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02/05/2013

Axa IM appoints global head of compliance

Axa Investment Managers has announced the appointment of Garry Murdoch as global head of compliance.Based in London, he will be responsible for the coordination of the compliance teams internationally, working in close association with Axa IM’s legal and risk management departments, according to a press statement. He will report to Christian Gissler, global head of risks and controls, who has overall responsibility for a division which combines risk management, legal affairs, compliance, and lobbying.Garry Murdoch joins Axa IM from the Financial Services Authority where he was a technical specialist in the Asset Management Department, responsible for leading thematic projects and reviews on issues of relevance to the industry. Prior to this, he built over 17 years’ experience in compliance roles. He was director of international compliance at AllianceBernstein Ltd (formerly Alliance Capital Limited) where he managed the firm’s international compliance departments from 2002 to 2008.
02/05/2013

Carlyle hires former head of Petroplus

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Carlyle Group has recruited Marcel van Pecke, former head of Petroplus, to head its investments in the energy sector in Africa and Europe, the Financial Times reports. Van Poecke, from the Netherlands, had managed Petroplus when Carlyle controlled a part of it between 2005 and 2007. A team of five other managers will join the US firm this month. The team will raise a dedicated fund of about USD1.5bn.
02/05/2013

Direxion launches two inverse triple leveraged ETFs

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US asset management firm Direxion (USD6.5bn) on 1 May listed two inverse triple leveraged ETFs for trading, the Direxion Daily Brazil Bear 3x Shares (ticker: BRZS) and Direxion Daily South Korea Bear 3x Shares (KORZ).The first of these funds seeks to replicate 300% of the inverse of the performance of the MSCI Brazil 25/50 index, on a daily basis and before fees, while the second has the same objective with the MSCI Korea 25/50 as its benchmark, according to a press release.Both funds charge fees of 1%.
02/05/2013

Assets under management at Pohjola up 4% in first quarter

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Assets under management by the financial services group Pohjola, one of the largest in Finland, rose 4% in first quarter, to a total of EUR34.2bn, compared with EUR32.7bn as of the end of December 2012. Institutional clients represent EUR19.8bn, while OPCs represent EUR10.3bn, and the private bank has EUR4.1bn. The asset management unit shows a slight profit, but the cost/income ratio deteriorated to 58% in first quarter, still far from its objective of 45%.
02/05/2013

Net redemptions, but an increase in assets at Henderson in Q1

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Although overall, retail funds showed net subscriptions of GBP188m after two full years of net redemptions, Henderson Group plc has posted net redemptions in first quarter 2013, including Phoenix Group, of GBP1.269bn. Net redemptions to institutional clients, excluding Phoenix, represented GBP1.248bn.However, due to positive market and currency effects, which represented GBP4.496bn for the group, of which GBP2.839bn were for retail products, assets increased by GBP68.877bn as of 31 March, compared with GBP65.65bn as of 1 January, of which GBP33.293bn, compared with GBP30.266bn, were for retail.
02/05/2013

Profits up at DeAWM

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Pre-tax profits for the Asset & Wealth Management operation of Deutsche Bank in first quarter 2013 totalled EUR221m, compared with EUR208m in January-March 2012, according to a complete report by the bank, published on 30 April.
02/05/2013

AUM at Franklin Resources up by nearly USD100bn in one year

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US asset management group Franklin Resources has reported an increase of USD41.9bn, or 5% of its assets under management, in the second quarter of its fiscal year, ending on 31 march, to USD823.7bn, according to a statement released on 30 April. This development is due to a positive market effect of USD24.5bn, and a net inflow of USD18.3bn. Year on year, the increase in assets under management was 14%, or USD98bn, due to a positive market effect of USD67.6bn, and a net inflow of USD26.3bn. Net profits in the quarter totalled USD572.8m, compared with USD51.61m the previous quarter, and USD503.2m in the quarter to the end of March 2012.
02/05/2013

Assets up for Popular funds as of the end of March

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Investment funds at Banco Popular as of 31 March posted assets of EUR7.5464bn, compared with EUR7.2719bn as of the end of December, and EUR7.4371bn twelve months previously, a quarterly report released on 30 April states.Assets under management in wealth management were up to EUR744m compared with EUR720.4m as of 31 December, but down compared with EUR837.5m as of the end of March 2012.Lastly, assets at pension funds increased by 1.3% in first quarter, to EUR4.9777bn, higher by 3.9% than as of 31 March 2012.Popular recorded a net distributable income of EUR104.22m, compared with EUR100.18m in the corresponding period of last year.
02/05/2013

Assets in funds at Bankinter up 20% in Q1

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } A fall in returns on deposits have provoked an increase in net subscriptions to investment funds at Bankinter, where assets increased to EUR6.01bn as of the end of March, compared with EUR5.03bn as of the end of December. One year earlier, it totalled EUR4.84bn. The increase in assets under management is due to in-house funds from Bankinter Gestión de Activos (+EUR764m, to EUR4.349bn), and to products from foreign asset management firms (+EUR219m, to EUR1.663bn).Assets in private banking as of 31 March totalled EUR14.8bn, which represents an increase of 3.7% compared with EUR14.3bn as of the end of December. Lastly, assets in pension funds totalled EUR1.45bn as of the end of first quarter, compared with EUR1.39bn three months previously, and EUR1.31bn as of 31 March 2012.Net profits for the Bankinter group increased by 1.9% in January-March compared with the corresponding period of last year, to EUR50.4m, from EUR49.4m.
02/05/2013

Profits up at Invesco

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 30 April, Invesco Ltd declared distributable net income of USD222.2m for January-March 2013, compared with USD158.7m in October-December and USD193.9m in the corresponding period of last year.The quarterly dividend will be increased by 30%, to 22.5 cents per share, says Martin L. Flanagan, president & CEO.Assets as of the end of March totalled USD729.3bn, compared with USD687.7bn as of 31 December, and USD672bn as of 31 March 2012. Net subscriptions totalled USD19.2bn in first quarter this year, compared with USD1bn in fourth quarter 2012, and USD8.1bn in January-March last year.Market effects generated an increase in assets of USD31.4bn, compared with USD4.9bn in October-December, while currency effects contributed USD9bn to the increase in AUM, where they had cut off USD1.2bn the previous quarter.
02/05/2013

Vincent Kaufmann promoted to deputy director of Ethos

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Ethos Foundation and Ethos Services have appointed Vincent Kaufmann as deputy director from 1 May. He will assist Dominique Biedermann, director. He will also remain as head of wealth management, controlling and IT development.Kaufmann has been a member of the board at Ethos Services since 2011. He joined Ethos in 2004 as a corporate governance analyst, and then successively as a senior analyst and deputy head of corporate governance.
02/05/2013

Assets under management at Crédit Agricole (Switzerland) up in 2012

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Assets under management at the Swiss affiliate of the French Crédit Agricole group totalled CHF44.9bn, compared with CHF44bn as of the end of 2011, an increase of 2%, according to a statement released on 30 April. The private banking sector is the largest activity of the Swiss affiliate, with a 70% contribution to its revenues, “despite a contrasted environment and continued pressure on the Swiss banking model,” the bank says. In 2012, Crédit Agricole (Switzerland) completed its installation in Hong Kong, where a branch was opened in 2011. Crédit Agricole (Switzerland) last year earned consolidated net profits of CHF130.2m, down 17.6% compared with 2011.
02/05/2013

OppenheimerFunds updates its image

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 29 April, OppenheimerFunds (OFI, USD208bn as of the end of March) on 1 May announced that it has adopted a new visual identity, to modernise its retail image, which will retain the OppenheimerFunds brand name, and has created a new institutional brand, OFI Global Asset Management.
02/05/2013

Contrasted results for Federated

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In first quarter 2013, net profits at Federated Investors totalled USD43m, compared with USD49.6m in October-December, and USD42.3m in January-March 2012.Assets as of the end of March totalled USD377.3bn, which represents a decline of USD2.5bn compared with 31 December, and an increase of USD13.7bn over the level recorded one year previously.On average in first quarter, assets under management nonetheless increased to USD381.2bn, compared with USD368.7bn in October-December, and USD370.1bn in the corresponding period of last year.Assets in equity funds as of 31 March 2013 totalled USD37.9bn, compared with USD35bn three months previously, and USD34.1bn as of the end of March 2012, while bond funds also showed a gain, resulting in a record USD52.8bn as of the end of March 2013, compared with USD52.7bn as of 31 December and USD46.2bn one year previously.Assets under management in money market funds and mandates totalled USD279.7bn as of the end of March this year, USD5bn less than at the end of December, and USD5bn more than as of 31 March 2012. For money market mutual funds, assets totalled USD242.7bn, which represents a decline of USD13bn compared with the end of 2012, and of 2.5% compared with its level twelve months previously.
02/05/2013

Assets under management at Legg Mason up 2%

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Assets under management by the Legg Mason asset management group were up 2% in the fourth quarter of its 2012-2013 fiscal year, ending on 31 March, to a total of USD664.6bn, compared with USD648.9bn as of the end of December 2012. The increase compared with the end of March 2012 is 3%. The increase in assets was favoured by a positive market effect of USD12.1bn, and by inflows of USD5.4bn related to the acquisition of Fauchier, which has recently been completed. These factors were partly offset by redemptions totalling USD1.8bn. As of 31 March, bonds represented 55% of assets under management, compared with 24% for equities, and 21% for money markets. Assets originating from the United States represented 61% of the total. For the fiscal year ending on 31 March as a whole, the group shows a loss of USd353.3m, or USD2.65 per share, although it had earned a net profit of USD220.8m, or USD1.54 per share, for the previous fiacal year. In fourth quarter, Legg Mason has, however, earned a net profit of USD29.2m, after a loss of USD453.9m in third quarter, which was affected by provisions for depreciation of intangible assets.
02/05/2013

MPL temporarily freezes redemptions for Traded Policies Fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to Investment Week, Managing Partners Limited (MPL) has suspended redemptions from its Traded Policies fund “in the interests of current and future shareholders,” in the form of a temporary “gate.”The fund, which invests in a portfolio of traded life insurance policies (TLP), has generated annualised returns of 8.94% on average since its launch in July 2004.In November, the FSA announced that it would be prohibiting sales of TLPs to retail investors, as they are considered “high risk and toxic.”
02/05/2013

Fund managers trade too much

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to a study by the Economist, relayed by Fondsnieuws, the average turnover for investments funds has risen from 15% in 1950 to about 100% in 2011, which has resulted in a rise in transaction costs.The total expense ratios total 1.39% and 1.07%, respectively, for US small cap and large cap funds, but the average transaction costs total an average of 3.17% and 0.84%.Funds with the highest transaction costs were also the ones which had the worst returns.
02/05/2013

SSgA market indicator raised from “low aversion to risk” to “normal”

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In first quarter 2013, the Market Regime Indicator (MRI) published by State Street Global Advisors was raised from a level of “low aversion to risk” to a “normal level.” This macroeconomic indicator developed by the Investment Solutions team at SSgA is used to identify the level of aversion to risk on several markets, and its levels help to determine investors’ appetite for risk. The MRI level is calculated on the basis of the implicit volatility of equities, the volatility of currencies and spreads on fixed income. “First quarter 2013 brought a succession of major political events. The devaluation of the Japanese yen, the Cypriot crisis, and the lack of political stability in Italy had a direct impact on the markets,” SSgA commented.
02/05/2013

FinEx lists the first ETF on the Moscow stock exchange

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Funds Europe reports that the FinEx Group has become the first firm to list an ETF for trading on the Moscow stock exchange with the FinEx Tradable Russian Corporate Bonds UCITS ETF, which has been listed in London for two months (see Newsmanagers of 26 February).The fund replicates the Barclays EM Tradable Russian Corporate Bond index.BNY Mellon is the custodian and administrator of the fund.
02/05/2013

Lyxor AM renforce son équipe de recherche “cross asset”

En avril, Rob Koyfman, qui était head of macro and thematic trading strategy, a rejoint l’équipe cross asset research de Lyxor Asset Management à New York. Il est subordonné à Jeanne Asseraf-Bitton, global head of cross asset research.L’intéressé indique sur son profil LinkedIn que ses spécialités sont l’analyse macro, la transposition de convictions macro sur des ETF et des actions, les tests de rétropolation, l’analyse transversale des classes d’actifs et les options.Avant de rejoindre Citi en juin 2010, il a été un an senior strategist chez Caxton Associates après six ans passés chez Goldman Sachs.
02/05/2013

Carlyle recrute l’ancien patron de Petroplus

Carlyle Group a recruté Marcel van Poecke, l’ancien patron de Petroplus, pour piloter ses investissements dans le secteur de l’énergie en Afrique et en Europe, rapporte le Financial Times. L’intéressé, un Néerlandais qui avait dirigé Petroplus lorsque Carlyle en détenait une partie entre 2005 et 2007, et une équipe de cinq autre dirigeants vont rejoindre la société américaine ce mois ci. L’équipe devrait lever un fonds dédié d’environ 1,5 milliard de dollars.
02/05/2013

Axa publie son rapport d’activité et de responsabilité d’entreprise pour 2012

Axa a publié mardi son rapport d’activité et de responsabilité d’entreprise pour l’année 2012 et a confirmé dans un communiqué l’approbation par les actionnaires de l’ensemble des résolutions soumises par le conseil d’administration, notamment :- La nomination comme administrateurs de Deanna Oppenheimer et de Paul Hermelin, pour 4 ans. Deanna Oppenheimer est Directrice générale de la société de conseil CameoWorks (Etats-Unis). Hermelin est Président-directeur général de Capgemini.- La ratification de la nomination en tant qu’administrateur de Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, coopté par le Conseil d’administration en octobre 2012, pour un mandat arrivant à échéance lors de l’Assemblée générale 2015. Jean-Pierre Clamadieu est Président du Comité exécutif et administrateur de Solvay.- Le renouvellement des mandats d’administrateur de Mme Dominique Reiniche et Ramon de Oliveira, pour 4 ans.- Le versement d’un dividende de 0,72 euro par action au titre de l’exercice 2012, avec une mise en paiement le 14 mai 2013.
02/05/2013
Fonds

Cerberus boucle un fonds distressed à 2,61 milliards de dollars

Le groupe américain Cerberus Capital Management vient de boucler un fonds dédié aux actifs distressed à 2,61 milliards de dollars, rapporte l’agence Reuters. Cerberus avait lancé ce fonds, le Cerberus Institutionl Partners ou CIP V, en 2011, avec un objectif de collecte de 3,75 milliards de dollars, revu par la suite à la baisse.
Fonds
02/05/2013

Encours et bénéfice en hausse pour AllianceBernstein

A fin mars, les actifs totaux gérés par AllianceBernstein ont atteint 443,2 milliards de dollars, soit 13,2 milliards ou 3,1 % de plus que trois mois auparavant et 24,1 milliards ou 5,8 % de plus qu’au 31 mars 2012, a annoncé le groupe.Les souscriptions nettes ont porté sur 2,6 milliards de dollars au premier trimestre 2013 contre 5 milliards en octobre-décembre et des sorties nettes de 12,1 milliards pour la période correspondante de l’an dernier. Les rentrées nettes de la gestion institutionnelle ont représenté 3,3 milliards en janvier-mars de cette année contre 2,9 milliards pour octobre-décembre, tandis que celles du retail se limitaient à 0,2 milliard de dollars contre 5,3 milliards au quatrième trimestre 2012. Du côté des «clients privés», AllianceBernstein accuse des sorties nettes de 0,9 milliard pour janvier-mars 2013 contre 3,2 milliards au trimestre précédent.Le bénéfice net distribuable d’AllianceBernstein (the operating partnership) a gonflé pour le premier trimestre à 114,5 millions de dollars contre 71,7 millions pour octobre-décembre et 87,3 millions pour la période correspondante de l’an dernier.Quant au bénéfice net d’AllianceBernstein Holding (the publicly-traded partnership), il est ressorti à 38,2 millions contre 26,2 millions le trimestre précédent et 26,7 millions pour le premier trimestre 2012.
02/05/2013

Les salaires des patrons du CAC 40 ont encore reculé en 2012

Pour 2012, le total des salaires des patrons du CAC 40 a atteint 92,7 millions d’euros, soit 2,319 millions par dirigeant, selon le classement annuel établi par Les Echos. C’est un recul de 4 % sur les rémunérations dues au titre de 2011. L’an dernier, Maurice Lévy, président du directoire de Publicis, a touché près de 20 millions d’euros, dont 16,2 millions de rémunération différée. Au titre de 2012, il encaissera 4,8 millions d’euros, uniquement en rémunération variable, ce qui le situe à la première place du classement des patrons du CAC 40. Jean-Paul Agon, le patron de L’Oréal, occupe la deuxième place avec près de 3,9 millions d’euros. Bernard Arnault, PDG de LVMH, occupe la troisième place avec des émoluments en repli de 14 %, suivi par le patron de Sanofi, Christopher Viehbacher. Si les fixes sont souvent peu modifiés, les rémunérations variables ont, elles baissé, conséquence de la crise. Exemple type : Franck Riboud a vu sa rémunération variable baisser de 34 %, alors que le groupe a dû avertir dès juin 2012 que ses profits seraient moins bons que prévu.
02/05/2013

CalPERS sélectionne Invesco Real Estate

Le fonds de pension californien CalPERS a annoncé le 30 avril avoir sélectionné Invesco Real Estate en tant que nouveau gérant pour son programme «Multifamily Real Estate». Ce partenariat, intitulé, Institutional Core Multifamily Investors, débutera avec une allocation de 250 millions de dollars qui sera investie prioritairement dans l’ouest des Etats-Unis. Les actifs du programme multifamily s'élèvent à environ 2 milliards de dollars, les actifs du portefeuille immobilier de CalPERS représentant au total 24,5 milliards de dollars.
02/05/2013
Fonds

Direxion lance deux ETF inversés à effet de levier triple

Le gestionnaire américain Direxion (6,5 milliards de dollars) a fait admettre à la négociation le 1er mai deux ETF inversés à triple effet de levier, Direxion Daily Brazil Bear 3x Shares (acronyme : BRZS) and Direxion Daily South Korea Bear 3x Shares (KORZ).Le premier cherche à répliquer sur une base journalière, avant frais, 300 % de l’inverse de la performance du MSCI Brazil 25/50, le second ayant le même objectif avec comme référence le MSCI Korea 25/50, indique un communiqué.Ces deux fonds sont chargés à 1 %.
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02/05/2013

Henderson: l'effet marché et de change supérieur aux remboursements nets

Par solde, si ses fonds retail ont affiché des souscriptions nettes de 188 millions de livres après deux années pleines de sorties nettes, Henderson Group plc accuse pour le premier trimestre 2013 des remboursements nets, Phoenix Group compris, de 1.269 millions de livres. Les sorties nettes imputables à la clientèle institutionnelle, hors Phoenix, ont représenté 1.248 millions de livres.Cependant, grâce à la hausse des marchés et à l’effet de change, qui ont représenté 4.496 millions de livres pour le groupe, dont 2.839 millions pour les produits retail, l’encours a augmenté à 68.877 millions de livres au 31 mars contre 65.650 millions au 1er janvier, dont 33.293 millions contre 30.266 millions pour le retail.
02/05/2013
Fonds

MPL gèle temporairement les remboursements du Traded Policies Fund

Selon Investment Week, Managings Partners Limited (MPL) a suspendu les remboursements de son fonds Traded Policies «dans l’intérêt des porteurs actuels et futurs», sous la forme d’une «gate» temporaire.Ce fonds, qui investit dans un portefeuille d’assurances vie négociées (traded life policies ou TLP), a généré une performance annualisée de 8,94 % en moyenne depuis son lancement en juillet 2004.En novembre, la FSA avait annoncé qu’elle interdirait la commercialisation auprès des particuliers de TLP, jugées "à haut risque et toxiques».
Fonds
02/05/2013

BNP Paribas SS étoffe son offre de services outre-Manche

BNP Paribas Securities Services vient de lancer sa solution globale Dealing Services au Royaume-Uni. Cette solution offre aux investisseurs institutionnels l’accès à un réseau d'équipes qui traitent la réception, la transmission ainsi que l’exécution des ordres. Les services couvrent l’ensemble des classes d’actifs.Cette solution se concentre sur la recherche de liquidité sur tous les marchés et pour tous les types d’actifs.

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