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18/10/2013

Ashmore registers two emerging market Sicavs

Ashmore has registered its Pan Africa and Latin America Equity funds as Sicavs, extending their availability to investors, Fund Web reports. The products are UCITS IV funds registered in Luxembourg, and they are available to institutional and retail investors.
18/10/2013

Charles Schwab adds 16 ETFs with no fees to OneSource

The OneSource trading platform, launched in February, and on which Charles Schwab Investment Management offers commission-free ETFs, now lists 121 products. On 16 october, 16 new products were added, including five from Guggenheim Investments, five from SPDR ETF (State Street Global Advisors) and six from Charles Schwab IM. OneSource covers ETFs from six different providers, including the three aforementioned, plus PowerShres, ETF Securities and United States CommodityFunds.The complete list of ETFs available on OneSource is available here.
18/10/2013

WisdomTree releases Germany-focused ETF

With the slogan “take the euro out of Germany,” the US asset management firm WisdomTree on 17 October launched the WisdomTree Germany Hedged Equity Fund (ticker: DXGE), an ETF of German equities which replicates the WisdomTree Germany Hedged Equity index, an index weighted by dividends which also neutralises fluctuations in the euro against the dollar in parallel.The total expense ratio is set at 0.48%.
18/10/2013

Egerton closes fund to new clients

The alternative asset management firm Egerton Capital has decided to close its long-only fund to new clients, the news agency Reuters reports. As of the end of 2012, Egerton also closed its long/short strategy to new investors. The source of this decision is an exceptional increase in assets under management of about 80% year on year. Assets under management at Egerton now total about USD11.4bn, also distributed between the two strategies, compared with USD6.3bn about one year ago. In the year 2013 to 11 October, the long/short strategy has earned returns of 19%, compared with an average of 9% for an equity hedge fund, according to Hedge Fund Research. The long-only strategy has posted gains of 25%.
18/10/2013

Fidelity acquires Annuity Direct

In an effort to develop its own retirement operation and provide Annuity Direct the means to grow, Fidelity Worldwide Investment is acquiring all equity capital in Annuity Direct and its holding company Retirement Angels, pending permission from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).Annuity Direct will retain its status as an independent financial adviser. This firm is a provider of services both to retail investors and to a wide range of intermediaries, and the acquisition will allow Fidelity clients a wider selection of retirement planning solutions.The transaction comes at a time when Fidelity has decided to add to its retirement unit with the recruitment of Richard Parkin (ex UBS Global Asset Management), who will take a position as head of retirement, Head of Proposition, DC and Workplace Savings at the end of this month.
18/10/2013

Henderson bets on active management for real estate funds

Patrick Summer, head of property equities at Henderson Global Investors (HGI), announced on Thursday during a visit to Paris that the house strategy, in terms of equity and real estate investment, is to maintain an “active share” of at least 60%, which is currently the case, at 61%. The portfolios include 8.8% of equities which are not in the benchmark indices.As of 30 September, HGI has assets of only USD2.7bn in real estate equities, of which USD2bn are in three Luxembourg-registered funds: USD1.3bn for the Henderson Horizon Global Property Equities Fund, EUR358m for the Henderson Horizon Pan European Property Equities Fund, and USD436m for the Henderson Horizon Asia Pacific Property Equities Fund, while the remainder corresponds to mandates, including from a Dutch pension fund and another pension fund from the Asia-Pacific region. Since the beginning of the year, the global fund has attracted a net USD172m, while the pan-European fund posted inflows of EUR17m, and the Asian product posted USD20m in net subscriptions.The portfolio of the global fund includes 67 positions, out of a universe of 306 securities in the index, and 400 securities including homebuilders. The only marked overweight position (3%) is to US equities. In Europe, a region in which it is neutral, HGI is underweight on France (3%) and overweight on Germany, the United Kingdom and Sweden. Asia-Pacific is underweighted by 2%.
18/10/2013

Departure of China manager from Threadneedle

Gigi Chan, manager of the Threadneedle China Opportunities fund, has left the firm to take a break in her career, Investment Week reveals. Her fund will be taken over by Vanessa Donegan, head of the Asian equities team at Threadneedle in London.
18/10/2013

Polar Capital closes UK equities desk

The UK equity team at Polar Capital has been dissolved due to the departure of manager Philip Hardy, Investment Week reports. The closure will result in redemptions of USD293m for the December quarter. Although a direct replacement will not be recruited, the firm indicates that there is room for other teams to join the firm if an occasion presents itself.
18/10/2013

Man Group: GLG compensates for difficulties at AHL

In third quarter 2013, Man Group has recorded net inflows of USD0.7bn, as inflows to GLG Alternatives and long-only funds compensated for redemptions from funds at AHL and FRM. The AHL Diversified programme lost 6.6% for the quarter, which was the principal reason for redemptions of USD0.5bn in Quant strategies. The performance of FRM was negative all over, which reduced assets by USD0.3bn for the quarter. As of the end of September, assets under management at Man Group totalled USD52.5bn, compared with USD52bn as of the end of June.
18/10/2013

BNY Mellon AM recruits new COO

BNY Mellon has appointed Heneg Parthenay as chief operating officer of BNY Mellon Asset Management International Limited. Based in London, Parthenay reports to PeterPaul Pardi, CEO of BNY Mellon Asset Management International and global head of distribution for BNY Mellon Investment Management.Parthenay spent the last eight years at Aviva, latterly on the executive team of their global asset management arm, Aviva Investors Limited.
18/10/2013

Net inflows to Jupiter in Q2

In second quarter 2013, Jupiter recorded net inflows of GBP271m, after GBP209m in second quarter 2013 and GBP579m in third quarter 2012. These inflows and positive market effects allowed the UK asset management firm to slightly increase its assets from GBP29bn to GBP29.9bn for the quarter. Inflows to funds totalled GBP278m, with positive contributions both from British and international distribution channels. Assets in funds totalled GBP23.3bn as of 30 September. Since the beginning of the year, Jupiter has posted inflows of GBP689m.
18/10/2013

Inflows of USD10bn to hedge funds in August

According to estimates by BarclayHedge and Trimtabs of 3,340 products, hedge funds in August posted net subscriptions of USD10bn (or 0.5% of their assets), after USD8.23bn in July. In the first eight months of the year, hedge funds posted net inflows of USD45bn, compared with net outflows of USD3.6bn in the corresponding period of last year. As of 31 August, total assets were USD2trn, with the all-time record of USD2.trn tading from the end of September 2008. Funds of hedge funds, for their part, saw net redemptinos of USD4.2bn (0.9% of their assets) in August, after net outflows of USD4.1bn in July. Funds of hedge funds posted net subscriptions only during the first 24 months.
18/10/2013

MSCI ESG Research launches MSCI ESG DataMetrics

With its new tool MSCI ESG DataMetrics, MSCI has launched a service which will provide its clients with a complete set of ratings, indicators and raw environmental, social and governance (ESG) data to facilitate quantitative analysis, the development of exclusive ESG models, ESG reporting and analysis of the ESG footprint for portfolios.MSCI ESG DataMetrics offers 174 metrics on eight ESG issues for all companies on the MSCI World Index, such as Carbon Emissions, Water Stress, Labor Management, and Corporate Governance. These metrics include four years of raw data, including water use and lost-time injury rates; indicators on business and geographic risk exposure; policies, systems, and targets; and seven years of historical data on ESG ratings and scores. With comprehensive cross-industry metrics, users can identify trends and select ESG data that is most relevant to their views and those of their clients.In addition to cross-industry metrics on eight ESG issues, MSCI ESG DataMetrics also offers over 350 industry-specific metrics that inform the key issues of MSCI ESG Research’s rating model, MSCI ESG IVA.
18/10/2013

Investors concerned that global economic recovery could falter

Investor optimism over the global economic recovery and corporate profits has been dented as the tail risk associated with the U.S. economy has escalated, though sentiment towards Europe has improved, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey, taken from October 4 to October 10, of a sample totalling USD643bn. Expectations for a recovery in corporate profits have fallen. Last month, a net 41 percent said they expected corporate profits worldwide would improve in the following 12 months – that figure has tumbled to a net 28 percent in October. A net 18 percent believes that corporate profit margins will decrease in the coming year, up from a net 11 percent a month ago. As a corollary of this lesser optimism, asset allocators have scaled back their equity holdings. A net 49 percent of global asset allocators are overweight equities, down from a net 60 percent in September. In another significant development, investors and asset allocators have increased allocations towards global emerging market equities and have indicated in October’s survey that they see value in the region. The signals towards global emerging markets are not universally positive, however, says BofA Merrill Lynch. Nonetheless, a net 38 percent of the global respondents say that emerging markets equities are the most undervalued of all the regions - in contrast, a net 63 percent says the U.S. is the most overvalued region.
18/10/2013

BNP Paribas offers hedge funds an accounting data service

In November, BNP Paribas Securities Services will launch a new service to offer hedge fund managers direct access, in electronic format and in real time, to accounting data for their funds, which will allow them to more rapidly respond to requests from their investors or administrators, while facilitating decision-making, Funds People reports.The system will be commpatible with the major accounting and administrative platforms used by clients of the bank, and will be inegrated into the NeoLink information portal for customers of BNP Paribas Securities Services.
18/10/2013

FCA to require asset management firms to publish their transaction costs

The Financial Conduct Authority will require asset management firms to publish transaction costs following a report by the Office of Fair Trading on corporate retirement, Money Marketing reports. Speaking at a conference of the National Association of Pension Funds in Manchester, the director of the OFT, Ed Smith, declared: “We recommended that the FCA should undertake an exercise to ensure that these figures [transaction costs] be published regularly and made publicly available, and particularly to those who take decisions with respect to pensions.”
18/10/2013

Nikko AM takes over Treasury Asia AM

Treasury Asia Asset Management Limited (TAAM), founded in 2005, with the assistance of Treasury Group (Sydney) by Peter Sartori, has been acquired by the Tokyo-based Nikko Asset Management for an undisclosed amount.TAAM employs eight people in Singapore and Sydney. It specialised in “sophisticated” strategies based on Asian equities, a statement says.Nikko AM (USD156bn as of 30 June 2013) says that it has selected its Singapore office, led by Eleanor Seet, a its center of excellence for managing Asian securities.
18/10/2013

Stéphane Biehler joins Morningstar

When the acquisition of NYSE Euronext by IntercontinentalExchange takes effect, in theory from 4 November, the French-American Stéphane Biehler, chief accouting officer & corporate controller at NYSE Euronext since 2007, will join Morningstar as chief financial officer (CFO). He will report directly to Joe Mansueto, chairman & CEO. Biehler replaces Scott Cooley, CFO since 2007, who has expressed a desire to take a sabbatical year to earn a university degree. He will then return to Morningstar in the area of research.
18/10/2013

Increase of USD36bn in assets under supervision at Goldman Sachs

Assets under supervision in the Investment Management unit of Goldman Sachs have increased by USD36bn in third quarter, to a total of USD991bn, according to a statement released on 17 October. Assets under supervision include assets under management, but also other client assets invested with third-party managers. Long-term assets under management under supervision increased by USD35bn, due to positive market gains of USD19bn (largely in equities) and a net inflows of about USD16bn, largely to bond supports. Revenues for the Investment Management unit totalled USD1.22bn in third quarters, up 2% compared with third quarter 2012, but down by 9% comapred with second quarter 2013. The Goldman Sachs group has earned net profits for the part of the group of USD1.4bn, down by 2%, for earnings of USD6.7bn, down 20% year on year.
18/10/2013

Assets under management up 21% at Blackstone in third quarter

Assets under management at the Blackstone group as of the end of September totalled USD248bn, a record total, up 21% in one year, according to a statement released on 17 October. All Blackstone activities have posted good results, due to inflows and appreciation of assets. Gross inflows totalled USD21bn in third quarter, and USD53bn in the last 12 months. Blackstone has returned USD34bn to investors in the past twelve months.
18/10/2013

Amundi scales up partnership with First Eagle IM

Amundi plans to launch new sub-funds in the next 12 months managed by its US partner First Eagle Investment Management (FEIM). Meanwhile, the Luxembourg Sicav Amundi International Sicav (EUR3.8bn as of 30 September), distributed by Amundi and managed under an outsourcing contract by FEIM, is changing names, to become First Eagle Amundi International Fund. In addition, the Sicav is adopting a structure with multiple sub-funds.The change reflects “a reinforcement of the partnership between Amundi and FEIM towards greater collaboration,” a statement says. “First Eagle has done excellent work managing the Sicav (…). First Eagle also helps us to promote the fund internationally. With this change of name we would like to team up with them in this commercial adventure,” explains Laurent Bertian, deputy director of the institutional and third-party distributor professional in charge of sales and marketing at Amundi.
18/10/2013

Bank trusts increasingly expected to rely on external funds

More than 80% of fiduciary servicces at US banks are planning to increase their use of third-party funds in the next two years, according to a survey by Cerulli Associates. At the same time, three quarters of these “bank trusts” feel that the selection of external managers and the constitution of a research group for this purpose represent the primary challenges they will need to face in moving the needle.
18/10/2013

Nomura Asset management pulls out of the United States

In a SEC filing dated 15 october, Nomura Asset Management announced that effective immediately, subscriptions to all funds from Nomura Partners Funds Inc have been halted. Nomura says that it is planning to withdraw from retail fund activities in the United States, Mutual Fund Wire reports. Nomura will continue to manage the funds during this transitional period. Meanwhile, a Nomura employee confirms that Michael Andrews, head of US retail, has left the firm.
18/10/2013

Assets under management on French market top EUR3trn

After gains of slightly over 6% in 2012, assets under management for third parties on the French market once again rose by 3.3% in the first nine months of the year, to top EUR3trn as of the end of September, at EUR3.036trn, according to the most recent estimates by the French financial management association (AFG). Of this total, mandates, including foreign-registered OPCs, have gained nearly EUR100bn, to EUR1.529trn, while collective management held stable at EUR1.507trn. This psychologically significant threshold, which marks an increase of over 20% in five years, and of nearly 10% over the end of 2007, is nonetheless largely due to positive market effects, as all OPC asset classes show outflows since the beginning of the year, even though figures have improved since summer. With that said, asset management activity in Paris remains highly dynamic, with many creations of asset management firms once again this year. Without definite figures, the balance of creations is expected to total about 30, says Paul-Henri de La porte du Theil, chairman of the AFG, at a press conference. However, there has been a decline in creations since 53 in 2010, 39 the next year, and 34 last year.
18/10/2013

Légère accélération de la croissance chinoise

La croissance de l’économie chinoise a accéléré à un rythme de 7,8% au troisième trimestre, après être tombée à 7,5% au trimestre précédent soit son plus faible niveau depuis 23 ans.Sur les neuf premiers mois de l’année, la croissance atteint 7,7%, ce qui devrait permettre au gouvernement d’atteindre son objectif annuel de 7,5%, selon JP Morgan. Pékin a mis en place une «mini-relance» visant l’investissement en infrastructures, le soutien à la construction et une baisse de la pression fiscale sur les petites entreprises.
18/10/2013

L'AMF transige avec Hottinguer & Cie Gestion Privée

L’Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) a signé le 11 juillet un accord de composition administrative avec Hottinguer & Cie Gestion Privée, publié le 18 octobre sur son site internet. La société de gestion a accepté de verser 180.000 euros dans le cadre de cette transaction. Elle s’engage à interdire que des investisseurs d’une Sicav ne s’immiscent dans les décisions de gestion de cette Sicav - l’un des deux griefs soulevés par l’AMF - et à améliorer son contrôle des risques.
18/10/2013

Les instituts allemands abaissent leurs prévisions 2013 et 2014

Les grands instituts allemands de conjoncture ont divisé par deux leur projection de croissance de l’Allemagne pour 2013, à 0,4%, évoquant un net retournement à la baisse de la production industrielle cet hiver. Ils ont également revu hier en légère baisse leur estimation de croissance pour l’an prochain, à 1,8%, alors qu’ils prévoyaient 1,9% en avril.
18/10/2013

La dette de l'Espagne dépassera 100% du PIB en 2015

Dans des documents envoyés à l’Union européenne dans le cadre des nouvelles règles sur le contrôle du budget des pays membres, Madrid précise que son ratio d’endettement serait de 101,13% à la fin 2015 puis de 101,09% à fin 2016. Le gouvernement espagnol espère terminer l’année 2013 avec un endettement représentant 94,2% du PIB contre 85,9% fin 2012.
18/10/2013

L'indice Philly Fed recule moins que prévu

L’indice Philly Fed est ressorti à 19,8 en octobre après 22,3 en septembre, contre 15,0 attendus par les économistes. Cette performance s’explique notamment par un rebond de la composante des commandes nouvelles, revenue à son plus haut niveau depuis mars 2011, et à l’amélioration de celle de l’emploi.
18/10/2013

Man Group retrouve une collecte positive

Pour la première fois depuis deux ans, le gestionnaire d’actifs britannique Man a réussi à attirer de l’argent frais. Au troisième trimestre, sa collecte nette a atteint 700 millions de dollars, dépassant les prévisions des analystes. Le premier hedge fund coté du monde a vu ses actifs progresser légèrement à 52,5 milliards de dollars.

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