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13/09/2013

Pimco and BlackRock acquire large chunk of Verizon debt

Pimco and BlackRock have together acquired about USD13bn in bonds from Verizon Communications, more than one quarters of the bonds issued by the telephone operator, which total USD49bn, the Wall Street Journal reports. Pimco has acquired USD8bn in bonds, while BlackRock has acquired USD5bn. Acquisitions in such large amounts are unusual.
13/09/2013

3i announces closing of CLO fund

3i on 12 September announced the closing of its collateral debt obligation (CLO) fund, Harvest VII. The fund, with a total of USD310m, is the first of its type raised by 3i Debt Management in Europe since its inception in 2011. The fund has EUR268m in investment grade debt, and EUR42m in subordinate debt. Harvest VII will invest as its first priority in senior guaranteed loans supporting buyout operations in Europe.
13/09/2013

Golden Age fund from LO posts strong inflows

The Golden Age sub-fund of the Sicav LO-Funds, managed since March 2012 by the Swede Johan Utterman, with the assistance of Meret Gaugler as an analyst, launched in November 2009, now has USD330m in assets, compared with USD210m as of the end of 2012. Net subscriptions since the beginning of the year total USD70m. The fund already had USD247m three and a half years ago (see Newsmanagers of 24 March 2010).Since the change of managers, the fund from Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) has posted returns of nearly 30%, compared with 19% for the MSCI World index. Its Sharpe ratio is 1.54.Since March 2012, allocations have changed significantly, with a strong reduction in the proportion dedicated to health care sector equities, which now repsent only 45%, while exposure to discrectionary consumer products increased significantly, to about 30%.The fund, with 60 positions dedicated to companies likely to profit from an ageing population, and the spending that this phenomenon will lead to, is now based in six major areas. In addition to health care and discretionary consumer products, it invests in consumer staples, financials, materials and industrials.
13/09/2013

Scope Ratings recruits

The Berlin-based ratings agency Scope Ratings on 12 September announced three appointments of senior specialists, as additions to the units dedicate dto financial sector institutions and structured finance. Jacques-Henri Gaulard, executive director, and Pauline Lambert, director, join the Financial Institutions team in London, while Guillaume Jolivet, executive analyst, joins the team specialised in structured finance in Berlin. Gaulard and Lambert will help to strengthen coverage of ratings in Europe and worldwide. They will both report to Sam Theodore, managing director, Financial Institutions. Gaulard has spent 20 years following Euorpean banks at the major firms (Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, HSBC Securities). He has more recently worked as a strategic adviser for private banking at AFG International. Lambert has nearly 20 years of experience in credit and debt markets. She previously worked as a credit analyst at Credit Suisse and Pictet Asset Management. Jolivet, who worked at Moody’s for 20 years, will assist in the development of Scope’s activities in structured finance, and will support the growth of the agency on the French capital markets.
13/09/2013

BBVA and BME launch range of volatility indices on Ibex 35

On 24 September, eight new volatility target indices for levels of 10, 12, 15, and 18% based on the Ibex 35 index began to be calculated and released in real time, Funds People reports.The indices were developed by BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking, in cooperation with Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME).For each volatility objective, there is a “standard” (estándar) version, which dynamically combines equities and bonds, and a “financed” version (financiada), which covers only equities.
13/09/2013

Inflows to MMFs boost assets in French-regsitered funds in August

Growth of 1.24% in the assets in French-registered funds observed by Europerformance-SIX Company in the month of August is not due to the performance of the various fund categories, nor to the effect of inflows to equity or bond funds. Virtually all of the net subscriptions, totalling EUR12.3bn, went to money market funds. In numbers, these funds overall gained EUR13.35bn, of which EUR13.33bn went to regular treasury funds. For their part, bond funds posted redemptions of EUR158.95m (-0.48% for the month), while equity funds overall posted EUR504m (-1.49%). Convertibles were an exception, with positive inflows of EUR132.96m (+1.04%).
13/09/2013

Rothschild private bank recruits for wealth management teams

The Swiss private bank Rothscild is building a new team dedicated to wealth management. Christian Müller and Thomas Kunz will join the bank from UBS. They will concentrate on clients residing in Switzerland with international assets. Aleksandra Molanovic has also been recruited for the team dedicated to Russian clients. She joins from UBS Wealth Management International, finews reports.
13/09/2013

Alfi Partners recruits personnel

The TPM Alfi Partners on 12 September announced that it has recruited Mikaël Safrana as Marketing & Relationship Manager to support the commercial development of the firm in Europe. Safrana will concentrate on the deployment of the third-party marketing efforts of the firm via the promotion of funds and solutions currently represented by Alfi Partners. Safrana has worked in Paris, Montreal and Geneva, and has recently been active as a broker of alternative investment funds on the secondary market. “Our activity has historically been concentrated in French-speaking continental Europe, with a strong presence in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. It was natural to increase our capacity for intervention, particularly in order to cover other regions where our presence had been more limited, notes Eric Bonneville, founder of Alfi Partners.
13/09/2013

Net profits for first half at J. Safra Sarasin penalised by charges

The J. Safra Sarasin bank in first half 2013 has earned net profits of CHF74.7m, compared with CHF57.6m for the first six months of 2012. Net results in fist half 2013 were penalised by one-time charges of CHF82m, a first half report in the Swiss official commercial journal (FOSC) notes. Gross profits totalled CHF205.5m, compaed with CHF62m in first half 2012. In addition to the one-time charges mentioned, amortisations of properties totalling CHF30.5m, and addition of valuations, provisions and losses of CHF8.5m also penalised results.
13/09/2013

Italian asset management sector posts inflows in first half

In second quarter 2013, the Italian asset management industry recorded net inflows of EUR20.6bn, a result attributable to open-ended funds, which attracted over EUR19bn. This brings inflows in first half to EUR41bn. As of the end of June, assets totalled EUR1.243trn, of which 45% are in collective management.
13/09/2013

Legg Mason launches five funds in Italy

Legg Mason Global Asset Management has laucnhed two funds from its affiliate Brandywine Global in Italy: Legg Mason Brandywine Global Fixed Income Absolute Return Fund, and Legg Mason Brandywine Global Income Optimiser Fund, Bluerating reports. The US asset management firm has registered three more funds: Legg Mason Western Asset Emerging Markets Corporate Fund, Legg Mason ClearBridge US Equity Income Fund and Legg Mason ClearBridge Tactical Dividend Income Fund.
13/09/2013

iShares creates position of head of FI for EMEA

iShares, the ETF platform from BlackRock, has assigned Brett Olson to the newly-created position of head of fixed income for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, Bluerating reports. Olson joins from Nomura, where he had been managing director and head for the EMEA region, responsible for sales of ABS and distribution of illiquid debt instruments.iShares has created the position of head of fixed income for EMEA to meet significant demand in this area.
13/09/2013

High yield bond issues top USD100bn in 12 months

High yield debt issues by non-financial sector businesses rated speculative grade totalled USD12bn in July-August 2013, bringing total issued in the past 12 months to USD104bn, the financial ratings agency Moody’s reports in its most recent “High Yield Interest – European Edition.” Issues since the beginning of the year already total USD75bn, which exceeds all issues in the entire year 2012 (USD70bn). For the year as a whole, total high yield issues are expected to exceed USD100bn, and the rolling 12-month total is already over this line, Moody’s reports.
13/09/2013

Lyxor launches 17 EM ETFs in London

According to Fundweb, Lyxor Asset Management is launching 17 emerging market ETFs, which will be listed on the London Stock Exchange, bringing the total number of ETFs from the provider to 64.They are synthetic replication products, 11 of which are based on country indices, and four of which offer broader exposure to the asset class.
13/09/2013

US financial advisers divided on allocation plans

Investment advisers registered with the SEC (RIA) are divided on their allocation plans for client portfolios to international equities and bonds in the next 12 months, according to a survey carried out by Aberdeen Asset Management. For equities, six advisers out of ten are planning to increase their exposure to international equities in the next year. For bonds, opinions are even more divided, as 51% of advisers are aiming for an increase in exposure, and 49% are planning to maintain the status quo. The survey also indicates that when they invest internationally on behalf of their clients, a large majority of advisers rely on actively-managed funds. More than three quarters (76%) would like to use actively-managed funds, compared with 17% who prefer ETFs, and 4% for passive tracker funds.
13/09/2013

Strong inflows to M&G in France

After topping EUR4bn in assets in February, M&G is expected to announce soon that the French arm of the British frm M&G Investments now has over EUR5bn.Meantime, net sales in first half have topped EUR1bn, Brice Anger, country head for France, told Newsmanagers, adding that M&G in France is in its 20th consecutive month of net inflows, including at the beginning of this summer, a fact which is sufficiently rare to be highlighted.
13/09/2013

Hauck & Aufhäuser recruits exec from SGSS

Anja Schlick, director of sales for distribution of asset servicing services to German institutional clients at Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS), on 1 September joined the private bank Hauck & Aufhäuser (H&A), as head of business development. She will be responsible for setting up and developing an institutional client base in the area of asset servicing, and will report to Michael O. Bentlage, a partner at Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers.
13/09/2013

Schroders adds to institutional unit in Benelux

Peter Dalderop, managing director at RBS for actively-managed pension fund portfolios, insurers and charities, was recruited on 1 September by Schroders as head of institutional activities in the Netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg, Fonds Nieuws reports. He replaced Hein Kuijpers, who has been appointed as head of intermediaries for the Netherlands, and will report to Michel Vermeulen, CEO for Benelux.
13/09/2013

UBP launches EM fund

Union Bancaire Privée has launched the EM High Yield Short Duration Corporate Bond fund, Investment Europe reports. The fund, which invests in the high yield emerging market debt market with a duration ranging from 1.5 to 3 years, comes as an addition to the bond range managed by Deni Girault.
13/09/2013

Former Burmmer CIO joins Swedish PF

Sweden’s AP3 has appointed Kerim Kaskal as chief investment officer (CIO). He joins AP3 from Brummer & Partners, where he was deputy CIO of the Nektar fund and deputy chairman of Nektar Asset Management AB. He has worked in financial services for 27 years. Kerim Kaskal will have overall responsibility for risk allocation and will join the pension fund’s executive management group, reporting directly to the chief executive officer. He takes up his position on 1 October.
13/09/2013

APCIMS changes names

The British Association of Private Client Investment Management and Stockbrokers (APCIMS), which represents over 180 wealth management and brokerage firms, has decided to change its name in order to better take into account the services offered by its members, according to a statement released on 12 September. The APCIMS now intends to become the Wealth Management Association, pending approval of the change at the annual general assemby which will be held on 1 October. According to a recent study by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, it is now more likely that professional associations will be defined on the basis of the services which their members offer rather than the institutions they represent.
13/09/2013

L'immobilier espagnol ralentit sa chute

Les prix de l’immobilier en Espagne se sont contractés de 12% sur un an à fin juin, selon les statistiques officielles publiées ce vendredi. Ce chifffre marque un ralentissement dans la correction puisque à fin mars, le rythme de recul atteignait 14,3%. D’un trimestre à l’autre, les prix ont baissé de 0,8% seulement, indique l’INE, l’Institut national des statistiques espagnol. Depuis le pic de la bulle en 2007, la correction de l’indice atteint 37%.
13/09/2013

La dette de l'Espagne atteint un nouveau record

La dette publique espagnole s'élevait à 92,2% du PIB à fin juin, selon la Banque d’Espagne, marquant une nouvelle progression. Le ratio de dette dépasse déjà en six mois l’objectif de 91,4% que le gouvernement de Mariano Rajoy s'était fixé pour la fin de l’année 2013.
13/09/2013

Les Bourses américaines et la SEC trouvent un accord sur les coupe-circuits

Les dirigeants des Bourses américaines et la Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) qui les supervise se sont mis d’accord sur un ensemble de réformes dont l’introduction de coupe-circuits automatiques après la panne sur le Nasdaq du mois dernier. Les modalités concrètes de mise en place et de déclenchement de ces coupe-circuits en cas d’urgence doivent encore être précisées.
13/09/2013

La France émettra jeudi des obligations indexées

L’Agence France Trésor prévoit d'émettre jeudi 19 septembre entre 1,3 et 1,7 milliard d’euros d’obligations indexées sur l’inflation française (OATi) et européenne (OATei). Trois lignes sont concernées: une OATi 8 ans (juillet 2021) et deux OATei à 10 et 15 ans (juillet 2024 et 2027). L’AFT compte aussi adjuger entre 6,5 et 7,5 milliards d’euros de dette classique avec une OAT novembre 2015, un BTAN février 2016 et une OAT novembre 2018.
13/09/2013

Lyxor lève un fonds de dette senior

Lyxor a collecté 225 millions d’euros auprès de grands groupes d’assurance européens dans son nouveau fonds investi en prêts senior garantis, dont le lancement avait été dévoilé en mai. Géré sur la base d’un horizon de placement de 6 à 8 ans, Lyxor European Senior Debt Fund investira essentiellement dans des prêts garantis senior à taux variables libellés en euros et émis par des sociétés pour financer leurs acquisitions ou leur croissance. Ce nouveau fonds fait suite à l’intégration du gestionnaire de CLO Egret par Lyxor en début d’année 2013. La filiale de la Société Générale gère un encours de plus de 800 millions d’euros en CLO, fonds et mandats de conseil investis sur la dette.
13/09/2013
Gestion d'actifs

La Caisse de Pensions de la Commune de Lausanne à la recherche un consultant pour réaliser une étude ALM

La Caisse de Pensions de la Commune de Lausanne (1,5 milliard d’euros d’encours) recherche un consultant pour réaliser une étude ALM l’année prochaine. L’institution vise à réorganiser sa stratégie en se basant sur les résultats de cette étude. L’institution a sélectionné l’an passé Pro Performance en tant que consultant externe. La stratégie globale des placements alternatifs de la caisse a été revue en profondeur durant l’année 2012 en raison des performances décevantes par rapport aux autres classes d’actifs. Les investissements s’effectuent au travers du fonds de placements destiné aux investisseurs institutionnels « RP - Fonds Institutionnel - Placements alternatifs diversifiés » créé et géré par Retraites Populaires. Le portefeuille est composé de 12 placements collectifs confiés à 10 gestionnaires différents. Une très grande diversification des investissements est ainsi réalisée. Le résultat des réflexions a été la décision de mise en vente complète des douze fonds de fonds du portefeuille. En lieu et place de ceux-ci, il a été décidé d’octroyer quatre mandats de sélection de placements alternatifs à quatre partenaires externes. Cette nouvelle stratégie permettra de diminuer les coûts de gestion et d’augmenter sensiblement la transparence.
Gestion d'actifs
13/09/2013

Les statistiques américaines du chômage manquent de fiabilité

Le volume des inscriptions au chômage a sensiblement diminué la semaine dernière aux Etats-Unis mais ce recul semble dû pour l’essentiel à des problèmes techniques dans le traitement. Ce nombre a contre toute attente diminué de 31.000 à un total CVS de 292.000, selon le département du Travail. Ce dernier a expliqué que deux Etats, l’un grand l’autre petit, étaient en train de mettre à jour leurs systèmes informatiques et n’avaient pas traité toutes les inscriptions reçues durant la semaine.
13/09/2013

Hammerson lorgne Beaugrenelle

Le gestionnaire d’actifs immobiliers envisage de déposer une offre d’achat sur le centre commercial parisien, que son propriétaire à 75%, Gecina, a mis en vente. «Tout est fonction du prix et de notre propre évaluation, a indiqué David Atkins, le directeur général du groupe britannique, à Bloomberg. Gecina a mandaté cet été Morgan Stanley, CA CIB et HSBC, pour vendre le centre devant rouvrir ses portes après une rénovation complète.
13/09/2013

3i dévoile le closing de son fonds CLO

La société britannique a annoncé le closing de son fonds CLO, Harvest VII, avec le soutien de Resource Capital Markets et de Natixis. 3i précise que ce fonds dont les actifs s’élèvent à 310 millions d’euros est le premier levé par 3i Debt Management en Europe depuis sa création en 2011.

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