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23/07/2010

Amundi to launch a seafood fund in Japan

The French asset management firm Amundi will launch a seafood fund in Japan, after identifying a strong correlation between rising income in emerging markets and consumption of seafood. In China, for example, seafood consumption rose by 2 kilos per person per year between 2001 and 2007, to a total of 26.5kg, the Financial Times reports. The details of the fund remain to be finalised, but the portfolio will include fisheries and seafood processing companies, shipmakers that construct fhishing boats, and seafood restaurants, including Japanese sushi restaurant chains, to capitalise on the growing popularity of these inexpensive outlets in an economy ravaged by deflation. Masato Degawa, chief investment officer at Amuni Japan, says that assets in the fund will be limited to USD800m, due to the relatively small size of target companies.
23/07/2010

Aviva Investors reshuffles its sales team dedicated to UK funds

Aviva Investors is reorganising its sales team dedicated to British funds. Simon Clark becomes director of sales for wealth management. David Robson will hold the same position for sales at Aviva Life. Malcolm MacKenzie will be in charge of partnerships, particularly those signed with independent financial advisers and platforms.
23/07/2010

Net profits up at Raymond James Financial

For the third quarter of its fiscal year, ending 30 June, Raymond James Financial has published net profits of USD60.68m, compared with USD55.623m for the previous quarter. In the third quarter of its 2009 fiscal year, the firm posted net profits of USD42.59m. In the first nine months of 2010, net profits totalled USD159.21m, a 45% increase compared with the 2009 figures. Assets under management as of 30 June totalled USD27.5bn, compared with USD29.3bn as of 30 March, and USD22.6bn one year previously. Assets under administration totalled USD231bn as of the end of June, compared with USD242bn three months earlier, and USD196bn as of 30 June 2009.
23/07/2010

KTCU signs a partnership with Fidelity and Goldman Sachs AM

The Korea Teachers Credit Union (USD14bn) has signed a “strategic partnership” with Fidelity and Goldman Sachs. The practice is increasingly common, Asian Investor notes. The partnerships usually result in large-volume management mandates.
23/07/2010

Considerable improvement in “economic” income at Blackstone

In second quarter, economic net income at the Blackstone Group totalled USD205.24m, compared with USD180.84m in the corresponding period of last year, bringing the total in first half to Usd565.63m, compared with USD978.41m. By GAAP accounting standards, second quarter came out to a loss of USD193.32m, compared with USD164.28m. Fee-earning assets under management as of the end of June totalled USD101.42bn, compared with USD93.5bn twelve months previously. Of this total, private equity represented USD25.19bn, compared with USD25.24bn, and real estate USD23.84bn, compared with USD23.52bn. The difference was in the area of credit and marketable alternatives (CAMA), with a total of USD52.39bn, compared with USD44.74bn.
23/07/2010

Credit Suisse: Private banking and asset management suffered in second quarter

For second quarter, Credit Suisse has posted net profits of CHF1.59bn, comapred with CHF2.05bn in first quarter, and CHF1.57bn in the corresponding period of last year. The private banking division has posted a pre-tax profit of CHF874m, compared with CHF892m in January-March, and CHF935m in second quarter 2009. The group states that net inflows totalled CHF13.8bn, which represents a significant decline compared with CHF18.6bn in first quarter (see Newsmanagers of 22 April), but remains high considering the context. This new investment money is coming largely from abroad. In asset management, pre-tax net profits fell to CHF22m, from CHF166m in January-March and USD55m in the corresponding period of last year. Credit Suisse points out that the division has posted net subscriptions without interruption over the past four quarters. In April-June 2010, subscriptions fell to CHF1.3bn, of which CHF1.1bn were for alternative investments, and CHF0.2bn for traditional investments, largely for consulting activities in Switzerland. In first quarter, net inflows totalled CHF11.2bn, of which CHF4.4bn were for multi-asset class solutions, and Chf4.3bn for alternative investments.
23/07/2010

Amundi Japan still ambitious to grow

Amundi Japan has more in assets under management (EUR16bn as of the end of March 2010) than the Italian affiliate, and enjoys a remarkable balance between retail and institutional investors, Agefi reports. However, Amundi is planning to increase its assets under management for institutional clients by EUR2bn in the next three years, as Japanese pension reforms present opportunities for the management firm. The firm is also the number 3 foreign firm in collective asset management, and top for structured products among all actors in Japan. The business is hoping to develop relations with existing or new partners, and to increase collaboration between Tokyo, Hong Kong and Paris offices. Overall, the firm is hoping to capture EUR8bn in additional net assets, the newspaper adds.
23/07/2010

Credit Suisse has little to fear in German market

At a presentation of its results for second quarter, Walter Berchtold, head of the private banking division on the board at Credit Suisse, has stated that, despite an episode in which stolen CD-ROMs stolen from the firm were sold to the German tax authorities, German clients withdrew only modest amounts from their accounts in Switzerland. To the contrary, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Credit Suisse added that its branches in Germany have seen significant net inflows. In second quarter, Credit Suisse has posted a net inflow for private banking of CHF5.6bn, from clients in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, compared with CHF2.4bn in January-March. The money is largely coming from Russia, the Middle East and onshore branches in various countries.
23/07/2010

Sustainable real estate carves out a niche with European investors

In a survey by Union Investment (the asset management firm for the German co-operative banks), covering a representative sample of 185 investment decision-makers at real estate businesses and German, French and British institutional investors, the percentage of “sustainable” properties in the portfolios of European professional investors is expected to strongly increase in the mid-term. 64% of respondents says that sustainable development criteria are now strongly anchored in their real estate investment strategy, while 62% are planning to invest significantly more in sustainable properties. French investors stand out with a desire to strongly increase their engagement in this area. It is also noteworthy that for 50% of the decision-makers surveyed, sustainable investment in real estate is part of a more global move towards corporate social responsibility (CSR). This percentage is as high as 60% for British investors.
23/07/2010

Assets in foreign funds increased by 38% in 2009

According to the final statistics for 2009, the CNMV estimates that assets in the 582 foreign funds (a total number which remains unchanged compared with that reported in Newsmanagers on 27 May) as of the end of December totalled EUR25.2bn, which represents a 38% increase in one year. In its annual report, the regulator had previously estimated assets under management at EUR24.3bn, and the increase at 35%. In fourth quarter, the largest number of funds came from Luxembourg (275), France (178), Ireland (64), Austria (27) and Germany (17). The regulator also indicates that 96 of these funds had assets of over EUR30m.
23/07/2010

Union, Threadneedle and LBB Invest top three in second quarter, according to Feri

The rankings of managers with funds on sale in Germany are holding stable. As in first quarter (see Newsmanagers of 28 April), Union Investment (German co-operative banks), which has been the leader since September 2009, and Threadneedle have over 50% of their products rated A or B, with 54.2% (compared with 55.4% in January-March) and 52.3% (unchanged) of their products. However, the two third-place asset management firms are below 50%. They are LBB Invest and LGT Group, which have 48% “good” funds each. They thus surpass Pictet (which is no longer in the top 10) and Universal Investment, which has fallen to ninth place with 41.4%. Among the management firms which have between 8 and 24 funds on sale in Germany, Vitruvius remains at the top of the rankings as it has been since first quarter 2008, with 88.9% of its funds (unchanged) rated A or B. DJE is in second place, with 76.9%, overtaking Star Capital, which is in third place alongside Nevsky Capital at 75%. Star Capital had 87.5% A and B rated funds in first quarter. Carmignac Gestion remains in sixth place, with the same 66.7% percentage, and Comgest comes in ninth place with a rate of 63.6%.
23/07/2010

CS Gestión launches an infrastructure fund

On Thursday, Credit Suisse Gestión launched the CS Infrastructuras fund (ES0175449034), managed by Fernando Gil de Santivañes. The product will be at least 75% invested in equities and up to 25% in bonds. At least three quarters of the amounts invested in equities will be allocated to infrastructure firms. The portfolio will include 20 to 25 positions, on shares in companies worldwide, including emerging markets. Management commission is set at 1.5%.
23/07/2010

Inflows to target date funds slow

According to Ibbotson Associates, an affiliate of Morningstar, net subscriptions to target-date funds in the United States totalled USD2.6bn in May and USD2.1bn in June, Mutual Fund Wire reports. Due to net outflows from equities funds in the same period, these results may appear flattering. But in reality, they conceal a considerable slowdown in net inflows, which have been decreasing by an average of USD3.9bn per month for the past three years.
23/07/2010

USAA awards a management mandate to Wellington Management and Winslow Capital

Marisco Capital Management has lost a mandate for nearly USD1bn. USAA has withdrawn the mandate, which covered the management of the USAA aggressive Growth Fund (USD976m). The mandate has been awarded to Willington Management and Winslow Capital. USAA would like the fund to be managed more dynamically, Mutual Fund Wire comments. The two management firms will each be in charge of half of the assets in the portfolio.
23/07/2010

Further devaluation for Morgan Stanley P2 Value

On Thursday, the net asset value of the German-registered Morgan Stanley P2 Value fund was lowered by EUR4.43 to EUR36.32. Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investment GmbH explains that the decrease is partly due to a paid dividend of EUR1 per share, while the remainder is related to a downward revision of valuations of four properties in the portfolio: the Draycott Park in Singapore (-10%); the Citigroup Center Building in Tokyo (-13%); the Etoile Pleyel in Paris (-25%), and the Legends Village West in Kansas City (-26%).
23/07/2010

Pimco adds to teams in Hong Kong, London and New York

Ky Myung (Kim) Hong, regional vice chairman and president of Asia Pacific at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has been recruited as managing director and head of Asia Pacific at Pimco (Allianz Global Investors) in Hong Kong. He will be in charge of the Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo offices. In addition, he will enter the global operating committee. He will report to Douglas Hodge, COO, who was previously head of Asia Pacific. Meanwhile, as a part of the development of its equities management, Pimco has recruited two people from Goldman Sachs Asset Management for its London office: Maria Gordon, as executive vice president and emerging market portfolio manager, and Melissa Turtle, as senior vice president and equity trader. Gordon managed the Goldman Sachs Emerging Markets Equity Fund and co-managed the BRIC fund from GSAM. For the New York office, the management firm has recruited four senior vice presidents. They are Rebecca Babin (formerly of Brigade Capital), for equity trade, Eteve Craige (from Franklin Templeton Mutual Series), as equity product manager, and Mark Cooper and Patrick Lawler as equity analysts, Cooper from Omega Advisors, and Lawler from Pequot Capital Management. More hires are to follow this year and in 2011 for the equities platform, says Neel Kashari, managing director and head of new investment initiatives.
23/07/2010

Varengold launches a manager platform for alternative investment

The German asset management firm Varengold Investment AG, which was granted a license by BaFin on 11 March, but which has 15 years of experience in managed futures (at Varengold Wertpapierhandelsbank), announced on Thursday that it has opened the Varengold Managed Account platform for institutional investors. The platform will allow client to invest in funds from the world’s best managers in the area of managed futures and global macro strategies. All the managers present on the platform will be subject to German law (and therefore transparent from a taxation point of view), and will be subject to permanent and ongoing independent risk management. In short, says Yasin Sebastian Oureshi, co-CEO of Varengold Investment, “it’s Europe instead of the Caribbean.” Steffen Fix, the other co-CEO, says that Varengold submits each fund to strict analysis and selection, which simplifies the task for institutional investors.
23/07/2010

comdirect results hold stable

Due to EUR15.13m in net profits in April-June, compared with EUR15.62m in January-March and EUR18.23m in the corresponding period of last year, the comdirect group (Commerzbank) has posted stable net profits for first half of EUR30.81m, compared with EUR30.96m. For the year as a whole, the group is expecting only EUR80m in net profits, rather than a “triple-digit figure in millions of Euros” (see Newsmnagers of 19 February). Assets at the B2C division (comdirect bank) as of the end of June totalled EUR23.79bn, up 7% over the end of December (ERU22.2bn), while the B2B division (eBase) was up 3% to EUR13.68bn, largely due to net subscriptions.
23/07/2010

Janus doubles net profits in one year

Janus Capital Group Inc. on Thursday, 21 July announced a net profit for second quarter of USD30.2m, near to the net profits of USD31.3m it earned in first quarter 2010, and Usd15.8m in second quarter 2009. Operating margins for the business in second quarter 2010 came to 24.6%, compared with 27.3% in the first three months of 2010, and 23.5% in second quarter 2009. On average, assets under management in second quarter 2010 came to USD160.2bn, compared with USD160bn in first quarter 2010,a nd USD126.7bn in second quarter 2009. As of 30 June, total assets under management came to USD147.2bn, while they totalled USD165.5bn on 31 March, and USD132bn in second quarter 2009. USD17bn of he decline in assets under management in second quarter was due to market effects, and USD.13bn to net redemptions.
23/07/2010

La variété des performances au plus bas

Les tableaux ci-contre présentent les meilleures et plus mauvaises performances des fonds sur le marché des fonds actions américaines et le marché des fonds actions françaises au cours du mois de juin 2010. Ces performances sont mises en perspective par le calcul de la volatilité et du ratio de Sharpe sur trois ans d’historique ainsi que du rendement depuis un an.
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23/07/2010

Les marchés dirigés par le sentiment

Le graphique ci-contre montre l’évolution de l’appétit pour le risque, mesuré par la corrélation de rang entre les rendements des facteurs de risque et la volatilité qui leur est associée. Si la corrélation est positive, l’aversion pour le risque a baissé ; si la corrélation est négative, elle a augmenté.
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22/07/2010

La plate-forme d'exécution des courtiers du Crédit Agricole opérationnelle

Le 9 juillet, les courtiers CA Cheuvreux (axé sur l’Europe) et CLSA (sur l’Asie) ont lancé leur offre commune de «Global Portfolio Trading» (exécution de grands ordres complexes sur plusieurs marchés), rapporte l’Agefi. La plate-forme en question doit couvrir 45 pays et plus de 85% de la capitalisation boursière mondiale.Pour Cheuvreux, ce lancement marque une étape dans sa réorganisation autour de la notion de services au client à un niveau mondial, ajoute le quotidien.
22/07/2010

La surabondance des ETF nuit à leur crédibilité

L’agence allemande Kommalpha souligne dans une étude sur les ETF sponsorisée par Avana Invest, Wegelin Asset Management et la Deutsche Börse que la multiplication des ETF constitue un défi pour les promoteurs de ces produits, parce qu’ils doivent adapter leur business model à un rétrécissement des marges et à une concentration sur leur cœur de métier. Cela suppose aussi une adaptation et un renforcement de la politique de communication vis-à-vis des investisseurs sur le type des relations investisseurs des entreprises classiques et en prenant en compte les exigences bilancielles des souscripteurs.De surcroît, souligne Kommalpha, plusieurs études montrent qu’il y a pu avoir un début de dérive dans l’instrumentalisation des ETF et que le grand avantage de la transparence est compromis par l’avalanche d'émissions. C’est l’occasion pour les promoteurs de se repositionner avec une politique de communication adaptée et intensive, souligne encore l’agence, qui est spécialiste entre autres du conseil en communication pour les sociétés de gestion.
22/07/2010

Morgan Stanley redresse la tête

Pour le deuxième trimestre, Morgan Stanley fait état d’un bénéfice net de 1,4 milliard de dollars pour les activités conservées, comme pour avril-juin et contre une perte de 138 millions de dollars en avriol-juin 2009, période qui avait été plombée par Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, fermé le 31 mai 2009.Le pôle global wealth management affiche pour le deuxième trimestre un bénéfice avant impôt de 207 millions de dollars contre 278 millions en janvier-mars et une perte de 71 millions pour la période correspondante de l’an dernier, tandis que le pôle gestion d’actifs accuse une perte avant impôt de 86 millions contre un bénéfice de 173 millions au premier trimestre et une perte de 210 millions pour avril-juin 2009.Pour la gestion de fortune, les encours au 30 juin se situaient à 1.500 milliards de dollars contre 1.600 milliards fin mars et 1.420 milliards un an plus tôt tandis que pour la gestion d’actifs, ils avaient fondu à 251 milliards de dollars contre 262 milliards trois plus auparavant et 361 milliards au 31 mars (242 milliards sans Smith Barney).
22/07/2010

Au deuxième trimestre, les encours de BlackRock baissent... et son bénéfice augmente

Pour avril-juin, le bénéfice net de BlackRock est ressorti à 432 millions de dollars contre 423 millions au premier trimestre à et 218 millions pour la période correspondante de l’an dernier. Pour le premier semestre, le bénéfice atteint 855 millionsde dollars contre 302 millions.Le gestionnaire américain a indiqué mercredi que ses encours à fin juin ressortaient à 3.150,8 milliards de dollars contre 3.363,9 milliards fin mars et 1.373,2 milliards douze mois plus tôt (avant l’intégration de Barclays Global Investors). En d’autres termes, le bénéfice de BlackRock s’est accru de 2 % alors que l’encours chutait de 6 % (213,31 milliards de dollars).La baisse des marchés (surtout d’actions) explique 156,5 milliards de dollars de diminution des actifs sous gestion, tandis que les pertes de change ont amputé l’encours de 22,5 milliards de dollars. Cela posé, les rentrées nettes de 28,4 milliards de dollars sur les produits de long terme et l’activité de conseil ont été «surcompensées» par 33,9 milliards de dollars de sorties nettes liées à la fusion et aux produits quantiatifs actifs ainsi que par 24,9 milliards de dollars de sorties nettes pour les produits de trésorerie.
22/07/2010

Wells Fargo Advantage boucle l'absorption d'Evergeen

Comme annoncé en début d’année (lire notre article du 15 janvier) Wells Fargo a désormais terminé la procédure d’ajustement de sa gamme dans le cadre de la fusion de la société de gestion Wells Fargo Advantage Funds avec Evergreen Funds, la société de gestion de Wachovia. Au 31 mai, l’encours de la nouvelle famille de produits, qui comporte 132 mutual funds ouverts et fermés ainsi que des variable trust funds (hors fonds offshore), se situait à 224,1 milliards de dollars. L’intégration d’Evergreen s’est traduite par le reconditionnement de 27 fonds Evergreen en fonds Wells Fargo Advantage, et par la fusion de 53 mutual funds appartenant aux deux gammes.
22/07/2010
Fonds

Bientôt un "Newcits" estampillé Paulson

John Paulson, le gérant star de hedge fund s’apprête selon Citywire à lancer une version Ucits III de son fonds porte-drapeau. Le fonds en question sera lancé en partenariat avec la Deutsche Bank dans les semaines à venir et devrait s’appeler, selon Citywire, DB Paulson fund.Ce dernier rejoindra la plateforme de Deutsche Bank dédiée aux «Newcits» qui regroupe déjà des hedge funds de sociétés de gestion telles que Ikos, QCM, Winton et Toscafund. De son côté, la Deustche Bank n’a fait aucun commentaire, a précisé Citywire.
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22/07/2010

Une petite boutique de hedge funds recherche un allié

Selon Financial News, VCM Fund Management, une petite société de gestion de hedge funds basée à Londres, est en discussion avec d’autres sociétés afin de céder une partie de son activité via la vente d’une part minoritaire ou d’une part de contrôle de son capital. Autre option envisagée : la signature d’une joint venture en matière de distribution. Cette recherche est liée aux difficultés que rencontre VCM Fund Management à lever des fonds et aussi à la vente de Robeco Group de sa part minoritaire fin 2008.
22/07/2010

Jeu de chaises musicales chez Mirabaud

Mirabaud Investment Management a nommé David Kneale à la tête de son équipe dédiée aux actions britanniques. Il était auparavant gérant au sein de la société de gestion. Ce poste de gérant s'étant libéré, Mirabaud Investment Management est désormais à la recherche d’un gérant pour remplacer David Kneale, indique Fund Strategy.

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