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31/08/2012

Italian funds return to inflows

Open-ended funds on sale in Italy recorded net inflows in July of EUR52m, returning to positive territory after net redemptions of EUR1.9bn in June, according to statistics from Assogestioni, the Italian association of asset managers. These inflows were driven by bond funds, which took on EUR3.2bn, and flexible funds, with EUR1.7bn in inflows. However, equity funds saw outflows of EUR986m. But the majority of redemptions were from money market funds, which lost EUR3.3bn. Since the beginning of the year, open-ended funds on sale in Italy have seen outflows of EUR5.1bn. With the addition of closed funds and mandates, the Italian asset management industry has seen net redemptions of EUR1.3bn in July, and EUR11.4bn since the beginning of the year.
31/08/2012

Warren Buffett increases donations

For his 82nd birthday, Warren Buffett has doubled his donations to the charities of his three children, assigning each of them a further USD3bn in shares in his company, Berkshire Hathaway, the Wall Street Journal reports.
31/08/2012

US money market funds increase exposure to Japan

U.S. prime money market funds (MMF) continued to increase their exposure to Japanese banks, which as of end-July represent 12.3% of total MMF holdings or a 118%increase on a dollar basis since end-May 2011, according to Fitch. This exposure exceeds aggregate MMF allocations to eurozone banks, which increased moderately since the prior reporting period and now constitute 8.5% of total MMF assets, still 76% below end-May 2011 levels on a dollar basis.
31/08/2012

La Française AM registers another fund in Spain

Funds People reports that La Française Asset Management has received a sales license in Spain for a further fund, the LFP Rendement Emergent 2017, a bond product which currently has EUR46m in assets.
31/08/2012

Net outflows and increases in assets for Spanish funds in August

According to estimates by VDOS relayed by Funds People, assets in Spanish funds as of 23 August totalled EUR128.165bn, up by EUR1.686bn since the end of July. This increase is due to a positive market effect of EUR1.934bn, offset by EUR247m in net redemptions.
31/08/2012

Stanford: SEC to file further charges

In the next few days, according to sources familiar with the matter, the SEC will file civil charges against several executives in the empire of R. Allen Stanford, the Wall Street Journal reports. The regulator is expected to sue the former chairman of Stanford Group, Danny Bogar, and the former head of compliance, Bernerd Young.Stanford was sentenced in June to 110 years in Federal prison for a Ponzi-type fraud totalling USD7bn.
31/08/2012

Axa and SuMi launch a real estate fund in Japan

Axa Real Estate has teamed up with the Japanese firm Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank to create a fund which will invest JPY50bn in office properties in Tokyo, the Financial Times reports. The fund will be launched this Friday. SuMi Trust will be responsible for asset management of the portfolio.
31/08/2012

Federated Investors growing in Asia

The US asset management firm Federated Investors is seeking acquisition targets in Asia Pacific, with the objective of growing globally, Asian Investor reports. Meanwhile, the asset management firm is planning to establish several fixed income teams in the region. The asset management firm has recently recruited Craig Bingham as its new CEO for Asia-Pacific. Bingham is the former CEO for the region for Aviva. He will be based in Melbourne, Australia, at the new main office of Federated Investors for Asia.
31/08/2012

“New indices” may underperform originals

A study published by the Edhec-Risk Institute in the Journal of Portfolio Management suggests that the major alternative equity indices are probably superior in terms of long-term perforamnce, but they run the risk of significant relative losses compared with cap size-weighted traditional indices. These “drawdowns” may last for long periods (over two years), and be large in scale (over 13%). These risks are largely due to two causes: More pronounced structural exposure to risk factors which may in some cases negatively influence the performance of indices Any system of weighting, be it qualitative or quantitative, requires a choice of model, and this carries modelling risks. On these grounds, the Edhec-Risk Institute makes three recommendations: Diversify beta investment, since beta is not exposed in the same way to various market conditions, particularly volatility (low and high) and trends (rising or falling). Maintain clear information on tracking error and extreme tracking error compared with cap size-weighted indices Manage this constraint actively, as ultimately that will improve the information and performance-adjusted risk ratios for these new indices. The findings of the study show that with explicit constraints in terms of tracking error the maximal tracking error for a diversified alternative index is reduced by 44%, while the median relative returns are reduced by only 17%. An efficiently diversified portfolio, which combines minimal volatility and stratgies to maximise Sharpe ratios, can improve the maximal relative drawdown compared with single strategies with no relative risk control by 35% and 28.5%, respectively.
31/08/2012

Veterans leave Berenberg

Das Investment reports that four private bankers from Berenberg Bank have announced their departures to become independent. They include Sven Albrecht (24 years at the firm), one of the 50 directors of the firm, and Andreas Kitta (15 years at the firm), who had been director of the wealth managers department. Also departing are Holger Knaup, head of the private banking department (12 years at the firm) and Carsten Riehemann (who joined the firm in October 1998).
31/08/2012

Swiss asset management firms resist attacks on banking confidentiality

Repeated assaults on Swiss banking confidentiality do not appear to be discouraging investors who have previously trusted Swiss managers, Investment Europe reports. According to statistics disclosed by the US firm SNL Financial, Credit Suisse has even reversed the trend of eroding assets under management, with a 2.4% increase in first half, to CHF1.210trn, which was facilitated by a 2.11% increase in the value of assets. Bank Corp has also posted an increase in its assets under management of 4.17% in first half 2012, largely aided by market effects. EFG International, however, did not reverse the trend, but still had a limited downward movement in assets under management of 2.62%, compared with more than 8% last year.
31/08/2012

Banque Sarasin recruits for distribution in Germany

The Basel-based Banque Sarasin on 30 August announced that it has recruited Marco Kuch for the newly-created position of director wholesale for the German affiliate in Frankfurt. He joins the institutional client & wholesale team, led by Christian Mosel, and will be particularly responsible for relationship management for fund of fund managers, private banks, direct banks, family offices and wealth managers. Kuch had previously been responsible for wholesale at Fidelity International in Germany, and previous to that, worked at HSBC Investments Deutschland, Deutsche Kreditbank and Berliner Bank.
31/08/2012

Berenberg and Lampe take over LBBW's stake in Universal

The private banks Berenberg and Lampe have now increased their stakes in Universal-Investment to 50% each: they announced on 30 August that they have acquired the 27% stake which the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) had held in the Frankfurt-based asset management firm. The sale price has not been disclosed. The two banks had previously bought up the shares in Universal owned by Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers (H&A, see Newsmanagers of 30 May).The cooperation with LBBW in the area of institutional mandates and depository banking activities will be continued.Since the beginning of the year, assets at Universal have increased by EUR13bn, and now total EUR143bn.
31/08/2012

Morningstar launches a platform dedicated to commodities

The financial services provider Morningstar on 29 August announced that it is launching a platform for trading desks and risk specialists which offers data on energy and commodity makets. Further information about the new platform, entitled Morningstar Markets Commodities Edition, is available at the following address: http://www.morningstarcommodity.com/
31/08/2012

Assets under management at LLB up in first half

Assets under management at the Liechtensteinische Landesbank (LLB) increased by CHF0.6bn, or 1.2% in first half, to a total of CHF48.7bn, according to a statement released on 30 August. Most of this increase is due to positive market effects, while net inflows in the half totalled only CHF2m. Profits for the group in first half totalled CHF61.6m, compared with CHF34.3m. The cost/income ratio improved to 57.8%, from 75.3% one year previously. In the mid-term, the bank is aiming for a ratio of 55-60%
31/08/2012

Pioneer adds to multi-asset class team

Nicholas Pothier, who left HSBC Global Asset Management to move to South Africa (see Newsmanagers of 29 March 2010), is joining Pioneer Investments in Dublin as co-manager of a multi-asset class global thematic fund of funds, alongside Bertrand Paquot, Fundweb reports. The new arrival will report to John O’Tolle, head of multi-asset fund solutions.
31/08/2012

Barclays appoints a successor to Bob Diamond

Following the resignation of Bob Diamond in late July over the Libor rate manipulation scandal, the British bank Barclays on Thursday announced the appointment of Antony Jenkins as its CEO, La Tribune reports. Jenkins had previously been head of the retail and business banking activities of the group.
31/08/2012

Resignation from Lighthouse Group

Lighthouse Group announced on 30 August the resignation of David Hickey, who had been executive chairman of the firm, following a vote of shareholders against a plan to withdraw the company from the AIM stock exchange, which had been unanimously passed by the board of directors. Hickey, who has worked at Lighthouse for 10 years, claims that in his position as head of shareholder relations, he was obliged to resign, due to his opposition, which he shares with other members of the board, to continued listing of the firm on the AIM exchange.
31/08/2012

SWIP continues recruiting managers

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP, GBP1.38bn in assets as of the end of June) has announced that it has kicked off its 2013 recruitment campaign, electing four young graduates as interns in its Trainee Investment Manager Graduate Programme. The four will join SWIP (Lloyds Banknig Group) in September 2013, one for each investment unit (equities, bonds, real estate, investment solutions), for a period of two years, with the potential to become investment managers in their specialised fields. The eight graduates recruited in the Graduate Programme for 2011 have been successful in their first year of training.
31/08/2012

Odin recruits a salesperson from BlackRock

The Scandinvian asset management firm Odin Fonder has hired Sofie Zetterlund to become a member of its sales team, the Swedish website Fondbranschen reports. Zetterlund joined from BlackRock and will be based in Oslo, Norway.
31/08/2012
Gestion d'actifs

Crédit Agricole Assurances réduit de près de moitié son exposition aux dettes souveraines sur 6 mois

Côté placements, une cession complémentaire de 3 Md€ aux emprunts d’Etat est intervenue au deuxième trimestre 2012. L’exposition brute des sociétés d’assurance du groupe Crédit Agricole aux dettes souveraines périphériques (Grèce, Irlande, Portugal, Italie, Espagne) est réduite à 8,5 Md€ au 30 juin 2012, contre 15,3 Md€ au 31 décembre 2011.
Gestion d'actifs
30/08/2012

François Hollande justifie une intervention de la BCE

Des écarts de taux d’intérêt trop importants entre pays de la zone euro pour refinancer la dette souveraine peuvent justifier une intervention de la BCE pour y remédier, a déclaré François Hollande lors d’une conférence de presse commune avec le président du gouvernement espagnol Mariano Rajoy. Il a ajouté qu’il revenait à la BCE de décider par elle-même de ses moyens d’action éventuelle dans le cadre des décisions prises lors du Conseil européen de fin juin.
30/08/2012

Le FMI voit une marge de manœuvre monétaire en Europe

Le Fonds monétaire internationale estime qu’il existe une marge de manœuvre pour davantage d’assouplissement monétaire en Europe, étant donné que les pressions inflationnistes devraient se modérer. «Nous attendons d’avoir des indication supplémentaires de la BCE sur la définition de son engagement à un soutien non conventionnel», a souligné le porte-parole du FMI Gerry Rice.
30/08/2012

Les ménages américains en soutien de la croissance

Les dépenses des ménages américains ont augmenté de 0,4% au mois de juillet, un rythme sans précédent depuis le mois de février, offrant l’espoir d’une accélération de la croissance au troisième trimestre. Le département du Commerce a également annoncé que les revenus des ménages avaient augmenté de 0,3% le mois dernier. Dans un cas comme dans l’autre, les hausses annoncées sont conformes aux attentes des analystes.
30/08/2012

Stabilité des inscriptions au chômage aux Etats-Unis

Les inscriptions hebdomadaires au chômage aux Etats-Unis sont restées à un niveau identique à celui de la semaine précédente lors de la semaine au 25 août, avec 374.000 nouvelles inscriptions, a indiqué le département du Travail. Les économistes attendaient en moyenne 370.000 inscriptions au chômage. Les inscriptions de la semaine au 18 août ont été révisées en hausse par rapport à une estimation initiale de 372.000.
30/08/2012

La fin de l'euro coûterait à l'Allemagne 10% de son PIB

Un effondrement total de l’euro amputerait au maximum de 10% le produit intérieur brut de l’Allemagne et l’abandon de la monnaie unique par la Grèce comporterait à elle seule d’importants risques pour l’activité économique, a mis en garde Lars Feld, l’un des conseillers économiques du gouvernement allemand, lors d’une intervention à Francfort. Il n’y a que peu d’options pour sortir de la crise, a conclu Lars Feld, soulignant que «la plupart d’entre elles ne sont pas très réjouissantes».
30/08/2012

L'inflation à 2,7% vient s'ajouter aux difficultés de l'Espagne

Les prix à la consommation en Espagne ont grimpé au mois d’août avec la hausse des prix des carburants, et l’augmentation de la TVA en septembre pourrait encore alimenter les tensions inflationnistes. De quoi compliquer encore les efforts de Madrid pour sortir de la récession et pour réduire son endettement. Les prix à la consommation en normes harmonisées au niveau européen ont augmenté de 2,7% en rythme annuel en août, selon les données préliminaires de l’Institut national des statistiques.
30/08/2012

La Chine se dit prête à acheter de la dette de l'UE

La Chine est prête à acheter davantage d’obligations d’Etat de l’Union européenne alors que la crise de la dette européenne pèse sur la croissance mondiale, a déclaré jeudi le Premier ministre Wen Jiabao, apportant le soutien le plus marqué depuis plusieurs mois de Pékin à la zone euro.
30/08/2012

Dégradation du sentiment économique dans la zone euro

L’indice du sentiment économique dans la zone euro a subi un nouveau recul en août, à 86,1 contre 87,9 en juillet, selon les chiffres de la Commission européenne. L’indice du climat des affaires s’est paralèllement légèrement redressé, à -1,21 contre -1,27, mais reste inférieur à son niveau de juin (-0,95).
30/08/2012

Edenred confirme ses objectifs

Edenred a annoncé une hausse de 8,1% de son résultat opérationnel courant, soutenue par la bonne performance réalisée par le groupe dans les pays émergents. L’ancienne branche de services prépayés du groupe Accor confirme également son objectif d’un résultat d’exploitation courant compris entre 355 et 375 millions d’euros en 2012.Edenred a enregistré un résultat d’exploitation courant de 170 millions d’euros avec un volume d'émission de 7.865 millions d’euros (+9,5%), en ligne avec son objectif de croissance organique «normative» pour 2010-2016 comprise entre +6% et +14% par an.

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