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25/06/2012

La Cour des Compte se penche sur la gestion de l’AFT

Dans le cadre de sept «référés» transmis par le Premier président de l’institution de la rue Cambon au gouvernement, il ressort de l’examen de la mission de l’Agence France Trésor que «l’émission d’obligations indexées sur l’inflation constitue un élément de diversification de la dette dont le bilan financier doit être établi». La Cour juge que l’organisation des séances d’adjudication est «globalement fiable».
25/06/2012

Le Qatar emporte quatre fleurons de l'hôtellerie

Les acquisitions du Qatar dans l’hôtellerie de luxe française se multiplient avec l’achat de quatre nouveaux hôtels et de l’immeuble du Figaro, à Paris, a rapporté samedi Le Figaro. Le groupe hôtelier Starwood Capital, qui avait déjà vendu l’hôtel Crillon à Paris, vendrait à un investisseur du Qatar quatre de ses plus gros établissements français. Il s’agit du Concorde Lafayette Porte Maillot et de l’Hôtel du Louvre, tous à Paris, du Palais de la Méditerranée à Nice et du Martinez à Cannes. Le montant de l’opération serait de 700 à 750 millions d’euros, précise le journal. La vente de ces établissements serait à l’ordre du jour du comité central d’entreprise du Groupe du Louvre (Starwood Capital), prévu le 28 juin. Après être entré au capital de fleurons industriels, le Qatar a débarqué dans le sport français en rachetant le club de football PSG et en lançant la chaîne BeIN Sport.
25/06/2012

Une réforme par étapes pour le Livret A

Promesse de campagne de François Hollande, la réforme du Livret A, qui était attendue dès juillet, serait repoussée à la rentrée, voire à l’automne, croit savoir le Journal du Dimanche. A l’issue de discussions qualifiées de «constructives» avec les établissements bancaires, le gouvernement aurait par ailleurs accepté d’augmenter le plafond de 15.300 euros à 20.000 euros dans un premier temps, contre un montant de 30.600 euros initialement envisagé. Un délai de deux à trois ans serait mis en place pour juger des effets d’une telle réforme et éventuellement l’approfondir. «Une méthode douce pour éviter des transferts d’épargne massifs», écrit le JDD. Les transferts vers le livret A sont estimés de 35 à 40 milliards d’euros par les acteurs bancaires. «Et cette manne ne leur profiterait pas puisque deux tiers des encours sont centralisés à la Caisse des dépôts», rappelle le journal.
25/06/2012

La BRI s’inquiète d’une bulle dans les émergents

Des politiques monétaires laxistes au niveau mondial ouvrent en grand les vannes du crédit et les prix des actifs flambent dans certains pays émergents, avertit la Banque des règlements internationaux (BRI) dans son rapport annuel. Un tel cycle pourrait avoir d’importantes répercussions à travers le monde, prévient-elle. La BRI estime par ailleurs que lacréation d’une union bancaire pour la zone euro permettrait de desserrer l'étau de la crise de la dette.
25/06/2012

Le Qatar cherche à mettre pied en Chine

Le fonds souverain du Qatar chercherait à obtenir une licence dans le cadre du programme ouvrant le marché des capitaux chinois aux investisseurs étrangers qualifiés et qui a été élargi la semaine dernière par Pékin, selon le China Securities Journal qui cite des propos du ministre de l’industrie et de l’énergie qatari, Mohammed Bin Saleh al-Sada. Le Qatar demande un quota de 5 milliards de dollars.
25/06/2012

Cinven réalise deux acquisitions

La société britannique de capital-investissement, conseillée par Citi, a scellé les deux premières acquisitions de son dernier fonds, avec le rachat du fournisseur français au secteur énergétique Prezioso et le groupe turc d’alarme électrique Pronet pour un montant global compris entre 300 et 350 millions d’euros, selon le Financial Times qui cite des sources proches du dossier. Cinven aurait déjà réussir à réunir 3 milliards d’euros pour son cinquième fonds, mais espère lever au total 5 milliards.
25/06/2012
Gestion d'actifs

La CARMF enregistre un rendement annuel global de -7,64 % en 2011

La chute des marchés financiers en 2008 a conduit la CARMF à actualiser ses comptes sur les valeurs de ses actifs financiers par dépréciation de son portefeuille titres, ce qui a pesé sur l’affichage des résultats financiers 2008 (- 670 M€). En 2009, suite au redressement des indices boursiers, la CARMF a dégagé un résultat net financier excédentaire de 521 M€. La poursuite du redressement de l’activité financière a permis à la CARMF de dégager un résultat financier excédentaire de 336 M€ en 2010. Ce phénomène de rattrapage a été stoppé en 2011, notamment à cause de la baisse des marchés actions sur le deuxième semestre 2011, l’exercice 2011 dégage donc des charges financières nettes de 93 M€. Le rendement annuel global, après fiscalité, du portefeuille de la CARMF est de - 7,64 % pour l’année 2011. Les performances des valeurs mobilières de la CARMF, taux de rendement interne du portefeuille initial et des investissements de la période (TRI) au 31 décembre 2011, se répartissent comme suit : + 2,79 % pour la gestion diversifiée, - 10,23 % pour les actions, - 10,29 % pour les obligations convertibles, - 0,45 % pour les obligations et la trésorerie dynamique, - 5,10 % pour la gestion alternative. Rendement global par année (après fiscalité) : 2011 : - 7,64 % 2010 : + 8,60 % 2009 : + 21,64 % 2008 : - 28,83 % 2007 : + 4,62 % 2006 : + 11,76 % 2005 : + 17,41 % 2004 : + 7,08 % 2003 : + 12,79 % Rendement annuel global au 31 décembre 2011 (après fiscalité) : 1 an : - 7,64 % 3 ans : + 6,76 % 5 ans : - 1,83 % 10 ans : + 1,98 % 15 ans : + 2,70 % 20 ans : + 3,11 %
Gestion d'actifs
25/06/2012

Axa releases Latin America fund in Germany

BaFin has issued a sales license for Germany to the equity fund Axa WF Framlington LatAm, created on 14 May, and managed by Julian Thompson, global head of emerging markets at Axa Framlington (see Newsmanagers of 15 June).The Luxembourg-registered fund, distributed by Axa Investment Managers (LU0746602159), charges fees of 1.5% to retail investors (no minimal subscription), and 0.75% for institutional investors (from EUR0.5m).Axa IM states that it is planning to apply for a sales license in other European countries.
25/06/2012

Former Lehman Brothers AM plans to distribute its funds in Italy

Neuberger Berman is in talks with several major financial adviser networks to distribute its funds in Italy, Marco Avanzi Barbieri, executive director of the firm, has announced to the Italian website Bluerating. Behind the name Neuberger Berman is concealed the former asset management activities of Lehman Brothers, the website points out. The new structure, based in New York, is seeking to grow in Europe. An office was opened in Italy in November 2011, and other offices may soon be opened in Europe.
25/06/2012

CS Euroreal to distribute nearly EUR450m in early July

The first payment to shareholders in the German open-ended real estate fund CS Euroreal (EUR6bn in assets as of the end of April), which Credit Suisse has decided to liquidate (see Newsmanagers of 22 May) will be made on 3 July. It will be EUR4.50 for each share in euros (DE0009805002) and CHF6.70 for each share in Swiss francs (DE0009751404). Overall, Credit Suisse will distribute EUR446.9m, or 7.7% of total assets in the fund.The next payment will come with the fund’s annual distribution in December 2012. Its total amount will depend on the volume of properties sold off, on the one hand, and on the results of negotiations over potential early repayment of bank loans, on the other. As for all credit, lenders must be paid off before shareholders.
25/06/2012

Frankfurt lists three more ETFs

On Thursday, Deutsche Börse admitted the iShares DJ Emerging Markets Select Dividend ETF to trading on the Xetra electronic trading platform. On Friday, the German-registered product was followed by two Luxembourg-registered products from UBS Global Asset Management.The new additions bring the number of ETFs listed in Frankfurt to 984. This represents some recent stagnation, as the number of products was 983 on 18 June, and 986 on 10 June.CharacteristicsName: iShares Dow Jones Emerging Markets Select DividendISIN code: DE000A1JXDN6Benchmark index: Dow Jones Emerging Markets Select DividendTER: 0.65%Name: UBS-ETF MSCI Pacific (ex Japan) IISIN code: LU0446734799Benchmark index: MSCI Pacific ex JapanTER: 0.30%Name: UBS-ETF FTSE 100 IISIN code: LU0446735176Benchmark index: FTSE 100TER: 0.23%
25/06/2012

Chinese sovereign fund CIC buys 7% of Eutelsat

The Spanish toll motorway operator Abertis on 22 June announced that it is selling a further 7% of its stake in the satellite operator Eutelsat to the Chinese sovereign fund China Investment Corporation (CIC) for a total of EUR385.2m. The sale will generate gains of EUR237m, Abertis says in a statement, adding that its stake in Eutelsat now totals only 8.3% after the transaction.
25/06/2012

Banca Generali reintegrates asset management firm

The board of directors at the Italian Banca Generali has approved a proposed merger via incorporation of its asset management affiliate, BG SGR, which was first proposed in December, a press statement announced on 21 June. The operation has also been approved by the Bank of Italy and the shareholders of BG SGR. The integration comes as part of a planned rationalisation of management activities at Banca Generali, begun in September last year with the sale of BG SGR’s funds to Generali Investments Italy. The merger, which is the second stage in the project, will allow Banca Generali to reintegrate the remaining activities of BG SGR into the perimeter of Banca Generali, including mandated management, which represents EUR3.1bn. These activities will become an independent division within the bank, specialised in mandated management.
25/06/2012

S&P Indices launches a Sharia index

The index provider S&P Indices on 22 June announced the launch of an index dedicated to companies which respect Islamic Sharia law, the S&P/OIC COMEC 50 Shariah Index, designed to evaluate the performance of 50 major Sharia-compliant businesses based in member countries of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC).The index has been developed in partnership with the OIC, a statement from S&P Indices states, adding that all companies in the 19 countries and territories whose stock markets are members of the OIC stock markets, and which are monitored by S&P Indices, are eligible to be included in the index.The composition of the index must include at least one company, and up to 8 companies from each country, in order to ensure diversification. Major positions of the index Country Weight in index Number of shares Bahrain 0.1% 1 Bangladesh 0.3% 1 Ivory Coast 0.4% 1 Egypt 0.6% 1 Indonesia 19.7% 8 Jordan 0.1% 1 Kazakhstan 3.6% 2 Kuwait 9.0% 3 Lebanon 1.1% 1 Malaysia 20.4% 7 Morocco 2.4% 2 Nigeria 0.6% 1 Oman 0.6% 1 Pakistan 0.9% 1 Qatar 7.5% 3 Saudi Arabia 20.7% 8 Tunisia 0.1% 1 Turkey 11.7% 6 U.A.E. 0.3% 1 Total 100.0% 50 Counry Company Weight in index Indonesia Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk PT 5.3% Saudi Arabia Al Rajhi Banking & Investment Corp. 5.1% Kuwait Mobile Telecommunications Company 5.1% Saudi Arabia SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORP 5.1% Malaysia Sime Darby Bhd 4.5% Qatar Industries Qatar 4.2% Malaysia IOI Corp Bhd 3.5% Turkey BIM Birlesik Magazalar AS 3.3% Kuwait Kuwait Finance House 3.2% Malaysia Maxis Bhd 3.1% Total 42.4%
25/06/2012

Sovereign funds step up investments

Sovereign funds invested 42% more tin 2011 than in 2010, according to a study by the Sovereign Investment Lab at the University of Bocconi in Milan, cited by the Financial Times. In 2011, there were 237 direct investments by these funds, totalling USD80.9bn. Most of this money went to developed countries, particularly businesses with exposure to emerging markets.
25/06/2012

Les gérants d'actifs peinent à retrouver leur rentabilité passée

Le secteur de la gestion d’actifs peine à renouer avec son niveau de rentabilité d’avant crise. Si les actifs sont revenus à leur plus haut niveau (38.200 milliards d’euros en 2011, contre 38.100 milliards d’euros en 2007 au niveau mondial), les bénéfices enregistrés sont ainsi restés de 20 à 30% inférieurs au niveau de 2007 dans des zones telles que l’Amérique du Nord et l’Europe occidentale, selon une étude mondiale sur le secteur réalisée par McKinsey.
25/06/2012

Underperforming managers forced to cut fees

Increasing competition in the institutional asset management industry has reached such a level that clients have begun to react to under-performing periods, asking for fee reductions, an article in Financial News reports. In many cases, they get them.
25/06/2012

LBPAM builds a three-manager team dedicated to debt funds

La Banque Postale Asset Management is opening up to the new asset class of debt funds, and on Monday announced that it has recruited three specialist managers. The team is composed of René Kassis, who will serve as director of management for debt funds, and in this role, head of current infrastructure and real estate fund projects. He also becomes a member of the board of directors at LBPAM. In the unit, Kassis works with Pierre Saeli, a specialist manager of real estate debt, and Pierre Bonnet, a manager specialised in infrastructure debt. The members of the team, who will report to Vincent Cornet, chief investment officer and a board member at LBPAM, all hail from the banking industry. Kasss, 44, had been head of infrastructure financing at Dexia, and since 2009, had served as deputy director of project financing at Dexia Crédit Local, while Saeli, 38, was in 2005 director of real estate financing at Royal Bank of Scotland, and then in 2012 joined Deutsche Pfandbriefbank. Lastly, Bonnet, aged 33, had served since 2008 as director of projects and co-head of public-private partnerships for France for direction of project financing, the infrastructure sector, and Dexia Crédit Local.
25/06/2012

Stéphane Chossat to manage new fund at Alexandre Finance

Stéphane Chossat has left Hixance Am to join Alexandre France. The asset management firm has confirmed reports on H24 Finance to Newsmanagers. He will manage the new “Patrimoine by Alexandre” fund, says Michel Peronne, chairman of Alexandre Finance. The new product “will invest 90% in euro zone bonds, and 10% in equities, but we will allow ourselves to increase the proportion of equities to 30% if the environment is right,” he adds. Alexandre Finance manages EUR150m, of which EUR65m are in private management. Jean-Noël Vieille will serve as fund manager at Hixance AM, for funds previously managed by Chossat.
25/06/2012

Founding partner changes positions at BlackRock

BlackRock has announced that Susan L. Wagner, a founding partner of BlackRock, is retiring as a vice chairman of BlackRock and has been elected to BlackRock’s board of directors. She will retire at the end of this month and take her seat on the board at the October meeting. She also will continue to serve as a director of DSP BlackRock Investment Managers, the firm’s joint venture in India.In addition to serving as a vice chairman of BlackRock, Ms. Wagner serves as a member of BlackRock’s global executive committee and global operating committee.
25/06/2012

JP Morgan appoints a global head of bonds

JPMorgan Asset Management has announced that Chris Willcox will become global head of fixed income and currencies, Investment Week reports. He succeeds Seth Bernstein, who has been appointed by the asset management firm to direct its multi-asset class activities as part of a new group entitled asset management solutions.
25/06/2012

Head of fixed income at Ecofi joins Crédit Mutuel

Florent Combes, head of fixed income at Ecofi Investissements, has left the firm after nine years there, Citywire reports. He will be joining Crédit Mutuel as head of fixed income and currencies. Bernard Angéniol will be taking over his responsibilities at Ecofi. He is now chief investment officer at the asset management firm, Citywire reports. He had previously been chief risk officer.
25/06/2012

Ethos founds an academy to promote responsible investment

The Ethos Foundation on 22 June announced the creation of a non-profit association to serve private shareholders. The aim of the Ethos Académie is to promote the principles of socially responnsible investment in civil society. With this initiatives, the Foundation, which represents institutional investors, “is seeking to provide private individuals with a way to contribute to the development of a healthy and sustainable economy,” the chairman of the Ethos foundation, Kaspar Müller, says, cited in a statement. The mission of the new entity is primarily to stabilise. Concretely, “its strong points will be holding public events, conferences and debates on current topics in corporate and investor social responsibility. Studies in the areas of expertise of Ethos will be undertaken,” says Ethos.
25/06/2012

Approval for acquisition of a majority stake in Sarasin by Safra

On Friday, the Swiss federal financial market authority (Finma) approved a proposed acqusition of a 46.07% stake in the capital, and a 68.63% stake in the voting rights of the Basel-based Banque Sarasin (see Newsmanagers of 28 November 2011) by the Safra group.Pending final approval by various international regulatory authorities, the transaction (CHF1.04bn) may be completed by July 2012.The board of directors at Banque Sarasin will be composed of Dagmar D. Wohrl, Pierre-Alain Bracher, Philippe Dupont, Hans-Rudolf Hufschmid, Sergio Penchas, Jacob J. Safra, Sipko N. Schat et Marcelo Szerman.
25/06/2012

US money market funds continue to reduce exposure to European banks

Exposure of US money market funds to European banks continued to fall in May, to a total of about 12% of assets in funds, the financial ratings agency Fitch Ratings reports in its latest study of money market funds (“U.S. Money Fund Exposure and European Banks: Disengagement Continues.”) The slight increase in the exposure of US money market funds to European banks in the first two months of the year was ultimatel a sop, quickly wiped out when investor concerns about the situation in the euro zone returned to the foreground. Since late November 2011, the exposure of US money market funds to European banks have remained at about 12%, after a steep fall in this exposure level in the first part of second half 2011. For the first time, Fitch Ratings is offering a temporal data series for the proportion of pension assets collateralised with US Treasury debt.

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