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23/04/2012

La croissance chinoise ne devrait pas beaucoup faiblir

Selon le quotidien qui cite Pan Jiancheng, directeur général adjoint du Bureau National d’Observation de l’Economie, la croissance chinoise pourrait rebondir au deuxième ou au troisième trimestre de cette année. Le ralentissement modéré de l’économie aiderait à amoindrir les pressions inflationnistes, ajoute le responsable.
20/04/2012

La BCE surveille d'éventuelles bulles en Allemagne

La Banque centrale européenne doit surveiller de près les flux financiers arrivant en Allemagne, a estimé vendredi Benoît Coeuré, membre du conseil de la BCE. «Un scénario du pire serait que la liquidité qui arrive en Allemagne se traduise par des bulles sur les actifs», a-t-il déclaré lors d’une conférence aux Etats-Unis.
20/04/2012

La BoJ pourrait acheter des obligations plus longues

Le ministre japonais de l’Economie Motohisa Furukawa a évoqué vendredi la possibilité pour la Banque du Japon de procéder à des achats d’obligations d’une durée plus longue dans le cadre d’un assouplissement de sa politique monétaire. La banque centrale japonaise tient sa prochaine réunion de politique monétaire vendredi 27 avril et certains anticipent un nouvel assouplissement dans le but de lutter contre les tendances déflationnistes.
20/04/2012

L’indice Ifo meilleur que prévu en avril

L’indice Ifo du climat des affaires a progressé pour le sixième mois d’affilée en avril, alors qu’il était attendu en repli, démontrant ainsi que la première économie européenne reste vigoureuse et épargnée par les nouveaux soubresauts de la crise de la zone euro. L’indice atteint 109,9, contre 109,8 en mars et un consensus Reuters de 109,5.
20/04/2012

Fort rebond des ventes de détail britanniques en mars

Les ventes au détail au Royaume-Uni ont progressé de 1,8% en mars par rapport à février, enregistrant leur plus forte progression mensuelle depuis janvier 2011, selon les données publiées vendredi par l’Office national des statistiques (ONS). Les économistes tablaient sur une progression mensuelle 0,5%. En rythme annuel, la progression est de 3,3% (+1,4% attendu).
20/04/2012

L'AFT adjugera entre 6,4 et 7,6 milliards d’euros de BTF lundi

L’Agence France Trésor annonce l’adjudication, le lundi 23 avril, d’un montant global compris entre 6,4 et 7,6 milliards d’euros de bons du Trésor (BTF). Cette opération portera sur 3,6 à 4,0 milliards d’euros de bons à 12 semaines qui arriveront à échéance le 19 juillet 2012, sur 1,4 à 1,8 milliard d’euros de bons à 23 semaines, à échéance du 4 octobre et sur 1,4 à 1,8 milliard d’euros de bons à 49 semaines, à échéance du 4 avril 2013.
20/04/2012

Global X offers an MLP ETF

On 19 April, the US firm Global X, (USD1.3bn in assets) unveiled its new ETF, the Global X MLP ETF (acronym MPLA), which charges fees of 0.45%. The product recplicates the Solactive MLP Composite Index, which covers the major master limited partnerships (MLPs) in the areas of energy and resources. As of 17 April, the index includes 30 MLPs, with its three largest exposures being to Energy Transfer Partners LP, Enterprise Products Partners and Plains All American Pipeline LP.The fund will distribute dividends on a quarterly basis.
20/04/2012

Goldman Sachs planning to sell Petershill Fund

Goldman Sachs is reportedly in talks to sell one of its best-known portfolios, Petershill, whose investments in hedge funds have still not been successful, the New York times reports. Asset Management Finance, which buys up stakes in fund managers, may acquire the Petershill Fund, which commenced its activities in 2007 with USD1bn, and which has bought largest stakes in well-known asset management firms such as Winton Capital Management and Capula Investment Management, which have not had problems during the financial crisis. But Petershill has also invested in firms which were obliged to close, such as Level Global Investors and Shumway Capital Partners.
20/04/2012

BNY Mellon AM launches an emerging markets corporate debt fund in France

BNY Mellon AM is launching the BNY Mellon Emerging Markets Corporate Debt Fund in France. It is the second fund of its range managed by Insight Investment Management (Global) Limited, an asset management affiliate of BNY Mellon Asset Management since its acquisition in 2009. The fund, which offers daily liquidity, is a sub-fund of the BNY Mellon Global Funds Plc SICAV, which is domiciled in Dublin and compliant with UCITS. It is managed by the team in charge of emerging market debt at Insight Investment, led by Colm McDonagh.
20/04/2012

Retail investors avoid emerging markets

A survey undertaken in March 2012 by the GfK institute on behalf of JPMorgan Asset Management, and covering 2,000 Germans, has found that 60.8% of respondents to not even know the term “emerging markets,” while 23.7% “have heard” of them, and only 15.5% say they know the concept well.More severe, says Jean-Guido Servais, head of marketing at JPMAM for the German-speaking countries, is the fact that only 2.5% of respondents say they have invested in emerging market products, mostly equity funds. Only 3.1% of respondents are planning to invest in emerging markets in the next six months.
20/04/2012

Growth for management activities of Morgan Stanley in first quarter

The wealth management unit of Morgan Stanley (Global Wealth Management Group) in first quarter earned pre-tax profits of USD387m, compared with USd238m in fourth quarter 2011, and USD344m in first quarter 2011. Assets under management as of the end of March totalled USd1.744trn, compared with USd1.637trn at the end of December 2011, and USd1.706bn one year previously. The asset management unit has posted pre-tax profits of USd128m, compared with USD78m one quarter previously, and USD125m in first quarter 2011. Assets under management as of the end of March totalled USD304bn, compared with USD287bn as of the end of December 2011, and USD276bn one year previously. The group nonetheless has published a loss of USD78m, or USD0.05 per share, for first quarter, compared with a profit of USD984m (USD0.51 per share) for first quarter 2011.
20/04/2012

Good quarterly results for asset management at Bank of America

The Global Wealth and Investment Management unit at Bank of America in first quarter earned net profits of USD547m, the second-best results for the group since the acquisition of Merrill Lynch. Assets under management increased by USD28bn in first quarter compared with the first three months of 2011, to a total of USD693bn as of the end of March. Long-term assets in particular increased by USD7.8bn in the period under review. The group has also reported net profits attributable to Bank of America of USD328m in first quarter, one fifth of the results from first quarter last year due to a one-time charge of USD4.8bn to adjust the portfolio to market values.
20/04/2012

Changes at Guggenheim Investments

Guggenheim Investments, which is currently negotiating to take over the US asset management unit of Deutsche Bank, including DWS Investments, has lost all three of its directors, MutualFundWire reports. The chief operating officer, Rich Goldman, and the heads of distribution and marketing, Marc Zeituoun and Keith Fletcher, are all leaving the firm. Meanwhile, Guggenheim has announced the appointment of Doug Mangini as head of products and distribution, and of Chris Parisi for intermediated distribution.
20/04/2012

SLI recruits three Threadneedle veterans

Standard Life Investments has recruited three former employees of Threadneedle Asset Management, including the former head of emerging market debt, Richard House, to create an emerging markets bond team. House will head the new team, which will also include Mark Baker and Nicolas Jacquier, who are appointed as investment directors, global emerging market bonds.
20/04/2012

Ramius recruits expertise in quantitative management

Eric Greenhut has joined Ramius, the alternative management unit of Cowen Group, as managing director and head of quantitative trading, Hedgeweek reports. In this newly-created position, Greenhut, who has previously worked for BNP Paribas/Cooper Neff, will be responsible for the management and development of quantitative trading, including the recruitment of traders, researchers and programmers.
20/04/2012

iShares launches two emerging markets corporate bond ETFs

iShares (BlackRock) has released two versions of an emerging markets corporate bond ETF, the iShares Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund, simultaneously on the US platform BATS and on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Its acronym on BATS is CEMB. The fund(s) provide(s) access to securities denominated in US dollars issued by investment grade or high yield businesses based in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. A clone of the ETF registered in Ireland has been listed on the LSE.The two funds replicate the Morningstar Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Index. The US fund charges 0.60%, while the Irish fund (IE00B6TLBW47) has a TER of 0.50%.
20/04/2012

Hedge fund assets set new record

The global hedge fund industry has seen a rise in assets to a new record of USD2.130trn, the Financial Times reports, citing statistics from Hedge Fund Research. The industry has grown by over USD700bn since the crisis in 2008, largely due to good performance.
20/04/2012

Pictet launches a long/short trading fund

Pictet Asset Management has launched the Kronos Fund, a global long/short traiding product which combines a long/short equity strategy with an option trading overlay, to construct convex positions which aim to protect the portfolio against major market movements, and to profit from these, Hedge Week reports.The fund, registered in the Cayman Islands, is available with a minimal subscription of USD100,000. It is managed in Geneva by a team led by Julien Stouff.
20/04/2012

Record assets for commodity ETPs

Assets in commodity ETPs worldwide increased by USD19bn in first quarter, to total a record USD189bn, according to statistics from ETF Securities. Several factors have contributed to this rebound in commodities ETPs, including a rebound in US growth and a restructuring of Greek debt, which gave investors some appetite for risk.
20/04/2012

Assets under management in stagnation at Lombard Odier

Assets under management at the private bank Lombard Odier as of the end of 2011 totalled CHF142bn, compared with CHF140bn as of mid-2011, and CHF143bn as of the beginning of 2011, finews reports. Net inflows last year totalled CHF7.2bn, but the growth of assets was impacted by a negative market effect.
20/04/2012

SLI recrute l’ex-patron dette émergente de Threadneedle

Standard Life Investments va monter une équipe obligations marchés émergents qui sera placée sous la responsabilité de Richard House, l’ancien responsable de la dette émergente de Threadneedle, selon les informations de Citywire. L’intéressé arrive chez SLI avec deux autres personnes de Threadneedle : Mark Baker et Nicholas Jaquier.
20/04/2012

Good first quarter for Jupiter AM

The British asset management firm Jupiter Fund Management finished first quarter with an increase in its assets under management to GBP24.17bn as of 31 March, compared with GBP22.80bn as of the end of December 2011, Jupiter announced on 19 April in its interim report for first quarter 2012.This development is largely due to a positive market effect of GBP1.48bn. Jupiter has also undergone net redemptions totalling GBP113m. Mutual funds, whose assets under management have increased from GBP17.21bn as of the end of 2011 to GBP18.35bn as of the end of March 2012, have posted inflows of GBP55m, but dedicated mandates finished the quarter with outflows of GBP102m.
20/04/2012

Alain Dromer leaves Aviva Investors

Alain Dromer will be leaving Aviva Investors, where he had been CEO since September 2007, according to a statement from the Aviva group released on Thursday, announcing a reorganisation. Pat Regan, the group’s CFO, will take over at Aviva Investors, while retaining his current responsibilities. A successor to Dromer will be recruited, Aviva adds. This replacement will report to Regan, and will be responsible for “leading the next step in the development of Aviva Investors.” The reorganisation announced by Aviva will aim to “simplify” the business. As a part of that reorganisation, two other people have left the group (Igal Mayer and Richard Hoskins), while the CEOs of the three major entities of the group have been invited to join the executive committee of the group ; They are David Barral (CEO UK&Life Insurance), David McMillan (CEO UK&General Insurance) and Philippe Maso (CEO France).
20/04/2012

Argonaut recruits a team from Neptune

The former head of strategic partnerships at Neptune, John Lester, and his team, will join the British asset management firm Argonaut, Money Marketing reports. In early April, Neptune announced that Lester and two of his partners would be leaving the asset management firm to found their own boutique. Assets under management at Argonaut, which is 60% owned by Argonaut Capital Partners and 40% by Ignis Capital Management, total GBP1.1bn.
20/04/2012

Nordea releases a fund of safe govies

The former Euro Government Bond Fund sub-fund of the Luxembourg Sicav Nordea 1, renamed on 23 December as Nordea 1- European Low CDS Government Bond Fund, is now on sale in France. It is a UCITS-compliant fund of European government bonds considered the “safest,” as investments are allocated depending on the rising credit risks for markets as observed in CDS spreads. Nordea claims this approach is more realistic than the one based on evaluation by ratings agencies, although this latter formula is currently by far the dominant one.Management commission has been reduced by 30 basis points for the retail share class,a dn 15 basis points for the institutional share class, compared with the initial fund.The portfolio is invested in securities selected on the basis of a rolling 3-month average of their 5-year CDS spreads, as listed on Credit Market Analysis (CMA). The fund is managed by Martti Forsberg, the European government specialist on the international bonds team.CharacteristicsName: Nordea 1- European Low CDS Government Bond FundISIN codes:LU0634509953 (BP share class, retail)LU0637308585 (BI share class, institutional)Front-end fee: 5%Management fees:0.50% (BP share class)0.25% (BI share class)Minimal subscriptionEUR50 (BP share class)EUR75,000 (BI share class)
20/04/2012

German savings investors turn up their noses at funds

According to a survey of a representative sample of the German population by the GfK institute, commissioned by Gothaer Asset Management (GoAM, EUR23bn in assets), only 9% of Germans invest in shares in investment funds. However, says Christof Kessler, chairman of the board at GoAM, funds are the most attractive vehicle to construct an asset portfolio.

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