Des investisseurs nerveux ont retiré 12,5 milliards de dollars d’actifs des deux principaux FCP de la société au cours des douze derniers mois. Le gestionnaire a presque triplé de taille entre 2009 et 2013 et gère désormais 123 milliards de dollars d’actifs. D’autres petits gérants comme Artisan Partners Distributors et Virtus Investment Partners ont également souffert de retraits.
Pour Benoît Coeuré, membre du directoire de la BCE, si un pays sortait un jour de la zone euro, «cela serait un avertissement sérieux pour l’Europe, car la question serait inévitablement posée de savoir si ce scénario peut se renouveler». Il refuse de discuter d’une sortie de la Grèce «car ce n’est pas dans ce cadre que l’on travaille».
Le service bancaire de la poste japonaise a décidé de s’associer à Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank et Nomura Holdings pour lancer une nouvelle société de gestion d’actifs qui développera des produits financiers peu risqués pour le compte des bureaux de poste. Japan Post Bank devrait injecter environ la moitié du capital initial de la société, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank et Nomura apportant respectivement 30% et 20%. Les trois partenaires ont informé les régulateurs financiers de leur projet. La société devrait être lancée l’année prochaine. Nomura Holdings, la maison mère de Nomura Securities, voit dans cette initiative l’opportunité d’élargir sa base de clients particuliers en faisant émerger de nouveaux investisseurs.
Le fournisseur d’indices s’est finalement donné un an supplémentaire pour lever, en étroite collaboration avec la commission chinoise de régulation des marchés, les derniers obstacles empêchant encore l’inclusion des actions domestiques de classe A dans son indice «marchés émergents».
Pas moins de 48 nouvelles sociétés de gestion ont été créées l’an dernier, notamment pour répondre aux exigences de la directive AIFM sur les fonds alternatifs, selon l’AFG. En revanche, la France continue à perdre du terrain en Europe sur le marché de la domiciliation des fonds.
L’enquête trimestrielle dans les services du département du Commerce montre que la consommation a augmenté à un rythme plus rapide que ce que le gouvernement avait calculé en mai dans le cadre de sa deuxième estimation du PIB. Les dépenses de consommation pour le premier trimestre pourraient être relevées d’un maximum de quatre dixièmes de point de pourcentage, à 2,2% en rythme annuel. Le gouvernement publiera sa troisième estimation du PIB le 24 juin.
Créé il y a un an, le Haut Conseil de stabilité financière s’est réuni mercredi pour sa cinquième séance. L’autorité macroprudentielle dit continuer de suivre «avec attention» l’impact de l’environnement de taux bas sur les comportements et les institutions financières «et relève qu’au regard de cette situation, une poursuite des ajustements à la baisse, en particulier s’agissant de la rémunération des contrats d’assurance-vie, est nécessaire».
La commission chinoise du développement et de la réforme a accordé son feu vert à sept projets d’infrastructures de transport pour un montant total dépassant 120 milliards de yuans (soit 17,1 milliards d’euros), alors que Pékin cherche à éviter un ralentissement brutal de l'économie chinoise. L’un des projets concerne l’extension d’un aéroport sur l'île touristique de Hainan.
Le groupe immobilier allemand Deutsche Annington a démenti mercredi des rumeurs d’OPA sur LEG Immobilien qui avaient fait grimper le cours de Bourse de son concurrent. «Nous démentons tout intérêt actuellement pour une OPA visant LEG», a déclaré une porte-parole d’Annington, numéro un du secteur en Allemagne et numéro deux en Europe.
Standard & Poor’s a abaissé mercredi la note souveraine de la Grèce de CCC+ à CCC en estimant que la dette du pays n'était pas soutenable sans une forte croissance et de profondes réformes du secteur public. Le report par la Grèce d’un paiement au Fonds monétaire international dû le 5 juin semble démontrer qu’elle privilégie les retraites et les dépenses publiques au service de sa dette, déplore l’agence de notation dans un communiqué.
L'Autorité des Marchés Financiers est coutumière des mises en garde contre les intermédiaires financiers offshore qui exercent leur activité sans avoir été agréés, qui pullulent notamment dans le domaine du Forex et des options binaires. Il est en revanche plus rare qu'elle attire l'attention des investisseurs sur des prestataires basés en France.
BNP Paribas CIB annonce aujourd’hui la nomination à compter du 1er Juillet 2015 de José Placido en qualité de Responsable Financial Institutions Coverage (FIC). Ce dernier conservera par ailleurs son rôle actuel de Responsable Client Development & Strategy chez BNP Paribas Securities Services. Il succède à Henri Foch qui prendra sa retraite à la fin du mois de juin. Cette nomination renforce les objectifs de la Banque de croissance et de développement de la franchise auprès des clients institutionnels.
La Banque centrale européenne (BCE) a relevé de 2,3 milliards d’euros, à 83,0 milliards, le plafond des financements mis à la disposition des banques grecques dans le cadre de la fourniture de liquidité d’urgence («emergency liquidity assistance», ELA), a appris mercredi Reuters de sources bancaires. La BCE relève régulièrement ce plafond chaque semaine depuis plusieurs mois. La semaine dernière, le relèvement n’avait été que de 500 millions d’euros. «Il y a une réserve de liquidités inutilisées d’environ trois milliards d’euros», a précisé l’une des sources.
La commission chinoise du développement et de la réforme a accordé son feu vert à sept projets d’infrastructures de transport pour un montant total dépassant 120 milliards de yuans (environ 17,1 milliards d’euros), alors que Pékin cherche à éviter un ralentissement brutal de l'économie chinoise. Il y a l’extension d’un aéroport sur l'île touristique de Hainan (14,5 milliards de yuans) et un autre aéroport dans la province de Heilongjiang (691 millions de yuans). Deux des projets approuvés concernent les chemins de fer, avec un projet de ligne ferroviaire entre les villes de Hefei et de Hangzhou (96,1 milliards de yuans). Pékin avait approuvé mi-mai pour 250 milliards de yuans de projets de lignes de métro.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } The French public sector pension fund Etablissement de retraite additionnelle de la fonction publique (ERAFP) has decided to activate a small cap equity – France portfolio mandate for Amiral Gestion, as part of its policy to extend its investment universe in line with the five values of its SRI charter. In March 2013, the ERAFP launched a restricted request for proposals for management of a French small cap equity fund. At the conclusion of the selection procedure, the pension fund decided to award the active mandate to Sycomore Asset Management, and two standby mandates to Amiral Gestion and Moneta Asset Management. Under new regulations and in order to promote the financing of the French economy, particularly SMBs and mid-sized enterprises, the ERAFP has decided to activate the standby mandate awarded to Amiral Gestion, a statement says.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Azimut in May posted net subscriptions of EUR1.3bn, bringing net inflows since the beginning of the year to EUR3.7bn. The Italian asset management firm indicates that it took advantage of consolidation of assets of Quest in Brazil and EWM in Australia, two recently-acquired companies. Aside from these two deals, Azimut posted net subscriptions of EUR413m in May, and EUR2.2bn since January. Total assets come to EUR35.6bn, of which EUR30.6bn are assets under management. Azimut has also announced the launch of three sub-funds of its Luxembourg-registered AZ Fund 1, two of which are emerging market funds (Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond and Global Emerging Markets Equity), and one mergers and acquisitions arbitrage fund, AZ Arbitrage. Lastly, the Italian firm has completed its acquisition of the 25% it did not yet control in Katarsis, bringing its stake to 100% of capital.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Muzinich & Co has recruited Francesco Campanelli in Italy, as an addition to its Italian debt team. Campanelli had previously been a senior salesperson at BlackRock Italy. She also has extensive experience as a portfolio manager at Allianz Global Investors. “Since 2000, when he launched our activity in Italy, Muzinich has gradually grown its presence and can now count on an investment and marketing team composed of eight professionals based in Milan. We are planning to develop our presence in the country, and the arrival of an experienced professional confirms that objective,” says Ersilia Molnar, managing director of Muzinich.
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva, has hired Rahul Khasgiwale as a senior investment specialist based in its Toronto office. Rahul will work closely with Aviva Investors’ strategic partners and clients in North America with a focus on our multi-strategy capabilities and outcome oriented solutions.Rahul joins the team with 14 years of experience in the financial services industry. Before joining Aviva, Rahul was the investment director for Multi-Asset solutions at Manulife Asset Management. Prior to that, he was an Absolute Return Investment Director at Standard Life Investments focused on retail and institutional clients and consultants in Canada. Rahul began his investment career at HSBC Global Asset Management, where he held a variety of senior investment roles based in the UK, Switzerland, the Middle East and Canada across a twelve-year period.
Yomoni plans to democratise asset management in France. To achieve that, the French startup is betting on a 100% digital product offering, dedicated to retail savers, with management fees limited to a minimum.The firm, founded by Mourtaza Asad-Syed, head and managing director of the firm, Laurent Girard, chief operating officer, and Guillaume Yribarren, director of marketing, is preparing to launch the first digital mandated asset management firm in France. The company, now awaiting a license from the AMF, for an official launch planned for July, will offer an asset management product range available from EUR1,000, which will cost 1.6% per year.Yomoni will offer a life insurance policy composed entirely of ETFs. In total, 10 different risk profiles are available. The target client base is ‘digital natives,’ young people aged 25-35, many of whom are first-time savers, born with the internet and comfortable with the use of digital devices, but often unfamiliar with savings products.To support its development, Yomoni has launched a first round of fundraising, which has raised EUR3.5m. It has allowed Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and Iena Venture, the incubator for the French asset management firm Financière de l’Echiquier, to enter its capital. These two players each control one third of capital, while the remaining third is owned by founding employees.France will represent a first stage of development, before French-speaking Europe and then the rest of the continent. Yomoni estimates the ‘robo advisor’ market in Europe at EUR50m to EUR100m. The firm aims to reach EUR1bn in assets within three to five years, and to become a leader in online asset management in Europe in five years. Yomoni now has eight employees. The team will grow to 10 at the end of June.
J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) has recruited UK equity investor Michael Ulrich to serve as a fund manager on the JOHCM UK Opportunities Fund. Ulrich, who will start at JOHCM in early August, will work alongside John Wood, lead fund manager, Rachel Reutter, fund manager, and Todd King, analyst. He joins from F&C Asset Management, where he served as lead manager on the F&C UK Mid Cap Fund. Commenting upon the appointment, John Wood said: The £1.6 billion JOHCM UK Opportunities Fund is ranked first quartile within the IA UK All Companies sector since its launch in November 2005 (to 31 May: source: Lipper).
Pimco is reorganizing its teams dedicated to the French market. In addition to the appointment of Matthieu Louanges as its new head of the activities of the asset management firm in France, replacing Emanuel Ravano, who will continue to be responsible for the European Global Wealth Management team, the asset management firm is also promoting two other team members. Louanges will be assisted by Bettina Mazzocchi, who has been promoted to executive vice president, and Julie-Anna Miny, senior vice president. Both will share commercial responsibility for the activities of Pimco on the French market.Louanges will cover the French market from the Pimco office in Munich, while Mazzochi and Miny will be based in London.Mazzochi, with her team, covers distributor clients (private banks, multi-managers, family offices, insurers, mutuals, etc.)Louanges, head of the insurance activity in Europe, and also covering the Swiss and French markets, was previously co-head of management teams in Munich, a portfolio manager specialised in European strategies, and a member of the European portfolio allocation committee. Before joining Pimco in 2000, Louanges spent two years at Allianz, the parent company of Pimco. Louanges began his career in 1994 at Deutsche Bank, in Frankfurt and Paris, on thhe bond team, before becoming a portfolio manager at the Caisse Centrale de Réescompte in 1995.Bettina Mazzocchi-Mallarmé is executive vice president of the EMEA Global Wealth Management team, and head of development for distribution activity in Northern Europe. Before joining Pimco in 2008, she was in structured product sales at Morgan Stanley. Before that, she worked at Bank of America and Credit Suisse First Boston in the credit derivative and securities markets divisions.Pimco, which has been serving the French market for 15 years, has over EUR9bn in assets under management as of 31 March 2015, for French institutional, distributor and retail clients.
The Swiss banking group Syz has appointed Katia Coudray as CEO of Syz Asset Management, the institutional asset management division of the Syz Group, which manages the Oyster funds range amongst other mandates. As CEO, she will also be a member of the group’s executive committee. After joining Syz in 2011 as head of product development, Katia Coudray was subsequently head of investment at Syz Asset Management. In addition, Florent Guy-Ducrot is joining Syz Asset Management as head of business development, replacing Xavier Guillon.Before joining Syz in 2011, Katia Coudray worked for ten years at Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) in Geneva, where she was a member of the Asset Management executive committee and a member of the committee in charge of defining the group’s investments. In the past 20 years, she has held positions notably in portfolio management, financial analysis and fund manager selection. Since she joined the Syz Group, she has made a significant contribution to growing Oyster funds’ assets, which have increased by around CHF 1.5 billion (euros 1.4 billion) thanks to the launch of new strategies, according to a press release. Since she was appointed head of investment, she has succeeded in attracting new talents to join Syz Asset Management, such as Michael Clements and Claire Manson from Franklin Templeton to manage the Oyster European equity funds.Florent Guy-Ducrot will join Syz Asset Management on 1 September 2015 as head of business development. With 18 years’ experience in finance, he has, in particular, held the position of head of sales & distribution in various large asset management companies, notably including HSBC and Crédit Agricole (now Amundi), with the task of defining the marketing and sales strategy for international clients, including in Asia. A member of the executive committee of Syz Asset Management, Florent Guy-Ducrot will have a key role in implementing the group’s growth strategy.