Recherche
S'abonner
Connexion
Asset Management
Accueil Asset Management Actualités
13/09/2013

Les CGPI restent prudents sur leur avenir

Le moral des conseillers en gestion de patrimoine est au plus bas niveau depuis sept ans, selon le baromètre TNS Sofres-BNP Paribas Cardif. Malgré la baisse de la collecte par cabinet, les clients leur font très majoritairement confiance, mais la profession reste méconnue du grand public.
13/09/2013

Deutsche Börse pourrait ouvrir sa chambre de compensation en Asie

L’opérateur boursier allemand prévoit d’ouvrir une chambre de compensation sur produits dérivés en Asie, qui sera basée à Singapour, dans le cadre d’une stratégie de développement de ses activités dans la zone, selon le quotidien citant des sources proches. La région concentre actuellement entre 15 et 20% des volumes mondiaux traités sur produits dérivés, selon l’Association des marchés à terme.
12/09/2013

La bataille des ventes à découvert rebondit

L’avocat général de la Cour de justice européenne a estimé que les pouvoirs donnés à l’Esma afin d’interdire en cas d’urgence les ventes à découvert de titres résultent d’une mauvaise interprétation des traités. Une demi-victoire pour la Grande-Bretagne, qui s’oppose à cette mesure. L’avocat général Niilo Jaeaeskinen n’a cependant pas contesté l'étendue des pouvoirs confiés à l’Autorité européenne des marchés, mais simplement estimé que cette décision aurait dû être votée à l’unanimité. La Cour de justice devrait statuer dans quelques mois et peut décider de suivre, ou pas, l’opinion de l’avocat général.
12/09/2013

Les statistiques américaines du chômage manquent de fiabilité

Le nombre des inscriptions au chômage a sensiblement diminué la semaine dernière aux Etats-Unis mais leur recul semble dû pour l’essentiel à des problèmes techniques dans leur traitement. Ce nombre a diminué de 31.000 à un total CVS de 292.000, a fait savoir le département du Travail jeudi. Les inscriptions n’ont jamais été aussi basses depuis 2006, tranchant avec les prévisions des économistes qui donnaient en moyenne une légère hausse à 330.000. Un analyste du département a expliqué que deux Etats, l’un grand l’autre petit, étaient en train de mettre à jour leurs systèmes informatiques et n’avaient pas traité toutes les inscriptions reçues durant la semaine.
12/09/2013

Les fonds monétaires français enregistrent une forte collecte

Les OPCVM monétaires de droit français ont enregistré 13,3 milliards d’euros de collecte nette en août, mois marqué par les turbulences sur le marché actions et la poursuite de la correction du marché obligataire. En raison de retraits sur les fonds actions, obligations ou diversifiés, l’ensemble des OPCVM a affiché une collecte nette de 12,3 milliards d’euros en août, selon les statistiques mensuelles d’EuroPerformance. L’effet marché, lui, s’est révélé négatif de 3 milliards. Au total, les fonds de droit français affichaient 764 milliards d’euros sous gestion fin août, un montant qui reste en repli de 1% par rapport à l’encours de fin 2012.
L’ensemble des OPCVM a affiché une collecte nette de 12,3 milliards d’euros en août. Illustration: PHB
12/09/2013

Hammerson lorgne le centre commercial Beaugrenelle

Le gestionnaire d’actifs immobiliers Hammerson envisage de déposer une offre d’achat sur le centre commercial Beaugrenelle à Paris, que son propriétaire à 75%, Gecina, a mis en vente. «Tout est fonction du prix et de notre propre évaluation, a indiqué David Atkins, le directeur général du groupe britannique, à Bloomberg. C’est un centre commercial grand et neuf dans le centre de Paris, et ce genre d’occasions ne se présente pas souvent». La foncière Gecina a mandaté cet été Morgan Stanley, ainsi que CA CIB et HSBC, pour vendre Beaugrenelle, qui doit rouvrir ses portes dans le 15ème arrondissement de Paris après une rénovation complète.
12/09/2013

New head of distribution for Nordea in Italy

Fabio Caiani has been appointed as head of distribution at Nordea in Italy, Bluerating reports. Caiani will retain his position as head of retail activities at the Scandinavian asset management firm, which he has held since 2007.
12/09/2013

Lazard Frères Gestion adds prudent fund to its range

Lazard Frères Gestion is preparing to launch Objectif Long Short Flexible, an international long/short fund of funds with a prudent profile, whose total volatility will be between 3% and 6%.The mutual fund combines flexible management with exposure to equities in the portfolio with allocation to “market neutral” and “directional” strategies, a statement says. The management team manages exposure to the equity markets by modulating the allocation between these strategies according to market outlooks. Flexible exposure to the equity market by modulating the allocation between these two strategies according to its market outlooks. Flexible exposure to equity markets for the fund may vary between -10% and +40% (net exposure). It is currently 27%, with a peak at 36% in January 2013.The asset management firm explains that the launch of the fund of funds is based on long/short strategies, based on the observation that bond markets are confronting rising interest rates which are expected to persist on one hand, while on the others, equities represent an asset class to be preferred within a diversified portfolio acquisition. With high volatility on equity markets, “long/short strategies provide a means to profit from opportunities related to this context while limiting risk,” it says.
12/09/2013

Une boutique de hedge funds ferme son fonds dette émergente

La boutique de hedge funds Adelante Asset Management a fermé son fonds dette émergente mondiale Adelante Emerging Debt Fund fin juillet après 14 ans parce qu’elle pense que son style d’investissement n’est plus adapté à l’environnement actuel. Le fonds, qui était de 80 millions de dollars, a perdu 2 % sur les sept premiers de l’année. Il a dégagé un gain annualisé de 15,4 % entre son lancement en juillet 1999 et sa fermeture.
12/09/2013

Global Financial Products recruits two commodity specialists

Global Financial Products has recruited Ronald Wildmann and Steven Frey as additions to its teams, as senior commodity advisers. Wildmann and Frey previously worked at Basinvest, as commodity managers, according to Finews. The Global Financial Products teams include a total of 13 people.
12/09/2013

License for MSIF Global Quality fund in six European countries

The Luxembourg-registered equity fund Morgan Stanley Investment Funds (MSIF) Global Quality Fund, launched more than ne month ago (see Newsmaangers of 2 August) has been granted sales licenses for various asset classes for shares denominated in US dollars and/or euros in six European countries.A shares in US dollars (LU0955010870) are now available in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark, while AH shares denominated in euros (LU0955011506) are available in Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands I (LU0955011175) and Z (LU0955011258) shares in US dollars may be sold in Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. Z shares are also available in Portugal.
12/09/2013

Ossiam offers commodity smart beta ETF

Ossiam simultaneously lists a new ETF strategy in its smart beta range for trading in Paris, London, Milan and Frankfurt on 12 September. The product, the Ossiam Risk Weghten Enhanced Commodity ex. Grains R UCITS ETC 1C (EUR) (acronym: CRWE), is a UCITS IV-compliant fund registered in Luxembourg and based on synthetic replication.The ETF replicates the Risk Weighted Enhanced Commodity ex. Grains TR index which offers a global exposure to commodities, excluding grains, for ethical reasons. The weighting of each commodity is inversely proportional to its volatility over one year.The new vehicle represents an extension of a new universe of smart beta investments already established by Ossiam for equities, Isabelle Bourcier, head of development, is already planning the next step, which may be a smart beta ETF for the bond asset class.“This product, with returns near those of equities, is aimed primarily at professionals with a mid-to long-term diversification objective, with risk controlling which characterises all Ossiam products,” Boursier tells Newsmanagers.Ossiam currently has assets of EUR920m, which represents an increase of 63.5% since the beginning of the year. Assets under management in 13 ETFs of the brand total about EUR720m.CharacteristicsName: Ossiam Risk Weighted Enhanced Commodity ex. Grains TR UCITS ETF 1C (EUR)ISIN code: LU0876440578Total expense ratio: 0.45%
12/09/2013

iShares develops four ETFs of ETFs

On 6 September, iShares US ETF Trust filed a form N-1A) with the SEC for four allocation ETFs, which will invest in ten other ETFs of the Core series launched by the firm in October 2012.The profiled products, for which neither the acronym nor the total expense ratio have yet been disclosed, are as follows: iShares Core Allocation Conservative ETF, iShares Core Allocation Moderate ETF, iShares Core Allocation Moderate Growth ETF and iShares Core Allocation Growth ETF.According to Mutual Fund Wire, assets in the Core range now total nearly USD100bn.
12/09/2013

Goldman Sachs AM launches an equity fund dedicated to frontier markets

Goldman Sachs Asset Management has launched an equity fund dedicated to frontier markets and the BRIC countries, Citywire reports. The Goldman Sachs Growth Markets Equity Portfolio fund was launched on 10 September, and will be team-managed. It will invest in companies which operate or are traded in countries of the “Next-11” group or in BRIC countries.
12/09/2013

One in four Swiss do not know who manages their pension

One in four Swiss respondents (24%) are unaware of which pension fund manages its second retirement pillar (professional retirement planning). Although interest in professional retirement planning appears to be higher than average in German-speaking Switzerland and Ticino, only two thirds of French-speaking Swiss are concerned about it, according to the second survey carried out by AXA Investment Managers. Overall, 29% of policyholders surveyed have no interest in retirement planning, according to the study “Knowledge of the Swiss population concerning pension funds 2013,” presented earlier this week in Zurich. More than one quarter of them consider themselves still too young to think about it. One respondent in five considers the subject too complicated for themselves, ways Werner Rutsch, head of the study by AXA Investment Managers. About 10% avoid the subject squarely on the grounds that they have no influence over their pension.
12/09/2013

Spanish SRI funds continue to outperform

According to estimates by Santander Asset Management for Spainsif, the Spanish socially responsible investment forum, the 13 SRI funds managed in Spain have posted returns of 3.45% in first half 2013, compared with an average of 1.98% for all funds (including 13 SRI funds), Funds People reports.However, these funds represent only EUR184m in assets, equivalent to 0.14% of the Spanish market.In 2009, 2010 and 2012, SRI funds had already outperformed, with gains of 7.5%, 1.08% and 6.7%, respectively, compared with 4.93%, 0.12% and 5.15%, according to statistics from the Spanish Inverco association of asset management firms. In 2011, however, SRI funds, with a more aggressive profile, lost 1.59%, at a time when the industry had posted losses of only 0.52%.
12/09/2013

Banco Madrid launches fund of the best Spanish Sicavs

With the Banco Madrid Sicav Selección, Banco Madrid Gestión de Activos (Banca Privada d’Andorra group) on 11 September registered a fund with the CNMV to invest in the best Spanish Sicavs, with a way to include some particularly well-performing funds in the portoflio. That will allow subscribers to profit from the best talents in Spanish asset management, as it invests the money of high net worth clients, says Rafael Valera, CEO of Banco Madrid.The fund will invest at least 50% in Spanish Sicavs or Spanish and/or foreign funds, and the proportion of equities will total between 10% and 70%. The portfolio will inclue 20 to 30 positions.Among the investments which have already been made are Elcano Inversiones Financieras (manages by Credit Suisse Gestión), Bestinver Internacional (Bestinver Gestión) and Torrenova de Inversiones (Banca March).Backtesting over the past 12 months reveals that the portfolio would have earned double the returns of its benchmark index (50 AFI FIM an 50% Eurostoxx 50), with 20.2% compared with 10%, with a volatility nearly haf (5.10% compared to 9.30%), according to Cotizalia.CharacteristicsName: Banco Madrid Sicav Selección, FIISIN code: ES0170614004Management fee: 2.03%Performance commission: 9%
12/09/2013

Rahn & Bodner private bank faces criminal investigation in United States

The US authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the Zurich-based private bank Rahn & Bodmer for failure to declare assets in the United States. The bank was informed in late August, Christian Rahn, managing partner at the bank, has told the newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Rahn & Bodmer says that in 2008 it decided no longer to accept undeclared US assets, and to encourage its US clients to voluntarily disclose their assets. This allowed the US authorities to discover the names of many of its clients, Rahn states. Rahn & Bodmer manages CHF12bn in assets, and has 20 employees.
12/09/2013

Edmond de Rothschild group increases stake in Rothschild Capital Partners to 100%

The Edmond de Rothschild group is increasing its stake in the capital of its affiliate Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners, a specialist in majority investments in midcap businesses, from 60% to 100%. The 40% will be purchased from co-founders Erick Fouque and Eric de Montgolfier, who will be leaving the private equity firm “to dedicate themselves to new entrepreneurial projects,” according to a statement. They will be replaced by Bertrand Demesse and Louis-Antoine Roullier, who have been working at the firm since 2005 and 2008, respectiely, and who have been promoted as managing partners. The Edmond de Rothschild group is “taking this opportunity to increase its stake in the capital as it believes in this illiquid asset class, in which they are seeking to strengthen themeselves by 2016, following the strategic plan of Christophe de Backer, CEO fo the Edmond de Rothschild group,” a spokesperson says. As part of this plan, new products will be launched. Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners, founded in 2003, has over EUR2.2bn in assets under management.
12/09/2013

Hedge fund buys a 12% stake in News Corp

Southeastern Asset Management has acquired a stake of nearly 12% in the capital of News Corp, the group controlled by Rupert Murdoch, USA Today reports. On the basis of its closing share price on Tuesday, the stake of Southeastern is valued at nearly USD400m. The alternative asset management firm thus becomes the second-largest shareholder, after Murdoch himself, who, according to Bloomberg, controls a 39% stake.
12/09/2013

La Française and Forum Partners sign a strategic partnership

Forum Partners Investment Management, LLC (Forum) and La Française, an affiliate of Crédit Mutuel Nord Europe (CMNE), on 11 September announcd that they have signed a strategic partnership which will take the form of an investment by La Française in a 24% stake in Forum Partners, via an issue of new equities and a significant investment in the international range of real estate investment strategies from Forum. The partnership is subject to approval by the supervisory authorities, a statement from the two firms says. In addition, a close collaboration will be established to launch several new European investment products, particularly through a joint venture to develop European direct real estate investment. Forum Partners is a real estate investment management firm with USD5.7bn in assets under management for third parties. The partnership will combine the expertise of the Forum in the area of real estate investment via real estate private equity, publicly-traded real estate and real estate debt, with the proven leadership of La Française in French direct real estate and senior debt. To support the partnership, CMNE and La Française will invest over USD600m in major investment strategies by Forum, beginning with USD200m for the European debt platform, including mezzanine and senior debt. La Française will also invest in publicly-traded real estate activities internationally, and real estate capital invetment in Asia, as well as in potential development opportunities in the Americas. In addition, Foum and La Française will pool their global resources for distribution to professional and retail clients.
12/09/2013

Amundi obtains SRI certification from Afnor

Amundi has obtained Service Engagement certification (SEI procedure – Environmental, Social and Governance criteria in portfolio management), launched recently by Afnor Certification. It is the first asset management firm to be certified by the association for French standards for service engagements associated with its SRI procedures, a press statement says. The Service Engagement for “Socially Responsible Invesmtent Procedure” may be obtained by any portfolio manager which respects strict service engagements, as follows: to analyse defined ESG criteria, with competence and impartiality; to update and make ratings reliable on a regular basis; to build portfolios which respect existing SRI crieria; to control the rules of SRI management independently and on an ongoing basis; to conduct dialogue and vote to promote progressive measures; to inform clients in full transparency; and to improve practices on an ongoing basis. The Service Engagement - “Socially Responsible Investment Procedure” certification procedure also defines requirements concerning organisation, monitoring and management of quality procedures. Amundi has assets under management of over EUR60bn in socially responsible investment.
12/09/2013

Few French groups are exemplary in the area of climate change

The CDP Global 500 Climate Change Report 2013, published by CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) includes two rankings of the 50 best businesses of the FTSE Global 500 companies in the area of performance in combating climate change (CPLI), on one hand, and transparency in communication on the subject (CDLI) on the other. French asset management firms are under-represented in these rankings with three business in the first case (L’Oréal, Axa and BNP Paribas) and two in the second (Sanofi and Schneider Electric).CDP states that the data were collected from 389 businesses at the request of 722 institutional investors, representing USD87trn in assets. Germany, Switzerland and the United Kngdom are over-represented in the CPLI rankings, in which only seven asset management firms have received a maximal score of 100 (BMW, Daimler, Philips Electronics, Nestlé, BNY Mellon, Cisco Systems and Gas Natural).However, the report reveals that 50 of the 500 largest publicly-traded businesses in the world are responsible for three quarters of greenhouse gas emissions, and emissions from the 50 most polluting businesses, primarily active in the energy, materials and utility sectors, increased 1.65% over the past four years. This increase represents the equivalent of 8.5 million additional pickups in streets, or the power consumption of 6 million homes per year.

Sujets d'actualité

Tous les sujets