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Tuesday, August 13, 2013 Three Things to Know About ING U.S. ING U.S. Investment Management [profile] reported earnings of $177 million or $0.71 per share compared with $0.56 per share in the second quarter of 2012, MarketWatch writes. Its net loss attributable to common shareholders was was $82 million or $0.33 per share, a decrease from $634 million or $2.74 per share year over year. Its after tax-loss was $220 million. MFWire noticed three things of note from Seeking Alpha's earnings call. POINT 1: ING U.S.'s return to equity investing has benefitted them well. POINT 2: ING US plans more "one-time" fund launches. POINT 3: The appeal of mutual fund custodial products is that they attract investors looking for flexibility. POINT 1: ING U.S.'s return to equity investing has benefitted them well. Jimmy Bhullar: Hi, good morning. So, I just had first to follow up on Mark's question and maybe a little bit more directly. Like a lot of your competitors have had success with buyout options on VAs, have you considered those and what are the potential -- what are the plusses and negatives on you doing something similar to what some of the other companies have done? And then, also, I had a question on just your investment management business. You've had very strong third party net flows and you mentioned the strong performance, so wondering if you could just discuss on what are some of the factors that are driving that, and what your expectations are, not specific numbers but in general going forward for those?POINT 2: ING US plans more "one-time" fund launches. Tom Gallagher of Credit Suisse: Okay. And then -- and sorry, if I could just squeeze you one last one for Alain. So, just following your commentary about the very strong flows within asset management, are you able to I guess separate it between what you would deem to be more of one-time fund launches, because I know you mentioned a private equity fund launch, you also mentioned the commercial bank loans? Can we separate out kind of recurring flows on fund that you already had versus may be new fund launches, whether that close end funds or the like that might be more one-time in nature? Is there a way to separate that out?POINT 3: The appeal of mutual fund custodial products is that they attract investors looking for flexibility. Eric Berg of RBC Capital Markets: Okay. Final question, I am intrigued. I will not understand better than I do this custodial product. Really briefly, for the purposes of allowing us to press ahead year, can you help me explain, can you help me understand very succinctly, why you are able to earn target rates of return on that product but not on a conventional fixed annuity product? What is different about it?See the transcript of ING U.S.'s earnings call and the earnings release for more on how ING U.S. is doing. Printed from: MFWire.com/story.asp?s=45480 Copyright 2013, InvestmentWires, Inc. All Rights Reserved |