Aktua, la filiale de gestion et de recouvrement de portefeuilles crédit du Banesto, a été achetée pour environ 100 millions d’euros par le fonds «vautour» Centerbridge, rapporte Cotizalia, citant des milieux financiers.
BNY Mellon, le géant américain de la conservation d’actifs a décroché en octobre le feu vert de l’autorité des marchés britannique, la FSA, pour établir à Londres un courtier, rapporte L’Agefi. BNY Mellon Capital Markets Emea qui proposera ses services en Europe vise le marché de la gestion du collatéral. Les réformes réglementaires poussent un nombre croissant de produits dérivés de gré à gré vers des chambres de compensation et la clé de voûte du système repose sur le collatéral que les contreparties apportent pour sécuriser les transactions, précise le quotidien.
Aberdeen Asset Management veut plus que doubler la taille de son activité de fonds de hedge funds à 10 milliards de dollars dans les quelques années qui viennent, contre 4 milliards de dollars actuellement, rapporte le Financial Times Fund Management. Et ce, alors que le secteur de la multigestion alternative est sous pression. Andrew McCaffery, responsable mondial des hedge funds de Aberdeen, indique au FTfm que cette croissance pourra se faire de par le biais d’acquisitions mais aussi en remportant de nouveaux mandats.
Le gestionnaire de fortune Barclays Wealth a communiqué la structure de frais qu’il adoptera en environnement RDR, rapporte Fundweb. Concrètement, la commission de gestion sera de 0,75 % pour le premier million de livres, puis de 0,6 % pour les comptes de 1-3 millions, de 0,5 % pour la tranche 3-7 millions et de 0,25 % au-delà.En outre, les frais d’exécution pour les produits structurés seront chargés à 0,7 % jusqu'à 100.000 livres, puis à 0,4 % pour les montants supérieurs. Sur les mêmes tranches, les taux seront de 1 % et de 0,65 % ppour les actions tandis que les clients utlisant les services d’un gérant de portefeuille dédié paieront 1,25 % jusqu'à 5 millions de livres, puis 1 % pour la tranche suivante de 5 millions.Barclays Wealth a fixé le plancher pour les nouveaux clients à 3 millions de livres et songe a introduire un prélèvement minimal de 37.500 livres. Les clients auxquels est affecté un gérant de portefeuille devront acquitter un droit de planification financière de 2 % sur la première tranche de 250.000 livres, le prélèvement tombant à 1 % au-dessus de ce montant.
Le gestionnaire de fortune Barclays Wealth a communiqué la structure de frais qu’il adoptera en environnement RDR, rapporte Fundweb. Concrètement, la commission de gestion sera de 0,75 % pour le premier million de livres, puis de 0,6 % pour les comptes de 1-3 millions, de 0,5 % pour la tranche 3-7 millions et de 0,25 % au-delà.En outre, les frais d’exécution pour les produits structurés seront chargés à 0,7 % jusqu'à 100.000 livres, puis à 0,4 % pour les mondants supérieurs. Sur les mêmes tranches, les taux seront de 1 % et de 0,65 % ppour les actions tandis que les clients utlisant les services d’un gérant de portefeuille dédié paieront 1,25 % jusqu'à 5 millions de livres, puis 1 % pour la tranche suivante de 5 millions.Barclays Wealth a fixé le plancher pour les nouveaux clients à 3 millions de livres et songe a introduire un prélèvement minimal de 37.500 livres. Les clients auxquels est affecté un gérant de portefeuille devront acquitter un droit de planification financière de 2 % sur la première tranche de 250.000 livres, le prélèvement tombant à 1 % au-dessus de ce montant.
Veritas Asset Management UK se restructure et sépare ses activités de gestion de fonds de ses activités de clientèle privée, rapporte Fundweb. Cette dernière deviendra Veritas Investment Management alors que l’activité de gestion de fonds, qui englobe également la gestion institutionnelle, sera renommée Veritas Asset Management. Veritas Investment Management sera pilotée par Mark Rayward. Veritas Asset Management sera dirigée par le chairman Charles Richardson, les gérants Andy Headley et Ezra Sun, et le COO Richard Grant.
Old Mutual Wealth a nommé Graham Bentley head of investment marketing, rapporte Fundweb. L’intéressé était auparavant en charge des propositions chez Skandia. Dans son nouveau rôle, il couvrira le Royaume-Uni, l’Amérique latine, l’Europe, le Moyen-Orient et l’Extrême-Orient.
Le fonds Blackstone prévoit de lancer son premier ETF centré sur les prêts bancaires à levier, a rapporté l’agence Bloomberg que reprend L’Agefi. Le numéro un mondial du private equity rejoint ainsi Pyxis Capital qui a annoncé la création d’un fonds du même type au début du mois de novembre et Invesco PowerShares, précurseur en la matière. On ne constate pas la même tendance en Europe où notamment la réglementation rend difficile le lancement d’ETF sur ce type de sous-jacents , précise le quotidien. Les fournisseurs d’indices doivent réaliser une valorisation réaliste et compréhensible des titres qui vont composer l’indice de référence pour les ETF. Or, cela paraît aujourd’hui complexe pour ce type de prêts, risqués, peu liquides et traités de gré à gré sur le marché secondaire.
L’indice Dow Jones Credit Suisse des hedge funds a terminé le mois d’octobre sur un recul de 0,18%, six des treize stratégies de l’indice ayant enregistré des performances négatives.Les stratégies de managed futures ont notamment chuté de 4,64%, après un recul de 1,37% en septembre.
Le groupe Safra va intégrer les activités de négoce et de trésorerie du groupe Sarasin dans les divisions correspondantes de Safra, selon des informations du site finews qui ont été confirmées par Sarasin.Avant de procéder à cette opération, le département Produits structurés de Sarasin sera intégré début décembre dans le pôle Trading & Family Office (TFO) de Sarasin. Ces modifications vont notamment entraîner le départ du patron du pôle TFO, Peter Wild, d’ici à la fin du premier trimestre 2013. Les activités avec les gestionnaires de fortune externe, seront intégrées début décembre dans le pôle Institutional Clients & Wholesale.
La Banque Cramer & Cie SA, filiale de Norinvest Holding, a nommé Alberto Di Stefano au sein de sa direction générale pour assumer la responsabilité du département Asset Management, rapporte L’Agefi suisse. Il prendra ses fonctions le 3 décembre. Alberto Di Stefano, âgé de 54 ans, bénéficie de la double nationalité suisse et italienne. Il a une large expérience des domaines de l’investissement privé et institutionnel. Il a été entre autres Chief Investment Officer de BSI à Lugano et CEO de la société d’investissement Thalia, société du Groupe Generali spécialisée dans le domaine des fonds de fonds hedge.
Matt Gaden, directeur général chargé de la clientèle institutionnelle et des alliances stratégiques chez Challenger Limited, a été recruté comme directeur de la distribution par Henderson Global Investors (HGI) pour l’Australie, rapporte Funds People. L’intéressé sera subordonné directement à Rob Adams, le nouveau président exécutif de HGI Australie. Il aura la responsabilité des clientèles aussi bien institutionnelle que retail.
The Basel Committee hopes to reach an agreement next month on liquidity ratios, including the highly controversial short-term Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), which will come into effect on 2015, and which would require banks to have sufficient asset levels to sell off to enable them survive a 30-day credit shortage. The chairman of the Basel Committee, Stefan Ingves, made statements on the subject in a speech given on Thursday. “Due to the implications and potential costs of not revealing liquidity levels and risk management requirements for banks, we would not be fully exercising our responsibilities if we did not make an effort to finalise these proposals in the near future,” Ingves says. The chairman of the Swedish central bank, Ingves sought to respond to criticisms, citing the example of Sweden, where the liquidity ratio appears to have been accepted by parties, and does not appear to have disrupted the operation of the inter-bank market, as some were concerned would be the case.
The International Organization of Securities Organizations (IOSCO) published on 16 November a final report on global developments in securitisation regulations (Global Developments in Securitisation Regulation), which proposes a series of recommendations aimed at ensuring securitisation markets develop, but «on a sound and sustainable basis». The efforts of IOSCO come in response to a request by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), which would like to assemble a more precise analysis of certain aspects of securitisation, including risk retention, transparency, and standardisation. The FSB itself is in the process of reviewing reforms of securitisation markets, as part of its ongoing work for the G20 on the shadow banking sector. In a conference organized by the French regulator AMF on 15 November in Paris, the chairman of BNP Paribas, Baudouin Prot, cited the creation now underway of a PCS securitisation label, which would facilitate restarting the European market on a healthy basis. “Securitisations are dead in Europe, although this market is prospering in the United States, the country where all the trouble started,” Prot says, adding that it is important for French banks to bring this market back to life, with a highly demanding label which would introduce guarantees and eligibility conditions, which would make it possible to exclude speculative products in favour of vehicles which aim to help the real economy.
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) on 18 November published a series of recommendations which will be subject to consultation, which aim to strengthen surveillance and regulation of shadow banking activities. Regulators concentrated on five major areas: interactions of banks with the shadow banking system, money market funds, other entities which have banking activities in unregulated environments, securitisation, securities lending, and pensions. All of these subjects are treated in multiple consultation documents, while a general presenttation lays out the philosophy of the FSB in relation to shadow banking, as well as recommendations overall, while a specific report deals with all entities other than money market funds, and another deal with securities lending and pensions. All of these texts are subject to consultation until 14 January 2013, and the Basel Committee may propose recommendations on the interaction of banks with the shadow banking system until mid-2013. The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has already produced recommendations for money market funds and securitisations just before the weekend (see elsewhere in Newsmanagers). The FSB, which will continue to monitor the efforts of the various working groups, is planning to publish its final recommendations in September 2013.
The international network of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) on 19 November announced the appointment of Fiona Reynolds as managing director. In this newly-created position, Reynolds will be responsible for development of the organisation and its day-to-day activities. She will begin in the position in London in February 2013. Reynolds is currently CEO of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, an organisation which defends the interests of the Australian pension fund sector.
The international network of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has published an updated list of signatories to the Principles. As of 9 November 2012, the network had 254 new signatories since 12 September 2011, bringing the total number of signatories to over 1,100, from 50 countries, representing assets under management of over USD32trn. In the same period, 61 signatories were removed from the list for various reasons (voluntarily, failure to pay contributions, or failure to participate in the annual evaluation).
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse hedge fun index finished the month of October down 0.18%, as six out of the 13 strategies of the index posted negative returns. Managed futures strategies fell by 4.64%, after a decline of 1.37% in September.
The second week of November saw investors digesting an unpleasant cocktail of European data, US budget skirmishes, Japanese politics and renewed violence in the Middle East. They responded by pulling over USD7 billion out of US Equity Funds and over USD1 billion from US High Yield Bond Funds while slowing the pace of their commitments to Emerging Markets Equity and Bond Funds. Overall, EPFR Global-tracked Bond Funds took in $5.29 billion during the week ending Nov. 14 while net redemptions from Equity Funds hit their highest level since the week preceding the US Federal Reserve’s announcement of QE3. Money Market Funds recorded outflows of USD7.06 billion and Balanced Funds, which invest in both debt and equities, saw USD1.12 billion taken out.
Franklin Templeton funds have increased their exposure to Irish bonds by more than one third, to EUR.84bn in third quarter, the Financial Times reports. The US asset management firm holds about one tenth of the total market in Irish government bonds. Most of these bonds are in the hands of funds controlled by Michael Hasenstab, co-director of the international bonds department at Franklin Templeton.
Funds People rapporte qu’Henderson Global Investors enregistre aujourd’hui pour la vente en Espagne son Henderson Horizon Euro High Yield Bond Fund, un produit coordonné géré par Stephen Thariyan et Chris Bullock, qui gèrent déjà le Henderson Horizon Euro Corporate Bond Fund.
According to financial industry sources, the Börsen-Zeitung reports, db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank), which had focused exclusively on synthetic replication, is now planning to also offer physical replication ETFs, which will be listed in Frankfurt, London and Milan from late 2013/early 2013. Initially, the product range will be concentrated on physical replication version of ETFs based on the Dax, the FTSE 100, the S&P 500, Euro Stoxx 50 and Nikkei 225, in addition to which there will be a new physical replication ETF based on the Euro Stoxx 50 ex Financials. The physical replication ETF product range will gradually be extended over the following months.
Since the beginning of this year, the Paris office of JP Morgan Asset Management has posted net subscriptions of about USD1bn, bringing its assets to about USD5.2bn as of the end of October.One third of inflows went to equities, including emerging markets, while two thirds went to bods, largely emerging markets, credit and investment grade, and flexible products, as well as to a fund from the affiliate Highbridge.In a presentation in Paris by Pierre-Yves Bareau, director of the emerging markets debt unit of JPMAM, Bareau stated that assets for his team now include USD29bn, due to net subscriptions of USD9bn, while emerging market debt represents USD3.1bn, of which about USD2bn are from net inflows. The team includes 32 people at several locations worldwide, including 9 corporate bond specialists.
To replace Dimitri Boismare, manager of the Groupama FP Flexible Allocation fund, who left the business in October, Groupama Asset Management has recruited Julien Moutier, a fund-picker and head of multi-management funds at FundQuest (BNP Paribas group), who will be joining the firm on 3 December, Citywire Global reports. The site also reports the recent departure of the FundQuest CIO for Europe, Christophe Belhomme.
The US asset management firm Morgan Creek Capital Management is scaling up its presence in Asia with the recruitment of Anand Prasanna as director, in charge of the global investment team. He will begin in his new role next month, and will be based in Shanghai, where Morgan Creek now has 8 investment professional employees. Prasanna, who had previously worked at the private equity investor Squadron Capital, based in Hong Kong, will concentrate on the Indian market. Assets under management at Morgan Creek total about USD7bn.
Ranjan Tandon, founder of the hedge fund management firm Libra Advisors, has announced in a letter to investors that the hedge fund will return USD2bn to them by the end of the year, and then to convert into a family office, the Wall Street Journal reports. The fund shows returns of 26% after fees since its inception in 1990, but lost money in 2011, and saw a 15% fall in the first ten months of this year.
Gilles Guérin discusses the positioning of Theam, the firm he has been leading since its creation within BNP Paribas IP, with Newsmanagers. Of the various types of expertise it offers, guaranteed products are suffering due to the current low interest rates, and are showing outflows, but flows to systematic active management, and absolute return products, are showing double-digit growth. Index-based management may extend its range of innovative ETFs. THEAM is maintaining its objectives, and plans to strengthen its presence serving institutional investors in particular.
Funds People reports that Bankia has decided to absorb its private banking affiliate, Bankia Banca Privada, which has assets of EUR7bn. The new division will be led by Jaime González Lasso de Vega, who takes up the position left acant by Gustavo Rivero, who has left the business. De Vega had previously been director of the bank’s international corporate banking arm.Bankia Banca Privada earned pre-tax profits in January-September of EUR14.7m.
Aktua, the credit portfolio management and debt collection affiliate of Banesto, has been acquired for about EUR100m by the “vulture” fund Centerbridge, Cotizalia reports, citing financial sector sources.
Dans un article consacré aux Sicav, le véhicule préféré des grandes fortunes espagnoles, Cinco Días souligne que Terranova, celle de la famille March, se distingue parce qu’elle permet à des particuliers externes à la famille de souscrire, avec un plancher de 10 euros.Terranova affiche un encours de 430 millions d’euros et une performance de 5,4 % depuis le début de l’année. Elle n’a perdu qu’une seule fois de l’argent depuis 2002, en 2008, avec une perte de 5,4 %. Sur les dix dernières années, sa performance annuelle moyenne a dépassé les 4 %, avec une volatilité très faible.