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05/07/2011

Nyse Euronext-Deutsche Börse, une fusion mauvaise pour les marchés

Dans un entretien au quotidien, Michael Spencer, directeur général d’Icap, le principal courtier interbancaire au monde, se dresse contre le projet de rapprochement entre Nyse Euronext et Deutsche Börse. Une opération qui serait «fondamentalement mauvaise pour les marchés» du fait de la situation de monopole à laquelle elle donnerait naissance.
05/07/2011

Angoulême paie ses emprunts toxiques

Deux prêts structurés souscrits en 2006 et 2007 auprès de Dexia et indexés sur le change font grimper le coût de la dette de la ville au 1er juillet.
05/07/2011

Tyrus choisit Monaco

Le quotidien croit savoir de source proche que le hedge fund londien lancé en 2009 Tyrus Capital entend ouvrir un bureau à Monaco. Une partie de l’équipe actuelle rejoindra cette nouvelle implantation, nouveau témoignage clair des craintes grandissantes des fonds alternatifs face au déploiement de nouvelles taxes et réglementations au Royaume-Uni. Les deux cofondateurs de Tyrus resteront à Londres.
05/07/2011

La Bourse de Tokyo vise celle d’Osaka

En vue de tenir tête dans un contexte mondial de concentration des opérateurs boursiers, les Bourses d’Osaka et de Tokyo poursuivent leurs négociations en vue d’un rapprochement.Le Tokyo Stock Exchange, numéro quatre mondial en termes de volumes de transactions, aurait selon le quotidien nippon formulé une offre d’achat. Une offre qui devrait être rejetée.
04/07/2011

Pékin relève le cours-pivot du yuan à un niveau record

La Chine va s’en tenir à une politique monétaire «prudente» en raison des pressions inflationnistes élevées, a annoncé lundi la Banque populaire de Chine, au terme de sa réunion trimestrielle lors de laquelle le cours-pivot du yuan a été porté à 6,44661, un niveau record. La devise chinoise a ensuite rapidement atteint le niveau historique de 6,4599 pour un dollar. Le yuan ne peut évoluer que de 0,5% en hausse ou en baisse par rapport au cours-pivot, défini tous les jours par la banque centrale. Depuis que le yuan a été désarrimé du cour du dollar, en juin 2010, la devise chinoise a pris 5,67% par rapport au billet vert, et 2,13% depuis le début de l’année. La banque centrale chinoise a ajouté qu’elle aurait recours à divers outils pour maintenir le niveau de liquidité et la masse monétaire à des niveaux acceptables.
04/07/2011

Pour Standard & Poor’s un «rollover» de la dette grecque aurait valeur de défaut

Les deux solutions proposées par la Fédération bancaire française pour couvrir les besoins d’Athènes de 2011 à 2014 en rééchelonnant la dette grecque par des échanges de titres reviendraient à placer Athènes en situation de défaut sélectif, a prévenu l’agence de notation Standard & Poor’s. Selon S&P, l’une comme l’autre impliquent des pertes pour les créanciers privés de la république hellénique. «A défaut d’information complémentaire, nous abaisserions probablement la note souveraine grecque à «SD», ce qui indiquerait la restructuration dans les faits d’une partie, mais pas de la totalité, de sa dette obligataire.». Sur les marchés asiatiques, l’euro a touché un plus bas de séance face au dollar aussitôt après cette déclaration. Par ailleurs, aucune décision n’a encore été prise sur le mode de participation du secteur privé au plan d’aide à la Grèce, a annoncé lundi le ministère allemand des Finances.
04/07/2011

L'indice Sentix en hausse en juillet dans la zone euro

L’indice Sentix du sentiment des investisseurs de la zone euro s’est accru contre toute attente en juillet pour atteindre 5,3, après être ressorti à 3,5 en juin. Les sept analystes interrogés par Reuters attendaient en moyenne un repli à 1,2. L’indice Sentix restait sur trois mois consécutifs de recul. L’amélioration de la conjoncture explique en partie cette remontée.
04/07/2011

Les prix à la production en recul de 0,2% dans la zone euro

Les prix à la production dans les 17 pays qui forment la zone euro ont diminué de 0,2% au mois de mai, en raison notamment de la baisse du prix de l'énergie. Sur un an, ils affichent une hausse de 6,2%. Les prix à la production avaient progressé en avril de 0,9% par rapport à mars, et de 6,7% par rapport à avril 2010.
04/07/2011

Burton Malkiel speaks out against active management

Burton Malkiel, who has been well-known in the financial sector since the first publication of his work, “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” in 1973, and for new sequels to that work every four years since that time, is continuing on that path. Despite the development of passive management and ETFs, Malkiel estimates that there are still too many active managers, Financial News reports. The Princeton economics professor claims that the optimal level of passive management is about three quarters of the management market, and that the “core of a portfolio should be passively managed. In the United States, only one quarter to one third of funds are passively managed,” Malkiel says.
04/07/2011

UBS launches an energy sector equities sub-fund

UBS Global Asset Management has received a sales license for Germany for the Energy sub-fund of its Luxembourg Sicav UBS (Lux) Equity, launched on 13 May. The product will be managed by portfolio manager James McLellan, who will prefer businesses in the drilling equipment and oil services segment (National Oilwell Varco, Baker Hughes, ENSCO and Drill-Quip) over integrated groups. In addition, the fund will bet on businesses such as Ultra Petroleum, QEP and Williams, which are active in the exploitation of natural gas deposits in North America. For diversification, the manager will select businesses which invest in renewable energies.The objective of the fund is to outperform the MSCI World Energy index by 250 basis points.CharacteristicsName: UBS (Lux) Equity Sicav – Energy (USD) P-accISIN code: LU0622290632Front-end fee: 6%All-in fee: 1.80%Exit fee: 2%
04/07/2011

Veritas launches two ETF funds

The Frankfurt-based asset management firm Veritas Investment Trust has announced the launch of the German-registered funds ETF-Dachfonds Emerging Markets Plus Money and ETF-Dachfonds Quant on 1 July. According to the specialist management firm, as the names of the funds indicate, they are ETF products.The first of these funds invests actively (0% to 100% equities) in the most promising emerging markets, with volatility about half the level of the MSCI Emerging Markets index.The Quant fund invests solely in equities and commodities markets, which are expected to rise sustainably through the use of a high level of portfolio diversification, with an equally-weighted portfolio of 20 positions (18 equities funds, 2 commodities funds). Markus Kaiser, CEO and CIO, says that the two new products are managed according to a trend-following model developed internally, with weekly updates to the portfolio, on the basis of data from the previous week.CharacteristicsName: ETF-Dachfonds Emerging Markets Plus MoneyISIN code: DE0009763326Front-end fee: 4%Management commission: 1.5%Performance commission: 15% on performance exceeding 7%Sales license: Germany, Austria, FranceName: ETF-Dachfonds QuantISIN code: DE0005561625Front-end fee: 5%Management commission: 1.5%Performance commission: 15% on performance exceeding 5%Sales license: Germany, Austria
04/07/2011

Mediolanum releases a fund of funds with a semiannual coupon

Mediolanum International Funds has registered eight classes of shares in the Irish-registered fund Mediolanum Coupon Strategy Collection, the eighth product of its Best Brands range, with the CNMV. The product will be available in Spain from Banco de Finanzas e Inversiones.The fund is a flexible product, which invests in income funds, and will will pay out a half-yearly dividend. Initially, the portfolio, composed of products from the world’s largest management firms, will invest 75% in equities funds, 15% in high yield funds, and 10% in real estate funds.In its prospectus, Banca Mediolanum names 23 partner management firms: Aberdeen AllianceBernstein, Axa IM, BlackRock, BNY Mellon AM, DWS Investments, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs AM, Henderson, ING IM, Invesco, JP Morgan AM, M&G, MFS IM, Morgan Stanley, Natixis Global Associates, Pictet, Pimco, RCM, Schroders, T. Rowe Price and UBS.The fund may invest up to 100% of its assets in equities, and up to 30% in real estate, convertible bonds, high yield, government or corporate bonds, or cash.Backtesting reveals that in the years 2007-2010, the strategy would have generated average annual dividend returns of 5.68%.
04/07/2011

F&C Thames River registers AR fund in Spain

The CNMV has issued a sales license to the absolute return bond fund Thames River Global High Yield Bond Fund, from the British asset management firm F&C (see Newsmanagers of 28 March), Funds People reports. The UCITS-compliant product with 30 positions, launched in May, is overweight on European high yield bond issues. The performance objective is 10%, with ex ante volatility of 10-12%.Minimal subscription is GBP10,000/EUR10,000/USD10,000 for the retail share class, and GBP/EUR/USD10m for the institutional share class. Management commission is 1.5% for retail shares, and 1% for institutional shares, in addition to which there is a performance commission with a hurdle rate and high watermark.
04/07/2011

Synthetic ETFs; UniCredit fears massive exodus of investors

Handelsblatt reports that in an interview with Reuters Insiders TV, Chris Hofmann, global head of ETF distribution at UniCredit, says she is afraid that there will be a massive exodus of subscribers in synthetic replication ETF funds, following the recent decision of Evercore Pan-Asset Capital Management to divest from all products of this type in favour of physical replication ETFs, in a move which could spread. Hofmann claims that the providers concerned have not adequately responded to criticisms, and that they are continuing to use the same marketing forumulas as before, as if nothing had happened.Hofmann hopes that the sector will adopt common standards, particularly involving revealing the names and risks of swap counterparties, as well as the identities of counterparties in securities lending. Providers should also clearly state the nature of the collateral, as well as the use which is made of additional gains from swaps and securities lending.
04/07/2011

Global macro strategies have difficulty making sense of a confused environment

Some hedge funds which are emblematic of the sector have been losing money since the beginning of this year, particularly in the global macro strategy, which is facing an unusual and unstable conjuncture and environment, Les Echos reports. In the first five months of the year, global macro has lost an average of 1.5%, according to the Edhec-Risk Alternative indices, making it one of the three worst performers among the major alternative strategies.
04/07/2011

Solid inflows to emerging markets group at Franklin Templeton

At a presentation in Paris on 1 July, Mark Mobius, a star manager at Franklin Templeton, announced that since the beginning of the year, Templeton Emerging Markets Group alone (excluding assets in other divisions of the group) has posted inflows of about USD20m per day.Assets now total about USD54bn, of which 60% are in Asia (11% in India), and 15% in Latin America (with 11 points for Brazil). Southern Europe and Africa each represent 2% of the portfolio, while the Middle East represents 1%.Client inflows have largely gone to China funds, while the corresponding sub-fund of the Luxembourg Sicav had about USD2.36bn in AUM as of the end of May, followed by the Asia fund (USD17.93bn), global emerging markets (USD1.31bn), and the frontier markets fund (USD1.13bn).Mobius also states that the turnover rates for portfolios from the group are very low, at under 20%.
04/07/2011

Outflows from Spanish funds continue

For the third month in a row, Spanish securities funds have seen net redemptions estimated at EUR960m in May, compared with EUR973m in April, according to statistics from Inverco, the Spanish association of management firms. Total assets have fallen by 1.4% in one month, to a total as of the end of May of EUR135.325bn, compared with EUR137.813bn as of 30 April, and EUR139.017bn as of the end of March.The top seven Spanish asset management firms by asset volumes all saw net outflows in May. This was the case at Invercaixa Gestión (third in the rankings, with EUR16.34bn), which has seen net outflows of EUR269.26m, and at Santander Asset Management, top of the rankings with EUR22.75bn in assets under management, with EUR248.35m in net redemptions. At BBVA Asset Management, number two in the rankings, with EUR20.93bn, net outflows in May totalled EUR162.61m.
04/07/2011

F&C plans to scale up closed fund activities

The British management firm F&C has decided to place open-ended funds and investment trusts under the responsibility of Charlie Porter, who is already responsible for the former, Fund Web reports. Ed Morse will take up the newly-created position of head of development for activities related to investment trusts, while Mike Woodward will remain in his position as head of the unit dedicated to investment trusts.
04/07/2011

F&C moves to a new operating model

Very soon, F&C will choose a subcontractor from two final candidates, to receive administrative funds at a price which will depend on assets under management and the size of transactions. The arrangement will result in annual savings of GBP12m, of which GBP9m will be the result of restructuring, and GBP3m from reductions in rental costs associated with staff reductions, the firm announced on 1 July.The outsourcing agreement will affect about 110 people, 70% of administrative personnel (thus not affecting investment, distribution or customer service). A significant portion of these personnel will be transferred to the subcontracting firm.The reshuffle arises from a desire on the part of F&C to diversify and to extend its activities beyond its historic base of insurance mandates, says CEO Alain Grisay.
04/07/2011

Alken gets a fourth partner

Funds People reports that Isabel Ortega, who joined Alken Asset Management in 2007, has been appointed as global head of sales, and on 1 July became a partner at the management firm, joining Nicolas Walewski, Antoine Badel and Marc Festa. Festa has recently been appointed as co-head of strategy.
04/07/2011

SWIP closes five funds

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has decided to close five funds as part of a larger reexamination of its international equities range, Fund Web reports. The Pan European Equity fund (GBP10.5m), the Pan European SRI Equity (GBP14.7m), and the Asian Equity (GBP15.2m) will be closing, following redemptions requested by institutionals revising their allocations to these vehicles. The redemptions will substantially reduce the net asset value of the funds, making them no longer truly commercially viable. SWIP is also closing the Japanese Smaller Companies (GBP13m) and the US Smaller Companies (GBP25.5m).
04/07/2011

Prudential to merge 17 of its funds with M&G funds

Prudential has decided to merge 17 of its unit trusts with M&G funds during the coming year, Fund Web reports. Last month, Prudential already merged five unit trusts into their M&G fund counterparts. The wave of mergers aims to create a separation between insurance and retail activities. The Prudential brand will concentrate on multi-asset class funds, while M&G will promote multi-asset class funds as well as funds dedicated to a single asset class. Another series of mergers will be announced during the month of October.
04/07/2011

Asset management firms of the Rothschild family compete on the German market

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that the French asset management firms Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management (EDRAM) and Rothschild & Cie Gestion have both recently initiated assaults on the German market.EDRAM (EUR14bn in AUM) has chosen the more costly option of an office in Frankfurt, in the Opern Turm, with two CEOs (Rupert Hengstler, former CEO of Oppenheim KAG, and Stefan Zayer) and contracting a communications agency.Rothschild & Cie Gestion (EUR22.4bn), meanwhile, has opted for a lower-profile option, without a local office, and a distribution agreement with max.xs.The newspaper reports that people at both firms careful avoid to speak about competition from the family’s other entity.
04/07/2011

Sal. Oppenheim opens an office in Hanover

In August, the Sal. Oppenheim private bank (Deutsche Bank group) will open its tenth branch office in Germany, in Hanover. It will be led by Michael Jänsch, who has been recruited along with his entire team from Credit Suisse in the capital city of the Lower Saxony region, and who began work at his new employer on 1 July.

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