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09/11/2012

Deutsche Bank appoints single head of marketing for AWM

Alexander Maresch, director of marketing for DWS since 7 July 2009, was on 8 November 2012 promoted to head of marketing for the entire new asset and wealth management (AWM) unit at Deutsche Bank. He will thus be responsible for marketing not only for DWS (retail), but also for other asset management affiliates, including db x-trackers (ETF/ETP), DB Advisors (institutionals) and RREEF (alternative), as well as the private wealth management arm of the bank.Maresch spent his entire career at the Deutsche Bank group, which he joined in 1996. He had previously been head of public distribution & marketing for Europe at DWS; he has also been responsible for the launch of the DWS brand on the US market.
09/11/2012

Allianz posts record AUM

Operating profit for Asset Management at the Allianz Group grew by 58.1 percent in the third quarter of 2012 to EUR849m, compared to EUR537mfor the third quarter of the previous year.Total assets under management grew 14.8 percent to a record EUR1.8trn at the end of the third quarter of 2012 from EUR1.6trn as of the end of September 2011. Third-party assets rose over the same period to EUR1.4trn from EUR1.2trn.The increase was 40.9 percent adjusted for foreign currency and consolidation effects. The cost-income ratio improved by 5.5 percentage points to 54.0 percent from 59.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011.Net income for the whole group reached EUR1.4bn for the third quarter of 2012, compared to EUR258m in the third quarter of 2011. In the previous year, impairments on financial sector investments and Greek sovereign bonds had heavily impacted net income.
09/11/2012

PRI launches discussion on responsible investment in hedge funds

The UN-backed Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) Initiative on Thursday issued a discussion paper on hedge funds to help its asset owner signatories better understand the risks associated with particular hedge fund strategies and instruments and the implications these may have for the performance of their portfolios and the broader market. It also outlines some actions that investors can take to improve the governance of hedge funds. The paper has been produced in response to growing interest from PRI signatories about how responsible investment relates to alternative investment strategies and instruments, including high frequency trading, leverage, shorting and the use of derivatives by hedge fund managers. According to PRI’s 2011 Reporting and Assessment survey, 137 signatories have some exposure to hedge fund investments, including 74 asset owners. “Many signatories have significant allocations to hedge funds and the PRI has a growing number of hedge fund manager signatories. However, there is currently no clear consensus on what being a responsible investor in hedge funds actually entails,” said Rob Lake, director of responsible investment at PRI.
09/11/2012

UBS hires back laid off staff

The Swiss bank UBS, which last week announced that it is laying off 10,000 employees worldwide, is already backpedalling. According to Finews, citing reports by Reuters, the firm may have laid off staff too hastily, and is now lacking personnel in certain areas. Several people are reported to have been contacted for re-recruitment by UBS.
09/11/2012

Schroders to offer Chinese bond strategy in Europe

The British firm Schroders will soon be offering a strategy based on Chinese bonds to European investors, initially in Luxembourg, and subsequently on the French market, Rajeev De Mello, head of Asian fixed incoe management, has announced on a visit to Paris. As of the end of September, the strategy had assets of about USD585m, largely in the hands of Asian clients. This strategy represents a real opportunity for European investors seeking diversification, De Mello claims, adding that the returns on ten-year Chinese bonds are currently 3.2%, a performance which Australian bonds cannot rival. In the Asian bond sector, assets under management at Schroders as of the end of September totalled about USD7.2bn, up 10% compared with the end of 2011. The most popular strategies were Asian credit, with assets up sharply to USD1.11bn as of the end of September, Hong Kong bonds (USD1.1bn), and Singapore bonds (USD468m).
09/11/2012

Allianz GI recruits head for its new “insurers” unit

Bernard Weninger, Head of European Insurance and Pension Solutions Marketing and ALM at Bank of America Merrill Lynch International in London, was on 1 November recruited as head of the new European Insurance Group at Allianz Global Investors (AGI) in Frankfurt.He will be responsible for relationships with clients throughout Europe in the area of primary insurance and reinsurance, institutional client segments which AGI is now planning to develop.He will report to James Dilworth, CEO of AGI for Europe.
09/11/2012

Money market fund proposal rejected

A proposal by the money market fund industry to impose fees on investors seeking to withdraw from a fund during a crisis received a cold reception from the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal. Regulators are of the opinion that the proposal does not go far enough, and may trigger panic on money markets.
09/11/2012

Fatca: international agreement sought with 13 countries, including France

The United States on 8 November announced that they are planning to conclude negotiations by the end of this year with 13 countries including France, for an agreement which would facilitate the implementation of US Fatca legislation to combat tax evasion. The Treasury department has announced in a statement that it is “in the process of completing an inter-governmental agreement” for which it “hopes to conclude negotiations by the end of the year” with 13 countries: Germany, Canada, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The goal fo the talks is to set up a “law on the fulfilment of tax obligations on foreign accounts” (Fatca). The law, passed in Mach 2010, will come into force gradually, starting in 2013. It requires international financial institutions (IFI) to transfer information to the US tax authorities (IRS) about accounts held by US taxpayers, whether or not they are US citizens.
09/11/2012

Another Madoff employee pleads guilty

A former employee of Bernard Badoff, Irwin Lipkin, on Thursday pleaded guilty to criminal charges, but denied knowledge of the massive fraud, the Wall Street Journal reports. He is the ninth person to plead guilty in the government investigation, which is entering its fifth year. Lipkin admitted that he signed documents he knew that were false. But he claims that he knew nothing about the Ponzi scheme.
09/11/2012

Azimut collecte en octobre

La société de gestion italienne Azimut a enregistré en octobre 2012 des souscriptions nettes de 125 millions d’euros pour sa gestion d’actifs, dont 140 millions d’euros pour les compartiments des fonds luxembourgeois AZ Fund 1 et AZ Fund Multi Asset. Depuis le début de l’année, la collecte dans la gestion d’actifs a ainsi dépassé 1,2 milliard d’euros.Au total, Azimut affiche un encours de 19,3 milliards d’euros, dont 17,2 milliards sous gestion.
09/11/2012

Sovereign funds own 36% of the Italian stock exchange

In 2012, sovereign funds control about 36% of total capitalisation on the Italian stock exchange, and their investments have increased significantly since 2011, when they totalled EUR500m, according to a study by the bank Monte Paschi di Siena (MPS) of 60 sovereign funds, Investment Europe reports. Sovereign funds this year invested about EUR1.5bn into the Italian economy, according to the study. The Norwegisn sovereign fund still has the largest weight in the Italian economy, with a total of EUR4.7bn invested in equities, EUR6.3bn in bonds, and EUR4.2bn in government bonds. Assets at sovereign funds, which have increased from USD2bn to USD5.1bn in the past five years, may total USD10bn by 2015, according to projections by MPS.
09/11/2012

Philippe Zaouati takes over as chairman of SRI committee at AFG

Philippe Zaouati, deputy CEO of Natixis Am and chairman of the Responsible Investment working group of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), will become Chairman of the Socially Responsible Investment Committee of the AFG. He succeeds Thierry Deheuvels (Oddo Asset Management), who had served as chairman of the committee for more than six years.
09/11/2012

Amundi posts EUR10.7bn in inflows in nine months

Assets under management at Amundi as of the end of September 2012 totalled nearly EUR711bn, up 7.9% compared with the end of December 2011, Crédit Agricole announced on 9 November at a presentation of the group’s results. Net inflows totalled EUR10.7bn in the first nine months of 2012, and market and forex effects represented +EUR41.4bn.Amundi has improved its competitive position with a strong increase in its market share in France, gaining 1.4 percentage points between December 2011 and September 2012, to 26.1%. Commercial development in Europe outside France has borne fruit, with strong increases in assets through third-party distributors (+20.9% of assets in nine months) and corporate. Lastly, Amundi is one of the top four firms for inflows in Japan, India and Korea.Inflows from outside the network totalled EUR20.5bn in the first nine months of 2012, with EUR13.9bn for the institutional and corporate segment, and EUR1.6bn for the third-party distributors segment, largely in Europe outside France.In the first nine months of the year, gross operating profits total EUR528m, and are up +14.8% (+1.8% excluding one-time elements). This includes a high level of performance commissions (EUR107m in the first nine months of the year, compared with EUR53m in the corresponding period of 2011).
09/11/2012

Assets up at Prudential Financial

A report from Prudential Financial for third quarter announces that assets under management totalled USD1.005trn as of the end of September, compared with USD901bn as of the end of December, and USD871bn twelve months previously.Operating profits for asset management increased to USD187bn in July-September 2012, compared with USD123m in the corresponding period of last year, but they contracted by USD356m in the first three quarters of this year, compared with USD504m in January-September 2011.
08/11/2012

Mario Draghi attend un signal de l'Espagne

Le président de la BCE a indiqué que la banque centrale était prête au besoin à activer son programme de rachats d’emprunts d’Etat sur le marché secondaire, l’OMT, si et seulement si un pays en fait la demande. «Il revient à l’Espagne de prendre la décision», a souligné Mario Draghi. Le président de la banque centrale a noté un ceratin nombre d’effets positifs liés à l’annonce de l’OMT, comme le retour des fonds monétaires américains face aux contreparties de la zone euro ou la plus grande participation des investisseurs non résidents aux adjudications de dette publique de l’Espagne et de l’Italie. Mario Draghi s’est en revanche montré plus pessimiste sur les perspectives économiques de la zone euro.
Mario Draghi attend un signal de l'Espagne. Source photo: BCE
08/11/2012

Blanchiment: l'ACP sanctionne un établissement de crédit

L’Autorité de contrôle prudentiel a publié jeudi sur son site une décision de sanction à l’encontre d’un établissement de crédit dont elle ne révèle pas l’identité. L’ACP inflige à ce dernier une sanction de 500.000 euros pour des carences dans l’organisation contre le blanchiment de capitaux et le financement du terrorisme au sein de l’activité banque privée. L’Autorité avait mené il y a deux ans une mission sectorielle qui a notamment débouché sur la mise en cause d’UBS France. La Société Générale avait aussi reconnu en début d’année être dans le collimateur de l’ACP sur cette question.
08/11/2012

Madrid boucle sans encombre son programme d'emprunt 2012

Le Trésor espagnol a placé pour 4,8 milliards d’euros d’obligations à moyen et long terme, un montant suffisant pour boucler son programme d'émissions 2012 et entamer par avance celui de l’an prochain malgré les incertitudes sur une éventuelle demande d’aide extérieure. Les adjudications réalisées jeudi incluaient le premier emprunt à 20 ans lancé par l’Espagne depuis un an et demi et son succès montre que les investisseurs restent prêts à investir à long terme dans la dette espagnole. Les 731 millions d’euros de titres arrivant à échéance en 2032 l’ont cependant été à un rendement moyen historiquement élevé de 6,328%.
08/11/2012

La Banque d'Angleterre arrête ses rachats d'actifs

A l’issue d’une réunion répartie sur deux jours, le comité de politique monétaire de la Banque d’Angleterre a confirmé son intention de mener à terme les rachats de 50 milliards de livres d’emprunts d’Etat, ce qui portera le montant du programme d’assouplissement quantitatif à 375 milliards de livres d’ici novembre. Le programme de QE ne sera donc pas prolongé. La banque centrale a, comme prévu, également laissé son taux directeur inchangé, au niveau historiquement bas de 0,5%. La Banque centrale européenne n’a également pas modifié ses taux directeurs.
08/11/2012

PAI Partners voit dans le crédit d’impôt une « révolution fiscale »

«En pratique, le crédit d’impôt de 20 milliards revient à réduire de moitié l’impôt sur les sociétés», a déclaré à Reuters Lionel Zinsou, en marge de SuperInvestors. Il a rappelé à cet égard qu’en fonction des années, l’impôt sur les sociétés rapporte à l’Etat français entre 40 et 50 milliards d’euros par an. «On va se retrouver dans une situation où l’on sera presque aussi compétitif que l’Irlande en termes d’impôt sur les sociétés», a ajouté le patron de PAI Partners, pour qui «c’est juste une révolution».
08/11/2012

Nyse Liffe songe à bousculer les horaires de son marché parisien

L’opérateur envisage d’étendre les horaires de trading à compter de janvier sur son marché à terme parisien des céréales. Il sonde actuellement les utilisateurs en Europe et dans d’autres parties du monde pour voir s’ils soutiennent une telle évolution. Cette mesure prend en compte la publication plus tardive à partir de début 2013 du rapport prévisionnel de l’USDA.
08/11/2012

Le service de la dette allemande au plus bas depuis 1993

Selon le quotidien allemand qui se réfère à une source officielle au ministère des finances, grâce à des taux d’intérêt très faibles, la charge d’intérêt de la dette représentera cette année entre 31,5 et 31,8 milliards d’euros pour l’Allemagne, ce qui représente un plus bas depuis 1993, année où le service de la dette s’était élevé à 27,4 milliards.
08/11/2012

Pékin ouvre le secteur des contrats à terme

Le China Securities Journal cite l’assistant du président du régulateur des marchés de titres, Zhang Yujun, selon lequel Pékin songe à instaurer des mesures permettant une plus forte implication des investisseurs étrangers au sein du marché domestique des contrats à terme. Il s’agirait notamment d’accélérer le rythme d’un programme pilote en ce sens.
08/11/2012

Credit Suisse lance des services de family office en Inde

Le groupe Credit Suisse a annoncé le 8 novembre le lancement de services de single family office en Inde. Cette nouvelle initiative devrait permettre de renforcer l’offre de produits sur le segment en forte croissance de la clientèle fortunée UHNW (Ultra-High-Net-Worth) et HNWI (High-Net-Worth-Individuals), souligne la banque dans un communiqué.L’indice compte actuellement quelque 158.000 millionnaires en dollars et ce chiffre pourrait progresser de 17% à 242.000 d’ici à 2017, selon le dernier Global Wealth Report de Credit Suisse.

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