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17/12/2012

Investors predict large return to euro zone

As the holidays near, investors have gained hopes of seeing the euro zone gradually recover from the crisis. In the week to 12 December, European bond and equity funds each took on more than a net USD1bn, according to estimates by EPFR Global. There has also been an increase in interest in China, as some predictions project growth of over 8% in 2013.Equity funds overall have posted net inflows of EUR8.9bn in the week to 12 December, more than half of which went to emerging market funds. Bond funds finished the week with net subscriptions totalling USD5.2bn, which brings inflows since the beginning of the year to over USD460bn. EPFR Global reports that Swedish bond funds attracted over USD1.5bn in net subscriptions in the past 12 weeks, a higher total than cumulative inflows in the past four years. Money market funds, for their part, have seen net outflows of USD3.5bn.
17/12/2012

Appointments to the board at BNY Mellon

BNY Mellon Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gerald L. Hassell today announced several executive appointments designed to accelerate the company’s success as the global leader in investment management and investment services.The following appointments will be effective Jan. 1, 2013:Karen B. Peetz will become President of BNY Mellon. Peetz is currently Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Financial Markets & Treasury Services. As President, Peetz will lead Global Client Management, Regional Management, Treasury Services and Human Resources.Timothy F. Keaney will be named Chief Executive Officer of Investment Services. He is currently Vice Chairman and Executive Officer of Aset ervicing, and will direct Asset Servicing, Corporate Trust, Depository Depositary Receipts, Global Markets, Global Collateral Services, Broker Dealer Services and Pershing. Brian T. Shea becomes President of Investment Services and head of the Global Operations and Technology group. He remains Chief Executive Officer of Pershing. Vice Chairman Curtis Y. Arledge remains Chief Executive Officer for Investment Management. Peetz, Keaney and Arledge will report to Gerald L. Hassell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BNY Mellon.
17/12/2012

LGT acquires a US real estate management firm

The Liechtenstein-based firm LGT Capital Partners has announced that its affiliate, LGT Capital Partners Holding (USA) Inc., has acquired the New York firm Clerestory Capital Advisors, LLC (CCA), an investment and advising firm for real estate investment via funds, co-investments and secondary investments, for an undisclosed amount. The firm was founded by Joanne Douvas and Tommy brown in 2007, when the firm’s first fund of funds was laynched. CCA will now become known as LGT Clerestory.
17/12/2012

Ahorro Corporación adds M&G and Pionneer to its platform

The financial group for the Spanish savings banks, Ahorro Corporación, has increased the number of foreign asset management firms available on its Central de Compras fund platform to 16, with the addition of M&G Investments and Pioneer Investments, Funds People reports.The 14 asset management firms already present are Allianz, Amundi, BlackRock, BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, Carmignac, DWS Investments, Fidelity Worldwide Investments, Franklin Templeton, Invesco, JPMorgan AM, Pictet, Pimco and Schroders.
17/12/2012

Mirabaud recruits for wealth management team in Spain

Due to a strong increase in its assets under management, the Swiss firm Mirabaud has recruited three experienced professionals for its wealth management team in Spain, Funds People reports. They are Remedios Parra, Jaime Medem Mac-Lellan and Marcelino Blanco Garnacho, who will also lead the wealth management advisory team at the firm.
17/12/2012

Fidelity recruits from Amadeus

The US asset management firm is acquiring 1.1% of capital in Amadeus, which brings its stake in the reservation website to 2.11% Cotizalia reports. At market value, the new acquisition is valued at EUR89m, and Fidelity’s total exposure is EUR175m. HSBC has recently sold a 2.7% stake in Amadeus, Fidelity is the seventh-largest shareholder in the Spanish firm, following Air France, the Singapore government, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Lufthansa, BlackRock and MFS Investment.
17/12/2012

SAC Capital under investigation again

Federal authorities are investigating SAC Capital Advisors, the alternative asset management firm of Steven A. Cohen, The Wall Street Journal reports. They are seeking to establish whether or not insider trading was involved in a transaction on 14 February 2011, when SAC Capital purchased options on shares in Weight Watchers, which rose from USD44.08 to USD65.39 on 17 February after the publication of results which were far higher than expectations.As a result of this deal, SAC Capital probably made gains of USD8m, while its counterparty, Goldman Sachs, would have lost at least USD3m.
17/12/2012

Ashmore looks to liquidate a special situations fund

The emerging markets specialist emerging market asset management firm Ashmore Investment Management is proposing to close its special situations fund, Ashmore Global Opportjnities Limited, which invests primarily in private equity and distressed debt, Financial News reports. The fund, which is listed in London, is trading about 31% below its net asset value.
17/12/2012

Banca MPS recruits 100 private bankers

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena will recruit 100 private bankers from early 2013, as an addition to the 400 already present on the bank’s network. Currently, the network includes 82 private and 11 family office centres. In the next few weeks, it will open six new private centres.
17/12/2012

Invesco Perpetual replaces manager of its global fund

Invesco Perpetual has assigned its Global Opportunities fund (GBP53m) to the British manager Stephen Anness as part of a review of its equities division, Investment Week reports. He will also join the global equity team. The fund had previously been managed by the managers of the firm’s Global Equity Group. The firm has also announced that its director of marketing, Rick White, in October left the firm after twelve years. Invesco Perpetual has also lost its director of sales, Craig Newman, and its sales manager, Simon Dale. White and Newman will be replaced early next year.
17/12/2012

First physical replication ETFs from db x-trackers listed on LSE

On 14 December, db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank group) admitted its first three physical replication ETFs to trading on the London Stock Exchange. They are Luxembourg-registered funds which track the FTSE 100 and the Euro Stoxx 50, as well as the first ETF to replicate the Euro Stoxx 50 ex Financials index, the firm claims. The products are also expected to be released on the XTF segment of the German Xetra platform (Deutsche Börse) on 19 December.Meanwhile, the asset management firm says that it has listed its two existing synthetic replication ETFs db x-trackers FTSE 100 ETF and db x-trackers Euro Stoxx 50 in London.A list of the new products is attached.
17/12/2012

Rules to be toughened for foreign banks

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) on 14 December unveiled a draft directive which could toughen the prudential management requirements applicable to major foreign banks present in the United States. The plans primarily concern banks and non-banking financial establishments whose consolidated global assets total over USD50bn. They would require them to submit to the same stress tests as US banks. The central bank says that the move implements terms of the Wall Street reform law of 2010. According to the text of the bill made public by the Fed, the new standards would come into effect on 1 July 2015, in order to give the establishments concerned time to comply.
17/12/2012

East Capital Explorer liquidates its Russian utilities fund

The investment firm East Capital Explorer, listed in Stockholm, will be liquidating the East Capital Power Utilities Fund, in which it had been invested, and from which it expects to recuperate EUR14.2m, as announced. The remaining assets will be distributed in early 2013. The participation of East Capital Explorer in the fund represented EUR25.4m, which corresponds to 9% of the firm’s net asset value. East Capital Power Utilities Fund aimed to benefit from concentration and liberalisation in the Russian utility sector. But the sector has not developed as expected, East Capital Explorer explains. Investment in the fund also resulted in annual pre-tax losses of 2.6% between December 2007 and 30 November 2012.
17/12/2012

Klaus Kaldemorgen to step back from management

The Börsen-Zeitung reports that according to financial industry sources, Klaus Kaldemorgen is to step back from the management of two flagship funds from DWS, Vermögensbildungsfonds I (DE0008476524), with EUR5bn in assets, and DWS Akkumula Fonds (DE0008474024), with assets of EUR2.9bn. He will hand off to André Köttner, the star manager from Union Investment who had been responsible for the UniGlobal fund (DE0008491051) with EUR7.26bn in assets. Köttner left his former employer at the end of September (see Newsmanagers of 28 September), and was replaced by Gunther Krammert.
17/12/2012

IOSCO proposes new rules to improve transparency of market infrastructure

The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) on 14 December published a disclosure framework and an evaluation methodology to establish new Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMI) for financial market infrastructures (FMI). The disclosure framework and methodology were the subject of a consultation launched in April. The dislcosure frameowrk will be used by FMIs to explain their activities and practices in the area of risk management with full transparency. The methodology is aimed more at international external valuators, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and other national authorities.
17/12/2012

Basel III not in doubt

The failure of the European Union and the United States to respect the deadline of 1 January 2013 to apply new banking solvency rules does not raise doubts about the Basel III agreement, regulators have announced.The Basel commission on 14 December announced, following a two-day meeting, that 11 countries are prepared to begin applying the new rules. “We are expecting regulations to be finalised in other jurisdictions during 2013, and they will join all other interim deadlines, under the initial agreement,” the chairman of the commission, Stefan Ingves, said in a statement. He says that this will be the case even if the parties concerned are not able to implement the rules in early 2013 as planned.“As a result, by the end of 2013, nearly all jurisdictions of the Basel commission will apply Basel III, in line with the calendar defined,” Ingves, who is also governor of the Swedish central bank, adds. “This is an absolutely crucial move to strengthen the global banking system.”
17/12/2012

CalSTRS CEO to chair environmental markets committee of FTSE

FTSE Group announced that Jack Ehnes, CEO of CalSTRS (California State Teachers’ Retirement System) will serve as the new chairman of the FTSE Environmental Markets Committee. The FTSE Environmental Markets Committee is the independent advisory body responsible for setting the rules governing the classification system and the two sets of indices based on it, the FTSE Environmental Technology and FTSE Environmental Opportunities indices. Jack Ehnes replaces Winston Hickox, who is stepping down after five years chairing the Environmental Markets Committee, which is comprised of investment industry practitioners.
17/12/2012

Partnership in the family office sector

The Singapore-based firm Oclaner Asset Management, which assists family office and high net worth clients, has formed partnership with the Monaco-based private investment firm Codima, Asian Investor reports. Under the terms of the agreement, Oclaner will become the asset management arm of Codima, or the Compagnie d’Investissements Monaco-Asie. Meanwhile, Oclaner becomes the unit dedicated to direct investment of Codima, which will allow the Singapore firm to offer a wider range of private assets in Asia and Europe.
17/12/2012

CPPIB pension fund grows in Asia

The Canadian pension fund Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has set up two new units in Asia, as part of a process to increase personnel in the region, Asian Investor reports. The pension fund has set up a private debt desk, which will invest directly in leveraged loans, high yield bonds and debt structures including mezzanine. It will participate in event-driven operations (acquisitions, refinancing, restructuring and recapitalisation). CPPIB Has recruited Nina Tao as head of the private debt desk in Hong Kong. The pension fund has also set up a public equity private investment activity in Hong Kong. Assets under management by the pension fund not total about CAD170bn, nearly CAD20bn of which is in the Asia-Pacific region.
17/12/2012

EIOPA concerned about declining turnover rate for pension funds

The European insurance and occupational pensions authority (EIOPA) has issued an alert about declining coverage levels for defined-benefit pension plans in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. In its semiannual report on financial stability, EIOPA says that coverage rates in the United Kingdom are now under 80%. In this environment, “a clear and realistic timetable for the establishment of Solvency II would represent a significant contribution to financial stability efforts in Europe,” the Authority says in a statement.
17/12/2012

Le marché monétaire se contracte encore en zone euro

Au deuxième trimestre 2012, le volume d’instruments traités sur le marché monétaire se contractait de 14% sur un an, selon la dernière enquête de la Banque centrale européenne publiée ce matin. A cela deux raisons majeures: l’accroissement des tensions en zone euro entre juin 2011 et juin 2012, et les injections massives de liquidités réalisées par la BCE entre ces deux dates, qui ont détourné les banques du marché interbancaire.
17/12/2012

L'Europe et les Etats-Unis achoppent encore sur Bâle 3

Les banques américaines n’auraient réussi à détenir que 700 des 1.500 milliards de dollars d’actifs liquides nécessaires au respect des exigences de Bâle 3. De quoi pousser à des nouveaux assouplissements selon le journal, qui cite Bob Chakravorti, chef économiste chez Clearing House, qui représente les onze plus grosses banques commerciales américaines. Parallèlement, le président du Comité de Bâle, Stefan Ingves, a indiqué que malgré l'échec de l’Union européenne et des Etats-Unis à respecter la date du 1er janvier 2013 pour commencer à appliquer les nouvelles règles, «presque toutes les juridictions du comité de Bâle appliqueront Bâle 3 conformément au calendrier prévu» d’ici la fin 2013.

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