Peter deSilva
Analyst · Matt Olney with Stephens
Thanks, Mike. Good morning, everyone. As you’ve seen in our press release, our results continue to demonstrate the long-term value of being a growth oriented organization with a diverse business mix. Fee income represented 57.8% of total revenue this quarter, giving us an advantage in an industry where the median level of fee income was 20.9% in the first quarter according to SNL Financial. As Mariner mentioned, this reduces our reliance on margin in this persistently low interest rate environment.
To provide additional context to our results, I’d like to discuss the primary drivers of our fee income and highlight some of the developments in each of our segments. Let me begin with the Institutional Investment Management segment, which is comprised of Scout Investments, equity and fixed income mutual funds, and separately managed investment accounts.
Revenue in this segment is driven by mutual fund and separately managed account assets. Net flows, equity and fixed income market performance, and new business contribute to our assets under management. The second quarter was a particularly difficult period for equity markets with both domestic and international indices falling.
For the quarter, the S&P 500 was down 2.8% and the MSCI EAFE was down 7.1%. Year-to-date as of June 30, the S&P 500 increased 9.5% and the MSCI EAFE increased 3.4%.
Scout ended the quarter with $22.4 billion in assets under management. This represents an increase of just over 8% compared to the second quarter of 2011.
Assets in Scout mutual funds closed the quarter at $9.8 billion. Scout’s fixed income separately managed accounts ended the quarter with $12 billion in assets under management and Scout equity separately managed accounts totaled $624 million at quarter’s end. The Scout funds posted $353.9 million in net inflows for the quarter driven by the Mid Cap fund with $178 million, the international fund with $146 million, and our bond funds which collectively had net flows of $54 million.
Our fixed income separately managed accounts experienced net outflows of $340 million during the quarter largely as a result of a single client loss. Net inflows for the overall Scout complex were $13.3 million for the quarter. The continued turbulence in the equity markets during the quarter impacted Scout’s assets under management by a negative $283 million.
Year-to-date, this total Scout complex has had over $1.5 billion in net flows for an overall 2012 year-to-date flow rate of 7.9%. Scout’s history of strong investment performance and its diversified distribution efforts have been key in bringing in new business despite very challenging market conditions.
Our Asset Servicing segment is comprised of UMB Fund Services. The primary drivers of revenue in this segment are new business, transaction volumes in our clients’ funds and accounts, and overall asset valuations. Our fees are based on a variety of factors depending on client agreements, including basis points on assets administered, transaction fees, or per account fees. Asset Servicing ended the quarter with $147.3 billion in assets under administration compared to $220 billion in the second quarter of 2011.
As Mike shared earlier, we had one large custody-only client depart during the quarter. As you may know, the standalone custody business is highly competitive, very price sensitive, and carries low profit margins. Net of this one client loss, assets under administrations would have increased $21 billion over the second quarter of 2011.
We continue to focus on being a full service provider and we are actively targeting clients who are looking to outsource their entire back office operation to a high quality service provider.
In our Payment Solutions segment, there were a number of important business drivers including overall credit and debit card purchase volume and the resulting card interchange; HSA deposits, FSA and HSA accounts; along with ACH wire and check transactions.
We group card purchase volume into 4 major categories; commercial credit, consumer credit, consumer debit, and health care debit. For the second quarter, purchase volume across our entire suite of card products increased 29.8% to a record $1.8 billion when compared to the second quarter of 2011.
Health care debit spending increased 16.3% over the same period a year ago, bringing in $1.9 million in interchange revenue for the quarter.
Bank card fees were 2% higher than the same quarter last year. As we’ve disclosed previously, we expect the full year impact of the Durbin Amendment to be approximately $9.1 million. However, increased volumes are helping to offset the mandated reduction in debit interchange rates. For the quarter, interchange revenue was $15.6 million, a slight decrease of 1.6% from a year ago. Debit card interchange comprised 28% of total interchange.
At the end of the second quarter, deposits in our healthcare services custody accounts stood at $387.8 million, an increase of 35.1% when compared to the second quarter of last year. Flexible spending arrangements and health saving accounts totaled $2.3 million representing a 12% increase from 1 year ago. We had another strong quarter in this business and it continues to be a reliable, strategic, and low cost source of deposit and a growing source of debit card interchange for us.
As Mariner mentioned earlier, UMB is known for strong credit quality and the quality of our card portfolio is certainly no exception. Credit card quality remains superior to industry averages and it’s improved over the past several quarters with delinquency rates dropping to 1.3% from 1.7% a year ago.
Total credit card charge-offs were 2.3% of card balances for the second quarter versus 2.8% in the second quarter of 2011. According to Fitch rating services, first quarter 2012 industry credit card charge-offs averaged 6%, nearly 3x our current credit card charge-off rate.
The final and largest segment I’ll cover today is our bank represented by our commercial banking, consumer banking, and asset management businesses. Mariner covered the highlights of our commercial banking business and the strong loan growth there.
On consumer banking, we reported an increase of 12.9% in home equity lines of credit balances, which now stand at $550.2 million. More than $120 million in new commitments were added in the past 12 months alone.
Portfolio utilization remains at approximately 49% borrowed. The HELOC delinquency rate was 0.25% in the second quarter compared to an industry average of 2.8% at the end of the first quarter.
In small business banking, another important part of our consumer business, average deposits increased 22.7% to $492.3 million and average loan balances increased by 23.7% to $126.7 million when compared to the second quarter of 2011.
Our bank asset management business consists of individual wealth management, private banking, corporate trust, and banking services which is comprised of bond trading, investment banking, and correspondent banking.
Assets under management for individuals and institutions stood at $8.6 billion at June 30, an increase of 3.5% from a year ago. Comprising the $8.6 billion is $5.6 billion in assets under management within our investment and wealth management group and $3 billion in assets managed by Prairie Capital Management. Prairie Capital’s assets have increased by more than 22% since our acquisition of that business in 2010. Our private banking and wealth advisor teams continue to acquire new clients and deepen relationships with our existing customer base.
Private banking deposits at quarter-end increased another 23% to $803 million and loans increased 38% to $201 million when compared to second quarter of last year. Private banking continues to be a strong and reliable contributor to growth in our HELOC and mortgage product sales.
With that, I’ll hand the call back over to Mariner, who will close our prepared remarks and open the line for your questions. Mariner?