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23/04/2013

La CFTC fustige le Libor

Gary Gensler, président de la Commodity Futures Trading Commission, estime dans le journal que l’utilisation du taux Libor est «insoutenable» et qu’il doit être remplacé au plus vite afin de «restaurer l’intégrité des marchés et promouvoir la stabilité financière». Il ajoute cependant qu’il n’est pas envisageable de mettre le Libor à l'écart sans alternative crédible.
23/04/2013

Les banques doivent personnaliser les services offerts

51% des clients interrogés dans le cadre de l’étude mondiale menée par Capgemini et l’Efma (World Retail Banking) «envisagent de quitter leur banque pour une autre dans les six prochains mois», selon le quotidien. Alors que les Français «se situ(e)nt dans le groupe des plus insatisfaits», les clients les plus heureux sont les Américains, les Canadiens et les Australiens.
23/04/2013

Risque imminent sur la dette des collectivités chinoises

Les véhicules de financement parallèles des collectivités locales chinoises (LGV) vont devoir rembourser des tombées d’échéances d’emprunts de quelque 3.490 milliards de yuans (433 milliards d’euros) sur les trois prochaines années, estime le journal qui cite Shang Fulin, président de l’autorité de régulation bancaire chinoise. Un montant qui représente 37,5% des prêts totaux accordés aux collectivités.
23/04/2013
Gestion d'actifs

La Carac a crée un fonds destiné au financement des PME et des PMI françaises

Les résultats de la gestion financière et immobilière ont permis de renforcer la solidité de la Carac. En vue de la mise en oeuvre complète de la réglementation Solvabilité II, la Carac a poursuivi la dotation de ses fonds propres en y affectant le résultat de l’année 2012 (55,3 millions d’euros). Parallèlement, la Carac a doté la provision pour participation aux excédents de 3 millions d’euros. Celle-ci s'élève à 180 millions d’euros et réaffirme la capacité de la mutuelle à assurer la pérennité des rendements. Le taux de couverture de la marge de solvabilité est, quant à lui, très satisfaisant puisqu’il ressort à 243 %, hors plus-values latentes et à 689 % après prise en compte des plus???values latentes. Au 31 décembre 2012, la répartition des actifs en valeur de marché était la suivante : 71% en actifs obligataires, 8% dans l’immobilier, 7% en actions, 6% en monétaire, 1% en investissements alternatifs. En 2012, la Carac a réalisé 311 millions d’euros de de produits nets de placements financiers et immobiliers. Les investissements se sont essentiellement portés sur des actifs obligataires d'émetteurs privés. C’est dans ce cadre qu’un fonds destiné au financement des PME et des PMI françaises a été créé courant 2012 : Carac financement de l'économie française. Par ailleurs, la bonne tenue des marchés actions, mais surtout la performance des fonds détenus, ont contribué aux bons résultats de l’exercice, annonce Robert Gravil, directeur du patrimoine de Carac.
Gestion d'actifs
23/04/2013
Gestion d'actifs

La CRPCEN recherche la diversification avec des convertibles

Joëlle Castiglione, agent comptable à la CRPCEN, La Caisse de Retraite et de Prévoyance des Clercs et Employés de Notaires lors d’une matinée de formations institutionnelles organisée par Morningstar, avec le soutien de l’Af2i : Nous possédons des réserves immobilières et financières qui conditionnent la survie de notre régime. Nous sommes soumis à des réglementations particulières, avec par exemple des ratios de dispersions à respecter et une impossibilité, pour le moment, d’investir dans la dette émergente. Une partie des réserves est investie en actions. Concernant les obligations, nous cherchons la diversification, notamment avec des convertibles poursuit-elle en indiquant qu’elle recherche des placements très liquides et disponibles... ce qui veut dire peu rémunérés.
Gestion d'actifs
22/04/2013

William Dudley appelle à une action plus vigoureuse

Le président de la Fed de New York a estimé que les faiblesses de l’économie européenne et les péripéties budgétaires aux Etats-Unis signifient que «davantage doit être fait» pour redresser l’économie mondiale et la régulation financière. «La bonne nouvelle est que les pays périphériques ont fait des efforts substantiels pour faire tomber leurs déficits budgétaires structurels», a-t-il ajouté lors d’une conférence à New York.
22/04/2013

Une partie du directoire de la BCE suggère une baisse des taux

Plusieurs membres du conseil des gouverneurs de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) ont souligné lundi le ralentissement de l’inflation et les perspectives médiocres de croissance dans la zone euro, ce qui semble indiquer que l’institution envisage de plus en plus sérieusement une baisse de son principal taux directeur. Le conseil des gouverneurs de la BCE, qui prévoit une nouvelle baisse de l’inflation à 1,3% en 2014, doit se réunir à Bratislava le 2 mai.
22/04/2013

Le président Napolitano cherche une issue à la crise en Italie

Le président Giorgio Napolitano a prêté serment pour un nouveau mandat de sept ans à 17h devant les deux chambres du Parlement. Il a menacé de démissionner au cas où les responsables politiques n’assumeraient pas leurs responsabilités sur les réformes à engager. Il a également dénoncé les nombreux échecs et l’irresponsabilité de la classe politique, jugeant le risque d’impasse politique sans précédent en Italie.
22/04/2013

Lloyds pourrait vendre SWIP

Lloyds Banking Group étudie l’éventualité d’une vente de sa filiale de gestion d’actifs Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, selon Financial News, qui cite une personne proche du dossier. La société de gestion affiche un encours de 141,7 milliards de livres.
22/04/2013
Fonds

Schroders ouvre le fonds Global Multi-Asset Income aux particuliers

Schroders a ajouté une classe de part en livres sterling pour les particuliers à son fonds offshore Global Multi-Asset Income, rapporte Investment Week. C’est la première fois que la société ouvre ce fonds au retail. Le produit jouit d’un historique d’une année et a recueilli 1 milliard de dollars depuis son lancement. Il est géré par Aymeric Forest et Iain Cunningham.
Fonds
22/04/2013

Lazard reopens Lazard Emerging Markets fund to subscriptions

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Lazard Asset Management is reopening its emerging market fund Lazard Emerging Markets to subscriptions. The fund, managed by James Donal and registered in Ireland, has USD751m in assets. It was closed in November 2010, with USD568.2m, in order to limit inflows of new subcriptions and protect returns, Citywire reports. Over three years to the end of March, returns from the fund total 13.52%.
22/04/2013

ABP coverage rate improves

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As of the end of first quarter 2013, the coverage rate for liabilities of the pension fund for Netherlands public employees ABP rose to 101%, compared with 95% one year previously, and 96% as of the end of December. This increase is due to an increase in interest rates (0.1%), to better performance, and to a 0.5% reduction in benefits (from 1 April 2013). However, says Henk Brouwer, president, ABP still has a financing deficit, because the Bank of the Netherlands requires a minimum coverage rat of 104.2%, which ABP hopes to reach by the end of 2013.Liabilities as of the end of March totalled EUR289bn, 3% less than as of the end of 2012, while assets were up by EUR11bn to EUR292bn, largely due to positive market effects (EUR10bn). The contribution of the equity allocation to this increase was EUR7bn.
22/04/2013

Alan Howard tops Sunday Times rankings of hedge fund managers

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The co-founder of the alternative asset management firm Brevan Howard, Alan Howard, has held onto his top place in the Sunday Times rankings of hedge fund managers, with wealth of GBP1.5bn, up by GBP100m compared with the previous year. Howard benefited from an 18% increase in assets under management at Brevan Howard since the end of 2011, to USD40bn. The Master fund by Howard, whose assets under management total about USD28bn, has also gained 6% since the beginning of the year. Another big winner in 2012 was the co-founder of BlueCrest Capital, Mike Platt, whose wealth rose by nearly 50% to GBP950m, and who places third, just behind Alex Knaster, founder of Pamplona Capital, whose wealth has risen by nearly 25% to GBP1.1bn. Among the big winners out of the past year are also Michael Hintze, founder of CQS, whose wealth rose 55% to GBP900m. The CQS Directional Opportunities fund last year earned returns of 36%.
22/04/2013

“We have not ruled out other acquisitions of asset management firms”

Daniel Roy, who joined La Banque Postale in 2011, is head of the asset management and wealth management banking unit, has completed the creation of a platform dedicated to wealth management clients, and describes its characteristics to Newsmanagers. In terms of asset management, aside from the product ranges from its affiliates LBPAM and Tocqueville Finance, and until products from newly-acquired asset management firms are added, which Daniel Roy has not ruled out, the platform will be operating on the basis of open architecture.
22/04/2013

iShares launches four corporate bond ETFs

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The ETF provider iShares on 19 April launched four horizon corproate bond funds, IndexUniverse reports. The funds charge 0.10%, compared with 0.24% for the BulletShares fund from Guggenheim. The four new funds are: iShares 2016 Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEArca: IBCB) iShares 2018 Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEArca: IBCC) iShares 2020 Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEArca: IBCD) iShares 2023 Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEArca: IBCE) iShares has also declared an intention to occupy a niche in the hitherto little-explored sphere of bond ETFs.
22/04/2013

iShares lance quatre ETF d'obligations corporate

Le fournisseur d’ETF iShares a lancé le 19 avril quatre fonds d’obligations corporate à horizon, rapporte IndexUniverse. Ces fonds sont chargés à 0,10%, contre 0,24% pour les fonds BulletShares de Guggenheim.Les quatre nouveux fonds sont iShares 2016 Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEArca: IBCB) iShares 2018 Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEArca: IBCC) iShares 2020 Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEArca: IBCD) iShares 2023 Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEArca: IBCE) iShares marque ainsi sa volonté d’occuper une niche de la sphère des ETF obligataires encore peu explorée.
22/04/2013

Unigestion signs UN-PRI

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Swiss firm Unigestion (EUR10.7bn in assets as of 31 March), on 19 April announced that it has signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN-PRI).“By becoming a signatory to the PRI, the firm assigns the greatest importance to the role that ESG analysis plays in investment processes throughout its product range. Unigestion will also dedicate more time to monitoring the responsible behaviour of the managers it invests with, and will encourage them to make necessary improvements where necessary,” a statement says.
22/04/2013

Assets in Asian funds to approach USD2trn

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Assets in Asia ex Japan funds are expected to increase by 67% to a total of USD1.9trn by 2017, Asian Investor reports, citing figures from Cerulli Associates. Last year, assets rose 20% to USD1.140trn, a record.
22/04/2013

Nelson Peltz increases stakes in Pepsico and Mendelez

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Trian Fund, the activist hedge fund from Nelson Peltz, has announced that it has purchased additional shares in Pepsico and Mendelez. According to the Wall Street Journal, the fund now holds USD1.4bn of shares in Pepsico and USD1.3bn in shares in Mendelez. According to financial industry sources, Peltz is seeking to impose a merger of Pepsico (Frito-Lay, Tropicana and Quaker Oats) and Mendelez (Oreo and Cadbury).
22/04/2013

State Street AUM up 4.3% in first quarter

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Assets under custody and administration at State Street as of the end of March totalled USD25.422bn, up 4.3% compared with fourth quarter 2012, according to figures released on 19 April.Assets under management by the US firm as of the end of March totalled USD2.176trn, compared with USD2.86bn one quarter previously, up 4.3% quarter on quarter.Commissions for services in first quarter increased 2.2% to USD1.2bn, due to the good performance of equity markets and higher trading volumes.Management commissions totalled USD263m, compared with USD260m in fourth quarter, a limited increase due to falling performance commissions.Net profits in first quarter totalled USD45m, compared with USD468m in fourth quarter 2012, and USD417m in first quarter 2012.
22/04/2013

Increase of nearly 4% in assets at OFI in first quarter

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Vincent Ribuot, head of marketing and strategy, on 19 April announced that Ofi as of the end of March reached assets of EUR55.620bn, which represents an increase of EUR2.087bn, or 3.9%, compared with EUR53.533bn as of the end of December. One third of this increase comes from market appreciation, and two thirds from net subscriptions, of which 50% are to core products and 50% of less traditional products such as infrastructure.Three high yield horizon funds have been launched recently, one dedicated 2018 fund, one retail 2018 fund and one institutional fund, which have attracted EUR220m since their launch, and which still have good potential for short-term inflows.Ribuot also stated that about one quarter of total assets are subject to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, and that assets in SRI-labelled investment total EUR5.6bn.Jean-Marie Mercadal, deputy CEO in charge of investment management, recommends investments in the current situation in equities (including European equities), high yield, convertibles, and for those who are inclined to take risks, government bonds from peripheral European countries.In the area of emerging market debt, Mercadal and Ribuot have announced that Ofi has recently launched a dedicated fund which invests in government and corporate bonds denominated in hard and local currencies, both investment grade or non-investment grade. The product is 50% managed internally, and the remaining 50% are outsourced to external specialist manageers who know internal local markets well.
22/04/2013

Muzinich recruits for Paris office

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } After more than ten years as part of the Edmond de Rothschild group, Sophie Debert-Pérat, who had most recently been head of sales for Switzerland and Belgium at the Edmond de Rothschild Paris group (Edrim) for fixed income and credit manafgement, structured management, absolute return management, long-only multi-management and alternative multi-management, is joining the Paris office of Muzinich & Co as director of institutional clients. Debert-Pérat will be more particularly responsible for developing relationships with Swiss and Belgian clients. The Paris office, led by Eric Pictet, now has 5 employees.
22/04/2013

Victoire Brasil Investimentos arrives in France

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Brazilian independent portfolio management firm Victoire Brasil Investimentos has retained Amadé Global Partners, a French TPM, to provide commercial development in France.The Latin American firm, founded in 2001, is known for its expertise on Brazilian equity markets, with nearly USD1bn in assets under management.It is now developing sales of its fund range to European institutional and private investors.It is not the first Brazilian asset management firm to enter the French market. Bradesco Asset Management, an affiliate of a major Brazilian bank, also began courting French investors a few months ago.
22/04/2013

Pay cut for BlackRock chief

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi reports that Laurence Fink, the head of BlackRock, made USD20.2m in 2012, down 7.5% compared with the previous year. The CEO of the asset management group earned a salary of USD500,000, a cash bonus of USD8.6m, USD10.9m in shares, and USD187,350 of compensation in other forms.
22/04/2013

March Gestión absorbs three funds fron Consulnor

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Funds People reports that March Gestión has absorbed the Consulnor dividendos fund into the March Europa Bolsa, the Consulnor Renta Fija Corto Plazo into the March Premier Tesorería, and the Fonconsul into the Fonmarch. There are also plans for the asset management firm for Banca March to take over the profiled funds from Consulnor in the near future.In June 2012, Banca March bought a stake in the Basque firm Consulnor, with plans to subsequently acquire all capital in the firm. Consulnor Gestión manages nine funds (including three transferred in March) for a total of EUR134m, while March Gestión has 25 funds, with EUR1.1bn. Consulnor Gestión manages 43 Sicavs with EUR259m in assets, while March Gestión has 68, with EUR874m.
22/04/2013

Artemis recruits a former Henderson manager

Artemis Investment Management has hired Henderson’s Paul Casson to help Tim Steer manage the GBP504 million Artemis UK Growth Fund, segregated institutional UK Growth accounts and the Artemis UK Hedge Fund.After a BSc in Accounting and two years as an auditor, Paul Casson started his investment career in 1997 with Martin Currie. In 2001 he moved to SVM and then in 2005 to Henderson as a director of pan-European equities. Meanwhile, Artemis also announces that Stephen Yiu, who joined Artemis with Tim Steer from New Star in 2009, has resigned in order to move back to his native Hong Kong.
22/04/2013

Head of EMEA retail sales leaves BlackRock

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The head of EMEA retail strategic client accounts at BlackRock, Mark Elliott, has left the firm, Fund Web reports. He had held the position since January 2012.
22/04/2013

Japan and China in investors' sights

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Quantitative easing in Japan, which will be likely to boost the world’s third-largest economy, and the most recent Chinese statistics suggesting more moderate growth in the next few years, of less than 8%, played a central role in investment decisions in mid-April.Japanese equity funds posted net inflows of over USD3bn in the week ending on 17 April, while Chinese equity funds saw further redemptions totalling approximately USD480m, according to statistics released by EPFR Global.Developed market equity funds finished the week with gains due to subscriptions to Japanese and US equity funds, but investors continued to avoid European funds due to very mediocre growth outlooks. German equity funds saw outflows of over USD400m in the week ending on 17 April, and since the beginning of the month of March, European equity funds overall have seen net redemptions totalling over USD6bn.Overall, equity funds have posted net inflows in the week to 17 April of USD4.63bn, while bond funds, for their part, have attracted USD3.47bn. Money market funds have seen one of the largest weekly outflows since the beginning of the year, due to redemptions of about USD30bn from US money market funds.

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