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16/01/2013

Mariano Rajoy voit le bout du tunnel

Dans un entretien accordé au journal, le Premier ministre espagnol estime qu’un retour de la croissance se dessine dès le deuxième semestre de l’année et devrait même «être visible très clairement en 2014». Il en appelle également à l’Allemagne ainsi qu’aux autres pays créanciers pour promouvoir une politique tournée vers le soutien à la croissance.
16/01/2013

L’immobilier londonien comme un aimant

Le quotidien cite une étude de Knight Frank faisant état d’un bond de l’investissement étranger au sein de l’immobilier londonien. Les intervenants étrangers ont en effet consacré l’an passé 2,2 milliards de livres à la construction de nouvelles habitations, contre 1,8 milliard en 2011. Les ressortissants de Hong Kong et de Singapour ont représenté respectivement 23 et 16% du montant total des investissements.
16/01/2013

Les Etats-Unis votent une aide exceptionnelle pour Sandy

La Chambre des représentants a approuvé mardi un plan d’aide de 50,5 milliards de dollars pour indemniser les victimes de l’ouragan Sandy et financer la réparation des dégâts commis lors de son passage sur le Nord-Est des Etats-Unis fin octobre dernier. La Chambre a ensuite approuvé l’allocation de 33,5 milliards de dollars affectés à des projets de reconstruction à long terme.
15/01/2013

Michel Barnier salue le compromis sur les agences de notation

Lors d’une intervention devant le Parlement européen cet après-midi, le commissaire européen chargé du Marché intérieur et des services a salué le compromis obtenu sur l’encadrement des agences de notation, un an après la présentation de la proposition de la Commission.
michel barnier London - Europe House le 23-07-2020
15/01/2013

La consommation a été soutenue en fin d’année aux Etats-Unis

Selon les données publiées par le département du Commerce, les ventes au détail ont progressé de 0,5% après +0,4% en novembre (+0,3% en estimation initiale). Les économistes avaient de leur côté anticipé une hausse de 0,2%. Hors automobile, essence et matériaux de construction, les ventes ont augmenté de 0,6%, contre 0,5% le mois précédent.
15/01/2013

Nouvelle baisse des prix à la production américains

Les prix à la production aux Etats-Unis ont baissé pour le troisième mois consécutif en décembre, tirés notamment par les prix alimentaires, confirmant le reflux des pressions inflationnistes. L’indice des prix à la production corrigé des variations saisonnières a reculé de 0,2% le mois dernier. Hors alimentation et énergie, l’indice PPI affiche une hausse limitée à 0,1% par rapport à novembre.
15/01/2013

L'indice «Empire State» reste nettement négatif

La production manufacturière de la région de New York s’est contractée pour le sixième mois consécutif en janvier, en raison d’une baisse des commandes nouvelles et surtout des livraisons, a annoncé la Réserve fédérale de New York. Son indice «Empire State» est ressorti à -7,8 contre -7,3 (révisé) en décembre.
15/01/2013

La Banque du Portugal plus pessimiste pour 2013

La Banque du Portugal a revu à la baisse ses prévisions économiques mardi, tablant sur une contraction du PIB de 1,9% en 2013, une croissance mondiale ralentie freinant la demande d’exportations, avec aussi une consommation intérieure en repli. La banque centrale portugaise avait tablé auparavant sur une baisse de 1,6 % du PIB cette année.
15/01/2013

Pierre Moscovici pour un équilibre entre croissance et baisse des déficits

«Dans une zone euro en récession, il y a un équilibre à trouver entre la nécessité de minimiser l’effet négatif à court terme des efforts de redressement des comptes publics sur la demande et celle de préserver la crédibilité des plans d’ajustement à moyen terme», a déclaré le ministre des Finances Pierre Moscovici devant la commission des Affaires économiques de l’Assemblée nationale.
15/01/2013

Le FESF inaugure son programme de financement 2013

Le Fonds européen de stabilité financière (FESF) a placé 7 milliards d’euros d’obligations à sept ans. Le rendement est ressorti pour les investisseurs à 1,612%. Barclays , Nomura et SG CIB avaient été nommées chefs de file pour cette opération qui a attiré une demande de plus de 8,3 milliards d’euros.
15/01/2013

L'emprunt à 15 ans italien atteindra 6 milliards d’euros

Le montant définitif du nouvel emprunt à 15 ans de l’Italie sera de six milliards d’euros, ont indiqué deux banques chefs de file de l'émission. Le papier, qui arrive à échéance le 1er septembre 2028, offrira une prime de 30 points de base sur le BTP échéance mars 2026. Le Trésor a précisé avoir mandaté cinq banques - Banca IMI, Barclays Bank, Crédit Agricole, Goldman Sachs et JP Morgan Securities - pour piloter cette opération.
15/01/2013

Ashcourt Rowan recruits a former Generali manager

David Palmer from Generali has joined Ashcourt Rowan as director of the asset management arm of the wealth management firm, Investment Week reports. He will report to CEO Jonathan Polin (formerly of Ignis AM). Palmer had previously worked at Generali, where he founded the portfolio management division of the firm.
15/01/2013

Marlborough plans to add to its product range in Asia

Sally Mcdonald has joined the British asset management firm Marlborough Fund Managers, in the newly-created position of head of Asian equities, Investment Week reports. Mcdonald, who will begin in her new role on 1 February, previously worked at City of London Investment Management. With this recruitment, Marlborough hopes to increase its range of Asian equities in the region. Currently, the firm has only one product available, the Far East Growth Fund, whose assets under management total GBP24m.
15/01/2013

Henderson recruits for multi-asset team

Paul O’Connor will join Henderson at the end of this month as director of the multi-asset team at the firm, Investment Week reports. O’Connor previously worked at Mercer as a partner and head of asset allocation for the Investment Management unit at Mercer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In his new role, he will be responsible for the management of a “Diversified Growth” institutional strategy.
15/01/2013

Temasek hires from Morgan Stanley

The Singapore sovereign fund Temasek has recruited Jonathan Popper, managing director, in charge of merger/acquisition activities at Morgan Stanley for South-East Asia, Finance Asia reports. Popper will join Temasek in the next few months. Morgan Stanley has confirmed the departure of Popper, without stating his destination. Assets under management at Temased at the end of March 2012 totalled SGD198bn, or about USD160bn.
15/01/2013

Aberdeen AM recruits from Schroders

Aberdeen Asset Management has recruited Dimme Lucassen, a manager specialised in real estate, who for ten years had worked in the real estate unit at Schroders, where he had been manager of a real estate fund of funds, Citywire reports. In his new role, Lucassen will concentrate on a euro zone fund of funds, previously managed by Karin Koks, who has recently been appointed as head of international markets at Aberdeen AM.
15/01/2013

Gottex liquidates its absolute return fund

On 11 January, Gottex Fund Management sent a letter to shareholders in the Gottex Absolute Return fund, stating that a lack of sufficient assets has required it to close the absolute return fund, Funds Europe reports. Assets under management had fallen to EUR4.11m as of 2 January, from EUR12.6m as of the end of June. The last net asset value from the single sub-fund of the Gottex Luxembourg-registered Sicav will be calculated on 15 February.
15/01/2013

UCITS funds post inflows of EUR36bn in November

UCITS registered net inflows of EUR 36 billion in November compared to EUR 41 billion recorded in October, according to the latest European Fund and Asset Management Association’s investment sales and asset data. Long-term UCITS (excluding money market funds) net sales rose in November to EUR 36 billion, from EUR 34 billion in October. Net sales of equity funds amounted to EUR 13 billion, up from EUR 3 billion the previous month, while net inflows into bond funds amounted to EUR 19 billion, compared to EUR 25 billion in October. Balanced funds registered a reduction in net sales month on month of EUR 3 billion versus EUR 5 billion.“Net inflows into bond funds remained the largest contributor to total net sales of UCITS in November. The substantial volume of net sales of equity funds was largely due to the transfer of some insurance company assets into UCITS,” said Bernard Delbecque, director of Economics and Research at EFAMA.Net sales of money market funds broke even in November after recording net inflows of EUR 6 billion in October.Net sales of non-UCITS totalled EUR 8 billion, down from EUR 13 billion in October. Special funds (funds reserved to institutional investors) reduced sharply in November to EUR 3 billion, compared to EUR 10 billion in the previous month.Finally, total net assets of UCITS increased 1.1% in November to EUR 6,316 billion, whilst non-UCITS net assets increased 0.9% to stand at EUR 2,502 billion.
15/01/2013

Strong inflows to Swedish funds in 2012

Funds on sale in Sweden in 2012 recorded net inflows of SEK74.5bn (EUR8.6bn), according to statistics from the Swedish investment fund association Fondbolagens förening. That is far higher than the SEK16bn (about EUR1.8bn) posted in 2011. Inflows were driven by balanced funds (SEK34.6bn) and equity funds (SEK30.8bn), while bond funds also did well (SEK20.8bn). However, money market funds saw outflows of SEK5.3bn, while hedge funds had net redemptions of SEK6.2bn. At the end of 2012, assets in Swedish funds totalled SEK2.049trn, or about EUR237bn, of which about 53% were in equity funds. That represents an increase of SEK230bn year on year.
15/01/2013

Citi to provide additional services to Franklin Templeton

In Hong Kong, Citi on 8 January announced that Franklin Templeton Investments (Asia) Limited has selected it to provide trustee, custody and transfer agency services to the Templeton China Opportunities Fund, the first unit trust of Chinese A-class QFII equities from Franklin Templeton.The contract extends the service mandates which links Citi to the MPF funds from Franklin Temlpeton, says David Russell, regional head, Asia Pacific, securities & fund services at Citi.
15/01/2013

Strong growth for Bantleon in 2012

As of 31 December, assets at the German bond management firm Bantleon were up 50.3% year on year, to EUR7.94bn; not counting market appreciation, the increase was still 45.8%.Net subscriptions doubled to EUR2.42bn in 2012, compared with EUR1.2bn the previous year, of which EUR410m were from retail clients. Net inflows totalled EUR846m in 2010, and EUR1.2bn in 2009.Of the total AUM, assets in open-ended funds totalled EUR3.88bn at the end of last year, while assets in institutional funds totalled EUR4.06bn; net subscriptions totalled EUR1.48bn for open-ended funds, and EUR940m for “Spezialfonds.”Jörg Bantleon, chairman of the board of directors, has stated that the wealth management strategy of Bantleon Opportunities singlehandedly brought in inflows of EUR2.18bn last year, of which EUR1.16bn were for the two open-ended funds Bantleon Opportunities S and L (whose assets as of the end of December totalled USD1.9bn), while EUR940m went to institutional funds using the same approach.
15/01/2013

Wegelin: two managing partners file lawsuits against Christophe Darbellay

Konrad Hummler and Otto Bruderer, who heads of the former Wegelin bank, are suing Christophe Darbellay. The chairman of the Christian Dmocratic party (PDC) called them “traitors” for announcing that Wegelin’s fraudulent practices in the United States represented the norm among Swiss banks. Darbellay still maintains his position. “The statements of Mr. Hummler and Mr. Bruderer constitute a defamation of the Swiss financial market before the entire world. As a Swiss sitizen and politician and a representative of the Swiss economic centre, I feel that such an attitude is treason,” the member of Swiss parliament says, cited by Béatrice Wertli.
15/01/2013

New QFII and RQFII quotas for 14 asset managers

The Chinese State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has issued new quotas for a total of USD1.4bn to eight asset managers which have been licensed as Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII), including USD500m for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), and CNY18bn for holders of RQFII licenses (Hong Kong yuan-denominated funds), Asian Investor reports. As of 31 December, SAFE had awarded QFII quotas totalling USD37.4b to 169 asset management firms, and CNY67bn to 24 RQFII managers.The other five recipients of QFII quotas are Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, BOC Group Life Assurance Company (USD200m each), KB Asset Management (USD100m), the Church Pension Fund, and Duke University (USD50m each).For RQFII quotas, SAFE has increased by CNY5.8bn the quotas for China Asset Management and E Fund, and CSOP for a further CNY5bn, while ICBC Credit Suisse, China International Fund Management and GF Fund Management have received their first quotas for CNY800m each.
15/01/2013

BlackRock recruits a new head for China

BlackRock is expected this week to announce the recruitment of Wang Hsueh-ming, a former partner at Goldman Sachs, as chairman of its operations in China, the Financial Times predicts. “ If we are asked, we plan to help the Chinese think about turning Chinese savers into investors by making the financial markets more robust ,” Larry Fink, the founder and CEO of BlackRock, tells the FT.
15/01/2013

Chinese sovereign fund earns returns of over 10%

The China Investment Coporation (CIC), the Chinese sovereign fund, whose assets under management total about USD482bn, last year earned returns of over 10%, according to statements from the head of the fund, Lou Jiwei, the website Opalesque reports. “We don’t have final figures … but we are confident that our returns will be higher than 10%,” the head has stated.
15/01/2013

JPMAM replaces head and recruits in Switzerland

finews.ch reports that J. P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has appointed Philipp Pfenninger, who had previously served as head of distribution to banks, as country head for Switzerland, replacing Roland Vogel, who has left the business.JPMAM has also recruited an investment consultant from Bank Vontobel, Marc Schumacher, who will join the team to assist clients at the cantonal and regional banks.The news website also reports that Claudia Nägeli (formerly of RBS) joined JPMAM in October 2012 as senior sales executive, global liquidity. She will be particularly responsible for assisting corporate and institutional clients.
15/01/2013

GAM acquires 30% of a US asset management firm

Switzeland’s asset manager GAM will acquire a minority stake of approximately 30% in QFS Asset Management, a US-based alternative asset management boutique that specialises in currency, global macro and fixed income strategies.The partnership will also see GAM and QFS work very closely together, with GAM being responsible for the global distribution and marketing of existing and new strategies managed by QFS.Moreover, following the formal closure of the agreement, GAM plans to introduce a UCITS product based on QFS’s flagship currency strategy in the coming months. Launched in March 1993 and trading in highly liquid instruments, the strategy has delivered net returns to clients of 10.75% per annum (as at 31 December 2012). GAM has USD48 billion in assets under management, while QFS has over USD1 bn of assets under management.
15/01/2013

Global X launches a “junior MLP” ETF

On 27 November, Global X applied to the SEC for a license for the Global X Junior MLP ETF, whose acronym on NYSE Arca will be MLPJ, and whose management commission and thus TER will be 0.75%. The product, which focuses on master limited partnerships (MLP) with USD200m-USD2.5bn, will replicate the Solactive Junior MLP Index from the Frankfurt-based Structured Solutions AG.According to Index Universe, the fund will be admitted to trading on 15 January.

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