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07/05/2012

Record d'encours pour John Hancock à fin mars

Lors de la présentation de ses résultats pour le premier trimestre 2012, le canadien Manuvie (Manulife) a indiqué que les actifs gérés par sa filiale américaine John Hancock Mutual Funds a atteint fin mars le record de 38,2 milliards de dollars contre 35,5 milliards fin décembre. En un an, l’encours s’est accru de 7 %.Pour janvier-mars, John Hancock Funds a enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 3,1 milliards de dollars contre 2,5 milliards en octobre-décembre, mais ces rentrées nettes ont diminué de 10 % par rapport à la période correspondante de l’an dernier.Manuvie affiche pour le premier trimestre un bénéfice net de 206 millions de dollars contre une perte nette de 69 millions au quatrième trimestre 2011 et un bénéfice net de 985 millions pour la période correspondante de l’an dernier.
07/05/2012
Fonds

T. Rowe Price ferme son fonds d'obligations high yield aux nouveaux entrants

T. Rowe Price Group a annoncé la fermeture aux nouveaux investisseurs de son fonds d’obligations à haut rendement (le High Yield Fund et le Institutionnal High Yield Fund). Ces fonds accepteront toutefois des versements d’investisseurs déjà présents dans les fonds. T. Rowe Price gère 21 milliards de dollars dans des portefeuilles dédiés au haut rendement, dont 9,2 milliards dans le High Yield Fund et 2,5 milliards dans le Institutional High Yield Fund (à fin mars 2012).
Fonds
07/05/2012

La Chine plus souple avec la présence d'étrangers dans son secteur financier

A l’issue d’une rencontre au sommet entre la Chine et les Etats-Unis, Pékin a fait part vendredi de sa décision d’autoriser les investisseurs étrangers à détenir jusqu'à 49% d’une société de courtage, contre 33% jusqu'à présent, rapporte L’Agefi. La Chine affirme ainsi qu’elle respecte la promesse faite lors de son adhésion à l’OMC d’ouvrir son secteur financier à la concurrence étrangère.
07/05/2012

Progression de 2% des actifs sous gestion de RBS

Les actifs sous gestion du pôle gestion de fortune de Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) s’inscrivaient fin mars 2012 à 31,4 milliards de livres, en progression de 2% par rapport au 31 décembre 2011, a indiqué le 4 mai RBS dans un communiqué.Cette évolution est due à un effet marché positif mais également à des souscriptions nettes en Asie, précise le groupe. Les actifs sous gestion accusent toutefois un recul de 9% par rapport au premier trimestre 2011 en raison de l'évolution négative des marchés et de la décollecte observée au second semestre.Le bénéfice d’exploitation du pôle gestion de fortune a diminué de 38% à 45 millions de livres en raison notamment d’une amende de 8,75 millions de dollars infligée par l’Autorité des marchés financiers britannique (FSA).Le groupe indique par ailleurs qu’il poursuit la restructuration de ses activités de gestion de fortune au Royaume-Uni dans la perspective de l’introduction prochaine de la réglementation RDR. (Retail Distribution Review).
07/05/2012

Dexia Asset Management ouvre un bureau à Londres

Dexia Asset Management poursuit son développement en Europe. La société de gestion annonce l’ouverture d’une succursale à Londres. Opérationnelle depuis le 1er mai 2012, elle est dirigée par David Kane, head of UK branch, en charge des relations avec la clientèle au Royaume-Uni et en Irlande depuis 2008. L’ouverture du bureau londonien est une «priorité stratégique pour 2012", souligne Naïm Abou-Jaoudé, président du comité exécutif de Dexia Asset Management. Il souligne l’importance du marché britannique, «ouvert et varié» qui joue un rôle pivot dans le secteur de la gestion en Europe. «Cette évolution nous permettra d’intensifier notre présence sur ce marché», résume-t-il
07/05/2012
Fonds

Forte croissance des fonds alternatifs coordonnés

Les actifs sous gestion des fonds alternatifs coordonnés ont presque quadruplé au cours des trois dernières années, selon le dernier rapport trimestriel publié par le fournisseur d’indices Alix Capital, rapporte InvestmentEurope.Au cours de la période, les actifs du secteur ont fait un bond de 375% et durant le seul premier trimestre 2012, les actifs sous gestion se sont accrus de 6,2% à 120 milliards d’euros. Près des trois quarts de la progression observée est lié à la collecte nette, 28% étant à mettre sur le compte d’un effet marché positif.Le fixed income reste la stratégie la plus utilisée, représentant 32,3% des actifs, devant les stratégies macro (15,84%) et long/short equity (15,20%). La moitié des fonds lancés au premier trimestre 2012 étaient des fonds actions long/short, 15% des fonds actions market neutral, 10% dese fonds macro et 10% des fonds volatilité. Plus des deux tiers (67%) de ces nouveaux fonds ont été domiciliés au Luxembourg."Le secteur des hedge funds au format Ucits a maintenu au premier trimestre son rythme de croissance à long terme et cette tendance devrait se poursuivre dans un contexte où les investisseurs continuent d’exiger la transparence, la liquidité et la supervision réglementaire offertes par les véhicules Ucits», estime le CEo d’Alix Capital, Louis Zanolin.A la fin du premier trimestre 2012, les trois poids lourds du secteur des fonds alternatifs coordonnés étaient Standard Life Investments, devant BNY Mellon et GAM. Les actifs sous gestion de ces trois sociétés totalisaient près de 30 milliards d’euros, soit 24% du total des actifs gérés dans les fonds alternatifs coordonnés.
Fonds
07/05/2012

Promotion et nomination chez Sal. Oppenheim

Treize mois jour pour jour après avoir réintégré Sal. Oppenheim (groupe Deutsche Bank) en tant que directeur opérationnel de l'équipe de gérants de portefeuille dans la division «clients stratégiques» (clients à structures patrimoniales complexes), Wolfgang Sawazki a pris au 1er mai les fonctions de directeur de la gestion de portefeuille du pôle banque privée (lire Newsmanagers du 24 mars 2011)Parallèlement, Sönke J. Siemßen, qui était en dernier lieu directeur de la recherche obligataire de la BayernLB, a rejoint au 1er avril Sal. Oppenheim comme directeur de la gestion des portefeuilles obligataires.Wolfgang Sawazski et Sönke Siemßen sont subordonnés à Wolfgang Leoni, le CIO.
07/05/2012

Bon début d'année pour Wendel

La société d’investissement Wendel a enregistré une hausse de 15 % de son chiffre d’affaires consolidé au premier trimestre 2012. Celui-ci s’établit à 1 517 millions d’euros. Au cours des trois premiers mois de l’année, Wendel a renforcé sa structure financière en finalisant la cession de la société Deutsch pour 959 millions d’euros et en procédant à la réduction de 363 millions d’euros de sa dette brute via les remboursements anticipés de 250 millions d’euros de crédit syndiqué fin mars 2012 et de 60 millions de dette avec appels de marge d’échéance novembre 2014. La société a également procédé au rachat d’obligations pour 53,4 millions d’euros. Le 11 avril 2012, Standard & Poor’s a annoncé le relèvement de sa note crédit de Wendel de «BB-" à «BB», assortie d’une perspective stable.
07/05/2012
Fonds

Un fonds intéressé par la reprise de 50 % de Veolia Transdev

Deux investisseurs se sont manifestés auprès de Veolia pour racheter sa part de 50% dans Veolia Transdev, sa coentreprise avec la Caisse des Dépôts dans les transports publics, rapporte L’Agefi. Un des candidats avec lequel il est en négociation exclusive serait le fonds Cube Infrastructure, contrôlé par Natixis, qui souhaiterait prendre une participation par le biais d’une augmentation de capital de Veolia Transdev.
Fonds
07/05/2012

La Deutsche Bank regarnit sa banque privée en Espagne

Depuis le début de l’année, six personnes ont quitté le pôle banque privée de la Deutsche Bank en Espagne, dont quatre sont parties chez Banco Espírito Santo et une chez Credit Suisse ; les deux chefs de l'équipe, Ángel Mascaraque et Jaime Hernández, font partie de ces transfuges. Cependant, rapporte Funds People, cinq des six partants, y compris Jaime Hernández qui a quitté en avril, ont déjà été remplacés : quatre par des recrutements externes et un par promotion interne.L'équipe compte 67 professionnels chargés des clients dont l'épargne financière dépasse les 500.000 euros.
07/05/2012

Strong growth for UCITS hedge funds

Assets under management by UCITS hedge funds have virtually quadrupled in the past three years, according to the most recent quarterly report by the index provider Alix Capital, InvestmentEurope reports. In the period under review, assets in the sector have increased 375%, and in first quarter 2012 alone, assets under management have increased 6.2% to EUR120m, Nearly three quarters of the growth observed is related to net inflows, whlie 28% is due to positive market effects. Fixed income remains the most popular strategy, representing 32.3% of assets, followed by macro strategies (15.84%) and long/short equity (15.20%). Half of funds launched in first quarter 2012 were long/short equity funds, 15% were market neutral equity funds, 10% were macro funds and 10% were volatility funds. More than two thirds (67%) of new funds were domiciled in Luxembourg. “The UCITS-compliant hedge fund sector in first quarter maintained its long-term rate of growth, and this trend is expected to continue in a context in which investors continue to require the transparency, liquidity and regulatory oversight offered by UCITS vehicles,” says the CEO of Alix Capital, Louis Zanolin. At the end of first quarter 2012, the three largest providers in the UCITS-compliant hedge fund sector were Standard Life Investments, BNY Mellon and GAM. Assets under management by these three firms totalled nearly EUR30bn, 24% of total assets under management by UCITS hedge funds.
07/05/2012

Investors on the defensive

With elections in France and Greece ahead and dire manufacturing data from Italy and Spain behind, investors erred on the side of defense going into May. In the week ending May 2, EPFR Global-tracked Bond Funds took in a net USD7.1 billion while Equity Funds absorbed USD3.8 billion. Investors did commit another USD1.84 billion to High Yield Bond Funds, steer USD540 million into Emerging Markets Bond Funds. Over 85% of the flows into all High Yield and Emerging Markets Bond Funds went into US High Yield and EM Hard Currency Funds respectively. US Money Market Funds posted outflows for the 10th week in a row. This week those redemptions were not offset by the modest inflows recorded by their European counterparts.
07/05/2012

Private equity outperforms public markets

Returns on investments have generally held out better in private equity than in public markets before and since the onset of the financial crisis, according to a study by Preqin. The PrEQIn study finds that all private equity strategies except venture capital have outperformed the S&P 500 since 31 December 2000. The PrEQIn All Private Equity index, based on a score of 100 on 31 December 2000, stood at 198.5 in third quarter 2011, compared with 105.1 on the same date for the S&P 500. In other words, it has virtually doubled over the period. Private equity funds specialised in distressed debt have earned better returns than all other strategies, with a PrEUIn score of 322.1 as of September 2011. However, there has been significant variance in the performance of different private equity funds. While 1,830 funds cure currently seeking investors, it is more delicate than ever to make an effective selection of managers, the study finds.
07/05/2012

Former Clariden Leu CEO quits Credit Suisse

Olivier Jaquet, the last operational CEO of the former bank Clariden Leu, will be leaving Credit Suisse at the end of May, finews reports.Jaquet, previously head of CS Trust and CS Life & Pensions, took over as head of the Credit Suisse affiliate in March 2011. His arrival made it possible to relaunch the firm, whose survival was then in doubt. In first half 2011, Clariden Leu posted a net inflow of CHF3.3bn.But the group has decided to absorb Clariden into Credit Suisse in November last year, a decision which is now resulting in the departure of Jaquet.
07/05/2012

Record assets at John Hancock as of the end of March

At a presentation of results for first quarter 2012, the Canadian insurer Manulife announced that assets under management by its US affiliate John Hancock Mutual Funds as of the end of March totalled a record USD38.2bn, compared with USD35.5bn as of the end of December. In one year, assets increased by 7%.In January-March, John Hancock Funds has posted net subscriptions of USD3.1bn, compared with USD2.5bn in October-December, but these net inflows were down 10% compared with the corresponding period of last year.Manulife has posted net profits for first quarter of CAD206m, compared with a net loss of CAD69m in fourth quarter 2011, and net profits of CAD985m in the corresponding period of last year.
07/05/2012

Caceis group retained by asset management firm Neuflize

The asset management firms of the Neuflize OBC group, Neuflize OBC Investissement and Neuflize Private Assets, have retained Caceis as administrative and accounting manager of their French-registered OPCVM funds and custody mandates, Caceis announced in a statement published on 4 May. The transfer will include 80 mutual funds and mandates with total assets of EUR12bn. The agreement is part of a partnership with the Neuflize OBC Group, which was already in place for depository banking and custody. In France, the group will be able to concentrate on a single provider in Caceis, for all services expected to be needed by the two asset management firms for their development.
07/05/2012

HFRX hedge fund index up 0.12% in April

The HFRX Global Hedge Fund index rose 0.12% in April, due to the good performance of macro and relative value strategies. In a context of falling stock markets, CTA macro strategies earned gains of 0.43% in April, largely due to the contribution of systematic diversified funds, which have gained 0.48% in the month, but which are down 3.44% compared with the first four months of the year. Relative value arbitrage strategies, for their part, have gained 0.29% in April, partly due to the positive contribution of convertibles arbitrage.
07/05/2012

Sovereign funds top USD5trn in assets

Sovereign funds have for the first time topped USD5trn in assets, according to the sovereign fund institute (SWF Institute). Assets under management by sovereign funds as of the beginning of May totalled USD5.004trn, compared with USD4.995trn as of the end of March 2012.Several factors have contributed to the continued growth of sovereign funds. In addition to the performance of investments, growth in tax revenue transfers and a proliferation of new sovereign funds contributed, the SWF Institute states.In 2011, five new sovereign funds appeared in the SWF Institute rankings, including the Italian strategic fund, with a total of USD1.4bn, the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority, whose assets under management total USD1bn, the North Dakota Legacy Fund, the Papua New Guinea Sovereign Wealth Fund, and the Fiscal Stability Fund of Mongolia.
07/05/2012

A promotion and an appointment at Sal. Oppenheim

Thirteen months to the day after returning to Sal. Oppenheim (Deutsche Bank) as chief operating officer for the portfolio management team in the strategic client portfolio management division (serving clients with complex wealth structures), Wolfgang Sawazki on 1 May became director of portfolio management of the private banking unit (see Newsmanagers of 24 March 2011).Meanwhile, Sönke J. Siemßen, who had most recently served as director of fixed income research at BayernLB, on 1 April joined Sal. Oppenheim as director of fixed income portfolio management.Sawazski and Siemßen will report to Wolfgang Leoni, CIO.
07/05/2012

Feri acquires one quarter of Coresis

The German financial services provider MLP has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Feri AG has acquired a 25% stake in Coresis Management GmbH, a stake which the firm may opt to increase later, for an undisclosed amount.Coresis is a specialist in direct investment in real estate in Germany. It works for institutionals and high net worth private clients.
07/05/2012

Pictet denies being under investigation by US authorities

Pictet & Cie claims that it is not the subject of any accusations on the part of US authorities, and “energetically” rejects “any insinuation that Pictet & Cie is being targeted by the US tax authorities.” The Geneva-based private bank reacted in a statement released on Sunday evening which appear in the SonntagsZeitung and Le Matin Dimanche.Pictet states that since 2011, when the Qualified Intermediary Agreement (QI) came into effect, an agreement over documentation for clients holding US equities, the group has “scrupulously complied with the rules.”Pictet says that it is developing in the market serving US residents via its affiliate Pictet North America Advisors S.A., which is licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and that it is important for the bank to scrupulously respect US tax legislation.
07/05/2012

La Française AM launches a Sharia OPCI

La Française AM has launched Paris Pearls Properties, a Sharia-compliant OPCI in France. The collective real estate vehicles with simplified investment rules with leverage was developed for an Islamic finance and investment bank based in Kuwait, which wants to remain anonymous. The new Sharia-compliant OPCI fund has been selected to finance the acquisition of an office building located at 91 boulevard Saint Michel, in the 5th district of Paris, which will be acquired jointly with the Kuwaiti bank. The total acquisition price is about EUR46m, and the property is currently wholly leased to France Télécom for 10 years. The leveraging of the deal was partly done by way of a Murabaha, a Sharia compliant loan structured to avoid interest payments, a statement says. La Française AM has been working with the Kuwaiti bank since 2010 to focus on Sharia compliant property projects in France.
07/05/2012

T. Rowe Price closes its high yield bond fund to new entrants

T. Rowe Price Group has announced the closure of its high yield bond funds High Yield Fund and Institutional High Yield Fund to new investors. The funds will continue to accept investments from investors who are already present in the fund. T. Rowe Price has USD21bn in assets under management in portfolios dedicated to high yield, of which USD9.2bn are in the High Yield Fund, and USD2.5bn in the Institutional High Yield Fund (as of the end of March 2012).
07/05/2012

Forthcoming launch of white paper on long-term investment

The European commissioner in charge of the internal market and services, Michel Barnier, on 4 May announced the forthcoming launch of a white paper on long-term investment. “We would like to study the impact of our proposals – CRD 4, Solvency 2 and the revised pension fund directive, currently underway – from this point of view. And I would like to seek new ways to encourage long-term investment, which is essential, particularly to finance major infrastructure investments and ecological transitions,” Barnier said at a meeting of the European financial and asset management association (EFAMA). Barnier has also announced that the Commission will be undertaking three key initiatives in the next few weeks. The content of these initiatives may not be new, but the Commission appears to be putting its heart into them. Firstly, these will aim to better protect consumers of retail investment products (PRIPS) by favouring better information and introducing stricter rules for vendors of financial products. Barnier points to the introduction of a identical information document for all types of PRIPS. Now more than ever, it is also time to introduce stricter accountability for losses by financial instruments which are held at a depository bank, and to bring the depository regime of the OPCVM directive into line with the new and more detailed MiFID directive. Lastly, the Commission is seeking to protect consumers of insurance products, partly by setting up a level playing field between the various vendors of these products, such as insurance companies, banks, and brokers.
07/05/2012

Electronic trading faces its first ESMA alert

The market surveillance systems provider Redkite Financial Markets on 2 May issued its first warning related to the entry into force on that date of European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) regulations related to electronic trading.Redkite is acting on behalf of a European institutional client, following the detection of a suspicious transaction, which is suspected of having been a case of “quote stuffing,” in which orders are placed in a highly aggressive manner, at tens of thousands per second, compared with 100 to 200 per second at the highest rate a traditional order routing system would have delivered.
07/05/2012

UBS offers an emerging markets specialist allocation fund

Andreas Köster, head of asset allocation and currencies at UBS Global Asset Mangement, is the manager of the new UBS Emerging Markets Allocation fund, which is a multi-asset class product dedicated to emerging markets, Das Investment reports. The portfolio will be invested primarily in equities and bonds, while commodities are also used as a complement. Forex management is achieved via an overlay.CharacteristicsName: UBS Emerging Markets AllocationISIN codes:LU0730958831 (shares denominated in US dollars)LU0730959219 (shares denominated in euros)Management commission: 2.08%
07/05/2012

Deka sells a property in Germany, while Union buys one

Deka Immobilien GmbH has announced that it has sold the Schlössle Galerie shopping centre (19,000 square metres) in Pforzheim to a fund from Real I.S., for EUR76m.Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE), meanwhile, has announced that it has acquired the office and retail property Neue Promenade 6, in the centre of Berlin, The 3,140 square metre property will be added to the portfolio of the institutional real estate fund DIFA-Fonds Nr3. The acquisition price has not been disclosed.
07/05/2012

Robeco releases an emerging market equities institutional fund

The product range from Robeco in Germany since March has gained a variant of the Robeco Institutional Emerging Markets Quant Fund, with the release of the Luxembourg-registered fund Robeco Emerging Enhanced Index Equities. The product, which is priced like an ETF, is aimed at institutional investors.The portfolio includes between 320 and 370 physical holdings, in equities from 21 emerging countries. Allocation is made according to the distribution of the MSCI Emerging Markets index. The fund, denominated in US dollars, is managed with a quantitative approach by Michael Strating and Tim Dröge.Name: Robeco Emerging Enhanced Index EquitiesISIN code: LU0746585719TER :0.72%Minimal subscription: EUR0.5m
07/05/2012

Assets under management at RBS up 2%

Assets under management by the wealth management unit of Royal Bank fo Scotland (RBS) as of the end of March 2012 totals GBP31.4bn, up 2% compared with 31 December 2012, RBS announced in a statement on 4 May.This development is due to positive market effects, and to net subscriptions in Asia, the group states. Assets under management are nonetheless down 9% compared with first quarter 2011, due to the negative evolution of the markets, and outflows in second half.Operating profits for the wealth management unit are down 38%, to GBP45m, due to a fine of GBP8.75m to the British Financial Services Authority (FSA).The group has also stated that it is continuing to restructure its wealth management operation in the United Kingdom ahead of the forthcoming introduction of the Retail Distribution Review regulation (RDR).

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