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29/11/2010

British parliament seeks comment on RDR

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Treasury Select Committee, the Parliamentary financial surveillance committee, has called for written comments on the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), especially in relation to two questions: Will the RDR achieve the desired results? And may these results be achieved by other, potentially better means? Before the commission announced the initiative, the director of the FSA, Hector Sants, said in a hearing that the RDR has three major objectives: to install a more transparent and equitable remuneration system, better training of advisors, and lastly, a clarification of the various categories of advising offered to clients. The consultation will remain open until 17 January.
29/11/2010

Arcano launches a private equity fund of funds specialised in emerging markets

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 26 November, Arcano announced the launch of the Arcano Emerging Markets Funds, which claims to be the first private equity fund of funds in the world to focus on emerging markets. The gross annual performance objective is 20%, says Funds People. Arcano is planning to raise USD150m to USD200m for the new product.The fund will invest in Latin American, African and Middle Eastern private equity funds, with a specialisation in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, South Africa, Egypt, Turkey, and Nigeria.The fund, managed by Lorenzo Nogales and Sven Soderblom, is largely aimed at pension funds, family offices, and endowments.The first closing is slated for 2011.
29/11/2010

HFT IM sets up in Hong Kong

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Asian Investor reports that HFT Investment Management, a joint venture of BNP Paribas and Haitong Securities, has opened a branch office in Hong Kong, becoming the most recent Chinese asset management actor to use Hong Kong as a base to launch international activities.
29/11/2010

Whitefield cancels performance commissions

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Singapore hedge fund Whitefield Capital Management has decided to cease charging performance commissions until it has doubled its assets under management. Whitefield last year faced redemptions that reduced its assets under management to USD100m. The Asian Opportunities Fund, with about USD30m in assets under management, will not charge fees until it has assets of USD50m to USD100m. The fund has also earned returns of 33% this year, after results of about 80% last year.
29/11/2010

Allianz IM appoints an Asian global CIO

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Asian Investor reports that Nikhil Srinivasan, currently chief investment officer at Allianz Investment Management (CIO) for the Asia-Pacific region, has been appointed CIO for the group. He will be based at the group’s Munich headquarters. The promotion, unusual for a European firm, may be viewed as a fair reward for Allianz’s results in the region. Asian life insurance activities have grown by 45% in the first nine months of the year. Srinivasan, CIO for Asia-Pacific since 2006, reduced exposure to equities to less than 1% in August 2007, just one month before the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
29/11/2010

ETFs will become harder to beat

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In the past, hedge funds have had the decisive advantage over ETFs of being more maneuverable and being better able to anticipate rebalancing or adjustments of indices, which often lead to market movements that negatively impact ETFs. At the beginning of next year, the Wall Street Journal reports, the Center for Research in Security Prices (CSRP) at the University of Chicago will launch investible indices which will prevent funds which replicate them from having to make mandatory transactions when changes are made to traditional indices. The distinctions between small, mid and large caps will be expressed as a percentage of the value of the total market, rather than as fixed amounts in dollars or an unchanging number of companies. Equities will be “partially weighted” via various cap size indices. If a company grows or shrinks, its shares will no longer be required to be added or removed all at once. Additions and removals will be made gradually, adn the date on which the changes are finalised will be randomized.
29/11/2010

Hauck & Aufhaüser merges Swiss affiliates

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that the German private bank Hauck & Aufhaüser Privatbankiers KGaA has merged its two affiliates, based in Zurich, into a single entity, under its own name: Hauck & Aufhaüser (Suisse) SA. The firm is the result of a merger of Dr. Höller Vermögensverwaltung und Anlageberatung AG and the private bank’s original affiliate, Bastei Privatfinanz AG, which has been present in Zurich since 1994. The new entity has no banking license. It is dedicated exclusively to institutional asset management, family offices, financial consulting and management of investment funds, including ethical and sustainable funds.
29/11/2010

Martin Currie recruits a health specialist from Schroders

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Scottish asset management firm Martin Currie has announced the appointment of a health sector specialist, Andrea Bici, to its consumer and healthcare team. Bici was previously at Schroders, where she spent eight years. She was focused on the North American health sector, as First Vice President and small and midcaps equities analyst.
29/11/2010

Henderson plans to acquire Gartmore

According to the Financial Times, Henderson has asked its advisers, JPMorgan Cazenove and UBS, to assess the feasibility of buying part or all of Gartmore. It is unlikely that Henderson would make an offer at or above Gartmore’s current share price of 103p after the departure of its star fund manager Roger Guy.
29/11/2010

Arx (BNY Mellon) prepares a Latin American infrastructure fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Brazilian asset management firm Arx is planning to release its new Latin American infrastructure strategy, managed by Bruno Garcia and Rogério Poppe, in France, Alex Gorra, director of the international BNY Mellon Arx platform, announced in Paris. The product is already available in a Brazilian-registered form, and invests 75% in Brazilian and 20-25% in Mexican securities, while the remainder is invested in Colombian, Peruvian and Chilean equities. It is a strategy “which privileges domestic stories,” and which, in the case of Mexican companies like America Móvil, Cemex and Homex are absolutely not dependent on the economic activity in the United States.
29/11/2010

New private banking actor opens its doors in Liechtenstein

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that Lamda Privatbank has launched its banking activities, becoming the 16th such institution in Liechtenstein. It has received authorisation from the competent authority (FMA) and will concentrate on traditional private management activities for high net worth clients.
29/11/2010

Crise de confiance chez Frontpoint

Le fonds alternatif de 7,5 milliards de dollars, actuellement sous le coup d’une enquête des autorités américains pour délit d’initié présumé, a vu les demandes de remboursement émanant des investisseurs atteindre 3 milliards de dollars, selon une lettre de ses dirigeants citée par Reuters.
29/11/2010

Samsonite pourrait s'introduire à Hong Kong

Le fabricant de bagages envisage de s’introduire en Bourse de Hong Kong pour un montant d’un milliard de dollars (755 millions d’euros), a rapporté le Sunday Times. Samsonite, propriété de CVC et de RBS, a engagé Goldman Sachs comme conseil, a précisé le journal dominical.
29/11/2010

EQT fait appel à des conseillers

Le fonds de capital investissement, détenu en partie par la famille Wallenberg, a retenu JPMorgan et Deutsche Bank afin de le conseiller sur une éventuelle mise en Bourse ou cession du troisième fabricant allemand de câble, Kabel Baden-Württemberg. L’opération pourrait rapporter près de 2 milliards d’euros, selon des sources citées par Bloomberg.
29/11/2010

La CNP prend 25 % de CB21 à La Défense

Dans cette opération, qui relance le marché de l’investissement immobilier de La Défense, la tour CB 21, louée aux deux tiers, est valorisée 588 millions d’euros. Le mode d’investissement de CNP dans cet actif rénové témoigne de la pénurie d’offre de qualité sur le marché.
29/11/2010

Sortie de crise difficile pour la BCE

La banque centrale, qui se réunit jeudi, pourrait devoir décaler sa stratégie de sortie en raison d’un nouveau regain de tensions sur la liquidité bancaire.

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