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01/07/2013

Butterfield looks to promote expertise

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Butterfield Bank (UK) has appointed Jo Hill to the newly-created position of head of marketing, wealthadviser reports. In her new role, Hill will work in close collaboration with the international offices of the company, to promote its wealth management and private banking services. Hill has over 10 years of experience in the financial sector.
01/07/2013

We prefer local distribution partners for our international development

The British asset management firm M&G Investments set out to conquer the European market in 2011, with a major geographical coverage.International assets now represent 25% of the EUR 72bn in retail assets under management at the firm. But eventually, it may reach 50%, Jonathan Willcocks, head of retail sales, tells Newsmanagers. To achieve this ambitious objective, it is relying on the strength of its relationships with its local distribution partners and its emphasis on multi-asset class products.
01/07/2013

Amundi SGR recruits for sales

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Stefan Aquati, who previously worked at ING IM, antonveneta and Scottish Equitable, is joining Amundi SGR as senior relationship manager for third party distribution, Investment Europe reports. He will report to Paolo Proli, director of external distribution. Amundi SGR currently has about EUR6bn in assets under management.
01/07/2013

Amundi recruits a senior client relationship manager

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Amundi Sgr, the Italian arm of the French asset management firm, has recruited Stefano Acquati as its new senior relationship manager in the third-party distribution team, Bluerating reports. He had previously been a retail side client adviser at ING Investment Management.
01/07/2013

Franklin Templeton recruits four in Italy

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Franklin Templeton has recruited three people in Italy, who will become responsible for the new offices in Rome, Florence and Padua, Bluerating reports. Marco Magi, who will be based in Rome, previously worked at Monte Paschi di Siena. Alessia Pagni, who becomes head of the Florence office, joins from Deutsche Bank. Lastly, in Padua, Alessandro Gibelli is appointed. He had previously been at Eurobroker Italia. The institutional team at Franklin Templeton has also been reinforced with the arrival of Laura Belotti, who previously worked at Fineco Investimenti, Capitalia AM and Axa IM.
01/07/2013

Vontobel shuts down its private bank in Italy

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Vontobel is on 1 July closing down its private bank in Italy, according to reports from Bluerating. The Swiss bank will now oversee this activity from Zurich. The decision comes as a result of the fact that private banking services in Italy were no longer in a position to achieve the necessary volumes to keep up with regulations and rising costs.
01/07/2013

Target-date funds have over USD500bn

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } In its study entitled “Target-Date Series Research Paper: 2013 Industry Survey,” Morningstar reports that at the end of first quarter of 2013, assets in target-date funds in the United States topped USD500bn.The agency also states that management commissions are continuing to fall, to 0.91% of assets from 0.99% in 2011.The three leaders, Vanguard Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, retain a market share of about 75%, despite the rapid rise of some small players. Meanwhile, four firms have closed their target-date fund activities: American Independence, Columbia, Oppenheimer and Goldman Sachs.Morningstar also reports that managers of ranges of target-date funds have considerably increased the exposure of their products to non-US equities: allocation to international equities has increased from 24% on average for funds maturing in 2040 as of 2005 to 36% as of 31 December 2012.
01/07/2013

Appetite for financial advising up among high net worth clients

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Seven high net worth investors out of ten estimate that financial markets are currently too complicated not to rely on the assistance of an advisor, according to a survey by Charles Schwab. One third of respondents to the survey say that their demand for financial advising increased in the past twelve months, and three quarters say that they are much more confident when they take an investment decision with the help of a professional. Trust and transparency are at the heart of relationships between high net worth clients and advisers. But the survey finds that 72% of respondents trust individual finance specialists, while only 42% put their trust in financial services companies.
01/07/2013

Société Générale Gestion may be fined up to EUR300,000

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The French financial market authority (AMF) on Friday demanded a fine of at least EUR300,000 against Société Générale Gestion (S2G) for shortfalls in the management of a fund (FCP) in 2010, Agefi reports. The regulator accuses it of a conflict of interest, as S2G was both manager of the fund and collateral manager of USD10bn in collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) in FCP funds, and was paid in these two capacities. S2G is also claimed not to have precisely and independently evaluated the indexed CDOs and performance swaps. That led to an increase in the net asset value of the fund, which was the reason for the AMF control, and which represents a loss for which shareholders require compensation if they sold their investments before December 2010. The asset management firm is also accused of failing in its duty to inform clients.
01/07/2013

Head of equity research leaves Pimco

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } According to Citywire, John Longhurst is leaving his position as head of emerging markets at Pimco, which he joined in October 2011 from Capital International, Citywire reports.
01/07/2013

Schroders joins amLeague

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Schroders Investment Management Ltd. is joining the amLeague competition, and is launching its first portfolio no the Europe Equities mandate from 28 June.The announcement is all the more significant as amLeague is aimed at institutional investors at a time whe Nuno Teixeira, CEO of Schroders France, recently announced that the UK asset management firm is planning to build a presence on the French independent financial adviser market (see Newsmanagers of 17 June).
01/07/2013

Margins at asset management firms return to 2007 levels

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Pre-tax operating profits in the global asset management industry increased to 32%, their highest level since 2007, according to a survey by the consultant Casey, Quirk and Associates, cited by Financial News. Profits reached 34% in 2007, and then fell to 25% in 2009. The most rapid growth was for firms managing USD50m to USD200m.
01/07/2013

Commerz Real sells off institutional RE fund management

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } For an undisclosed amount, Commerz Real (Commerzbank group) is selling its affiliate Commerz Real Spezialfondsgesellschaft (CRS), which includes institutional funds (Spezialfonds) with assets totalling EUR1.6bn to the institutional asset management firm Internos.The sale of this operation, which is “less profitable than others,” explicitly does not mean that Commerz Real (EUR35bn) is completely withdrawing from institutional real estate management.The transaction does not include the firm’s stake in Amprion (the former high voltage network from RWE), which was acquired in 2011 as part of a club deal.The Internos group has about EUR1.9bn in assets under management, the majority of which are on the German market.
01/07/2013

Investors reconsider the case of EMD

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } According to some investors cited by the Wall Street Journal, the wave of selloffs in emerging market bonds may not be over. It is the result both of the prospect of a slowdown both in bond purchases by the Fed and in growth in emerging markets. This is expected to lead investors to become more selective in future.Sergio Trio Paz, who manages about USD4bn in emerging market debt (EMD) at BlackRock, prefers Brazil to India, where returns are equivalent, because the Brazilian fundamentals are better and the Brazilian market is more liquid.Colm McDonagh, who had USD755m in EMD under management at Insight, prefers government debt issued by Mexico and the Philippines, fiscally solid countries, which are beginning to become attractive. However, South Africa is expected to remain under pressure, due to a lack of progress in fiscal recovery.Tim Dingemans, who manages USD80m in EMD at Adelante Asset Management, expects Chile and Indonesia, exporters of commodities, to remain under pressure, along with Turkey, due to political instability.
01/07/2013

Bond funds post another record outflow

Investors and financial markets responded to the US central bank’s desire to start winding down its current quantitative easing program, and possibly end it next year, by stampeding towards the exits. Investors pulled a net USD23.3 billion out bond funds going in the week ending June 26, according to EPFR.Among the fund groups setting new weekly redemption records were US, global, emerging markets, municipal, high yield and total return bond funds. At the country level, Italy, Spain, Canada, Mexico and Sweden Bonds were the only groups to attract over USD1 million in fresh money.The week ending June 26 also saw USD13.1 billion pulled out of all equity funds with dividend equity funds posting their biggest weekly outflow in over two years. China equity funds again posted outflows as net redemptions since the last week of February moved over the USD7 billion mark. There were modest inflows for Japanese equity funds.EPFR Global reports, without citing statistics, that France and Germany equity funds have posted inflows three and four consecutive weeks respectively, the longest inflow streaks for both since 3Q11.
01/07/2013

Lloyds Banking Group Switzerland sharply cuts back staff

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } According to Geneva’s La Tribune, Lloyds Banking Group Switzerland, whose assets were acquired by UBP at the end of May, may lay off several hundred employees out of the 380 it has in the cantons of Geneva and Vaud. According to an internal source, the layoffs may affect more than 50% of personnel.
01/07/2013

Avaloq retained by Deutsche Bank in Switzerland for wealth management

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 1 July 2013, the B-Source company, an affiliate of Avaloq will take over responsibility for the operation of the Operations back office at Deutsche Bank (Switzerland) SA for Wealth Management, according to a statement released on 28 june. B-Source, a provider of back-office services belonging to the Avaloq group, will be responsible for the operation of the Operations back office as well as the 80 employees at the Geneva site. The replacement of the central banking platform with the integrated Avaloq Banking Suite will take place in summer 2014. “B-Source thus supports the bank’s objective, which is now to concentrate on its core profession,” a statement says. Markus Gröninger, CEO of B-Source SA, says “the ongoing reinforcement of our community is a clear sign of our growth strategy, which is based in providing highly industrialised services which allow banks to concentrate on their core profession and on generating future growth.”
01/07/2013

Les marges des sociétés de gestion renouent avec les niveaux de 2007

Les marges d’exploitation avant impôts dans le secteur mondial de la gestion d’actifs ont augmenté à 32 %, soit leur plus haut niveau depuis 2007, selon un sondage du consultant Casey, Quirk and Associates cité par Financial News.Les marges avaient atteint 34 % en 2007 avant de tomber à 25 % en 2009. La croissance la plus rapide a été enregistrée par les sociétés gérant entre 50 milliards de dollars et 200 milliards de dollars.
01/07/2013

Vontobel ferme sa banque privée en Italie

Vontobel ferme le 1er juillet sa banque privée en Italie, selon des informations de Bluerating. La banque suisse gérera désormais cette activité depuis Zurich. Cette décision s’explique par le fait que les services de private banking en Italie n’étaient plus en mesure de dégager des volumes nécessaires pour faire face à la réglementation et à l’augmentation des coûts.
01/07/2013

Franklin Templeton recrute quatre personnes en Italie

Franklin Templeton a recruté trois personnes en Italie qui prendront la responsabilité des nouveaux bureaux de Rome, Florence et Padoue, rapporte Bluerating. Marco Magi, qui sera basé à Rome, travaillait précédemment chez Monte Paschi di Siena. Alessio Pagni, qui prend la tête du bureau de Florence, vient de la Deutsche Bank. Enfin, pour Padoue, c’est Alessandro Gibelli qui est nommé. Il était avant chez Eurobroker Italia. En outre, l’équipe institutionnelle de Franklin Templeton a été renforcée avec l’arrivée de Laura Belotti, qui a travaillé précédemment chez Fineco Investimenti, Capitalia AM et Axa IM.
01/07/2013

Amundi recrute un chargé de relations de clientèle en Italie

Amundi Sgr, l’entité italienne de la société de gestion française, a recruté Stefano Acquati comme nouveau senior relationship manager dans l’équipe distribution tierce partie, rapporte Bluerating. Il était précédemment senior relationship manager côté clientèle de particuliers chez ING Investment Management.
01/07/2013

Amundi SGR renforce sa distribution

Stefaon Acquati, qui a travailler chez ING IM, antonveneta et Scorttish Equitable, rejoint Amundi SGR comme senior relationship manager for third party distribution, rapporte Investment Europe. Il sera subordonné à Paolo Proli, directeur de la distribution externe.Amundi SGR gère actuellement environ 6 milliards d’euros.
01/07/2013

Eurazeo PME met la main sur Cap Vert Finance

La filiale d’Eurazeo spécialisée dans les entreprises de taille moyenne fait l’acquisition de Cap Vert Finance (CVF), leader européen de la gestion du cycle de vie des infrastructures informatiques, sur la base d’une valeur d’entreprise de près de 70 millions d’euros, rapporte L’Agefi. Eurazeo PME détiendra 57% du capital aux côtés des dirigeants, notamment Bruno Demolin, président du directoire. Loïc Villers, fondateur, conserve 8% du capital et reste président du conseil de surveillance.
01/07/2013

Avec Inversis, BPA va plus que doubler de taille en Espagne

Finalement, le conseil d’administration d’Inversis Banco a choisi comme repreneur Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA), qui va payer 215 millions d’euros (soit le double de la valeur comptable d’Inversis) plus un montant qui sera fonction du volume d’affaires transféré, rapporte Funds People. Avec cette acquisition l’encours de BPA en Espagne atteindra 7,4 milliards d’euros, contre 3,3 milliards. BPA est représentée en Espagne par Banco Madrid et a acheté ces dernières années Interdin, Nordkapp et Liberbank Gestión.
01/07/2013

Lansdowne Partners nomme un nouveau CEO

L’un des plus importants hedge funds londoniens, Lansdowne Partners, vient de nommer Alex Snow en qualité de CEO, selon un communiqué publié le 27 juin. Alex Snow va prendre en septembre la succession du co-fondateur de la société, Paul Ruddock, qui part en retraite fin juin. Alex Snow dirigeait précédemment les activités de banque d’investissement d’Investec au Royaume-Uni.La stratégie phare de Lansdowne Partners, Developed Markets Strategy, dont les actifs sous gestion s'élèvent à environ 10 milliards de dollars, a dégagé un rendement annuel moyen de 13,6% depuis 2001. Le fonds a progressé l’an dernier de 18% après avoir perdu 20% l’année précédente.
01/07/2013

Butterfield veut promouvoir son savoir-faire

Butterfield Bank (UK) a nommé Jo Hill au poste nouvellement créé de responsable marketing, rapporte wealthadviser. Dans ses nouvelles fonctions Jo Hill travaillera en étroite collaboration avec les bureaux internationaux de la société pour promouvoir ses services de gestion de fortune et de banque privée. Jo Hill a plus de dix ans d’expérience dans le secteur financier.
01/07/2013

Coutts lance un nouveau service de gestion de portefeuille

La banque privée britannique Coutts a lancé un service de gestion de portefeuille discrétionnaire (DPS) à destination d’une clientèle disposant d’un investissement minimum de 1 million de livres, rapporte wealthadviser.Ce service donne accès à l’expertise d’investissement de Coutts. Le service DPS est piloté par Simon Pinckney qui a plus de 25 ans d’expérience dans les services financiers.
01/07/2013

Lloyds Banking Group Suisse réduirait fortement son effectif

Selon la Tribune de Genève, Lloyds Banking Group Suisse, dont les actifs ont été achetés fin mai par l’UBP, pourrait se séparer de plusieurs centaines de collaborateurs sur les 380 salariés dans les cantons de Genève et de Vaud, rapporte la Tribune de Genève. Selon une source interne, les licenciements concerneront plus de 50 % du personnel.
01/07/2013

Avaloq mandatée par Deutsche Bank en Suisse pour sa gestion de fortune

Le 1er juillet 2013, la société filiale d’Avaloq, B-Source reprend la responsabilité d’exploitation du back-office d’Operations de Deutsche Bank (Suisse) SA pour le Wealth Management, selon un communiqué publié le 28 juin. B-Source, un prestataire de back-office qui fait partie du groupe Avaloq, assumera la responsabilité d’exploitation du back-office d’Operations ainsi que des 80 collaboratrices et collaborateurs du site de Genève. Le remplacement de la plateforme bancaire centrale par l’Avaloq Banking Suite intégrée est prévu pour l’été 2014. «B-Source soutient ainsi l’objectif de la banque, qui souhaite se concentrer désormais sur son cœur de métier», souligne le communiqué.Selon Markus Gröninger, CEO de B-Source SA, «le renforcement continu de notre communauté s’inscrit clairement dans notre stratégie de croissance, qui repose sur la fourniture de prestations hautement industrialisées permettant aux banques de se concentrer sur leur cœur de métier et sur la génération de croissance à venir.»
01/07/2013

Credit Suisse recrute chez Munich Re

Credit Suisse Group a annoncé le 1er juillet la nomination de Joachim Oechslin au poste de Chief Risk Officer. Il succèdera à Tobias Guldimann le 1er janvier 2014. Joachim Oechslin est actuellement Chief Risk Officer chez Munich Re. Il sera également membre de l’Executive Board.Début 2014, Tobias Guldimann prendra la fonction de Head of Reputational Risk, Corporate Responsibility and Regulatory Policy, précise un communiqué.

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