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21/06/2011
Fonds

BNY Mellon AS va administrer neuf ETF lancés par Direxion

Le 20 juin, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing a annoncé avoir été sélectionné pour fournir des services de conservation, de comptabilité et d’administration à huit ETF à effet de levier (levier de 3) et un ETF inversé (bear) lancés récemment par Direxion Shares.Il s’agit dans le détail des fonds suivants : Direxion Daily Agribusiness Bull 3x Shares DAXglobal Agribusiness IndexDirexion Daily Agribusiness Bear 3x Shares DAXglobal Agribusiness IndexDirexion Daily Russia Bull 3x DAXglobal Russia+ IndexDirexion Daily Russia Bear 3x Shares DAXglobal Russia+ IndexDirexion Daily Basic Materials Bull 3X Shares Russell 1000® Materials & Processing IndexDirexion Daily Basic Materials Bear 3X Shares Russell 1000® Materials & Processing IndexDirexion Daily Healthcare Bull 3X Shares Russell 1000® Healthcare IndexDirexion Daily Healthcare Bear 3X Shares Russell 1000® Healthcare Index et Direxion Daily Total Market Bear 1X Shares Russell 3000® Index.
Fonds
21/06/2011

RBC Wealth Management numéro un outre-Atlantique pour la satisfaction client

Selon la neuvième étude annuelle de satisfaction réalisée par J.D. Power & Associates («2011 U.S. Full Service Investor Satisfaction Study») auprès de 4.200 investisseurs faisant appel à un conseiller, RBC Wealth Management, le pôle gestion de fortune de la banque canadienne Royal Bank of Canada, a obtenu la meilleure note de satisfaction de la part de la clientèle. Sur la base de sept critères principaux (conseil, performance, information, offres, frais et commissions, site internet et résolution des problèmes), RBC a totalisé 814 points sur une échelle de 1.000 points, devant Charles Schwab (805 points) et Fidelity Investments (796 points). L'étude montre aussi que la clientèle utilise de plus en plus l’internet. On observe ainsi que 59% des investisseurs ont consulté le site internet de leur société de référence au cours des douze derniers mois, contre 52% en 2009. Et 51% des investisseurs ont échangé un courriel avec leur conseiller en 2011, contre 19% en 2008. Parmi les investisseurs qui consultent le site internet de leur société, les clients de plus de 64 ans rendent en moyenne plus de 35 visites par an, contre 23 visites par an pour la tranche d'âge 45-64 ans, et seulement 12 visites par an pour les moins de 45 ans. L'étude révèle aussi que 85% des clients n’ont soit jamais entendu parler soit ne comprennent pas la différence entre le standard d’adaptabilité, qui exige du conseiller qu’il propose des investissements adaptés au profil du client, et le standard fiduciaire, qui exige du conseiller qu’il agisse dans le meilleur intérêt des clients et qu’il divulgue tous les conflits d’intérêts.
21/06/2011
Fonds

Paulson accuse une perte sur Sino Forest

Paulson & Co a perdu plus de 500 millions de dollars après avoir vendu la totalité de sa participation dans Sino Forest, la société chinoise spécialisée dans les forêts qui est soupçonnée de fraude, rapporte le Financial Times. Paulson & Co était le principal actionnaire de l’entreprise, avec 14 % fin avril. En mai, Paulson & Co a déjà vu la valeur de son fonds vedette Paulson & Co Advantage Plus chuter de 6 %, ce qui porte la perte depuis le début de l’année à 7,6 %.
Fonds
21/06/2011

AnaCap acquires the Czech affiliate of Banco Popolare

The British private equity investor AnaCap Financial Partners (EUR1.3bn in assets) has teamed up with the asset management affiliates of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to acquire Banco Popolare Česká Republika, the Czech affiliate of Italy’s Banco Popolare, for EUR48m, the Wall Street Journal reports. Banco Popolare Česká has only seven locations and 100 employees. The transaction will generate capital gains of EUR12m for the parent company.
21/06/2011
Gestion d'actifs

La Banque Populaire du Sud Ouest privilégie les produits à capital garanti du Groupe BPCE

A l’instar des autres Banques Populaires, BPSO est consolidée, ce qui signifie qu’elle n’a pas de portefeuille titre pour compte propre et ses investissements sont notamment des titres de participation qu’elle possède dans les structures du groupe BPCE. Pourtant, ce ne sont pas des investissements de portefeuille car la problématique fonds propres et ressources de la banque régionale est liée exclusivement ou quasi exclusivement aux crédits distribués à ses clients et son portefeuille de placement pour fonds propres est extrêmement limité. Ainsi, la banque a très peu de ligne d’investissement dans les produits financiers qui sont de plus en plus des produits du groupe à capital garanti. Par ailleurs, elle ne prend pas de nouvelles participations. Pourtant, la banque régionale va devoir se conformer aux nouveaux aspects fonds propres et liquidités introduits par la nouvelle règlementation de Bâle III. Aujourd’hui, la banque admet que son ratio de solvabilité est correct mais elle va devoir, au fur et à mesure des prochaines années, consolider ses fonds propres pour se conformer à Bâle III et tendre vers un ratio de solvabilité qui lui permette de continuer à financer ses clients. Pour ce qui est de la liquidité, la BPSO fait depuis plusieurs années, davantage de crédits à ses clients que ceux ci ne font de dépôts. De ce fait, la banque emprunte en permanence sur les marchés de façon significative. Pourtant, la nouvelle règlementation va l’obliger à mettre des ressources monétaires d’option plus longues en face de ses crédits. Mais plus les ressources monétaires sont longues, plus elles sont chères et pour ne pas augmenter le taux de ses crédits et continuer à en accorder, la BPSO va devoir être plus performante vis-à-vis de la collecte, notamment bilancielle.
Gestion d'actifs
21/06/2011

Frankfurt Trust launches an emerging markets consumer sector fund

The asset management arm of BHF-Bank, Frankfurt Trust, on 20 June announced the launch of the Luxembourg-registered fund FT Emerging ConsumerDemand, which is available in P (retail) and I (institutional) shares, and is managed by Thierry Misamer at Frankfurt Trust, and Tillo Wannow of BHF-Bank.In order to profit from growth in emerging markets, the fund will invest in companies in the consumer goods sector. Initially, the 40-position portfolio will be divided into two halves, one for consumer staples, and the other for discretionary consumer goods. The shares will be selected from among emerging markets companies as well as companies from developed countries which make more than 30% of their earnings in emerging countries.CharacteristicsName: FT Emerging ConsumerDemandISIN codes:P class: LU0632979331I class: LU0632979174Front-end fee:P class: 5%I class: no front-end fee at presentManagement commission:P class: 1.50%I class: 0.74%Depository banking commission: 0.04% (P and I classes)Minimal initial subscriptionP class: EUR2,500I class: EUR250,000
21/06/2011

AllianceBernstein loses two contracts to JP Morgan

JP Morgan has taken over the management of two advising mandates which were previously held by AllianceBernstein, Mutual Fund Wire reports. The two mandates in question are the MassMutual Select Diversified International Fund (USD146.1m), and the MassMutual Select Overseas Fund (USD572.6m).
21/06/2011

BNY Mellon AS to administer nine ETFs from Direxion

On 20 June, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing announced that it has been selected to provide custody, accounting and administration services to eight leveraged ETFs (leverage of 3) and one bear ETF recently released by Direxion Shares.The funds are the following:Direxion Daily Agribusiness Bull 3x Shares DAXglobal Agribusiness IndexDirexion Daily Agribusiness Bear 3x Shares DAXglobal Agribusiness IndexDirexion Daily Russia Bull 3x DAXglobal Russia+ Index Direxion Daily Russia Bear 3x Shares DAXglobal Russia+ IndexDirexion Daily Basic Materials Bull 3X Shares Russell 1000® Materials & Processing IndexDirexion Daily Basic Materials Bear 3X Shares Russell 1000® Materials & Processing IndexDirexion Daily Healthcare Bull 3X Shares Russell 1000® Healthcare IndexDirexion Daily Healthcare Bear 3X Shares Russell 1000® Healthcare Index and Direxion Daily Total Market Bear 1X Shares Russell 3000® Index.
21/06/2011

Paulson makes a loss on Sino Forest

Paulson & Co has lost more than USD500m after selling its entire stake in Sino Forest, the Chinese forestry company, which is suspected of fraud, the Financial Times reports. Paulson & Co was the largest shareholder in the firm, with a 14% stake as of the end of April. In May, Paulson & Co already saw a 6% fall in the value of its flagship fund, Paulson & Co Advantage Plus, bringing losses since the beginning of the year to 7.6%.
21/06/2011

Investec proposes an emerging markets debt fund

Investment Week reports that Investec Asset Management has launched an investment grade emerging markets debt fund. The offshore fund, Investec GSF Emerging Markets Investment Grade Debt fund, will invest as its top priority in government bonds rated investment grade and denominated in local currencies, with a particular interest in developed emerging markets (Brazil, Mexico, Hungary, South Africa). The fund will include 10 to 20 long and short positions, selected from among the best-rated bonds, in order to profit from returns as well as appreciation of local currencies.
21/06/2011

NYSE Euronext bond platform gets AMF approval

NYSE Euronext on 20 June announced that the launch of the first multilateral trading facility (MTF) for corporate bonds in Europe is slated for 11 July, as the project has received approval from the French financial market regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF). The platform, which will be known as NYSE BondMatch, and will be based in Paris, was promoted in 2010 by the Comité Cassiopée, which led the French initiative for a platform of this type, to improve the liquidity and transparency of the secondary credit market, in which 90% of transactions are made in opaque over-the-counter trades. NYSE BondMatch will allow professional investors to trade over 1,800 corporate, financial and real estate sector bonds, via a transparent order book, which will accept only firm orders. The new European trading platform will charge competitive prices, and will improve not only the transparency and liquidity of the market by being open to all buy-side and sell-side participants, but will also offer required post-market services through LCH.Clearnet SA, a clearing-house that has ties to the largest European central securities depositories (CSD), and international central securities depositories (ICSD) for settlement and clearance.
21/06/2011

Fidelity hopes to build a presence in Brazil

Funds People reports that Fidelity International has decided to send its head of sales for Spain and Portugal, Pablo Anabitarte, to São Paulo, as head of development for Brazil. He will be assisted by other partners at Fidelity, which is not currently present elsewhere in Latin America, aside from Chile (where it has USD8.66bn in assets).Anabitarte will be transferred to Brazil from 1 July, and will be replaced on the executive board of the Madrid office by Domingo Barros and Martina Álvarez.
21/06/2011

Ignis registers Argonaut European Alpha Fund in Spain

The CNMV on 10 June issued a sales license for Spain for shares in euros in the British-registered fund Ignis Argonaut Alpha Fund (EUR416m), which is managed by Barry Norris and Oliver Russ of Argonaut Capital Partners. The share classes, GB00B42LLR21 (A) and GB00B44P9H80 (I), will be available from RBC Dexia Investor Services España, and have received sales licenses for Germany and Austria. Ignis is also planning to register the fund shares for sale in France, Italy (only to institutional investors) and Switzerland.
21/06/2011

AFIC modernises governance

Members of the French association of capital investors (AFIC) have massively voted to modernise the governance of the association at its general assembly, held on 15 June. The professional association says in a statement release on 20 June that it is “adopting an exemplary and modern governance for itself, which is more formally regulated and which clarifies the role and missions of each individual. The reforms also aim to strengthen the stability, transparency, effectiveness and representativeness of the association, as well as to open its environment further.” Meanwhile, AFIC has also strengthened its deontology code, clarifying rules and procedural points based on them.In order to improve continuity in the association’s representation, in particular to government entities, social partners and economic decision-makers, the term of AFIC’s chairman has been lengthened from one to two years. Following the reforms, Hervé Schricke (chairman of the board at XAnge Private Equity and XAnge Capital) was re-elected for a two-year term as chairman of the AFIC board of directors.
21/06/2011

LBB-Invest teams up with Pall Mall to advise institutional investors

The German affiliate of the London-based Pall Mall Investment Management (PMIM) has signed a partnership with the Berlin-based asset management firm LBB-Invest to advise institutional clients in the areas of asset allocation and risk management. PMIM becomes the exclusive partner of LBB-Invest.The range of services will be based on the Risk@Work method, developed by PMIM three years ago. The objective is both to preserve the portfolio in periods of falling markets, and to ensure a high participation rate in rising markets. The method is based on the determination of a value at risk factor which is appropriate for portfolios with risk budgets. The two partners say that unlike methods adopted by many competitors, Risk@Work takes into account the differences in liquidity between various asset classes.
21/06/2011

RBC Wealth Management number one in North America for customer satisfaction

According to the ninth annual customer satisfaction study by J.D. Power & Associates (“2011 U.S. Full Service Investor Satisfaction Study,”) covering 4,200 investors who use an advisor, RBS Wealth Management, the wealth management unit of the Canadian bank Royal Bank of Canada, has received the highest satisfaction score from its clients. On the basis of seven major criteria (advising, performance, information, product offerings, fees and commissions, website and problem resolution,) RBC scored a total of 814 points on a scale of 1 to 1,000, putting it ahead of Charles Schwab (805 points) and Fidelity Investments (796 points). The study also reveals that clients are increasingly using the Internet. 59% of investors have consulted the website of their management firm in the past twelve months, compared with 52% in 2009, and 51% of investors exchanged email with their advisor in 2011, compared with 19% in 2008. Among the investors who had viewed the website of their firm, clients aged over 64 averaged over 35 visits per year, compared with 23 visits per year for the 45-64 year-old age group, and only 12 visits per year for those aged under 45. The study also reveals that 85% of clients had either never heard of or had never understood the difference between the ssuitability tandard, which requires that the adviser offer investments adapted to the client’s profile, and the fiduciary standard, which requires the advisor to act in the best interest of clients and to disclose any conflicts of interest.
21/06/2011

Carolyn Clancy promoted to executive vice president of FundsNetwork

Fidelity has promoted Carolyn Clancy to become director of its mutual fund supermarket operation. Mutual Fund Wire reports that Clancy was appointed as executive vice president of FundsNetwork about a month ago. She replaces Paul Riley, who has left the group to join Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
21/06/2011

Somangest retains Investeam for distribution for some of its funds

The French asset management firm Somangest has awarded a contract for distribution of some of its funds via distribution platforms and independent financial advisers (IFA) to the third-party marketing firm Investeam. The two funds included in the deal are Somactiv and Sominter.
21/06/2011

Altarius AM launches an investment platform based in Malta

Altarius Asset Management Limited, the asset management affiliate of the Altarius Group, based in Malta, at the end of last week announced that it has launched its investment platform, Paragon Sicav plc (Paragon), which is one of the first independent investment platforms in Malta created exclusively for third-party managers and family offices. Paragon, which is registered as a P.I.F. (professional investment fund), is described as extremely flexible in terms of investment strategy, liquidity, reporting, and debt. One of the major advantages of Paragon is that it is exempt from income and capital gains taxes. Among its other strong points, Paragon has an open architecture, which allows clients to name their own service provider. As a collective investment organism, it is also highly profitable, as creation and maintenance costs are distributed between all the sub-funds on the platform. Paragon does not impose a minimal portfolio, nor a lock-up period.
21/06/2011

Less than half of managers invest in the funds they manage

According to statistics from Morningstar compiled by InvestmentNews, only 40% of managers invest in their own funds, and of that 40%, 60% are equities managers.Morningstar has established that the more a manager invests in his own fund, the better the fund performs. For funds in which the manager has over USD1m invested, the average rating is 3.5 stars and the average tenure for the manager in charge of the fund is over 12 years.At the other end of the spectrum, funds in which the manager does not invest or invests a small amount have an average rating of 2.9 stars, and the average tenure for managers in charge of the funds is 4.6 years.Most asset management firms have no formal rules about whether managers are required to invest in their own funds. But Royce & Associates (Legg Mason group) requires that its lead managers invest at least USD1m in their funds, while co-managers are required to invest at least USD500,000.However, at Vanguard, the manager is not at all invested in 84 out of 114 funds.
21/06/2011

Rab Capital: withdrawal from trading to take place in a matter of days

The news agency Reuters reports that the hedge fund firm RAB Capital, based in London, will in the next few days confirm its decision to withdraw from trading on the Alternative Investment Market. Assets under management at the firm, which peaked at about USD7bn in late 2007, have fallen to USD1bn. The 2010 fiscal year ended with losses of GBP20.2m.
21/06/2011

Departures from Fidelity UK

Fidelity has confirmed the departure of several members of its UK teams, including the director of products for the team responsible for UK equities, Peter Hicks, FundWeb reports. In the interim, from early July, the responsibilities will be handled by William Russell.
21/06/2011

ISS supports LSE-TMX merger

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is recommending that shareholders in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) vote in favour of a merger with TMX, the operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal reports. The independent shareholder advisory firm has, however, not yet issued a recommendation for TMX shareholders, who are facing two rival offers, one from LSE and one from Maple Group Acquisition Corp.ISS is the second agency to recommend approval for the LSE-TMX merger, following Glass Lewis & Co, a independent advisory agency serving institutional investors, which considers the LSE offer “superior” to the Maple Group offer for TMX shareholders.Glass Lewis is an indirect affiliate of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, one of the founders and backers of Maple.
21/06/2011

UK pension funds switching asset managers

According to an annual survey by Financial Times fund management, several major asset management firms have seen a collapse in their assets managed for UK pension funds in the past three years. This is particularly true of Alliance Bernstein, Axa IM, Scottish Widows IP, Goldman Sachs AM, Aberdeen AM and Henderson GI. In the meantime, other asset managers have gained market share in this segment: Insight IM, Legal & General IM and BlackRock.
21/06/2011

Skandia Global Funds recrute Susana García

Le britannique Skandia Global Funds a annoncé avoir embauché comme marketing executive Susana García, qui sera chargée de soutenir depuis Londres l'équipe de Skandia Investment Group pour l’Espagne et l’Amérique latine. Elle était auparavant responsable du marketing pour l’Espagne et le Portugal chez American Express Funds, précise Funds People.Susana García fera équipe avec Mercedes Azpiroz et Pilar Bravo et elle sera chargée aussi du développement des activités marketing pour l’Espagne et l’Amérique latine.
21/06/2011

Schroders recruits a former UBS GAM head

Schroders has appointed Bob Jolly to a new role on its fixed income team as head of global macro based in London. He joins from UBS Global Asset Management where he was head of global sovereign, currency and UK fixed income portfolio management.Bob Jolly, who joins in September, will also take on lead portfolio management responsibility for a number of macro and multi-sector portfolios managed by a team of ten in London. Current mandates include aggregate, sovereign and absolute return strategies with nearly USD15 billion of assets under management. He will also work with regional portfolio managers in Asia and the US to further develop Schroders’ global macro investment framework.
21/06/2011

London & Regional acquires FCC headquarters

Cotizalia reports that the British asset management firm London & Regional (EUR9bn in assets) has obtained an exclusive right to acquire the headquarters of Spain’s FCC in Madrid and Barcelona. The sale would total EUR60-70m, and FCC would receive a 20-year lease as a part of the sale and leaseback operation. The acquisition would be London & Regional’s first investment in the currently depressed Spanish market.
21/06/2011

Aletti Gestielle appoints a new CIO

Aletti Gestielle Sgr, an Italian asset management firm of the Banco Popolare group, has appointed Fabrizio Fiorini as its new chief investment officer. Fiorini, who arrived at the group in 1997, has served in several positions, including head of fixed income, and since 2010, head of asset allocation.
21/06/2011

Prudential funds integrated into M&G fund range

The Corporate Bond trust from Prudential, with assets of GBP783m, was merged on 20 June with the M&G Corporate Bond fund, whose assets total GBP4.1bn, Investment Week reports. The fund, managed by Richard Woolnough, now has over USD5bn in assets. Another Prudential fund, the North American Trust (GBP60m) will be merged into the M&G American fund (GBP2.3bn). The Managed trust (GBP278m) will merge with the M&G Managed fund (GBP717m), while the European Trust (GBP90m) will be absorbed into the M&G Pan European fund (GBP175m).

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