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Thursday, February 14, 2013 Three Things to Know From Manning and Napier's Earnings The senior management team at Manning & Napier perceives a change in the market’s headwinds, and they have a plan for seizing upon this weather change. If you look at SeekingAlpha’stranscript of the fourth quarter earnings conference call as well as the company’s earnings info, you’ll find at least three good takeaways on how the company is enjoying the change in investment climate. But first, the basics. Manning reported a whole lot of different varieties of income for the quarter. Firstly, it reported fourth quarter 2012 economic income of $40.5 million, compared with $40.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, and $39.6 million in the third quarter of 2012. Also for the fourth quarter of 2012, economic net income was $25.0 million, or 28-cents per adjusted share, compared with $24.7 million, or 27-cents per adjusted share in the fourth quarter of 2011, and $24.4 million, or 27-cents per adjusted share in the third quarter of 2012. Meanwhile, on a GAAP basis, net income attributable to the controlling and non-controlling interests for the fourth quarter was $11.5 million, compared with net loss of $179.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 and net income of $21.1 million in the third quarter of 2012. The increase in net income compared to the fourth quarter of 2011 is attributable to the decrease in non-cash reorganization-related share-based compensation expense of $188.1 million, while the sequential decrease in net income is attributed to an increase in the non-cash reorganization-related share-based compensation expense of $9.9 million. Finally, GAAP net loss attributable to the common shareholders for the fourth quarter of $0.3 million, or $0.02 per basic and diluted share, reflects the public ownership of the Company's subsidiary, Manning & Napier Group, LLC. The remaining ownership interest is attributed to the other members of Manning & Napier Group, LLC. Now, we go to the takeaways. POINT #1: A Change In Market Headwinds Plays to Manning’s Favor POINT #2: Manning Is Investing A Lot in Distribution POINT #3: Manning See Plenty of Relationship Opportunities to Leverage for Further Growth Now, to elaborate on these points. POINT #1: A Change In Market Headwinds Plays to Manning’s Favor Chief executive Patrick Cunningham had this to say on the subject of headwinds: So let’s start with the market. As you know, global equity markets ended the year with strong returns despite continued economic and political challenges. Both the S&P 500 and the All Country World Index SUX were up more than 15%. In a reversal from 2011, bonds were in line with historic returns and stocks outperformed bonds. POINT #2: Manning Is Investing A Lot in Distribution Cunningham described Manning’s investments in distribution as follows: As we enter 2013, we are continuing to focus on the depth of our multi-channel distribution structure and new products and solutions. We added six new U.S. based hires to our direct sales channel over the course of 2012. We continue to integrate those new hires into the organization and we see early signs of adoption in some of the new territories already. Cunningham also had this to say about the sales hires: Clearly we have an existing sales force that’s much larger than the new hires we made last year. So, I would say the fact that we have had, you know, for the majority of our investment strategies, and the good absolute and positive returns that we closed the year with, that there’s no question that our existing sales force has had – you know, the intense service environment has abated. So, I think that will have the, you know, the biggest impacts on new production going forward.POINT #3: Manning See Plenty of Relationship Opportunities to Leverage for Further Growth Both Cunningham and chief financial officer James Mikolaichik had interesting things to say regarding client relationships. First, Cunningham had these words: First of all let me point out that we have, you know, we have hundreds of relationships. So we have, you know, - as we look at these platforms, you know, - when you go to a single institution it can have five, six, seven different platforms on them. So, we continue to believe that there’s tremendous growth potential on the platform side of things. Both with companies that we already have a couple of relationships we think we can expand those, and there are some companies that we don’t have any relationships currently that we’re hopefully going to penetrate over time. Later in the discussion Mikolaichik elaborated on these relationships in this way: …, in total, I think what we saw through all the channels is what Patrick said. Is the direct channel brought assets in, and that’s where we have the real direct client relationships, and we saw that in, you know, non-U.S. and in multi-asset class products. And we saw it in the intermediary space we continued to see reasonable traction, and we heard good things from the sales force in that space as well. For more information, turn to SeekingAlpha’stranscript of the fourth quarter earnings conference call as well as the company’s earnings info. Printed from: MFWire.com/story.asp?s=43008 Copyright 2013, InvestmentWires, Inc. All Rights Reserved |