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29/01/2015

Ce que les hedge funds rapportent aux investisseurs

Dans la polémique lancée par certains investisseurs institutionnels sur les performances et les coûts réels des hedge funds, ces derniers peuvent prétendre à un argument supplémentaire concocté par leur association professionnelle, l’AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association).
29/01/2015

Le risque grec reste isolé en zone euro

Les premières décisions du nouveau gouvernement ont fait passer les taux 10 ans à plus de 10% et entraîné un plongeon de la Bourse d’Athènes, sans contagion.
29/01/2015

Taiwan va promouvoir les ETF

La commission de surveillance financière taiwanaise va encourager les 291 institutions publiques du pays à investir à grande échelle dans les ETF (fonds indiciels cotés) sur le marché domestique, rapporte le quotidien qui cite les propos du ministre Tseng Ming-chung. L’objectif est de dynamiser les rendements de leurs placements et de stimuler le marché des actions à Taiwan.
29/01/2015

Stockholm mettra en place une taxe bancaire en 2016

Dans un entretien accordé au journal, le ministre suédois des marchés financiers Per Bolund, déclare que le gouvernement prévoit d’inclure une taxe payée par les banques dans son projet de budget 2016. Cette taxe bancaire devrait rapporter à la Suède entre 4 et 5 milliards de couronnes par an (entre 430 et 530 millions d’euros) et contribuer à financer les dépenses d’éducation, a précisé le dirigeant.
29/01/2015

BlackRock perd un spécialiste des marchés émergents

Christopher Kelly, jusque-là responsable adjoint des obligations des marchés émergents chez BlackRock, a quitté la société de gestion américaine trois ans après son arrivée en provenance de BNP Paribas Investment Partners, révèle le site d’information britannique, en ajoutant que l’intéressé a démissionné de ses fonctions en décembre 2014. L’information a été confirmée à Citywire par un porte-parole de BlackRock.
29/01/2015

L’obligation de télédéclaration serait étendue aux ménages

Selon le quotidien, le projet de loi de simplification fiscale, qui sera présenté en mai prochain, recélera d’importants changements pour les ménages qui pourraient bientôt devoir déclarer et payer en ligne leur impôt sur le revenu. L’obligation pourrait être étalée sur quatre ou cinq ans et se faire par tranches de revenus, les ménages les plus aisés étant mieux équipés et plus à l’aise avec des démarches en ligne. Pour le fisc, il s’agit de moderniser la relation avec l’usager mais aussi de générer des sources d’économies face aux importantes suppressions d’effectifs auxquelles il est soumis, avec 2.000 postes en moins chaque année.
29/01/2015

La Fed reste patiente sur les taux

Si l’activité croît à un rythme «solide» aux Etats-Unis, l’inflation devrait continuer de baisser à court terme en raison des prix de l’énergie, constate le comité de politique monétaire de la Réserve fédérale dans un message approuvé par l’ensemble de ses membres votants.
29/01/2015

Le Crédit Agricole structure sa gestion immobilière

Crédit Agricole Immobilier regroupe ses activités de conseil et gestion d’actifs immobiliers pour les institutionnels au sein d’une nouvelle structure juridique, filiale à 100%, Crédit Agricole Immobilier Investors. Cette société a été agréée en décembre par l’AMF pour la gestion de fonds d’investissement alternatifs (FIA), afin de répondre à la nouvelle directive AIFM. Le pôle de gestion d’actifs de CA immobilier, dirigé par Christine Augé, représente 3,5 milliards d’euros d’encours et un volume global de 1,3 milliard de transactions sur ces trois dernières années.
28/01/2015

Athènes veut renégocier sa dette sans «affrontement destructeur »

Le nouveau Premier ministre grec Alexis Tsipras a martelé mercredi sa volonté de négocier sans «affrontement destructeur» un allègement de la dette d’Athènes, pourtant exclu par ses partenaires européens. Son ministre des Finances, Yanis Varoufakis, lui a fait écho en annonçant qu’il rencontrerait ses homologues européens, dont les ministres français et italien des Finances dans les jours à venir, afin de parvenir à un «nouveau pacte» tout en évitant de sombrer dans un «duel» entre l’Europe et la Grèce. La Bourse d’Athènes continuait de chuter dans l’après-midi, ayant perdu près de 12% depuis la victoire de Syriza.
28/01/2015

Pioneer Investments restructures and recruits in Germany

p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } Ahead of its planned merger with Santander Asset Management, Pioneer Investments has overhauled its distribution in Germany, with the objective of increasing its inflows and gaining market share, Fondsprofessionell reports. The wholesale and third-party sales team, led by Nils Hemmer, now includes seven people, with the arrival of three new team members: Kai Wiecking at the beginning of this year, and Michael Wolf and Gerhard Schurer next month. The division includes three major segments: savings banks / Asset Managers / banks, Private Wealth, and insurance. The Private Wealth team, which advises intermediaries, wealth managers, private banks, family offices and foundations, will be led by Marion Fischer, with the assistance of Christoph Schwarzmann, Wiecking and Schurer. Wiecking, who will primarily handle family offices and wealth managers, previously worked at FWW Fundservices, where he was director of research. Schurer, who will be responsible for independent providers, joins the firm from Fondsdepotbank, while Wolf, who joins from Heidelberger, will be responsible for the Produkt & Investment Marketing unit.
28/01/2015

Invesco Deutschland adds to distribution team

p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } Invesco Deutschland has added to its distribution team, with the recruitment of Markus Lück from the beginning of February. Lück, who has already worked much with instutitonal clients, will be responsible for banks in particular. Lück, who has many years of experience, has previously worked for local players such as smart-invest and pulse-invest, as well as the Franklin Templeton group for eight years.
28/01/2015

Optimism high at hedge funds

Hedge fund professionals are feeling highly optimistic at the start of 2015. According to a recent survey carried out by State Street of 235 professionals in the sector, 55% of respondents expect pension funds to make increase use of hedge fund strategies in the next five years. Of this 55%, 53% explain the trend as the result of a need on the part of investors to seek returns. 35% attribute it to increased emphasis on diversification of portfolios, and 13% put it down to improved offerings from hedge funds.When the question is asked more broadly, 63% expect increased exposure on the part of institutional investors to hedge funds over the same period.When asked how hedge fund professionals see the evolution of their own companies in the next five years, 60% anticipate the product range of managed investment strategies to grow. 37% predict foreign expansion, and one in ten foresees acquisition by another company.In terms of regulations, 29% of hedge funds expect Basel III to increase the financing costs for their companies considerably, while 42% hold the contrary persuasion, and the remaining 29% have no opinion.
28/01/2015

Global assets will hit USD100trn by 2020

p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } Assets under management over the entire planet will increase by an average of 6% per year to reach the USD100trn threshold by 2020, according to a new study by PwC entitled “ETF 2020: Preparing for a new horizon.” According to the consulting firm, ETFs will justly play a major role in this growth in the industry, as their assets are expected to double in the next five years to USD5trn .The growth of ETFs will largely be driven by insurers, pension funds and hedge funds, as these three types of investors are expected to be the primary sources of demand for ETFs in coming years.
28/01/2015

Investor confidence index falls in January

“The decline in sentiment was again driven by European investors,” added Jessica Donohue, executive vice president and chief innovation officer, State Street Global Exchange. “It will be interesting to see whether recent sovereign quantitative easing by the ECB will offset rising political uncertainty in the Eurozone and lead to a stabilization in sentiment.”
28/01/2015

AXA IM to launch a Chinese small and midcaps strategy

AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has announced the launch of the AXA SPDB Chinese Equity A-Shares strategy which invests in small and mid-cap Chinese companies. Based on a dynamic factor model, the stock selection process of the fund seeks to identify no more than 200 of the most attractive stocks within the investment universe (the CSI RAFI 400). Factors are adjusted according to the market cycle based on the qualitative macro outlook. The strategy is rebalanced monthly and is sector neutral relative to the benchmark. The turnover is expected to be low. Wendy Luo, Portfolio Manager at AXA SPDB Investment Managers commented: «We have taken a different approach to the majority of Chinese equity strategies which are benchmarked against large cap indices. Instead, the AXA SPDB Chinese Equity A-Shares strategy is biased toward small and mid-cap companies in industrial, service, IT, healthcare and consumption sectors rather than financials and energy, as we believe they offer higher growth prospects on sound fundamentals. In such a liquidity-driven market as China, we believe growth companies at a reasonable valuation should be our focus. These companies are, in our view, in the sweet spot to benefit from the transition to a ‘new normal’ economy which China strives to achieve through structural and market reforms.
28/01/2015

UBP increased its assets by 12.5% in 2014

p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } At a publication of its annual results, the Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) group announced growth of 12.5% in its assets under management in 2015 to CHF98.7bn. This increase is related to “the rising markets, integration of the Lloyds private banking activity in Monaco, and incoming funds to the Institutional Clients division,” according to the Swiss private bank. In 2014, UBP also posted net inflows of CHF4.5bn. In such a context, earnings totalled CHF774m as of the end of 2014, comapred with CHF694m at the end of 2013, for growth of 11.5%. Last year, consolidated net profits rose 8.6% to CHF165m. The Swiss group is less enthusiastic about 2015. “In 2015, the recent decision of the Swiss National Bank (BNS) to abandon its exchange rate ceiling with the euro will have a negative impact on our earnings, and this will consequently lead us to revise our projections and to consider the implementation of adjustment measures,” Guy de Picciotto, CEO of UBP, says.
28/01/2015

DNCA Finance posts inflows of EUR5bn in 2014

2014 was a good year for DNCA Finance. The French asset management firm last year posted net inflows of about EUR5bn (compared with EUR2.8bn in 2013), of which EUR1.9bn was invested in French-registered funds. Inflows were particularly dynamic to balanced management. “At the end of January, assets in DNCAs totalled slightly over EUR14bn, compared with EUR10bn one year ago,” Eric Franc, CEO of DNCA, said at an annual meeting of the firm on Tuesday, 27 January in Paris.“In 2014, DNCA continued its international development,” says Franc, adding that the firm, with 76 employees, no has teams based in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. 2015 is expected to continue the same trajectory. Following the recent release of its growth fund in Germany and Austria, the Paris-based asset management firm has initiated the process to sell its funds in Spain and the Netherlands. The opening of offices in Madrid and Geneva, announced already in 2014, and where the swiss head has already been recruited, is expected to continue this year.In terms of new products, DNCA in mid-December launched DNCA €urocovery, a fund which invests in shares in undervalued European companies.
28/01/2015

T. Rowe Price reshuffles its fixed income team

p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } The US asset management firm T. Rowe Price has announced the departure of Michael Gitlin, previously head of fixed income, on 23 January. Gitlin, who has left for both “personal and professional reasons,” according to a statement, will in spring join the Capital Group as head of fixed income. Edward “Ted” Wiese, currently head of the U.S. Taxable Low Duration team and portfolio manager for the U.S. Short Term Bond Strategy fund, has been appointed as head of fixed income, replacing Gitlin. Wiese, who has been at the asset management firm for 30 years, will report to James A.C. Kennedy, chief executive officer and president of T. Rowe Price, and will join the firm’s Management Committee. T. Rowe Price, based in Baltimore, had USD731.2bn in assets under management as of 30 September 2014.

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