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18/02/2011

Les emprunts portugais à cinq ans au plus haut

Le rendement des obligations portugaises à cinq ans a atteint un nouveau record depuis la création de l’euro vendredi, toujours sous pression des investisseurs qui craignent que Lisbonne ne soit contraint de faire appel à une aide internationale. Le rendement du papier portugais à cinq ans a grimpé à 7,193%, dépassant son record atteint la veille depuis la création de l’euro.
18/02/2011

La Chine relève une nouvelle fois les réserves obligatoires des banques

La banque centrale chinoise a relevé pour la deuxième fois en 2011 le coefficient des réserves obligatoires des banques du pays, de 50 points de base, afin de lutter contre l’inflation. C’est la huitième hausse depuis le début de l’année 2010. Elle porte le ratio de réserves requises à un plus haut record de 19,5%. Ce relèvement serait effectif le 24 février. Par cette mesure, Pékin espère drainer les excédents de liquidités circulant dans l'économie et freiner l’inflation. L’inflation en Chine a accéléré moins que prévu en janvier, ressortant à 4,9% sur douze mois, mais les pressions sur les prix ont continué à s’accroître et devraient pousser la banque centrale à poursuivre son resserrement monétaire.
18/02/2011

Deuxième jour consécutif de pic pour les prêts d'urgence de la BCE

Les prêts d’urgence à 24 heures de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) sont restés exceptionnellement élevés vendredi pour la deuxième journée d’affilée. Le montant des prêts consentis par la BCE, plus de 16 milliards d’euros, affiche son plus haut niveau depuis juin 2009. Jeudi, l’institut d'émission avait déjà alloué plus de 15 milliards d’euros de prêts d’urgence, soit une brusque poussée de fièvre après seulement 1,2 milliard de prêts la veille. Habituellement, les prêts d’urgence à 24 heures de la BCE ne dépassent pas le milliard d’euros. Pour expliquer ces montants inhabituels, les traders évoquaient un établissement qui n’aurait pas emprunté assez lors des opérations hebdomadaires de la BCE.
18/02/2011

L'Allemagne est prête à aider le Portugal

Le ministre des Finances allemand Wolfgang Schäuble a fait savoir que l’Allemagne est prête à soutenir le Portugal en cas de difficulté à se financer sur les marchés, mais a toutefois souligné qu’il n’y avait pas urgence, rapporte le quotidien économique Nikkei.
18/02/2011

La croissance française pourrait approcher les 2% en 2011

La croissance économique de la France pourrait se rapprocher cette année de la prévision de 2 % du gouvernement, déclare le gouverneur de la Banque de France, Christian Noyer, dans un entretien au Monde. A 0,3%, la croissance du produit intérieur brut (PIB) français a été inférieure de moitié aux attentes au quatrième trimestre 2010, donnant un chiffre de 1,5% sur l’ensemble de l’année écoulée, ce qui rend d’autant plus ambitieuse la prévision gouvernementale.
18/02/2011

Soros invests in MAM Funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } George Soros has acquired a 3.5% stake in the management boutique MAM Funds, via his firm Quantum Partners, according to an announcement by the London Stock Exchange.
18/02/2011

Quantum (Soros) invests in MAM Funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In a filing to the London Stock Exchange dated 16 February, MAM Funds announced that the hedge fund management firm Quantum Partners, the firm owned by George Soros, had acquired a 3.53% stake in its capital.MAM Funds is the commercial brand for Midas Capital Partners Limited and Milton Asset Management Limited.F&C, for its part, has increased its stake to 5.29%. Axa has increased its stake to 9.38%, while Lloyds Bank’s stake has fallen to 5.44%.
18/02/2011

Barclays WM France launches an Asian equities fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Barclays Wealth Managers France has launched the Barclays Equity Asia fund, a sub-fund of its Luxembourg Sicav, investing in Asian equities. The new fund is advised by Philip Niem, head of discretionary management at Barclays Wealth Asia, based in Hong Kong, and his team. Niem manages USD300m in assets with the same method used for the new fund. The objective for Barclays Equity Asia is to invest in businesses expected to profit from economic growth in China, India, and other surrounding Asian countries (excluding Japan), and to outperform its benchmark index (90% MSCI AC Asia ex Japan 10% cash) by 5% per year. Allocation by country is determined on the basis of the size of the economy, the balance of payments, growth in corporate profits and price/earnings ratio for the market. Niem will then select sectors which he estimates will outperform national GDP growth. Within these sectors, the head of discretionary management will select 40 businesses. Currently, Niem favours the banking sector in India, the consumer sector in China, and commodities. The Barclays Equity Asia fund, which has recently received a sales license from the AMF, now has total assets of USD30m. It will be sold via the Barclays Wealth network, as well as to funds of funds and institutional investors.
18/02/2011

Fidelity Investments extends its product range with iShares ETFs

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The online broker Fidelity Investments has celebrated the first anniversary of its partnership with BlackRock in ETFs, and increased the number of iShares ETFs available for free trading from 25 to 30.The five ETFs available to investors for free are the iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond Fund (HYG), iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund (DVY), iShares Dow Jones International Select Dividend Fund (IDV), iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate Index Fund (IYR) and iShares MSCI ACWI ex US Index Fund (ACWX).
18/02/2011

UniCreidt studying a potential Pioneer-Eurizon merger

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } For the first time, the strategy committee at UniCredit on Thursday considered the possibility of an alliance between its affiliate Pioneer and Eurizon, the asset management unit of Intesa-Sanpaolo, Il Sole – 24 Ore reports. The committee is reported to have tasked the management, led by CEO Federico Ghizzoni, to enumerate the potential advantages of a merger with the Intesa Sanpaolo affiliate. The Italian newspaper also reports that the sale process for Pioneer is entering its final phase, and that in early March, BofA-Merrill Lynch, which is advising UniCredit, is awaiting bids from the final three candidates to buy the business, Amundi, Natixis and Resolution.
18/02/2011

Nader Purschaker leaves Metzler

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Nader Purschaker, the head of alternative investments and quantitative strategies at Metzler Asset Management, has left the firm, Citywire reports. He was the architect of the model behind the strategy used to managed the Nordea 1 – Heracles Long/Short MI fund, launched in 2008 with Nordea.
18/02/2011

Record assets and pre-tax profits for Union Investment

In 2010, the central asset management firm for the German co-operative banks, Union Investment, posted pre-tax profits totalling a record EUR372m, compared with EUR204m in 2009, EUR143m in 2008, and EUR345m in 2007. In other words, the impact of the crisis was offset at last.Assets also set a new record, at EUR177.4bn as of the end of December, compared with EUR165.7bn one year previously. But net subscriptions fell of EUR8.7bn for 2010 as a whole, compared with EUR10.7bn in 2009, following net redemptions of EUR6.8bn in 2008, and net inflows of EUR12.2bn in 2007.Net inflows to institutional funds (Spezialfonds) totalled EUR6.15bn, while advising and wealth management activities totalled EUR3bn. However, mandate activities saw a net outflow sof EUR200m, and open-ended funds saw net redemptions of EUR250m, due to outflows of nearly EUR6bn from the UniOpti4 tax optimisation fund, following a change in the tax regime.Union posted the largest net inflow in its history from the institutional sector, at EUR11.32bn, compared with EUR8.3bn in 2009, and outflows of EUR3.61bn in 2008. In addition, Union retained its place as the top German asset management firm in the area of protected capital funds, with a market share of nearly 50% and net subscriptions of about EUR2.38bn.
18/02/2011

Net profits at comdirect up 5.3% in 2010

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Last year, comdirect bank posted net profits of EUR59.63bn, compared with EUR56.62bn in 2009, which corresponds to an increase of 5.32%. The number of clients increased by about 108,300, to about 1.56 million, while the number of securities accounts increased by 5.3% to a total of slightly under 740,000. In the B2C segment (comdirect), total assets increased 18.3% to EUR26.32bn, while B2B activities (ebase) grew by 21.6% to EUR16.2bn.
18/02/2011

Allfunds Bank adds to fund IT platform

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } From 21 February, on the basis of information provided by asset management firms connected to its platform, Allfunds Bank will offer its institutional clients access to a more robust range of data on funds, including their allocation by sector, by asset class, by geographical region, and by currency, as well as the largest underlying positions, FondiOnline reports. This new functionality will allow access not only to information for a given moment in the life of a particular fund, but to all information on all funds at any time in the past year.
18/02/2011

Skandia appoints a COO for continental Europe

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Skandia has announced the arrival of Robin Tetlow as chief operational officer for operations in continental Europe (France and Italy). Tetlow, who will be responsible for operations and administrative management of investments, will be based in Italy. A former independent consultant to industry actors in the financial services industry, Tetlow joined Skandia in January 2011.
18/02/2011

Alternative management firm founded in London

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Via Reinet Fund SCA, the investment firm Reinet will participate in the creation of a global alternative management and advising firm, in partnership with William T. Winters, former co-CEO of JP Morgan Investment Bank, and RIT Capital Partners plc, which is led by Lord Jacob Rothschild, Agefi Switzerland reports. The new firm will be known as Renshaw Bay. Winters will be president and CEO of the firm, while Lord Rothschild and Johann Rupert, who controls Reinet, will become directors of Renshaw Bay. Winters will initially own 50% of the new business, while the remainder will be shared between Reinet, which is listed in Luxembourg, and RIT, an investment firm listed in London. Renshaw Bay, which will be based in London, will work with “sophisticated” investors to develop their risk parameters, investments, and trading vehicles.
18/02/2011

Henderson recruits a fund manager from AMP

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Tom Gibson, director & European fund manager in the indirect real estate investment team at AMP Capital Brookfield, has joined Henderson Global Investors as head of property equities, Asia.Gibson will be based in Singapore, and will manage the Henderson Horizon Asia-Pacific Property Equities Fund with Michael Wong and Eric Khaw, as well as the Asian investments of the Hernderson Global Property Equities Fund. He will also manage mandates, which all in all represents a total of about USD1bn.Gibson will report to Patrick Summer, head of property equities.
18/02/2011

Trendy strategies tend to underperform

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Strategies which earn the highest inflows in a given quarter very often see a large decline in their returns in the following quarter, according to a study undertaken in fourth quarter 2010 by TrimTabs, in partnership with Informa Investment Solutions. In other words, following too readily along with the flock may be a highly costly mistake for institutional investors. As an example, TrimTabs points to investors’ sudden interest in US bonds, and outflows from US equities funds in third quarter 2010. Investors who followed this trend were probably negatively affected by the movements observed recently, as they would have missed the rally in US equities.
18/02/2011

BBVA and Citic create a new commodities index

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } With its Chinese partner, Citic Carbon Assets Management, BBVA has launched an index of shares in companies of the natural resources and commodities sectors, with the intention of subsequently releasing investment products based on the benchmark index, Cinco Días reports. The selection of businesses for the new Rogers Global Resources Equity Index (RGREI) will be undertaken by Jim Rogers.
18/02/2011

Aegon AM launches its first multi-asset class fund aimed at retail investors

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 1 March, Aegon Asset Management will launch its first multi-asset class fund aimed specifically at retail clients, the Aegon Strategic Assets fund. It is an absolute return product, whose objective is to generate returns of 10% per year, regardless of market conditions.The fund will consist of “real” assets, and will invest primarily in equities and bonds, with a preference for long-only positions.The Strategic Asset fund will be managed jointly by William Dinning, head of investment strategy, and Sean Flanagan, who belongs to the multi-asset class management team.Minimal subscription is set at GBP500, and the front-end fee is 5.5%. Management commission will be 1.5%.
18/02/2011

Inflows of nearly EUR900m for FIP and FCPI vehicles in 2010

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to a survey by the AFIC and AFG of “fundraising in 2010 by FIP and FCPI” vehicles, 124,000 savings investors subscribed to one of 48 FIP funds (Fonds d’Investissement de Proximité), and/or 42 FCPI vehicles (Fonds Commun de Placement dans l’Innovation) created in 2010.Inflows in 2010 raised EUR894m from retail clients, of which EUR835m went to funds created in 2010 alone, a statement released on 17 February states. Despite a slight increase in the average amount of subscriptions (EUR6,700, compared with EUR6,650 in 2009), these levels remain below the levels observed in 2009 (EUR898m) as well as 2008 (EUR1.13bn), the year which marked the peak for inflows to FIP and FCPI vehicles. 2010 FIPs attracted EUR389m, while 2010 FCPIs raised EUR446m.
18/02/2011

Profits and assets up at MFS

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US management firm MFS Investment Management, an affiliate of the Canadian Sun Life Financial, in 2010 earned net income of USD202m, compared with USD136m the previous year, while pre-tax profit margin increased to 30% from 26% due to an increase in average assets to USD197bn, from USD153bn.As of the end of December, assets under management totalled USD222bn, compared with USD187bn one year previously. This increase of USD35bn is due to net subscriptions of USD14.2bn and a market appreciation of USD20.3bn.
18/02/2011

Annual results up for Morningstar

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US group Morningstar in 2010 earned net profits of EUR86.4m, or EUR1.70 per share, compared with USD82.1m and USD1.65 per share for the previous year. In fourth quarter, net profits rose to USD27.4m, compared with USD14.8m one year previously.
18/02/2011

Jordi Padilla becomes CEO of Popular Gestión Privada

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Following the departure at the end of December of Guillermo Santos Aramburo, who has become director and head of strategy at Icapital, Jordi Padilla has been appointed CEO of Popular Gestión Privada, Funds People reports. Padilla, who joined the firm in 2008, was previously CIO for equities, and directly managed the PBP Gestión Flexible and PBP Cartera Fexible funds.
18/02/2011

Netherlands' APG picks up a new head of corporate governance

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } APG Asset Management, the management firm for the pension fund for public employees in the Netherlands, has appointed Claudia Kruse as head of corporate governance. Kruse, who joined APG in 2009 as a senior specialist in sustainable development and governance, succeeds to Paul Trentrop, who left the business at the end of 2010 to found his own firm.
18/02/2011

Banco Popular sells its asset management affiliate to Allianz

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to sources familiar with the matter, Banco Popular is in the process of completing a sale of 60% of its asset management affiliate Popular Gestión to Allianz for about EUR100m. According to Expansión, the German insurer may also acquire Popular Gestión Privada, the asset management arm ou the private banking unit of the group, to replace Dexia, which would sell its 40% stake in the capital of the business.The agreement over Popular Gestión would specify that Popular will continue to distribute funds from Popular Gestión via its network; in addition, the bank would pledge to maintain a minimal level of investment in products from Popular Gestión.
18/02/2011

Janus launches five funds in Italy

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Janus Capital International Limited, the international division of Janus Capital Group, has added to its range of products on sale to retail clients in Italy. The Italian market authority, Consob, has granted a license for sale to retail investors of five funds from the Denver-based asset management firm, including three equities funds – Janus US Fund, Perkins Global Value Fund, and Emerging Market Fund – and two bond funds – Janus Global Investment Grade and Janus Global High-Yield Fund. “The launch of these five funds in Italy confirms our commercial strategy, which is increasingly oriented to the retail distribution segment, which since January has access to a wider range of funds,” says Andrea Cardone, director of sales for southern Europe at Janus Capital Group. “Though for many years we have offered products on the Italian market which were focused in the United States exclusively, the time has come to also offer our expertise on global markets,” he adds.
18/02/2011

SEC investigates municipal bond funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether some funds have overestimated the value of certain high-risk municipal bonds which are rarely traded, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. The enquiry is part of an investigation into potential municipal bond market abuse.

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