
Societe Generale Private Banking (SGPB) reported a 42.9% drop in contribution to group net income, to 16m ($20m) from 28m year-on-year, in its 2012 third quarter results.
Operating income fell 35.3% to 22m from 34m in the third quarter when compared to the same period in 2011.
Operating expenses decreased only slightly, 0.6% on a year-to-year basis.
The French bank said that private banking revenues totalled 181 million in the third quarter of 2012, a figure similar to its second quarter results.
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Assets under management were 88bn at the end of September 2012 up by 3.9% when compared with results from December 2011.
SGPB said that the increase was due to a market effect of 2.8bn, a cumulative inflow of 0.4bn, a currency impact of 0.3bn and a structure effect of 0.3bn.