Deutsche Asset Wealth Management a été la société de gestion à enregistrer les meilleures ventes de fonds de long terme (hors monétaires) en Europe au mois de novembre, avec 2,9 milliards d’euros de souscriptions nettes, selon les toutes dernières statistiques de Lipper. BlackRock le suit de près avec 2,7 milliards d’euros de collecte. Un peu plus loin, on retrouve en troisième position Nordea, qui a levé 1,5 milliard d’euros. Suivent KBC et Allianz GI avec chacun 1,3 milliard d’euros.Le fonds qui s’est le mieux vendu en novembre est le GS Global Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio, suivi par le M&G Optimal Income et le iShares Core S&P 500 Ucits ETF. Ces deux derniers figurent aussi parmi les cinq fonds qui se sont le mieux vendus sur le dernier trimestre.Globalement, les fonds de long terme ont enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 21,6 milliards d’euros, grâce notamment à une collecte nette de 10,3 milliards d’euros sur les fonds diversifiés.
La banque privée andorrane Andbank a recruté Manuel San Salvador au poste de responsable de son activité au Luxembourg, rapporte le site spécialisé Funds People qui cite des sources proches du dossier. Dans le Grand-Duché, Andban détient en effet une licence bancaire à travers Andbank Luxembourg et dispose également d’une société de gestion d’actifs, Andbank Asset Management Luxembourg. L’intéressé arrive en provenance de la société Capital at Work Investment Partners, qu’il avait intégré en octobre dernier en qualité d’associé et de membre de son conseil d’administration. Au cours de sa carrière, Manuel San Salvador a également occupé le poste de conseiller délégué chez Lazard Wealth Management en Espagne, ainsi que conseiller et directeur général de Banco Urquijo. Avant cela, il a été responsable de l’Europe chez Barclays Private Bank et conseiller délégué adjoint de la filiale suisse de Barclays Bank à Genève. Manuel San Salvador a également travaillé chez Merrill Lynch, où il a occupé différents postes à responsabilité à Londres et Madrid, notamment celui de responsable de la banque privée pour l’Espagne et le Portugal. Il a débuté sa carrière dans la banque d’entreprises de Bank of America.
p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } The German asset management firm Deutsche Asset & Wealth Mangement (Deutsche AWM) is adding to its hedge fund advisory team with the recruitment of Mihir Meswani and Nicolas Laporte, both appointed as portfolio managers. The two new recruits will be responsible for providing advising to clients about customer portfolio solutions, and will concentrate on liquid alternative assets such as managed accounts, UCITS funds and so-called Act 40 US funds. Meswani will be based in New York, and most recently worked as a consultant at Mount Yale Capital Group. Before that, he served as director of investment strategy at Sandalwood Securities, where he had also been a member of the investment board, responsible for the management of funds of hedge funds and alternative mutual funds. Earlier in his career, Meswani had been director of public investments at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and served in a variety of positions at Bank of America, JP Morgan and Bankers Trust. Laporte, for his part, will be based in London, and previously worked as a senior portfolio manager responsible for alternative investments for the British Airways Pension Fund. Before that, he served in a variety of roles at the Novartis pension fund, managing alternative investments, emerging markets and commodities. He also worked at HSBC Private Bank, where was responsible for the management of several discretionary and custom hedge fund mandates. Laporte began his career in the investment analysis and advising activity at Citi Private Bank.
p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } Net inflows to German investment funds in October totalled USD13.8bn, according to figures communicated by the German asset management association (BVI). Funds reserved for institutional investors posted inflows of EUR10.3bn, while open-ended funds posted EUR2.5bn. Among open-ended funds, the most popular strategies were diversified funds. These posted EUR3bn in Noevmber. Bond funds attracted EUR0.4bn, and real estate funds EUR0.3bn. Equity funds finished the month of November with outflows of EUR1.4bn. Between January and the end of Npcember, inflows totalled EUR95bn, of which EUR71.1bn went to funds reserved for institutionals. Assets under management as of the end of November totalled EUR2.374bn, compared with EUR2.106bn as of the end of 2013.
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Long-term UCITS (UCITS excluding money market funds) posted increased net inflows of EUR 31 billion, up from EUR 23 billion in October, according to the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA). Equity fund net sales returned to positive territory in November posting inflows of EUR 2 billion, against net outflows of EUR 6 billion in October. Bond fund net sales reduced to EUR 11 billion, down from EUR 16 billion in October. Balanced funds enjoyed a pick-up in net sales to EUR 13 billion in November, up from EUR 9 billion in October. Money market fund net sales returned to negative territory in November posting outflows of EUR 4 billion in October, compared to net inflows of EUR 22 billion in October. Total non-UCITS net sales remained relatively steady in November at EUR 16 billion. Net sales of special funds (funds reserved to institutional investors) remained at EUR 12 billion for the second consecutive month. Total net assets of UCITS stood at EUR 8,022 billion at end November 2014, representing a 1.5 percent increase during the month.
p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } Stéphane Janin, who had served as director of international affairs at the French financial management association (Association française de la gestion financière, AFG) since February 2006, has joined AXA IM, where he will now serve as head of global regulatory development. Since October 2012, Janin had also been a member of the board of directors at the International Investment Funds Association (IIFA). Before joining the AFG, he served as senior adviser at the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (Strategy and Risks).
p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } At a publication of its annual results, the US bank Goldman Sachs has announced that its Investment Management unit in 2014 posted growth of 13% in its assets under management and supervision. At the end of 2014, its assets totalled USD1.178trn, compared with USD1.042trn at the end of 2013. Assets under management alone totalled USD1.027trn as of 31 December, compared with USD919bn as of 31 December 2013, an increase of 11.75% year on year. This strong growth was driven primarily by net inflows totalling USD111bn in 2014, compared with USD37bn in 2013. In detail, long-term products posted USD74bn in net subscriptions (compared with USD41bn in 2013), while liquidity products posted net inflows of USD37bn (compared with net outflows of USD4bn in 2013). In this context, investment management activities generated earnings of USD6.14bn in 2014, up 11% compared with 2013. As of the end of 2014, the US banking group posted net revenues of USD34.5bn, up by only 1% year on year. However, its profits rose 5%, to a total of USD8.48bn as of the end of 2014, compared with USD8bn in at the end of 2013.
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM), the institutional asset management arm of Lombard Odier Group, has hired Théodore Economou chief investment officer of LOIM’s multi-asset business, effective 1 February 2015. The unit, which managed USD5.2 billion at the end of December, also includes a fiduciary management division.Théodore Economou most recently served as CEO and chief investment officer of the CERN pension fund, where over five years he initiated a risk-based approach that came to be known as the CERN model. The multi-asset, factor-driven model aims to preserve capital while maximizing returns relative to risk.Théodore Economou will be based in Geneva and build on a similar approach that LOIM began applying to its own employee pension fund in 2009 and developed for institutional clients. The risk-based approach is designed to meet the needs of sovereign wealth funds and pension funds. He will report to Jan Straatman, chief investment officer of LOIM.
Invesco Germany has appointed three persons in its institutional sales team : Thomas Adler, Jens Heß and Thorsten Kahl.Thomas Adler joins Invesco from Allianz Global Investors where he was head of institutional clients. Jens Heß worked at Berenberg Asset Management where he was senior relationship manager and investment consultant. Finally, Thorsten Kahl, who will head client services, joined Invesco in 2005.
p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } Benoît Flamant, chief investment officer for technologies at Fourpoints Investment Managers, has been appointed as director of mangement at the firm from 1 January. He succeeds Michel Raud, who remains as a member of the board of directors. In another development, Eric Fourrier, a global equities analyst and manager, becomes head of management for Europe. In 2014, assets under management at Fourpoints IM, which deploys a conviction management, remained stable at about EUR1bn, after a year in which performance was “disappointing,” according to Muriel Faure, CEO of the firm, on 16 January at an investor presentation.
Hopes that the European Central Bank’s January 22 policy meeting will mark the start of a full-blown quantitative easing program saw Europe equity funds post inflows for only the second time in the past six weeks and helped Europe bond funds attract over USD1 billion for the second week running. Overall, global-tracked bond funds absorbed a net USD6.9 billion during the week ending January 14 versus outflows of USD2.65 billion for equity funds, according to EPFR. Emerging markets equity funds experienced net redemptions for the ninth consecutive week in mid-January while Japan equity funds absorbed nearly USD2 billion for the week, responding to the tailwinds - cheap oil, a competitive yen and another fiscal stimulus package - that the world’s third largest economy is enjoying. Money market funds recorded USD8.43 billion outflows during the week ending January 14. Redemptions from money market funds were driven by funds with US mandates. Europe money market funds are off to their best start on record, having pulled in over USD27 billion during the first 13 days of 2015, as corporate and private clients appear willing to accept no return - or even pay a small premium - in return for liquidity.
More than half of asset managers Cerulli Associates surveyed in 2014 intend to increase headcount in their relationship management or client service departments during the next 12 months. «One of the foremost priorities in any service role is anticipating the needs of the customer,» states Susana Schroeder, senior analyst at Cerulli. «For professions in client service, this is a critical aspect of their job. The role no longer focuses solely on the administrative aspects of accounts. Listening to the client, creating a solution, and executing by pulling together the appropriate internal teams and resources are central to client service.»
p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } Deutsche Asset Wealth Management was the asset management firm to post the best sales of long-term funds (excluding money markets) in Europe in November, with EUR2.9bn in net inflows, according to the latest statistics from Lipper. BlackRock follows closely behin with EUR2.7bn in inflows. Slightly further behind is Nordea, with EUR1.5bn. It is followed by KBC and Allianz GI with EUR1.3bn each. The fund which sold best in November is the GS Global Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio, followed by the M&G Optimal Income et le iShares Core S&P 500 Ucits ETF. These two are also among the top five best-selling funds last quarter. Overall, long-term funds have posted net inflows of EUR21.6bn, largley due to net inflows of EUR10.3bn to balanced funds.
p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } Incapital and Nuveen Asset Management have launched a new equity strategy based on projections for 2015, by Bob Doll, a Nuveen manager and strategist well-known to the North American finance community. The Nuveen 2015 Equity Outlook Portfolio is a very strong conviction strategy fund, which makes it possible to identify opportunities which are not taken fully into account in valuations.
La chute des cours pétroliers débouchera sur une faible hausse des prix de détail cette année en Allemagne, a déclaré la Bundesbank lundi, précisant qu’elle abaisserait sa prévision d’inflation de 2015. «Le taux d’inflation doit être fortement corrigé vers le bas», explique-t-elle dans son rapport mensuel.
Les actions chinoises ont accusé lundi leur plus forte baisse en un jour en plus de six ans et demi, pénalisées par l’annonce de nouvelles mesures visant à freiner la spéculation. Les autorités de régulation ont ainsi interdit à trois grands coutiers d’ouvrir de nouveaux comptes d’opérations de trading avec effet de levier pendant trois mois. Elles ont également annoncé un projet de réglementation visant à renforcer les contrôles sur les «prêts confiés» («entrusted loans»).
Le gouvernement polonais pourrait prendre des mesures pour venir en aide aux souscripteurs d’emprunts en franc suisse, si celui-ci se maintient au-dessus de quatre zlotys, a déclaré hier le vice-Premier ministre Janusz Piechocinski. La devise helvétique est passée en deux jours de 3,60 à 4,20 zlotys. Les emprunts immobiliers souscrits en franc suisse par des Polonais s'élevaient à 31 milliards d’euros fin novembre, soit près de 8% du produit intérieur brut du pays.
Un programme d’assouplissement quantitatif (QE) doit être de grande ampleur pour être efficace, déclare Benoît Coeuré, membre du directoire de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE), dans une interview publiée vendredi. «Pour être efficace, il doit être vaste», a dit Benoît Coeuré à l’Irish Times. «A partir de quel moment est-ce assez vaste ? Cela doit être une décision éclairée fondée sur les courroies de transmission que nous avons identifiées».
Patronat et organisations syndicales ne sont pas parvenus samedi à un accord sur une refonte du dialogue social en entreprise et sont convenus de prolonger les négociations, si possible la semaine prochaine. Un compromis paraissait pourtant se dessiner vendredi entre le Medef, l’Union professionnelle artisanale, la CFDT, la CFTC et la CFE-CGC, sans la CGT, Force ouvrière, ni la CGPME, sur une simplification et une modernisation de ce dialogue.
Les prix de l’immobilier dans 68 des 70 principales métropoles de Chine accusaient en décembre une baisse moyenne de 4,3% sur un an, montrent les statistiques officielles publiées hier. Décembre marque ainsi le quatrième mois consécutif de baisse marquée des prix, une évolution préoccupante pour la croissance chinoise au quatrième trimestre. Les volumes de ventes ont parallèlement bondi de près de 9% par rapport à novembre.
Dans son rapport économique trimestriel, la Banque d’Italie a nettement réduit sa prévision de croissance avec une progression du produit intérieur brut (PIB) de seulement 0,4% cette année. En juillet, elle prévoyait encore une croissance de 1,3%. Selon la banque centrale, le PIB pourrait avoir «légèrement reculé» sur la période octobre-décembre 2014. La contraction de l'économie italienne a atteint 1,9% en 2013 et de 2,3% en 2012.
La Caisse d’amortissement de la dette sociale (Cades) a procédé à sa première émission de dette de l’année, en plaçant 3,0 milliards d’euros à maturité 8 ans, assorties d’un coupon de 0,5%. Le prix est ressorti à 99,416%, soit de 10 points de base au-dessus de celui de l’OAT 1,75% mai 2023. L’emprunt a été souscrit pour 24% en Asie et pour 76% en Europe (dont 23% en France et 20% en Allemagne et Autriche). Crédit Agricole, Credit Suisse, HSBC et Natixis étaient chefs de file.
Le gouvernement brésilien envisage de repousser au second semestre 2015 son treizième appel d’offres pour des concessions de gaz naturel et de pétrole, en raison du scandale national qui secoue l’entreprise publique Petroleo Brasileiro et de la chute des cours du pétrole, affirme le quotidien brésilien. Les premières enchères depuis 2013 devaient être programmées par le régulateur entre la fin avril et la mi-mai.