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09/12/2013

Deficits for FTSE pension programmes up by 40%

The on-book deficits for pension funds for companies of the FTSE 350 have increased by 40% since the beginning of the year, according to the Pensions Risk Survey, published by Mercer. According to the consulting firm, this deficit of GBP102bn corresponds to a coverage rate of about 85%, compared with 88% at the end of 2012. Assets in pension funds fell by GBP3bn in November, to a total of GBP563bn, while liabilities meanwhile fell by a similar sum of GBP665m.
09/12/2013

Scorpio Partnership acquired by an Aon Hewill company

The wealth management specialist Scorpio Partnership, based in London, is being acquired by McLagan, a company of the aon Hewitt group, according to a statement released on 5 December. Scorpio Parttnership brings the McLagan group all of its expertise in the research and development of solutions aimed at institutional clients in more than 35 countries. “Scorpio Partnership is a well-known actor in the area of wealth management worldwide. The constant attention paid to the evaluation of the fundamentals that the wealth management client really needs has inspired and improved wealth management,” says Peter Keuls, global head of wealth management at McLagan.
09/12/2013

Redéploiement de compétences au sein du directoire de Deka

Friedrich Oelrich a annoncé sa démission, pour raison de santé, de membre du directoire de DekaBank, le gestionnaire central des caisses d'épargne allemandes (180 milliards d’euros). Il quittera ses fonctions de responsable du contrôle des risques et de la surveillance du crédit, qu’il occupait depuis janvier 2001, le 31 décembre.De ce fait, le directoire de Deka va être ramené à cinq membres, avec une nouvelle répartition des tâches.Michael Rüdiger, président du directoire depuis le 1er novembre 2012, prend en compte la stratégie, la communication et le risque. Oliver Behrens, vice-président, est chargé des clients institutionnels ainsi que des pôles valeurs moblières et marchés de capitaux.Matthias Danne est à la tête de l’immoobilier, des financements et assure aussi les fonctions de directeur financier, tandis que Martin K. Müller a la responsabilité de l’exploitation, de l’informatique, des ressources humaines et de la trésorerie.Enfin, Georg Stock est chargé de la distribution par le canal des caisses d'épargne ainsi que du marketing.
09/12/2013

UCITS-compliant HFs remained in positive territory in November

The Alternative UCITS index from the Swiss firm Alix Capital in November was 115.86, which corresponds to performance of 0.49%, after 1.18% in October. Since the beginning of the year, UCITS-compliant hedge funds have posted average gains of 3.71%.UCITS-compliant funds of hedge funds, for their part, have gained 0.41% in November, and 0.86% in October, for returns of 3.80% in the first 11 months of 2013.In November, only FX strategies showed losses of 0.19%, while CTAs posted the best score, with gains of 1.44%. In the first eleven months of the year, three strategies show losses: volatility (-3.76%), commodities (-3.62%), and FX (-3.44%). The best results, however, were for long/short equity (+9.87%), multi-strategies (+4.72%) and event-driven (+3.61%).Assets in UCITS-compliant hedge funds for the first time topped EUR180bn as of the end of November, while UCITS-compliant funds of hedge funds increased to EUR4.55bn.
09/12/2013

New chair and deputy chair of AIMA's ISC

Michelle McGregor-Smith, CEO of British Airways Pension Investment Management, and Kurt Silberstein, managing director, alternative investments at Ascent Private Capital Management (an affiliate of U.S. Bank), have been elected as president and vice-president, respectively, of the Investor Steering Committee (ISC) at the international alternative investment management association (AIMA).The ISC, whose primary mission is educational, includes more than 20 institutional investors, whose assets total USD800bn.
09/12/2013

Equity funds continue to post outflows in early December

With better than expected US data triggering visions of less quantitative easing by the New Year, there was an appreciable ‘tapering’ of flows into many global equity and bond funds during the week ending Dec. 4.Overall, investors pulled a net USD2.03 billion out of equity funds, which experienced their fifth straight week of retail redemptions, according to data communicated by EPFR Global. Retail investors continued their flight from these fund groups. Since the last week of February they have pulled money out of Emerging Markets Equity Funds every week but one, with net redemptions over that span totaling more than USD42 billion.Bond funds finished the week with outflows of USD376m, while money market funds saw over USD31 billion flow in.
09/12/2013

Irish pension fund sells private equity portfolio

The Irish pension fund is seeking a single buyer for a global private equity portfolio representing slightly over USD1bn, Dow Jones reports, citing several sources familiar with the matter. The sale, which includes stakes in funds managed by TPG Capital, CVC Capital Partners and Providence Equity Partners, is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The sale comes at a time when the Irish pension fund is repositioning itself to domestic investments.
09/12/2013

Julius Baer takes over activities of Merrill Lynch in the Middle East

The Julius Baer bank has taken over the international wealth management activities of its US counterpart Merrill Lynch in Lebanon, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, the firm announced in a statement on 9 December. The Zurich-absed firm is thus strengthening its position in the Middle East, and especially Beirut, Manama and Dubai. Employees, client relationships and most assets under management were transferred at the beginning of December, the bank says, without providing further details. The operation is expected to be completed in first quarter 2014. Merrill Lynch has been present in Lebanon in private banking for 50 years, and for 35 years in Bahrain, and has solidly-implanted teams, Julius Baer says in a statement. The Swiss bank now has offices in Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul and Manama. The group has also announced the transfer of international wealth management activities in Switzerland, Uruguay, Chile, Luxembourg Monaco, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Spain and Panama were proceeding as expected.
09/12/2013

Le rapprochement EMCF/EuroCCP est bouclé

L’opération de rapprochement annoncé au printemps entre les chambres de compensation EMCF et EuroCCP est bouclée. Les deux maisons européennes ont annoncé à la veille du week-end que les deux entités avaient fusionné pour donner naissance à European Central Counterparty N.V., la plus importante chambre de compensation en Europe.Le bouclage de l’opération fait suite à l’accord donné par la banque centrale néerlandaise, la DTCC américaine et BATS Chi-X Europe pour devenir actionnaires d’EMCF. Ils rejoignent à parité les actuels propriétaires, ABN Amro Clearing Bank et Nasdaq OMX. Le changement de nom d’EMCF en European Central Counterparty N.V. prendra effet à compter du 6 janvier 2014.
09/12/2013

M&G Real Estate creates MD position in South Korea

The British firm M&G Real Estate has appointed Hyesik Ryu to the newly-created position of managing director of its real estate activities in South Korea, Funds Europe reports. Ryu will be based in Seoul, and will be responsible for the management and supervision of the office. He will report to Scott Girard, Chief Executive at M&G Real Estate Asia.
09/12/2013

Northern Trust launches EMD fund

Northern Turst has launched the Northern Multi-Manager Emerging Markets Debt OpportunityFund, which offers investors a wide range of exposur to emerging market debt.The fund, launched on 3 December, invests at least 80% of its assets in bonds, which provide exposure to emerging market issuers in local or hard currencies. The fund may also invest pragmatically in corporate debt.The fees are 0.93%, and the minimum investment is USD100,000. Assets are allocated to several external sub-advisers, who apply different investment styles. Northern Trust steers the research and selection of managers, optimisation and monitoring of the portfolio.
09/12/2013

Two former partners at Natixis AM go into SR advisory

Two specialists in socially responsible investment (SRI) and corporate social responsibility (CSR), Véronique Le Heup and Nadia Tihdaini, have decided to merge their complementary expertise to co-found Efires, a strategic advising and 0perational consulting firm, specialised in SRI and CSR for actors in sustainable finance, investors, businesses and communities. The mission of Efires is to assist investors and businesses with the conduct of their activities. Efires may also construct custom SRI and CSR strategies with directors, assist in their operational deployment alongside internal actors, and organize traceability and reporting.
09/12/2013

F2I et Ardian se partagent le capital d’Enel Rete Gas Spa

F2i, le fonds d’investissement italien spécialisé dans les infrastructures et la société d’investissement Ardian vont acquérir une participation additionnelle de 14,8% du capital de la société Enel Rete Gas SpA détenue par Enel Distribuzione SpA. Le montant de l’opération s'élève à 122,4 millions d’euros. Une fois réalisée, F2i et Ardian, qui détenaient déjà 85,1% du capital, possèderont la quasi-totalité de la société, indique un communiqué. Le rachat de 14,8% du capital réalisé par un véhicule composé de F2i (55%) et Ardian (45%). L’accord conclu entre les parties porte également sur le remboursement de la dette contractée par Enel SpA en 2009 pour environ 177 millions d’euros.
09/12/2013

FRR selects Eiris for analysis of extra-financial risks

The French pension fund Fonds de réserve pour les retraites (FRR) has selected a bid presented by the Eiris Ltd company as part of a process to select a provider of analysis of extra-financial risks launched in June. The contract was awarded for a period of two years, renewable once for a period of one year.
09/12/2013

iShares consolidates leadership on European ETP market

In January-November, net subscriptions by European ETPs totalled USD17.2bn, for a total of USD413.5bn. But iShares alone took in USD22.2bn, and its assets totalled USD197.6bn, which represents a market share of 47.8%.Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM) and Lyxor, however, have seen respective net outflows of USD5.8bn (including USD7.66bn for the db x-trackers Dax ETF alone), and USD1.4bn (including USD678m for the Lyxor ETF Euro Cash), their assets total a respective USD54.8bn and USD43.4bn, for market shares of 13.3% and 10.5%, according to statistics from the BlackRock Institute.ETF Securities and the Cantonal Bank of Zurich (ZKB), which have gold ETFs in their product ranges, have seen net redemptions of USD3.8bn and USD2.6bn, respeectively, to USD15.4bn and USD9.6bn.However, UBS and Source have posted net inflows of USD1.2bn and USD1.6bn for January-November, and their assets as of the end of November total USD16.1bn and USD15.4bn.
09/12/2013

ETF activity down on NYSE Euronext in November

Although the daily on-book trading volume in the European markets of NYSE Euronext increased in November to EUR195m, compared with EUR192.4m in October, while it was down 7.3% compared with the corresponding month of last year, the total volume of on-book trades for the month was down to EUR4.1bn, compared with EUR4.4bn the previous month, and has contracted by 11.6% vs November 2012.Block trades totalled EUR138.6m in November, compared with EUR464.1m the previous month, or 3.4%, compared with 10.5% of the daily trading volume on regulated ETF markets of NYSE Euronext.The daily spread for last month totalled 24.1 basis points, compared with 25.3 points in October.
09/12/2013

Richard Hodges to manage three more funds at LGIM

Richard Hodges of Legal & General Investment Management will take over the management of three more bond funds, representing total assets of GbP2bn, after the current manager, Michael Canoy, decided to leave the firm, Investment Week reports. The funds concerned are the Legal & General Fixed Interest Trust, Legal & General Managed Monthly Income Trust and Legal & General Sterling Income.
09/12/2013

Capital Group signs distribution agreement in Italy

The US asset management firm Capital Group has signed a distribution agreement with Fineco Bank, an arm of UniCredit which is one of the largest financial advisers’ networks in Italy. The move follows the opening of an office by Capital Group in Milan in early 2013. The US firm had already signed distribution agreements with Pioneer, also a UniCredit affiliate.
09/12/2013

AIFM: 82% of German funds are affected

In an interview with the Börsen Zeitung, Thomas Richter, CEO of the German BVI association of asset management firms, claims that with the inclusion of real estate fuds and institutional funds within the field of the AIFM directive, 82% of the German fund market is affected, compared with 25%, for example, in Italy, and only 35 in Spain. “Nowhere is the collateral damage higher:” in the space of one year, German managers will have to send BaFin about 1.2 million pages.In addition, they will have to submit new documentation for each of 4,000 institutional funds (Spezialfonds), to obtain a license corresponding to the new status of capital management company (KVG).Lastly, from April 2014, funds will all as a general rule have to submit complete reporting to ESMA and BaFin on the composition of the portfolio and the structure of risks.
09/12/2013

Half of advisers have refused clients because of RDR

According to a survey by NMG Consulting on behalf of the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) 47% of financial advisers in the UK have turned away clients following the implementation of RDR, as they feel the cost of their service has become disproportionately high for some clients’ needs. Of these, 40% confirmed that they had turned away five or more clients in the year.APFA estimates that «nearly 60,000 customers have been turned away so far this year - priced out of professional financial advice», according to a press release. Thus, the Association is calling for a reduction in the cost of regulation to prevent further consumer detriment, since the regulatory overhead is too high for a profession that is now better qualified and poses less risk.
09/12/2013

Russell Indices launches index of highly liquid midcaps

The index provider Russell Indices has launched an index of the 150 most easily-traded British businesses. Russell Indices says that it consulted with companies such as Barclays. Goldman Sachs and J. P. Morgan to determone the attraction in offering indices that are easily traded on an illiquid market. Russell Indices also reports that it has worked with NYSE Liffe to develop futures contracts based on the index, which may soon be available for trading on Bclear, which includes the settlement and clearance services of Nyse Liffe.
09/12/2013

"Nous voudrions lancer des produits mondiaux dans les petites capitalisations et l’immobilier"

Société de gestion néerlandaise née dans les années 1990, Kempen Capital Management, filiale de la banque Kempen & Co, gère aujourd’hui environ 30 milliards d’euros. Il y a quelques années, la structure s’est attaquée à d’autres marchés que les Pays-Bas, et notamment la France, où elle gère deux mandats pour le Fonds de réserve pour les retraites (FRR). Dans un entretien, Paul Gerla, CEO de Kempen CM, présente sa société.
09/12/2013

Iosco s'alarme des divergences sur la régulation des dérivés

David Wright, le patron de l’Organisation internationale des commissions de valeurs (Iosco) qui regroupe les gendarmes des marchés, a demandé lundi à l’Union européenne et aux Etats-Unis d’harmoniser leur approche de la réglementation des dérivés. Lors d’une conférence organisée par ICI Global, une association de gérants, il a indiqué qu’en l'état actuel des dissensions, l’industrie de l’asset management verrait sa facture gonfler pour traiter des produits dérivés.
09/12/2013

L'Italie prépare un nouveau rachat de dette

Le Trésor italien a annoncé qu’il allait racheter le 10 décembre des emprunts d’Etat à taux variable de maturité décembre 2014 et septembre 2015 , des emprunts à taux fixe de maturité mars et avril 2015, et des obligations indexées sur l’inflation arrivant à échéance en 2017. L’Italie avait déjà procédé à un échange de dette il y a trois semaines pour diminuer ses échéances 2015 et 2017.
09/12/2013

Londres est incité à réformer les contrats à annuités

Le Financial Services Consumer Panel britannique a publié lundi les résultats d’une enquête sur la commercialisation des contrats à annuités («annuities») outre-Manche. Le panel réclame au gouvernement et au régulateur une réforme structurelle du marché «pour éviter à des millions de retraités de perdre de l’argent». L’enquête juge que les annuities sont «un marché complexe qui échoue à donner de bons résultats pour de nombreux clients».
09/12/2013

La Banque de France prévoit un rebond de la croissance

La Banque de France a revu en hausse à 0,5% sa prévision de croissance de l'économie française au quatrième trimestre dans sa deuxième estimation fondée sur son enquête mensuelle de conjoncture de novembre, après la contraction de 0,1% du PIB au troisième trimestre. Dans la précédente estimation, publiée le mois dernier, la banque tablait sur une croissance de 0,4% au quatrième trimestre. L’enquête de novembre de la Banque de France fait apparaître d’autre part une hausse d’un point de l’indicateur du climat des affaires dans l’industrie par rapport au mois d’octobre, à 101, et un recul d’un point de celui des services, à 92.
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09/12/2013

Baisse inattendue de la production industrielle allemande en octobre

La production industrielle a accusé en octobre une baisse inattendue de 1,2%, la plus forte depuis mai, alors que 38 économistes interrogés par Reuters prévoyaient en moyenne une hausse de 0,8%. Le ministère de l’Economie a toutefois assuré que ce coup de mou au début du quatrième trimestre serait rapidement surmonté : «après des niveaux élevés aux deuxième et troisième trimestres dus à des effets de rattrapage, la production industrielle a débuté le trimestre en cours sur une note de faiblesse. Les commandes à l’industrie suggèrent toutefois une dynamique haussière et les commandes dans la construction sont positives».
09/12/2013

La reprise se confirme en Belgique

La croissance économique belge s’est accentuée au 3e trimestre à la faveur d’une hausse de la consommation des ménages comme des exportations, montrent des chiffres publiés par la Banque nationale de Belgique. Elle a ainsi confirmé des chiffres de l’estimation «flash» qui faisaient état d’une hausse de 0,3% du PIB de juillet à septembre après une progression de 0,2% au trimestre précédent.
09/12/2013

La Buba relève ses prévisions de croissance

La Bundesbank a relevé ses prévisions de croissance 2013 et 2014 pour l’Allemagne. Elle anticipe désormais une hausse de 0,5% du produit intérieur brut (PIB) cette année et une nouvelle augmentation de 1,7% l’an prochain, contre respectivement 0,3% et 1,5% auparavant. Dans ses projections semestrielles, l’institution voit le PIB croître de 2% en 2015.
09/12/2013

EMCF et EuroCCP finalisent leur rapprochement

Les deux chambres de compensation des marchés actions ont fait part vendredi de la finalisation de leur projet de rapprochement, comme annoncé dans L’Agefi Quotidien du 28 novembre. L’opération donne naissance à la première contrepartie centrale pour ces marchés en Europe. DTCC et Bats Chi-X Europe deviennent actionnaires aux côtés d’ABM Amro Clearing Bank et Nasdaq OMX. Ils détiennent chacun 25% du capital.

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