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05/01/2010

PICC prend 48 % de Dacheng

Avec effet au 30 décembre, l’assureur PICC a acheté pour 1,4 milliard de yuans ou 205 millions de dollars une participation de 48 % dans le septième gestionnaire d’actifs chinois, Dachang FMC. Le vendeur était en fait une société contrôlée par PICC, Zhongtai Trust. Le montant de la transaction correspond à 3,94 % de l’encours de Dacheng à la fin du premier trimestre 2009 (74,06 milliards de yuans ou 10,8 milliards de dollars), rapporte Z-Ben Advisors. Les autres actionnaires de Dacheng sont Everbright Securities (25 %), China Galaxy Investment Management (25 % également) tandis que les 2 % restants appartiennent à Guangdong Securities.L’autorisation donnée à PICC montrerait selon Z-Ben Advisors que les deux autorités de tutelle, la CSRC et la CIRC, ont changé de politique et autoriseront désormais les assureurs à détenir en direct des participations au moins minoritaires dans des sociétés de gestion.
05/01/2010

SG Private Banking devient Société Générale Private Banking

SG Private Banking a annoncé le 4 janvier l’adoption de la marque Société Générale Private Banking à compter du 1er janvier 2010. «La banque privée réaffirme ainsi son appartenance au groupe Société Générale et souhaite capitaliser davantage sur le modèle de banque multi-métiers développé par le Groupe afin d’offrir aux particuliers fortunés l’ensemble des expertises produits disponibles à travers le monde, et ce, dans le cadre d’une approche globale et personnalisée de la gestion de leur patrimoine», souligne la Société Générale dans un communiqué. L’adoption de la marque Société Générale Private Banking permettra également d’accentuer la visibilité et la notoriété des activités de banque privée, notamment auprès des grandes fortunes internationales. La banque privée exercera ses activités dans le monde sous la marque Société Générale Private Banking, à l’exception, d’une part, de SG Hambros Bank Limited, filiale de Société Générale Private Banking qui offrira ses services sous la marque Société Générale Private Banking Hambros au Royaume-Uni, à Gibraltar, Guernesey et Jersey; et d’autre part de Bahreïn et du Canada où ses services seront proposés sous la marque Société Générale Wealth Management.
05/01/2010

Des opportunités dans la gestion d'actifs

Dans un entretien aux Echos, le président du directoire de la Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild, Michel Cicurel, estime à propos de la gestion d’actifs que «c’est un métier qui devient de plus en plus concurrentiel. La gestion d’actifs de masse à vocation industrielle a déjà commencé sa consolidation avec la cession par Barclays de BGI à Blackrock ou le rapprochement entre CAAM et SGAM. En revanche, la gestion de niches visant la surperformance laisse la place à des acteurs spécialisés comme nous. Quant à la gestion de fortune, la volatilité prévisible des marchés financiers dans les années à venir constitue une formidable opportunité pour les banques privées qui sauront être mobiles et diversifiées».Michel Cicurel a indiqué par ailleurs que la crise à favorisé le développement de la Compagnie Financière à l'étranger, " en Europe, mais aussi en Chine et en Amérique latine. Nous avons notamment l’ambition de devenir un grand opérateur émergent d’ici à une dizaine d’années. C’est le charme de l’actionnariat familial de permettre de raisonner sur une génération… La baisse inéluctable de notre résultat ne nous a pas empêchés de continuer d’investir et de renforcer nos équipes».
05/01/2010
Fonds

Le fonds lauréat fait sept fois la mise sur dix ans

Selon une éude de Citywire portent sur 4180 fonds commercialisés depuis au moins dix ans, et appartenant à l’une des 59 catégories actions et obligataires couvertes par Citywire via son «manager analysis», ce sont les fonds investissant sur l’or, les resources naturelles et les marches émergents d’Europe qui sont les plus nombreux parmi les dix-huit OPCVM les plus performants. Cela étant, le lauréat, est un fonds autrichien géré par Peter Pühringer investi dans des obligations des pays émergents. Le fonds en question, ZZ1 fund, a delivré une performance de 631 %. Entre autres enseignements, on notera que trois des dix-huit meilleurs OPCVM sur les dix dernières années sont gérés par Evy Hambro chez BlackRock : il s’agit de BlackRock Gold & General, BGF World Gold Fund, et BGF World Mining Fund dont les performances sont respectivement de 476,02 %, 394,28 % et 359,25 %.Pour être éligibles, les fonds devaient être vendus sur un des marchés européens allemand, français, autrichien, italien, luxembourgeois, espagnol, suisse, suédois, irlandais ou britannique. En outre, l’investissement minimum à la souscription devait être de 15 000 euros.
Fonds
05/01/2010

Redemptions from Spanish funds top EUR15bn in 2009

As of the end of December, assets in Spanish investment funds totalled approximately EUR169.9bn, EUR6.9bn less than twelve months previously, which represents a decrease of only 3.7%, while net redemptions last year totalled EUR15.2bn, 8.6% less than in 2008, according to Ahorro Corporación. Most of the decrease in assets under management is due to maturing guaranteed funds totalling EUR9.4bn, equivalent to 17.3% of assets in such funds as of the end of 2008. All categories of funds saw positive returns last year (equities products gained as much as 38%), except for real estate funds, which saw average losses of 8.6%. Ahorro Corporación says two asset management firms stood out in particular: Caixa de Pensions and BBVA, which gained 2.72 and 2.23 percentage points of market share, respectively, between the end of July 2007 and the end of December 2009, at 8.1% and 19.4%. Meanwhile, Santander, whose assets fell EUR32.9bn in the period under review, to EUR31.2bn, saw a decline in its market share of 5.86 points, to 18.4%.
05/01/2010

Spanish funds back at 1997 asset levels

According to provisional statistics from the Inverco association of asset management firms, assets in securities funds on sale in Spain as of the end of December had fallen to EUR163.05bn, their lowest levels since a total equivalent to EUR162.32bn at the end of 1997, Cinco Días reports. Last year saw net redemptions of EUR11.68bn, compared with EUR58bn in 2008 and EUR20.43bn in 2007. The peak came at the end of December 2006, at EUR254.32bn. In the past ten years, assets in Spanish funds have undergone total net redemptions of EUR53.35bn, while assets under management fell EUR42.47bn.
05/01/2010

DekaBank launches a Russian equities fund

DekaBank still believes in the potential of eastern Europe. The German asset management firm has announced the launch of Deka-Russland, a fund which invests in equities from Russian companies of the MSCI Russia 10/40 Net Return index in Euros, which stand a change of profiting from economic growth in the country. DekaBank estimates that Russia will in the future be able to reduce its economic dependence on commodities. The manager of the fund, Dorota Kummer, sees a lot of potential in the areas of consumer products and services. The product is available in a traditional share class (LU0457263126) with a subscription commission of 3.75%, while the share class without this commission (LU0457263126) will be subject to an annual fee of 0.72%, says DekaBank.
05/01/2010

Pimco plans to launch a diversified global fund

Last Wednesday, Pimco submitted an application to the SEC for a sales license for its diversified fund Pimco Global opportunities, which will be allowed to invest in equities as well as bonds. Mutual Fund Wire reports that Bloomberg has suggested there may be a connection between this project and the recent recruitment of Anne Grudefin and Charles Lahr (see Newsmamagers of 8 December), who previously managed the Franklin Mutual Global Discovery Fund (USD15.6bn), a product which is similar to the one recently announced by Pimco.
05/01/2010

High deficits at US public pension funds

The US public pension system faces a higher-than-expected shortfall of more than USD2,000bn, according to the chairman of New Jersey’s pension fund, Orin Kramer, cited by the Financial Times.
05/01/2010

Emmy Labovitch joins Richard Wohanka at UBP

Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) on Monday announced the recruitment of Emmy Labovitch as director of marketing for asset management. She was previously head of marketing at Fortis Investments. Labovitch is a member of the executive board for asset management, and will report directly to Richard Wohanka, who was CEO of Fortis Investment Management until the middle of last year, when he became CEO for asset management and alternative management at UBP (see Newsmanagers of 4 June and 13 October 2009).
05/01/2010

PICC acquires 48% of Dacheng

With effect from 30 December, insurer PICC has acquired a 48% stake in the seventh-largest Chinese asset management firm, Dacheng FMC, for CNY1.4bn or USD205m. The vendor was a firm controlled by PICC, Zhongtai Trust. The total amount of the transaction corresponds to 3.94% of assets at Dacheng as of the end of first quarter 2009 (CNY74.06bn or USD10.8bn), Z-Ben Advisors reports. The other shareholders in Dacheng are Everbright Securities (25%), China Galaxy Investment Management (also 25%), while the remaining 2% belong to Guangdong Securities. Z-Ben Advisors says the authorisation granted to PICC is a sign that the regulatory authorities, CSRC and CIRC, have changed policies, and now allow insurers to directly hold at least minority stakes in asset management firms.
05/01/2010

SFERS appoints a head of alternative investments

The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System (SFERS) has appointed Donald Holcher to the newly-created position of managing director for alternative investment and real estate. Holcher is a real estate specialist who managed the real estate portfolio of SFERS for a decade. The fund has also appointed Robert Shaw to the also newly-created position of managing director for equities and fixed income. Shaw, who has over 16 years of experience, joined SFERS in 2008.
05/01/2010

Marketing clean-up following Amundi creation

Following the official launch of Amundi, the asset management joint venture of Crédit Agricole and Société Générale founded on 31 December 2009, the time for marketing has come. Firms involved in the creation of the new structure as well as the funds they manage have entered a highly concrete phase, which will involve many name changes. As CAAM became Amundi on 1 January 2010, CAAM Real Estate has been renamed Amundi Immobilier; CAAM CI has become Amundi Private Equity Funds; CAAM Group has become Amundi Group; CAAM AI SAS has become Amundi Alternative Investments. The activities of SGAM which are joining Amundi are being grouped together within an entity entitled Société Générale Gestion (S2G), confirming the desire of teh creators of the new structure to make it a joint platform for competing banks. For mutual funds, products previously offered by Société Générale with the prefix SGAM will change from 15 January 2010, while no concrete date has been set by CAAM. The changes will be undertaken gradually. It is already known that funds aimed at retail clients, such as the Atout line of funds, will not change names. However, funds aimed at clients of regional banks whose names begin with CAAM will now become CA. Funds with names beginning in CAAM or SGAM aimed at external clients will, meanwhile, adopt the Amundi prefix. Lastly, the names of funds aimed at clients of LCL and Crédit du Nord will not undergo any changes. Subscribers to funds whose names will change will receive a notification message.
05/01/2010

Insight recruits a manager from F&C

Insight Investment has announced the appointment of Adam Mossakowski as a credit fund manager within its fixed income team. He joins Insight from F&C where he was responsible for a range of institutional and retail funds. At Insight, Adam’s focus will be on UK portfolios and he will report to Peter Bentley, head of UK credit.
05/01/2010

Natixis Asset Management mandated to provide asset management to CGE Assurances

Bruno Goré, CEO of CGE Assurances, and Pascal Voisin, CEO of Natixis Asset Management, have signed a management mandate by which the non-life insurance insurance company of hte BPCE group will outsource the management of its portfolio to Natixis Asset Management, CGE Assurances has announced in a statement. Natixis Asset Management will take charge of the management of EUR360m in Liability Driven Investment (LDI) assets. At the same time, CGE Assurances is diversifying its assets, with investments in the new Impact Funds Climate Change theme, launched by Natixis Asset Management, via its Luxembourg Sicav. CGE Assurances, which since January 2008 has included AIRD insurance para-banking activities of the CGE Assurances group, is now the third-largest insurer in the market, with revenues in 2008 of EUR408m. Natixis Asset Management, meanwhile, has assets under management of EUR301bn.
05/01/2010

Frédéric Sallerin joins Paris office of Sparinvest

The Danish management firm Sparinvest, specialised in value management, is continuing its development in France with the appointment of Frédéric Sallerin as a Senior Relationship Manager, in charge of institutional clients. Sallerin, 46, was previously at La Française des Placements , which he joined in 2004 in an institutional client sales capacity.
05/01/2010

François de Combret moves to Calyon

Les Echos reports that the business banker François de Combret, 68, is leaving UBS to join the Crédit Agricole affiliate Calyon as a senior advisor. The move is a sign of the universal desire on the part of banks to strengthen their strategic advising. The business banker had held the same position at UBS in Paris since January 2006, following his move to Lazard after 24 years of business life at the top.
05/01/2010

Cantonal Bank of Geneva opens a branch office in Paris

The Banque Cantonale de Genève (France) SA on 4 January announced the opening of a branch office in Paris. The office will represent the French affiliate of the BCGE group for business in the Paris region. It will be in charge of assisting in the development of relations with clients and promoting the various services of the group for retail and business clients. The Banque Cantonale de Genève (France) SA, which has been present in France for over 15 yeas, with headquarters in Lyon, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BCGE. The Paris office will be led by Nicolas Charavner, 46, who holds a degree in business and economic law from Université Paris 2 - Panthéon Assas. For more than 20 years, he has been active in banking, and has held several management positions, at BRED, Européenne de Banque, the Banque du Louvre, Bryan Garnier AM, and at Compagnie 1818 Gestion, an affiliate of the Natixis group.
05/01/2010

iShares gains US market share

iShares—which was sold to BlackRock Inc. by Barclays PLC last year—increased its market share in the ETF business in 2009, the first time it has done so since 2006, says the Wall Street Journal. At year-end, iShares ETFs held about USD373 billion, or about 50.1% of the assets in the U.S. ETFs, according to fund researcher Morningstar Inc. In 2008, iShares had 47.7% of ETF assets in 2008.
05/01/2010

Risk management is primordial

The main challenge for asset managers in the coming decade is understanding, managing and communicating risk, according to a survey of senior industry figures carried out by FTfm
05/01/2010

SG Private Banking becomes Société Générale Private Banking

SG Private Banking on 4 January announced the adoption of the trade name Société Générale Private Banking from 1 January 2010. With the move, “the private bank reaffirms its membership in the Société Générale group and seeks to capitalise on the banking model organised by professions that the group has developed in order to offer high net worth investors access to the full range of products and expertise available worldwide, as part of a global and personalised approach to managing their wealth,” Société Générale says in a statement. The adoption of the Société Générale Private Banking name will also make it possible to accentuate the visibility and notoriety of private banking activities, particularly serving high net worth international clients. The private bank will operate globally under the name Société Générale Private Banking, except for a part of SG Hambros Bank Limited, an affiliate of Société Générale Private Banking, which will offer its services under the name Société Générale Private Banking Hambros, in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, Guernsey and Jersey, and in Bahrain and Canada, where its services will be offered under the name Société Générale Wealth Management.
05/01/2010

New QDII licenses bring total for 2009 to USD6bn

Penghua and Changsheng last week became the seventh and eighth Chinese management firms to be issued QDII quotas in 2009 (for USD800m and USD700m respectively) by the Chinese currency office (SAFE), shortly after China Universal and Guangfa were issued licenses, for USD1bn each. In total, the new QDII quotas issued in 2009 came to USD6bn, putting the program’s total scale at USD35.07bn. Z-Ben Advisors reports that most funds issued under the QDII program will be released with foreign sub-advisors: China Universal may continue to rely on the services of Capital Group, while Changsheng may continue to work with Goldman Sachs, and Penghua will collaborate with its shareholder, Eurizon.
05/01/2010

Managers reinvesting bonuses in their funds

Uncertainty about the UK’s bonus supertax is driving an increasing number of asset management houses to encourage portfolio managers to invest their bonuses in the funds they run, Financial Times Fund Management reports. The 50 per cent supertax on bonuses of more than GBP25,000 largely targets bankers and is unlikely to affect independent asset managers. But the situation is less clear for asset managers that are part of a bank.
31/12/2009
Fonds

La Société Générale va modifier les noms de ses fonds

A compter du 15 janvier 2010, les fonds de la Société Générale dont le nom commence par SGAM changeront. Leurs souscripteurs seront informés par courrier de cette modification - qui n’entraine pas de révision du code Isin.Ce changement s’inscrit naturellement dans le cadre d’Amundi AM, la société de gestion commune au Crédit Agricole et à la société Générale dont le lancement officiel a été réalisée le 31 décembre 2009. Dans le détail, les fonds distribués par la banque au logo rouge et noir vont voir leur appellation adopter une structure identique : le préfixe SG suivi de la classe d’actifs en question et enfin le thème d’investissement ou les spécificités de l’OPCVM (le style de gestion suivi, etc).
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