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28/01/2011

Funds expected to show further net outflows in January

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In the first three weeks of January, to 21 January, Spanish funds saw net outflows once again, according to FDOS Stochastics. Capital gains attributable to rising markets may have totalled USD922m, but assets increased by only USD566m, or 0.39%, to slightly under EUR144.68bn, as the balance of subscriptions and redemptions came out to a net redemption of EUR355m.
28/01/2011

Jurgen Stegmann (NBIC) to join Robeco as CFO

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As Constant Korthout, CFO and director of risk management since 2002, has been appointed chief financial officer and chief risk officer at Van Lanschot NV / F van Lanschot Bankiers NV (see Newsmanagers of 26 August 2010), he will be replaced from 15 March as CFO of Robeco. Jurgen Stegmann was previously chief risk officer at NIBC in the Hague, a position he has held since 2000.Stegmann joins the board of Robeco (EUR150bn in assets as of the end of December), alongside Roderick Munsters (CEO), Hester Borrie (Sales and Marketing), Leni Boeren (COO), and Hans Rademaker (CIO). He will be responsible for legal, fiscal, financial, corporate development & planning, risk management, treasury and facilities & purchasing activities.
28/01/2011

N+1 founds another brokerage affiliate

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The management firm Nmas1 (N+1), in which Banque Syz acquired a stake in 2009, on 21 January obtained a license from the CNMV to create the brokerage firm N+1 Equities, which will focus on Spanish equities, and may trade on its own behalf, Cinco Días reports. The new structure will not overlap with the group’s existing brokerage firm, which will focus on private banking activities.
28/01/2011

Janus adds to international personnel

Janus Capital Group has announced the appointment of Augustus Cheh as president of Janus Capital International, the firm’s non-U.S. business arm, effective March 29, 2011. Janus also announced that effective April 1, 2011 Hiroshi Yoh will join the firm as portfolio manager of Asian equity strategies and, subject to regulatory approval, CEO of the firm’s Singapore subsidiary. These appointments mark an important step in the firm’s plans to build out its global investment capabilities and business for the benefit of its clients worldwide.As president of Janus Capital International, Augustus Cheh will be based in Hong Kong and will report directly to Janus Capital Group CEO Dick Weil. Working with the regional management teams of Janus’international businesses, he will oversee all of Janus’ businesses based outside of the U.S., including key regions of Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. Prior to joining Janus, Augustus Cheh was CEO of AllianceBernstein Hong Kong. Hiroshi Yoh, who will be based in Singapore, will report directly to Janus Co-CIO Jonathan Coleman. He will be responsible for managing Janus’ Asian equity portfolios and helping to drive the investment team build out in Asia. Hiroshi Yoh comes to Janus from Tokio Marine Asset Management, a Singapore-based asset management firm where he served as the CEO and Chief Investment Officer, with responsibility for the Asia Pacific ex-Japan business.
28/01/2011

Alan Flanagan becomes head of global product management at BNY Mellon AIS

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 26 January, BNY Mellon Alternative Investment Services (AIS), a provider of services to hedge funds with more than USD350bn in assets under administration, announced the promotion of Alan Flanagan to become its head of global product management, replacing Rick Stanley, who in June 2010 was appointed executive vice president of the global structured finance group at BNY Mellon.Since June, Flanagan, who joined the group in 2008, has already been serving as the interim director of AIS, while continuing to direct the group’s activities in the area of private equity administration. He was also the one primarily in charge of the integration of the global investment servicing activities of PNC in Europe, after the acquisition in July 2010.Flanagan will continue to be based in Dublin.
28/01/2011

BNP Paribas Wealth management and Essex launch Essec Philanthropy chair

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BNP Paribas Wealth Management and ESSEC on 27 January announced the launch of the Philanthropy Chair, with a three-year term. “BNP Paribas Wealth Management was the first private bank to get involved in philanthropy, with both a range of philanthropic services for clients, and an action to raise awareness and exchange,” BNP Paribas Wealth Management says in a statement. The Philanthropy Chair, which will be at the Institute for Innovation and Social Enterprise (IIES) at ESSEC, will aim to study, value and promote knowledge of the role of philanthropy.
28/01/2011

Profits at Invesco up by nearly one third

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } For 2010, Invesco Ltd on 27 January reported a net profit of USD639.7m, compared with USD378.1m the previous year, an increase of 31.1%. Profits per share leapt 55.1%, which Martin L. Flanagan, president and CEO, attributes to strong performance, improvement of the market environment, and the successful integration of the retail asset management activities of Morgan Stanley. Operating margins were 34.5%, compared with 28.5% in 2009.Assets totalled an average of USD532.3bn, 28% higher than the USD415.88bn recorded the previous year. As of 31 December, assets totalled USD616.5bn, compared with USD604.5bn as of the end of September, and USD459.5bn twelve months earlier.Net subscriptions to long-term funds totalled USD5.5bn, while net redemptions from institutional money market funds totalled USD15.5bn. Net capital gains related to market appreciation totalled USD43.8bn, while acquisitions/dispositions had a net positive effect of USD121.5bn, and forex gains brought in USD1.6bn.
28/01/2011

US residential real estate not expected to recover for fice or six years

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } High levels of mortgage debt, payment defaults, repossessions: none of these factors argues in favour of the US residential real estate sector. According to a research note from TrimTabs, it is unlikely that the US real estate market will recover for five or six years. “The stock market will continue to lead the way, but the real estate depression is a limiting factor for growth in the economy,” says Madeline Schnapp, director of macroeconomic research at TrimTabs. “We estimate that up to 20% of growth in GNP and 40% of growth in the job market were related to the real estate sector in some way between 2002 and 2007, but in the years to come, that sector will hold the economy back,” she says. According to TrimTabs, several considerable obstacles stand in the way of a recovery in residential real estate. The ratio of mortgage debt to available income now stands at 89%, meaning that households will need to pay off USD1.5bn to USD2.5bn to return to a more sustainable level of 65%. About 7 million mortgages are now in default, and each quarter 250,000 new default notifications are sent out. Another subject of concern is that nearly 11 million homeowners, or about 25% of all homeowners, have a higher level of debt than the value of their property. Borrowers owe EUR8.9trn on mortgages on properties valued at USD12.7trn. This adds up to a loan/value ratio of 70%, well above the ratios of 45% to 50% before the crisis. The repossession process has also been slowed to 499 days, up from 319 days two years ago.
28/01/2011

Hedge funds lash back at Goldman Sachs

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } An appeal in Davos by Gary Cohn, president of Goldman Sachs, for stricter rules governing hedge funds, has provoked some sabre-rattling in the sector, the Financial Times reports. “Hedge funds are regulated. We didn’t cause the financial crisis, and we weren’t saved by the government,” says Richard Baker, president and CEO of the Managed Funds Association.
28/01/2011

Wolfgang Engshuber elected president of PRI

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The consulting committee of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) on 27 January announced the election of Wolfgang Engshuber, chief administrative officer at Munich Resinsurance America, as president of the United Nations principles body. He succeds Donald MacDonald, trustee of the British Telecom pension fund. Engshuber had been a member of the consulting board of the PRI for 18 months.
28/01/2011

Amafi publishes a report on regulation of commodities markets

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The French financial markets association (Amafi) has send a report to the prime minister of France, François Fillon, and the minister of the economy, Christine Lagarde, on international regulation of commodities markets. Market professionals were hoping to make a contribution to considerations in this area which the G20 are currently mulling under the leadership of France. The Association identifies twelve areas for action, where it estimates that “the efforts of the G20 should concentrate particularly, either as a top priority or in the mid-term.” Among these priorities are the question of the perimeter of application of the regulations, transparency and quality of data, and the conditions under which forwards enter into the category of commodity derivatives. Among the mid-term goals, the study points to compensation for commodities derivatives, the establishment of an ad hoc framework which would allow for market abuses to be shut down, and the potential influence of ETFs in volatility phenomena.
28/01/2011

New PRI initiative for inclusive finance

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) on 27 January in the Hague announced principles for investors in inclusive finance, known as the Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance (PIIF), which aim to make financial institutions more accessible to those most in need. The same day, 40 major international investors signed the principles at the responsible finance forum in the Hague. The first signatories of the PIIF are: Accion Investments in Microfinance, Achmea, APG, Bamboo Finance, Blue Orchard Finance, Blue Orchard Investments, Calvert Foundation, Caspian Advisors, Cordaid, Developing World Markets, Dutch Microfund, FMO, Finance-in-Motion, Goodwell Investments, Grassroots Capital Management, Incofin Investment Management, Leger des Heils, Microvest Capital Management, Minlam Asset Management, MN Services, Municipality of Eindhoven, Nedlloyd Pension Fund, Norwegian Microfinance Initiative (NMI), Oikocredit, Pensioenfonds Vervoer, Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), Pensionfund of the Ministers in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, PGGM, PMA, PNO Media, Reaal, responsAbility Social Investments, Sarona, SNS Asset Management, SPF Beheer, Stichting Pensioenfonds SNS Reaal, Symbiotics, TIAA-CREF, Triodos Investment Management, and Triple Jump.
28/01/2011

Aviva Investors to launch a UCITS-compliant fund of inflation-linked emerging market bonds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Aviva Investors currently manages about EUR2.5bn in three emerging market debt products. These include a UCITS-compliant fund of external bonds (in hard currencies), with USD660m in assets, a fund of emerging market bonds in local currencies, with USD680m, and an emerging markets inflation-linked LC bond fund which does not comply with UCITS, with USD780m (on a USD400bn market), launched in January 2010.The British asset manager is now working with its legal team to convert the last of these products into a UCITS-compliant fund by second quarter, as European regulations on the distribution of risk have been made more flexible. The fact of holding 55% Brazilian paper is no longer an obstacle, as it was at the time of launch. At the same time, Aviva wants to avoid to close the fund, in order to later open it within UCITS III standards, as in the second case the firm would have to pay the Brazilian 6% IOF tax on foreign investment again.
28/01/2011

Unigestion earns a large part of its inflows in France in 2010

In 2010, the Swiss asset management firm Unigestion experienced net inflows of EUR658m, bringing its assets under management to EUR8.4bn. Of these total inflows, EUR300m were registered in France, where the Swiss establishment has been present since 1993, and where it has held an AMF license since 2004. France is the second-largest market for Unigestion, at EUR1.9bn, after Switzerland, which represents 32% of its activities, while the UK is in third place at 20%. Unigestion’s fund of hedge funds business worked particularly well in 2010, with a net inflow of EUR380m. “Two thirds of these inflows came from new clients, but at the same time, our ten largest clients reinvested with us in the past year,” says Jean-François Hirschel, managing director in charge of marketing. In total, Unigestion has EUR2.7bn in funds of hedge funds. The remainder is divided between minimum variance equities management (EUR2.9bn) and private equity (EUR1.5bn). To continue its development, particularly internationally, Unigestion will soon establish a more active sales team to better cover Europe.
28/01/2011

GAM launches a UCITS-compliant convertibles fund

GAM continues to expand its UCITS III absolute return range with the launch of GAM Star Global Convertible Bond. The new fund is co-managed by in-house managers Ben Helm and Alex McKnight. They employ a flexible, value-driven investment approach designed to perform across market environments and to have low correlation to both equities and bonds. They aim to extract value during different stages of the market cycle using an active non-benchmarked style.
28/01/2011

Swiss private banking: a quality export

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that an independent recruitment specialist in Geneva for banking professionals, Astrid Bek & Associates, will open an affiliate in Singapore this November. According to Astrid Bek, there are real opportunities to export private banking to Asia, Brazil and the Middle East. Major Asian investors, both private and sovereign, are seeking to structure their investments, and Singapore is becoming the new global centre for private banking, a role that Switzerland once occupied. The wealth management model of Asian banks is in transition between mass-affluent and private banking, where Swiss expertise is highly valued.
28/01/2011

Pas d'augmentation de la garantie des Etats européens

Les gouvernements européens devraient finalement s’orienter vers une hausse de la capacité de financement du fonds de soutien et le rendre plus flexible, indique le quotidien qui cite un entretien avec le commissaire européen aux affaires économiques, Olli Rehn. En revanche, la garantie de 440 milliards d’euros des Etats de la zone euro ne devrait pas être augmentée.
28/01/2011

Citigroup cherche déjà un repreneur pour EMI

Citigroup entend prendre le contrôle d’EMI plus rapidement prévu. Le groupe ne respectera pas ses objectifs à fin mars selon le quotidien, et Guy Hands, à la tête de Terra Firma, ne sera pas capable de lever les 200 millions de livres nécessaire pour satisfaire aux exigences de la banque. Cette dernière prendra alors la barre. Citigroup cherche déjà un repreneur. Surprise, Guy Hands lui-même figure parmi la liste des candidats potentiels, aux côtés d’un fonds de pension canadien, le CPP Investment Board. Blackstone ou les concurrents d’EMI, Sony Music, Universal Music ou Warner Music seraient également à l’affût.
28/01/2011

Iceland Foods mis en vente

La chaine britannique spécialisée dans les produits surgelés pourrait être mise en vente par son actionnaire majoritaire. La valorisation d’Iceland Foods pourrait atteindre selon le quotidien 1,5 milliard de livres, l’équivalent de 1,74 milliard d’euros. La société est détenue à 67% par le gestionnaire des actifs de la banque islandaise Landsbanki.
28/01/2011

L’AMF publie la synthèse de la consultation sur les OPA

A la suite de la clôture le 5 janvier de la consultation sur une modification du règlement général relatives aux OPA, l’AMF en a publié la synthèse. 17 réponses ont été apportées. 11 émanent de cabinets d’avocats, 3 d’associations représentatives des émetteurs, une d’une association représentative des sociétés de gestion et 2 d’émetteurs.
27/01/2011

Le Frob espagnol place sa dette

Le Fonds de restructuration du secteur bancaire espagnol émettra un emprunt de 3 milliards d’euros, dont la mise à prix se fera à 220 points de base au-dessus de la courbe des swaps, a déclaré jeudi un chef de file à Reuters. Le spread indicatif était de 200 à 225 points de base. La mise à prix doit intervenir dans le courant de la journée. Le livre d’ordres approchait des 3,5 milliards d’euros en milieu de matinée. Citigroup, HSBC, RBS, Santander et SG CIB dirigent le placement. Le Frob est noté Aa1/AA/AA+ respectivement par Moody’s, S&P et Fitch.
27/01/2011

L'EFSF comptera dans la dette des Etats garants

Eurostat, l’office statistique de l’Union européenne, publie jeudi une décision sur l’enregistrement des opérations de la Facilité européenne de stabilisation financière (EFSF). Les fonds levés par l’EFSF devront être enregistrés dans la dette publique brute (au sens de Maastricht) des Etats membres de la zone euro, au prorata de leur part en tant que garant dans chaque opération d’émission de dette. Cette part est d’environ 21% pour la France. Eurostat considère notamment que l’EFSF n’est pas une institution financière internationale.

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