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Friday, August 16, 2013 Three Things to Know About Federated Investors Federated Investors [profile] announced earnings of $0.39 per diluted share and net income of $40.4 million, both equal to last year's second quarter earnings and net income. Its AUM came to $363.8 billion, up from $355.9 billion last year. Federated's equity assets were $38.7 billion, up 17 percent from last year, and fixed income assets, were $50 billion, up 2 percent from last year. Money market assets in funds and separate accounts came to $268 billion up 1 percent from last year. MFWire/i> found three important points to note from Federated Investors' Seeking Alpha transcript of the earnings call. POINT 1: Federated Investors may be moving closer to an M&A deal in Australia. POINT 2: The firm's shorter duration fixed income products are seeing redemptions higher than the industry's. POINT 3: Federated is and has been consolidating the money market business as regulations may make the business more expensive to run. POINT 1: Federated Investors may be moving closer to an M&A deal in Australia. Michael Kim of Sandler O'Neill: And then maybe can you give us an update on what you're seeing in the M&A markets in terms of opportunities, competition, pricing trends, what have you, particularly in light of sort of the recent step-up in market volatility? Thomas Robert Donahue, CFO, vice president and treasurer at Federated Investors: But on the -- I'd say we have more activity going on as we focused on the Asia Pac and in Europe, and we've got lots of meetings and it's taking us significant amount of time to develop relationships over there, spending time. And actually with our team in Australia, people down there with Craig Bingham and his contacts, we're developing and starting to have some pretty decent discussions. And the same thing in Europe, we've met people for 2 to 3 years now and are -- and can see our way to having pretty decent discussions. And that's what I have to say about that.POINT 2: The firm's shorter duration fixed income products are seeing redemptions higher than the industry's. Robert Lee of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods: Okay. And maybe looking at -- and this goes for both the fixed income and the equity business on the funds side. I mean, you guys have always kind of run with higher redemption rates, particularly both for those product lines, at least positive for the industry. And I understand that's somewhat driven by distribution and probably a decent portion of short duration products.POINT 3: Federated is and has been consolidating the money market business as regulations may make the business more expensive to run. Gregory Warren of Morningstar: I just have a thought about the money market industry going forward. It's easier to make a case for consolidation when there are proposals put on the table for capital buffers, which will have made it a much more expensive business to run. Based on where the proposals are now and based on kind of what the feedback you're hearing out in the industry, do you think that there's going to be a larger level of consolidation going forward? And then, I guess, the question is, are you guys interested in being a major participant in that? Or is your acquisition-related activity more going to be focused on the fixed income and equity side?See the transcript of Federated Investors' earnings call and the earnings release for more on how Federated Investors is doing. Printed from: MFWire.com/story.asp?s=45566 Copyright 2013, InvestmentWires, Inc. All Rights Reserved |