In July-September, Invesco Ltd has announced net profits payable to holders of ordinary hares of USD246m, compared with USD223.7m in second quarter, and USD182.7m in the corresponding period of 2012. In the first nine months of this year, net profits totalled USD652m, 42% more than the USD452m in January-September 2012.As of 30 September, total assets came to USD745.5bn, compared with USD705.6bn three months previously, and USD663bn as of the end of September 2012. In the first nine months of this year, Invesco has posted net subscriptions of USD29.2bn, of which USD20.7bn were for long-term funds, USD7.4bn for institutional money market funds, and USD1.1bn for Invesco PowerShares QQQ. Market effects were positive to the effects o fUSD51.6bn, while currency effects borught losses of USD2.7bn.By comparison, net subscriptions to long-term products and total net subscriptions were up by 168.8% and 180.8%, respectively.However, total net subscriptions of USD9.1bn in third quarter 2013 compare with net inflows of USD1.4bn in April-June 2013, and to net subscriptions of USD11.4bn in the corresponding period of last year.
Gaw Capital has closed the private equity fund Gateway Real Estate Fund IV with USD1bn. The product, which has exceeded its fundraising objective (USD800m) will invest in real estate projects located in the Greater China region, Asian Investor reports. 40% of investors who participated in the fundraising originate from Asia, 30% from North America, and 30% from Europe.
The Swedish investment fund association, Fondbolagens Förening, has recruited Jenny Hansson to handle events. Hansson is an economist and was also a high-level athlete.
Carsten Nerge, director of institutional distribution at Warburg Invest KAG in Hamburg since October 2010 after 10 years at ABN Amro AM and then BNPP IP, is joining Oddo Asset Management, Das Investment reports. Nerge will be respnsible for the activities at the French asset management firm serving Germany and Austria.
Matthias Schellenberg, who joined ING Investment Management on 1 January 2013 as head for Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe Global Asset Management at UBS, was on 1 November appointed as a managing board member at UBS Germany with responsibility for the global asset management unit.He joins a management team led by Axel Hörger. The other board members at UBS Germany are Martin Deckert, Carsten Dentler and Stefan Winter, a statement dated 31 October states.
ABN Amro has announced that the Social Impact Fonds, launched this year (see Newsmanagers on 26 March) has made its first investment, buying stakes in Nudge, a consumer platform specialised in sustainable and social development, with 30,000 subscribers, Fondsnieuws reports. The total investment and the size of the stake have not been revealed.
Funds People reports that counting EUR756m in wealth management, investment funds for EUR8.119bn and retirement savings plans for EUR5.122bn, Banco Popular as of the end of September had assets under management of USD13.998bn, which represents increases of 5%, 11.7%, and 4.2%, respectively, since the end of December.
With the DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE, the US asset management firm DoubleLine on 31 October launched a fund managed by its CEO and CIO, Jeff Gundlach, as well as by Jeffrey Sherman, an asset allocation specialist. The product will actively invest 100% of its assets in debt instruments, but a part of these securities will be used as collateral against derivatives exposing the fund to the four most undervalued sectors of the US equity markets according to the cyclically adjusted price/earnings ratio (CAPE). The management of the fund will also incorporate the long-term value investment principles developed by Robert Shiller, winner of the 2013 Nobel prize in Economics.With this leverage, the managers will obtain exposures similar to the index and debt instruments. Each component may represent up to 100% of the net asset value of the fund. The objective is to outperform the Shiller Barclays CAPE® US Sector TR USD Index.Insofar as the derivative strategy will leave s substantial portion of assets in the fund available for other investments, DoubleLine will make an effort to manage debt securities in order to produce additional returns over the long term. Since these debt instruments may be similar to those in the DoubleLine Core Fixed Income Fund, DoubleLine is permitted to invest a part of assets in the new fnud in the existing DoubleLine Core Fixed Income Fund instead of investing them directly in a portfolio of debt instruments.The DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE is available in I-class shares (ticker DSEEX) for institutionals, and N shares (DSENX) for retail invetors. The total expense ratio is limited to 0.66% and 0.91%, respectively, while the minimal subscription is USD100,000 in the former and USD2,000 in the latter case.
Amundi is planning to add its diversified fund Amundi Patrimoine to its Luxembourg Sicav, in order to open it to global investors, Citywire Gobal reports. The fund, a French-registered FCP, is managed by Alain Pitous, chief investment officer. Amundi may also integrate a bond and currency fund into the Sicav.
Goldman Sachs is launching a USD250m “social impact” fund, the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, to finance projects that bring both social benefits and financial returns, the Financial Times reports. The objective is to attract USD10bn in capital. Goldman Sachs states that its fund will be the first to allow businesses and high net worth individuals to invest directly in a portfolio of private projects.
A pension fund based in Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit against seven major banks, including Barclays and Citigroup in a Manhattan court, Les Echos reports. The Haverhill Retirement System accused them of violating US antritrust law, reaching agreements to manipulate the WM/Reuters rate, which is used to determine prices on currency markets. These are published hourly for 160 currencies, and half-hourly for the 21 most popular currencies. The other firms cited in the lawsuit are Credit Suisse and UBS, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). According to lawyers for the fund, who filed the suit in the name of other investors in similar circumstances, the alleged operations affected the currency market, as well as pensions or savings accounts which track global indices.
Becoming a point of reference in the market, participating in the consolidation movement and bringing out new talent: these are the ambitions that Didier Le Menestrel, chairman of Financière de l'Echiquier, holds for his asset management firm, in order to bring ambition to a market which lacks strength, he feels. To tell the trust, the firm has been pursuing this objective for a long time. It is now faced with the challence of continuing its development in terms of assets, which it is also attempting to do outside of France, in Italy, among other countries, where it has opened an office.
Selon Citywire, JP Morgan Asset Management a lancé un fonds diversifié qui sera géré par les responsables des actions émergentes et de la dette émergente de la société. Le fonds basé à Luxembourg, le JP Morgan Funds – Total Emerging Markets Income, ciblera un rendement brut de 6 % en investissant dans des actions et des obligations des pays émergents. Les gérants seront Richard Titherington, directeur des investissements pour les actions émergentes, et Pierre-Yves Bareau, directeur des investissements pour la dette émergente.
Brookfield Asset Management (basé à Toronto) a récemment clôturé son Brookfield Infrastructure Fund II avec une levée de 7 milliards de dollars. Il s’agit selon Preqin du deuxième plus grand closing jamais réalisé sur un fonds infrastructure non côté, après le Global Infrastructure Partners II, qui a clôturé à 8,25 milliards en octobre 2012. Dans le top 10 des plus grosses clôtures jamais réalisées sur ce type de produits, on retrouve également GS Infrastructure Partners I (6,5 milliards de dollars), Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund II (4,63 milliards d’euros), Global Infrastructure Partners (5,64 milliards de dollars), Energy Capital Partners II (4,33 milliards de dollars), EIG Energy Fund XV (4,12 milliards de dollars), Alinda Infrastructure Fund II (4,09 milliards de dollars), Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (4 milliards de dollars) et Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (4 milliards de dollars), selon les données de Preqin.
Russell Investments vient de recruter Luca Gianelle comme gérant de portefeuilles clients, afin de renforcer l’équpe multi-classes d’actifs qui compte déjà 38 spécialistes, rapporte Bluerating. L’intéressé sera basé à Milan et travaillera sous la direction de Rob Hall, responsable de la gestion de portefeuilles clients. Luca Gianelle provient d’Anima où il était membre de l’équipe de multigestion, avec la responsabilité de la gestion des fonds de hedge funds.
Directeur de la distribution institutionnelle chez Warburg Invest KAG à Hambourg depuis octobre 2010 après 10 ans chez ABN Amro AM puis BNPP IP, Carsten Nerge rejoint Oddo Asset Management, rapporte Das Investment. Le nouvel arrivant sera responsable de l’activité du gestionnaire français pour l’Allemagne et l’Autriche.
Arrivé d’ING Investment Management au 1er janvier 2013 comme head Germany, Austria & Eastern Europe Global Asset Management chez UBS, Matthias Schellenberg a été nommé au 1er novembre membre du directoire d’UBS Allemagne avec la responsabilité du pôle global asset management.Il rejoint ainsi une équipe de direction présidée par Axel Hörger. Les autres membre du directoire d’UBS Allemagne sont Martin Deckert, Carsten Dentler et Stefan Winter, précise un communiqué daté du 31 octobre.
Devenir un référent du marché, participer activement au mouvement de consolidation et faire émerger de nouveaux talents... Telle est l'ambition que Didier Le Menestrel, président de Financière de l'Echiquer, réserve à sa société de gestion, afin de porter l'ambition d'une place qui manque de force selon lui. A vrai dire, la société suit cet objectif depuis longtemps. A charge pour elle de poursuivre son développement en termes d'encours, ce qu'elle s'attache à faire également hors de France, en Italie par exemple, où elle vient d'ouvrir un bureau et compte quintupler ses actifs sous gestion.
Fiducial annonce la fusion de ses sociétés de gestion de SCPI et d’OPCI, Fiducial Gérance et Uffi Ream. L’ensemble fusionné prend la dénomination sociale de Fiducial Gérance et se transforme en SA à directoire et conseil de surveillance. «Avec 1,75 milliard d’euros d’actifs gérés, répartis sur 12 SCPI (près d’1,6 milliard d’euros), 6 groupements forestiers et la gestion du patrimoine français d’un fonds immobilier étranger, le nouvel ensemble devient l’un des principaux acteurs du marché des SCPI», souligne Fiducial.
Une cour d’appel américaine a confirmé vendredi le gel d’une injonction faite à l’Etat argentin de payer 1,33 milliard de dollars (985 millions d’euros) à une quinzaine de créanciers obligataires qui cherchent à obtenir le remboursement de titres émis avant le défaut de 2002. Ces créanciers demandaient la levée du gel obtenu par Buenos Aires dans l’attente d’une décision de la Cour suprême.
Le secteur manufacturier chinois a connu en octobre sa plus forte croissance au cours des 18 derniers mois, selon les données officielles publiées vendredi. L’indice des directeurs d’achats (PMI) du secteur s’est ainsi établi à 51,4 le mois dernier, en hausse par rapport à septembre (51,1) et au-delà des prévisions qui le donnaient à 51,2.
Les créanciers de l’Irlande devraient mettre un peu d’argent de côté pour soutenir le pays lorsque celui-ci sortira à la fin de cette année du programme d’aide international mis en place il y a près de trois ans, a estimé hier David Lipton, premier directeur général délégué du Fonds monétaire international. Il ajoute que l’économie irlandaise restait faible en dépit des efforts accomplis pour la stabiliser.
L’agence américaine a ramené vendredi la note à long terme de l’Ukraine de «B» à «B-», en estimant que Kiev doit encore établir une stratégie lui assurant des réserves de change suffisantes pour répondre à des besoins de financement externes élevés. S&P conserve une perspective négative sur cette nouvelle note, ce qui donne une probabilité d’un tiers de voir celle-ci à nouveau abaissée en l’espace d’un an.