Le PIB de la zone euro a augmenté de 0,4% entre le deuxième et le troisième trimestre, et de 1,9% en rythme annuel. La croissance marque un ralentissement par rapport au deuxième trimestre, où elle avait atteint 1%. La croissance de la France a ralenti au troisième trimestre, à 0,4% contre 0,7% sur les trois mois précédents, la bonne tenue de la consommation des ménages n’ayant pas suffi à compenser la faiblesse persistante du commerce extérieur. L'économie grecque s’est contractée de 1,1% au troisième trimestre, une baisse cependant moins forte qu’attendu.
L’Agence France Trésor annonce l’adjudication, le jeudi 18 novembre, d’un montant compris entre 7 et 8 milliards d’euros de bons du Trésor à intérêts annuels (BTAN) L’opération à taux fixe portera sur les lignes de BTAN 3,75% janvier 2013, 3,0% juillet 2014 et 2,0% juillet 2015. L’AFT adjugera le même jour entre 1,1 et 1,6 milliard d’obligations assimilables du Trésor indexées sur l’inflation de la zone euro (OATei). L’opération portera sur les lignes d’OATei 1,1% juillet 2022 et 1,8% juillet 2040.
Les ministres des Finances de la France, de l’Allemagne, de la Grande-Bretagne, de l’Italie et de l’Espagne ont publié vendredi un communiqué en marge du sommet du G20 destiné à calmer les tensions sur les dette périphériques. S’agissant du futur mécanisme permanent de résolution de crise d’un Etat et de la participation éventuelle du secteur privé, «il est clair pour nous que ceci ne s’appliquera à aucun encours de dette existant et à aucun programme dans le cadre des instruments actuels», rappelle le communiqué. «Nous considérons que le rôle du secteur privé dans un mécanisme futur pourrait comprendre un ensemble de différentes possibilités telles que des engagements volontaires des investisseurs institutionnels de maintenir leurs expositions, un engagement des créanciers privés de renouveler leurs encours ou l’inclusion de clauses d’action collective dans les futures émissions obligataires des Etats membres de la zone euro», poursuivent les ministres. L’annonce a permis une détente des rendements irlandais et portugais de 55 et 20 pb respectivement vers midi. Le taux à 10 irlandais atteint tout de même 8,10%.
Les fonds actions, et plus particulièrement ceux spécialisés dans les matières premières et les pays émergents, ont surperformé en octobre l’ensemble des fonds enregistrés à la vente en France, selon les données compilées par Lipper, filiale de Thomson Reuters. Les fonds spécialisés dans les investissements en actions affichent ainsi à fin octobre une performance de 17,3% sur un an, contre un gain de 12,24% à fin septembre et une progression moyenne de 11,47% pour les fonds enregistrés à la vente en France.
La Corée du Sud étudie plusieurs façons de limiter les variations excessives de flux de capitaux transfrontaliers, comme la mise en place d’une taxe sur les placements en dette libellée en devise étrangère, a déclaré vendredi un conseiller de la présidence coréenne.
L’Afrique du Sud souhaite adhérer au groupe informel formé par les puissances économiques émergentes que sont le Brésil, la Russie, l’Inde et la Chine, les pays dits du Bric, a déclaré vendredi le président russe, Dmitri Medvedev, lors du sommet du G20 à Séoul.
Dans un environnement chahuté, l’Italie a adjugé vendredi matin pour 7,92 milliards d’euros d’emprunts, dans le haut de la fourchette de 5,75 à 8,25 milliards annoncée. Le souverain a émis 4,5 milliards de titres à novembre 2015, 2,25 milliards de titres 2026 et 1,17 milliard de titres 2034. Les emprunts ont été placés à des prix supérieurs à celui de la dette italienne sur ces maturités sur le secondaire. Mais avec des rendements respectifs de 3,24% pour le nouveau BTP 5 ans et 4,81 % pour la ligne 2026, soit 70 et 80 pb de plus que lors des précédentes adjudications, l’Italie a souffert de la contagion des craintes sur les pays périphériques de la zone euro (Irlande et Portugal) alors même que les fondamentaux du pays n’ont pas bougé.
Les dirigeants des 20 pays les plus riches du globe sont parvenus à un accord a minima ce vendredi après une nuit d’âpres négociations lors de la réunion du G20 à Séoul.
Invesco Ltd. and Morgan Stanley announced on November 9 the pricing of 30,891,439 shares of Invesco’s common stock held by an affiliate of Morgan Stanley. The underwriter has agreed to purchase the Invesco common stock from the selling stockholder at a price of USD21.48 per share, which will result in USD664 million of proceeds to the selling stockholder. The underwriter may offer the common stock from time to time in one or more transactions in the over-the-counter market or through negotiated transactions at market prices or at negotiated prices. Invesco will not receive any proceeds from the offering.
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 10 November, Morningstar Inc announced that Patrick Reinkemeyer, president of Morningstar Associates, has decided to resign in mid-December, though he will continue as an external consultant. Peng Chen, president of the affiliate Ibbotson Associates, has been appointed as president of the global investment management division. He will oversee investment advising, retirement advising and investment management in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, which also includes Morningstar Associates, Ibbotson Associates, Morningstar Investment Services, Old Broad Street Research (OBSR) and the French firm Seeds Finance.
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to her email autoreply, Isabelle Bourcier is absent until 29 November; she is now reportedly leaving Lyxor Asset management and the Société Générale group at the end of the year, according to internal information cited by portfolio international. The departure of the global head of ETFs is reportedly the result of a disagreement about the future orientation of the activity, with Thierry Aulagnon, head of the investment banking unit at the French bank. It has recently been reported that Thomas Meyed zu Drewer (formerly of Indexchange) will be leaving his position as head of Lyxor Germany at the end of the year to join the Commerzbank group, as head of the European activities of ComStage. He may be replaced by Simon Klein, director of ETF distribution at Deutsche Bank until the end of September, who is also reported to have been appointed head of European ETF distribution at Lyxor.
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BNY Mellon has announced that its affiliate, Pershing, has admitted funds from Janus Funds and Pacific Life onto its FundVest platform. The platform now offers transactions between over 3,700 load and no-load funds managed by 230 firms at no charge.
La société de Gestion Convictions AM a annoncé le 10 novembre le recrutement d’Alain Taillefer en qualité d’analyste-gérant, responsable du market timing et du money management de la gamme des fonds Convictions.Agé de 47 ans, Alain Taillefer a effectué l’essentiel de sa carrière au Crédit Lyonnais (1981-2009).
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As of the end of October, assets in funds on sale in Sweden totalled SEK1.850trn, or nearly EUR200bn. This is all time record, according to the Swedish investment fund association Fondbolagens Förening, which publishes the statistics. The figure is the result of strong net subscriptions, which represented SEK56.8bn in the first ten months of the year, or over EUR6bn. In the month of October alone, Swedish funds collected SEK2.5bn, of which hSEK4.4bn were for equities funds, and SEK2.8bn for the bond category. Of total assets under management, SEK1.082rtn are invested in equities funds. The remainder is divided between diversified funds (SEK329bn), money market funds (SEK202bn), bond funds (SEK190bn) and hedge funds (EUR37bn).
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As of the end of September, assets in the asset management division at Allianz totalled EUR1.443trn, up 25.5% year on year. Of this total, assets managed for third parties represent EUR1.131trn, compared with EUR878bn as of 30 September 2009. Assets managed by the group totalled EUR312bn, compared with EUR272bn one year previously. In terms of assets managed for third parties, equities represented EUR146bn, while bonds totalled EUR983bn, compared with EUR137bn and EUR740bn twelve months previously. Net subscriptions for bonds over twelve months totalled EUR127bn. For Allianz Global Investors (AGI), net subscriptions totalled EUR40.2bn in third quarter, compared with EUR22.6bn in second quarter and EUR37bn in first quarter. Net inflows since the beginning of the year thus total EUR99.8bn. By comparison, the first three quarters of 2009 saw net subscriptions of EUR60.9bn. In the first three quarters of the year, net profits for the asset management division totalled EUR654m (of which EUR281m were in July-September), compared with EUR349m for the corresponding period of last year (of which EUR146m were in third quarter).
After nine months of deliberating, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System decided against plowing USD2.5 billion into the commodities market after missing a historic rally, says the Wall Street Journal. Instead it will tiptoe in with a USD150 million investment.
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Mizuho Financial Group is about to announce that it is investing in BlackRock. According to several sources cited by Agefi, the Japanese bank may acquire up to 2% of the asset management group from Bank of America, for USD500m. Mizuho and BlackRock declined to comment on the reports, Agefi adds.
Harbinger Capital, one of New York’s most important hedge fund managers, has been forced to defend itself against rumours it would have to liquidate its flagship USD3.4bn fund after redemptions by some of its biggest investors like Goldman Sachs and Blackstone, says the Financial Times.Harbinger founder Philip Falcone on Thursday assured clients there were “no issues” concerning the ability of Harbinger to meet withdrawal requests.
In 3Q 2010, pre-tax income of Dexia’s Asset Management and Services amounted to EUR 114 million, twice the level of 2Q 2010 and 3Q 2009 mainly driven by Insurance. For the first 9 months of 2010 pre-tax income stood at EUR 242 million, 6.5 times more than 9M 2009. Assets under Management reached EUR 86.2 billion at the end of September 2010, up 4.6% compared to December 2009. This increase of EUR 3.8 billion was supported by EUR 0.8 billion inflow of net new cash and EUR 3 billion of positive market effect (+3.7%). Retail funds and low-margin institutional money market funds suffered from YTD outflows (EUR 3.0 billion) while year to date, private and institutional mandates gathered EUR 3.8 billion of net new cash. Qoq, AuM increased by EUR 3.5 billion or 4.3%. Whereas in the first half of 2010 there were still limited outflows of funds (EUR -0.2 billion), the third quarter was marked by a net inflow of new cash (EUR +0.9 billion). During 3Q 2010, retail funds continued to suffer from net outflows (EUR -0.3 billion) whereas institutional funds (for the first time in 2010) and private and institutional mandates generated EUR 1.2 billion net new cash.
L’espagnol BBVA a annoncé le 10 novembre avoir conclu un accord de coopération de douze mois au minimum avec China CITIC Bank (CNCB) dans le domaine des retraites. Les deux établissements vont développer en commun des activités de conseil, concevoir des produits et des services. Cet accord pourra être reconduit.Conformément à la législation chinoise, CNCB pourra fournir au BBVA un accès à ses systèmes de conservation et à ses spécialistes du secteur des retraites ainsi que toutes les informations pertinentes concernant les clients pour lesquels CNCB et BBVA travaillent déjà conjointement et qui auront conclu des accords de coopération en matière de conservation avec la CNCB.Le BBVA précise que les fonds de pension en Chine couvraient 200 millions de personnes début 2010 et affichaient un encours supérieur à 1.250 milliards de yuans (188,5 milliards de dollars). Les actifs gérés augmentent très rapidement et devraient franchir la barre de 1.700 milliards de yuans pour la fin de cette année.
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to statistics from its Canadian parent company Great-West LifeCo, Putnam Investments earned a loss in third quarter of USD1m, compared with USD26m in April-June, and USD10m in the corresponding period of last year. Assets as of 30 September totalled USD119.71bn, compared with USD109.66bn as of 30 June, USD114.95bn as of the end of December, and USD113.6bn one year previously.
In the first 9 months of 2010, Amundi (the asset managament unit of Crédit Agricole, including BFT Gestion) registered net new inflows of EUR2.1 billion, « driven mainly by institutional investors, strong sales in the branch networks of high value-added products (mainly guaranteed funds), and the successful launch of ETFs initiated 18 months ago (AUM of 5 billion euros at 30 September 2010). In addition, the market effect contributed 18.9 billion euros over the same period », says Crédit Agricole in a press release. These elements resulted in a rise of the AUM by 6.9% year-on-year in the first nine months to 710 billion euros. On a like-for-like basis and excluding restructuring costs, Amundi’s net banking income rose by 11.6% between September 2009 and September 2010, to 1,160 million euros (including 385 million euros for the third quarter 2010 on the same basis). Together with tightly controlled costs, which rose by only 1.6% excluding restructuring costs, this resulted in a 26.1% rise in Amundi’s gross operating income over the same period, which amounted to 535 million euros in the first nine months on a like-for-like basis excluding restructuring costs (including 176 million euros in the third quarter). Excluding restructuring costs, the cost/income ratio shrank by 5.3 percentage points over the period to 53.9% at 30 September 2010 on a like-for-like basis. After taking into account 71.1 million euros in restructuring costs since January 2010 (of which 14.4 million euros in the third quarter), net income for Asset management was almost 309 million euros in the first nine months of 2010 (up 8.8% year-on-year on a like-for-like basis) and over 113 million euros in the third quarter.
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } After France, Germany and the United Kingdom (see Newsmanagers of 9 November), Spain has been chosen by Aviva Investors as the next country to release its new Luxembourg-registered index arbitrage fund, the Index Arbitrage Fund, in. The product is now available on the Spanish market as well, after receiving a license from the CNMV on 15 October 2010. It is part of a SICAV registered on 11 June 1990.
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Effective immediately, from 10 November, the distribution office of Baring Asset Management in Frankfurt, which is headed by Oliver Morath, is taking over responsibility for distribution of the Baring fund range in Switzerland and Scandinavia. The office already handles Luxembourg and Austria.