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23/01/2012

Lloyd George Management recruits for frontier markets team

Greg Mills, Dafydd Lewis and Donatas Uzkurelis are joining the frontier markets team at Lloyd George Management (LGM), Das Investment reports. Mills will be in charge of strategy; he had previously been national director of the South African institute for international affairs, and continues to serve as director of the Brenhurst Foundation in Johannesburg, which is dedicated to economic development in Africa. Lewis had been head of frontier market research at an investment firm in Dubai, and will be a specialist in the finance sector, while Uzkurelis will focus on the consumer goods sector, after serving for six years as an analyst at a European bank in Lithuania.
23/01/2012

“Our ambition is to approach British IFAs and others”

Vincent Gleyze, a specialist in quantitative management and head of Rivoli Finance, discusses the evolution of this type of management in 2011, and the development of his company this year. The firm's goals are ambitious: it is hoping, via various channels, to increase the presence of the asset management firm in France and in Europe, serving savings investors, and also to win over institutional investors.
23/01/2012

New York Fed sells AIG assets to Credit Suisse

The New York Federal Reserve bank has announced on its website that it has selected Credit Suisse Securities to acquire assets with a face value of USD7.014bn, from the Maiden Lane II LLc (ML II) fund. Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs, Pierce, and Fenner & Smith had also bid. The request for proposals was kicked off in January 2012 with an unsolicited bid from Goldman Sachs to acquire a part of ML II, a portfolio which was taken on board by the Fed as part of the AIG bailout. The New York Fed then retained BlackRock Solutions to auction off the portfolio.
23/01/2012

Hedge fund trader avoids prison sentence

On Friday, David R. Slaine, a former trader at the hedge fund management firm Chelsey Capital, avoided a prison sentence, because he cooperated very effectively with prosecutors during an investigation which led to charges against 10 individuals who have been found guilty of insider trading, the Wall Street Journal reports. Slaine recorded his conversations with his friend Craig Durmal for investigators; Durmal later pled guilty in the Galleon scandal. Slaine also bore witness against Avi Goffer, another Galleon trader.US District Judge Richard Sullivan sentenced Slaine to three years of probation, 300 hours of community service and a fine of USD500,000, in addition to the USD532,000 which he has already forfeited.
23/01/2012

Putnam scales up consultant relations team

Charlotte Walsh (ex-managing director at Ranieri Partners) and Gregory Weissman (ex-senior vice president at Old Mutual Asset Management) have been recruited as professional relations consultants at Putnam Investments, for the consultant relations team at the head office for global institutional management (GIM). Walsh and Weissman will be based in Chicago and Boston, respectively, and will report to Joseph Phoenix, head of GIM, and join a team which already includes Keith Thomas in London and Anne Lundberg in Chicago, as well as two associates in Boston. Putnam, whose total asssets under management as of the end of December totalled USD117bn, has about USD57bn in assets under management for institutional clients, including sovereign funds, government pension funds and pension plans for large corporations.
23/01/2012

Millennium Management plans to open Korean arm

One of the largest US hedge funds, Millennium Management, with assets under management of USD14.1bn, is planning to open offices in South Korea, Hedge Week reports. Millennium Management is also reported to be the first foreign hedge fund to be active on the Korean market. The Korean authorities have recently decided to develop the onshore hedge fund sector.
23/01/2012

Management reshuffle at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing

Vince Sands has been appointed as deputy CEO at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, a position in which he will report to Tim Keaney, vice chairman and CEO. He will be replaced as head of Asset Servicing Ammericas by Samir Pandiri, who had been CEO of BNY Mellon Shareowner Services.For his part, Lou Maiuri, head of outsourcing, has been appointed as head of the global financial institutions business, replacing Nadine Chakar, who becomes global head of Derivatives360.Hani Kablawi will replace Frank Froud, who is leaving the business, as head of EMEA Asset Servicing. Along with Maiuri, Kablawi will report to Tim Keaney, who will continue to report to Chung Jin Leow, head of Asia Pacific Asset Servicing.
23/01/2012

BNY Mellon appoints Nadine Chakar as head of Derivatives360

Nadine Chakar, head of the global financial institutions group at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, has been appointed as global head of Derivatives360, a derivatives trading platform. She will report to Karen Peetz, vice chairman and CEO of the financial markets & treasury services division at BNY Mellon, and succeeds Patrick Tadie, who has been appointed as business executive for hedge fund services and broker-dealer activities.
23/01/2012

Talk of a Paulson comeback is still premature

The Advantage Fund from the hedge fund manager Paulson & Co has earned 4% from the beginning of the year to 17 January, while the S&P 500 gained only 2.9%. This is a stretch of barely two weeks, but it comes as a consolation after the loss of about 35% from the fund in 2011, with unlucky bets on Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard and Sino-Forest, the Wall Street Journal states. The performance early this year is related to the stocks selected by Paulson, which are expected to profit from the economic recovery.
23/01/2012

Investment funds expecting continued sales by banks

The asset management firm Garnier Principal Investments has announced a partnership with the US secondary fund Saints Capital, to attack the French market and buy up LBO shares from banks, Les Echos reports. “In France, nearly EUR40bn are now invested in private equity, and a large part of that historically comes from banks and insurers. All of these have announced sales of assets and will be less active in the future. We are expecting at least 10% to 20% of this total to be sold on the market,” says Grégoire Revenu, CEO of Bryan Garnier. Saints Capital, which has been active for more than a decade in the US, manages about USD1.2bn in assets, and has made 50 deals to invest in more than 300 businesses. In France, Bryan Garnier and Saints Capital will make one or two deals a year for EUR100m, and a total of possibly up to EUR500m.
23/01/2012

Assets at La Française REM up 20% in 2011

La Française REM last year posted a record increase of 20% to its real estate assets, the firm announced on 20 January in a statement. Assets under management now total over EUR7bn. Gross inflows last year totalled EUR1.2bn. The real estate asset management affiliate of La Française AM says that the past year was marked by the comlpetion of several projects using OPCI vehicles as their investment structure, for French and international clients, in the form of dedicated portfolios or as club deals. In one year, La Française REM has tripled its OPCI assets, to over EUR1bn as of the end of 2011. La Française REM is now positioning itself on the OPCI market as one of the leading providers, while retaining its position as leader in the SCPI non-publicly traded real estate fund segment (over EUR500m in gross inflows in 2011, and assets of EUR5.8bn). It is also continuing to develop multi-management in Europe, where it has increasing assets.
23/01/2012

Samsung seeking real estate partnership

The Korean asset management firm Samsung Asset Management is seeking to develop its investment portfolio of real estate in the United States, the UK, and other developed economies, in order to profit from sales of distressed properties, Asian Investor reports. Samsung launched its real estate fund activity in 2009, with three funds representing assets under management of USD500m. Samsung also launched an infrastructure fund in 2011.
23/01/2012

Eaton Vance launches two funds managed by Parametric

Two new funds with retail and institutional share classes managed by Parametric Portfolio Associates (USD41.9bn in assets) have been launched by Eaton Vance Corp (USD184.5bn). They are the Eaton Vance Parametric Structured Absolute Return Fund (acronyms: EPRAX and APRIX), and the Eaton Vance Structured Currency Fund (EAPSX and EIPSX). The funds are co-managed by David M. Stein, CIO of Parametric, and Thomas Seto, managing director, portfolio management, at Parametric.The first of these funds deploys a structured investment process proprietary to Parametric, with a market neutral approach. The objective is to profit from certain characteristics of the quantitative and behavioural market, to generate returns via adjustments to the weighting of a vast range of asset classes, including US and international equities, commodities, and currencies.The Currency Fund applied the Parametric investment process to investments in short-term instruments, which allow for exposure to currencies other than the US dollar. The goal is to protect funds from a falling US dollar through holding currencies from emerging and developed countries, with periodic rebalancing.
23/01/2012

Partnership announced between Bernheim, Dreyfus and Hyde Park Investment

The Paris-based asset management firm Bernheim, Dreyfus & Co has selected the London-based third-party marketer Hyde Park Investment, which will seek to place EUR200m in shares in the Diva Synergy and Diva Synergy UCITS funds. Hyde Park Investment is regulated by the British FSA, while its sister firm, Hyde Park Investment International, is regulated by the Maltese financial services authority.
23/01/2012

BlackRock to launch an absolute return equity fund focused on Americas

BlackRock is planning to launch an absolute return fund dedicated to US and Latin American equities, Fund Web reports. The Americas Diversified Equity Absolute Return fund will offer at least 70% exposure to the market via equities and equity related securities from Canada, Latin America, and the United States. The portfolio will be managed by Raffaele Savi, managing director and member of the scientific advising committee for equities. Front-end fees may range up to 5%, with an annual management commission of 1.5% and a performance commission of 20% with high watermark. The fund may be launched toward the end of first quarter.
23/01/2012

Two Dax ETFs attracted over USD17bn in 2011

According to statistics from BlackRock, there are two Dax ETFs in the rankings of the top five funds by net subscriptions for 2011. These are the iShares Dax ETF, which attracted a net total of USD11.6bn, and finished the year with USD13.96bn, and the db x-trackers Dax ETF, which attracted USD5.67bn, and had assets as of 31 December of USD7.55bn.The global leader remains the ETF SPDR S%P 500 from State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), whose assets under management as of the end of 2011 totalled USD95.28bn, and which has seen net inflows of USD6.57bn.The Dax ETFs from iShares and db x-trackers ranked 15th and 39th by asset volumes, respectively.
23/01/2012

Hedge funds struggle to gain back lost ground

Hedge fund clients of Credit Suisse currently have leverage of 2.5 times, compared with 2.4 times at the low point just after the crisis, while their cash holdings have fallen to 22% from 25% last summer, the Financial Times reports. However, two thirds of hedge funds are still below their high watermark, and 13% have earned no performance commissions since at least 2007.
23/01/2012

EQT to manage future funds onshore

EQT, the nordic private equity company with close to EUR18bn in raised capital, has decided to manage future EQT funds onshore in Europe, citing clarification of the European regulatory environment. «A number of steps have been taken within the EU to introduce a harmonized framework for the regulation of alternative investment fund managers, such as private equity. The regulatory environment has been clarified significantly and the framework will enable EQT to manage future funds onshore», explains the company in a press release.Potential new locations for management will be UK, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, but also other onshore alternatives, for instance Sweden, will be considered.
23/01/2012
Gestion d'actifs

AG2R La Mondiale investit moins de 50 millions d'euros en immobilier commercial

AG2R La Mondiale préfère se charger lui-même de la gestion de ses immeubles de bureaux, principalement localisés à Paris et en Ile-de-France. « Le portefeuille est stable, année après année. Ce qui ne veut pas dire que nous ne faisons rien, affirme Jean-Louis Charles, le directeur des investissements. Nous arbitrons des lignes, réhabilitons des immeubles. Nous avons vocation à entretenir notre patrimoine. » Deux axes sont privilégiés: « Ces trois dernières années, nous avons vendu des biens matures à des family offices et à des gestions de fortune, très friands de petits immeubles sur Paris », fait-il remarquer. En deuxième lieu, le groupe cède des immeubles en bout de course. « On ne peut pas tout restructurer. 5 % de notre portefeuille sont en cours de rénovation », explique Muriel Aubry, directrice de l’immobilier, qui indique que la moitié de l’enveloppe annuelle des investissements, qui se chiffrent entre 80 et 100 millions d’euros, est consacrée à ces travaux. L’autre partie est destinée aux acquisitions. Quant à la délégation de gestion ? « Uniquement lorsque nous ne connaissons pas, répond Jean-Louis Charles. Nous n’avons à ce jour investi que moins de 50 millions d’euros en immobilier commercial. » « Et via des club deals ou des OPCI », précise Muriel Aubry. Source: Les Echos
Gestion d'actifs
23/01/2012
Gestion d'actifs

La CGOS privilégie les OPCVM ouverts sur le monétaire

Le Comité de Gestion des Oeuvres Sociales des établissements hospitaliers (CGOS) s’appuie sur le consultant Amadeis pour mettre en concurrence les gestionnaires en place dans le cadre de sa gestion monétaire. Par exemple, en 2011, 150 millions d’euros ont été investis dans des OPCVM ouverts sur du monétaire, dont la gestion est assurée par Amundi, Groupama AM et CM-CIC. Pour le moment, il n’est pas prévu de changer de prestataire pour la gestion de ces fonds.
Gestion d'actifs
23/01/2012

Le Koweït prépare la privatisation de son marché boursier

L’émirat a mandaté HSBC pour l’aider à mener à bien la privatisation du Kuwait Stock Exchange qui passera par la création d’une nouvelle société chargée de l’administrer. Le gouvernement prévoit de céder 50% de l’entité à des sociétés cotées et le solde aux Koweïtiens à l’occasion d’une introduction en Bourse.
23/01/2012

La Troïka salue les efforts de Lisbonne

La réforme du code du travail portugais est conforme au plan de sauvetage consenti à Lisbonne et représente un premier pas important en vue de soutenir la compétitivité du pays, ont déclaré des représentants de ses bailleurs de fonds internationaux. La CGTP, première confédération syndicale portugaise qui revendique 750.000 adhérents, a toutefois refusé de signer l’accord.
23/01/2012

L’Espagne réclame plus de soutien

Le ministre du budget espagnol Cristobal Montoro a exhorté l’UE dans un entretien à La Vanguardia à relâcher la pression sur les objectifs budgétaires du pays. «Si Bruxelles n’adapte pas le programme de stabilité à un nouveau scénario de récession, ça ne sera pas réaliste et l’Espagne ne sera pas seule à couler, mais l’Europe entière aussi». Le ministre des affaires étrangères Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo a indiqué à El Pais que le MES devrait avoir une capacité supérieure à 500 milliards d’euros et précisé que la BCE «peut faire bien plus» pour soutenir les marchés obligataires.
23/01/2012

La Croatie dit « oui » à l'Union européenne

Malgré un faible taux de participation de 44%, les Croates ont massivement approuvé hier, avec 66% des voix, l’entrée de leur pays dans l’Union européenne à compter du 1er juillet 2013 malgré l’inquiétude soulevée par les difficultés actuelles de la zone euro.

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