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24/06/2013

Gilles Darde rejoint Convictions AM

Gilles Darde a rejoint Convictions Asset Management en tant que responsable distribution et marketing, selon son profil Linked-In. Il occupait précédemment le poste de responsable commercial pour la distribution externe chez Aviva Investors. Il a également travaillé chez Fortis Investments.
24/06/2013

Morgan Stanley achète à Citi le reliquat de 35% de Smith Barney

La banque américaine Morgan Stanley a annoncé le 21 juin avoir l’intention d’exercer son option d’achat pour les 35% qu’elle ne détient par encore dans sa société commune avec sa compatriote Citigroup, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Wealth Management (MSSB).La transaction devrait être bouclée le 28 juin ou à une date proche, au prix qui avait été déterminé précédemment de 4,7 milliards de dollars en numéraire, précise-t-elle dans un communiqué. L’entité détenue à 100% par Morgan Stanley deviendra Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.Cette opération mettra un terme final à une histoire ayant très longtemps envenimé les relations entre Morgan Stanley et Citi. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney était née en 2009, de la fusion des activités de distribution de produits financiers auprès des particuliers de Morgan Stanley et de Citigroup qui opérait dans ce secteur sous le nom Smith Barney.Morgan Stanley avait fait de son intégration complète une priorité, mais ce projet s’est heurté à des divergences avec sa partenaire sur la valeur de l’entreprise. Les deux banques s'étaient finalement entendues en septembre sur une valorisation totale de 13,5 milliards de dollars (lire Newsmanagers du 12 septembre 2012). Morgan Stanley, qui détenait alors 51% de MSSB, avait exercé une première option d’achat pour 14% supplémentaires. Il était prévu qu’elle rachète les 35% restant d’ici à fin juin 2015.James Gorman, le PDG de Morgan Stanley, estime dans le communiqué que cette opération constitue «un jour historique» pour son groupe. «C’est le point culminant de plusieurs années d’efforts pour transformer notre modèle d’activité en quelque chose qui offre de meilleurs rendements aux actionnaires et une plus grande stabilité dans des marchés volatils», a-t-il commenté.
24/06/2013
Fonds

PowerShares propose un ETF haut rendement court terme

L’américain Invesco PowerShares Capital Management a annoncé le lancement le 20 juin du PowerShares Global Short Term High Yield Bond Portfolio, qui a été admis à la négociation sur NYSE Arca sous l’aconyme PGHY.Ce fonds est chargé à 0,35 % et réplique le DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index. Le portefeuille est investi en dette court terme à haut rendement libellée en dollars américains émise dans le monde entier par des emprunteurs souverains, quasi gouvernementaux et entreprises.
Fonds
24/06/2013
Fonds

Le Livret A enregistre une collecte modeste au mois de mai

La collecte nette du Livret A a été de 0,29 milliard d’euros et celle du LDD de 0,14 milliard d’euros au mois de mai contre respectivement 3,05 milliards d’euros et 1,56 milliard d’euros au mois d’avril, selon les chiffres communiqués par la Caisse des dépôts. A 0,43 milliard d’euros, la collecte nette des deux produits se retrouve à son plus bas niveau depuis depuis le mois de septembre (0,19 milliard d’euros). Depuis le début de l’année, la collecte nette s'élève à 21,09 milliards d’euros, soit près de deux fois plus par rapport aux cinq premiers mois de 2012 (12 milliards d’euros). L’encours des deux produits a atteint 363,7 milliards d’euros contre 363,3 milliards d’euros au mois de mai, l’encours du Livret A étant de 264,9 milliards d’euros et celui du LDD de 98,8 milliards d’euros. Dans ce contexte, le taux de rémunération du Livret A, qui avait déjà été abaissé de 2,25 % à 1,75 % le 1er février dernier, pourrait reculer à nouveau en août prochain si l’inflation reste modérée. Une baisse qui devrait satisfaire l’agence Standard & Poor’s, dont une étude juge désormais le Livret A pénalisant pour le secteur bancaire français.
Fonds
24/06/2013

Qatar: objectif 10 milliards d'euros d'investissement en France

Dans un entretien au quotidien Qatar Tribune repris par L’Agefi, l’ambassadeur du Qatar en France, Mohamed Jaham al Kuwari, a indiqué que l'émirat entend investir dix milliards d’euros en France. Ces investissements concerneraient des «institutions françaises majeures». Toujours selon L’Agefi, la chaîne télévisée Al Djazira rapporte par ailleurs que l'émir du Qatar, Cheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, doit rencontrer aujourd’hui les membres de la famille royale et les principaux responsables politiques du pays concernant une éventuelle abdication au profit de son fils, le prince héritier Cheikh Tamim.
24/06/2013
Fonds

Un nouveau fonds de buy-out voit le jour

Sander Levy et Alok Singh, qui ont coopéré il y a huit ans à la création du réassureur Validus Holdings aux Bermudes, se sont à présent associés à l’ancien CEO de la société de logiciels New Mountain, Kevin Parker, pour créer un capital-investisseur spécialiste des «buy-outs», Bridge Growth Partners LLC, rapporte the Wall Street Journal. Selon les proches du dossier, ils visent une levée de fonds d’un milliard de dollars et comptent se focaliser uniquement sur les services financiers et les technologies.
Fonds
24/06/2013
Fonds

La holding Salvepar cède sa participation dans le groupe Courtepaille

La holding d’investissement Salvepar, détenue à 92% par le groupe Tikehau a annoncé ce lundi 24 juin la cession à CM-CIC Capital Finance de sa participation à hauteur de 12% dans le groupe Courtepaille pour la somme de 9 M€. Salvepar bénéficiera d’un possible complément de prix valable jusqu’à fin 2018 en cas de cession de ces actions par CM-CIC Capital Finance avant cette date, précise un communiqué.Le closing de l’opération devrait intervenir fin juin.
Fonds
24/06/2013

Dalton Strategic Partnership arrive en Espagne

S’il commercialisait déjà ses produits au travers de placement privés en Espagne, le gestionnaire britannique Balton Strategic Partnership a désormais officiellement abordé le marché espagnol en faisant enregistrer par la CNMV sa sicav luxembourgeoise Melchior Selected Trust, qui compte cinq compartiments et affiche un encours de 540 millions d’euros, rapporte Funds People.C’est le sixième gestionnaire étranger à débarquer en Espagne depuis le début de l’année, après J. Chahine Capital, Ellipsis AM, Oaks Field Partners, LarrainVial et Wellington Management.
24/06/2013

Mediobanca se dotera d’une plate-forme de gestion alternative

Le conseil d’administration de Mediobanca a présenté le 21 juin le plan 2014-2016 du groupe, dont l’objectif est de générer en 2016 un rendement des fonds propres de 10-11 %. Il prévoit notamment de simplifier les structures en se focalisant sur trois piliers, la banque d’investissement, la banque du particulier et la gestion de fortune.Pour ce dernier pôle, Mediobanca compte investir en ressources humaines (entre autres en private equity, private debt et crédits non performing) ainsi qu’en technologies pour développer des activités plus margées et moins consommatrices de capital, notamment avec le lancement de Mediobanca Alternative Asset Management (MAAM). L’objectif assigné à la gestion de fortune consiste à générer 15 % des recettes bancaires du groupe en 2016.
24/06/2013

Private banking is becoming less profitable in Europe

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to an annual study by the consultant Mckinsey, no less than 15% of European private banks had operating losses in 2012, Les Echos reports. Only 2% to 3% of banks were in this situation before the financial crisis, and the percentage has been increasing each year. However, overall, the 110 banks examined by the agency have returned to their pre-crisis profit levels, and 25% of them have even surpassed them. Total assets under management have recovered by 8% in one year. But this increase in assets is more due to improved markets in 2012 than to inflows, which have increased only modestly.
24/06/2013

Outflows from emerging markets, inflows to frontier markets

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Ahead of a meeting of the Federal Reserve, investors do not appear worried. They bought fewer bonds and invested more in US, Japanese and European equity funds. However, their defiance with respect to emerging market funds remains tenacious, and outflows totalled more than USD3bn in the week to 19 June, a level not seen for nearly two years, according to statistics released by EPFR Global.Despite their circumspection with respect to most of the major emerging markets, such as China Brazil, Russia and South Africa, investors retain a marked appetite for smaller markets, which are riskier but also more dynamic. Funds dedicated to frontier markets have been posting inflows since mid-March and have also attracted more than USD2.5bn since the beginning of this year.Overall, equity funds have posted a net inflow of USD4.81bn in the week to 19 June, while bond funds have seen redemptions totalling USD7.48bn. Money market fund have seen outflows of over USD25bn in the week to 19 June, the highest level since the third week of February.
24/06/2013

Konrad Hummler gets back to business

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The former heavyweight in private banking at Wegelin, Konrad Hummler, is returning to the industry. Hummler, whose investment columns were always highly popular, has founded the M1 AG company, domiciled in St. Gall, which offers investment advisory services.Hummler, with three partners, is launching a paper or electronic publication, “Bergsicht,” which will be released at least six times per year, and which will resemble the investment columns of the Wegelin period.
24/06/2013

Former UBS manager launches an asset management firm

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to Finews, Cesar Gueikian, former head of special situations at UBS, has founded an asset management firm entitled Melody Capital Partners. His partners are Andres Scaminaci and Omar Jaffrey, also formerly of UBS. The three specialists are launching a fund to invest in guaranteed credit in the United States and Western Europe. They are hoping to raise more than EUR500m.
24/06/2013

Dalton Strategic Partnership arrives in Spain

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Although it had already been selling its products as private investments in Spain, the British asset management firm Balton Strategic Partnership has now officially entered the Spanish market, with the registration of its Luxembourg Sicav, Melchior Selected Trust, with the CNMV. The Sicav has five sub-funds and assets of EUR540m, Funds People reports.The firm becomes the sixth foreign asset management firm to enter Spain since the beginning of the year, following J. Chahine Capital, Ellipsis AM, Oaks Field Patenrs, LarrainVial and Wellington Management.
24/06/2013

Versiko offers SRI retirement savings

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The German sustainable investment advising firm versiko has announced the launch of a unit-linked retirement savings plan, ökoViola, whose portfolio will be invested exclusively in shares in the ökovision Classic fund, launched by the firm’s Luxembourg affiliate ökoworld, while the insurance portion of the policy is contracted to Continentale.versiko says that the formula allows subscribers to be sure that their savings will be invested ethically, with the exclusion of weapons, nuclear technology, chlorine chemistry, and child labour.As of 31 May, the ökovision Classic fund had assets of EUR361.8m for C shares (LU0061928585) and EUR15.8m for A shares (LU0551476806).
24/06/2013

Assets at Mainstay Marketfield Fund quintuple in twelve months

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Handelsblatt reports that assets under management by the contrarian fund Mainstay Marketfield Fund now total USD9.5bn, compared with USD1.7bn as of the end of May 2012. The product is managed by an amateur poet, Michael Aronstein, and a doctor of philosophy, Michael Shaoul.The strategy is simple: invest against the grain. The managers currently consider German, Italian and Irish equities to be attractive, they see banks recovering and they stress that refinancing costs are almost 0%.
24/06/2013

Morgan Stanley buys up the remaining 35% of Smith Barney from Citigroup

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US bank Morgan Stanley on 21 June announced that it is planning to exercise its buy option for the remaining 35% it does not already control in its joint venture with its rival Citigroup, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Wealth Management (MSSB).The transaction is expected to be completed by 28 June or a date soon thereafter, at a price which had previously been set at USD4.7bn in cash, a statement says. Once controlled entirely by Morgan Stanley, the entity will become known as Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.The operation will conclude a very long story which has long complicated relations between Morgan Stanley and Citi. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney was created in 2009, from the merger of financial product retail distribution activities at Morgan Stanley and activities at Citigroup which had been operating under the name Smith Barney.Morgan Stanley had made complete integration a priority, but the project ran into a series of divergences between the partners with respect to the value of the business. The two banks in September agreed on a total valuation of USD13.5bn. Morgan Stanley, which then held 51% of MSSB, exercised an initial buy option for an additional 14%. The remaining 35% were expected to be acquired by the end of June 2015.James Gorman, chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, claims in a statement that the operation represents “a historic day” for his group. “It’s the culmination of several years of effort to transform our business model into something that offers the best returns to shareholders and more stability on volatile markets,” he said.
24/06/2013

New buyout fund created

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Sander Levy and Alok Singh, who cooperated eight years ago in the creation of the reinsurer Validus Holdings in Bermuda, have now teamed up with the former CEO of the software firm New Mountain, Kevin Parker, to create a private equity firm specialised in buyouts, Bridge Growth Partners LLC, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to sources familiar with the matter, they are aiming to raise funds totalling USD1bn, and are planning to focus exclusively on financial services and technology.
24/06/2013

Gilles Darde joins Convictions AM

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Gilles Darde has joined Convictions Asset Managemnet as head of distribution and marketing, according to his Linked-In profile. He had previously served as head of sales for external distribution at Aviva Investors. He has also worked at Fortis Investments.
24/06/2013

Mirabaud recruits convertibles manager in Paris

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Swiss firm Mirabaud Asset Management has recruited Nicolas Crémieux as part of its team dedicated to convertible bonds based in Paris, as a senior analyst-manager, Newsmanagers has learned. Crémieux joins from Dexia Asset Management, where he was a senior manager in charge of international convertible bonds.His arrival, slated for the end of August, will coincide with the launch of a global convertible bond fund in autumn. The product already exists in the form of an internal portfolio. It will be released in a UCITS format.The new product will join the existing Mirabaud Convertible Bonds Europe fund, which invests in European convertible bonds, launched in October 2011, and managed by Renaud Martin, head of convertible bonds since that time.The recruitments, which provide reinforcements to the expertise of Mirabaud AM in convertible bonds, follow several other recruitments to the management team. More will be announced in the weeks to come, particularly in Paris.
24/06/2013

Dreyfus launches EMD fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Dreyfus Corporation, a company of the BNY Mellon group, has launched an actively-managed mutual fund, the Drefus Opportunistic Emerging Markets Debt Fund.The fund aims to invest in all categories of emerging market debt, including debt denominated in hard currencies and debt denominated in local currencies issued by government and corporate issuers.The fund is managed by Alexander Kozhemiakin, managing director for emerging market strategies and senior portfolio manager in charge of management for all emerging market debt portfolios at Standish, as well as Javier Murcio, portfolio manager and senior government debt analyst.Assets under management at Dreyfus Corporation total about USD294bn.
24/06/2013

CFOs optimistic for 2013

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Most CFOs say they are optimistic about their ability to develop their activities and to acquire new clients in 2013, according to the most recent quarterly survey by Russell Investments of US chief financial officers (Financial Professional Outlook).In the present year, 48% of respondants say that they hope to win over more than 10 clients, while 30% of them are aiming for 7 to 10 clients. Last year, 86% of advisers managed to take on more clients than they lost, while 48% of them took on 10 or more new clients.As a corollary of this optimism, 32% of the advisers say that clients expect capital markets to perform well in the next three years, a level not seen since March 2011. Three quarters of CFOs are themselves optimistic about the evolution of the markets.
24/06/2013

Increase in HF redemptions

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The redemption index calculated by the hedge fund administrator SS&C GlobeOp in June rose to 3.88%, from 3.77% in May, Reuters reports.Hedge funds participated in strong gains on the stock market since last summer, but many investors have been disappointed to find that hedge funds are unable to compete with the returns on equity markets.Since the beginning of this year, hedge funds have posted returns of 3.95%, according to Hedge Fund Research, compared with gains of nearly 13% for the S&P 500 index.
24/06/2013

Pimco funds affected by bond selloff

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Pimco Total Return fund from Bill Gross (USD285bn) has been one of the bond funds worst affected by the selloff in bonds which has affected the asset class since the Federal Reserve announced that it would begin reducing the scale of its quantitative easing programme, Investment Week reports. According to Bloomberg, the Pimco flagship fund has lost 1.6% since 8-20 June. It has lost 2.8% YTD.
24/06/2013

Resource launches a new real estate fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Resource Real Estate, an affiliate of Resource America, has launched a new real estate fund, the Resource Real Estate Diversified Income Fund, Wealth Adviser reports.The fund, which will be managed by Scott Crowe, aims for long-term appreciation and offers low correlation to the equity markets for investors who wish to diversify their allocation. The fund also offers quarterly liquidity.
24/06/2013

PowerShares offers a short-term, high yield ETF

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US firm Invesco PowerShares Capital Management on 20 June announced the launch of the PowerShares Global Short Term High Yield Bond Portfolio, which has been admitted to trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker PGHY.The fund charges 0.35% and replicates the DB Global Short Maturity High Yield Bond Index. The portfolio is invested in short-term, high yield debt denominated in US dollars, issued worldwide by government, municipal and corporate borrowers.
24/06/2013

Exchange of information: France to introduce blacklist in '16

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Countries which refuse automatic exchange of information for tax purposes will be added to a list of uncooperative states by France from 2016, due to an amendment passed by the government. The date of application for the changes would thus be later than the US automatic information exchange (FATCA) agreement, which is schedued for September 2015.“Such an approach has the advantage that it is dynamic and allows France to concentrate on the genuine challenges of offering incentives in a context marked by a strong engagement to promoting tax transparency,” the government claims in an explanation of its amendment to a proposed law to combat tax fraud, passed on Thursday evening.The countries of the G8 early last week pledged to automatically exchange inforamtion, which is considered a deadly weapon in the war on tax havens, the “new global standard” to combat these flows.
24/06/2013

“We now have a shared sales team 40 times larger than before”

Deutsche Bank in mid-June unveiled its new division, Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM), including the 23 asset management, wealth management and market activity brands. After serving as managing director and global head of RREEF Real Estate, Pierre Cherki, who is head of the new alternative/real asset management profession, discusses the size of his unit, its composition and its plans, now that it has a sales team 40 times larger than previously.
24/06/2013

Mercer adds to its wealth management product range

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Financial advisers and wealth managers may in the future avail themselves of an addition to the product range from the consultant Mercer, which is now offering High Volume Research (HVR) and High Volume Monitoring (HVM) services, to address all potential questions raised by the funds in which their clients invest.HVR is a concise, high level tool (as opposed to complete research reports on managers), aimed at wealth managers, to help them to identify issues which may concern funds in which they may invest their clients’ money. For its part, HVM is a regular monitoring service, with which Mercer aims to identify concrete changes in a fund which may have an impact on the end result for clients.HVR and HVM allow investment advisers and wealth managers access to a quality of service which had previously been reserved for institutional investors and pension funds.
24/06/2013

Schroders wants to grow in the United States

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } UK-based Schroders wants to grow and is not hiding it. “We have GBP580m in cash,” its executive vice president, Massimo Tosato, tells Les Echos. This money “could be used both for acquisitions of local companies for international development and fo investments in organic growth,” he continues.Growth is proving more timid in Europe, its favourite market, and Schroders is turning to Asia and the United States.In the latter country, which can be hyper-competitive and closed off to foreigners, it is expecting to double in size in the next five years. As of 31 March 2013, assets under management in the United States already totalled GBP42bn, of which GBP7bn were at STW, a bond asset management firm acquired in December.

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