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07/05/2012

Assets under management at RBS up 2%

Assets under management by the wealth management unit of Royal Bank fo Scotland (RBS) as of the end of March 2012 totals GBP31.4bn, up 2% compared with 31 December 2012, RBS announced in a statement on 4 May.This development is due to positive market effects, and to net subscriptions in Asia, the group states. Assets under management are nonetheless down 9% compared with first quarter 2011, due to the negative evolution of the markets, and outflows in second half.Operating profits for the wealth management unit are down 38%, to GBP45m, due to a fine of GBP8.75m to the British Financial Services Authority (FSA).The group has also stated that it is continuing to restructure its wealth management operation in the United Kingdom ahead of the forthcoming introduction of the Retail Distribution Review regulation (RDR).
07/05/2012

Dexia AM opens an office in London

A cette occasion, Naïm Abou-Jaoudé, Président du Comité Exécutif de Dexia Asset Management, déclare : « Notre approche centrée sur le client et notre large diversification nous ont permis de demeurer une entreprise saine et rentable en dépit du processus de cession en cours. L’ouverture d’une succursale à Londres était un objectif à long terme pour Dexia Asset Management et une priorité stratégique pour 2012. Le Royaume-Uni est un marché ouvert et varié qui joue un rôle pivot dans le secteur de la gestion en Europe. Cette évolution nous permettra d'intensifier notre pr
07/05/2012

Forthcoming launch of white paper on long-term investment

The European commissioner in charge of the internal market and services, Michel Barnier, on 4 May announced the forthcoming launch of a white paper on long-term investment. “We would like to study the impact of our proposals – CRD 4, Solvency 2 and the revised pension fund directive, currently underway – from this point of view. And I would like to seek new ways to encourage long-term investment, which is essential, particularly to finance major infrastructure investments and ecological transitions,” Barnier said at a meeting of the European financial and asset management association (EFAMA). Barnier has also announced that the Commission will be undertaking three key initiatives in the next few weeks. The content of these initiatives may not be new, but the Commission appears to be putting its heart into them. Firstly, these will aim to better protect consumers of retail investment products (PRIPS) by favouring better information and introducing stricter rules for vendors of financial products. Barnier points to the introduction of a identical information document for all types of PRIPS. Now more than ever, it is also time to introduce stricter accountability for losses by financial instruments which are held at a depository bank, and to bring the depository regime of the OPCVM directive into line with the new and more detailed MiFID directive. Lastly, the Commission is seeking to protect consumers of insurance products, partly by setting up a level playing field between the various vendors of these products, such as insurance companies, banks, and brokers.
07/05/2012

Electronic trading faces its first ESMA alert

The market surveillance systems provider Redkite Financial Markets on 2 May issued its first warning related to the entry into force on that date of European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) regulations related to electronic trading.Redkite is acting on behalf of a European institutional client, following the detection of a suspicious transaction, which is suspected of having been a case of “quote stuffing,” in which orders are placed in a highly aggressive manner, at tens of thousands per second, compared with 100 to 200 per second at the highest rate a traditional order routing system would have delivered.
07/05/2012

Inflows down in first quarter in the UK

Net inflows to funds in the UK fell significantly in first quarter compared with the quarterly levels observed in the past two years, according to statistics from the British Investment Management Association (IMA).In first quarter, net inflows totalled GBP3.8bn, compared with net inflows of over GBP6bn in the first quarter and in the fourth quarter of 2011, and in the same periods of 2010.In March alone, net inflows fell to GBP1.4bn, compared with GBP2.7bn one year previously. Fixed income remains the most popular strategy, with inflows in March of GBP660m, followed by diversified funds (GBP348m) and equities (GBP17m).Assets under management by British funds as of the end of March totalled GBP613.2bn, compared with GBP615.6bn as of the end of February.
07/05/2012

La Française AM launches a Sharia OPCI

La Française AM has launched Paris Pearls Properties, a Sharia-compliant OPCI in France. The collective real estate vehicles with simplified investment rules with leverage was developed for an Islamic finance and investment bank based in Kuwait, which wants to remain anonymous. The new Sharia-compliant OPCI fund has been selected to finance the acquisition of an office building located at 91 boulevard Saint Michel, in the 5th district of Paris, which will be acquired jointly with the Kuwaiti bank. The total acquisition price is about EUR46m, and the property is currently wholly leased to France Télécom for 10 years. The leveraging of the deal was partly done by way of a Murabaha, a Sharia compliant loan structured to avoid interest payments, a statement says. La Française AM has been working with the Kuwaiti bank since 2010 to focus on Sharia compliant property projects in France.
07/05/2012

T. Rowe Price closes its high yield bond fund to new entrants

T. Rowe Price Group has announced the closure of its high yield bond funds High Yield Fund and Institutional High Yield Fund to new investors. The funds will continue to accept investments from investors who are already present in the fund. T. Rowe Price has USD21bn in assets under management in portfolios dedicated to high yield, of which USD9.2bn are in the High Yield Fund, and USD2.5bn in the Institutional High Yield Fund (as of the end of March 2012).
07/05/2012

Investors on the defensive

With elections in France and Greece ahead and dire manufacturing data from Italy and Spain behind, investors erred on the side of defense going into May. In the week ending May 2, EPFR Global-tracked Bond Funds took in a net USD7.1 billion while Equity Funds absorbed USD3.8 billion. Investors did commit another USD1.84 billion to High Yield Bond Funds, steer USD540 million into Emerging Markets Bond Funds. Over 85% of the flows into all High Yield and Emerging Markets Bond Funds went into US High Yield and EM Hard Currency Funds respectively. US Money Market Funds posted outflows for the 10th week in a row. This week those redemptions were not offset by the modest inflows recorded by their European counterparts.
07/05/2012

Private equity outperforms public markets

Returns on investments have generally held out better in private equity than in public markets before and since the onset of the financial crisis, according to a study by Preqin. The PrEQIn study finds that all private equity strategies except venture capital have outperformed the S&P 500 since 31 December 2000. The PrEQIn All Private Equity index, based on a score of 100 on 31 December 2000, stood at 198.5 in third quarter 2011, compared with 105.1 on the same date for the S&P 500. In other words, it has virtually doubled over the period. Private equity funds specialised in distressed debt have earned better returns than all other strategies, with a PrEUIn score of 322.1 as of September 2011. However, there has been significant variance in the performance of different private equity funds. While 1,830 funds cure currently seeking investors, it is more delicate than ever to make an effective selection of managers, the study finds.
07/05/2012

Deutsche Bank recompletes private banking team in Spain

Since the beginning of this year, six people have left the Deutsche Bank private bank in Spain, four of whom went to Banco Espirito Santo, and one to Credit Suisse. The two heads of the team, Ángel Mascaraque and Jaime Hernández, were among those who left. However, Funds People reports, five of the six partners, including Hernández, who left in April, have already been replaced: four by external recruitments, and one by an internal promotion.The team includes 67 professionals serving clients whose financial savings are over EUR500,000.
07/05/2012

ING IM appoints a new head for Italy

ING Investment Management has appointed Simona Merzagora as country head for Italy, the Italian specialist press reports. Her appointment took effect on 1 May. Merzagora joined ING IM in 2001 as senior relationship manager. She then became director of institutional activities, with responsibility for sales and Italian and Austrian wholesale clients, as well as global partnerships in eastern Europe. In her new role, she will direct the firm’s commercial development in Italy.
07/05/2012

Norwegian sovereign fund profits from market rebound

The Norwegian public pension fund (Governement Pension Fund-Global), one of the largest sovereign funds in the world, has posted returns of 7.1% in first quarter, due to a recovery of the stock markets, while its exposure to European countries perceived as high-risk was limited, the Bank of Norway announced on 4 May.The fund, supplied by oil revenues from the country, and largely invested in international equities and bonds, had NOK3.496bn, or slightly over EUR462bn in assets as of the end of March.Investments in equities, which represent 60.7% of the total value of the fund, gained 11% in the course of the first three months of the year, due to a recovery on the US, European and Asian stock markets, the central bank states. In bond markets, which represent 39% of the investment portfolio (the remaining 0.3% are invested in real estate), returns were much more limited, at 1.6%.In first quarter, the Norwegian fund sold all of its Portuguese and Irish government bonds, and reduced its holdings in government debt from several countries, including Italy and Spain, in favour of investments in emerging countries such as Brazil, Mexico and India.In the past quarter, the fund has received NOK60bn in oil revenues from the government, but its value also mechanically lost NOK110bn due to the effects of the appreciation of the Norwegian currency against foreign currencies.
07/05/2012

La Chine ouvre encore davantage le capital de ses courtiers

A l’issue d’une rencontre au sommet entre la Chine et les Etats-Unis, Pékin a fait part vendredi de sa décision d’autoriser les investisseurs étrangers à détenir jusqu'à 49% d’une société de courtage, contre 33% jusqu'à présent. La Chine affirme ainsi qu’elle respecte la promesse faite lors de son adhésion à l’OMC d’ouvrir son secteur financier à la concurrence étrangère.
07/05/2012

La Française AM lance le premier OPCI conforme à la sharia

La société de gestion a annoncé la création d’un organisme de placement collectif en immobilier conforme à la sharia, pour le compte d’une banque koweïtienne souhaitant rester anonyme. Le véhicule a financé l’acquisition d’un immeuble de bureaux situé 91 boulevard Saint Michel à Paris, loué à France Télécom et cédé par Foncière des Régions pour 46 millions d’euros. L’acquisition a été financée en partie par un crédit murabaha.
07/05/2012

La production de crédits a légèrement baissé en mars

Selon les statistiques de la Banque de France, les flux corrigés des variations saisonnières de crédits nouveaux ont diminué légèrement dans presque tous les segments de marché au mois de mars. La production de crédits à l’habitat s’est ainsi élevée à 6,8 milliards d’euros, contre 7,3 milliards le mois précédent. Les taux de ces crédits sont restés globalement stables mais ceux des crédits aux sociétés non financières ont fléchi sensiblement.
07/05/2012

L’immobilier de Singapour séduit Blackstone

L’entité dédiée à l’immobilier au sein du groupe américain aurait selon le quotidien conclu sa toute première acquisition à Singapour, pour 220 millions de dollars locaux (136 millions d’euros). Un rachat auprès du fonds d’investissement allemand SEK, contraint de céder des actifs afin de faire face aux demandes de rachat de ses clients. Blackstone tire ainsi parti d’un climat morose pour nombre d’institutions financières européennes.
07/05/2012

RBS poursuit sa réhabilitation

La banque va finir de rembourser cette semaine les prêts d’urgence octroyés par le gouvernement au plus fort de la crise financière
04/05/2012

La Française AM lance le premier OPCI conforme à la sharia

La société de gestion a annoncé la création d’un organisme de placement collectif en immobilier conforme à la sharia, pour le compte d’une banque koweïtienne souhaitant rester anonyme. Le véhicule a financé l’acquisition d’un immeuble de bureaux situé 91 boulevard Saint Michel à Paris, loué à France Télécom et cédé par Foncière des Régions pour 46 millions d’euros. L’acquisition a été financée en partie par un crédit murabaha, un prêt structuré pour être compatible avec les règles de financement islamiques.
04/05/2012

Le fonds souverain norvégien réduit son exposition à l'Europe

Le fonds souverain norvégien s’est débarrassé au cours du premier trimestre 2012 de la majorité des obligations souveraines dépréciées qu’il détenait au sein de la zone euro. Il a vendu ses emprunts d’Etat portugais et irlandais et a également réduit ses investissements dans les dettes de plusieurs pays, dont l’Italie et l’Espagne, a précisé son directeur général Yngve Slyngstad. Au 31 mars, la valeur du fonds se montait à 3.496 milliards de couronnes norvégiennes (460 milliards d’euros), contre 3.312 milliards d’euros au 31 décembre.

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