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24/05/2012

US money market funds adopt wait-and-see attitude to European banks

As a whole, aggregate U.S. prime money market fund exposures to European banks declined marginally by 2% on a dollar basis since end-March, according to Fitch Ratings in a new report published on May 23. The decline in exposure to U.K. and Dutch banks was partially offset by increased exposure to German banks. Overall, euro zone exposure has held steady over the past three months, but remains 63% belowend-May 2011 levels. Exposure to banks in Australia, Canada, and Japan as a group was largely unchanged at 29% of MMF assets under management.Following reduced allocations to euro zone banks that took place during the second half of 2011, MMF holdings appear to be following a “wait andsee” approach until a clearer pattern emerges, comments Fitch.
24/05/2012

No crisis in solidarity-based savings

Assets in solidarity-based savings continued to increase last year, to a total of EUR3.55bn as of 31 December 2011, up 15% compared with 2010, according to statistics from the solidarity-based finance barometer published by Finansol/La Croix, which celebrates its 10th birthday this year. Over 10 years, assets have been multiplied by a factor of 12. Assets in solidarity-based savings have been driven by soldiarity-based emlpoyee savings, which total EUR1.74bn. Currently, 500,000 employees place their employee savings in solidarity-based funds. The amounts invested in activities with high social and environmental utility totalled EUR897m as of the end of 2011 (+31% compared with 2010), and have been multiplied by a factor of 8 in 10 years. More than 200,000 jobs have been created or consolidated over the decade under review, and 82,700 businesses have been supported. Overall, nearly 800,000 savers currently choose to opt for a more humanistic type of finance, Financsol reports.
24/05/2012

Salwa Moussokaya-Nasr takes over from Philippe Aurain at French pension fund

The French national pension fund, the Fonds de réserve pour les retraites (FRR), has appointed Salwa Boussokaya-Nasr as its CFO, replacing Philippe Aurain, who left his position at the end of April to join Fédéris Gestion d’Actifs as its CEO and head of management. Boussokaya-Nasr had previously been head of allocation management for the FRR. She joined the fund in 2006, after working at Ixis Asset Management.
24/05/2012

Credit Suisse loses its head of alternative management

The asset management unit of the Credit Suisse group is losing its head of alternative management, Ravi Singh, Financial News reports. Singh, who joined Credit Suisse in 2009 after serving as co-head of prime brokerage at Goldman Sachs, had been managing director and also a member of the Asset Management Committee. The pole which he led, Alternative Investments (private equity, hedge funds, commodities and structured products), represented about CHF140bn in assets.
24/05/2012

Lyxor launches ETFs based on AAA-rated government bonds

Lyxor Asset Management on 23 May launched three exchange-traded funds (ETF) on the SIX Swiss Exchange based on AAA-rated government bonds from the euro zone. The three ETF funds, LYXOR ETF EUROMTS AAA Macro Weighted Government 1-3Y, LYXOR ETF EUROMTS AAA Macro Weighted Gouvernement 3-5Y and LYXOR ETF EUROMTS AAA Macro Weighted Government 5-7Y, vary in their durations, a statement from Lyxor says. Lyxor now offers seven bond ETFs on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
24/05/2012

IEX Group plans an exchange excluding high-frequency traders

Bradley Katsuyama, the former head of electronic trading at RBC, has hired a bunch of its former colleagues as well as employees of high-frequency traders to set up IEX Group Inc with the purpose of launching in 2013 a transaction platform dedicated to funds managers and preventing high frequency traders to profit from their competitive advantage, The Wall Street Journal reports.The project is supported by RBC and Janus Capital. IEX Group won’t use the fee structure used by exchanges that pays firm to post buy and sell orders and is favored by high-frequency traders.
24/05/2012

Southwire and Red Kite attack plans for a copper ETF

The Financial Times reports that US based manufacturer Southwire and hedge fund Red Kite have complained in a letter to the SEC against a plan by JPMorgan du launch a copper ETF which could «wreak havoc» in the US and global economy by artificially inflating prices of the metal. In its filiang to the SEC, JPMorgan suggests its ETF could hold 61,800 tons of copper, which would be 27% of the metal held in the global network of warehouses of the London Metal Exchange. And BlackRock also plans an iShares ETF which could hold 121,200 tons. The paper however underlines that ETFs holding physical copper and launched in Europe over the last 18 months by ETF Securities (ETFS) and Deutsche Bank have had limited success. The ETFS product, for instance, only holds 3,427 tons.
24/05/2012

Strong inflows for Swiss funds in April

Assets under management at Swiss funds as of the end of April totalled CHF658.8bn, down CHF1.4bn compared with the previous month, according to statistics from the Swiss Funds Association (SFA). Net inflows to funds, which totalled CHF6.7bn during the month under review, were largely offset by negative market effects. Inflows were distributed over all categories of funds, with equity and bond funds seeing the largest inflows.
24/05/2012

Andbank aims for EUR2bn in 5 years in Europe

The new Spanish branch of the Andorran Andbank has already recruited 20 private bankers, and is planning to recruit 10 more tin the next few months, Funds People reports. In addition, the firm is building a network of independent private bankers and financial advisers.The new entity is led by Rafael Gascó, formerly of Banca March, and is aiming for EUR2bn in assets in 5 years. The break-evn point is expected to be reached in 2014.
24/05/2012

Schroders appoints a new head for its Spanish private bank

Following the departure of Juan Fontán, Schroders has promoted Diego Cavero to the position of head of the representative office of Schroders & Co Bank AG in Spain, the private banking unit of the group. Funds People reports that the appointment has been effective since 1 April, and that Cavero joined Schroders in 2003 as a private banker and head of high net worth private clients.
24/05/2012

Inversis Bank Institutional starts servicing hedge funds

Morgan Stanley has become the first customer of Inversis Bank Institutional in the field of hedge fund adminstration and custody. Funds People reports that the US bank will initially transfer USD250m in assets to the Spanish institution.
24/05/2012

Les ETF synthétiques en grand péril

Responsable mondial des fonds indiciels cotés chez Vanguard, Rick Genoni indique au quotidien que plus des trois-quarts (76%) des ETF synthétiques cotés en Europe risquent la fermeture faute d’avoir séduit suffisamment d’investisseurs, en l’occurrence s’ils n’ont pas atteint un actif de 30 millions de dollars, trois ans après leur ouverture.
24/05/2012

Un fonds soutenu par CIC se détourne de l'Europe du Sud

Le fonds européen d’A Capital, soutenu par China Investment Corp et qui compte 250 millions d’euros, sera alloué à 30-35% à des investissements en Allemagne, à 20% en Scandinavie, à 20% en France, le solde se répartissant entre le Royaume-Uni, la Belgique et les Pays-Bas, selon le quotidien. Le président d’A Capital estime cependant que «ce n’est pas un bon moment» pour se tourner vers l’Europe du Sud.
24/05/2012

Julius Baer veut un accord aux Etats-Unis

Dans un entretien, le directeur général de la banque suisse, Boris Collardi, assure que le fait de parvenir à un accord avec le Département américain de la Justice concernant l’évasion fiscale constituait bel et bien une «priorité». Cet accord pourrait intervenir au second semestre et Julius Baer a les moyens d’y faire face assure le dirigeant.
24/05/2012

BNP Paribas va cesser de distribuer Luxumbrella

Un proche de la direction de l'établissement a confirmé au Monde l’arrêt de la distribution de Luxumbrella, une sicav de droit luxembourgeois soupçonnée de favoriser l'évasion fiscale. Catégorisé type 2, ce genre de produit échappe au Luxembourg à la directive européenne sur l'épargne qui prévoit une retenue à la source de 35% sur lesrevenus d’intérêts.
24/05/2012

Moody's relève sa perspective sur la note de Sanofi

L’agence a relevé sa perspective sur la note senior long terme A2 de Sanofi de «stable» à «positive».Cette évolution reflète selon Moody’s le désendettement solide depuis l’acquisition de Genzyme, ainsi que les progrès réalisés en matière de diversification qui ont assuré au groupe de nouvelles sources de croissance et l’aideront à compenser l’impact des expirations de brevets.
24/05/2012

Les eurodéputés votent la taxe sur les transactions financières

Le Parlement européen a approuvé à une large majorité mercredi les modalités d’une taxe sur les transactions financières, un signal aux Etats qui restent divisés sur son principe même. Les eurodéputés, qui ne disposent que d’un rôle consultatif en la matière, ont apporté leur soutien à ce dispositif par 487 voix contre 152 et 46 abstentions.
24/05/2012

Contraction de l’activité manufacturière en Chine

L’Indice PMI préliminaire HSBC et Markit mesurant l’activité manufacturière, publié ce matin, s’est enfoncé dans la zone de contraction à 48,7 points au mois de mai, après 49,3 en avril. Un chiffre qui marque la plus longue période de l’indice sous la barre des 50 points depuis 2008. Parallèlement, le gouvernement a plaidé en faveur d’une accélération des mesures de soutien à la croissance.
24/05/2012

La BoE n'écarte pas un nouveau tour de QE

D’après les minutes de la dernière réunion de mai de la Banque d’Angleterre, huit des neuf gouverneurs de la banque centrale ont voté la fin du programme de rachats d’actifs de 325 milliards de livres (406 milliards d’euros), sans pour autant fermer la porte à un nouveau tour d’assouplissement quantitatif. Parallèlement, le vice-Premier ministre Nick Clegg a déclaré que l’apport de nouvelles liquidités dans l'économie britannique était une «priorité absolue».
24/05/2012

Les non-résidents délaissent la dette périphérique

Les non-résidents, hors BCE, ne détenaient plus que 34% de la dette souveraine espagnole à fin mars contre 40% fin 2011 et plus de 60% en 2008, d’après l’agence de notation Fitch. En Italie, les emprunts d’Etat sont détenus à 32% par des non-résidents, contre environ 50% en 2008, mais le rythme du repli ralentit.
23/05/2012

Les eurodéputés votent la taxe sur les transactions financières

Le Parlement européen a approuvé à une large majorité mercredi les modalités d’une taxe sur les transactions financières, un signal aux Etats qui restent divisés sur son principe même. Les eurodéputés, qui ne disposent que d’un rôle consultatif en la matière, ont apporté leur soutien à ce dispositif par 487 voix contre 152 et 46 abstentions.
23/05/2012

L'euro au plus bas depuis août 2010

La monnaie unique est passé mercredi sous la barre de 1,26 dollar, son plus bas niveau depuis août 2010, les cambistes redoutant une sortie de la Grèce de la zone euro. Les marchés s’interrogent aussi sur l’issue du Conseil européen informel de ce mercredi. L’euro est un moment tombé à 1,2578 dollar sur la plate-forme de transactions EBS, avant de revenir vers 1,2583 dollar.

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