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21/06/2011

Concentration expected in wealth management, according to PwC

According to the Wealth Management Report 2011 from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), cited by the Börsen-Zeitung, 30% of 275 directors of banks and financial sector groups in 67 countries are expecting a major concentration movement in the wealth management sector in the next two years. The movement will be a delayed result of the financial crisis, particularly of toughening regulations with financial implications for businesses in the sector. However, the profitability of wealth management operations is expected to increase.
21/06/2011

Rab Capital: withdrawal from trading to take place in a matter of days

The news agency Reuters reports that the hedge fund firm RAB Capital, based in London, will in the next few days confirm its decision to withdraw from trading on the Alternative Investment Market. Assets under management at the firm, which peaked at about USD7bn in late 2007, have fallen to USD1bn. The 2010 fiscal year ended with losses of GBP20.2m.
21/06/2011

Departures from Fidelity UK

Fidelity has confirmed the departure of several members of its UK teams, including the director of products for the team responsible for UK equities, Peter Hicks, FundWeb reports. In the interim, from early July, the responsibilities will be handled by William Russell.
21/06/2011

ISS supports LSE-TMX merger

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is recommending that shareholders in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) vote in favour of a merger with TMX, the operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal reports. The independent shareholder advisory firm has, however, not yet issued a recommendation for TMX shareholders, who are facing two rival offers, one from LSE and one from Maple Group Acquisition Corp.ISS is the second agency to recommend approval for the LSE-TMX merger, following Glass Lewis & Co, a independent advisory agency serving institutional investors, which considers the LSE offer “superior” to the Maple Group offer for TMX shareholders.Glass Lewis is an indirect affiliate of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, one of the founders and backers of Maple.
21/06/2011

UK pension funds switching asset managers

According to an annual survey by Financial Times fund management, several major asset management firms have seen a collapse in their assets managed for UK pension funds in the past three years. This is particularly true of Alliance Bernstein, Axa IM, Scottish Widows IP, Goldman Sachs AM, Aberdeen AM and Henderson GI. In the meantime, other asset managers have gained market share in this segment: Insight IM, Legal & General IM and BlackRock.
21/06/2011

Skandia Global Funds recrute Susana García

Le britannique Skandia Global Funds a annoncé avoir embauché comme marketing executive Susana García, qui sera chargée de soutenir depuis Londres l'équipe de Skandia Investment Group pour l’Espagne et l’Amérique latine. Elle était auparavant responsable du marketing pour l’Espagne et le Portugal chez American Express Funds, précise Funds People.Susana García fera équipe avec Mercedes Azpiroz et Pilar Bravo et elle sera chargée aussi du développement des activités marketing pour l’Espagne et l’Amérique latine.
21/06/2011

Schroders recruits a former UBS GAM head

Schroders has appointed Bob Jolly to a new role on its fixed income team as head of global macro based in London. He joins from UBS Global Asset Management where he was head of global sovereign, currency and UK fixed income portfolio management.Bob Jolly, who joins in September, will also take on lead portfolio management responsibility for a number of macro and multi-sector portfolios managed by a team of ten in London. Current mandates include aggregate, sovereign and absolute return strategies with nearly USD15 billion of assets under management. He will also work with regional portfolio managers in Asia and the US to further develop Schroders’ global macro investment framework.
21/06/2011

Fidelity hopes to build a presence in Brazil

Funds People reports that Fidelity International has decided to send its head of sales for Spain and Portugal, Pablo Anabitarte, to São Paulo, as head of development for Brazil. He will be assisted by other partners at Fidelity, which is not currently present elsewhere in Latin America, aside from Chile (where it has USD8.66bn in assets).Anabitarte will be transferred to Brazil from 1 July, and will be replaced on the executive board of the Madrid office by Domingo Barros and Martina Álvarez.
21/06/2011

London & Regional acquires FCC headquarters

Cotizalia reports that the British asset management firm London & Regional (EUR9bn in assets) has obtained an exclusive right to acquire the headquarters of Spain’s FCC in Madrid and Barcelona. The sale would total EUR60-70m, and FCC would receive a 20-year lease as a part of the sale and leaseback operation. The acquisition would be London & Regional’s first investment in the currently depressed Spanish market.
21/06/2011

Aletti Gestielle appoints a new CIO

Aletti Gestielle Sgr, an Italian asset management firm of the Banco Popolare group, has appointed Fabrizio Fiorini as its new chief investment officer. Fiorini, who arrived at the group in 1997, has served in several positions, including head of fixed income, and since 2010, head of asset allocation.
21/06/2011

Carolyn Clancy promoted to executive vice president of FundsNetwork

Fidelity has promoted Carolyn Clancy to become director of its mutual fund supermarket operation. Mutual Fund Wire reports that Clancy was appointed as executive vice president of FundsNetwork about a month ago. She replaces Paul Riley, who has left the group to join Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
21/06/2011

RBC Wealth Management number one in North America for customer satisfaction

According to the ninth annual customer satisfaction study by J.D. Power & Associates (“2011 U.S. Full Service Investor Satisfaction Study,”) covering 4,200 investors who use an advisor, RBS Wealth Management, the wealth management unit of the Canadian bank Royal Bank of Canada, has received the highest satisfaction score from its clients. On the basis of seven major criteria (advising, performance, information, product offerings, fees and commissions, website and problem resolution,) RBC scored a total of 814 points on a scale of 1 to 1,000, putting it ahead of Charles Schwab (805 points) and Fidelity Investments (796 points). The study also reveals that clients are increasingly using the Internet. 59% of investors have consulted the website of their management firm in the past twelve months, compared with 52% in 2009, and 51% of investors exchanged email with their advisor in 2011, compared with 19% in 2008. Among the investors who had viewed the website of their firm, clients aged over 64 averaged over 35 visits per year, compared with 23 visits per year for the 45-64 year-old age group, and only 12 visits per year for those aged under 45. The study also reveals that 85% of clients had either never heard of or had never understood the difference between the ssuitability tandard, which requires that the adviser offer investments adapted to the client’s profile, and the fiduciary standard, which requires the advisor to act in the best interest of clients and to disclose any conflicts of interest.
21/06/2011

Somangest retains Investeam for distribution for some of its funds

The French asset management firm Somangest has awarded a contract for distribution of some of its funds via distribution platforms and independent financial advisers (IFA) to the third-party marketing firm Investeam. The two funds included in the deal are Somactiv and Sominter.
21/06/2011

Altarius AM launches an investment platform based in Malta

Altarius Asset Management Limited, the asset management affiliate of the Altarius Group, based in Malta, at the end of last week announced that it has launched its investment platform, Paragon Sicav plc (Paragon), which is one of the first independent investment platforms in Malta created exclusively for third-party managers and family offices. Paragon, which is registered as a P.I.F. (professional investment fund), is described as extremely flexible in terms of investment strategy, liquidity, reporting, and debt. One of the major advantages of Paragon is that it is exempt from income and capital gains taxes. Among its other strong points, Paragon has an open architecture, which allows clients to name their own service provider. As a collective investment organism, it is also highly profitable, as creation and maintenance costs are distributed between all the sub-funds on the platform. Paragon does not impose a minimal portfolio, nor a lock-up period.
21/06/2011

Prudential funds integrated into M&G fund range

The Corporate Bond trust from Prudential, with assets of GBP783m, was merged on 20 June with the M&G Corporate Bond fund, whose assets total GBP4.1bn, Investment Week reports. The fund, managed by Richard Woolnough, now has over USD5bn in assets. Another Prudential fund, the North American Trust (GBP60m) will be merged into the M&G American fund (GBP2.3bn). The Managed trust (GBP278m) will merge with the M&G Managed fund (GBP717m), while the European Trust (GBP90m) will be absorbed into the M&G Pan European fund (GBP175m).
21/06/2011

Skandia bets on two French managers for European Best Ideas

Skandia Investment Group’s (SIG) portfolio manager Lee Freeman-Shor has brought in Marc Renaud of Mandarine Gestion and Cedric De Fonclare from Jupiter to manage mandates within the Skandia European Best Ideas Fund (EBI).The move sees the two Frenchmen join their countryman Damien Lanternier of Financiere de l’Echiquier bringing the EBI team up to ten managers following the removal of Tobias Klien of First Private from the line-up.Freeman-Shor says that ten managers represents the maximum level of diversification for the fund while ensuring high active share is maintained in order to continue to generate excess returns.
21/06/2011

Le rachat de Chi-X Europe par BATS se complique

L’Office of Fair Trading (OFT) a décidé de renvoyer le projet d’acquisition de Chi-X Europe par BATS devant l’Autorité de la concurrence britannique. « Bien que nous soyons déçus de la décision de l’OFT, nous nous concerterons avec notre conseil et les actionnaires pour déterminer les prochaines étapes », a déclaré Alasdair Haynes, directeur général de Chi-X Europe.
21/06/2011

Nyse Euronext lance sa plate-forme obligataire

BondMatch, le système créé par l’opérateur boursier transatlantique, sera opérationnel le 11 juillet prochain. Au démarrage, une dizaine de membres seront actifs sur la plate-forme qui proposera à la négociation quelque 1.800 obligations émanant d’environ 400 émetteurs.
21/06/2011

La Grèce au pied du mur

L’Eurogroupe se réunira à nouveau le 3 juillet pour valider le versement de la nouvelle tranche d’aide, sous réserve de nouvelles mesures d’austérité par Athènes.
21/06/2011

Un sérieux revers pour Paulson & Co

Le quotidien avance que la société de gestion alternative fondée par John Paulson a essuyé une perte supérieure à 500 millions de dollars en cédant la totalité de sa participation au capital de Sino Forest, la société forestière chinoise suspectée de fraude. Paulson & Co, qui a reconnu avoir cédé ses titres, était le principal actionnaire de Sino Forest.
21/06/2011

La Chine diversifie ses réserves de change

Au cours des quatre premiers mois de 2011, la Chine a boudé la dette gouvernementale américaine au profit de la dette européenne, selon le journal qui cite une étude de Standard Chartered. Les réserves de change du pays ont ainsi augmenté d’environ 200 millions de dollars (140 millions d’euros) sur cette période, les trois quarts de cette somme ayant été investis à l’étranger dans des actifs non libellés en dollars, précise la banque britannique.
20/06/2011

Le déficit commercial japonais se creuse encore en mai

Les exportations japonaises ont diminué davantage que prévu au mois de mai par rapport à l’année dernière, témoignage d’une demande plus faible à l'étranger qui pourrait pénaliser la reprise dans l’Archipel. Sur un an, les exportations sont en baisse de 10,3%, indiquent les chiffres publiés lundi par le ministère des Finances. Les économistes attendaient en moyenne un recul de 8,4%. C’est le deuxième mois consécutif que les exportations sont en baisse au Japon. En avril, elles avaient diminué de 12,4%.
20/06/2011

Hausse ralentie des prix à la production en Allemagne

Les prix à la production ont augmenté un peu moins que prévu par rapport à l’année précédente, rapporte lundi le Bureau fédéral des statistiques. Le rythme de croissance des prix s’est établi à 6,1% en rythme annuel. En rythme mensuel, les prix sont restés parfaitement stables.
20/06/2011

Nyse Euronext lancera le 11 juillet sa plateforme de dette corporate

Nyse Euronext a annoncé le lancement effectif le 11 juillet de la première plate-forme de négociation d’obligations d’entreprises en Europe, le projet ayant obtenu le feu vert de l’AMF. La plate-forme sera une MTF (Multilateral Trading Facility) et donc soumise à la législation européenne sur les abus de marché. Elle sera dotée d’une chambre de compensation, qui sera aussi contre-partie centrale, ce qui éliminera le risque de contrepartie lié au gré à gré.
20/06/2011

Le déficit des comptes courants s'est creusé en avril dans la zone euro

Les comptes courants de la zone euro ont été déficitaires de 5,1 milliards d’euros en avril, en données corrigées des variations saisonnières, selon les chiffres publiés lundi par la BCE. La balance du mois de mars, initialement calculée à 4,7 milliards d’euros de déficit, a été révisée à -3,0 milliards d’euros.

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