Le Trésor allemand visait 2 milliards d’euros. L’émission d’obligations à échéance 2046 n’a finalement recueilli que 1,612 milliard d’euros. Leur rendement global est ressorti à 1,49%. Ces obligations paient un coupon de 2,5%.
Publié hier par l’Association nationale des promoteurs immobiliers américains, l’indice NAHB/Wells Fargo s’est établi à 62 pour le mois de septembre, au plus haut depuis octobre 2005 et légèrement au-dessus du consensus des économistes qui tablait sur 61 points, niveau atteint en août.
Le salaire hebdomadaire moyen hors primes affiche une hausse de 2,9% en rythme annuel entre mai et juillet au Royaume-Uni, la plus forte progression enregistrée depuis début 2009, a précisé hier l’Office national de la statistique (ONS). Le nombre de demandeurs d’emploi a de son côté augmenté de 1.200 en août après une baisse de 6.800 en juillet, montrent les statistiques officielles. Calculé selon les normes du Bureau international du travail, le nombre de demandeurs d’emploi a augmenté de 10.000 sur la période mai-juillet et le taux de chômage est resté stable à 5,5%, son plus bas niveau historique.
Les perspectives de croissance mondiale se sont affaiblies ces derniers mois et un ralentissement plus marqué qu’attendu en Chine aurait de graves conséquences au moment où un premier relèvement annoncé de taux directeurs aux Etats-Unis pourrait exacerber les turbulences financières, a prévenu hier l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE). L’institution prévoit désormais une croissance globale de 3,0% cette année contre 3,1% anticipé avant l’été. L’organisme s’attend toujours à un renforcement de l’activité en 2016, mais dans des proportions moindres que dans ses prévisions du mois de juin qui ont été revues en baisse pour l’ensemble des pays et zones couverts.
L’Agence des participations de l’Etat (APE) a indiqué hier soir avoir bouclé son programme de cession d’actions Engie après avoir vendu 0,48% du capital de l’énergéticien français. La vente de ces titres va rapporter à l’Etat environ 206 millions d’euros, précise l’agence qui a cédé 11,63 millions d’actions sur le marché. Au terme de cette opération, l’Etat détient désormais 32,76% du capital d’Engie. Avec plus du tiers des droits de vote, il reste l’actionnaire de référence de la société.
La filiale de Natixis Asset Management a annoncé hier que la forte demande des investisseurs s’est traduite par montant levé de 600 millions d’euros pour son nouveau fonds Mirova Core Infrastructure Fund, soit 20% au-dessus de l’objectif initial. Ce fonds d’infrastructure en exploitation («brownfield»), dédié aux partenariats public-privé d’Europe continentale, a déjà signé des contrats d’acquisition portant sur 18 actifs – des PPP européens et des concessions d’infrastructures dans le secteur du transport, du numérique et de plusieurs projets d’infrastructures sociales. La maturité du fonds est de 25 ans et son closing définitif est attendu le mois prochain.
L’assureur Axa prend une participation dans Manymore, la société présidée par Pierre-laurent Fleury qui développe des outils d’aide à la gestion des cabinets des CGP mais aussi des outils de simulation et de profilage de risque.
Benjamin Canlorbe prend la fonction de Country Manager Switzerland. Ce dernier a développé pendant plus de dix ans la présence de La Financière de l'Echiquier (LFDE) auprès des conseillers en gestion de patrimoine indépendants (CGPI) français.
Chaguir Mandjee, directeur de la gestion chez Haas Gestion, nous explique le fonctionnement de la multigestion au sein de la société de gestion parisienne.
Les Etats de la zone euro ont récupéré moins de la moitié de l’aide financière apportée aux banques depuis la crise financière mondiale, a indiqué mercredi la Banque centrale européenne en soulignant le risque lié aux garanties encore en vigueur aujourd’hui. Le taux de recouvrement de ces aides inférieur à 40% observé à ce jour est faible au regard des comparaisons internationales, explique la BCE dans son bulletin économique, ajoutant que les garanties encore en vigueur représentent 2,7% du produit intérieur brut (PIB) de la zone euro. «Le taux de recouvrement à ce jour est particulièrement faible en Irlande, à Chypre et au Portugal, alors qu’il est relativement élevé aux Pays-Bas», précise la banque centrale. Elle rappelle que près d’un cinquième de l’augmentation de la dette publique de la zone euro, passée de 65% du PIB en 2008 à 92% en 2014, était lié aux aides au secteur bancaire.
Le Trésor allemand visait 2 milliards d’euros. L’émission d’obligations à échéance 2046 n’a finalement recueilli que 1,612 milliard d’euros. Leur rendement global est ressorti à 1,49%. Ces obligations paient un coupon de 2,5%.
Publié mercredi par l’Association nationale des promoteurs immobiliers américains, l’indice NAHB/Wells Fargo s’est établi à 62 pour le mois de septembre, au plus haut depuis octobre 2005 et légèrement au-dessus du consensus des économistes qui tablait sur 61 points, niveau atteint en août.
Dans un contexte de taux bas et de rendements sous pression, faut-il revoir la rémunération de la prestation de gestion ? Face à la concurrence de la gestion passive, les frais de la gestion active sont-ils trop élevés ?
Le paysage des services financiers chinois se transforme à la suite du sévère épisode de volatilité qui a marqué ces derniers mois en Chine, souligne une étude de Z-Ben Advisors dans une étude publiée mi septembre.
Deux des fondateurs de Skagen, Dagfinn Veen et Åge Westbø, vont créer une nouvelle société, appelée Nansen Capital Partners. Cette structure, dans laquelle seront regroupées leurs participations dans la société de gestion norvégienne, leur permettra également d’investir dans des sociétés de gestion indépendantes d’Europe du Nord. Le troisième associé, Kristoffer Stensrud, conservera sa participation directe dans Skagen.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Pictet Asset Management is preparing to launch a thematic equity fund specialised in companies active in the robotics sector worldwide, Manuel Noia, director of sales at Pictet AM Italia, has told Bluerating. The new product, entitled Pictet Robotics, will be released on 8 October.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } The very specific needs of nigh net worth investors (HNWI) in the Asia-Pacific region (ex Japan) are now setting high net worth populations a little bit apart from the rest of the world. Wealth managers, confronted with this developments, do not necessarily have the same understanding of these needs, the most recent Asia-Pacific Wealth Report 2015, published on 15 September by Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management, has found. Nearly 88% of wealth managers estimate that they understand the needs of high net worth private investors, but only 73% of the principals concerned, HNWI, agree with this estimation. The difference of nearly 15 percentage points is higher than for the rest of the world (9 points). More than 70% of HNWI in the region have an increased need for professional advice, nearly 20% more than in the rest of the world. Additional, request for digital capacities, availability of credit and wealth management services, are high for older HNWI individuals compared with the rest of the world. These specificities require wealth managers to develop solutions which take the rate of growth and wealth transfers in the region in order to better meet the needs of HNWI clients. “The growth of wealth in the Asia-Pacific region is continuing, and an incease in wealth transfers to the coming generation runs the risk of exaggerating the apparent gulf between HNWI populations and their wealth managers. Investments in digital and automated services will represent a differentiating factor of the highest importance for wealth managers concerned to meet the digital desires of HNWI clients. They will also allow wealth managers to offer more personalised solutions and services,” says Andrew Lee, global sales officer in the financial services global business division of Capgemini.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Two of the founders for Skagen, Dagfinn Veen and Åge Westbø, will found a new company, to be known as Nansen Capital Partners. The structure, in which their stakes in the Norwegian asset management firm will be rolled in, will also allow them to invest in independent asset management firms in Northern Europe. The third partner, Kristoffer Stensrud, will retain his direct stake in Skagen.
Institutional Shareholder Services, a provider of corporate governance solutions to the financial community, yesterday announced the acquisition of Ethix SRI Advisors, a Swedish firm providing sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) research and advisory solutions to assist in investment decision-making. Effective immediately, Ethix SRI Advisors will be renamed ISS-Ethix.Established in 1999 and with offices in Stockholm and Copenhagen, Ethix is an advisor to asset owners and investment managers, representing more than EUR300 billion in assets under management. Ethix provides its global clients with expertise across a range of SRI issues, including environmental, human rights, labor standards, corruption and controversial weapons. Key services include policy development, company research and portfolio monitoring, support of active ownership programs, stakeholder communication, and reporting. ISS-Ethix will maintain its operations in both Stockholm and Copenhagen with its staff representing 13 countries and covering more than 15 languages remaining in place. ISS-Ethix will continue to be led by Ethix’s managing director and founding partner, Ulrika Hasselgren, a veteran of the responsible investment industry.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } China and India were last year the largest emerging markets to contribute to the ongoing growth of wealth and the population of high net worth individuals (HNWI) in the region, according to the most recent Asia-Pacific Wealth Report 2015, published on 15 September by Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management. The number of high net worth individuals in the region has risen 8.5% in 2014, to 4.7 million, one million more than two years previously, while their wealth had risen 11.4% to USD15.8trn. The Asia-Pacific region has overtaken North America for population (4.69 million HNWI, compared with 4.68 million, according to the recent World Wealth Report 2015), and is expected to overtake it for wealth (USD16.2rn according to the most recent count) by the end of the year. The wealth of the high net worth population is also expected to rise faster in the emerging markets of China, India, Indonesia and Thailand. China and India in particular have benefited from growth in the region in recent year, and are expected to continue to play a driving role from this standpoint. China and India represent nearly 10% of the wealth of HNWI, and represent 17% of global growth in wealth since 2006, adding USD3.2trn in this period. In the year 2014 alone, the Chinese high net worth population increased by 17.5%, to 890,000, while their wealth increased 19.3%, to USD4.5trn. India did even better in terms of precentage, with increases of 26.3% for the HNWI population, to 198,000, and 28.2% in wealth, to USD785bn. The wealth of the HNWI population in developed Asia, including Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and South Korea, rose 7% last year, and is expected to increase by 8.9% per year until 2017, for a total of USD12trn. In terms of allocation, cash, at 23.1%, is now the largest component of HNWI portfolios in the region (excluding Japan), followed closely by equities (22.8%), and real estate (21.4%), which last year lost its top place. The Asia-Pacific region stands out from the rest of the world, where equities lead with a share of 27.9%, followed by cash (23.3%) and real estate (18.2%). It should be noted that the Japanese high net worth population has reduced its allocation to liquidity by nearly seven percentage points, to 37.1% this year, compared with 43.8% last year, bringing the equity allocation to 26.3% compared with 20.7% last year.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } The Investment Association is calling for postponement of Financial Market Intruments (Mifir) regulations. The trading rules under consideration would complicate buy and sell operations for bonds. The measures proposed may create additional tensions on a market which is already under some tension due to recurrent trouble with liquidity, which may result in an increase in transaction costs and borrowing costs for sovereigns and businesses, the professional association warns. The association proposes that a public consultation be held for at least 30 days on the existing proposals. “We also recommend that the European Union authorities, drawing the lessons from the implementation of Emir regulations, should provide adequate time for the development of market infrastructures,” the association adds. Asset management professionals would like the application of Mifir regulations to be postponed for one year, until January 2018. In their current state, final proposals would be given in the final version of the legislation, whose publication is imminent, and which may incude the introduction of a number of rules from January 2017. Investors are required to inform the rest of the market in advance of their trading programme. Regulatory technical standards (RTS) covering transparency rules under the Mifir regime must be finalised next month by member states, in coordination of the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA).
Aberdeen Asset Management will acquire 100% ownership of Advance Emerging Capital, a London based specialist investment manager managing GBP409 million across a range of investment funds (as of June 30). AEC’s investment team is comprised of four individuals with over 50 years of combined experience investing through both open and closed ended investment vehicles. The two largest vehicles that the team manages are Advance Developing Markets Fund Limited and Advance Frontier Markets Fund Limited.The AEC team will be based in Aberdeen’s London office and will become part of the Group’s growing Alternatives business which is led by Andrew McCaffery. The team will be independent from Aberdeen’s direct equity and fixed income teams. Since AEC invests in a number of Aberdeen vehicles, investors will not be double-charged on these investments in Aberdeen funds. Once the deal is completed, Aberdeen will manage 33 closed end funds with aggregate assets under management of over GBP8.5 billion.As at 30 June 2015, Aberdeen managed total assets of GBP307 billion on behalf of institutional and private investors.