Recherche
S'abonner
Connexion
Asset Management
Accueil Asset Management Actualités
07/02/2011

Northern Trust recrute deux commerciaux aux Pays-Bas

Northern Trust va proposer des solutions de gestion d’actifs, via Northern Trust Global Investments, aux clients institutionnels basés au Benelux (Belgique, Pays-Bas et Luxembourg) depuis son bureau d’Amsterdam, après avoir obtenu l’agrément des autorités néerlandaise et britannique des marchés financiers (Autoriteit Financiële Markten et Financial Services Authority). Jusqu’ici, cette entité offrait seulement des services d’administration.Pour mener ce développement, la société britannique a recruté Gerard van Leusden et Arnaud Bizet, deux anciens de BlackRock à Amsterdam, en tant que directeurs du développement senior. Ils seront chargés à ce titre de bâtir de nouvelles relations en matière de gestion d’actifs au Benelux en se focalisant sur les fonds de pension et les groupes de gestion d’actifs. Ils travailleront aux côtés de Liisa Salojarvi, qui conseille les clients de la région à partir de Londres depuis un certain nombre d’années. Cette initiative s’inscrit dans le cadre du développement en Europe, au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique de Northern Trust Global Investments.
07/02/2011

Eva Castillo entre au conseil d'Old Mutual

Ancienne présidente de Merrill Lynch et responsable de la banque privée en Espagne (jusqu’en 2009), Eva Castillo, qui siège depuis lors au conseil d’administration de Telefónica, a été recrutée comme administrateur non exécutif chez Old Mutual, indique Expansión. Elle y fera partie des comités des risques, des nominations et des rémunérations.
07/02/2011

Démission du responsable de la multigestion de Schroders

Selon Citywire, Andrew Yeadon, responsable de la multigestion chez Schroders, a quitté l’entreprise suite à la fusion des équipes de multigestion et de multi-classes d’actifs.La nouvelle équipe issue de ce rapprochement gère quelque 14,4 milliards de livres désormais sous la houlette de Jahanna Kyrklund.
07/02/2011

State Street GA remporte deux mandats d’investissement outre-Manche

State Street Global Advisors a annoncé le 4 février avoir obtenu deux des cinq mandats d’investissement disponibles, attribués par National Employment Savings Trust Corporation (NEST) au Royaume-Uni. À la suite d’un appel d’offres, SSgA s’est ainsi vu attribué les mandats de gestion passive des gilts indexés et des gilts conventionnels au Royaume-Uni.Kanesh Lakhani, responsable de State Street Global Advisors au Royaume-Uni a commenté: «Nous sommes ravis d’avoir obtenu deux des cinq mandats de NEST mis en appel d’offres. Nous sommes particulièrement heureux de voir nos capacités de gestion de produits de taux reconnues dans le processus d’appel d’offres de NEST. Il s’agit là d’une opportunité unique de participer à ce qui constitue une étape majeure dans le processus d’épargne-retraite au Royaume-Uni. SSgA collabore déjà avec de nombreux fonds de pension parmi les plus importants dans le monde, gérant une gamme de stratégies d’investissement ayant pour finalité d’aider nos clients à atteindre leurs objectifs d’investissement». NEST est un nouveau régime de retraite au Royaume-Uni créé pour aider les employeurs à respecter de nouvelles obligations légales qui entreront en vigueur au Royaume-Uni en 2012, prescrivant l’inscription automatique de leurs employés à un régime de retraite. Le régime concernera jusqu’à six millions d’employés au Royaume-Uni qui n’ont aucune provision de retraite. Celui-ci fonctionnera comme un régime fiduciaire d’épargne-retraite salariale géré par NEST Corporation.
07/02/2011

SG Private Banking Hambros se renforce dans la gestion de fortune

Société Générale Private Banking Hambros (SGPB Hambros) a annoncé, vendredi 4 février, avoir signé un accord en vue d’acquérir les activités de gestion de portefeuille dédiées à la clientèle privée de Baring Asset Management Limited basées au Royaume-Uni et à Guernesey. Cet accord devrait être finalisé en mai 2011.En pratique, Baring Asset Management Limited dispose d’une équipe de professionnels incluant six gestionnaires privés, qui viendront renforcer les équipes de gestion de fortune de Société Générale Private Banking Hambros, qui, pour sa part, compte 500 collaborateurs environ, situés principalement à Londres, Guernesey, Jersey et Gibraltar.
07/02/2011

Carnegie Fonder liquide son activité ETF

Carnegie Fonder, la société de gestion de la banque d’investissement suédoise Carnegie, a décidé le 3 février de mettre un terme à son activité d’ETF pour se concentrer uniquement sur la gestion active au travers de ses fonds.Son activité d’ETF avait été lancée en 2009 par HQ Fonder, qui avait été acquis par Carnegie en septembre 2010 et avait adopté le nom de Carnegie Fonder."Les ETF présentent des synergies limitées avec les autres fonds et n’ont pas atteint une taille critique. Nous avons donc décidé de mettre un terme à ces activités et de nous concentrer sur notre cœur de métier, les fonds gérés activement avec un focus sur la Suède, les marchés émergents et les taux», a expliqué Hans Hedström, président de Carnegie Fonder. D’après le site Internet suédois Privata Affärer, ces ETF représentaient moins de 1 pour 1.000 des encours sous gestion de la société. Dans ce cadre, les fonds suivants vont être fermés et retirés du marché Nasdaq OMX Stockholm AB : HQ OMX Double Long ETF, HQ OMX Double Short ETF, HQ Verkstad ETF, HQ Fastighet ETF, HQ Finans ETF, HQ Material ETF et HQ NASDAQ 100 ETF.
07/02/2011

Hausse des encours de SEB

Le groupe suédois SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) affiche pour 2010 un bénéfice d’exploitation de 11,1 milliards de couronnes contre 4,35 milliards l’année précédente.Pour sa part, le bénéfice d’exploitation de la division gestion de fortune (banque privée et clients institutionnels), est ressorti à 1,65 milliard de couronnes contre 1,14 milliard, avec une hausse des rentrées nettes à 26 milliards de couronnes contre 17 milliards pour la banque privée et une stabilité à 31 milliards pour les clients institutionnels. Le coefficient d’exploitation s’est amélioré à 62 % contre 69 %.Sur l’ensemble de l’année, l’encours moyen a augmenté de 7 % grâce à des souscriptions nettes de 54 milliards de couronnes contre 41 milliards ainsi qu'à l’effet de marché positif. L’encours total a atteint un nouveau record de 1.321 milliards de couronnes à la fin du quatrième trimestre contre 1.271 fin septembre et 1.275 milliards un an auparavant. Sur ce total, les fonds d’investissement représentaient fin décembre 41 %, contre 44 % pour les clients institutionnels (hors fonds monétaires) et 15 % pour la banque privée (hors fonds monétaires).Toujours à la fin du quatrième trimestre, les fonds d’actions représentaient 40 % des actifs des fonds SEB, contre 23 % pour les fonds obligataires, 16 % pour les fonds diversifiés et 21 % pour les fonds alternatifs.
07/02/2011

"Notre projet de développement à l'international passe par l'Europe"

Après l'intégration réussie de La Française des Placements, le groupe UFG-LFP vient de conclure un partenariat stratégique avec Cholet-Dupont. Deux opérations qui illustrent bien les deux axes de développement d'UFG-LFP : l'international, tout particulièrement l'Europe, et la gestion privée.
07/02/2011

JP Morgan AM to launch low-fee funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Money Marketing reports that the head of British retail distribution at JP Morgan AM, Jasper Berens, would like to launch low-cost actively-managed funds, to compete with passively managed funds. JP Morgan AM has already released a product of this type on the British market. If the product is well-received, JP Morgan AM may offer it in continental Europe and the United States as well.
07/02/2011

SAM recruits a manager from Asset4

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Christopher Greenwald, director of data content at the extra-financial information specialist Asset4, has left the firm to join the Swiss management firm SAM, as head of Sustainablility Applications & Operations, Responsible Investor reports. Greenwald began in his new role on 1 February. Responsible Investor also reports that the head of research, Pierin Menzli, has left SAM.
07/02/2011

Assets up at SEB

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Swedish SEB group (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) has posted operating profits for 2010 of SEK11.1bn, compared with SEK4.35bn for the previous year. Operating profits for the wealth management division (private banking and institutional clients) totalled SEK1.65bn, compared with SEK1.14bn, with an increase in net inflows to SEK26bn, up from SEK17bn, for private banking, and stable inflows from institutional clients at SEK31bn. The cost/income ratio has improved to 62% from 69%. For the year as a whole, average assets increased 7%, due to net subscriptions of SEK54bn, up from SEK41bn, and positive market effects. Total assets reached a new record of SEK1.321trn as of the end of fourth quarter, up from SEK1.271trn as of the end of September, and SEK1.275trn one year previously. Of this total, investment funds represented 41% as of the end of December, compared with 44% for institutional clients (excluding money market funds), and 15% for private banking (excluding money market funds). As of the end of fourth quarter, equities funds represented 40% of assets in SEB funds, compared with 23% for bond funds, 16% for diversified funds, and 21% for hedge funds.
07/02/2011

Carnegie Fonder shuts down its ETF activities

Sweden’s Carnegie Fonder has on 3 February 2011 decided to terminate its operations in exchange traded funds (ETFs). Carnegie Fonder will therefore once again focus entirely on its core business of actively managed funds.The activities in exchange traded funds (ETFs) were initiated in 2009 by HQ Fonder, which in September 2010 was bought by Carnegie and changed its name to Carnegie Fonder. «Exchange traded funds have limited synergies with the other fund operations, and have not achieved a critical mass. We have therefore decided to terminate these activities and focus on our core area, namely actively managed funds with a focus on Sweden, emerging markets and fixed-income securities,» says Hans Hedström, president of Carnegie Fonder. With the decision to terminate the ETF operations, the following funds will be closed: HQ OMX Double Long ETFHQ OMX Double Short ETFHQ Verkstad ETFHQ Fastighet ETFHQ Finans ETFHQ Material ETFHQ NASDAQ 100 ETF As a consequence of the funds being closed, the board of Carnegie Fonder has also decided to apply for delisting of these funds from Nasdaq OMX Stockholm AB.
07/02/2011

Northern Trust recruits two sales staff in the Netherlands

Northern Trust has announced that it will offer asset management solutions to institutional clients across Benelux (Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg) from its Amsterdam office, following regulatory approval from the Dutch Autoriteit Financiële Markten and the UK Financial Services Authority. Regulatory approval for Northern Trust’s international asset management arm, Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) supports its strategy to enhance its business across Europe, Middle East and Africa and expands Northern Trust’s product offering for clients across the Benelux region where asset servicing capabilities have been offered from its Amsterdam branch office since March 2006.To support NTGI’s expansion, Gerard van Leusden and Arnaud Bizet have been hired as senior business development directors responsible for building new asset management relationships across the Benelux region with focus on pension funds and asset management groups. They will work alongside Liisa Salojarvi, who has advised NTGI’s Benelux clients from London for a number of years, and will be supported by NTGI’s UK team of relationship managers.Van Leusden and Bizet join from Blackrock, previously BGI, in Amsterdam where they were sales and relationship management directors.
07/02/2011

Investors pull out of emerging market funds

Investors have pulled more than USD7bn from emerging market equity funds last week, which is the biggest withdrawal in more than three years after turmoil in the Middle East and rising food inflation raised fears of economic instability, according to th Financial Times. The outflows also reflected rising unease about economic overheating in China, India, Brazil and other big emerging economies.
07/02/2011

Morgan Stanley offers new services for corporate retirement savings plans

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Morgan Stanley Smith Barney on 3 February announced that it has added to its range of corporate retirement plan services, with the introduction of benchmark indices of defined-contribution plan services and costs. A regulation introduced last summer requires that this information be made public.
07/02/2011

Russell launches stability indexes

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The index provider Russell Investments announced at the end of last week that it has launched Russell stability indices, which will make it possible to take into account factors which are overlooked by value and growth indices. The indices are constructed from existing custom Russell indices specific to volatility and quality. The more stable portion is the defensive index, while the other is the dynamic index. Dynamic businesses are more exposed to some risks, and their share prices tend to rise faster than those of defensive companies in times of market euphoria. However, defensive companies outperform dynamic businesses in times of market pessimism.
07/02/2011

HDF Finance asset management team loses three members

Following the announcement in recent weeks of the departure fo Christophe Chouard, head of institutional clients, and the arrival of Peter Lenders as CEO, and Joseph Naaven as long/short fund of fund manager, the asset management team at HDF Finance has seen further changes. Eric Debonnet, head of the risk control management team and a member of the investment committee, and two other managers, one long/short and one fixed income manager, have left the firm.Christine du Fretay, chairwoman of the board at the management firm, tells Newsmanagers that the decision to adopt the new direction for HDF Finance will orient it more toward dedicated mandates and institutional investor services (see Newsmanagers of 26/01/2011). “We can’t all stay at an asset management firm with only 13 managers,” she said, “and some members were better suited to our new organisation.”
07/02/2011

ERAFP prepares to invest in real estate

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } With the publication in the official gazette of two modifications to 2004 regulations, the investment universe for the French public employees’ additional retirement institution (Etablissement de retraite additionnelle de la Fonction publique, or ERAFP) has been extended to include real estate.The institution “is now getting in marching order” to exploit this new opportunity, and “will be ready to start in late 2011 or early 2012,” Philippe Desfossés, director of ERAFP, has explained to Newsmanagers. “We need to prepare carefully for this new step, due to the ‘100% SRI’ framework which inspires all of the investment policies” of the entity.However, for the moment, ERAFP is still not allowed to invest directly in emerging markets and infrastructure.Desfossés also states that by the end of the month, the results of a RFP for Euro zone mandates for benchmarked, non-benchmarked and index-based assets (see Newsmanagers of 6 December 2010) will be known.
07/02/2011

Jean-Pierre Mustier may join UniCredit

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to reports in Il Sole – 24 ore, an agreement between the directors of UniCredit and Jean-Pierre Mustier are at the signature stage. The former director of the investment bank of the Société Générale group would succeed Sergio Ermotti as head of the corporate & investment banking division of the Italian bank. His appointment should be approved at the next meeting of the board of directors at UniCredit, scheduled for 22 February.
07/02/2011

Assets under management at Cantonal Bank of Grisons up 6.5%

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that assets under management at the Cantonal Bank of Grisons increased last year by 6.5%, to CHF26.49bn. Net inflows totalled CHF1.78bn. Net profits increased 7.1%, to CHF154.1m.
07/02/2011

Increase in net assets at Julius Baer, despite strong Swiss franc

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Due to costs related to the integration and restructuring after the purchase of ING Bank in January 2010, as well as depreicaiton on goodwill, net profits at the Julius Baer group by IFRS accounting standards in 2010 fell 9% to CHF353m. Excluding these elements, net profits increased 6% to CHF504m. Due to a reduction in gross margins, and partly due to the appreciation of the Swiss franc, the cost-income ratio deteriorated to 65.4% from 63.1%.As of the end of December, assets under management had increased to CFH170bn, up from CFH154bn one year earlier. This increase of CHF16bn is due to CHF14bn in assets from the acquisition of ING Bank, CHF9bn in net inflows, CHF8bn in positive market effects, and a currency loss of CHF14bn due to the devaluation of the euro and the US dollar against the Swiss franc.Net subscriptions represented 6% of AUM as of the beginning of the year, compared with 4% in 2009, largely due to strong inflows from growth markets, particularly Asia, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America, as well as to domestic activities of the German bank.As of the end of 2010, total client assets came to CHF267bn, while savings assets as of the end of December totalled CHF98bn, compared with CHF87bn one year earlier, largely due to CHF7bn in net inflows.
07/02/2011

JPMAM releases an investment grade emerging markets bond fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 3 February, JPMorgan Asset Management (JPMAM) received a sales license in Germany for the new Emerging Markets Investment Grade Bond Fund, a sub-fund of its Luxembourg Sicav JP Morgan Funds, which was launched on 29 November 2010.As its name indicates, the portfolio is invested in emerging market bonds rated at least BBB-. About 70% of assets are invested in government bonds, and the remainder in corporate bonds, denominated in US dollars or euros.Michael Mewes, head of the fixed income team at JPMAM in Frankfurt, says that more than half of bond issues in these markets are rated investment grade, and that they often have attractive spreads, which makes it possible to earn higher reutrns than from bonds in industrialised countries, which are expected to remain low.The new fund is managed by Pierre-Yves Bareau, CIO for emerging market debt, with Alain Defise (who also came to the firm from Fortis Investments) as co-manager. In Paris on 3 February, Bareau mentioned corporate bonds as among his favourite investments, because emerging market corporates have returns 100 basis points higher than developed countries bonds “with a rating one nothc higher.”
07/02/2011

Eva Castillo joins board at Old Mutual

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The former head of Merrill Lynch and its head of private banking in Spain (until 2009), Eva Castillo, who has since served on the board of directors at Telefónica, has been recruited as non-executive director fo Old Mutual, Expansión reports. She will sit on the risk, appointment and remuneration committees.
07/02/2011

State Street Global Advisors wins two investment mandates in the UK

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } State Street Global Advisors on 4 February announced that it has won five available investment mandates from National Employment Savings Trust Coporation (NEST) in the United Kingdom. Following a call for bids, SSgA was awarded the passive management tenders for inflation-linked and conventional gilts in the UK. Kanesh Kakhani, head of State Street Global Advisors in the United Kingdom, says: “We are very pleased to have won these five mandates from NEST in this call for proposals. We are particularly happy to see our fixed income product management capacities recognised in the call for proposals at NEST. This is a unique opportunity to participate in what is a major step in the retirement savings process in the United Kingdom. SSgA already works with many of the largest pension funds in the world, managing a range of investment strategies in order to ultimately help our clients to achieve their investment objectives.” NEST is a new retirement program in the United Kingdom, created to help employers to respect the new legal requirements which will come into force in the United Kingdom in 2012, which will require employees to be automatically subscribed to a retirement plan. The plan will include about 6 million employees in the United Kingdom who have no other retirement coverage. It will function as an employee savings retirement tax program, managed by NEST Corporation.
07/02/2011

SWIP adds to international strategy team

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } SWIP has announced that it has added to its international strategy team with the appointment of Emilion Cano as investment manager. Cano, who will report directly to Ken Adams, head of international strategy at SWIP, will be in charge of strategic and tactical asset allocation services for SWIP clients. Cano previously worked at Popular Banca Privada in Madrid.
07/02/2011

Head of multi-management at Schroders resigns

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Citywire reports that Andrew Yeadon, head of multi-management at Schroders, has left the firm, following the merger of multi-management and multi-asset class teams. The new merged team manages about GBP14.4bn, in assets, and is now led by Jahanna Kyrklund.
07/02/2011

Société Générale Private Banking Hambros adds to wealth management personnel

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Société Générale Private Banking Hambros (SGPB Hambros) announced on Friday, 4 February that it has signed an agreement to acquire the dedicated portfolio management activities dedicated to private banking at Baring Asset Management Limited, based in the United Kingdom and Guernsey. The agreement will be finalised in May 2011. Baring Asset Management Limited has a team of professionals including six private managers, who will come as additions to the wealth management teams at Société Générale Private Banking Hambros, which include about 500 employees, located in London, Guernsey, Jersey and Gibraltar, a statement says.
07/02/2011

Merrill Lynch releases six more Newcits sub-funds of its MLIS Sicav

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 24 January 2011, the German BaFin and the Austrian FMA issued sales licenses for Germany and Austria for six sub-funds of the Luxembourg-registered, UCITS-compliant Sicav Merrill Lynch Investment Solutions (MLIS). The newcits funds in question are the AQR Global Relative Value UCITS Fund (LU0562189042), Boyer Allan Asian Long-Short UCITS Fund (LU0511125394), Graham Capital Systematic Macro UCITS Fund (LU0556497740), Theorema European Equity Long-Short UCITS Fund (LU0517905021) and York Asian Event-Driven Fund (LU0532509808). The products, all available in institutional shares in euros, bring the number of sub-funds of MLIS to 10.
07/02/2011

Bouwfonds releases its first closed real estate fund in Germany

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The closed residential real estate fund Wohnen in Deutschland 01 is the first product released in Germany by Bouwfonds Real Estate Investment Management (Bouwfonds REIM), an affiliate of Netherlands-based Rabobank. Bouwfonds REIM has been operating in Berlin since 2006, and manages a portfolio of nearly 10,000 housing units, which were initially acquired via Netherlands-registered funds, Fondsprofessionell reports.The new fund holds assets totalling 26,500 square metres in stable regions of Germany (Hamburg, Göttingen, Neuss and Reutlingen), valued at EUR39.7m. Minimal subscription is set at EUR15,000, and annual distribution is 5%, with maturity after 14 years.Bouwfonds has already been offering the Netherlands-registered product Bouwfonds European Residential Fonds (BER), which has assets of EUR230m, in Germany for three years.
07/02/2011

Highbridge to launch a credit fund

Highbridge Capital, the hedge fund owned by JPMorgan, has hired Serge Adam to head its Principal Strategies unit and is preparing the release of a standalone credit fund, according to the Financial Times.The move comes a week after the firm fired its event trading team, headed by Jason Esralew.

Sujets d'actualité

Tous les sujets