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25/04/2013

Profits up at Morningstar

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } For first quarter 2013, Morningstar Inc has posted earning up 5% compared with January-March 2012, to USD168.9m, while its operating profits rose 33.4% to USD40.6m. Net profits, for their part, totalled USD29.6m, compared with USD20.1m for the corresponding period of last year.Assets advised and managed by the Investment Advisory Services unit fell ot USD96.7bn as of 31 March, compared with USD147.9bn one year previously, due to the internalisation of a USD12.9bn mandate by a client, and a change in objectives for another mandate of USD46.9bn. Aside from these transfers, assets increased 9.8% in this division.Assets advised and managed by the Retirement Solutions unit totalled USD51.9bn as of the end of March, compared with USD38.5bn one year previously, while assets at Morningstar Managed Portfolios totalled USD5.3bn, compared with USD3.6bn as of 31 March 2012.Operating profits for the Investment Management division totalled USD16.4m in first quarter, down 5% compared with the corresponding period of last year.
25/04/2013

New head for institutional distribution at Swisscanto

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As of 1 July, Thomas Breitenmoser will become head of institutional distribution and a member of the board of directors at Swisscanto Asset Management. He will be responsible for distributing Swisscanto funds to third parties, managing relationships with clients based in Switzerland who have placed mandates with the asset management firm, and the Austrian, German and Luxembourg markets.Breitenmoser has spent more than six years at JPMorgan Asset Management, the last three as head of institutional clients in Switzerland.
25/04/2013

Franklin Templeton launches a new Sicav in Italy

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Franklin Templeton is launching the Franklin Templeton Strategic Allocation Funds Sicav, which offers institutional and retail investors a range of four funds of funds, in Italy, Bluerating reports. The range, which is licensed for sale in Italy, comes in addition to the Franklin Templeton Investment Funds Sicav, which has been available in Italy since 1995, and which has 76 sub-funds. The funds of the new Sicav are mostly invested in equities according to their risk profiles.
25/04/2013

Bankinter wants to increase assets contributed by its network by 56%

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } An objective has been set by Bankinter for assets intermediated by its bank branch network in the next three years at EUR7bn, compared with EUR4.5bn currently, which would represent an increase of 56%, Funds People reports.The network, led by César González Rodríguez, currently includes 478 specialist advisers. There were 1,100 of them at the end of 2008, and the reshuffle has reduced personnel to 300, but the bank has begun recruiting more qualified specialists, with the intention of recruiting people who will be likely to bring in EUR250m in assets each.Newly-recruited personnel will benefit from Bankinter’s logistics and resources (IT systems, Open Finance network, legal services, risk management, human resources), but will not bre required to sell exclusively products from the bank, and may also offer, among others, funds from foreign asset mangement firms available on the Allfunds Bank platform. Branch advisers also, unlike private bankers, are not bound by a minimum threshold of EUR1m in financial savings.
25/04/2013

Assets under management at BCV up 6%

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The Banque cantonale vaudoise (BCV) has reported a 6% increase in its assets under management in first quarter, to CHF86.4bn, according to a statement released on 25 April. Net inflows totalled CHF1.3bn.
25/04/2013

Assets under management at Gottex down

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Assets generating commissions at Gottex Fund Management were down 9% in first quarter 2013 to USD6.4bn, compared with USD7bn as of the end of December, according to a statement released on 24 April. This decline is related to outflows (slightly over USD800m), partly offset by a net inflow of USD150m in Asia, as well as the acquisition of a majority stake in Frontier Investment Management, and a positive market effect. Assets under management in first quarter fell by 5.9% to USD5.59bn, due to net outflows of USD265m. Assets at the services specialist affiliate Luma GSS as of the end of March totalled USD0.77bn, down due to the impact of a net outflow of USD300m, and a negative currency effect of USD20m, which subscriptions (USD20m) and positive market effects (USD20m) were not enough to offset.
25/04/2013

EFG International liquidates its stake in Financial Products

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 24 April, EFG International has announced that on the previous evening it completed its sale of its remaining stake of 20.25% in EFG Financial Products to Notenstein Private Bank, an affiliate of Raiffeisen Switzerland. The transaction totalled CHF70.2m (1.35 million shares at CHF53 each). Notenstein becomes the largest shareholder in EFG Financial Products, with 22.75%, after the four founders, who jointly control 25.30% of capital.As a result, the representatives of EFG International on the board of directors of EFG Financial Services, John Williamson, Giorgio Pradelli and Frederick Link, have resigned from their positions.According to the local press, EFG Financial Products will in second quarter becomes known as Leonteq, Swiss Investment Engine. The new name is derived from the Latin name of edelweiss (leontopodium), with the suffix “teq” to indicate its technological aspect.On the Swiss stock exchange (SIX), the ticker for EFG Financial Products (FPHN) will be replaced by that of Leonteq, LEON.
25/04/2013

iShares integrates FundSettle

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Fondsnieuws reports that iShares (BlackRock) has become the first ETF promoter to be admitted to the FundSettle automated trading platform from Euroclear. Initially, 50 ETFs will be available, out of 150 products that iShares offers in the Netherlands. As Leen Meijaard, head of sales for iShares in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region points out, however, these 50 products cover the vast majority of demand from distributors. Lieven Libbrecht, director investment funds product development at Euroclear, has not ruled out the possibility that other ETF issuers will list their products for trading on FundSettle.
25/04/2013

EFG Private Bank fined for failures in its anti-money laundering controls

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined EFG Private Bank GBP4.2 million, or approximately EUR5million, for failing to take reasonable care to establish and maintain effective anti-money laundering (AML) controls for high risk customers. «The failings were serious and lasted for more than three years», the FCA underlines.As part of a thematic review of how UK banks were managing money laundering risk in higher risk situations, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) visited EFG Private Bank, the UK private banking subsidiary of the EFGI Group, a global private banking group, based in Switzerland, in January 2011. That visit and further investigation caused serious concern to the FSA. The investigation found that EFG had not fully put its AML policies into practice. Of particular concern was that 17 of 36 reviewed customer files, opened between December 2007 and January 2011, contained customer due diligence that highlighted significant money laundering risks, but insufficient records of how the bank’s senior management had mitigated those risks. Of these 17 files, the FSA found that the risks highlighted in 13 files related to allegations of criminal activity or that the customer had been charged with criminal offences including corruption and money laundering. EFG settled at an early stage of the investigation and qualified for a 30% discount on its fine. Without the discount the fine would have been GBP6 million.
25/04/2013

Henderson extends its multi-asset product range

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Henderson Global Investors is preparing to add two new funds to its risk-graduated range of multi-asset solutions, led by Bill McQuaker, Investment Week reports. They are the Core 4 Income and Core 6 Income & Growth funds.
25/04/2013

Assets under management at SLI up 7% in first quarter

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Assets under management at Standard Life Investments (SLI), which includes the asset management business of the UK insurer Standard Life, in first quarter increased by 7%, or GBP11.4bn, to a record GBP179.1bn, benefiting from strong flows and market movements, according to figures announced at the publication of an interim report for the Standard Life group. Third party AUM increased by GBP7.4bn or 9% to GBP90.4bn and now accounts for over 50% of total Standard Life Investments AUM . Net inflows for the quarter totalled GBP3bn, compared with GBP1.1bn in first quarter 2012. SLI continued to diversify geographically with 43% of third party net inflows from outside of the UK including net flows from US of GBP0.6bn Assets under administration by the Standard Life group, for their part, have posted a 7% increase, to GBP223.1bn. The insurance group has also announed that it will be recruiting in Asia, with the addition to 30 to 40 people in sales and back office for retirement and investment products, mostly in Hong Kong, as well as in Singapore and Dubai, Asian Investor reports. The group is working in close collaboration with its asset management affiliate, SLI, which is also dedicating substantial resources to the Asian region. The insurer would like to distribute a larger number of SLI products, of which only 12 are on sale in Hong Kong, out of a range of 300 funds, mostly Luxembourg Sicavs.
25/04/2013

Wealth management at Barclays turns a profit, assets up

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The Wealth and Investment Management unit at the Barclays group has earned a pre-tax profit of GBP60m, down 43% compared with first quarter 2012, the UK banking group announced in a publication of its quarterly results. Assets of high net worth clients as of the end of March totalled GBP200bn, compared with GBP186bn as of the end of December 2012.
25/04/2013

LGIM sets up “client strategy” team

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Chris de Marco, who had been principal investment consultant at AON Hewitt and managing director, head of insurance and pension solutions sales at HSBC, is joining Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) in the newly-created position of head of client strategy, where he will lead an equally new team, with the mission of designing integrated de-risking solutions. The new recruit will report to Aaron Meder, global head of solutions.The team will also include Matthew Webb (ex BDO) as solutions strategist, and Toby Baldwin, who has been tranferred from the product strategy and development team.
25/04/2013

Promotions for Alastair Gunn and Chris Watt at Jupiter

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } From 1 May 2013, Chris Watt, who joined Jupiter Asset Management in 1999, will be promoted to manager of Jupiter Growth & Income Fund (GBP368m), and the Jupiter UK Alpha Fund (GBP15m), replacing Philip Matthews, who is joining Schroders (see Newsmanagers of 18 April), to replace Richard Buxton, who is moving to Old Mutual Global Investors. Since January 2007, Watt had been the manager of the Jupiter Responsible Income Fund (GBP50m).Jupiter Asset Management has also appointed Alastair Gunn, who joined in 2007 as co-manager of the Jupiter Distribution Fund (GBP294m), to take over management of the Jupiter High Income Fund (GBP549m) as of 1 July 2013. The fund is currently managed by Anthony Nutt, who will be retiring at the end of this year.
25/04/2013

Fourpoints IM creates Luxembourg clone of one of its French FCP funds

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The French independent asset management firm Fourpoints Investment Managers, born of a merger of PIM Gestion France and IT Asset Management, on 26 February 2013 launched IT Funds America an equity sub-fund of its Luxembourg Sicav.The fund, which exists in three share classes (D: LU0890332173, R: LU0890332090 and I: LU0890331951), is a clone of the French-registered FCP fund, Fourpoints America. The new product, aimed at European investors (in Luxembourg, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy) already has assets of USd75m, about two thirds of which have been transferred from the FCP, and the remainder of which are new subscriptions, Muriel Faure, CEO and head of compliance and internal controls at the firm, tells Newsmanagers. The new poduct will soon be renamed, and at the beginning of June will become Fourpoints FUnd America.Assets at Fourpoints Investment Managers currently total about EUR1.1bn, compared with EUR875m as of the end of 2012, with half of the difference atributable to market appreciation, and the other half to net subscriptions.
25/04/2013

Aquila Capital unveils its risk-parity bond fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As announced two months ago (see Newsmanagers of 19 February), Hamburg-based Aquila Capital has launched a long-only risk parity bond fund, a Luxembourg proudct entitled ACQ – Risk Partiy Bond Fund.The objective for the fund is to generate performance 300 basis points higher than money market rates, with ex ante volatility of 3%.CharacteristicsName: ACQ – Risk Parity Bond FundISIN code: LU0891409947Management commission: 0.45%
25/04/2013

Henderson acquires one third of 90 West Asset Management

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Henderson Global Investors has announced that it has acquired 33% of the Australian asset management firm 90 West Asset Management, specialised in natural resources globally, Funds People reports. The two businesses have also signed an exclusive distribution agreement.
25/04/2013

L'économie britannique échappe à la récession

L'économie britannique à échappé à sa troisième récession en moins de cinq ans et sa croissance a même surpassé les attentes au premier trimestre. Le produit intérieur brut (PIB) du Royaume-Uni a augmenté de 0,3% sur janvier-mars par rapport aux trois derniers mois de 2012, durant lesquels il s'était contracté d’autant, montre la première estimation publiée jeudi par l’Office national de la statistique (ONS). En rythme annuel, la croissance ressort à 0,6%, sa meilleure performance depuis la fin 2011. La croissance du premier trimestre a été tirée par les services et par un rebond de la production de gaz et de pétrole en mer du Nord. La livre sterling s’appréciait après les chiffres de l’ONS, au plus haut depuis deux mois face au dollar, tandis que les cours des emprunts d’Etat refluaient. La croissance britannique ne devrait toutefois pas dépasser 0,6% cette année. Le PIB britannique reste inférieur de 2,6% à son pic du premier trimestre 2008 et même en prenant en compte les chiffres publiés jeudi, il a stagné ces 18 derniers mois.
Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
25/04/2013

Enrico Letta devra donner à l’Italie un gouvernement

Vice-secrétaire au sein de la direction démissionnaire du Parti démocrate, Enrico Letta entre au Palais Chigi. Agé de 46 ans, il a été chargé par le président Giorgio Napolitano de former un nouveau gouvernement. Les consultations auprès des différents partis débuteront demain. «Je lance un appel à toutes les forces politiques et à leur sens des responsabilités», a déclaré Enrico Letta depuis le palais présidentiel. «Toutes les réformes essentielles doivent être faites ensemble avec la participation la plus large possible», a-t-il ajouté. Enrico Letta présente l’avantage d'être acceptable aux yeux de Silvio Berlusconi et de ses élus du Peuple de la liberté (PDL). Son oncle, Gianni Letta, est le plus proche conseiller politique du «Cavaliere» depuis plus de dix ans. Cette proximité ne sera sans doute pas de trop à l’heure de former un gouvernement susceptible d'être soutenu tant par le Parti démocrate que par la droite et les centristes.
25/04/2013

Retour des clauses de désignation

Réunie mardi, la commission mixte paritaire sur le projet de loi de sécurisation de l’emploi a validé la rédaction de l’article 1er généralisant la complémentaire santé à tous les salariés, en reprenant la version adoptée par l’Assemblée Nationale. Les clauses de désignations ont donc été rétablies, alors qu’elles avaient été supprimées par le Sénat. L’APAC déplore «un passage en force».
25/04/2013

S&P relève la note de la Colombie

L’agence de notation a hissé la note de crédit de la Colombie de BBB- à BBB, citant les perspectives de croissance du pays à long terme et une vulnérabilité moins forte à des chocs extérieurs. Elle a également fait passer la perspective associée de positive à stable.
25/04/2013

L’AMF publie un guide pour les actionnaires individuels

L’Autorité des marchés financiers met à disposition sur son site internet un guide pédagogique à l’attention des actionnaires individuels. Ce document est présenté comme un outil ayant «vocation d’aider à la bonne compréhension des décisions soumises au vote des actionnaires».
25/04/2013

Le yuan s’affirme dans les paiements internationaux

L’utilisation du yuan comme moyen de paiement international a progressé de 32,7% en mars par rapport au mois précédent, contre une hausse moyenne de 5,1% pour l’ensemble des devises, selon la société coopérative Swift chargée des transferts interbancaires. La France figurait le mois dernier au quatrième rang des utilisateurs offshore du yuan derrière le Royaume-Uni, Singapour et Taiwan.
25/04/2013

Le MES valide le soutien à Chypre

Le conseil des gouverneurs du Mécanisme européen de stabilité (MES) a donné son accord de principe au programme d’assistance financière conclu avec Chypre. En vertu de ce plan, Nicosie recevra jusqu’à 10 milliards d’euros, dont 9 milliards via le MES et 1 milliard via le FMI.
25/04/2013

Où ira la liquidité japonaise ?

La Banque du Japon a annoncé vouloir doubler sa base monétaire sur deux ans et affecter 77% de ces nouveaux moyens au financement des emprunts d’Etat (JGB) de long terme. Cette annonce est une bonne nouvelle: elle réduit considérablement le risque de vente d’actifs étrangers, que le Japon détient en énormes quantités, pour financer le déficit public japonais, à l’heure où le vieillissement de la population, la crise énergétique et la fin des excédents de la balance courante hypothèquent le financement purement domestique de la dette publique.
25/04/2013

Les banques américaines critiquées en Europe

Selon le journal britannique, l’Association européenne des Trésoriers d’Entreprise (EACT) a écrit à JP Morgan le mois dernier pour se plaindre du lobbying effectué par les banques américaines, qui cherchent à être exemptées de certaines règles édictées par Bâle 3 sur les produits dérivés de gré à gré.
25/04/2013

Temasek fera entendre sa voix chez Standard Chartered

Selon la chaîne de télévision, le fonds souverain de Singapour, qui détient 18,2% de Standard Chartered, ne votera pas en faveur de la réélection de certains directeurs exécutifs de la banque lors de l’assemblée générale prévue le 8 mai, même s’il devrait soutenir la réélection du président du conseil d’administration John Peace.

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