in wealth management were up to EUR744m compared with EUR720.4m as of 31 December, but down compared with EUR837.5m as of the end of March 2012.Lastly, assets at pension funds increased by 1.3% in first quarter, to EUR4.9777bn, higher by 3.9% than as of 31 March 2012.Popular recorded a net distributable income of EUR104.22m, compared with EUR100.18m in the corresponding period of last year.
02/05/2013

Assets in funds at Bankinter up 20% in Q1

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } A fall in returns on deposits have provoked an increase in net subscriptions to investment funds at Bankinter, where assets increased to EUR6.01bn as of the end of March, compared with EUR5.03bn as of the end of December. One year earlier, it totalled EUR4.84bn. The increase in assets under management is due to in-house funds from Bankinter Gestión de Activos (+EUR764m, to EUR4.349bn), and to products from foreign asset management firms (+EUR219m, to EUR1.663bn).Assets in private banking as of 31 March totalled EUR14.8bn, which represents an increase of 3.7% compared with EUR14.3bn as of the end of December. Lastly, assets in pension funds totalled EUR1.45bn as of the end of first quarter, compared with EUR1.39bn three months previously, and EUR1.31bn as of 31 March 2012.Net profits for the Bankinter group increased by 1.9% in January-March compared with the corresponding period of last year, to EUR50.4m, from EUR49.4m.
02/05/2013

WisdomTree plans to launch three emerging market ETFs

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The New York-based firm WisdomTree has applied to the SEC for a sales license for three emerging market ETFs, Index Universe reports. The products cover equities in 17 countries: Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico. Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey.The products are the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Consumer Growth Fund, WisdomTree Emerging Markets Low Volatility Equity Fund and WisdomTree Emerging Markets Dividend Growth Fund. Acronyms and total expense ratios for the products have not been disclosed.
02/05/2013

Vanguard slashes TER on three bond ETFs

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The total expense ratio for the Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (NYSE ticker: BSV), the Vanguard Long Term Bond ETF (BLV) and the Vanguard Intermediate Term Bond ETF (BIV), bond funds, were reduced by Vanguard on 29 April to 0.10%, compared with 0.11% previously.The BSV fund has assets of USD28.5bn, and has attracted net subscriptions of USD2.69bn since the beginning of the year, after USD1.8bn in 2012, Index Universe reports.The BIV fund (USD17.1bn in assets) has posted USD1.54bn in inflows last year, and USD1.84bn since 1 January.The BLV fund has USD5.79bn in assets under management. It brought in USD279m in 2012, and has seen minimal net outflows since the beginning of this year.
02/05/2013

Dreyfus (BNY Mellon) launches infrastructure bond fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The IPO for the new Dreyfus Municipal Bond Infrastructure Fund on 29 April concluded with USD254.25m raised, BNY Mellon has announced. The product is a closed-end bond fund, dedicated to infrastructure, which has been listed since 26 April on the New York Stock Exchange, under the acronym DMB. If the banking consortium (Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Global Markets and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), exercises its greenshoe option in full, the proceeds from the sale may reach USD292.31m, on the basis of a price of USD15 per share.The objective is to provide investors with high revenue exempt from Federal income taxes. The fund is “sub-advised” by Standish Mellon Asset Management Company, and managed by Christine L. Todd, chairwoman of Standish, Jeffrey Burger, Daniel Rabasco and Thomas Casey.Dreyfus Corporation (USD294bn) and Standish (USD167bn) are both boutiques of the BNY Mellon galaxy.
02/05/2013

Raiffeisen launches two funds

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Austrian asset management firm Raiffeisen Capital Management has appointed Peter Schlagbauer to manage two newly-created “parity-based mixed asset” funds, Citywire reports. The funds will be entitled Raiffeisen-GlobalAllocation-StrategiesDiversified and Raiffeisen-Global-DiversifiedGrowth.
02/05/2013

OppenheimerFunds updates its image

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 29 April, OppenheimerFunds (OFI, USD208bn as of the end of March) on 1 May announced that it has adopted a new visual identity, to modernise its retail image, which will retain the OppenheimerFunds brand name, and has created a new institutional brand, OFI Global Asset Management.
02/05/2013

Contrasted results for Federated

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In first quarter 2013, net profits at Federated Investors totalled USD43m, compared with USD49.6m in October-December, and USD42.3m in January-March 2012.Assets as of the end of March totalled USD377.3bn, which represents a decline of USD2.5bn compared with 31 December, and an increase of USD13.7bn over the level recorded one year previously.On average in first quarter, assets under management nonetheless increased to USD381.2bn, compared with USD368.7bn in October-December, and USD370.1bn in the corresponding period of last year.Assets in equity funds as of 31 March 2013 totalled USD37.9bn, compared with USD35bn three months previously, and USD34.1bn as of the end of March 2012, while bond funds also showed a gain, resulting in a record USD52.8bn as of the end of March 2013, compared with USD52.7bn as of 31 December and USD46.2bn one year previously.Assets under management in money market funds and mandates totalled USD279.7bn as of the end of March this year, USD5bn less than at the end of December, and USD5bn more than as of 31 March 2012. For money market mutual funds, assets totalled USD242.7bn, which represents a decline of USD13bn compared with the end of 2012, and of 2.5% compared with its level twelve months previously.
02/05/2013

Assets under management at Legg Mason up 2%

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Assets under management by the Legg Mason asset management group were up 2% in the fourth quarter of its 2012-2013 fiscal year, ending on 31 March, to a total of USD664.6bn, compared with USD648.9bn as of the end of December 2012. The increase compared with the end of March 2012 is 3%. The increase in assets was favoured by a positive market effect of USD12.1bn, and by inflows of USD5.4bn related to the acquisition of Fauchier, which has recently been completed. These factors were partly offset by redemptions totalling USD1.8bn. As of 31 March, bonds represented 55% of assets under management, compared with 24% for equities, and 21% for money markets. Assets originating from the United States represented 61% of the total. For the fiscal year ending on 31 March as a whole, the group shows a loss of USd353.3m, or USD2.65 per share, although it had earned a net profit of USD220.8m, or USD1.54 per share, for the previous fiacal year. In fourth quarter, Legg Mason has, however, earned a net profit of USD29.2m, after a loss of USD453.9m in third quarter, which was affected by provisions for depreciation of intangible assets.
02/05/2013

AUM at Franklin Resources up by nearly USD100bn in one year

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US asset management group Franklin Resources has reported an increase of USD41.9bn, or 5% of its assets under management, in the second quarter of its fiscal year, ending on 31 march, to USD823.7bn, according to a statement released on 30 April. This development is due to a positive market effect of USD24.5bn, and a net inflow of USD18.3bn. Year on year, the increase in assets under management was 14%, or USD98bn, due to a positive market effect of USD67.6bn, and a net inflow of USD26.3bn. Net profits in the quarter totalled USD572.8m, compared with USD51.61m the previous quarter, and USD503.2m in the quarter to the end of March 2012.
02/05/2013

Vincent Kaufmann promoted to deputy director of Ethos

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Ethos Foundation and Ethos Services have appointed Vincent Kaufmann as deputy director from 1 May. He will assist Dominique Biedermann, director. He will also remain as head of wealth management, controlling and IT development.Kaufmann has been a member of the board at Ethos Services since 2011. He joined Ethos in 2004 as a corporate governance analyst, and then successively as a senior analyst and deputy head of corporate governance.
02/05/2013

Assets under management at Crédit Agricole (Switzerland) up in 2012

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Assets under management at the Swiss affiliate of the French Crédit Agricole group totalled CHF44.9bn, compared with CHF44bn as of the end of 2011, an increase of 2%, according to a statement released on 30 April. The private banking sector is the largest activity of the Swiss affiliate, with a 70% contribution to its revenues, “despite a contrasted environment and continued pressure on the Swiss banking model,” the bank says. In 2012, Crédit Agricole (Switzerland) completed its installation in Hong Kong, where a branch was opened in 2011. Crédit Agricole (Switzerland) last year earned consolidated net profits of CHF130.2m, down 17.6% compared with 2011.

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