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04/10/2013

Jupiter hires senior manager from HSBC Global AM

On 6 November, Richard Wilson, senior manager, global client propositions at HSBC Global Asset Management since January 2013, will become head of marketing at Jupiter Asset Management.Before joining HSBC GAM, Wilson was Director of Marketing & Distribution Services at Henderson Global Investors (HGI) from April 2009 to October 2012, and Marketing Director at New Star Asset Management from January 2003 to April 2009.
04/10/2013

Lloyds nearing agreement over sale of SWIP

The British bank Lloyd’s is reportedly nearing a sale of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), according to Fund Web, relaying rumours reported by the Daily Mail, at a time when the possibiilty of such an operation has been a leading topic for several months. Among the potential buyers are Aberdeen Asset Management, Macquarie and Natixis. The candidates are, however, reported to be reticent about the price being asked (GBP400m to GBP500m).
04/10/2013

Investec offers shares which comply with RDR regulations

Investec Asset Management has announced the launch of share classes which comply with RDR regulations in its full range of OEIC funds domiciled in the United Kingdom, Investment Europe reports. The asset management firm is offering shares which charge fees of 0.65% as an annual management charge (AMC).
04/10/2013

LB(Swiss) Investment extends its product range

The Zurich-based LB(Swiss) Investment AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft (Switzerland), announced on 3 October that on 1 October it added a new business unit to its activities, namely the provision of representation for foreign funds in Switzerland. This comes in addition to activities to create and manage funds as well as compliance and risk management.As a centre of expertise, LB(Swiss) Investment offers its potential clients expertise in Swiss fund legislation, which permits the development of commercial strategy. In addition, the business model is designed to exclude conflicts of interest, particularly to avoid any situation of competition between the firm and its clients, Marcel Weiss, CEO, says.
04/10/2013

BlackRock plans to increase personnel in Switzerland by 25 %

At the official inauguration of new BlackRock premises on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, Martin Gut, country head for Switzerland, says that the US asset mangaement firm may soon employ considerably more than 100 people in Zurich and Geneva, compared with 80 currently, finews reports.This will be organic growth, after BlackRock acquired the multi-management activities of Swiss Re and the ETF activities of Credit Suisse, which made it possible to increase assets to nearly USD120bn.Gut has announced that BlackRock is also about to found a fund management and administration company in Switzerland. Talks with Finma are promising, the manager says.
04/10/2013

AuM in investment funds down 3% in second quarter

Investment fund assets worldwide decreased 3.5 percent during the second quarter to stand at EUR 22.94 trillion at end June 2013, according to statistics from the European fund and asset management association (EFAMA). Worldwide net cash inflows amounted to EUR 109 billion, compared to EUR 320 billion in the previous quarter. A sharp reduction in net inflows to equity and bond funds explains this result. Long-term funds (all funds excluding money market funds) continued to register net inflows amounting to EUR 193 billion during the second quarter, albeit down from the record net inflows of EUR 402 billion registered in the previous quarter. Worldwide equity funds attracted EUR 28 billion in net new money during the quarter, while bond funds registered net inflows amounting to EUR 31 billion, down from EUR 143 billion in the previous quarter. Balanced funds recorded reduced net inflows of EUR 57 billion, down from EUR 74 billion in the first quarter. Net outflows from money market funds remained relatively steady at EUR 84 billion during the quarter, compared to EUR 82 billion in the previous quarter. Europe, which registered net outflows of EUR 53 billion during the quarter, accounted for much of these outflows. At the end of the second quarter, assets of equity funds represented 38 percent and bond funds represented 23 percent of all investment fund assets worldwide. The asset share of money market funds was 15 percent and the asset share of balanced/mixed funds was 11 percent.
04/10/2013

Positive momentum for frontier markets

At a time when emerging markets are experiencing turbulence, inflows to funds dedicated to frontier markets are gaining momentum. The low correlation with developed and emerging markets is one of the reasons for this sustained interest in frontier markets, which, however, suffer from a deficit of liquidity which dampens the ardour of asset managers, Cerulli observes in the October issue of the “Cerulli Edge - Global Edition.” Assets under management in frontier funds remain modest: they are naturally mostly in the millions rather than the billions. But inflows are rising, and creations of funds of funds are increasing. “Global institutional investors are increasingly inclined to dedicate a small percentage of their emerging market allocation to frontier markets, probably not more than 1% to 3%, but that represents a considerable increase compared with the situation five, or even three, years ago,” says Barbara Wall, director at Cerulli Associates. “Inflows appear to be going primarily to markets which offer the best infrastructure and liquidity, and then to the ones which offer low correlation with other asset classes,” says Yoon Ng, associate director at Cerulli. Actively-managed long-only funds dominate the field, but they are now facing rising competition from ETFs, whose assets under management have risen by more than 50% since the beginning of the year.
04/10/2013

Credit Suisse eyes SG private banking in Asia

Finews reports that according to Reuters, Credit Suisse is said to be in the running to acquire the private banking activities of Société Générale in Asia. Ten banks submitted bids, including at least one US company, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered, DBS and HSBC.The asset is estimated to be worth USD600m, with USD13bn in assets.
04/10/2013

Replacement of director at Tokio Marine AM

Chiow Wei Lee has resigned from his role as chief investment officer at Tokio Marine Asset Management International (TMAI), Citywire Global reports. His resonsibilities have been taken over by the current CEO, Kenji Kodama. Lee will leave his position on 13 November this year. Assets under management at TMAI total about USD3.5bn.
04/10/2013

UBS O'Connor opens first Asian hedge fund to investors

The alternative asset management entity UBS O’Connor (UBS group), whose assets under management total about USD5.2bn, is planning to open its first Asian hedge fund to investors by the end of the year, according to the news agency Bloomberg.The fund, which started the month of August with internal capital, is managed by John Bradshaw and David Perrett from New York.
04/10/2013

Azimut wants to grow in Asia

The Italian asset management froup Azimut Holding and the Singapore-based independent asset management firm Athenaeum have signed an agreement to launch activities in partnership on the local market, according to a statement released on 2 October. If it obtains the required athorisation, Azimut, via AZ International Holdings, will acquire 55% of capital in the asset management firm via a capital increase, which will make it possible to finance the planned partnership. The management team at Athenaeum will remain alongside Azimut to develop Asian activities in the next few years.
04/10/2013

Softbank becomes the second-largest firm on Tokyo stock exchange by market cap

The market capitalisation of the telecommunications operator SoftBank on 3 October exceeded that of the banking group Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), to become the second largest on the Tokyo stock exchange, after Toyota. The share price of SoftBank on Thursday rose 4% to JPY7530 (EUR56.96), after significant rises already during recent trading sessions, a level not seen since November 2005. The market capitalisation of SoftBank on Thursday at the end of the day was JPY9.040trn (about EUR68bn), compared with JPY8.725trn for MUFG and more than JPY21.550trn for Toyota.
04/10/2013

Major operations are on the rise again in mergers and acquisitons

According to the most recent statistics from Dealogic, large operations are rising again, boosting global activity since the beginning of the year, Les Echos reports. 18 operations of over USD10bn were announced between January and September 2013, totalling nearly USD550bn. But the global M&A market remains reduced in terms of the number of operations.
04/10/2013

Asia offers a new passport for funds

There is a rising number of planned passports for Asian funds. After the Asia Region Funds Passport (ARFP) proposed 10 days ago (see Newsmanagers), the ASEAN capital markets forum (ACMF) has announced in a statement that the market authority of Malaysia, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Thai market watchdog had signed a memorandum of understanding to create a cross-border range of collective investment schemes (OPC or CIS). In order to be eligible, candidate asset management firms must have at least USD500m in assets under management and must have been active for at least five years. This passport may be introduced during first half 2014, a statement says.
04/10/2013

La Suisse enquête sur des manipulations de change

Le superviseur suisse a annoncé vendredi qu’il enquêtait sur des manipulations présumées du marché des changes de la part de plusieurs intitutions financières. Une enquête menée «en étroite coopération avec les autorités d’autres pays car de multiples banques dans le monde sont potentiellement impliquées», indique un communiqué de la Finma.
04/10/2013

Edmond de Rothschild nomme un directeur de la stratégie

Pierre-Etienne Durand, 37 ans, a rejoint le Groupe Edmond de Rothschild le 1er octobre 2013 en tant que directeur de la stratégie et de l’organisation groupe. Il est rattaché à Christophe de Backer, le directeur général, qui vient d’annoncer un nouveau plan stratégique à horizon 2016. Pierre-Etienne Durand fait sa carrière dans le conseil et était associé de Bain depuis 2012, spécialisé dans la gestion d’actifs et la banque privée.
04/10/2013

L'Agence France Trésor relance la maturité 2029

L’Agence France Trésor a placé pour 7,46 milliards d’euros d’OAT arrivant à maturité en mai 2023 et en 2029, une dernière maturité qui n’avait plus été proposée depuis deux ans. 5,10 milliards d’euros ont été placés à 10 ans, à un taux moyen de 2,37% contre 2,57% lors de l'émission comparable de septembre dernier. Le placement à 16 ans a porté sur 2,36 milliards d’euros, à un taux moyen de 3,02%.
04/10/2013

Louis Dreyfus Commodities à la peine

Le géant du courtage en denrées agricoles a indiqué que la pire sécheresse depuis plus d’un demi-siècle subie l’an passé aux Etats-Unis avait continué à pénaliser son activité au premier semestre, au titre duquel son résultat net des activités poursuivies a reculé de 13% à 258 millions de dollars.
04/10/2013

Amundi entend gonfler ses encours ISR

A fin 2015, Amundi espère hisser ses encours en gestion ISR à 100 milliards d’euros, contre 66,2 milliards fin juin, via la conversion de fonds et la conquête de mandats. Amundi s’est détourné du label Novethic, jugé trop sélectif, au profit de la certification Afnor.
04/10/2013

Tarkett vise une IPO

Le quotidien britannique croit savoir que le spécialiste français du revêtement de sol, détenu depuis janvier 2007 à 50/50 par KKR et la famille Deconinck, s’apprête à dévoiler un projet d’introduction en Bourse susceptible de la valoriser jusqu’à 2,5 milliards d’euros, dette incluse. Tarkett dévoilera ses intentions dès aujourd’hui, sous réserve d’une approbation finale de l’AMF. Le quotidien précise que Tarkett agit sur les conseils de JPMorgan, HSBC, Deutsche bank et Bank of America. Début 2007, la valeur d’entreprise de Tarkett s’élevait à 1,6 milliard d’euros. KKR avait songé initialement à une cotation à New York, mais la famille Deconinck a obtenu une opération à Paris.
04/10/2013

Gary Gensler s’apprête à quitter la CFTC

Gary Gensler devrait céder d’ici à la fin de l’année son fauteuil de président du régulateur américain des marchés à terme. La nouvelle ne constitue pas une surprise mais mettrait un terme à une incertitude, car, alors que le mandat de Gary Gensler est déjà achevé, il peut selon son contrat rester à la tête de la CFTC au moins jusqu’à la fin de l’année ou jusqu’à ce que le Congrès confirme son remplacement. Il peut également accepter un second mandat.
04/10/2013

Génie de l'autodestruction

La gestion d’actifs est un point fort de la finance française, et c’est tant mieux car son rôle est capital dans le financement de l’économie dont le gouvernement prétend faire une priorité. Mais à coups d’arbitrages brutaux ou sournois, qu’il s’agisse des transactions financières ou des «pigeons», l’exécutif s’évertue à saper sa prospérité contre toute raison. C’est ainsi que Bercy entend modifier, dans une totale opacité, la fiscalité applicable aux OPCVM, surtout les FCPR, tournés vers le capital investissement. Cette fois, ce sont les investisseurs étrangers qui sont visés, par le biais d’une taxe de 30% sur les plus-values. Bercy affirme agir par souci de cohérence, et assure que des abattements seront consentis en fonction de la durée de détention. Mais comment ne pas relever sa volonté de dissimulation ? Cette mesure a été prise sans concertation et est de surcroît présentée en des termes incompréhensibles dans le budget même pour des fiscalistes chevronnés! Quant à la réaction des étrangers, sachant que la rémunération naturelle des capital-investisseurs est la plus-value, elle ne fait guère de doute: la France perdra de sa propre initiative, par une sorte de génie de l’autodestruction, une nouvelle bataille dans la guerre de la compétitivité face aux autres places européennes. «Notre prochain fonds ne sera sans doute pas un FCPR mais un ‘limited partnership’ luxembourgeois», soupire un grand acteur de la Place. Comme le lui reprocher ?
03/10/2013

Madrid rectifie le ratio dette/PIB 2014 à la suite d'une erreur

L’Espagne a réduit jeudi sa prévision de la dette publique rapportée au PIB en 2014, à 98,9% contre 99,8%, en raison d’une erreur dans le projet de loi de finances envoyé lundi aux Cortes, a déclaré la secrétaire d’Etat Marta Fernandez Curras. Elle n’a pas précisé de quelle manière l’erreur s'était produite. Le ratio dette/PIB espagnol est prévu à 94,2% à la fin 2013, selon les prévisions du Trésor figurant dans le projet de loi de finances 2014, contre 85,9% à la fin 2012.
03/10/2013

Amundi vise 100 milliards d'euros d'encours ISR fin 2015

Lors d’une conférence de presse à Paris ce jeudi, la direction générale d’Amundi a dévoilé ses ambitions en matière de gestion ISR (investissement socialement responsable). Alors que les encours s'établissaient à 66,2 milliards d’euros fin juin, la société de gestion compte atteindre les 100 milliards d’euros à horizon deux ans. Un effort qui passera à la fois par la conversion de fonds et par la conquête de nouveaux mandats. Le groupe, qui est sorti du processus de labellisation Novethic pour ses fonds ISR en raison d’une sélectivité jugée trop importante, a obtenu la certification Afnor.
Amundi vise 100 milliards d'euros d'encours ISR fin 2015. Photo: PHB

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