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22/10/2012

RBC Wealth Management renforce son desk est-européen

Le pôle gestion de fortune du groupe bancaire canadien Royal Bank of Canada a annoncé le 19 octobre la nomination de deux chargées de clientèle pour son desk dédié à l’Europe de l’Est;Tanya Blazhko et Nathalie Gorshkova, toutes deux basées à Londres, auront pour mission de développer les activités de RBC Wealth Management sur les marchés d’Europe de l’Est, y compris la Communauté des Etats indépendants.Tanya Blazhko travaillait précédemment chez Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Nathalie Gorshkova chez BNP Paribas Wealth Management.Les actifs sous gestion de RBC Wealth Management s'élèvent à plus de 324 milliards de dollars canadiens, soit quelque 251 milliards d’euros.
22/10/2012

BlackRock et SSgA s’affrontent pour acquérir les ETF de Credit Suisse

BlackRock, via iShares, et State Street Global Advisors, les deux principaux fournisseurs mondiaux d’ETF, sont en course pour racheter l’activité ETF de Credit Suisse représentant des encours de 17 milliards de dollars, rapporte le Financial Times. La date limite pour les offres était il y a deux semaines et un troisième acquéreur non connu aurait aussi présenté une offre.Credit Suisse est le cinquième gestionnaire d’ETF en Europe avec une part de marché de 4,9 % selon ETFGI.
22/10/2012
Fonds

Union crée un second fonds immobilier pour les institutionnels

Le gestionnaire central des banques populaires allemandes, Union Investment, a annoncé le lancement le 17 octobre d’un second fonds immobilier offert au public mais réservé aux investisseurs institutionnels, le UniInstitutional German Real Estate. Ce produit de droit allemand sera investi à 100 %.dans des actifs situés en Allemagne, dans des immeubles d’une valeur de 20 millions à 50 millions d’euros. Union vise un encours d’environ 500 millions d’euros, avec des actifs dans l’immobilier de bureaux, commercial et hôtelier. L'équipe de gestion s’intéressera aussi aux actifs logiques et, d’une manière générale, à des immeubles situés dans les grandes conurbations.Le nouveau fonds complète le UniInstitutional European Real Estate lance en 2004 et qui affiche un encours de plus de 2 milliards d’euros.Union Investment refuse de communiquer aux journalistes le montant de la commission de gestion. Selon la presse allemande, le délai minimal de préavis pour les rachats a été fixé à 1 an, comme le prévoit la nouvelle législation.CaractéristiquesDénomination : UniInstitutional German Real EstateCode Isin : DE000A1J16Q1Souscription minimale : 0,5 million d’euros
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22/10/2012

"Nous enregistrons des souscriptions nettes de 1,4 milliard d’euros en France depuis le début de l’année"

Le géant américain de la gestion d’actifs Pimco, avec 1.815 milliards d’euros à l’échelle mondiale, gère 414,8 milliards d’euros en Europe au 30 juin et plus de 7 milliards d’euros en France. Dans une interview à Newsmanagers, Emanuele Ravano, managing director et responsable du développement sur le marché français de Pimco, fait le point sur l’activité de sa société en France et en Europe.
22/10/2012

ECPI launches a second Chinese ESG index

ECPI, a provider of sustainable research, ratings and indices, has launched a second ESG China Series index, developed in partnership with China Securities Index, a provider of Chinese indices, and Caitong Fund Management, an asset management firm based in China, Investment Europe reports. The new index, the CSI Caitong ECPI ESG China 100 index, is composed of the top-rated businesses for environmental, social and governance criteria from the CSI 300 index.
22/10/2012

Swiss fund market tops CHF700bn

Assets in investment funds monitored in September 2012 totalled about CHF710bn, up by CHF7.4bn compared with the previous month. Net inflows totalled CHF284.5bn. As in the previous month, subscriptions primarily benefited bond funds, with a total of CHF2.5bn. However, money market funds have undergone redemptions totalling CHF2.4bn. Other fund categories did not show significant changes.
22/10/2012

Situation improves at pension funds in third quarter

The financial situation at retirement planning institutions in Switzerland improved in third quarter, according to Swisscanto. The weighted overage rate as a function of assets under management came to 107.3% for private pension funds (+2.5 points). The rate has also increased for public pension funds, the Swisscanto monitor published on 19 October states. It gained 2.2 points to 98.9%. The proportion of private retirement planning institutions with a shortfall has fallen by half since the end of 2011, to 12.2%. As for public pension funds, 18.2% had a coverage rate of less than 90%, and 3% had less than 80%. 87.8% of private pension funds and 42.5% of public pension funds have their ‘heads above water,’ meaning that they have a coverage rate of 100% or more. The Swisscanto monitor is based on information provided by 340 retirement institutions with total assets under management of CHF437bn. The estimates were made at the end of September on the basis of investment strategies announced earlier in the year, and take into account the evolution of the markets since then.
22/10/2012

Renaissance Asset Managers appoints a director of research

Renaissance Asset Managers (RAM) has recruited Mark Robinson as director of research, Investment Europe reports. Robinson previously worked at Wood & Company, a Czech asset management firm specialised in emerging markets, where he served as director of research and director of equities.
22/10/2012

Investors seeking returns more than ever

Improving statistics from the United States and outlooks for a sooner-than-expected aid plan for Spain have driven investors to concentrate on returns. In the week to 17 October, bond and equity funds dedicated to emerging markets attracted over USD1bn each, according to statistics from EPFR Global.High yield funds and dividend equity funds also each posted subscriptions of over USD1bn. Since the beginning of the year, high yield bond funds showed net inflows of over USD67bn.In Europe, investors continued to steer clear of French and Swiss equity funds, preferring German, Italian and British equity funds. European bond funds outside the UK attracted over EUR350m in the week.Overall, bond funds have posted net inflows in the week to 17 October of USD8.4bn, while equity funds, for their part, hve posted net redemptions totalling a net USD1.2bn. Money market funds finished the week to 17 October with inflows of USD23.1bn.
22/10/2012

First State loses its head of fixed income

Murray Collins has left First State Investments in Hong Kong, where he was head of the Asian bond unit, Asian Investor reports. The identity of his potential successor has not been announced. After 15 years at First State, Collins is reported to have decided to join a rival firm.
22/10/2012

Northill acquires a majority stake in Riverbridge

For an undisclosed amount, the London-based Northill Capital will be acquiring 58% of capital in the US asset management firm Riverbridge Partners, via its US affiliate Northill US Holdings Inc., representing all shares held by the former partners in the firm, and slightly under 50% of the shares held by the management team led by the founder and president Mark Thompson.Riverbridge, founded in 1987 in Minneapolis, has assets of about USD4bn in US equity portfolios of all cap sizes (growth style), for institutional and high net worth retail investors. The management team will remain in place following the acquisition, and the members of the management team at Northill will join the board of Riverbridge without any current directors leaving the board.
22/10/2012

Uniqa recruits a German as head of asset management

Arnd Münker, head of strategic asset allocation/asset liability management international operations at the primary insurer Ergo (Munich Re group) in Düsseldorf since 2003, was appointed at the beginning of October as member of the executive board at Uniqa Finanz-Service GmbH. The position makes him the new head of asset management for the Austrian insurance group.The other two members of the executive board remain Andreas Bertl and Franz Hagmann. The new arrival will report to Hannes Bogner, chief financial officer (CFO) on the board of the Uniqa group.
22/10/2012

Appaloosa and Marathon critical of American Airlines chief

The two hedge fund managers Appaloosa Management and Marathon Asset Management, which own about USD800m in bonds from American Airlines, have criticised the attitude of CEO Tom Horton. In a letter to him, they accuse him of lacking transparency in negotiations to pull the parent company, AMR, out of chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and of negotiating exclusively with a group of bond holders chosen by himself (including Pentwater Capital Management, Litespeed Management and J.P. Morgan Securities).Appaloosa and Marathon are also critical of the choice by AMR directors to continue to operate American without merging with US Airways.
22/10/2012

Wisdom Tree to liquidate three ETFs

The New York firm Wisdom Tree, which has about USD16.9bn in assets under management in 49 ETFs, has announced that its board of directors on 17 October decided to liquidate the ETF WisdomTree LargeCap Growth Fund (USD14.3bn, acronym ROI), the WisdomTree Dreyfus South African Rand Fund (USD4.5bn, SZR), and the WisdomTree Dreyfus Japanese Yen Fund (USD6.6m, JYF). The funds represent only 0.15% of total assets in Wisdom Tree ETFs.The three ETFs will cease to be listed on NYSE Arca on 3 December, and liquidation will occur on 10 December.
22/10/2012

Golden Tree to acquire one third of Bawag

Pending approval from the Austrian regulator FMA, the US hedge fund manager Golden Tree is planning to acquire 33% of the Bawag bank, a majority of which is controlled by the private equity investor Cerberus, Handelsblatt reports. After the transaction, which will result in an increase of EUR200m in owners’ equity for the firm, Cerberus will control 55% of Bawag, and Golden Gree will hold 33%, while the remainder will be distributed between a few minority shareholders.
22/10/2012

Finance professors prefer equities

The behaviour of 1,368 professors of finance at universities in the United States has been studied by three US university professors, and compared with that of the general population (Survey of Consumer Finance from the Fed), in a study published in the Financial Analysts Journal entitled “Do Finance Professors Invest Like Everyone Else?” The study finds that the individuals in the sample on average have a greater tendency to invest in equities, and that they are less subject to behavioural bias, since their decision not to buy equities is based neither on the outcome of their past investments nor on short-term market expectations.
22/10/2012

Departure from Assogestioni

Vincenzo Galimi is leaving his position as director of sales and institutional affairs at the Italian asset management association, Assogestioni, to take on new responsibilities in the financial sector. Jean-Luc Gatti, head of the press, will take over the organisation of the Savings Fair.
22/10/2012

UIRE invests in Finland

The German asset management firm Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE) has acquired the office building Alberga B (5,590 square metres), located in Espoo, near Helsinki, for EUR23.1m. The vendor is the developer NCC Property Development.The property, completed in September 2012, is already 70% leased, and will be added to the portfolio of the open-ended real estate portfolio UniImmo: Europa.This is the third acquisition for UIRE in Espoo: the Hamburg-based asset management firm in 2010 acquired the Alberga A property, which will be added to the institutional real estate fund UniInstitutional European Real Estate fund, and the office property under construction Eventes Business Garden, which when completed will be added to the portfolio of the open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Deutschland.Open-ended real estate funds from UIRE have invested about EUR270m in Finland.
22/10/2012

Europe may ban bailouts of money market funds

The European Systemic Risk Board is reported to be in the process of studying a controversial plan to forbid money market fund managers from bailing out investors if their funds suffer losses, Financial Times Fund Management reveals. Only two money market funds have lost investors’ money. But, according to Moody’s, 62 money market funds were bailed out by their sponsors or parent companies during the financial crisis, at a cost of at least USD12.1bn.
22/10/2012

RBC Wealth Management recruits for Eastern European desk

The wealth management unit at the Canadian Royal Bank of Canada group on 19 October announced the appointment of two client advisers for its desk dedicated to Eastern Europe. Tanya Blazhko and Nathalie Gorshkova, both based in London, will aim to develop the activities of RBC Wealth Management in the markets of Eastern Europe, including the Community of Independent States. Blazhko previously worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, while Gorshkova was at BNP Paribas Wealth Management. Assets under management at RBC Wealth Management total over CAD324bn, or about EUR251bn.
22/10/2012

BlackRock and SSgA rivals to acquire Credit Suisse ETFs

BlackRock, via iShares, and State Street Global Advisors, the two largest providers of ETFs in the world, are racing to acquire the ETF activities of Credit Suisse, which represent assets of USD17bn, the Financial Times reports. The deadline for bids was two weeks ago, and an unknown third bidder has also submitted a bid. Credit Suisse is the fifth-largest ETF manager in Europe, with a market share of 4.9%, according to ETFGI.
22/10/2012

Lyxor lists two more ETFs in Paris

Since 19 October, the Paris-based platform from NYSE Euronext has admitted two Luxembourg-registered ETFs from Lyxor Asset Management (Société Générale group) to trading, each with fees of 0.45%. The funds are: Lyxor ETF SGQI EUR LU0832436512 SGQI replicating the SG Global Quality Income NTR andLyxor ETF SGQI USD LU0832436603 SGQU replicating the SG Global Quality Income NTR.
22/10/2012

Shares in Carmignac Investissement and Carmignac Patrimoine split in ten

Carmignac Gestion informed holders of shares in funds from Carmignac Investissement and Carmignac Patrimoine at the end of last week that the net asset value of A-class capitalisation shares denominated in euros in these two funds will be divided by 10 from 12 November this year, and not next July as initially announced, the asset management firm states, in order to make these funds accessible to a wider audience. For example, the value of shares in Carmignac Investissement and Carmignac Patrimoine on Friday, 17 October, were worth EUR8,767.60 and EUR5,511.47, respectively.
22/10/2012

First Trust preparing a 130/30 high yield ETF

According to an application for an SEC license dated 11 October, First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund IV is planning to alunch the First Trust High Yield Long/Short ETF fund within 75 days of publication of the announcement. The acronym, market of listing and fees for the fund have not yet been set.The fund will be an actively-managed ETF which will invest at least 80% of its assets in high yield bonds, securities from US or non-US firms, bank loans and convertible bonds, while under normal circumstances, exposure to foreign securities and currencies will be limited to 10%.Thanks to a 130/30 type long/short approach, First Trust will aim for outperformance of the fund of its benchmark index, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Master II Constrained Index.The asset management firm states that it is planning to use the short bias investments to acquire other high yield securities, which will create a sort of leverage.
22/10/2012

Union creates another real estate fund for institutionals

The central asset management firm for the German co-operative banks, Union Investment, on 17 October announced the launch of a second open-ended real estate fund, reserved for institutional investors, the UniInstitutional German Real Estate. The German-registered product will be 100% invested in properties located in Germany, in properties valued at EUR20m to EUR50m.Union is aiming for assets of about EUR500m, with assets in office, commercial and hotel properties. The management team will also focus on logical assets, and in general, on properties located in major urban areas.The new fund comes as an addition to the UniInstitutional European Real Estate, launched in 2004, which has assets of over EUR2bn.Union Investment has declined to release management commission levels to journalists. According to the German press, the minimal waiting period for redemptions has been set at 1 year, as specified in the new legislation.CharacteristicsName: UniInstitutional German Real EstateISIN code: DE000A1J16Q1Minimal subscription: EUR0.5m
22/10/2012

Vontobel eyes a German asset management firm

Axel Schwarzer, head of the asset management division at Vontobel (290 personnel), has announced to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the Swiss group may use its CHF600m reserved for acquisitions to acquire a German asset management firm, with assets of CHF25bn. However, he did not state which one.As of the end of June, Vontobel had CHF54bn in institutional assets, and Schwarzer, a former DWS manager, is aiming for EUR80bn, without external growth, within 5 years. He also predicts that in five years, 20% of assets will be invested by clients in multi-asset class funds and mandates.
22/10/2012

Satisfactory quarter for Gottex

Assets that generate commissions at the Swiss wealth management firm Gottex at the end of September totalled USD7.56bn, up 2% compared with the end of second quarter 2012, according to a statement released on 19 October. Net inflows totalled USD635m, including those of the Chinese firm Penjing Asset Management, the acquisition of which was finalised on 9 August this year. The contribution of Penjing AM to the portfolio of Gottex in third quarter totalled USD390m. Assets under management at Gottex Fund Management in third quarter totalled USD6.16bn, up 8.5% compared with 30 June. Assets at Luma Gottex Solutions Services, for their part, were down 20% in third quarter, to USD1.40bn. According to Joachim Gottschalk, chairman and CEO of Gottex, cited in a statement, it was mostly intervention by central banks which favoured the markets in third quarter. This situation resulted in an increase in revenues to hedge funds, but uncertainties in Europe persist and continue to orient liquidity flows.
22/10/2012

Falcon Private Bank forms a partnership with Tocqueville Finance

The Swiss firm Falcon Private Bank has outsourced the management of its gold-mining equity funds to the New York specialist Tocqueville Finance, Agefi Switzerland reports. During a recent examination of the possibilities to set up a UCITS structure, Falcon Private Bank opted for an external solutions with the asset management firm John Hathaway of Tocqueville and his team.
22/10/2012

EFG International completes reshuffle

EFG International has announced in a statement that its stake in EFG Financial Products has decreased from 58% to about 25% as part of the latter’s IPO. As a result, the solvency ratio or pro forma total capital BRI ratio for EFG International will incease to about 17% the firm says. If the greenshoe option is fully exercised, EFG International’s stake will fall further, to about 20%. The reorganisation process at EFG International is now complete, and the performance realised in third quarter 2012 has been “overall in line with those in the first half of the year,” a statement says.
22/10/2012

Credit Suisse reshuffles external manager department

Markus Angst, previously managing director of “external managers” at Credit Suisse, has left the firm, finews.ch reports. His departure comes at a time of reorganization for the operation. From January, the global external asset managers (EAM) department of Credit Suisse, led by Daniel Renner, will be divided into two units. “EAM Switzerland German Speaking” will be led by Peter Vogt, currently head of the North-East region of Switzerland. The EAM Switzerland Basel, French-speaking and Ticino team will be led by Mark Hollenstein.

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