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18/03/2011

A good fiscal year in 2010 for La Banque Postale AM

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } La Banque Postale announced on Thursday, 17 March that its 2010 results show consolidated net profits of EUR5.215bn (up 4.2%). Consolidated operating profits total EUR719.5m (+15.2%), and net profits of the group come to EUR651.3m (+10.8%).Inflows to savings and bank savings accounts increased moderately, by +0.8%. In life insurance, assets total EUR108.3bn, also a slight increase. The year 2010 was particularly marked by the good sales of the unit-linked life insurance policies Cachemire and Toscane Vie (launched in September 2010). Overall, assets in savings and deposits total EUR283.5bn as of the end of 2010, a statement says.La Banque Postale Asset Management also posted a net inflow of EUR1.1bn, bringing assets under management as of the end of December 2010 to nearly EUR126bn, up 4%. Tocqueville Finance, an affiliate dedicated to portfolio management and specialised in value management, 75% controlled by La Banque Postale, had EUR1.435bn in assets under collective management as of the end of December 2010.
18/03/2011

EUR1bn in convertible bonds at Ofi AM

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } At the Forum GI, Gilbert Généré, head of convertibles at Ofi AM, announced that the management firm’s convertible bond management has topped EUR1bn in assets.
18/03/2011

Eduardo Suárez becomes deputy CEO at Banif

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The largest private bank of the Santander group, Banif, will soon have a new deputy CEO, replacing José Manuel Maceda, who has been in the position since December 2007. Eduardo Suárez has 20 years of experience at the group, and led the integration of the asset management firms of BCH and Santander (to create Santander AM), and for the past two years has been head of investors relations of the Santander group in charge with the major investors.
18/03/2011

Alberto Cejudo leaves Rothschild for Merrill Lynch

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Alberto Cejudo Podio, senior manager and head of advising to high net worth Spanish clients at Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild, and previously senior advisor for high net worth Spanish and Portuguese investors at Sarasin Alen, has joined Merrill Lynch Wealth Management as a financial advisor for management and investments to high net worth clients. He will be based in Madrid, and will report to Rafael Ximénez de Embún, head of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Iberia.
18/03/2011

Three quarters of US financial advisers predict double-digit growth in 2011

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Financial advisers in the United States are optimistic. According to the most recent quarterly survey by Russell Investments (“Financial Professional Outlook,”) 31% of respondents among 800 financial advisers surveyed predict growth in their overall activities of 10% to 14%, and 44% say they are expecting to see growth of 15% or more.
18/03/2011

Credit Alpha Fund from Henderson arrives in Spain

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Following the German BaFin and the Swiss Finma (see Newsmanagers of 11 January and 25 February), the Spanish CNMV has granted permission for sales of the British UCITS-compliant fund Henderson Credit Alpha, which aims for returns 500 basis points higher than the Libor 3-month, with VaR of 3-6%.
18/03/2011

Mirabaud Finance and Aviva Investors France register funds in Spain

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 11 March, the CNMV granted a sales license for Spain to two French-registered funds, Mirabaud Euro Actions (C, D and I shares) and Aviva Investors Obligations Variables (E shares). The products will be offered by Mirabaud Finanzas and the Spanish branch of Aviva Investors Global Services, respectively.
18/03/2011

UIRE freezes a fund with high exposure to Japanese real estate

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The German management firm Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE) has announced that until further notice, subscriptions are frozen from 17 March for the open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Global (DE0009805556), which had EUR2.34bn in assets as of the end of October. The net asset value of the fund had already been lowered by 4.45% recently (see Newsmanagers of 3 March), due to the depreciation of three properties in Tokyo.Now, the suspension is explained as a result of the fact that seven Tokyo properties in the portfolio represent 14% of total assets for the fund. The other real estate funds from UIRE are also invested in Tokyo, but to a lesser extent, and consequently none of them have been frozen for the moment.
18/03/2011

Rupert Murdoch accused of nepotism by funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Financial Times reports that Amalgamated Bank of New York, which acts as a trustee for several funds, and the Central Laborers Pension Fund, have filed a suit in a Delaware court against News Corp. They accuse Rupert Murdoch of “nepotism” in his acquisition of Shine Group, a filmmaking firm, from his daughter Elizabeth, with the sole objective of allowing her to profit from the wealth of the group and to strengthen the family’s influence on the board of News Corp. Murdoch’s daughter has been offered a seat on the board in addition to USD675m paid for her business.
18/03/2011

DJ Credit Suisse hedge fund index up 1.38% in February

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The DJ Credit Dow Jones Credit Suisse hedge fund index finally posted gains of 1.38% in February, with eight out of ten strategies showing positive results.Convertible arb earned the best returns, with gains of 2.90%.
18/03/2011

Inflows to hedge funds continued in January

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to a joint study by TrimTabs Investment Research and BarclayHedge, hedge finds in January posted net subscriptions of about USD2.9bn, corresponding to 0.2% of their assets, for a sixth consecutive month of net inflows.Sol Waksman, founder and president of BarclayHedge, says this result is highly encouraging for the sector, insofar as January is traditionally marked by heavy redemptions. However, February is usually a month of very large inflows, meaning that the authors of the study predict net subscriptions for the month of about USD10bn.Although funds of hedge funds have seen net outflows of USD3.6bn (0.7% of their assets) in January (3rd consecutive month of net redemptions), commodities funds (CTAs) attracted USD2.8bn (1% of their assets), and macro funds attracted USD1.2bn (1.2% of their assets).Overall, the six equities strategies all saw net redemptions, and emerging markets equities saw their first net outflows since July, while bond funds received net subscriptions of USD3.5bn (2% of assets), their strongest inflows since February 2008.
18/03/2011

Frankfurt tops 800 ETFs

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Amundi has listed three more French-registered ETFs for trading on the XTF segment of the Xetra electronic platform from Deutsche Börse, Amundi ETF AAA Govt Bond EuroMTS (FR0010930636), which charges fees of 0.14%, Amundi ETF MSCI Europe Energy (FR0010930644), which charges 0.25%, and Amundi ETF MSCI Emerging Markets (FR0010959676), which charges 0.45%.Thus, the XTF segment now lists 801 ETFs.
18/03/2011

SSgA adds to equities management in Australia

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Olivia Engel, who was most recently a portfolio manager in charge of all Australian equities portfolios as GMO Australia, has joined State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) as head of active Australian equities. She will report to Marc Reinganum, global head of active equities, developed markets.The recruitment will allow SSgA to strengthen its active and quantitative investment unit for the Australian market, which has been Engel’s specialty for 14 years.
18/03/2011

T. Rowe Price to build up equities research in Sydney

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } T. Rowe Price International has announced the recruitment of Viral Patel, who from 2007 had been vice president, research analyst at the Sydney offices of AllianceBernstein. Patel joins the T. Rowe Price offices in Sydney as associate director of research for Australia, and with three people who will subsequently be recruited, will be in charge of strengthening the firm’s capacities in analysis of Australian equities. He will report to Randel Jenneke, who joined T. Rowe Price in June 2010 to build a local management team in Australia.The new team will come as an addition to its global staff of 121 analysts located in Baltimore, London, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, and will allow the firm to offer specific strategies for Australian equities to local investors as well as clients in the Asia-Pacific region.
18/03/2011

Deka Immobilien invests GBP103m in Sanofi Aventis headquarters in Warsaw

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Two companies of the Austrian co-operative banks, including the local affiliate Premiumred, have developed the North Gate office building in Warsaw, and sold the 30,000 square metre property to the German asset management firm Deka Immobilien for about EUR103m. The property is the headquarters of Sanofi Aventis in Poland, and is also leased to 24 other companies. The property will be added to the portfolio of the open-ended real estate fund WestInvest InterSelect.
18/03/2011

La menace de sous-performance se renforce

Les tableaux ci-contre présentent les meilleures et plus mauvaises performances en euros des fonds sur le marché des fonds actions américaines et le marché des fonds actions françaises au cours du mois de février 2011. Ces performances sont mises en perspective par le calcul de la volatilité et du ratio de Sharpe sur trois ans d’historique ainsi que du rendement depuis un an.
18/03/2011

Le risque pourrait redevenir payant

Le graphique ci-contre montre l’évolution de l’appétit pour le risque, mesuré par la corrélation de rang entre les rendements des facteurs de risque et la volatilité qui leur est associée. Si la corrélation est positive, l’aversion pour le risque a baissé ; si la corrélation est négative, elle a augmenté.
18/03/2011

L’Etat et la CDC signent un cadre de gestion pour le fonds d’épargne

La ministre de l’Economie, Christine Lagarde, et Augustin de Romanet, directeur général de la Caisse des Dépôts, ont signé le cadre de gestion du fonds d’épargne. Cet accord qui ne prévoit pas de limite de durée formalise les relations entre l’Etat et la Caisse des Dépôts pour la gestion des fonds centralisés de l’épargne réglementée (dont le livret A), qui assurent principalement le financement du logement social en France.
18/03/2011

Cinq banques visées par une enquête sur le Libor

Des autorités de régulation enquêtant sur des possibles manipulations du taux Libor, qui sert de référence pour les prêts interbancaires, ciblent cinq banques en particulier, a rapporté Reuters jeudi de source proche de la situation. Bank of America, Citigroup, Barclays, WestLB et UBS sont l’objet d’enquêtes aux Etats-Unis, en Grande-Bretagne et au Japon.
18/03/2011

Niveau de collecte historique des SCPI

Selon les données de l’institut de l’épargne immobilière et foncière (IEIF), un flux d’achat de près de 3 milliards d’euros s’est porté en 2010, pour un tiers vers les SCPI Scellier et, ce qui est encore plus significatif du retour de l’épargne vers l’immobilier, pour deux tiers vers les SCPI non fiscales. Ce flux a nourri le marché secondaire des parts à hauteur de 417 millions d’euros et la collecte nette s’est établie à 2,5 milliards d’euros, portant ainsi la capitalisation du secteur à 22,3 milliards d’euros.
18/03/2011

Les gérants institutionnels vent debout contre la régulation

«Les pouvoirs publics ne font rien pour favoriser les acteurs de long terme», s’est plaint Paul-Henri de La Porte Du Theil, président de l’Association française de gestion financière, lors du Forum Gestion Institutionnelle mercredi à Paris. «Avec Bâle 3 et Solvency 2, tout est fait pour décourager les banques et les compagnies d’assurances d’investir sur le long terme», a-t-il déploré, tout en s’inquiétant des projets de réforme fiscale. Un constat partagé par Jean-Pierre Grimaud, président de l’Association française des investisseurs institutionnels, pour lequel la décollecte sur les fonds monétaires n’est pas uniquement liée à la faiblesse des taux, mais aussi à des réallocations de flux vers les bilans bancaires. Selon lui, les nouveaux dispositifs prudentiels bancaires et assurantiels rendent difficile la détention plus ou moins longue d’actifs risqués. A ce rythme, «il ne va rester que les fonds souverains et les grands fonds de pension américains», conclut Paul-Henri de La Porte Du Theil.
17/03/2011

Le Japon demande à l'Indonésie davantage de GNL et de pétrole

«A cause du tsunami et du séisme, le parc nucléaire japonais est endommagé et nous connaissons une importante pénurie d'électricité (...) c’est pourquoi j’ai demandé au gouvernement indonésien d’augmenter ses exportations de gaz naturel liquéfié et de pétrole à destination du Japon», a déclaré jeudi à la presse la vice-ministre des Affaires étrangères Makiko Kikuta.
17/03/2011

La banque centrale indienne relève ses taux d'un quart de point

La banque centrale indienne a relevé ses taux d’intérêt jeudi pour la huitième fois depuis mars 2010, afin de juguler l’inflation qui affecte particulièrement les prix du carburant et des produits manufacturiers. La Reserve Bank a relevé le taux repo, principal taux de refinancement, de 25 points de base à 6,75% et le taux des ventes à réméré à 5,75%. L’indice des prix de gros a contre toute attente progressé pour atteindre 8,3% en février en rythme annuel.

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