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02/02/2011

BNY Mellon AM launches its first fund managed by Insight

BNY Mellon Asset Management has announced the launch of the BNY Mellon Absolute Return Equity Fund, the first fund in its range to be managed by Insight Investment Management, an asset manager it acquired in 2009. The fund will be a sub-fund of the Dublin-domiciled, UCITS III authorised, BNY Mellon Global Funds, plc range.Launching on Monday 31 January 2011, the Fund will be managed by Insight Investment’s specialist equity team, who have established a five year track record of generating positive returns in the Absolute Insight UK Equity Market Neutral strategy.The new fund will aim to deliver positive absolute returns in all market conditions, over a 12 month period, investing in both long and short positions in the pan-European market by employing a paired trade approach.
02/02/2011

Family office to launch a vintage car fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Count of Custoza Family Office is holding a press conference in Paris on Friday to announce its Classic Car Fund, a Liechtenstein-registered fund which will invest in vintage cars, Fondsprofessionell reports. The product, managed by Filippo Pignatti, will soon be offered for trading in Germany. The investment team will include experts from Sotheby’s and Christie’s as well as collectors who have themselves worked in finance.
02/02/2011

BBVA, Segurcaixa and Santander are top three pension fund managers

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As of the end of December, assets in Spanish pension funds fell to less than EUR84.76bn, from EUR84.92bn twelve months previously, though they had increased 1% as of the end of September. The number of members increased 3% year on year to nearly 10.85 million accounts for about 8.5 million account-holders, the Inverco association of management firms reports.Assets were divided as of the end of 2010 with EUR52.55bn in individual schemes, EUR31.24bn in corporate schemes, and EUR971m in hybrid funds.The largest managers by asset volumes were BBVA, with EUR14.49bn (-1.7% for the year), Seguricaixa, with EUR13.73bn (+2.66%), Santander with EUR8.97bn (-2.5%), and Aviva, with EUR5.13bn (-1.8%).
02/02/2011

Citibank Spain to distribute Franklin Templeton funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In a statement, Citibank España announced that it has signed an agreement with the management firm Franklin Templeton, by which it engages to distribute the latter’s funds throughout all of its network of branches in Spain, Cinco Días reports. Citibank advisors have already begun to work with Franklin Templeton specialists to familiarise themselves with the very wide range of products.Franklin Templeton is the 14th management firm with with Citibank España has signed an agreement of this kind.
02/02/2011

Nathalie González Vierecker to handle communications between Santander AM and Banif

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Santander Asset Management España has recruited Nathalie González Vierecker as part of its sales team as head of relations with Banif, the private banking affiliate of Santander, Funds People reports. Vierecker will be in charge of coordinating commercial relations between the two entities, with a particular emphasis on development and monitoring of new products as well as training and sales support activities at Banif.For the past few years, González has worked at Inversis Banco in development of international operations and commercial relations with asset management firms.
02/02/2011

AllianzGI Investments Europe signs Principles for Responsible Investment

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 1 February, Allianz Global Investors Investments Europe (EUR118bn in assets as of 30 September 2010), the European investment platform for Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI), announced that at the end of 2010, it signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN-PRI). The move follows a similar step at Allianz Global Investors France S.A, in 2007.AllianzGI Investments Europe has a dedicated SRI team composed of 10 managers and analysts. Nearly EUR10bn in assets assets under management and advisory are in SRI strategies.
02/02/2011

AllianzGI to outsource middle office

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Asian Investor reports that Allianz Global Investors will outsource its middle office as part of a move to establish a common back-office platform for RCM, the Allianz group’s institutional asset-management arm. The plans, which will also affect activities in the Asia-Pacific region, are in the process of being finalised. AllianzGI has not disclosed the identity of its service provider.
02/02/2011

Pension funds turn to alternative asset classes

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The international investment advising agency bfinance on 1 February published the results of the fifth edition of its half-yearly survey of asset allocation by pension funds and insurance companies, which includes 50 institutional investors in Europe and North America, representing total assets under management of EUR149bn.In the short and mid-term, institutional investors are planning to reduce the proportion of their portfolios dedicated to traditional assets (equities and bonds) in favour of alternative asset classes, particularly real estate, infrastructure and private equity. This trend is similar to what was observed in June 2010, by the previous edition of the survey.However, contrary to expectations, international pension funds became negative on bonds between June and December 2010, due to tensions that developed for European government debt. The survey shows a total of 12% of respondents who reduced their allocation to bonds in second half 2010.This trend away from bonds is expected to continue in first half 2011 (with a total of 27% of respondents planning to reduce their allocations to bonds). However, it is less marked on a horizon of three years (total 6%).For equities, the trend is still significantly negative on a three-year horizon (a total of 14% planning to reducer investment). This suggests that the recent rise in interest in this asset class may be short-lived.A desire to diversify portfolios, which is highly marked on the six-month and three-year horizons, will largely benefit real estate and other alternative asset classes. Infrastructure and private equity have the strongest number of investors planning to increase exposure (14% and 10% on six month and three year horizons, respectively).
02/02/2011

Eurizon-Pioneer merger a possibility

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Les Echos reports that Giovanni Bazoli, chairman of Intesa Sanpaolo, confirmed yesterday that the bank is studying a merger between its asset management affiliate Eurizon and its rival Pioneer, which is being offered for sale by UniCredit. Cariplo and Compagnie San Paolo, the banking foundations with stakes in Intesa Sanpaolo, overtly support this Italian alternative, the newspaper says.
02/02/2011

Fondsdepot Bank widens its remit

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } DWPT Deutsche Weltpapiertreuhand GmbH is the «new distribution partner” of Fondsdepot Bank. The bank, an affiliate of Xchanging, becomes the exclusive provider for management on its open platform of investment accounts for clients of DWPT and its 45 partners.With the new agreement, Fondsdepot Bank consolidates its position as the largest independent provider of investment account administration in Germany, with more than 1.7 million accounts and about EUR31bn in assets under administration.
02/02/2011

Bank of Communications plans to develop internationally

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BoCom International AM, the asset management arm of the Chinese Bank of Commmunications, has appointed Jimmy Pang to the newly-created position of chief investment officer and head of asset management, Asian Investor reports.Pang, who previously worked at AllianceBernstein, is based in Hong Kong, He will launch several equities funds this year and next, including funds based on greater China and Asia.
02/02/2011

Fitch lowers asset manager rating for ECM to M2

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The ratings agency Fitch Ratings on 1 February announced that it has lowered its asset manager rating for ECM (European Credit Management) from M2+ to M2.The cause of the downward revision was high turnover rate for personnel in 2010, and a reduction in assets under management in the past two years. This development has resulted in significant outflows (EUR2.9bn in 2010), and relative difficulty in raising assets in a favourable credit environment. The ratings also takes into account measures taken by ECM to rebuild and restructure the investment teams at the firm and to develop new products.As of the end of December 2010, assets under management at ECM totalled about EUR10bn.
02/02/2011

SLI snares one from BNP Paribas IP

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Debbie Harris, who was previously at BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP), is joining Standard Live Investments (SLI) as head of strategic consultant relations in the institutional business development team. She will report to Louise Kay, head of UK institutional business development, and who has overall responsibility for the consultant relations team.In this newly-created position, Harris, who will be based in London, will be in charge of strengthening relationships with global consultants.SLI has also announced that it has recruited John Andrews from AT Capital. He will become investment director in the UK institutional business development team.
02/02/2011

Pay scales on the rise at British management firms

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In 2010, the proportion of net revenue at UK asset management firms allocated to employee remuneration is high at 42%, up 4 points compared with the figure of 38% in 2009, according to a new study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, which spoke to asset managers based in London. The study also finds that 40% of management firms increased their bonus pools last years, and that only one third reduced their spending in this area.
02/02/2011

Rome va présenter un projet de Bourse européenne du pétrole

L’Italie a rédigé un projet de Bourse européenne du pétrole visant à réduire la spéculation et l’instabilité des cours et le présentera vendredi au Conseil européen de l'énergie, a déclaré mardi le ministère italien de l’Industrie. Le projet prévoit la création d’un marché régulé couvrant l’Union européenne et portant sur les contrats standard à long et très long termes, avec livraison physique en Europe, a ajouté le ministère dans un communiqué.
02/02/2011

Feu vert à la chambre de compensation de NYSE et DTCC

New York Portfolio Clearing, une chambre de compensation codétenue par NYSE Euronext et Depository Trust and Clearing Corp (DTCC), a obtenu le feu vert réglementaire de la Commodity Futures Trading Commission en vue de traiter les dérivés. La structure sera en compétition avec le géant CME Group.
02/02/2011

Freescale choisit les banques pour son IPO

Des sources concordantes rapportent que Freescale Semiconductor a mandaté Deutsche Bank et Citigroup pour organiser son introduction en Bourse, attendue au semestre en cours. Le groupe américain, scindé de Motorola en 2004, a été repris en 2006 dans le cadre d’un LBO de 17,6 milliards de dollars incluant mené par Blackstone.
02/02/2011

Apax finance l’achat de Takko

Le fonds Apax a fixé les termes de 850 millions d’euros de prêts destinés à financer le rachat à Advent de la chaîne allemande d’habillement Takko. Le financement est constitué de deux tranches A et B à 6 et 7 ans d’un montant de 175 et 425 millions d’euros, payant 450 et 500 points de base de marge. S’y ajoutent une lettre de crédit de 200 millions (300 pb) et une ligne revolving de 50 millions (450 pb), toutes deux à 6 ans. BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Nomura et UniCredit syndiquaient la transaction.
02/02/2011

Les Bourses russes fusionnent

Les deux principales Bourses russes, le Micex et le RTS, ont signé un accord de fusion mardi après des mois de négociations qui verra les actionnaires du premier, dont la banque centrale de Russie, prendre une part majoritaire dans le second. La transaction valorise le Micex à 3,45 milliards de dollars et le RTS à 1,15 milliard.
02/02/2011

Les fonds de pension se détournent de l’obligataire

Selon la cinquième édition du «Pension Fund & Insurance Asset Allocation Survey» publiée par bfinance, les fonds de pension internationaux sont devenus négatifs sur l’obligataire entre juin et décembre 2010. A court et moyen terme, ils privilégient l’immobilier, les infrastructures et le capital investissement. Une tendance similaire à ce qui avait été observé en juin 2010 lors de la précédente édition de l’enquête.
02/02/2011

L’Europe peaufine son harmonisation

La France et l’Allemagne seraient proches d’un accord concernant le dossier du «pacte de compétitivité», cher au président français Nicolas Sarkozy, indique le journal qui cite des sources de haut rang proches de la chancelière allemande Angela Merkel. Néanmoins, plusieurs semaines seraient encore nécessaires pour obtenir l’accord des autres membres de l’Union européenne. Visant à améliorer la coordination des politiques économiques entre les 17 membres de la zone, l’accord, pour obtenir l’adhésion allemande, comprendrait des clauses visant à favoriser la croissance et la compétitivité dans la zone, mais également des engagements de rigueur budgétaire.
02/02/2011

Envolée technique pour l'Eonia

Flirtant avec les 0,40 % fin décembre, le taux monétaire a touché les 1,31 % cette semaine dans un contexte de maintenance des réserves des banques européennes.
02/02/2011

La BCE s’interroge sur la définition de la stabilité des prix

Le vice-gouverneur de la banque centrale Tchèque, Mojmir Hampl, exprime dans un entretien accordé au quotidien les difficultés des banquiers centraux à définir la stabilité des prix, et la pertinence des indices retenus. «Nous n’avons toujours pas de définition précise de ce qu’est la stabilité financière» indique-t-il ainsi. Il précise néanmoins que l’intégration du crédit et du prix des actifs dans le pilotage monétaire fait son chemin chez les banquiers centraux.
02/02/2011

Blackstone poursuit ses investissements hôteliers

La société d’investissement serait proche d’un accord avec les propriétaires de l’Hôtel Del Coronado près de San Diego (Strategic Hotels & Resorts, KKR et KSL Resorts) afin de restructurer les 630 millions de dollars dette de l’établissement et ainsi en devenir le principal propriétaire indique le journal qui cite des sources proches du dossier. Blackstone apporterait 100 millions de nouveaux capitaux et la dette serait ramenée à 425 millions.
02/02/2011

Bras de fer sur la dette de Kerzner

Une partie d’échecs s’engage entre les créanciers et les propriétaires du groupe de loisirs Kerzner International Resorts au sujet du refinancement d’une dette de 3 milliards de dollars. Le groupe, repris en 2006 par un consortium composé notamment de Colony Capital et Whitehall (Goldman Sachs), aurait mandaté à ce sujet des conseillers du cabinet KIrkland é Ellis, de Goldman Sachs et de Blackstone.

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