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14/06/2011

SGCIB recrute un directeur de la distribution de produits structurés pour l'Ibérie

Luis Muñoz, qui a rejoint Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) le mois dernier, sera particulièrement chargé de la distribution des produits structurés au sein de l’activité solutions multi-classes d’actifs pour l’Espagne et le Portugal. Il était en dernier lieu directeur exécutif pour l’activité dérivés chez Morgan Stanley à Londres.
14/06/2011
Fonds

Trois fonds luxembourgeois d'Aberdeen deviennent "PEAbles"

A côté du fonds de droit français Aberdeen Actions Euro (FR0000985442), la gamme d’Aberdeen éligible au PEA comporte désormais trois fonds d’actions européennes, des produits de droit luxembourgeois, annonce le bureau parisien du gestionnaire écossais.Il s’agit des parts retail (LU009454144) et institutionnelle (LU0231472209) du fonds Aberdeen Global European Equity Fund, de la part retail du European Equity ex-UK (LU0231484808) et enfin des parts retail (LU0505661966) et institutionnelle (LU0505783646) du Dividend Europe.
Fonds
14/06/2011

BNP Paribas veut céder la gestion privée de Fortis outre-Manche

La banque privée londonienne de Fortis ne va finalement pas fusionner avec BNP Paribas Wealth Management mais va être vendue, révèle L’Agefi, citant une source proche du dossier.De taille modeste, Fortis Private Investment Management, est axée sur la clientèle domestique mais ne peut s’appuyer sur un réseau bancaire tandis que le dispositif onshore (pour résidents) de BNP Paribas Wealth Management repose sur la banque de détail du groupe, explique le quotidien.
14/06/2011

Pour ses actifs toxiques, la SocGen distingue actifs simples et complexes

Concernant les actifs toxiques détenus par la Société Générale et qui représentaient fin mars 29,5 milliards d’euros, deux cas sont à distinguer, rapporte L’Agefi. Pour les actifs les plus simples, la banque ne s’interdit pas d’en vendre comme ce fut le cas au premier trimestre. Pour les actifs très complexes et illiquides, comme les CDO de RMBS adossés à des prêts immobiliers subprime, la banque procède au démantèlement du CDO en s’assurant une majorité de contrôle parmi les porteurs de tranches, explique le quotidien. Ensuite, elle demande au trustee chargé de la gestion des actifs sous-jacents le remboursement des parts. La Société Générale touche donc les parts de RMBS qui constituaient le portefeuille du CDO.
14/06/2011
Fonds

L'assurance vie épargnée fiscalement

Selon La Tribune, le gouvernement a maintenu à 20 % le taux de taxation de l’assurance-vie , alors que des députés UMP voulaient le porter à 25 %, vendredi à l’Assemblée, lors de l’examen du collectif budgétaire sur la réforme de la fiscalité du patrimoine.
Fonds
14/06/2011

JPMAM double sa force de frappe commerciale auprès des assureurs

Markus Novak, qui était principalement responsable de la clientèle de la distribution auprès des gestionnaires de fortune et des banques en Allemagne pour Skandia, vient de rejoindre JPMorgan Asset Management comme second de Charles Neus pour la distribution auprès des compagnies d’assurances et de leurs réseaux.
14/06/2011
Fonds

Les Suédois se détournent des fonds actions en mai

En mai, les investisseurs suédois ont à nouveau délaissé les fonds actions, alors qu’ils y étaient revenus massivement en avril. Ainsi, les fonds actions commercialisés en Suède ont accusé des rachats nets de 1,9 milliard de couronnes suédoises le mois dernier, selon les dernières statistiques de Fondbolagens Förening, l’association suédoise des fonds d’investissement. En avril, ils avaient enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 9,3 milliards de couronnes après deux mois de sorties nettes. Depuis le début de l’année, les fonds actions voient sortir, en net, 1 milliard de couronnes.Néanmoins, en mai, le secteur des fonds commercialisés en Suède affiche une collecte nette, grâce aux souscriptions sur les autres classes d’actifs, et notamment sur les fonds monétaires (1,7 milliard de couronnes) et les fonds obligataires (1,3 milliard). A fin mai, les fonds en Suède représentaient un encours de 1.971 milliards de couronnes, dont 1.169 milliards investis dans des fonds actions.
Fonds
14/06/2011
Fonds

BarCap lance un fonds de rendement coordonné à Singapour

Barclays Capital Fund Solutions, le pôle gestion d’actifs de Barclays Capital, a annoncé en fin de semaine dernière le lancement d’un fonds de rendement au format Ucits à Singapour, le Barclays Real Return USD Fund, rapporte Asian Investor.Le fonds investira jusqu'à concurrence de 70% dans des obligations, y compris des obligations indexées sur l’inflation. Le reliquat de 30% sera investi dans des matières premières et du monétaire, en fonction des conditions de marché.
Fonds
14/06/2011

BofA Merrill Lynch propose des obligations vertes de la Banque Mondiale

Bank of America Merrill Lynch et la Banque Mondiale viennent d’annoncer un projet d’offre sur une base périodique d’obligations vertes de la Banque Mondiale à destination des investisseurs de Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.Les premières obligations vertes de la Banque Mondiale, qui proposent des solutions favorables à l’environnement au travers d’un investissement obligataire noté en catégorie d’investissement, ont été lancées au deuxième trimestre 2011.
14/06/2011

DnB NOR AM se lance sur le marché autrichien

Le site e.fundresearch.at indique que le gestionnaire institutionnel scandinave DnB NOR Asset Management (57 milliards d’euros d’encours) a obtenu en mai une licence d’exploitation en Autriche.Mike Judith, vice-président de la société et responsable de la distribution en Autriche, a indiqué que les neuf fonds actions les plus connus de Carlson Funds - la marque de DnB NOR Asset Management - sont désormais disponibles sur le marché local.
14/06/2011

Assets down at Invesco; assets up at Franklin Templeton

On 31 May, assets at Invesco totalled USD661.4bn, compared with USD668bn one month earlier. The decline has also affected ETFs, UITs, and passive funds (USD93.4bn, compared with USD97.2bn), and other funds (USD568bn, compared with USD571.4bn). The declines are due to net outflows from the ETF PowerShares QQQ, falling markets, and a negative currency effect of USD2.5bn. However, Invesco says that UITs and passive funds have posted net subscriptions.For its part, Franklin Templeton Investments as of 31 May had assets under management of USD735.8bn, compared with USD733.1bn one month previously, despite a decline to USD316.4bn, from USD321.3bn one month earlier for equities funds. Bond funds, however, have posted an increase in assets to USD296.4bn, from USD288.5bn.
14/06/2011

Three Luxembourg-registered funds from Aberdeen become available from PEA plans

In addition to the French-registered fund Aberdeen Actions Euro (FR0000985442), the range of products from Aberdeen which are eligible for PEA plans now includes three European equities funds, all of them Luxembourg-registered products, the Paris office of the Scottish management firm has announced.The new additions are the retail (LU009454144) and institutional (LU0231472209) classes of the Aberdeen Global European Equity Fund,, the retail share class of the European Equity ex-UK (LU0231484808), and the retail (LU0505661966) and institutional (LU0505783646) share classes of the Dividend Europe fund.
14/06/2011

BarCap launches a UCITS-compliant returns fund in Singapore

Barclays Capital Fund Solutions, the asset management unit of Barclays Capital, late last week announced the launch of a UCITS format return fund in Singapore, entitled Barclays Real Return USD Fund, Asian Investor reports. The fund will invest up to 70% of its assets in bonds, including inflation-linked bonds. The remaining 30% will be invested in commodities and money markets, depending on market conditions.
14/06/2011

Pictet polishes up long/short credit offerings

As Newsmanagers announced on 25 May, Pictet Asset Management is putting the finishing touches on a credit fund which will aim to capture as much as possible of gains and to protect the portfolio, or to come out a winner in falling markets.The fund is a UCITS long/short fund, which has not yet received a sales license from Luxembourg’s CSSF, but which has been fully tested in the asset management firm’s incubator. It will use a relative value approach to credit, and will be a multi-strategy product, with directional and non-directional bets, active positioning in trading, and an event-driven aspect. It will invest primarily in investment-grade securities, without a regional constraint, but with hedging for currency and duration risks.The Swiss asset manager is also preparing an Asian version of the fund, which may be launched in fourth quarter, and a long/short equities products, which, if all goes well, will be released on the market early next year.
14/06/2011

Equity funds in Europe regained a lot of ground in April

In April, net inflows to funds in Europe were at their highest levels for 6 months, at EUR24.8bn, excluding money market activity, and EUR28.6bn including money market funds (of which EUR2.4bn were for French products), according to statistics from Lipper. The top three asset management firms in terms of subscriptions were Franklin Templeton, which holds onto the top spot with EUR3.3bn, followed by Allianz Global Investors/Pimco with EUR2bn, and GAM Holding with EUR1.3bn. Although net sales of bonds funds have increased for the fourth month in a row, to EUR7bn (compared with EUR4.7bn in March; see Newsmanagers of 13 May), equity funds have seen a spectacular recovery, with EUR12.9bn in net inflows, compared with EUR8.5bn in net outflows the previous month. Funds on sale across borders have seen net subscriptions of EUR10.6bn for bonds, and EUR7.8bn for equities, while Italian, Dutch and Spanish investors have made net redemptions. Lipper also points to good results for commodities and raw materials funds, which have attracted EUR960m and EUR860m in subscriptions, respectively, bringing the total for the first four months of the year to EUR3.7bn and EUR4.4bn.
14/06/2011

Schroder GAIA tops USD1bn in assets

The Hedge Fund Journal reports that assets under management by the Schroders UCITS-compliant hedge fund platform Schroder GAIA have topped USD1.03bn, only 18 months after the launch of the platform. The platform now includes five funds of which three are managed by external hedge fund managers, and two are internally managed. The most recent fund offered to investors is the Schroder GAIA CQS, a long/short credit strategy.
14/06/2011

BofA Merrill Lynch offers green bonds from World Bank

Bank of America Merrill Lynch and the World Bank have announced plans to offer a periodical range of green bonds from the World Bank, aimed at investors at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. The first World Bank green bonds, which offer environmentally-friendly solutions via an investment grade bond investment, were launched in second quarter 2011.
14/06/2011

Central banks cool investor appetite for equity funds in early June

The US Federal Reserve does not appear to be in a hurry to enter a new phase of quantitative easing, at a time when the European Central Bank has implied that it may raise its rates in July, so that investors rolled their portfolios over into bonds in the first days of June. According to the most recent estimates by EPFR Grlobal, bond funds attracted a net total of USD5.98bn in the week to 8 June. Money market funds, for their part, have posted net inflows of over USD26bn, while equity funds saw outfllows of USD7.74bn. Funds dedicated to US equities, in particular, have posted their heaviest outflows since mid-August 2010. Inflows to European equities remained positive, with inflows of USD236m in the week to 8 June. However, institutional engagements have gone mostly to German equities in 2011. Now counting flows which have totalled over USD6bn since the beginning of the year, European equity funds have seen outflows of over USD1.5bn. Diversified funds posted net inflows of USD219m, which brings inflows since the beginning of the year to over USD15.3bn.
14/06/2011

Gold mining firms increase dividends to combat ETFs

Since the launch of the first physical gold ETF fund in 2003, funds of this type have attracted a total of USD70bn in assets which would otherwise have been invested in gold mines equity, the Wall Street Journal claims.According to the independent research institute MineFund, thirteen of the largest gold producers will distribute a total of USD2bn in dividends, in a bid to win back the interest of investors. Among the firms are Barrick Gold, Newmount Mining and Goldcorp. Newmont has even defined a dividend indexed to the price of gold, which would increase its dividend by USD0.20 for every USD100 rise in the price of the precious metal.
14/06/2011

“Our challenge is to detect new talent”

The official appointment of Xavier Guillon as head of Oyster Funds, the investment fund division of Banque Syz & Co, was announced on12 October. The manager has now passed the starting line, and is into the course, and so can now talk to Newsmanagers about the major outlines of his development strategy.
14/06/2011

BBVA obtains permission to transform Propriedad fund into REIT

On 10 June, the CNMV announced that it has granted permission, at the request of the asset management firm BBVA Asset Management and of BBVA as the depository, to convert the real estate fund BBVA Propriedad into a REIT format real estate investment firm. Assets in the fund as of the end of April, according to statistics from the Spanish Inverco association of management firms, totalled EUR1.3bn.
14/06/2011

Lyxor and EDRIM register funds in Spain

The Spanish arm of Société Générale was issued a license by the CNMV on 10 June to release the Lyxor Active Commodities Fund and Lyxor Epsilon Global Trend Fund sub-funds of its Irish Sicav Investments Strategies Plc.The regulator has also issued sales licenses to Allfunds Bank for the C, I and S share classes in the French-registered fund Saint-Honoré Signatures Financières (see Newsmanagers of 20 April), from Edmond de Rothschild Investment Managers (EdRIM).
14/06/2011

CNMV wants to charge users for ratings

Julio Segura, president of the Spanish securities commission (CNMV), says that rating agencies continue to be subject to conflicts of interest, so long as they are paid by issuers that they rate, Cinco Días reports. At an unveiling of a book entitled “A century of Spanish financial history,” at the Bank of Spain, Segura stated that the solution would be to make ratings be paid for by those who use them, since the creation of an official agency would run the risk of creatind problems when it came to ratings of government bonds.
14/06/2011

Employee savings assets in 2010 up 4.5%, while gross contributions are up 12.7%

According to an annual survey by the French financial management association (AFG) of employee savings levels, assets under management in this area as of the end of December totalled a record EUR88.6bn, which represents a 4.5% increase over a total fo USD84.8bn as of the end of 2009 (as of the end of 2008, they were down to EUR71.42bn, comapred with EUR87.6bn twelve months earlier).The AFG states that contributions to employee savings plans totalled EUR13.3bn in 2010, compared with EUR11.8bn in 2009, an increase of 12.7%, “largely due to an increase in employees’ voluntary contributions,” which themselves represented EUR4.2bn. Meanwhile, redemptions totalled EUR10.6bn, so that net subscriptions totalled EUR2.7bn, of which over EUR880m (about one third of net inflows) were for PERCO plans.
14/06/2011

Former multi-managers from Gartmore join North IP

The former Gartmore multi-managers Ari Towli and Nick Roberts have joined the multi-management boutique North Investments Partners, Investment Week reports. The two will work with Nick Stanhope on the range of multi-management products, whose assets under management as of 31 May totalled GBP450m. Both of them will report to the chief executive of North IP, John Husselbee.
14/06/2011

Man recruits Warren Shiels as director of retail sales for the United Kingdom

After eleven years at Gartmore, where he was most recently head of intermediary sales, Warren Shiels was recruited by Man Group on 6 June as director, UK retail. He will be in charge of overseeing sales of long-only and absolute return funds from Man as well as GLG to third parties such as life offices, platforms, and IFAs.
14/06/2011

Pictet recruits an Asia specialist from Gartmore

Anthony Cheung, a fund manager specialised in China in the global emerging markets team at Gartmore Investment Management, has been recruited by Pictet Asset Management, and has joined the Asian total return team, in which he will be co-manager of long/short funds, under Nidhi Mahhurkar, CityWire reports.
14/06/2011

Swedish investors turn away from equity funds in May

In May, Swedish investors once again turned their backs on equity funds, though they had massively returned to them in April. Equity funds on sale in Sweden saw net outflows of SEK1.9bn last month, according to statistics from Fondbolagens Förening, the Swedish investment fund association. In April, funds posted net inflows of SEK9.3bn, following two months of net outflows. Since the beginning of the year, equity funds saw net outflows of SEK1bn. In May, funds on sale in Sweden show net inflows, due to subscriptions to other asset classes, particularly money market funds (SEK1.7bn), and bond funds (SEK1.3bn). As of the end of May, funds in Sweden represented assets of SEK1.971trn, of which SEK1.169trn were invested in equity funds.
14/06/2011

Vanguard planning to extend UK product range

By the end of the year, Vanguard Investments UK (GBP1.9bn in assets) is planning to increase the number of its funds on sale in the UK from 14 currently to 25, Fundweb reports. Among the products for which a sales license has been applied for from the FSA are some ETFs, risk objective funds, horizon funds, and a strategic allocation fund. Tom Rampulla, CEO, also says that personnel will be increased by the end of the year to 105, from 68 currently.

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