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22/04/2013

TPG met en vente un actif chinois

Reuters croit savoir que la société américaine de private equity a mandaté Morgan Stanley et UBS pour la vente d’UniTrust Finance & Leasing. TPG espère 800 millions de dollars de la cession de cette société spécialisée dans le financement d’équipement pour les petites et moyennes entreprises notamment dans la construction ou le médical.
22/04/2013

Les remboursements de LTRO s'accélèrent

Les banques de la zone euro préfèrent rembourser la BCE plutôt que d’utiliser les liquidités prêtées. Près de 27% des montants empruntés auprès de l’institution dans le cadre de ses deux opérations de LTRO à 3 ans ont été remboursés. Les banques de la périphérie alimentent le mouvement.
22/04/2013

La Banque Postale arrête l'incubation

Amlab, l’incubateur de jeunes sociétés de gestion, va disparaître. Ses parts dans Mandarine Gestion et Delta AM seront reprises en direct par LBP AM, qui entend les conserver. Le groupe semble prêt en revanche à céder ses 33% dans Thiriet Gestion, une ligne purement financière.
22/04/2013

Vague de privatisations en vue à Londres

Le quotidien cite Mark Russell, le nouveau patron de Shareholder Executive, agence en charge de la gestion active des parts du gouvernement britannique dans des entreprises, selon lequel la moitié de son portefeuille de 21 sociétés pourrait être concernée par une privatisation partielle ou totale dans un délai de 5 à 8 ans. Une annonce concernant Urenco pourrait intervenir dès cette semaine selon le dirigeant.
22/04/2013
Gestion d'actifs

La France Mutualiste détient majoritairement de l'immobilier résidentiel dans Paris

Anne Mazzanti dans un article publié dans Option Finance numéro 1212 : L’immobilier, qui représente près de 16% de nos encours, est géré majoritairement en interne par une équipe de 23 personnes. Il constitue un élément important de notre patrimoine. Compte tenu de nos engagements à long terme, la mutuelle a en effet très tôt fait le choix d’investir en immobilier. Nous faisons partie des investisseurs institutionnels détenteurs d’une des plus fortes allocations en immobilier résidentiel dans Paris, certains immeubles bénéficiant d’une situation géographique privilégiée dans le centre de la capitale (7ème, 15ème, 17ème). Valorisé aujourd’hui à 1.2 milliard d’euros, notre parc immobilier comprend 3 300 lots pour une surface de 183 000m². La part de bureaux y représente 12% en valeur, contre 88% pour l’habitation résidentielle. Le montant des loyers atteint chaque année environ 50 millions d’euros. Notre exposition actuelle en immobilier devrait rester stable. Le pars immobilier est entretenu directement par la direction et le montant des travaux s'élève chaque année autour de 20 millions d’euros.
Gestion d'actifs
19/04/2013

Bénéfice record pour DVAG en 2012

Le réseau de conseillers financiers Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG (DVAG), qui compte 37.000 collaborateurs à temps plein ou à temps partiel, a affiché pour l’an dernier un bénéfice net record de 184,8 millions d’euros, soit 8,1 % que l’année précédente sur un chiffre d’affaires en augmentation de 6,7 % à 1.185,8 millions d’euros.Dans le domaine des fonds d’investissement, DVAG a intermédié des souscriptions nettes de 1,9 milliard d’euros en 2012, dont 1,7 milliard au profit du partenaire DWS Investment (groupe Deutsche Bank). Cela porte l’encours total intermédié par DVAG à 16 milliards d’euros, soit une hausse de 8,1 % en un an.
19/04/2013

Hausse d’encours pour M.M. Warburg

A fin décembre, les actifs gérés par le groupe hambourgeois de banque privée M.M. Warburg &Co ressortaient à 44,4 milliards d’euros, soit une hausse d’environ 16 % sur les 38,1 milliards de fin 2011.Le bénéfice avant impôt du groupe a diminué pour sa part à 39,8 millions d’euros contre 43,6 millions pour l’année précédente.
19/04/2013

Eastspring Investments creates an entity in Luxembourg

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Eastspring Investments, the asset management unit of Prudential Corporation Asia, will create a Luxembourg entity in order to distribute its funds in Europe, according to Funds Europe. The Luxembourg regulator, the financial sector surveillance commission (CSSF), has issued a license for Eastspring Investments (Luxembourg). Henk Ruitenberg, former CEO of Eastspring Investments in Vietnam, has been transferred to Luxembourg as executive board member.
19/04/2013

UK asset management firms on the offensive

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The British Investment Management Association (IMA) has decided to create a centre to help foreign asset management firms which would like to set up shop in London, rather than Dublin or Luxembourg, Investment Week reports. The professional association is responding to an initiative by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to improve the attractiveness of the United Kingdom to asset management firms. Among the measures taken are the discontinuation of a tax of funds, which is often cited as slowing the inflow of foreign firms to the UK. The director general of the IMA, Daniel Godfrey, has said that a working group would study the priority measures that may be passed within the next few weeks to capture billions of pounds in assets in UCITS funds domiciled in Ireland, but mostly sold to British investors, within the next few weeks.
19/04/2013

IOSCO consults on regulations of retail structured products

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published on April 18 a consultation report on Regulation of Retail Structured Products, which analyses trends in the retail structured product market, and proposes a regulatory toolkit for IOSCO members. The retail structured products work responds to concern among IOSCO members about the regulatory challenges these products pose, particularly in the area of investor protection. The toolkit deals with various issues related to these products, including structuring and post-sale practices, as well as disclosure and marketing issues. The closing date for comments is Thursday 13 June 2013.
19/04/2013

Assets up at M.M. Warburg

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As of the end of December, assets under management by the Hamburg-based private banking group M.M Warburg & Co. totalled EUR44.4bn, an increase of about 16% over EUR38.1bn as of the end of 2011.Pre-tax profits for the group, for their part, fell to USD39.8m from USD43.6m the previous year.
19/04/2013

Record profits for DVAG in 2012

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); }P.western { font-family: «Times New Roman»,serif; font-size: 12pt; }P.cjk { font-family: «WenQuanYi Micro Hei"; font-size: 12pt; }P.ctl { font-family: «Lohit Hindi"; font-size: 12pt; } The financial advising network Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG (DVAG), which has 37,000 full- or part-time employees, has posted record net profits for last year of EUR184.8m, 8.1% more than the previous year, on revenues up 6.7% to EUR1.1858bn.In the area of investment funds, DVAG intermediated net subscriptions totalling EUR1.9bn in 2012, of which EUR1.7bn benefited its premium partner, DWS Investment (Deutsche Bank group). This brings total assets intermediated by DVAG to EUR16bn, an increase of 8.1% year on year.
19/04/2013

RDR “costs” two additional hours

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to a survey by Fundweb, the introduction of the new RDR legislation has extended the time required to process orders by advisers by two hours. The RDR imposes a back-check of information, and product providers are not all interpreting the new laws in the same way, which means that advisers have to work differently with each of them. Such is the opinion of Carl Lamb, managing director of Almary Green, Tom Kean, director of Thameside Wealth, and Gordon Crothers, managing director of Attain Wealth Management.
19/04/2013

Hedge funds in March: dedicated short bias continues to show losses

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Of the 13 strategies regularly monitored by the Edhec-Risk Institute, only dedicated short bias posted losses in March (-1.90%) and for first quarter (-6.7%). It was also the only strategy to post an average annual loss since January 2011 (-1.3%), and its Sharpe ratio is negative (-0.39). The Sharpe ratio for funds of funds is also negative (-0.04).The best returns in March were for distressed securities, with 1.68%, and a gain of 4.4% for first quarter as a whole, the only category with a Sharpe ratio of over 1 (1.07). However, the best returns for first quarter were for long/short equity, with 5.1%.
19/04/2013

Two new EMD funds from BlackRock

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As announced by Newsmanagers on 15 April, BlackRock on 18 April announced the launch of emerging market bond sub-funds of its Luxembourg Sicav Barclays Global Funds, or BGF, the PGF Emerging Market Corporate Bond and BGF Emerging Market Investment-Grade Bond, which come as additions to a range that already includes the BGF Emerging Markets Bond and BGF Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond funds. The products are aimed at European investors.BlackRock in 2012 created a team of seven managers dedicated to emerging market debt, led by Sergio Trigo-Paz, who is co-manager of the two new funds, the first with Chris Kelly and Jane Yu, and the second with Kelly and Raphael Marechal. Before joining BlackRock in 2012, Trigo Paz had been chief investment officer for the management of emerging market bonds at FFTW, a partner firm at BNP Paribas Investment Managers, while Kelly, Marechal and Yu had been maangers in the emerging market debt team at FFTW.CharacteristicsName: BGF Emerging Markets Corporate Bond FundISIN code: LU0843229971 (A share class)Minimum investment: USD5,000 (or equivalent)Annual management fees: 1.5%Front-end fees: 5%Name: BGF Emerging Markets Investment Grade BondISIN: LU0843234039 (A share class)Minimum investment: USD5,000 (or equivalent)Annual management fees: 1.25%Front-end fee: 5%
19/04/2013

Daniel Truchi opens a multi-family office in Geneva

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); }P.western { font-family: «Times New Roman»,serif; font-size: 12pt; }P.cjk { font-family: «WenQuanYi Micro Hei"; font-size: 12pt; }P.ctl { font-family: «Lohit Hindi"; font-size: 12pt; } Daniel Truchi, who was active for more than 20 years in Asia, before heading global private management at Société Générale, based in Paris, is opening a multi-family office in Geneva, Agefi Switzerland reports. Truchi explains to the newspaper that he prefers Geneva to Singapore “for the expertise of the people, the unrivalled sophistication of systems in Switzerland, and the culture of private banking, which inspire true confidence in the future of the financial centre.” Truchi, originally from Bordeaux, who will primarily serve Asian and European high net worth clients, admits that he could have gone “back to basis in private management” in Singapore, but “it is more difficult to be an independent manager there than in Switzerland,” he says. In Singapore, “regulations have become rigid, and the creation of an asset management firm is more restrictive in terms of licenses and organisation.”
19/04/2013

US asset management boutique launches funds in Europe

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US asset management firm Polen Capital is opening its flagship fund US Growth to European investors, Citywire Global can reveal. The US version of the fund has been in existence since 1989. It invests in large businesses with solid balance sheets and sustainable returns on invested capital. The European fund, based in Dublin, will be co-managed by Dan Davidowitz and the manager, Damon Ficklin, who have been working together since 2005.

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