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23/09/2013

TwentyFour wins bond mandate from Aviva Investors

TwentyFour Asset Management has been selected to manage a new bond mandate for the multi-mangement team at Aviva Investors, Investment Week reports. The management team at the firm consists of eight people, including founding partners Rob Ford, Ben Hayward, Gary Kirk and Eoin Walsh.
23/09/2013

Aviva overhauls its multi-asset activity

Aviva Investors has appointed Hassan Johaadien and Bruno Derdoura to co-manage the Diversified Asset fund and the Diversified Asset strategy, following the departure of Mirko Cadinale to Russell Investments, Financial News reports. Johaadien is responsible for tactical asset allocation research at Aviva. Sedoura is reponsible for strategic asset allocation for multi-asset class portfolios.
23/09/2013

Trusts increasingly in use at Skandia

Skandia International, the offshore activity of Old Mutual Wealth, has reported spectacular growth of 430% snce 2006 in the percentage of bonds in its offshore trust portfolios. Skandia claims that investment adivsers, who have identified the advantages related to trusts, will continue to increase their use of this vehicle. In 2006, Skandia says, only 8.2% of bond portfolios from Skandia International were placed in trusts. In the wake of significant modifications in 2006 to the fiscal treatment of inheritance in trusts, the use of trusts has picked up in 2012, as bond portfolios from Skandia International were 43.2% used in trusts.
23/09/2013

Profits down at Neptune

After GBP21m in 2011, Neptune Investment Management on Friday declared pre-tax profits of GBP12.8m, while assets as of the end of December totalled GBP5.8bn, compared with GBP6.3bn one year earlier, Fundweb reports.
23/09/2013

Strong inflows to Pictet-EUR Short Term High Yield

Roman Gaiser, head of high yield fixed income at Pictet Asset Management and former star manager at Threadneedle and F&C, on Friday in Paris announced that the Pictet-EUR Short Term High Yield fund ( LU0726357444) now has assets of EUR1.785bn, and that it has posted net inflows of EUR649.09 since the beginning of the year.The fund currently includes shares from 98 issuers and a total of 158 positions, with a turnover rate of about 40%. That makes it a “buy and hold” product, meaning that one of its unique characteristics compared with competing funds is that it invests in securities with a firm maturity of 0-4 years, which allows for effective management of duration at about 1.2 years.In general, Gaiser remains confident in the asset class, since carry remains attactive, since the quality of issues has improved, and the market has priced in a default rate of 25% for the next five years, while in reality it is about 2% per year.
23/09/2013

Source and GLG jointly offer two new ETFs

The new Source Man GLG Continental Europe Plus et l’ETF Source Man GLG Asia Plus ETFs, which will be listed on the London Stock Exchange from 23 September 2013, is based on active management whose strategy is supervised by GLG Partners LP.According to Ted Hood, CEO of Source, these Irish-registered, long-only products (see attachment) which are based on beta plus strategies, use the same approach as the Man GLG Europe Plus (EUR700m), and aim to capture outperformance related to the investment recommendations of the best equity brokers, provided especially to GLG.These investment ideas are then used to create liquid and diversified equity portfolios. These strategies aim to improve returns from contributors, using several algorithms which detect trends in widespread ideas.
23/09/2013

Thornburg IM plans additions to UCITS range

The US-based asset management firm Thornburg Investment Management is planning to add a fund to its UCITS product range within the next few months, Citywire Global reports.
23/09/2013

Fidelity asks businesses to modify their compensation policies

The asset management firm Fidelity Worldwide Investment is warning 400 businesses in which it invests that they need to reform their compensation policy, the Financial Times reports. If they do not do it, businesses will be required to face a vote against their pay scales at general shareholders’ meetings. In particular, Fidelity would like businesses to increase the period for which executives hold shares in the firm from three years to five years before they are allowed to sell them. This is intended to encourage them to work for the long term.
23/09/2013

Allfunds opens office in Zurich

A joint venture of Santander and Intesa Sanpaolo, Allfunds Bank, in May received a sales license for Switzerland from the Swiss regulator Finma for Allfunds International Switzerland Ltd, Funds People reports. The affiliate is led by Stig Harby, who joined Allfunds three years ago.The opening of an office in Zurich marks a new step in the expansion of Allfunds in Europe, after Madrid, Milan, London and Luxembourg.The volume of assets intermediated by Allfunds totals EUR100bn. The platform serves 380 institutional clients in 25 countries, and offers 35,000 funds from 450 asset management firms.
23/09/2013

Dynapartners recruits for teams

The Swiss firm Dynapartners has recruited Kaisa Paavilanen as an addition to its Investment Management & Client Advisory team, Finews reports. Paavilainen had previously worked in London at Barclays, and at UBS as a controller.
23/09/2013

Nordea constructs family office range

Nordea is in the process of building a range for special clients (or family offices) within its private banking unit, the website Realtid.se is able to reveal. The firm will compete with SEB, Handelsbanken and Swedbank, which are already present in this segment.For this project, two people have been recruited: Jacob Brögger and Johanna Pettersson.
23/09/2013

“Our objective is to increase our assets and to reach 15% per year”

From the beginning of the year to the end of August, 2013, iShares has posted net inflows in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region of EUR11.6bn, according to Leen Meijaard, head of sales at iShares for the region at BlackRock. These inflows are higher than in the corresponding period of last year, and come with the objetive of increasing assets by 15% per year. To continue its development, iShares is working to increase the use of ETFs by new clients, markets and segments throughout Europe.
23/09/2013

Chelsea Fnancial and Albemarle launch fund ratings service

Chelsea Financial Services and Albemarle Street Partners are planning to launch a fund ratings service in early 2014, aimed at retail investors and investment advisers, Investment Week reports. The joint venture which will be responsible for the activity, FundCalibre, will be based on the fund screening tool from Albemarle, whose results will be crossed with qualitative analysis from Chelsea. The ratings process will create an annual list of fund ratings, which will be reviewed on a monthly basis.
23/09/2013

Equity funds post inflows of nearly USD26bn in one week

A decision by the US Federal Reserve to maintain its exceptional support for the economy, which was more or less anticipated by institutional investors, drove the S&P 500 to new peaks, favouring unprecedented inflows to equity funds.The week ending 18 September saw equity funds take in a net USD25.94bn, eclipsing the old record set in late third quarter 2007, according to statistics from EPFR Global.US equity funds in particular attracted a net total of nearly USD17bn, Actively-managed funds posted modest subscriptions to small and midcaps funds, while large caps funds stood out with a significant turnover from growth towardsa value funds. Inflows to ETFs, which are responsible for most subscriptions for the week, mostly went to large and midcap funds. Bond funds posted outflows for the eighth consecutive week, while money market funds have posted modest inflows, and subscriptions to Japanese and European funds have largely offset redemptions from US money market funds.
23/09/2013

La conjoncture s'améliore en zone euro

La croissance de l’activité du secteur privé dans la zone euro a été plus marquée que prévu en septembre, grâce à la plus forte hausse des nouvelles commandes en plus de deux ans, selon les premières estimations. L’indice composite des directeurs d’achats (PMI) calculé par Markit a augmenté à 52,1 en septembre, se retrouvant à un pic depuis juin 2011, contre 51,5 en août alors que le consensus des économistes le donnait à 51,9. Comme en Allemagne et la France, c’est le secteur des services qui a tiré l’activité du privé vers le haut, avec un indice PMI à 52,1, contre 50,7 en août et un consensus de 51,1, tandis que l’activité du secteur manufacturier a décéléré, l’indice retombant à 51,1 après le plus haut de 26 mois, à 51,4 inscrit en août. En France, où l’indice avait «raté» la croissance du deuxième trimestre, le composite a passé la barre des 50 pour la première fois en 19 mois, à 50,2 points (+1,4 en un mois).
Une hausse du secteur privé plus importante que prévu en septembre. Illustration: PHB
23/09/2013

Icap va solder les poursuites concernant les taux interbancaires

Le courtier interbancaire pourrait selon le Wall Street Journal dévoiler prochainement, pourquoi pas dès mercredi, un accord avec les autorités concernant le scandale de manipulation des taux interbancaires Libor et Euribor. Icap, qui n’a pas souhaité commenter, pourrait verser moins de 100 millions de dollars pour mettre un terme aux poursuites. UBS, Barclays et RBS ont déjà écopé d’un montant d’amendes cumulées de 2,5 milliards.
23/09/2013

La Corée du Sud veut le libre-échange avec l’Asean

Selon le journal économique qui se réfère à un responsable du ministère de commerce sud-coréen, Séoul cherche à négocier un accord de libre-échange avec l’Indonésie, mais également avec le Vietnam, la Thaïlande et la Malaisie, en considérant que les barrières commerciales restent élevées avec les pays de l’Asean.
23/09/2013

JC Flowers s’intéresse à la filiale TSB de Lloyds

Le fonds d’investissement a contacté Lloyds Banking Group en vue d’une offre sur les activités TSB, que la banque britannique a scindées plus tôt dans le mois, rapporte le journal britannique. Dans le même temps, Paul Pester, nouveau patron de TSB, a déclaré que la société pourrait être rachetée avant une introduction en Bourse normalement prévue en 2014.

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