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18/02/2013

Jean-Luc Enguéhard steps down as chairman of board at La Banque Postale AM

The wheels are turning at La Banque Postale AM. Jean-Luc Enguéhard will be leaving his position as chairman of the board at La Banque Postale AM, and will become an adviser to Philippe Wahl, chairman of the board at La Banque Postale, the firm announced on 15 February. At the same time, he will become chairman of the supervisory board at La Banque Postale Asset Management (LBPAM).He will be replaced in his position as chairman of the board of LBPAM by Chantal Lory, who becomes a member of the executive board at La Banque Postale.Enguéhard was appointed as chairman of the board at Sogéposte in 1999, which became La Banque Postale Asset Management in 2006. He has been a member of the AMF college since June 2011, and he will retain this position as well as his seats as a member of the strategic committee of the French financial management association (AFG) and the representative of corporate members of LBPAM to EFAMA.Lory, for her part, joined La Banque Postale Financement in March 2009, and was chairman of the board.
18/02/2013

Old Mutual plans partial IPO of its US asset management firm

Old Mutual is planning a partial IPO for its US asset management firm, Financial Times Fund Management report. “We are exploring a partial IPO and are not planning to give up control,” says Patrick Bowes, head of communications at Old Mutual.
18/02/2013

LOIM merges global and emerging market FI teams

The global and emerging market bond teams at the Geneva-based Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) will now be merged, and will be led solely by Gregor MacIntosh. The move comes with the aim of gaining access to larger sources of revenues, and reducing correlations in risk-taking, in order to generate more outperformance, LOIM says.As of 31 December, bond assets at LOIM totalled CHF13.5bn, of which about CHF750m are emerging market debt. Of this CHF13.5bn total, 15% to 20% is invested in credit, and of the CHF750m in emerging market ddebt, about CHF650m are in local currencies, while the remainder is in strong currencies.Meanwhile, LOIM also announces that it has recruited Salman Ahmed as a market strategist. Ahmed has nine years of experience as an investment professionals, most recently as head of global macro at EDF Trading. He had previously been a global economist at Goldman Sachs International.Total assets at Lombard Odier Investment Managers as of the end of December were CHF38bn.
18/02/2013

Credit Suisse sells its stake in an infrastructure fund

The Credit Suisse group has sold its stake in the Global Infrastructure Partners infrastructure fund to Lexington Partners, the Bloomberg news agency reports, citing well-informed sources. The transaction would be completed by the end of March. The assets of the Swiss bank in the fund are estimated at about USD590m. With the sale of these peripheral assets, Credit Suisse is planning to continue to strengthen its owners’ equity levels as part of its restructuring programme, and to meet Basel III requirements.
18/02/2013

Fundo becomes collective investment management firm

The institutional asset management firm Fundo has been granted a license by the Swiss federal financial market regulator, Finma, to operate as a manager of collective investments, Agefi Switzerland reports. Fundo, based in Lausanne and Zurich, is an institutional asset management firm, which positions itself as a manager of pension funds, in order to help them achieve major objectives, such as capital preservation and payment of benefits. By taking this step in its development, Fundo joins a close circle of 100 wealth management firms which are licensed for this activity in Switzerland.
18/02/2013

Appointment to AMF

The French financial market regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), on 15 February announced the appointment of Olivier Vigna as chief economist and director of the research, strategy and risk division of the office of the director of regulation and international affairs. Vigna, educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan and a graduate of IEP Paris, joined the Bank of France in 1996. He spent 5 years as a banking controller for the banking commission, and then 5 years as an economist and statistician in the balance of payments office. In 2005, he became a macroeconomist in the office of foreign economies, and then head of the conjunctural diagnostic department of the conjuncture and macroeconomic projections department in 2007, and then head of the market relationships and crisis management office of the financial stability department in 2010, and a member of the consulting commission of the AMF on individual and collective management activities.
18/02/2013

Heinz insider trading? SEC gets Swiss account frozen

On 15 February, the day after the announcement that Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital are acquiring H.J. Heinz Company for USD28bn, the SEC announced that it has obtained an order from a Manhattan court to freeze the assets in a trading account in Zurich which is suspected of having been used for trades which benefited from inside information about the operation, which may have made illegal profits of USD1.7m.The Wall Street Journal reports that the account was at GS Bank, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs, which is not involved in the deal.The case concerns the purchase of call options the day before Heinz shares gained 20%, and trading volumes on the share rose by more than 1,700%.
18/02/2013

Finra investigating dark pools

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) is currently exploiting the responses to requests for information which it sent in late 2012 to operators of dark pools, and that requests will be sent to other operators.The regulator wants to obtain additional information about the way in which these trading systems process orders from clients, and the contents of information provided to clients. It would also like to know if the affiliates of operators of dark pools have access to information about trades made by clients.
18/02/2013

Marco De Filippi leaves Azimut

Marco De Filippi has recently left Azimut, where he was head of sales for wealth management, to join Valeur, a Swiss wealth management firm, where he becomes network manager, Bluerating reports.
18/02/2013

JO Hambro preparing fund of non-US small caps

JO Hambro Capital Management is planning to launch a fund of international ex-US small cap equities, which will be managed by Robert Cresci, who has recently joined the firm from Harding Loevner, Investment Week reports. The fund, which will be launched later this year, will have 60 to 80 positions on selected, high quality international small cap equities from both developed and emerging countries.
18/02/2013

More than 100 funds were merged or liquidated last year

Last year in the UK, more than 100 open-ended funds were either merged or liquidated, as many asset management firm took the occasion of the introduction of RDR legislation on 1 January to rationalise their product ranges, Investment Week reports. The vast majority of funds which were merged or liquidated last year fell short of the average returns for funds in their respective sectors over one, three and five years. The average returns for 15 closed funds last year in the “Global” sector of the British Investment Management Association (IMA), for example, was 0.11% over three years, well below the average returns for the sector of 30.11% over the same period, according to Lipper data. Lipper statistics also reveal that some funds were liquidated at a time when they were bringing in sometimes exceptional returns over three years. The Majedie Asset UK Opportunities fund was closed in December last year due to a decline in assets under management below the GBP20m threshold. The fund had earned returns of over 83% over three years, compared with 42.07% for the IMA UK All Companies index of the sector.
18/02/2013

Basel Committee and IOSCO issue near-final proposal on margin requirement

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have on February 15 published a second consultative paper which represents a near-final proposal on margin requirements for non- centrally cleared derivatives. Several features of the near-final proposal are intended to manage the liquidity impact of the margin requirements on financial market participants. The proposed requirements would allow for the introduction of a universal initial margin threshold of EUR50 million. The results of a quantitative impact study (QIS) conducted in 2012 indicate that application of the threshold could reduce the total liquidity costs by 56% relative to a margining framework with a zero initial margin threshold, which was initially proposed in the July 2012 consultative paper on margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives. The proposal also envisages a gradual phase-in to provide market participants with sufficient time to adjust to the requirements. The requirement to collect and post initial margin on non-centrally cleared trades is proposed to be phased in over a four year period beginning 2015 and begin with the largest, most active and most systemically risky derivative market participants. Comments on these issues should be submitted by Friday 15 March 2013.
18/02/2013

Basel Commitee publishes recommendations on management of currency transactions

The Basel Committee on 15 February published its recommendations on the management of risks related to the settlement of currency transactions. This is an update of a document initially published in 2000. Since then, the market has developed considerably, and although significant progress has bee made to reduce the risks in currency transactions, an update was necessary. The document is particularly focused on issues related to governance in currency transactions, and varius risks inherent in the practice of currency transactions, such as liquidity risks, operational risks and legal risks.
18/02/2013

Brookfield Asset Management appoints head for Asia

Brookfield Asset Management has recruited Neil Thassim as director of private funds for Asia. He will be based in Hong Kong, Asian Investor reports. The asset management firm will in the next few months make a series of recruitments as additions to its local team. Thassim had previously been managing director at RREEF, where he was head of Asia-Pacific real estate business at the Deutsche Bank affiliate.
18/02/2013

Orix to pay Robeco EUR2.3bn

Funds People relays reports in Reuters that the Japanese firm Orix is to acquire the asset management firm Robeco (EUR188bn in assets) from Rabobank for EUR2.3bn in cash and equity, and that an announcement of the deal may come early this week.
18/02/2013

BBVA AM chief strategist goes solo

Henrik Lumbholdt, who for the past seven years had been chief strategist at BBVA Asset Management, has left the business and founded his own consulting firm, Inside Economics, Funds People reports.The departure of Lumbholdt conincides with a decision by BBVA AM to restructure its asset allocation and strategy division, which will be enlarged, and whose director has not yet been appointed. That person will take over duties previously held by Lumbholdt.
18/02/2013

Bankinter recruits head of sales for private banking

Gonzalo Antón Suanzes, founder of Altae Banco Privado (the private bank of Caja Madrid) and then deputy CEO and head of sales at Bankia Banca Privada, has been recruited as head of sales for the private banking division of Bankinter, Funds People reports.Suanzes will report directly to Adela Martín, CEO of the Bankinter private bank. He will work to make the private banking unit the third-largest player in the Spanish market, bringing in EUR5bn in three years, for a total of EUR20bn in assets.
18/02/2013

Baisse du ratio de créances douteuses espagnoles

Le taux de créances douteuses figurant dans les portefeuilles de prêts des banques espagnoles s’est élevé à 10,4% en décembre, un ratio en recul ainsi après le record de 11,4% du mois précédent, selon des données publiées lundi par la Banque d’Espagne. Ce taux est lié au transfert d’actifs toxiques vers la Sareb, la structure de défeasance espagnole. Le total des créances en situation d’arriérés atteignait 167,4 milliards d’euros en décembre.
18/02/2013

Le Sibor sur la sellette

La Banque centrale de Singapour et les banques concernées songent à signer l’acte de disparition du taux interbancaire local en dollar, le Sibor (Singapore interbank offered rate), sur fond de poursuites à travers le monde au sujet de soupçons de manipulation de tels taux.
18/02/2013

Goldman Sachs coopère avec la SEC sur Heinz

La banque collabore avec le gendarme boursier américain dans le cadre d’une enquête ouverte par ce dernier pour soupçons de délits d’initiés dans le cadre du rachat de Heinz par Berkshire Hathaway et 3G Capital. La SEC a porté plainte contre des courtiers ayant utilisé un compte en Suisse pour acheter des options Heinz avant l’annonce du projet de rachat. La SEC ne mentionne pas Goldman Sachs mais se réfère au compte en Suisse avec la mention «Compte GS».
18/02/2013

Hémorragie des encours chez SAC Capital

Les clients de SAC Capital Advisors auraient fait des démarches pour retirer 1,7 milliard de dollars sur les 6 milliards que gère la société du fait de l’érosion de leur confiance face à l’enquête qui la vise pour délit d’initié, selon le journal qui cite des sources proches. Malgré des rendements moyens de 30% affichés par la société, environ 660 millions d’encours pourraient ainsi être retirés dès le mois prochain.
18/02/2013

Londres tente d'aménager la réforme des salaires des banquiers

Dans le cadre des négociations européennes sur l’encadrement des salaires des banquiers, le Royaume-Uni devrait proposer un compromis avec ses partenaires qui inclut « le principe» d’une rémunération plafond, selon le journal qui cite un document gouvernemental de huit pages dont il se serait procuré une copie. Londres compte également faire pression pour obtenir le retrait de certaines propositions telle que celle d’un niveau de bonus qui ne pourrait pas excéder le montant du salaire fixe. Selon le rapport, cette mesure encouragerait la mise en place d’une politique «de salaires fixes plus importants» qui pénaliseraient la stabilité financière.
18/02/2013

L’heure du grand ménage a sonné chez Man Group

Le quotidien veut croire que l’arrivée effective d’Emmanuel Roman en remplacement de Peter Clarke à la direction générale du gestionnaire alternatif le 28 février, à l’occasion de la présentation des résultats annuels, sera l’occasion d’une refonte de la direction. Le nouveau patron va notamment étendre ses propres pouvoirs et ceux du comité exécutif.

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