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06/11/2015

Amundi veut se protéger contre les chocs de liquidité

En préalable à son introduction en Bourse, Amundi a signé le 23 octobre un contrat de crédit revolving syndiqué multidevises d’un montant de 1,75 milliard d’euros avec un syndicat international de prêteurs, d’une maturité initiale de cinq ans, a révélé Bloomberg cité par L’Agefi. Ce contrat s’inscrit dans un dispositif global qui sera finalisé au premier trimestre 2016 et vise à faire payer le coût de décalages violents de prix à ceux qui en seraient à l’origine.
06/11/2015

Nomura launches a fund advised by Quantam

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Nomura has launched the Nomura Quantam SolCap Europe, a fund which offers exposure to gains on the DJ EuroStoxx 50 Total Return index with limited risk of loss. The fund is aimed at institutional investors based in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. The fund, denominated in euros, allows investors to profit from potential gains on the European equity markets, while reducing risks of loss through an innovative dynamic hedging programme. The fund also carries a bank guarantee issued by Nomura Bank International. The fund is part of the Nomura Alternative Investment Management UCITS range, which is based on advising from Quantam SA, a quantitative asset management firm based in France and the United States.
06/11/2015

Amundi ETF launches new distributive share classes for three of its bond ETFs

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Amundi ETF has announced that it has added to its product range with the launch of new distribute share classes on Euronext for the three ETFs Amundi ETF Euro Corporates Ucits ETF, Amundi ETF Euro High Yield Liquid Bond Iboxx Ucits ETF and Amundi ETF Govt Bond Lowest Rated EuroMTS Investment Grade Ucits ETF.
06/11/2015

Janus Capital launches two small cap ETFs

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Janus Capital on 5 November announced the forthcoming launch of two new enhanced beta ETFs, which will exploit the expertise of teams at Janus in small and midcaps, entitled Janus Small Cap Growth Alpha ETF and Janus Small/Mid Cap Growth Alpha ETF. As of 30 September 2015, ETP activities at Janus represented assets of about USD3.5bn, distributed over 17 investment products. In all categories combined, assets under management at Janus totalled about USD185bn.
06/11/2015

Amundi invests in Leoni center in Milan

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } The real estate fund Nexus 1 from Amundi Real Estate Italia Sgr has acquired an office building with a total floor area of about 23,000 square meters at Cento Leoni in Milan for EUR93m. This is the second investment for the fund since its launch in first quarter 2014. In November 2014, Nexus 1 purchased a building intended for offices in the vicinity of the central station in the capital of Lombardy, leased in its entirety to a company of the Accor group. The Nexus 1 fund is a semi-open, Italian-registered real estate investment fund aimed at professional investors, whose investment policy is to acquire non-residential real estate properties located mainly in Milan and Rome, The fund may use up to 50% leverage. The value of the properties owned by the fund totals about EUR120m, EUR60m of which is financed with a line of mortgage credit.
06/11/2015

Assets under management up 2.9% at Generali

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Assets under management at the Generali group totalled EUR493.8m as of 30 September 2015, up by 2.9% compared with the end of December 2014, the Italian insurance group announced at a publication of its quarterly results. Of this total, external assets represented EUR49.5bn.
06/11/2015

Azimut posts inflows of EUR5.3bn since beginning of year

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } In the first nine months of the year, the Italian asset management firm Azimut has posted net inflows of EUR5bn. As of the end of October, inflows total EUR5.3bn. Assets totalled EUR34.1bn, of which EUR29.3bn were assets under mangement. As of the end of October, these sums stood at EUR35.3bn and EUR30.2bn. Consolidated net profits at Azimut totalled EUR208.1m, up 68% compared with the corresponding period of 2014. These are the best profit results in the history of Azimut.
06/11/2015

Banca Ifigest recruits a manager

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Banca Ifigest, an independent private bank active in wealth management for private and institutional clients, has recruited Andrea Scauri in Milan. Scauri will manage a sub-fund of the Luxembourg Sicav from Pharus Management, for which Banca Ifigest has obtained a management mandate, and which will invest in equities from southern Europe. The arrival of Scauri comes as part of a growth and reinforcement plan for Banca Ifigest, which aims to become a “banking boutique” of reference in asset management. Scauri had previously worked at Mediobanca, where he was most recently director of the industrial team, covering oil and gas companies and the household consumer goods sector.
06/11/2015

Cantonal bank of Ticino takes over activities of Société Générale Private Banking (Suisse)

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } The cantonal bank of Ticino, BancaStato, Swiss Bank SA and Société Générale Private Banking (Suisse) have announced that they have signed an agreement by which an affiliate of BancaStato, Axion Swiss Bank of a part of the clients of the French bank in Switzerland. The operation will be completed by 31 December 2015. A statement says that Axion will take on a portion of the personnel when the operation is completed. However, the statement does not provide any details about the amount of assets taken on or the sale price.
06/11/2015

Assets down at NN Investment Partners in third quarter

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } In third quarter 2015, assets under management at NN Investment Partners fell 2% to a total of EUR180bn as of the end of September, due to net redemptions. Out of a total decline of EUR4bn compared with the end of June, EUR3.2bn are due to net outflows, and EUR1.3bn to negative market effects.
06/11/2015

Rothschild recruits former head of Sony Mobile Communications

Rothschild has announced that Bert Nordberg will join Rothschild as a senior adviser and member of the board of Rothschild Nordic AB with effect from 2 November 2015. He joins Rothschild from a position as president and CEO of Sony Mobile Communications. Bert joined Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications in 2009 following thirteen years at Ericsson where he was executive vice president and head of Ericsson Silicon Valley. Bert is chairman of Vestas and Imagination Technologies and a member of the boards of Electrolux, SCA, Axis and Sigma Connectivity.
06/11/2015

Schroders posts inflows of GBP8.3bn since beginning of 2015

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } In the first nine months of 2015, Schroders has posted net subscriptions of GBP8.3bn, up compared with the GBP7bn posted in the corresponding period of last year. In third quarter alone, inflows were negative, with redemptions of GBP0.5bn, compared with inflows of GBP2.2bn in third quarter 2014. Asstes under management at Schroders as of 30 September totalled GBP294.8bn, down compared with the beginning of the year. As of the end of December, Schroders had GBP300bn in assets under management. The decline in assets is due to a negative market effect of GBP13.5bn in the first nine months of the year, and GBP14.6bn in third quarter. Asset management attracted GBP8.1bn between January and the end of September, while wealth management has attracted GBP200m. Pre-tax profits and one-time items totalled GBP4553.2m, up compared with GBP404.4m one year earlier.
06/11/2015

Julius Baer builds presence in United Kingdom

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } The Swiss group Julius Baer is adding to its wealth management unit in the United Kingdom with the recruitment of four senior advisers, all of them from Deutsche Bank, which is currently undergoing restructuring. The four recruits will work from London to consolidate development of high net worth clients, including the high net worth (HNWI) and ultra-high net worth (UHNWI) segments, and will also be responsible for relationships with major families. All four of them will report to David Durlacher, head of customer relationships. Annabel Bosman, who is appointed as managing director senior adviser, has more than 18 years of experience in advising high net worth clients, the past six of them at Deutsche Bank. Damien Crommie, executive director, has for the past 13 years dealt with HNWI and UHNWI clients, including five years at Deutsche Bank. Matthew Garnham, director, has been managing the wealth of high net worth clients for 10 years, three of them at Deutsche Bank. Jamie Banks, executive director, joins Julius Baer after seven years at Deutsche Bank, where he had been responsible for wealth planning and tax questions.
06/11/2015

Allianz GI hires a director for its UK institutional team

Allianz Global Investors has hired Tim Bird as a director in its UK institutional sales & client servicing team. Mr Bird, who will be based in London, will report to Philip Dawes, head of UK institutional at Allianz Global Investors.Mr Bird joins Allianz Global Investors having previously spent 4-years at T Rowe Price, as part of the institutional relationship management team for UK & Ireland. Prior to that, he also held positions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, HSBC Asset Management and Mercury Asset Management.
06/11/2015

Sandrine Toulouse and Gilbert Nguyen leave OFI AM

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } According to information obtained by Newsmanagers, Sandrine Toulouse and Gilbert Nguyen, head of business development and head of distribution for France and international at OFI AM, respectively, are leaving the firm. A recruitment is said to be in progress. The two former heads of third party marketer (TPM) Aloha Finance, in which OFI purchased a stake, arrived as part of the management team at the firm in late 2013, and were meant to accelerate its development in France and internationally.
06/11/2015

Banco Popolare launches an insurance policy in partnership with iShares

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } The Italian bank Banco Popolare is launching a new insurance solution entitled Smart Brand 2.0, a life insurance pllicy which uses ETFs from iShares, the ETF unit of BlackRock. The new product, designed by Lawrence Life, an affiliate company of the Gruppo Banco Popolare, has a balanced risk profile. Smart Beta Brand 2.0 will invest at least 45% of its assets in ETFs from iShares, while the remainder may be invested in actively-managed funds and government or corporate bonds.
06/11/2015

Amundi se prémunit contre les chocs de liquidité

En préalable à son introduction en Bourse, Amundi a signé le 23 octobre un contrat de crédit revolving syndiqué multidevises d’un montant de 1,75 milliard d’euros avec un syndicat international de prêteurs, d’une maturité initiale de cinq ans, comme l’a révélé Bloomberg. Ce contrat s’inscrit dans un dispositif global qui sera finalisé au premier trimestre 2016 et vise à faire payer le coût de décalages violents de prix à ceux qui en seraient à l’origine. Les dirigeants du Crédit Agricole ont par ailleurs précisé hier que le livre d’ordres de l’IPO d’Amundi était déjà couvert.
06/11/2015

Les inscriptions américaines au chômage sont à un pic de 8 mois

Corrigé des variations saisonnières, le nombre des inscriptions au chômage aux Etats-Unis a augmenté de 16.000 à 276.000 sur la semaine au 31 octobre, a annoncé jeudi le département du Travail. Il s’agit de la plus forte hausse hebdomadaire depuis fin février. Les économistes interrogés par Reuters anticipaient 262.000 inscriptions pour la semaine en question. La moyenne mobile sur quatre semaines, qui lisse la statistique hebdomadaire et donne ainsi une meilleure idée de la tendance, a augmenté de 3.500 à 262.750 la semaine dernière. Les chiffres de l’emploi pour octobre, très attendus, seront publiés vendredi.
06/11/2015

L’Angola paie le prix pour son retour sur le marché obligataire

L’Angola a placé hier un emprunt obligataire en dollar de 1,5 milliard à 10 ans qui marque le retour du pays sur le marché de l’eurobond depuis le début de la chute des cours du pétrole, sa principale ressource. Proposé autour de 10%, le rendement a été ramené à 9,5% grâce à un livre d’ordres qui a dépassé les 7 milliards de dollars. Deutsche Bank et Goldman Sachs, avec l’appui du chinois ICBC, ont dirigé le placement. L’Angola est noté Ba2/B+.
06/11/2015

Washington pourrait donner une garantie de 1 milliard de dollars à Kiev

Les Etats-Unis sont prêts à fournir une garantie pour un prêt de 1 milliard de dollars à l’Ukraine en fonction de progrès accomplis dans le domaine de la lutte contre l corruption et en matière de réforme fiscale, a annoncé hier la Maison blanche. Cette promesse a été faite par le vice-président Joe Biden lors d’une conversation téléphonique avec le président ukrainien Petro Porochenko. Les deux dirigeants ont également abordé la question de la mise en oeuvre des accords de paix de Minsk et des réformes économiques.
06/11/2015

La Chine a déposé une demande d’adhésion à la Berd

La Banque européenne de reconstruction et de développement (Berd) a annoncé hier soir avoir reçu une demande d’adhésion de la Chine, sur laquelle se prononceront ses actionnaires en décembre. Son conseil d’administration, dominé par les pays du G7, va vraisemblablement recommander la semaine prochaine aux actionnaires de se prononcer en faveur de cette entrée. En mai dernier, la Berd s’était dit disposée à coopérer sur des projets avec la Chine et sa nouvelle Banque asiatique d’investissement dans les infrastructures (AIIB). Selon un responsable de la Berd, la Chine a sondé l’institution européenne en août et a déposé sa demande officielle d’adhésion après la récente visite du président Xi Jingping à Londres, où se trouve le siège de la banque. Pékin devrait en particulier s’intéresser aux activités de la Berd au Kazakhstan voisin, où la banque s’apprête à investir un milliard d’euros dans les prochaines années pour aider au projet de «route de la soie».
06/11/2015

La Banque de Norvège laisse son taux directeur inchangé

Compte tenu d’un taux d’inflation qui s’est élevé en rythme annuel à 3,1% au mois de septembre, la banque centrale norvégienne a annoncé hier qu’elle maintenait son principal taux directeur inchangé à 0,75%. Si les effets de la baisse des prix et des investissements dans le pétrole se font sentir sur l’économie, l’institut d’émission relève que «le taux de change de la couronne a été plus faible qu’anticipé». Elle ajoute qu’une politique budgétaire plus expansionniste devrait contribuer à soutenir la demande intérieure.

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