Dans son rapport annuel, l'institution estime que les taux bas alimentent les déséquilibres macroéconomiques et financiers et le recours à l'endettement.
Angelo Proni, président exécutif de MTS France (groupe LSE), plate-forme sur laquelle se négocie la dette française, revient sur les évolutions du marché.
La gouvernance de l'Efrag, qui conseille la Commission sur l'adoption des normes comptables, a été revue, mais l'organisation n'a toujours pas de président.
Joël Konop (La Française AM), Stéphane Pouchoulin (FundQuest Advisor), et François Simon (Agami) expliquent ce que représente le prix des Coupoles Distrib Invest pour eux et évoquent leurs projets de développement respectifs pour l'année 2015.
La Caisse d’Allocation Vieillesse des Agents Généraux (CAVAMAC) vient de choisir les deux gérants auxquels elle va confier la gestion de ses fonds d’obligations convertibles zone euro. Il s’agit de Schelcher Prince pour le fonds de 70 millions d’euros et UBGI, filiale française d’UBP, pour le second fonds de 50 millions d’euros. Enfin, elle a désigné Allianz GI pour le mandat stand-by. Dans le cadre de son appel d’offres lancé en décembre dernier, la CAVAMAC a reçu 23 dossiers de candidature, elle en a retenu 8 avant de sélectionner ces trois gérants. Au-delà de la performance, l’institution a été particulièrement attentive à la qualité des équipes de gestion en obligations convertibles : effectif, expérience, nombre de fonds en OC gérés, etc. Les deux fonds devraient être transférés vers les deux nouvelles sociétés de gestion début septembre.
Emergence et NewAlpha Asset Management, gérant délégataire des deux compartiments de la SICAV de place dédiée à l’incubation et à l’accélération des sociétés de gestion entrepreneuriales, annoncent la sélection de Finaltis, quatrième incubée du fonds Emergence Actions.
Les pays créanciers de la Grèce ont mis vendredi sur la table une proposition d’aide de 15,5 milliards d’euros, qui aurait déjà été refusée par Athènes selon l’agence de presse grecque ANA. Le projet prévoit une extension de cinq mois du programme d’aide dont bénéficie actuellement la Grèce, jusqu’en novembre. Les créanciers européens sont prêts à verser 12 milliards d’euros en quatre tranches, tandis que le Fonds monétaire international compléterait la somme avec un versement de 3,5 milliards d’euros, selon un document cité par l’AFP.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management has launched the Deutsche X-trackers Japan JPX-Nikkei 400 Equity ETF (JPN), the first ETF listed in the United States to replicate the JPX Nikkei 400 index, an index which has been adopted by many Japanese institutional investors wishing to increase their exposure to Japanese equities. The index uses a strict selection process, based in part on returns on owners’ equity, operating profits and market capitalisation. As of 16 June 2015, assets under management by Deutsche X-trackers in the United States totalled USD18.5bn, an increase of about 430% compared with the end of 2014. Worldwide, the ETP platform from the firm had assets of USD56.8bn as of the end of December 2014.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } The index and research provider Morningstar on 25 June launched the Active/Passive Barometer, to assist investors to better estimate the relative performance of US fund managers compared with their counterparts specialised in passive management. Among the findings of this initial barometer, based on data as of the end of 2014, is that actively-managed funds underperformed their passively-managed equivalents in virtually all asset classes and all Morningstar categories taken into account in the study, especially over a 10-year period. The mortality rate for actively-managed funds was also higher. The only exception to this general failure was US midcaps which had a success rate over 10 years of over 50%. Low-cost actively-managed funds had better chances of survival and of performance than higher cost actively-managed funds, from a long-term perspective, but low-cost actively-managed funds had lower average annual returns than passively-managed funds on average in nine of the 12 Morningstar categories. Over three-year and five-year periods, 72.9% and 69.7% of mid-term, actively managed bond funds, respectively, beat their passive competition, which is far better than the performance of US equity funds. In the US equity sector, no category has a success rate of over 50% for three-or five-year periods.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } The Aberdeen European Balanced Property Fund, which has been licensed for sale in France, has topped EUR500m in assets, Gert-Jan Kapitean, manager of the fund, has told Newsmanagers. With transaction projects in progress, the fund may reach EUR600m during summer. “We have an intermediate asset objective of about EUR1bn, due to stronger interest from consultants in strategies which reach this level,” Kapitean says. This objective does not seem far off, to the extent that the outlooks for the European real estate market are positive from Kapitean’s viewpoint. After growth of 27% in 2014, investment volume in the European market may rise by another 20% this year. In this context, the fund has many transactions in the pipeline. Afrer a shopping centre in Finland, an investment of over EUR42m, the fund is at work on an investment in Belgium for a total of about EUR64m. The fund, currently present in all of the major markets of continental Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland), is now taking an interest in the Spanish market.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Primonial REIM has announced the appointment of Nicolas Leonnard to the position of director of asset management. Leonnard will be responsible for all real estate assets, valued at about EUR5bn, and will oversee the teams responsible for office, commercial, educational and healthcare properties. He will define plans for trading of properties, and will oversee these. He previously served for seven years in the position of Head of Asset Management Retail at AEW Europe. Before that, he served four four years as an asset manager for shopping centres and as chief investment officer at Unibail-Rodamco. He was previously an aset manager for offices and commercial properites at AXA REIM.
In the next two to three years, the integration of the Swiss activities of the private bank Coutts International into Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) may result in about 260 layoffs, according to the specialist website finews. In other words, two out of every three Coutts employees in Switzerland stand to lose their jobs.This staff reduction would take place in two phases. In a first phase, between 60 and 110 jobs would be cut, from October, depending on the assets which are transferred from Coutts to UBP. In a second phase, 100 to 150 people would lose their jobs by the end of 2017, due to liquidation of a part of the assets at Coutts.Employees at Coutts who would ultimately be selected would be distributed over 20 different divisions, UBP heads responsible for Coutts personnel based in Zurich and Geneva announced on 25 June.Outside Switzerland, Coutts personnel in Asia, the Middle East and Monaco, totalling about 450 people, will potentially be affected by the integration process at a later date. On these markets, it appears, there is far less redundancy.p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Swedbank Robur is launching four new equity tracker funds in Sweden, realtid.se reports. The funds will be focused on Europe, Sweden, Asia and the United States, respectively. Access Europa and Access Sverige will be launched on 10 September, and the others on 24 September.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } More than half of asset management firms are not convinced tha the performance figures they publish are truly accurate, a SimCorp survey performance at a webinar of 88 professionals representing USD22.500trn in assets. 80% of managers surveyed confirm that they do not receive performance figures based on intra-day calculations. In addition, only 59% are able to get an overall view of the operations, prices, currency rates and rankings which feed into the performance figures for each portfolio.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } The three European supervisory authorities (ESMA, EBA, EIOPA) have published a consultation document concerning the contents of key investor information documents (KIID), specified in the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIP) legislation which will come into effect from 31 December 2016. The consultation initiated by the joint committee of the European supervisory authorities, comes as part of the preparation process for measures to implement the regulation. The measures will take the form of technical standards, which will be subject to an additional consultation in November 2015, and which will be submitted for approval to the European Commission in March 2016, the French Autorité des marchés financiers says on its website. The consultation document primarily covers the risk indicator used to characterise the products concerned, their potential returns and the costs paid by investors. The AMF states that with ACPR it has formed “a market group nationwide to inform participants of the progress of work and to assist them to develop a common position. This group unites representatives of the industry and retail investors, covering the full perimeter of products concerned. Participants are invited to send their responses to the Joint Committee before 17 August 2015, via the forms available on the websites of all three European authorities.”The changes will affect derivative products, structured products, structured savings and life insurance policies. Investment funds subject to the requirement to produce a KIID under the OPCVM directive will receive an exemption to PRIIP regulations for a period of five years, afer which they may be brought into line with and subjected to the European regime, the AMF states.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Monte Paschi di Sienna (MPS) has signed a final agreement to acquire the 10.3% stake held by Poste Italiane in the asset management firm Anima Holding, Bluerating reports. The operation will take place by 30 June.
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Deutsche Oppenheim Family Office has lost two members from its board, Markus Küppers and Andreas Pichler, according to the German press. The departures follow a very turbulent annual general shareholders’ meeting, in which the majority of shareholders contested the management team. Deutsche Oppenheim Family Office has declined to comment on the changes. Deutsche Oppenheim Family is controlled by DB Capital Markets, an affiliate of the Deutsche Bank group.
L’agence d'évaluation de responsabilité sociale et environnementale Vigeo vient de publier une étude portant sur les sanctions financières des entreprises liées à un facteur minimum de responsabilité sociale. L’enquête a notamment établi qu’en 2012 et 2013, une entreprise sur cinq - 19,2 % - (*) a fait l’object d’une sanction financière pour un montant global de 95,5 milliards d’euros sous forme de condamnations judiciaires, de sanctions administratives ou transactionnelle avec les autorités de régulation. Dans le détail, l'étude de Vigeo met en évidence une judiciarisation de la responsabilité sociale très contrastée selon les régions, les secteurs et les domaines. Ainsi, 1/3 environ des entreprises nord-américaines ont été sanctionnées dans la période sous revue, contre 1/5ème par les européennes et à peine 1/10ème des entreprises de la zone Asie-Pacifique. Enfin 8% des entreprises des pays émergents ont fait l’objet de sanctions. Par ailleurs, 15 secteurs sont particulièrement exposés aux poursuites légales, dont notamment la distribution d’eau et la gestion des déchets (50%), l’industrie de l’automobile (43%), l’alimentation (23%), l’industrie pharmaceutique (34%), les banques (21%). En termes de fréquence, les 15 entreprises les plus fréquemment sanctionnées appartiennent aux secteurs de la Pharmacie et des Biotechnologies, des Banques et de l’Energie, précise Vigeo.Enfin, les sujets les plus à risque en termes de sanctions relèvent des Comportements sur les Marchés (55% des poursuites) notamment la rétention ou la défaillance de l’information aux clients, l’implication dans des affaires de corruption, les ententes sur les prix ou les partages de marché. Les montants des sanctions financières collectives les plus lourdes se situent entre 5 et 25 milliards de dollars.(*) Chiffres obtenus à partir de l’observation de plus de 2500 entreprises cotées dans le monde,
Plus de la moitié des sociétés de gestion ne sont pas convaincues que les chiffres de performance qu’elles publient sont vraiment précis, montre un sondage de SimCorp réalisé au cours d’un webinar auprès de 88 professionnels représentant 22.500 milliards de dollars. 80 % des 88 gérants interrogés confirment qu’ils ne reçoivent pas des chiffres de performance basés sur des calculs de positions intra-day. De plus, seulement 59 % sont capables d’avoir une vue d’ensemble des opérations, des cours, des taux de change et des classements qui alimentent les chiffres de performance de chaque portefeuille.
Deutsche Oppenheim Family Office vient de perdre deux des membres de son directoire, Markus Küppers et Andreas Pichler, selon la presse allemande. Ces départs font suite à une assemblée générale annuelle très mouvementée, durant laquelle la majorité des actionnaires a contesté l'équipe dirigeante. Deutsche Oppenheim Family Office s’est refusé à tout commentaire sur ces mouvements. Deutsche Oppenheim Family est contrôlé par DB Capital Markets, une filiale du groupe Deutsche Bank.