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25/04/2013

LGIM sets up “client strategy” team

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Chris de Marco, who had been principal investment consultant at AON Hewitt and managing director, head of insurance and pension solutions sales at HSBC, is joining Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) in the newly-created position of head of client strategy, where he will lead an equally new team, with the mission of designing integrated de-risking solutions. The new recruit will report to Aaron Meder, global head of solutions.The team will also include Matthew Webb (ex BDO) as solutions strategist, and Toby Baldwin, who has been tranferred from the product strategy and development team.
25/04/2013

Promotions for Alastair Gunn and Chris Watt at Jupiter

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } From 1 May 2013, Chris Watt, who joined Jupiter Asset Management in 1999, will be promoted to manager of Jupiter Growth & Income Fund (GBP368m), and the Jupiter UK Alpha Fund (GBP15m), replacing Philip Matthews, who is joining Schroders (see Newsmanagers of 18 April), to replace Richard Buxton, who is moving to Old Mutual Global Investors. Since January 2007, Watt had been the manager of the Jupiter Responsible Income Fund (GBP50m).Jupiter Asset Management has also appointed Alastair Gunn, who joined in 2007 as co-manager of the Jupiter Distribution Fund (GBP294m), to take over management of the Jupiter High Income Fund (GBP549m) as of 1 July 2013. The fund is currently managed by Anthony Nutt, who will be retiring at the end of this year.
25/04/2013

Triodos Groenfonds absorbs BNP Paribas Groen Fonds

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 31 May, assets in the SRI fund BNP Paribas Groen Fonds (NL0006294209, EUR175m as of the end of March), the former ABN Amro Groen Fonds, will be absorbed into the Triodos Groenfonds (EUR469m), BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP) and Triodos Investment Management announced on 24 April.BNPP IP states that green investments in the Netherlands are no longer a core professional area. This is an area which is highly local and specialised, which does not allow BNPP IP to continue to manage the fund in an optimal manner, whereas with the transfer to Triodos, shareholders will be able to be confident that their assets are in good hands.Funds from Triodos Investment Management as of the end of December had assets of EUR2.2bn.
25/04/2013

Legg Mason increases dividend by 18%

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The board of directors at Legg Mason Inc has announced a quarterly dividend of 13 cents per ordinary share, payable on 8 July to shareholders registered on 11 June. That represents an increase of 18% compared with the previous quarterly dividend.As of 31 March, assets totalled USD665bn.
25/04/2013

Comgest Germany recruits for sales

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } On 1 April, Andreas Franz joined Comgest Deutschland GmbH in Düsseldorf as investor relations manager. He holds the same position as Oliver Hausemann, and shares responsibility with him for maintaining relationships with institutional investors and wholesale and retail clients in Germany. Austrian clients will continue to be served by Dieter Wimmer, also an investor relations manager.Franz joins from Hamburgische Sparkasse (Haspa), where he spent 17 years, most recently as a securities analyst for open-ended investment funds.As of 31 December, Comgest had EUR15.5bn in assets under management.
25/04/2013

Bankinter wants to increase assets contributed by its network by 56%

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } An objective has been set by Bankinter for assets intermediated by its bank branch network in the next three years at EUR7bn, compared with EUR4.5bn currently, which would represent an increase of 56%, Funds People reports.The network, led by César González Rodríguez, currently includes 478 specialist advisers. There were 1,100 of them at the end of 2008, and the reshuffle has reduced personnel to 300, but the bank has begun recruiting more qualified specialists, with the intention of recruiting people who will be likely to bring in EUR250m in assets each.Newly-recruited personnel will benefit from Bankinter’s logistics and resources (IT systems, Open Finance network, legal services, risk management, human resources), but will not bre required to sell exclusively products from the bank, and may also offer, among others, funds from foreign asset mangement firms available on the Allfunds Bank platform. Branch advisers also, unlike private bankers, are not bound by a minimum threshold of EUR1m in financial savings.
25/04/2013

iShares integrates FundSettle

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Fondsnieuws reports that iShares (BlackRock) has become the first ETF promoter to be admitted to the FundSettle automated trading platform from Euroclear. Initially, 50 ETFs will be available, out of 150 products that iShares offers in the Netherlands. As Leen Meijaard, head of sales for iShares in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region points out, however, these 50 products cover the vast majority of demand from distributors. Lieven Libbrecht, director investment funds product development at Euroclear, has not ruled out the possibility that other ETF issuers will list their products for trading on FundSettle.
25/04/2013

Franklin Templeton launches a new Sicav in Italy

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Franklin Templeton is launching the Franklin Templeton Strategic Allocation Funds Sicav, which offers institutional and retail investors a range of four funds of funds, in Italy, Bluerating reports. The range, which is licensed for sale in Italy, comes in addition to the Franklin Templeton Investment Funds Sicav, which has been available in Italy since 1995, and which has 76 sub-funds. The funds of the new Sicav are mostly invested in equities according to their risk profiles.
25/04/2013

Inflows continue for Italian funds

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In March, open-ended funds on sale in Italy recorded net inflows of EUR5.3bn, after raising EUR4.5bn in February, the most recent statistics from Assogestioni, the Italian association of asset managers, reveal. Since the beginning of the year, Italian funds have attracted slightly over EUR13bn. In March, inflows were driven by flexible funds (EUR2.4bn) and bond funds (EUR2.6bn), two categories which have been doing well since the beginning of the year. However, equity funds posted light net outflows of EUR131m. In terms of fund domicile, foreign-registered funds continue to account for the lion’s share, with EUR4.8bn in March, and EUR11.2bn in first quarter. With the addition of closed funds and mandated management, net inflows in March totalled EUR7.3bn. Assets under management in open-ended funds totalled EUR504bn, while assets in collective and mandated management totalled EUR1.225trn. Assogestioni notes that asset levels have set a new record for the fifth consecutive month. Lastly, in terms of businesses, Generali and Intesa have posted the strongest inflows in March, with EUR1.4bn and EUR1.1bn, respectively. Franklin Templeton comes next, with EUR1.041trn. Among the few firms to post redemptions, BNP Paribas stands out with EUR227m, as does Montepasci, with EUR139.4m.
25/04/2013

Henderson extends its multi-asset product range

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Henderson Global Investors is preparing to add two new funds to its risk-graduated range of multi-asset solutions, led by Bill McQuaker, Investment Week reports. They are the Core 4 Income and Core 6 Income & Growth funds.
25/04/2013

EFG Private Bank fined for failures in its anti-money laundering controls

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined EFG Private Bank GBP4.2 million, or approximately EUR5million, for failing to take reasonable care to establish and maintain effective anti-money laundering (AML) controls for high risk customers. «The failings were serious and lasted for more than three years», the FCA underlines.As part of a thematic review of how UK banks were managing money laundering risk in higher risk situations, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) visited EFG Private Bank, the UK private banking subsidiary of the EFGI Group, a global private banking group, based in Switzerland, in January 2011. That visit and further investigation caused serious concern to the FSA. The investigation found that EFG had not fully put its AML policies into practice. Of particular concern was that 17 of 36 reviewed customer files, opened between December 2007 and January 2011, contained customer due diligence that highlighted significant money laundering risks, but insufficient records of how the bank’s senior management had mitigated those risks. Of these 17 files, the FSA found that the risks highlighted in 13 files related to allegations of criminal activity or that the customer had been charged with criminal offences including corruption and money laundering. EFG settled at an early stage of the investigation and qualified for a 30% discount on its fine. Without the discount the fine would have been GBP6 million.
25/04/2013

Henderson acquires one third of 90 West Asset Management

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Henderson Global Investors has announced that it has acquired 33% of the Australian asset management firm 90 West Asset Management, specialised in natural resources globally, Funds People reports. The two businesses have also signed an exclusive distribution agreement.
25/04/2013

L'économie britannique échappe à la récession

L'économie britannique à échappé à sa troisième récession en moins de cinq ans et sa croissance a même surpassé les attentes au premier trimestre. Le produit intérieur brut (PIB) du Royaume-Uni a augmenté de 0,3% sur janvier-mars par rapport aux trois derniers mois de 2012, durant lesquels il s'était contracté d’autant, montre la première estimation publiée jeudi par l’Office national de la statistique (ONS). En rythme annuel, la croissance ressort à 0,6%, sa meilleure performance depuis la fin 2011. La croissance du premier trimestre a été tirée par les services et par un rebond de la production de gaz et de pétrole en mer du Nord. La livre sterling s’appréciait après les chiffres de l’ONS, au plus haut depuis deux mois face au dollar, tandis que les cours des emprunts d’Etat refluaient. La croissance britannique ne devrait toutefois pas dépasser 0,6% cette année. Le PIB britannique reste inférieur de 2,6% à son pic du premier trimestre 2008 et même en prenant en compte les chiffres publiés jeudi, il a stagné ces 18 derniers mois.
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25/04/2013

Où ira la liquidité japonaise ?

La Banque du Japon a annoncé vouloir doubler sa base monétaire sur deux ans et affecter 77% de ces nouveaux moyens au financement des emprunts d’Etat (JGB) de long terme. Cette annonce est une bonne nouvelle: elle réduit considérablement le risque de vente d’actifs étrangers, que le Japon détient en énormes quantités, pour financer le déficit public japonais, à l’heure où le vieillissement de la population, la crise énergétique et la fin des excédents de la balance courante hypothèquent le financement purement domestique de la dette publique.
25/04/2013

Les banques américaines critiquées en Europe

Selon le journal britannique, l’Association européenne des Trésoriers d’Entreprise (EACT) a écrit à JP Morgan le mois dernier pour se plaindre du lobbying effectué par les banques américaines, qui cherchent à être exemptées de certaines règles édictées par Bâle 3 sur les produits dérivés de gré à gré.
25/04/2013

Temasek fera entendre sa voix chez Standard Chartered

Selon la chaîne de télévision, le fonds souverain de Singapour, qui détient 18,2% de Standard Chartered, ne votera pas en faveur de la réélection de certains directeurs exécutifs de la banque lors de l’assemblée générale prévue le 8 mai, même s’il devrait soutenir la réélection du président du conseil d’administration John Peace.
25/04/2013

La Bourse de Tokyo songe à créer un nouvel indice

La Bourse de Tokyo envisage de créer dès cette année un nouvel indice fondé sur la rentabilité des capitaux propres, afin de mieux prendre en compte la performance des sociétés en forte croissance, selon le journal qui se réfère aux propos de l’institution.
25/04/2013

Enrico Letta devra donner à l’Italie un gouvernement

Vice-secrétaire au sein de la direction démissionnaire du Parti démocrate, Enrico Letta entre au Palais Chigi. Agé de 46 ans, il a été chargé par le président Giorgio Napolitano de former un nouveau gouvernement. Les consultations auprès des différents partis débuteront demain. «Je lance un appel à toutes les forces politiques et à leur sens des responsabilités», a déclaré Enrico Letta depuis le palais présidentiel. «Toutes les réformes essentielles doivent être faites ensemble avec la participation la plus large possible», a-t-il ajouté. Enrico Letta présente l’avantage d'être acceptable aux yeux de Silvio Berlusconi et de ses élus du Peuple de la liberté (PDL). Son oncle, Gianni Letta, est le plus proche conseiller politique du «Cavaliere» depuis plus de dix ans. Cette proximité ne sera sans doute pas de trop à l’heure de former un gouvernement susceptible d'être soutenu tant par le Parti démocrate que par la droite et les centristes.
25/04/2013

Le MES valide le soutien à Chypre

Le conseil des gouverneurs du Mécanisme européen de stabilité (MES) a donné son accord de principe au programme d’assistance financière conclu avec Chypre. En vertu de ce plan, Nicosie recevra jusqu’à 10 milliards d’euros, dont 9 milliards via le MES et 1 milliard via le FMI.
25/04/2013

Retour des clauses de désignation

Réunie mardi, la commission mixte paritaire sur le projet de loi de sécurisation de l’emploi a validé la rédaction de l’article 1er généralisant la complémentaire santé à tous les salariés, en reprenant la version adoptée par l’Assemblée Nationale. Les clauses de désignations ont donc été rétablies, alors qu’elles avaient été supprimées par le Sénat. L’APAC déplore «un passage en force».
25/04/2013

S&P relève la note de la Colombie

L’agence de notation a hissé la note de crédit de la Colombie de BBB- à BBB, citant les perspectives de croissance du pays à long terme et une vulnérabilité moins forte à des chocs extérieurs. Elle a également fait passer la perspective associée de positive à stable.
25/04/2013

L’AMF publie un guide pour les actionnaires individuels

L’Autorité des marchés financiers met à disposition sur son site internet un guide pédagogique à l’attention des actionnaires individuels. Ce document est présenté comme un outil ayant «vocation d’aider à la bonne compréhension des décisions soumises au vote des actionnaires».
25/04/2013

Le yuan s’affirme dans les paiements internationaux

L’utilisation du yuan comme moyen de paiement international a progressé de 32,7% en mars par rapport au mois précédent, contre une hausse moyenne de 5,1% pour l’ensemble des devises, selon la société coopérative Swift chargée des transferts interbancaires. La France figurait le mois dernier au quatrième rang des utilisateurs offshore du yuan derrière le Royaume-Uni, Singapour et Taiwan.

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