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16/04/2012

New ETFs in Italy

The ETF platform from State Street Global Advisors has launched 15 new physical replication products on the Milan Stock Exchange, Bluerating rpeorts. Among these are the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, the SPDR S&P Euro Dividend Aristocrats ETF, and the SPDR S&P US Dividend Aristocrats ETF.Lyxor on 16 April also launched the Lyxor ETF S&P500 VIX Futures Enhanced Roll, an ETF which provides exposure to volatility, Bluerating adds.
16/04/2012

Investec drops Williams de Broë brand

Following the acquisition by Investec Group of Evolution Securities, which owned the Williams de Broë brand, the wealth management firm founded in 1869 will be changing names. Williams de Broë will be known as Investec Wealth and Investment from August, Investment Europe reports.
16/04/2012

Lazard recruits a big name from Sabadell

Sergio Miguez, chief investment officer for absolute returns at BanSabadell Inversión, is joining the Spanish team of the British firm Lazard, led by Manuel Sas Salvador (formerly CEO of Banco Urquijo), as director of wealth management, Funds People reports.This is the third recruitment of a high-level employee since the beginning of 2012 at Lazard, following those of Borja Fernández-Galiano (formerly director of third-part fund sales at N+1 Syz) and Francisco Quintano (former head of equities at BNP Paribas Spain).
16/04/2012

Banesto sells receivable debts at a profit

In first quarter, Banesto sold personal and consumer credit worth EUR1.2bn and EUR216m, respectively, to an investment fund and a bank whose names have not been disclosed, for a gain of EUR128m, Funds People reports. The gain has been set aside for provisions, as required by the minister of the economy.
16/04/2012

Saxo Bank founds a Sicav in Spain

The Danish Saxo Bank has registered the creation of Saxo Invest, a Luxembourg Sicav which will allow for sales of funds from the group’s for asset management boutiques, Sirius Kapitalforvaltning, CPH Capital, Global Evolution and Capital Four, to Spanish investors, with the CNMV, Funds People reports.
16/04/2012

BVI welcomes tax agreement with US

Thomas Richter, CEO of the German BVI association of asset management firms, on Friday welcomed the terms of a tax agreement between Germany and the United States which makes German institutional funds exempt from income tax withholding in the United States if the fund is held exclusively by one or more German pension funds or retirement entities.Under the new version of the double taxation treaty between Germany and the United States, pension funds and contractual trust arrangements domiciled in Germany are considered pension funds.This rule will benefit assets by about EUR20bn, according to BVI estimates.
16/04/2012

Temasek buys a stake in China's UCBC for USD2.5bn

Agefi reports that Temasek is continuing its acquisitions in China. The Singapore sovereign fund will be buying a bloc of 3.55 million shares in the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange from Goldman Sachs for about USD2.5bn (EUR1.9bn).
16/04/2012

Assets in US ETFs up

According to State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), assets under management by ETFs domiciled in the United States as of the end of March totalled USD1.9trn, 14% more than as of the end of December, the Wall Street Journal reports. Bond ETFs have attracted one third of the USD52.1bn in net subscriptions.
16/04/2012

Assets with limited liquidity in Spanish funds reduced

According to the quarterly newsletter from the CNMV, the total volume of illiquid assets in Spanish funds as of the end of 2011 was EUR7.5bn, which represents 5.6% of total assets, whereas that percentage was 7.4% as of the end of 2010. Funds People states that the amount has been reduced by EUR3bn in absolute terms. Compared with 2009, when the total was EUR14.9bn, the volume of illiquid assets has been halved.
16/04/2012

M&G closes down Prudential funds

The British firm M&G has announced that it would like to close four unit trusts from the range on offer from Prudential as part of a rationalisation of its product range, FundWeb reports. The closures proposed will affect the Prudential European Tracker trust, the Prudential Ethical trust, the Prudential (Invesco Perpetual) Managed trust and the Prudential Managed Funds Tracker trust. The planned closures will be put into effect form 8 June. Clients will be allowed to transfer their investments to equivalent vehicles from M&G.
16/04/2012

SIX Group hopes to bring together finance actors

SIX Group, which operates the Swiss stock exchange, is hoping to bring together actors in the Swiss financial market to present the requirements of the industry to the minister of finance, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, as a “master plan,” the SonntagsZeitung reports. The financial market urgently needs a coherent strategy, says Urs Rüegsegger, head of SIX Group. “Switzerland is too much on the deensive,” he says. Politicians and administrators have taken control, without actors in the industry having a say. Rüegsegger would like to change that situation, by uniting these actors behind SIX Group, a “neutral party,” to deliver their ideas to the Federal Council by this autumn.
16/04/2012

Swiss government signs taxation agreement with Austria

The Swiss government has signed a new taxation agreement, this time with Austria. The legislation, singed on 13 April in Bern, sets up a tax on Austrian funds on sale in Switzerland and imposes withholding tax for capital gains. Switzerland has also already signed similar treaties with Germany and the United Kingdom, and would like to continue with Greece. The agreements signed so far will come into force in January 2013. Their fate still depends on approval from the parliaments of the countries concerned, which may be complicated in Germany. By giving the priority to solutions of this kind, Switzerland hopes to wipe the slate clean without affecting banking confidentiality, and is hoping to avoid automatic exchange of information sought by the European Union (EU).
16/04/2012

Taxation: names of bank employees may be handed over to United States

The Swiss Federal Council has decided to allow the 11 banks targeted by the US tax authorities to hand over the names of their employees to the United States, Agefi Switzerland reports. So far, sales documents transmitted have been required to be encrypted. The banking establishments may now directly deliver unencrypted information to criminal investigation authorities, says Nadia Batzig, a spokesperson for the Swiss federal finance department (DFF), confirming reports in the Tages-Anzeiger and Bund newspapers. The government has recently decided to allow them to deliver unencrypted information concerning their employees and third partners, including external wealth managers. It has also allowed the banks exemption from article 271 of the Swiss criminal code, which punishes “acts undertaken without permission for a foreign government.” However, information on banking clients still may not be transmitted.
16/04/2012

Tax evasion: preliminary investigation of UBS opened in France

According to Les Echos, judges have recently decided to open an inquiry into UBS in France for “organised financial and banking services to unqualified individuals and money-laundering [tax fraud and funds obtained through illicit means].” These offences are punishable by a sentence of five years in prison and a fine of EUR750,000. In March 2011, the prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation following a notification from the prudential control authority (ACP) about internal actions and control procedures at the bank. The regulator will pay particular attention to the handling of clients in France by sales staff at the bank from Switzerland. The inquiry has been entrusted to Paris investigating judge Guillaume Daieff. Neither the bank nor its advisers had any comment on the reports when contacted.
16/04/2012
Gestion d'actifs

Le Fonds de pension de Total en Belgique va prochainement investir sur les convertibles

Le fonds de pension de Total en Belgique finalise la sélection d’un gérant pour un mandat de 20 millions d’euros sur les convertibles avec un style de gestion passive. Le fonds de pension s’appuie sur le consultant bfinance et devrait annoncer le nom du lauréat fin avril. Philippe Lamy, le directeur de la gestion du fonds de pension a déclaré vouloir investir jusqu'à 30 millions d’euros à terme sur les convertibles, en réduisant son exposition sur les actions et certains segments obligataires. Il est également prévu de poursuivre la diversification du portefeuille et de rechercher des sources de rendements plus importants. Dans un troisième temps, il s’agira de remettre en concurrence les gérants avec lesquels le fonds travaille déjà sur d’autres classes d’actifs. La situation de Dexia est notamment suivie avec une extrême attention. L’allocation d’actifs (400 millions d’euros au total) est la suivante : 57% en obligations, 33% en actions et 10% en immobilier. Total Belgique a retenu BNP Paribas IP sur les actions et les taux, Aberdeen AM uniquement sur les taux, PIMCO sur les obligations d’entreprises, Dexia AM sur les actions, Blackfriars AM sur les actions émergentes, en particulier sur l’Asie et Petercam sur l’immobilier.
Gestion d'actifs
16/04/2012

Carlyle peaufine les détails de son IPO

Reuters croit savoir que la société américaine de private equity entend récolter début mai à l’occasion de son introduction en Bourse entre 701,5 et 762,5 millions de dollars. Ce qui représente une mise sur le marché de 11% du capital, à raison de 30,5 millions de titres écoulés au sein d’une fourchette indicative attendue de 23 à 25 dollars.
16/04/2012

Blackstone se renforce dans l’immobilier industriel aux Etats-Unis

Le groupe australien Dexus Property Group a indiqué avoir cédé à des entités du fonds Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII 65 de ses actifs immobiliers industriels pour 770 millions de dollars. Le groupe australien entend procéder à un rachat de titres grâce au produit de cette vente. Blackstone de son côté a d’ores et déjà récolté plus de 10 milliards de dollars pour son nouveau fonds dédié à l’immobilier.
16/04/2012

Une société de gestion parisienne épinglée par l'AMF

Le rapporteur du Collège de l’AMF a requis 500.000 euros d’amende à l’encontre de la société GSD Gestion, 100.000 euros à l’encontre de son PDG, Jacques Gautier et 50.000 euros à l’encontre de son DG Thierry Gautier. L’amende serait assortie de blâme. Il leur est notamment reproché de n’avoir pas respecté leurs obligations professionnelles lors de la vente d’EMTN dont la valeur a fondu avec la faillite de la banque islandaise Landsbanki en 2008.
16/04/2012

Les propriétaires de Manchester United relancent un projet d'IPO

La famille Glazer chercherait à lever 600 millions de livres, l’équivalent de près de 730 millions d’euros, en mettant 25% à 30% du club de football britannique à la Bourse de Singapour, ce qui le valoriserait jusqu'à deux milliards de livres, a rapporté dimanche le Sunday Times. Ce projet a déjà été étudié par le passé.
16/04/2012

TA Associates entre au capital de Zadig & Voltaire

Le quotidien avance que la «griffe française glam-rock» est «en passe de réussir sa conquête de l’Ouest» par le biais, outre des ouvertures de boutiques outre-Atlantique, de l’entrée à son capital du fonds américain TA Associates. Ce dernier prendra 30% du capital, une opération valorisant la société fondée, détenue et dirigée par Thierry Gillier à 380 millions d’euros.
16/04/2012

Pékin donne plus de souplesse au yuan

A la grande satisfaction du FMI, la banque centrale chinoise a annoncé ce week-end le doublement de la bande de fluctuation du yuan. Une première depuis 2007.

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