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12/11/2012

British managers top European rankings, according to Feri

As of 30 September, Threadneedle, Schroders and Aberdeen have competed for the top rankings for European management established by the German agency Feri EuroRating Services, which take into account the percentage of funds which receive top ratings (A or B) out of the total number of funds on sale in each of the following seven countries: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland.Threadneedle finishes first in Germany, Austria, Italy and the United Kingdom for the “25 funds or more” category, and in Sweden for the 8-24 fund category.Schroders received good rankings for 25+, with four second places in Sweden, Italy, Austria and Germany, and two third places, in France and the United Kingdom, and one fourth place finish in Switzerland. Aberdeen, which is top in France, takes second place in Switzerland and the United Kingdom in over 25 funds, and places well in the 8-24 fund category in Sweden, Italy and Germany.In the 25+ category, the top French firm in France is Covea Finance, in 4th place, while the second is Lazard AM, in nineth place. The top two in the 8-24 category are DNCA Finance and Comgest.
12/11/2012

Another director leaves F&C

Ed Morse, head of development for trust activities at F&C Investments, has left the firm to pursue other opportunities in the sector, Investment Week reports. He is the second director to leave F&C Thames River this year, since the activity shareholder and new chairman Edward Bramson has taken over the activity. The others who left the group are Mike Warren, Charlie Porter and Jeremy Charles.
12/11/2012

State Street adds to its defined contributions unit in the United Kingdom

As part of a development of its defined contribution retirement savings plans in the United Kingdom, State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has recruited Nigel Aston as managing director and head of UK defined contribution. He will report both to Susan Raynes, senior managing director and head of UK, Middle East and Africa, and Fredrik Axsater, managing director and global head of refined contribution. Aston had previously been business development director at the data provider DCisions, in charge of sales, marketing, monitoring of long-term commercial relationships, and provision of products and services. SSgA states that its global assets in the area of defined contributions total USD235bn.
12/11/2012

Marlborough confirms IFSL acquisition

On Friday, UFC Fund Management, the parent company of Marlborough Fund Managers, finally confirmed that it has acquired Investment Fund Services Limited (IFSL) from BNP Paribas Securities Services UK for GBP800m (see Newsmanagers of 8 November). Fundweb states that the agreement states that BNP Paribas will continue to provide fund accounting and middle office services for IFSL funds.
12/11/2012

Threadneedle tops the most recent Pridham Report

The top place for retail inflows in the UK in third quarter goes to Threadneedle, according to the most recent rankings by Pridham. Better outlooks on the part of investors for Europe favoured a regain of interest in European equity funds, particularly from Threadneedle. Net inflows at Threadneedle in third quarter totalled GBP643.5m, according to the Pridham Report, followed by Standard Life Investments (GBP568.1m) and BNY Mellon (GBP416m). They are followed by M&G with net inflows of GBP411.5m, Kames (GBP381.8m) and Axa IM (GBP345.1m).
12/11/2012

Sam Mettrick returns to Henderson Global Investors

The current director of strategic allicances at Artemis, Sam Mettrick, will in January rejoin his former company Henderson Global Investors as head of partnerships. He will be responsible for relationships with life insurance platforms. He left HGI in 2009, at a time when he was sales director for partnerships at Henderson New Star.
12/11/2012

Former UBS head joins Old Mutual Global Investors

The former head of UK discretionary sales at UBS Global Asset Management, John Shepherd, will join the sales team at Old Mutual Global Investors, Fundweb reports. He left the Swiss bank last month, after 10 years there.
12/11/2012

GSAM recruits a veteran of Aviva Investors

Goldman Sachs Asset Management has recruited Malcolm Mackenzie, former head of strategic alliances at Aviva Investors, as its head of advised sales, Fundweb.co.uk reports. He will join the firm in January.
12/11/2012

Barclays reviews AM operation

Investment Week reports that Barclays has recruited Rory Tobin, the former head of iShares International, to work with David Semaya, former head of wealth management for the United Kingdom and Ireland at the British bank, to undertake a strategic reexamination of the remaining asset management unit. The two managers will be responsible for determining whether Barclays should retain, merge, or close it. Tobin left iShares in 2010 when Barclays Global Investors was acquired by BlackRock.
12/11/2012

GSAM recruits a big name from Aviva Investors

Malcolm Mackenzie, who has recently left Aviva Investors, where he was head of strategic alliances, is joining Goldman Sachs Asset Management as head of advisory sales, Fundweb reports. He will join his new employer in January, to lead a team of nine people, and to develop third-party distribution in the United Kingdom, under the leadership of Richard Pursglove.
12/11/2012

Credit Suisse merges its Private Clients and Private Banking units in Switzerland

The Credit Suisse group will from 1 January 2013 merge its Private Clients Switzerland and Private Banking Switzerland units, according to the website finews, which has obtained an internal memo. The head of the new unit, Wealth Management & Private Clients Switzerland, will be Christoph Brunner, who had been responsible for private clients in Switzerland, and who had been chief operating officer of the private bank. The establishment of this new structure will lead to the loss of 300 jobs and will bring savings of CHF50m.
12/11/2012

A Japanese pension fund modifies its allocation

The pension fund for Japanese municipal authorities, Chikyoren, has decided to bring a considerable proportion of its portfolio management in-house. It will invest less in government bonds, according to the Japanese pension fund database, Asian Investor reports. Slightly over 20% of the portfolio is now managed internally, compared with less than 8% in 2003. Assets under management at Chikyoren totalled JPY15.850trn as of the end of March 2012, equivalent to about USD191.5bn.
12/11/2012

Partners Group equities placed at 183 francs each

An increase in the publicly-traded capital at Partners Group, announced last week, has been enacted as part of an accelerated book building procedure. The price of the equities released by the founders and major shareholders Marcel Erni, Alfred Gantner and Urs Wietlisbach has been set at 183 francs, and 3.3 million equities have been placed at this unit price, the group announced in a statement released on 9 November. The issue price range was previously set at between 180 nd 185 Swiss francs. The offer attracted a lot of interest worldwide, and was subscribed double, Partners Group states. Partners Group had previously announced that its founders and major shareholders will free up 300 million Swiss francs for direct investment in collaboration with clients. Several current and potential shareholders also expressed an interest for a capital increase. The firm may now invest at least CHF300m.
12/11/2012

iShares Switzerland recruits for institutional sales

iShares has announced that it has recruited Christian Obrist for its sales department. He will be responsible for managing relationships with institutional clients, particularly pension funds. He will be based in Zurich, and will report to Andreas Zingg, head of the firm in German-speaking Switzerland. Obrist has eight years of experience in sales to institutional clients, most recently in London at JP Morgan Chase Bank in fixed income products.
12/11/2012

Global ETF market remains highly concentrated

As of the end of October, iShares (BlackRock), with USD695.42bn, accounted for 42% of the global ETF market, with USD58.74bn in net subscriptions since the beginning of the year, the ETFGI agency led by Deborah Fuhr finds.Counting the USD245.66bn and a 14.8% market share for SPDR ETF (State Street Global Advisors), which had inflows of USD15.87bn, and USD232.87bn at Vanguard (for 14.1% of the market) and USD30.44bn in net inflows, the top three providers account for 70.9% of the global market.In other words, the 183 other issuers share the remaining 39.1% of the market, and none has a share of more than 4%. The fourth-largest player is PowerShares (Invesco) with USD59.88bn and 3.6% of the market, followed by db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank) with USD45.7bn and 2.8%, despite net outflows of USD189bn. Lyxor (Société Générale) is in sixth place, with USD37.44bn and a market share of 2.3%, partly thanks to USD155m in net subscriptions.The global ETF market as of 31 October represented a volume of USD1.655trn, in 3,313 ETFs listed 7,546 times on 54 stock markets, issued by 176 providers. Including other ETFs, total assets came to USD1.852trn. By comparison, the respective values as of 31 December 2011 were USD1.355trn and USD1.526trn.
12/11/2012

Ten Swedish funds spotted for their “unethical” behaviour

Ten Swedish funds, including funds which invest in growth markets from Danske Bank and Carnegie and the Kon-Tiki funds from Skagen, participate in investments equivalent to 5% of their assets which violate UN guidelines, Realtid.se reports, citing Dagens Industri. These are the results of an analysis of about 130 funds by Danica Pensions and Ethix according to UN and EU guidelines on the environment, human rights, corruption and labour rights.
12/11/2012

Gerald Harlin, CFO of Axa, becomes president of CFP Forum

The European CFO Forum, which includes the chief financial officers of the major European insurance groups, and which defends their interests, particularly on the regulatory front, on 9 November announced the appointment of the chief financial officer of the Axa group, Gerlad Harlin, as president of the association. He will succeed Oliver Bäte, CFO of the Allianz group, who has been called to serve in other responsibilities at the Allianz group from 1 January 2013.
12/11/2012

Italian investors sceptical of emerging markets

56% of Italian investors consider emerging markets more risky than developed European economies, according to a Gfk Eurisko survey undertaken for Goldman Sachs Asset Management and reported by Fondionline. The majority of Italians feel that developed countries have more solid macro-economic fundamentals (70%), higher levels of internal consumption (59%) and stronger currencies (70%) than emerging markets. Overall, 90% of respondents are not planning to increase (or reduce) their investments in emerging markets.
12/11/2012

Nuveen continues to suffer net redemptions

In the first three quarters of 2012, Nuveen Investments has seen net redemptions of USD14.4bn, of which USD74m were in July-September, following USD7.9bn in April-June and USD6.4bn in the first three months of the year.Assets as of 30 September totalled USD220.09bn, compared with USD211.8bn three months earlier, and a peak at USD226.7bn at the end of March. As of 31 December, assets under management totalled USD220.1bn.
12/11/2012
Fonds

KKR ouvre des fonds destinés aux investisseurs privés

KKR lance deux fonds qui seront distribués aux particuliers par Charles Schwab, rapporte le Financial Times, qui estime qu’il s’agit du dernier signe en date de la pression des sociétés de private equity pour devenir davantage comme des sociétés de gestion traditionnelles. Les actionnaires poussent notamment les sociétés de capital investissement cotées comme KKR à dégager des revenus récurrents en augmentant leurs encours et leurs frais.
Fonds
12/11/2012
Fonds

Aberdeen exporte un fonds de dette émergente aux Etats-Unis

La filiale américaine d’Aberdeen Asset Management a annoncé vendredi le lancement sur le marché américain du Aberdeen Emerging Markets Debt Fund (acronyme de la classe de parts A : AKFAX) qui peut investir dans tous les segments de la dette émergente, en devises «dures» ou locales, souveraine ou d’entreprises.Ce lancement correspond explicitement à une volonté du gestionnaire écossais de se renforcer sur le marché américain.
Fonds
12/11/2012

Citigroup: Vikram Pandit percevra son bonus, mais pas d’indemnités

Forcé de démissionner en octobre, le CEO sortant de Citigroup, Vikram Pandit, percevra une prime de 6,7 millions de dollars au titre des bons résultats de 2012, mais il ne bénéficiera d’aucune indemnité de licenciement, rapporte The Wall Street Journal. Citigroup a aussi accordé 6,8 millions de dollars à John Havens, president et COO.Les deux hommes percevront 40 % de ces bonus en numéraire immédiatement, et le reliquat viendra progressivement à échéance sur les quatre prochaines années.
12/11/2012
Fonds

Six sociétés font leur entrée dans le classement MyFlow

Six sociétés ont fait leur entrée dans le classement réalisé chaque mois par MyFlow. BNP REIM arrive en tête au mois d’octobre et prend la 22ième place. La Française AM bénéficie de la visibilité de l’ex UFG REIM et rentre aussi dans la première moitié du classement à la 28ième place, suivi de près par UFFI REIM. Dans la seconde partie du classement, on trouve Foncia Pierre Gestion (36ième), Ciloger (45ième) et Sofidy SA (49ième). L’entrée en force des sociétés de gestion de SCPI est le reflet de la nouveauté introduite par MyFlow, à savoir l’ ouverture à l’analyse de plus d’une centaine de SCPI sur myflow.fr, répondant ainsi aux souhaits des conseillers de disposer d’une information complète sur ce support d’investissement. L’autre fait marquant du mois est la remontée dans le classement des sociétés entrepreneuriales à l’exemple de la Financière de L’Echiquier, qui progresse de 3 places et occupe la 3ième place du classement. Une raison de cette poussée, « effet Patrimonia » mis à part, est probablement la reprise des marchés d’actions au cours de l’été. Ainsi les grands groupes qui bénéficiaient d’une offre sur les fonds d’obligations ou diversifiés se voient rattrapés par les sociétés de gestion spécialisées sur les actions. Last but not least, M&G et Carmignac Gestion continuent de faire la course en tête. DNCA Finance (4ième) devance désormais Franklin Templeton (5ième). Amundi (7ième), AXA Investment Managers (8ième) et Comgest (10ième) conservent leur rang du mois dernier. CPR Asset Management intègre le top 10 tandis que les sociétés de gestion d’Edmond de Rothschild le quittent pour prendre une 13ième place.
Fonds
12/11/2012

Nuveen continue de subir des remboursements nets

Sur les trois premiers trimestres de 2012, Nuveen Investments a accusé des rachats nets de 14,4 milliards de dollars, dont 74 millions pour juillet-septembre, après 7,9 milliards en avril-juin et 6,4 milliards pour les trois premiers mois de l’année.Les encours au 30 septembre ressortaient à 220,09 milliards de dollars, contre 211,8 milliards trois mois plus tôt et un pic de 226,7 milliards fin mars. Au 31 décembre, les actifs gérés se situaient à 220,1 milliards de dollars.
12/11/2012
Fonds

Le FSI va faire son entrée au capital de Paprec

Paprec, le groupe de recyclage (papiers, plastiques, déchets de chantiers), boucle une nouvelle augmentation de capital et annoncera demain l’entrée du Fonds stratégique d’investissement (FSI) à son tour de table, rapporte L’Agefi. L’opération, d’un montant de 150 millions d’euros en deux temps, vise à faire franchir au numéro trois français du recyclage la barre du milliard d’euros de chiffre d’affaires, contre 750 millions estimés pour 2012.Le Crédit Mutuel Arkéa devrait également participer à l’apport en capital, précise le quotidien.
Fonds
12/11/2012

Michel Cicurel sort du conseil de la Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild

La Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild a fait savoir que Michel Cicurel avait démissionné de son mandat d’administrateur de la Banque, rapporte L’Agefi suisse. Michel Cicurel avait quitté en mai dernier la présidence du directoire de la Compagnie financière Edmond de Rothschild Banque, Paris.
12/11/2012

iShares Suisse veut se renforcer auprès de la clientèle institutionnelle

iShares annonce le renforcement de son service de vente avec l’arrivée de Christian Obrist. Il sera chargé de suivre la clientèle institutionnelle, en particulier les caisses de pension. Basé à Zurich, il sera rattaché à Andreas Zingg, responsable de la société en Suisse alémanique.Christian Obrist dispose d’une expérience de huit années de vente à des clients institutionnels, dernièrement à Londres chez JP Morgan Chase Bank dans les produits fixed income.
12/11/2012

Le Credit Suisse fusionne ses pôles Private Clients et Private Banking en Suisse

Le groupe Credit Suisse va fusionner à compter du 1er janvier 2013 ses pôles Private Clients Switzerland et Private Banking Switzerland, selon le site finews qui a eu accès à une note interne. Le patron du nouvel ensemble, Wealth Management & Private Clients Switzerland, sera Christoph Brunner, qui avait en charge les clients privés en Suisse et qui était le chief operating officer de la banque privée.La mise en place de cette nouvelle structure va entraîner la suppression de 300 postes et permettre d'économiser 50 millions de francs suisses.
12/11/2012
Fonds

Un fonds de pension japonais modifie son allocation

Le fonds de pension des collectivités locales japonaises, le Chikyoren, a décidé de rapatrier en interne une partie de la gestion de son portefeuille qui sera moins investi en obligations gouvernementales, selon la base de données des fonds de pension japonais, rapporte Asian Investor.Un peu plus de 20% du portefeuille est désormais géré en interne contre moins de 8% en 2003. Les actifs sous gestion du Chikyoren, s'élevaient à 15.850 milliards de yen à fin mars 2012, soit environ 191,5 milliards de dollars.
Fonds
09/11/2012

La Grèce va adjuger 3,125 milliards d'euros de bons du Trésor

La Grèce adjugera le 13 novembre pour un milliard d’euros de bons du Trésor à trois mois et pour 2,125 milliards d’euros de bons à quatre semaines afin de refinancer du papier arrivant à échéance, a annoncé vendredi la PDMA, l’agence de gestion de la dette publique. Le règlement sera le 16 novembre. Les adjudications seront réservées aux seuls SVT. Aucune commission ne sera versée.

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