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26/04/2010

Heavy losses for RREEF America REIT III

Deutsche Bank has admitted that since 2009 it has been undertaking a restructuring of its real estate fund America REIT III, from its affiliate RREEF (USD2.6bn in assets). Its participation in the fund is 10%, while the remainder was contributed by institutional investors, including US pension funds, Die Welt reports. The RREEF America REIT III is invested in REITs as well as in 92 real estate properties located in major US cities. The fund is said to have lost 65% of its value.
26/04/2010

Fitch confirms rating for Groupama AM

Fitch Ratings has confirmed its Asset Manager rating of ‘M2' for Groupama Asset Management, which covers all asset management activities of the firm in Paris, except the alternative and directional multi-management activities of Groupama Fund Pickers. “The [ratings] decision reflects the support of the shareholder in the business, Groupama S.A., its long experience in asset management, and a development strategy which has demonstrated its pertinence in the past few years. The rating also takes into account the quality of the investment process supported by significant research resources,” the ratings agency comments. According to Fitch, Groupama has several challenges to overcome: the completion of an integration of the operational platform, the development of new areas for growth on the level of management, with the launch of an absolute return product range, and the enlargement of its client base through the creation of a Luxembourg Sicav for external distribution networks.
26/04/2010

Auto makers go green

In a study of the environmental and socially sustainable behaviour of fifteen major automotive manufacturers worldwide, the Munich-based management firm oekom research has observed an improvement in the performance of all of them, with an average rating of C+, up from C in the previous edition of the study (on a scale from A+ to D-). None of the groups reviewed earned ratings of D or D-. oekom research notes that the best grades were for Renault (B), followed by BMW (also B) and PSA Peugeot Citroën with a B-. The ratings agency, which provides the complete rankings only to its clients, also says that 9th and 10th places go to Fiat and Honda Motor, with ratings of C.
26/04/2010

iShares ETFs top USD500bn

BlackRock announced on 31 March that assets in ETFs of its iShares brand totalled USD509bn, in 434 products worldwide, including 201 ETFs in the United States with assets of USD409bn, and 172 products in Europe with USD100bn in assets.
26/04/2010

Management firms should be more cautious about mergers

In a study cited by Mutual Fund Wire, Cerulli warns management firms that mergers and acquisitions are not always the best way to grow. Other methods like special financing and private equity are preferable. To extend sales, Cerulli also recommends third party marketers.
26/04/2010

Novethic launches a site dedicated to corporate discrimination

The specialised research centre from RSE and ISR Novethic in mid-April launched a website covering the subject of discrimination at businesses, at novethic.fr, its sustainable development specialist media portal. The website, entitled “labour discrimination,” is dedicated to the various forms of discrimination on the basis of age, ethnicity, sex, health, or handicap, and also covers the various regulations in force as well as practices in place at businesses to combat these forms of discrimination. All of Novethic’s expertise in this area is available on the site. Novethic.fr previously launched a site in late 2009 dedicated to climate change.
26/04/2010

Blackstone is back in the black

In first quarter 2010, the Blackstone Group has declared net profits of USD360.4m, compared with losses of USD82.4m in the corresponding period of last year, while net inflows from management fees increased to USD98.7m, from USD89.5m. Total assets increased to USD98.07bn, compared with USD92.22bn as of 31 March 2009, of which USD25.17bn, down from USD25.46bn, are in private equity, USD23.82bn, compared with USD22.87bn are in real estate, and USD49.07bn, up from USD43.09bn are in credit and marketable alternatives.
26/04/2010

Sears buys 17.3% stake in Sears Canada from Pershing Square

Sears Holdings Corp has announced that it has acquired more than 18.66 million ordinary shares in Sears Canada from the hedge fund management firm Pershing Square Capital Management, at a price of CAD30 per share. The 17.3% stake in the capital of the business, worth a total of about USD560m, will give the US firm a stake of about 90.4% in its Canadian operation.
26/04/2010

Profits triple at T. Rowe Price

The US asset management firm T. Rowe Price has announced net profits for first quarter of USD153m, compared with USD48.2m for the corresponding period of last year. Assets as of the end of March totalled USD419bn, compared with USD391.3bn as of the end of December, and USD268.8bn one year previously. Of this total, mutual funds on sale in the United States represented USD249.5bn. Net subscriptions totalled a record USD10.3bn in first quarter (of which USD6.1bn were for mutual funds), while market effects brought an increase of USD17.4bn in assets under management.
26/04/2010

US Senate points finger at Moody's and S&P over crisis

Agefi reports that the US Senate has received a report which blames unjustified ratings by the ratings agencies Moody’s and S&P for high-risk financial products for causing “massive economic damage.” The report follows an investigation which looked at hundreds of emails, and found that the ratings were sometimes based on subtle negotiations between bankers and ratings agencies. A more severe issue, the newspaper notes, is that employees of both ratings agencies gave testimony that there was pressure to give good ratings to products from “good clients.” The report also reveals an inability on the part of Moody’s and S&P to integrate fraud risks tied to real estate mortgages, even though emails from employees reveal that they were aware of the issue. The US Senate concludes that the cupidity of the agencies prevented them from being objective.
26/04/2010

Apollo buys CKE Restaurants

On Saturday, the directors of CKE Restaurants Inc., the parent company of the fast food chains Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, accepted a takeover bid at USD694m, or USD12.85 per share, from Apollo Mangement Group, the Wall Street Journal reports. CKE has cancelled a previous agreement by which it had accepted a bid from Thomas H. Lee at USD11.05 per share, or USD619m in total.
26/04/2010

Pimco increases exposure to emerging market corporate bonds

Ramin Toloui, a portfolio manager at Pimco (Allianz Global Investors) says that clients, especially pension funds and insurers, who are often the most reticent when it comes to emerging markets, are demanding products which invest in corporate bonds from these markets, the Wall Street Journal reports. Pimco last month increased the exposure of its Total Return fund to bonds of this type from 5% to 6%. More significantly, the Global Advantage Bond index from Pimco assigns a weight of 30% to emerging markets. Pimco is currently invested in bonds from state-owned energy and financial sector businesses, as well as bonds from private sector businesses in commodities, housing construction and infrastructure. Many of these investments are in Brazil, Mexico, Russia and the Gulf region.
26/04/2010

Banco Popular sets up a division for high net worth families

In July 2009, Banco Popular founded a new division, Family Office PBP, led by José Luis Castro. Currently, the new activity manages the wealth of 46 high net worth families, with average total net worth of about USD25m, Expansión reports. Family Office PBP is a division of Popular Banca Privada, an entity which is 60% controlled by Banco Popular and 40% owned by Dexia-BIL. As of the end of 2009, Popular Banca Privada had a total of 4.005 clients, 348 more than at the end of 2008, and managed total assets of EUR5.66bn (+13%). Pre-tax profits increased 67% last year.
26/04/2010

BBVA Asset Management sets out to conquer Asian and European markets

María Luisa Gómez Bravo, president of BBVA Asset Management, says in an interview with Expansión that she is planning to leverage the bank’s network in Asia to attract local investors, particularly in China. BBVA has branches and representative offices in India, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. In addition, it has formed an alliance in China with Citic, in which it holds a 15% stake. BBVA AM is also adding to its sales personnel in the region. Another area of growth for BBVA is Europe, due to the upcoming UCITS IV directive. To strengthen its European team, BBVA has recently recruited Olivier Asselin (Western AM) as CIO for Europe, as well as a director of investment solutions (Aymeric Forest, from BNP Paribas Fortis), a credit head (Enrique García Pazos from UBS) and an ETF coordinator (Salvador Gómez, from BlackRock).
26/04/2010

Assets under management down at Gottex in first quarter

Agefi Switzerland reports that Gottex Fund Management Holdings Ltd announced on 23 April that its assets under management as of the end of March totalled USD7.92bn, compared with USD8.13bn as of the end of 2009. The Lausanne-based management firm managed to attract only USD290m in assets (of which USD120m were for the managed accounts platform GSS< and USD130m for the Constellar platform, which is now a part of Gottex), while redemptions totalled the same amount in first quarter. In addition to these balanced inflows and outflows, USD100m were redeemed to investors in run-off asset classes. In a statement, Gottex confirms that it has “growing activities serving institutional clients,” but says that “the time necessary for decision-taking remains too long,” due to a sentiment of uncertainty which continues to reign on the financial markets.
23/04/2010

"Wegelin AM va proposer son "Active Indexing" aux professionnels français"

En janvier, Wegelin Asset Management, département de la banque privée suisse Wegelin, a recruté Pierre-Yves Cahart pour s'occuper de la clientèle institutionnelle en France et dans les pays francophones. Une nomination qui marque l'arrivée de l'établissement helvétique en France. Dans un entretien à Newsmanagers, Pierre-Yves Cahart explique qui est Wegelin AM et quelles sont ses projets en France.
23/04/2010
Fonds

Putnam remplace trois gérants

Selon Business Week, qui cite Bloomberg, Putnam Investments a nommé Robert Brookby et Pam Gao en tant que gérants de trois fonds qui sous-performent par rapport à leurs concurrents, en remplacement de Raymond Haddad, Gerry Moore et Anthony E. Sutton. Robert Brookby va gérer le Putnam New Opportunities Fund et le Vista Fund, tandis que Pam Gao s’occupera du Small Cap Growth Fund.
Fonds
23/04/2010

Paulson défend sa stratégie

Selon The Wall Street Journal, le gérant de hedge funds John Paulson a organisé une deuxième conférence téléphonique pour ses investisseurs, afin de les rassurer sur le fait que sa société n’avait trompé personne lorsqu’elle avait parié contre le CDO émis par Goldman Sachs. Le gérant a ajouté que la plainte de la SEC contre Goldman n’affecterait pas sa stratégie d’investissement.
23/04/2010

Janus augmente ses encours malgré des sorties nettes

Au premier trimestre 2010, Janus Capital Group a accusé des rachats nets de 1,9 milliard de dollars. Dans le détail, les équipes de Janus et Perkins ont enregistré des souscriptions nettes de respectivement 1,4 milliard et 1 milliard de dollars, mais Intech a vu sortir 4,3 milliards.Néanmoins, grâce à un effet de marché positif de 7,8 milliards de dollars, les encours totaux de Janus Capital Group ont augmenté à 165,5 milliards de dollars, contre 159,7 milliards fin décembre. Ils ont aussi progressé sur un an, puisqu’ils étaient de 110,9 milliards de dollars au 31 mars. La société de gestion a aussi dégagé un bénéfice net de 31,3 millions de dollars, en baisse par rapport aux 37 millions du quatrième trimestre 2009. Mais il s’agit d’une amélioration par rapport à la perte de 818,1 millions du premier trimestre 2009. Cela s’explique par une baisse des revenus de 1,5 % à 246,9 millions de dollars sur un trimestre liée à une diminution des commissions de performance des mandats, et à une hausse des dépenses de 2,7 %.
23/04/2010

Fidelity recrute un ancien du Trésor américain

L’ancien membre du Trésor américain Karthik Ramanathan a rejoint Fidelity Investments en tant que vice-président senior et directeur des obligations (senior vice president and director of bonds), un poste nouvellement créé. Sa nomination prendra effet le 1er juin. L’intéressé sera subordonné à Christopher Sullivan, responsable des obligations (bond group president). Sa nomination répond au souhait de Fidelity de «renforcer les liens entre nos stratégies de gestion obligataire et les besoins de nos clients». Depuis 2008, Karthik Ramanathan était acting assistant secretary for Financial Markets au Département du Trésor aux Etats-Unis qu’il avait rejoint en 2005. Auparavant, il avait travaillé 10 ans chez Goldman Sachs.
23/04/2010

Goldman Sachs recrute chez Pimco

Selon Financial News, le responsable adjoint du développement des activités en Europe de Pimco, Marc van Heel, va prochainement rejoindre Goldman Sachs Asset Management pour prendre la tête de la région Benelux, l’un de ses plus grands foyers d’activité en Europe.Marc van Heel, qui prendra ses nouvelles fonctions en mai, est resté neuf ans chez Pimco où il a notamment remporté de nombreux contrats auprès des fonds de pension danois.
23/04/2010

Kneip gagne trois nouveaux contrats

Le prestataire de services sur le marché des fonds d’investissement Kneip vient d’annoncer que trois gestionnaires de fonds européens ont signé pour Fund Masterfile, la plate-forme centralisée de gestion dese données de Kneip.Les trois signataires sont Investec Asset Management, basée à Londres, Olympia Capital Management, basée à Paris, et Leonardo Asset Management. Déployé en mai 2009, Kneip souligne dans un communiqué que Fund Masterfile est le seul outil de gestion de données en ligne qui permet à un gestionnaire de fonds de centraliser toutes ses données sur une même plate-forme, offrant de ce fait, aux partenaires internes et externes, un accès aisé et centralisé aux données et documents tels que les prospectus, les factsheets, et les rapports annuels et semestriels.
23/04/2010

Giles Morland devient associé de Mirabaud & Cie

Giles Morland a été nommé associé de Mirabaud & Cie, banquiers privés, par les autres associés de la banque. Sa nomination sera effective le 1er janvier 2011.Agé de 45 ans, Giles Morland est président-directeur général de Mirabaud à Londres et président de Mirabaud à Hong Kong. Il siège aussi au conseil d’administration de plusieurs sociétés Mirabaud et assure des fonctions d’administrateur externe. Il travaille pour l’établissement suisse depuis 1991. Mirabaud & Cie affiche 24 milliards de francs suisses d’actifs sous gestion pour le compte d’une clientèle à 80 % privée et 20 % institutionnelle.

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