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Round-up Of Quarterly Wealth Management Financial Results
Tom Burroughes
7 November 2011
Here are the main quarterly results for major banking groups around the world so far in the latest results season. The results focus on the wealth management sides of banks, although not all financial institutions break out their wealth results and as a result, are not all strictly comparable. This summary will be updated in due course. Morgan Stanley The wealth management arm of US banking group Morgan Stanley saw pre-tax income rise to $362 million in the three months to 30 September from $281 million a year ago, boosting results for the entire bank. The Global Wealth Management Group’s pre-tax margin was 11 per cent. Income after the non-controlling interest allocation to Citigroup and before taxes was $310 million, it said. Citigoup Net income rose 74 per cent year-over-year at Citigroup to $3.8 billion, or $1.23 per diluted share. Net income was also up by 13 per cent on a consecutive basis. (The bank gave no private banking figures.) Goldman Sachs Assets under management at Goldman Sachs shrank by $23 billion to $821 billion during the third quarter of 2011. It attributed the decrease to a market decline of $29 billion, primarily in equity assets, which was partially offset by net inflows of $6 billion. Across the group, Goldman Sachs reported net revenues of $3.59 billion and a net loss of $393 million for the three months ended 30 September. It does not break down its results for wealth management, which is not treated as a discrete element in the firm's results. Bank of America Global wealth and investment management at BofA reported a net income of $347 million for the three months ended 30 September - 29 per cent more than for the same period last year. At the same time, the bank’s wealth and investment division logged net income of $506 million in the previous quarter this year. This means that Bank of America has logged net income of almost $1.4 billion for the first nine months this year, compared with just over $1 billion for the same period last year. Assets under management fell to $617 billion from $661 billion at the end of June. Wells Fargo Net income at the firm’s wealth, brokerage and retirement division fell to $291 million for the three months to 30 September, from $333 in the prior quarter. On a year-over-year basis, net income at the segment rose by $35 million. Revenue for the three months at the wealth, brokerage and retirement unit was $2.9 billion, down by 6 per cent on a consecutive basis. Wells Fargo said this was due “primarily” to losses on deferred compensation plan investments (offset in expense), as well as a fall in securities gains in the brokerage business and lower brokerage transaction revenue. BNY Mellon The firm reported third quarter net income applicable to common shareholders of $651 million, or $0.53 per common share, compared with $622 million, or $0.51 per common share, in the third quarter of 2010 and $735 million, or $0.59 per common share, in the second quarter of 2011. Assets under management, excluding securities lending assets, amounted to $1.2 trillion at 30 September. This represents an increase of 5 per cent from a year ago. JP Morgan The firm said revenue from private banking in the third quarter of this year rose 10 per cent year-on-year to $1.3 billion, while the US bank as a whole saw its net income fall slightly to $4.3 billion, down from $4.4 billion in the same three months of 2010. Europe BNP Paribas Wealth and asset management pre-tax income at BNP Paribas fell to €195 million (around $266 million) in the three months to 30 September compared with €250 million in the same period a year ago and also dropped from €290 million in the previous quarter. Revenues in this segment of the bank fell to €804 million from €825 million a year ago. Sociéte Générale (8 November). Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank has reported a pre-tax profit of €186 million ($259 million) from its asset and wealth management arm for the third quarter – more than doubling the Q3 2010 figure of €91 million. For the third quarter of 2011, Deutsche’s asset and wealth management arm posted net revenues of €876 million, down €63 million, or 7 per cent, year-over-year. Within asset management, discretionary portfolio and fund management revenues fell by €32 million (equating to a fall of 7 per cent), while within private wealth management these revenues fell by €9 million (a drop of 8 per cent). UBS Pre-tax profits rose at the wealth management businesses of UBS in the third quarter, although its Americas segment fell slightly, while pre-tax profits for the Zurich-listed bank were hit - as previously expected - by the unauthorized trading loss reported in September, as well as restructuring charges and lower investment banking income. Pre-tax profit at the wealth management arm of UBS rose to SFr888 million (around $1.0 billion) in the third quarter of 2011, compared with SFr672 million in the previous three months, while Wealth Management Americas’ pre-tax profit fell 1 per cent to SFr139 million from SFr140 million. Credit Suisse Credit Suisse’s private banking arm – comprising global wealth management and Swiss corporate and institutional clients – logged pre-tax income of SFr183 million (around $207. 4 million) in the third quarter, down 78 per cent from SFr836 million a year ago, affected by one-off litigation costs. The pre-tax income figures for the latest three-month period included litigation provisions of SFr295 million linked to US tax issues and SFr183 million connected to a German tax issue. Julius Baer (interim statement on 14 November). Asia-Pacific DBS Wealth management net fee and commission income at Singapore-headquartered DBS, fell 19 per cent quarter-on-quarter to S$42 million (around $32.9 million); over the first nine months of 2011, net fee and commission income rose by 58 per cent to S$145 million, however. Consumer and private banking net interest income contracted to S$350 million in the third quarter of this year, down from S$338 million a year ago, while pre-tax profits rose to S$141 million from $130 million. Oversea-China Banking Corporation Singapore’s second-largest bank grew fees and commission revenues by a fifth year on year during the first nine months of 2011, led by wealth management, loans and trade-related fees. The bank said in its third quarter results that wealth management had performed strongly, with revenues from insurance, private banking, asset management, stockbroking and sales of other wealth management products up by 2 per cent to S$1 billion ($780 million) during the first nine months on the same period last year. UK Barclays Wealth Barclays Wealth recorded a profit before tax of £153 million (about $246 million) for the nine months ended 30 September, up from £122 million for the same period last year. Lloyds Banking Group (interim results, 8 November) HSBC (interim results, 9 November) Royal Bank of Scotland The wealth arm of UK-listed Royal Bank of Scotland, which includes Coutts, the private bank, logged an operating profit, before impairments, of £75 million ($119.9 million) in the three months ending 30 September, unchanged on a year ago, but down from £77 million from the end of June.