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21/06/2011

Aletti Gestielle appoints a new CIO

Aletti Gestielle Sgr, an Italian asset management firm of the Banco Popolare group, has appointed Fabrizio Fiorini as its new chief investment officer. Fiorini, who arrived at the group in 1997, has served in several positions, including head of fixed income, and since 2010, head of asset allocation.
21/06/2011

Carolyn Clancy promoted to executive vice president of FundsNetwork

Fidelity has promoted Carolyn Clancy to become director of its mutual fund supermarket operation. Mutual Fund Wire reports that Clancy was appointed as executive vice president of FundsNetwork about a month ago. She replaces Paul Riley, who has left the group to join Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
21/06/2011

RBC Wealth Management number one in North America for customer satisfaction

According to the ninth annual customer satisfaction study by J.D. Power & Associates (“2011 U.S. Full Service Investor Satisfaction Study,”) covering 4,200 investors who use an advisor, RBS Wealth Management, the wealth management unit of the Canadian bank Royal Bank of Canada, has received the highest satisfaction score from its clients. On the basis of seven major criteria (advising, performance, information, product offerings, fees and commissions, website and problem resolution,) RBC scored a total of 814 points on a scale of 1 to 1,000, putting it ahead of Charles Schwab (805 points) and Fidelity Investments (796 points). The study also reveals that clients are increasingly using the Internet. 59% of investors have consulted the website of their management firm in the past twelve months, compared with 52% in 2009, and 51% of investors exchanged email with their advisor in 2011, compared with 19% in 2008. Among the investors who had viewed the website of their firm, clients aged over 64 averaged over 35 visits per year, compared with 23 visits per year for the 45-64 year-old age group, and only 12 visits per year for those aged under 45. The study also reveals that 85% of clients had either never heard of or had never understood the difference between the ssuitability tandard, which requires that the adviser offer investments adapted to the client’s profile, and the fiduciary standard, which requires the advisor to act in the best interest of clients and to disclose any conflicts of interest.
21/06/2011

Somangest retains Investeam for distribution for some of its funds

The French asset management firm Somangest has awarded a contract for distribution of some of its funds via distribution platforms and independent financial advisers (IFA) to the third-party marketing firm Investeam. The two funds included in the deal are Somactiv and Sominter.
21/06/2011

Rab Capital: withdrawal from trading to take place in a matter of days

The news agency Reuters reports that the hedge fund firm RAB Capital, based in London, will in the next few days confirm its decision to withdraw from trading on the Alternative Investment Market. Assets under management at the firm, which peaked at about USD7bn in late 2007, have fallen to USD1bn. The 2010 fiscal year ended with losses of GBP20.2m.
21/06/2011

Departures from Fidelity UK

Fidelity has confirmed the departure of several members of its UK teams, including the director of products for the team responsible for UK equities, Peter Hicks, FundWeb reports. In the interim, from early July, the responsibilities will be handled by William Russell.
21/06/2011

ISS supports LSE-TMX merger

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is recommending that shareholders in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) vote in favour of a merger with TMX, the operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal reports. The independent shareholder advisory firm has, however, not yet issued a recommendation for TMX shareholders, who are facing two rival offers, one from LSE and one from Maple Group Acquisition Corp.ISS is the second agency to recommend approval for the LSE-TMX merger, following Glass Lewis & Co, a independent advisory agency serving institutional investors, which considers the LSE offer “superior” to the Maple Group offer for TMX shareholders.Glass Lewis is an indirect affiliate of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, one of the founders and backers of Maple.
21/06/2011

UK pension funds switching asset managers

According to an annual survey by Financial Times fund management, several major asset management firms have seen a collapse in their assets managed for UK pension funds in the past three years. This is particularly true of Alliance Bernstein, Axa IM, Scottish Widows IP, Goldman Sachs AM, Aberdeen AM and Henderson GI. In the meantime, other asset managers have gained market share in this segment: Insight IM, Legal & General IM and BlackRock.
21/06/2011

Skandia Global Funds recrute Susana García

Le britannique Skandia Global Funds a annoncé avoir embauché comme marketing executive Susana García, qui sera chargée de soutenir depuis Londres l'équipe de Skandia Investment Group pour l’Espagne et l’Amérique latine. Elle était auparavant responsable du marketing pour l’Espagne et le Portugal chez American Express Funds, précise Funds People.Susana García fera équipe avec Mercedes Azpiroz et Pilar Bravo et elle sera chargée aussi du développement des activités marketing pour l’Espagne et l’Amérique latine.
21/06/2011

Schroders recruits a former UBS GAM head

Schroders has appointed Bob Jolly to a new role on its fixed income team as head of global macro based in London. He joins from UBS Global Asset Management where he was head of global sovereign, currency and UK fixed income portfolio management.Bob Jolly, who joins in September, will also take on lead portfolio management responsibility for a number of macro and multi-sector portfolios managed by a team of ten in London. Current mandates include aggregate, sovereign and absolute return strategies with nearly USD15 billion of assets under management. He will also work with regional portfolio managers in Asia and the US to further develop Schroders’ global macro investment framework.
21/06/2011

High yield bond funds deserted by investors

Troubles related to Greek debt have exacerbated the risk aversion of investors, who in mid-June pulled out of the high yield bond sector, in favour of funds dedicated to US equities.In the week to 15 June, high yield bond funds suffered a record net outflow of USD2.09bn, according to the most recent weekly statistics from EPFR Global. Bond funds overall still showed a net inflow of USD679m in the week under review.Equities funds attracted over USD6bn, while inflows to a group of US ETF funds, stimulated by a series of options which matured on 17 June, more than compensated for redemptions from the major groups of equities funds. Funds dedicated to European equities finished the week with outflows of USD741m.Money market funds also saw their largest outflows in over four months.In terms of sectors, funds dedicated to health and biotechnologies continued to post subscriptions, putting inflows since the beginning of the year at over USD3bn.
21/06/2011

Collateral: a new challenge for hedge funds

According to a survey undertaken by service provider Algorithmics and consultant Chromozome, covering 80 buy-side companies (asset management firms, hedge funds, and pension funds), entitled “Collateral Management for the Buy Side: Emerging Challenges and Best Practices in a Changing Regulatory Environment,” rising costs for collateral management related to settlement requirements for over-the-counter derivative trades on both sides of the Atlantic could drive hedge funds to make less use of, or no longer to trade, OTC products.The study, published on 20 June, finds that 54% of respondents currently make margin calls only on a weekly basis. Where new regulations are in place, central counterparty clearing houses (CCP) may make daily margin calls, and even intra-day calls. In other words, hedge funds need to adapt their infrastructure to these new requirements, which also imply an increase in collateral levels.Andrew Aziz, executive vice president of the Risk Solutions unit at Algorithmics, says that buy-side professionals are facing an interesting evolution. “For the first time, they are subject to the same risk and operational requirements as their sell-side counterparts, due to regulatory requirements.”
21/06/2011

Concentration expected in wealth management, according to PwC

According to the Wealth Management Report 2011 from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), cited by the Börsen-Zeitung, 30% of 275 directors of banks and financial sector groups in 67 countries are expecting a major concentration movement in the wealth management sector in the next two years. The movement will be a delayed result of the financial crisis, particularly of toughening regulations with financial implications for businesses in the sector. However, the profitability of wealth management operations is expected to increase.
21/06/2011

Altarius AM launches an investment platform based in Malta

Altarius Asset Management Limited, the asset management affiliate of the Altarius Group, based in Malta, at the end of last week announced that it has launched its investment platform, Paragon Sicav plc (Paragon), which is one of the first independent investment platforms in Malta created exclusively for third-party managers and family offices. Paragon, which is registered as a P.I.F. (professional investment fund), is described as extremely flexible in terms of investment strategy, liquidity, reporting, and debt. One of the major advantages of Paragon is that it is exempt from income and capital gains taxes. Among its other strong points, Paragon has an open architecture, which allows clients to name their own service provider. As a collective investment organism, it is also highly profitable, as creation and maintenance costs are distributed between all the sub-funds on the platform. Paragon does not impose a minimal portfolio, nor a lock-up period.
21/06/2011

Less than half of managers invest in the funds they manage

According to statistics from Morningstar compiled by InvestmentNews, only 40% of managers invest in their own funds, and of that 40%, 60% are equities managers.Morningstar has established that the more a manager invests in his own fund, the better the fund performs. For funds in which the manager has over USD1m invested, the average rating is 3.5 stars and the average tenure for the manager in charge of the fund is over 12 years.At the other end of the spectrum, funds in which the manager does not invest or invests a small amount have an average rating of 2.9 stars, and the average tenure for managers in charge of the funds is 4.6 years.Most asset management firms have no formal rules about whether managers are required to invest in their own funds. But Royce & Associates (Legg Mason group) requires that its lead managers invest at least USD1m in their funds, while co-managers are required to invest at least USD500,000.However, at Vanguard, the manager is not at all invested in 84 out of 114 funds.
21/06/2011
Gestion d'actifs

La Banque Populaire du Sud Ouest privilégie les produits à capital garanti du Groupe BPCE

A l’instar des autres Banques Populaires, BPSO est consolidée, ce qui signifie qu’elle n’a pas de portefeuille titre pour compte propre et ses investissements sont notamment des titres de participation qu’elle possède dans les structures du groupe BPCE. Pourtant, ce ne sont pas des investissements de portefeuille car la problématique fonds propres et ressources de la banque régionale est liée exclusivement ou quasi exclusivement aux crédits distribués à ses clients et son portefeuille de placement pour fonds propres est extrêmement limité. Ainsi, la banque a très peu de ligne d’investissement dans les produits financiers qui sont de plus en plus des produits du groupe à capital garanti. Par ailleurs, elle ne prend pas de nouvelles participations. Pourtant, la banque régionale va devoir se conformer aux nouveaux aspects fonds propres et liquidités introduits par la nouvelle règlementation de Bâle III. Aujourd’hui, la banque admet que son ratio de solvabilité est correct mais elle va devoir, au fur et à mesure des prochaines années, consolider ses fonds propres pour se conformer à Bâle III et tendre vers un ratio de solvabilité qui lui permette de continuer à financer ses clients. Pour ce qui est de la liquidité, la BPSO fait depuis plusieurs années, davantage de crédits à ses clients que ceux ci ne font de dépôts. De ce fait, la banque emprunte en permanence sur les marchés de façon significative. Pourtant, la nouvelle règlementation va l’obliger à mettre des ressources monétaires d’option plus longues en face de ses crédits. Mais plus les ressources monétaires sont longues, plus elles sont chères et pour ne pas augmenter le taux de ses crédits et continuer à en accorder, la BPSO va devoir être plus performante vis-à-vis de la collecte, notamment bilancielle.
Gestion d'actifs
21/06/2011

Skandia Global Funds recrute Susana García

Le britannique Skandia Global Funds a annoncé avoir embauché comme marketing executive Susana García, qui sera chargée de soutenir depuis Londres l'équipe de Skandia Investment Group pour l’Espagne et l’Amérique latine. Elle était auparavant responsable du marketing pour l’Espagne et le Portugal chez American Express Funds, précise Funds People.Susana García fera équipe avec Mercedes Azpiroz et Pilar Bravo et elle sera chargée aussi du développement des activités marketing pour l’Espagne et l’Amérique latine.
21/06/2011
Fonds

Des fonds de Prudential vont être absorbés par des fonds M&G

Le Corporate Bond trust de Prudential, dont les encours s'élèvent à 783 millions de livres, a été fusionné le 20 juin avec le M&G Corporate Bond fund, dont les encours totalisent 4,1 milliards de livres, rapporte Investment Week. Autrement dit, le fonds géré par richard Woolnough pèse désormais près de 5 milliards de dollars.Un autre fonds de Prudential, le North American Trust (60 millions de livres), sera intégré dans le M&G American fund (2,3 milliards de livres). En outre, le Managed trust (278 millions de livres) fusionnera avec le M&G Managed fund (717 millions de livres) tandis que le European Trust (90 millions de livres) sera absorbé par le M&G Pan European fund (175 millions de livres).
Fonds
21/06/2011
Fonds

Mouvements chez Fidelity outre-Manche

Fidelity a confirmé le départ de plusieurs membres des équipes outre-Manche, notamment le directeur produits de l'équipe responsable des actions britanniques, Peter Hicks, rapporte FundWeb. L’intérim, à compter de début juillet, sera assuré par William Russell.
Fonds
21/06/2011

Les fonds de pension britanniques changent de gérants

Selon un sondage annuel du Financial Times fund management, plusieurs grandes maisons de gestion ont vu leurs encours gérés pour le compte de fonds de pension britanniques chuter ces trois dernières années. C’est notamment le cas d’Alliance Bernstein, Axa IM, Scottish Widows IP, Goldman Sachs AM, Aberdeen AM et Henderson GI. En revanche, d’autres sociétés de gestion ont gagné des parts de marché sur ce segment : Insight IM, Legal & General IM et BlackRock.
21/06/2011
Fonds

Skandia mise sur deux gérants français pour le European Best Ideas

Lee Freeman-Shor, gérant chez Skandia Investment Group (SIG), vient d’ajouter Marc Renaud de Mandarine Gestion et Cédric de Fonclare de Jupiter AM à la liste des gérants du fonds Skandia European Best Ideas Fund (EBI).Ces deux gérants français rejoignent ainsi leur compatriote Damien Lanternier de La Financière de l’Echiquier dans le cercle restreint des gérants mandatés pour gérer EBI qui compte dorénavant dix professionnels, avec la sortie de Tobias Klien de First Private. Lee Freeman-Shor considère d’ailleurs que dix mandats est une limite maximale de diversification à ne pas dépasser, afin de conserver une gestion suffisamment active et continuer à générer de la sur-performance.Marc Renaud et Cédric de Fonclare figuraient déjà dans l’équipe «de réserve» du fonds EBI.
Fonds
21/06/2011

Schroders recrute un ancien d’UBS GAM

Schroders vient de recruter Bob Jolly dans son équipe «fixed income» en tant que responsable du Global Macro à Londres, un poste nouvellement créé. L’intéressé vient d’UBS Global Asset Management où il était responsable de la gestion de portefeuilles souverains, devises et obligataires britanniques (head of global sovereign, currency and UK fixed income portfolio management). Chez Schroders, où il arrivera en septembre, Bob Jolly deviendra le gérant principal de plusieurs portefeuilles macro et multi-secteurs gérés par une équipe de dix personnes à Londres. Les mandats actuels incluent également des stratégies obligations souveraines et à rendement absolu représentant environ 15 milliards de dollars. Bob Jolly travaillera aussi avec des gérants de portefeuilles régionaux en Asie et aux Etats-Unis pour développer le segment global macro.
21/06/2011

AnaCap acquires the Czech affiliate of Banco Popolare

The British private equity investor AnaCap Financial Partners (EUR1.3bn in assets) has teamed up with the asset management affiliates of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to acquire Banco Popolare Česká Republika, the Czech affiliate of Italy’s Banco Popolare, for EUR48m, the Wall Street Journal reports. Banco Popolare Česká has only seven locations and 100 employees. The transaction will generate capital gains of EUR12m for the parent company.
21/06/2011
Gestion d'actifs

La Caisse d'Epargne Loire Drôme Ardèche évalue les impacts de Bâle III du point de vue de la liquidité

Si la CELDA (Caisse d’Epargne Loire Drôme Ardèche) n’intègre pas encore Bâle IIII dans sa gestion au quotidien par contre, la caisse commence à en évaluer les impacts notamment du point de vue de la liquidité. Ainsi, la nouvelle notion de réserve de liquidité va inciter encore plus qu’aujourd’hui, la caisse à aller rechercher de l’actif d’excellente qualité, en quantité importante noté AA ou AAA, notamment des souverains. Ce process porte en lui une remise en question complète de la gestion de portefeuille de la caisse qui n’est pas tournée aujourd’hui, vers du AAA mais plutôt vers du BBB. Bien entendu, la CELDA travaille dans un cadre d’investissement existant mais moins contraignant et la notion de notation qui avait jusqu'à présent, moins d’importance en France, devient prégnante avec les notions de LCR et de NSFR introduites par Bâle III. Si la nouvelle règlementation n’interdit pas d’investir sur du BBB, elle le rend beaucoup moins intéressant puisqu’il n’entre pas dans le coefficient de la nouvelle LCR. La caisse aura donc plutôt intérêt à aller chercher de la liquidité règlementaire donc des titres qui constituent l’actif liquide. Aujourd’hui pour la Caisse régionale, il n’est pas question d’arbitrer mais d’examiner les leviers à la fois financiers et commerciaux pour se constituer des ressources stables. La caisse admet qu’en termes de rentabilité et même de répartition du risque, faire en sorte que tous les investisseurs aillent vers les mêmes émetteurs n’est pas très efficace d’autant plus que le financement des entreprises risque d’en pâtir car les titres achetés constitueront soit, de la liquidité mais au détriment des corporates.
Gestion d'actifs
21/06/2011

Nyse Euronext lance sa plate-forme obligataire

BondMatch, le système créé par l’opérateur boursier transatlantique, sera opérationnel le 11 juillet prochain. Au démarrage, une dizaine de membres seront actifs sur la plate-forme qui proposera à la négociation quelque 1.800 obligations émanant d’environ 400 émetteurs.

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