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29/05/2013

Last Spanish hedge fund from BBVA & Partners liquidated

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The BBVA & Partners Retorno Absolut, the last Spanish-registered hedge fund from BBVA & Partners, has been absorbed by the Quality Valor fund from BBVA Asset Management. The fund had EUR5m in assets as of the end of December, Funds People reports.There are now only three surviving funds inherited from BBVA & Partners: they are a part of the Luxembourg Sicav from BBVA AM, Durbana International. These products are Augustus Equity, an equity fund, as well as the Dynamic and European Absolute Return funds, two hedge funds. Overall, these three funds have EUR65m in assets.BBVA AM bought the remaining 30% stake which it does not control n BBVA & Partners (founded in 2002) in late June 2011.
29/05/2013

Aberdeen tops 5% in Romania's BRD

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to the Bucharest stock exchange, Aberdeen Asset Management has recently become the second-largest shareholder by size in the BRD banking group, following its recent acquisition of the US firm Artio, which had held 2.6% in capital of the bank. The Scottish asset management firm now controls 5.43% of the Romanian business, which represents about EUR70m at current share prices. The largest shareholder in BRD is the French firm Société Générale, with 60%.The share price of BRD has fallen 70% from its peak in 2008, and the bank in 2012 saw its first loss (of EUR74m) since its privatisation, but Romania Insider reports that William Scholes, assistant investment manager at Aberdeen, feels that BRD is a well-managed bank with a quality network and an attractive valuation.
29/05/2013

Inflows to Italian funds continue

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Open-ended funds on sale in Italy in April recorded net inflows of EUR5.4bn, the same level as in March, the Italian asset management association Assogestioni reports. Since the beginning of the year, they have earned a total of EUR19.3bn. Inflows in April were driven by bond funds (EUR3bn) and flexible funds (EUR2.8bn). Balanced funds also attracted EUR985m. However, the other categories of funds show gains. Equity funds have seen outflows of EUR68m. Since the beginning of the year, bond and flexible funds have also boosted equities. As of the end of April, assets in funds totalled EUR516.9bn. With the addition of closed funds and mandated management, the asset management industry in Italy has posted net subscriptions of EUR6.9bn in April, and EUR27.1bn in the first four months of the year. Total assets are EUR1.256trn.
29/05/2013

Inflows to Italian funds continue

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Open-ended funds on sale in Italy in April posted net subscriptionns of EUR5.4bn, the same level as in March, the Italian asset management association Assogestioni reports. Since the beginning of the year, they have earned a total of EUR19.3bn. Inflows in April were driven by bond funds (EUR3bn) and flexible funds (EUR2.8bn). Diversified funds also attracted EUR985m. However, the other categories of funds show gains. Equity funds have seen outflows of EUR68m. Since the beginning of the year, bond and flexible funds have also boosted equities. As of the end of April, assets in funds totalled EUR516.9bn. With the addition of closed funds and mandated management, the asset management sector has posted net subscriptions of EUR6.9bn in April, and EUR27.1bn in the first four months of the year. Total assets are EUR1.256trn.
29/05/2013

Strong inflows for Franklin Templeton in Italy

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In April, Franklin Templeton recorded net inflows in Italy of EUR1.056bn, putting it in the top 3 asset management firms for inflows last month, after Generali and Intesa, which had a home field advantage, according to figures from Assogestioni, the Italian association of asset managers. The US asset management firm had already stood out in previous months, with inflows of EUR1.041bn in March, EUR786.3m in February, and EUR720.9m in January. As of the end of March, Franklin Temlpeton had EUR27.4bn in assets under management in Italy, according to the most recent available statistics. The asset management firm has also recently opened three offices in Italy, in Rome, Florence, and Padua. These local offices come in addition to the one in Milan.
29/05/2013

ADIA earned returns of 7.6% in 2012

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Abu Dhabi sovereign fund, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), last year earned annualised returns of 7.6% over the past 20 years, compared with 6.(% for 2011, according to figures released in the annual report. According to estimates, assets under management by the sovereign fund total about USD625bn to USD630bn. The annual report by the sovereign fund states that 75% of assets were managed by external managers last year, compared with 80% in 2011.
29/05/2013

Morgan Stanley plans large RE fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds is planning to raise USD1bn to USD3bn for a new global real estate fund, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. The directors of the affiliate of the bank have entered negotiations with pension funds and other prospects. They are hoping especially that China Investment Corp, the Chinese sovereign wealth fund which controls 6.4% of Morgan Stanley, will be a key investor.
29/05/2013

Amaïka AM takes over management of Résilience fund from Invesco AM

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Amaïka Asset Management, an asset management firm founded in 2011 by David Kalfon and Christophe Berger, two former employees of EFG Asset Management, has announced that it has taken over management of the Résilience diversified fund (ISIN code: FR0011101914). The fund, launched in November 2011 at the initiative of the investment advising firm Fundesys, has assets of EUR5m, and had previously been managed by Invesco AM. The French-registered OPCVM fund complies with UCITS IV standards, and is exposed in a discretionary manner to equity, bond, commodity and money markets, via a selection of funds. Investments are made without geographical or sectoral constraint. Exposure to equity markets will remain between 20% and 80% of assets in the portfolio. In practice, management of the fund is also based on the recommendations of Fundesys.
29/05/2013

Oddo AM declares ambitions in Belgium and Luxembourg

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Oddo Asset Management is scaling up its presence in Belgium and Luxembourg, opening four sub-funds of its Luxembourg Sicav, Oddo Funds, based on asset classes with strong potential and for which the firm has recognised expertise, for sale there. high yield bonds, via the sub-fund: Oddo Bonds High Yield Europe European midcap equities, via the feeder funds: Oddo Equity Europe Avenir (master fund: Oddo Avenir Europe) Oddo Equity Euro Avenir (master fund: Oddo Avenir Euro) Convertible funds, via the feeder fund: Oddo Convertible Bonds Euro (master fund: Oddo Convertibles Taux) Shares in euros as well as in US dollars (USD) and Swiss francs (CHF) have been created. Shares in USD and CHF are hedged for currency risks against the euro. Laurent Zouari, who has been a salesperson since 2012 in the international team led by Bertrand Levavasseur, has been appointed as country manager for Belgium and Luxembourg.
29/05/2013

Schroders: German investors vote Merkel

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In total, 87% of 1000 Germans who have at least EUR10,000 in investments who participated in the Schroders Global Investment Trends 2013 survey are planning to make investments this year equal to or higher than those in 2012, and 66% feel that Angela Merkel will be re-elected as chancellor after legislative elections in late September. Among these, 66% feel that the re-election will be positive for the Dax and Euro Stoxx 50.Only 17% of Germans surveyed feel that the SPD candidate, Peer Steinbrück, will be elected chancellor, and only 7% think that if he is elected, it will have a positive impact on the Dax and Euro Stoxx 50.The survey also finds that 76% of German investors are planning to take positions this year on equities, which may be a surprising percentage, since Germans are thought to be reticent about equities, and a higher percentage of them than the global average (68%) are preferring this asset class.However, confidence does not rule out caution: 52% of Germans are betting on lower-risk investments, although they are less profitable, while 33% prefer a moderate risk, and less than 16% are prepared to run higher risk in order to achieve higher returns.
29/05/2013

Sal. Oppenheim to lay off 330 out of 870

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The German-Luxembourg private bank Sal. Oppenheim, an affiliate of Deutsche Bank since first quarter 2010, on 28 May announced up to 330 job cuts by the end of 2014, in order to improve its profitability and in order to concentrat on wealth management activities.The management and the business committee have reached an agreement concerning the deployment of a restructuring which will remove some redundant positions at Sal. Oppenheim and Deutsche Bank, the bank says in a statement. The layoffs will primarily affect the IT and order processing departments, the statement says.Sal. Oppenheim hopes to reduce its cost base. “These measures are necessary to allow us to ensure the long-term profitability of our asset management firm in the area of wealth management,” says Wolfgang Leoni, head of the bank, in a statement.The bank, which has a total of 870 employees, about 700 of them in Germany, is planning to concentrate on wealth management for private clients and seelcted institutional clients, and has also announced a regional reorganisation of its activities.
29/05/2013

Investor confidence index up in May

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The State Street investor confidence index for May 2013 rose 1.8 points to 94.8 from April’s revised reading of 93.0.“The primary driver behind this gain was a shift in risk appetite among European institutions with the European ICI rising 5.6 points to 93.3 from the revised April reading of 87.7,” State Street notes.Confidence also increased slightly among Asian institutions with the Asian ICI index ticking up to 86.0 from April’s reading of 85.2. However, after April’s sizable increase, confidence among North American investors consolidated somewhat, and the North America ICI declined by 2.2 points to finish at 102.5 for the month.“Institutional investors continued to augment their allocations to risky assets this month, albeit at a slower pace than we observed in either the first quarter, or the last weeks of April,” State Street concludes, noting that institutional investors have allocated more towards emerging markets since the middle of April.
29/05/2013

Towers Watson to go into fund of hedge funds business

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Towers Watson is planning to enter the fund of hedge funds business, a sector which it has been critical of in the past, Financial News reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter. The consultant will target small institutional investors for whom direct investment in hedge funds may be difficult.
29/05/2013

Santander makes planned sale of AM operation official

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In a filing with the CNMV on 27 May, Santander announced that,» in connection with news that has recently appeared in the press», it is considering the possibility of allowing investors to acquire a stake in its asset management division.The Spanish group states that no final agreement of this nature has been reached with third-party investors. Santander states that it will notify the market at an appropriate time once an agreement has been reached.According to Expansión, an agreement is already said to have been reached with Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic, whose stake in Santander Asset Management would be “significant, but less than 50%.”In Spain, Santander had EUR22.08bn in assets under management in investment funds as of the end of April.
29/05/2013

Biljana Persson leaves East Capital for Kungsleden

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Biljana Pehrsson has been appointed as CEO of Kungsleden, a Swedish realty firm, Realtid.se reports. She had previously worked at East Capital, where she had been head of real estate and vice-CEO of East Capital Private Equity.
29/05/2013

IndexIQ adds to sales team

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Mutual Fund Wire reports that the ETF specialist firm IndexIQ has recruited for its sales team, for both internal and external positions. The internal positions will be based in New York, while the external posts will be in other regions of the United States.
29/05/2013

BlackRock recruits former head of sales from UBS

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BlackRock has recruited Daniel Whitestone as an addition to its team dedicated to British small and midcaps, Investment Week reports.Whitestone, who had previously worked at UBS as head of sales for British small and midcaps, will in initially be assigned to a position as an analyst for the BlackRock UK Emerging Companies hedge fund, whose assets under management total about GBP900m.
29/05/2013

L'OCDE revoit la croissance mondiale à la baisse en 2013

L’OCDE n’anticipe plus dans ses perspectives de printemps qu’une hausse du produit intérieur brut (PIB) global de 3,1% en 2013 et de 4% en 2014, soit respectivement 0,3 et 0,2 point de moins que dans ses prévisions de l’automne dernier. Toutefois, les Etats-Unis mèneraient la reprise des autres économies avancées avec un PIB en hausse de 1,9% cette année puis, en 2014, de 2,8%, le chiffre le plus élevé depuis 2005. L’organisation n’escompte plus qu’une hausse de 7,8% en 2013 du PIB chinois contre 8,5%. La zone euro connaîtrait en 2013 une contraction de son économie revue à 0,6% contre 0,1% précédemment, avant de renouer avec une croissance de 1,1% l’an prochain. L’OCDE se dit préoccupée par le risque de voir les Européens tentés de baisser la garde après des années d’austérité alors qu’ils ne sont pas encore tirés d’affaires. A noter que l'économie française connaîtra une légère récession en 2013 et ne devrait se redresser que lentement en 2014, avec pour conséquence un taux de chômage qui progresserait à 10,7% cette année puis de 11,1% en moyenne en 2014, avec un pic à 11,5% à la fin de l’an prochain. Le taux d’inflation demeurerait autour de 1% en 2014.
Devant le siège de l'OCDE. Photo: PHB
29/05/2013

TTF : Bercy veut aller «vite et fort»

Lors de la séance des questions au gouvernement, le ministre de l’Economie Pierre Moscovici a fait part de la volonté de l’exécutif d’aller «vite et fort» dans la mise en place d’une taxe sur les transactions financières. Un projet soutenu par onze pays européens. Cette taxe devrait dégager des recettes comprises entre 30 et 35 milliards d’euros par an, d’après la Commission européenne.
29/05/2013

Tikehau pourrait investir dans Duke Street

Selon Bloomberg, la société de capital investissement britannique pourrait céder une part de 35% de son capital à Tikehau Group. Le montant de l’opération pourrait atteindre 30 millions d’euros. Duke Street espère lancer un nouveau fonds cette année et utilisera le produit de la cession à cette fin après avoir renoncé à un fonds de 850 millions de dollars en février 2012.
29/05/2013

Washington s’attaque à une devise digitale

La justice américaine accuse Liberty Reserve, un système de paiement en ligne recourant à une monnaie virtuelle, d’avoir organisé un vaste réseau de blanchiment. Les fonds incriminés s’élèveraient à 6 milliards de dollars. Le ministère public qui a procédé à l’arrestation de cinq individus, dont le fondateur Arthur Budovsky, évoque une «banque de choix pour la pègre».
29/05/2013

Hausse de la confiance du consommateur américain

L’enquête mensuelle du Conference Board montre un indice de confiance du consommateur américain à 76,2 en mai contre 69 en avril, dépassant les prévisions des économistes. L’indicateur remonte ainsi à son plus haut niveau depuis février 2008 malgré un contexte défavorable de restrictions budgétaires.
29/05/2013

Hausse des émissions d’obligations en yuan

Moody’s indique que les émissions d’obligations libellées en yuan sur le marché offshore (dim sum) ont été tirées à la hausse par le marché immobilier au mois de mai pour atteindre un milliard de dollars. «La hausse des émissions en renminbi a été en partie due à une forte demande provoquée par des anticipations d’appréciation du renminbi», explique Franco Leung, analyste chez Moody’s.
29/05/2013

Bruxelles réclame davantage à Google

La Commission européenne va certainement demander de nouvelles concessions à Google, malgré les propositions du géant américain pour régler à l’amiable une série de contentieux, a indiqué Joaquin Almunia, commissaire à la Concurrence. La CE prendra sa décision après avoir examiné les réactions de la dizaine d’entreprises plaignantes, parmi lesquelles figure Microsoft.
29/05/2013

FNF développe ses services de crédit hypothécaire

Fidelity National Financial a soumis une offre d’achat de Lender Processing Services (LPS) pour environ 2,9 milliards de dollars en numéraire et en titres. Le groupe entend fusionner LPS avec son activité Service Link puis céder une part de 19% de l’entité combinée à Thomas H. Lee Partners pour 381 millions de dollars.
29/05/2013

Le FMI réduit les prévisions de croissance en Chine

David Lipton, premier directeur adjoint du FMI, a indiqué hier qu’il s’attendait à une croissance de l’économie chinoise de 7,75% en 2013 et 2014. En avril dernier, le Fonds prévoyait 8% de croissance en Chine cette année et 8,2% l’année prochaine.
29/05/2013

Sal. Oppenheim taille dans ses effectifs

La filiale de gestion de fortune de Deutsche Bank va licencier plus d’un tiers de ses salariés pour s’adapter à l'évolution du marché, soit jusqu’à 330 postes sur un total de 870 d’ici la fin de 2014. Sal. Oppenheim avait déjà engagé en octobre un plan de réduction de ses coûts et de réorganisation de ses activités prévoyant un partage accru d’infrastructures et de ressources avec sa maison mère.
29/05/2013

Morgan Stanley prépare un grand fonds immobilier

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, la filiale d’investissements immobiliers de la banque américaine, prévoit de lever entre 1 et 3 milliards de dollars pour son nouveau fonds immobilier mondial, indique le journal citant des sources proches. Les dirigeants de Morgan Stanley auraient ainsi entamé des discussions avec des investisseurs potentiels, tels que des fonds de retraite, et espèrent même que le fonds souverain China Investment Corp (CIC) devienne un investisseur de référence de ce fonds. D’ailleurs, CIC détient une participation de 6,4% dans Morgan Stanley. Les fonds de retraite se montraient néanmoins réticents à ce type de fonds.
29/05/2013

VTB séduit le fonds souverain norvégien

Norges Bank Investment Management, le fonds souverain norvégien, est désormais selon le quotidien le deuxième actionnaire au capital de VTB derrière l’Etat russe. A l’occasion de la cession de titres par ce dernier (de 75 à 61% du capital), le fonds norvégien a acquis une part de 3,74% pour 700 millions de dollars. Des fonds souverains du Qatar et d’Azerbaïdjan ont consacré chacun 500 millions à l’opération.
29/05/2013

Bruxelles lâche du lest sur l’austérité

Dans son rapport budgétaire sur les 27 pays membres de l’Union qui sera publié aujourd’hui, la Commission européenne prévoit d’accorder des concessions sur l’objectif de réduction des déficits budgétaires à 3% pour la France, l’Espagne, les Pays-Bas et l’Italie, selon le journal. Une concession qui serait néanmoins conditionnée à une réforme en profondeur du marché du travail.

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