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24/05/2013

T. Rowe Price launches second range of target date funds

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } T. Rowe Price has announced that it has filed an application with the SEC for a new series of eleven target date funds, the T. Rowe Price Target Retirement Funds. The new funds are designed based on an investment of 42.5% in equities before the retirement date, compared with 55% for existing retirement funds, which as of the end of March had assets of USD88.1bn. The new range will be available from 22 August 2013.The Target Retirement Funds are aimed at investors seeking a strategy which places less emphases on long-term income flows as well as investors seeking to reduce long-term volatility at the time of their retirement, or who are seeking only moderate growth potential.For these new products, T. Rowe Price has selected Jerome Clark and Wyatt Lee as co-managers, who are rexpectively principal portfolio manager and associate portfolio manager for the Retirement Funds series.
24/05/2013

Morgan Creek Capital Management acquires Signet Capital Management

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US firm Morgan Creek Capital Management will acquire the fund of fund activity of the alternative asset management firm Signet Capital Management, the New York Times reports. Assets under management in this activity total about USD700m. Senior asset management teams at Signet, as well as the founder of the firm, Robert Marquardt, and its CEO and co-head of management, Serge Umansky, will join Morgan Creek. The transaction is expected to be completed during second quarter.
24/05/2013

BNP Paribas SS builds presence serving institutional clients

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Annalisa Winge Bicknell as regional head of sales and relationships with institutional investor clients, Hedgeweek reports. Bicknell had previously worked at SEB, where she had been head of customer services for the Scandinavian countries, Luxembourg and Germany.
24/05/2013

SGSS wins mandate from Rinascimento Sicav

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Societe Generale Securities Services in Italy (SGSS S.p.A.) has been appointed by Rinascimento Sicav to act as its local transfer agent in Italy, providing it with paying agent and investor relations management services with reference to investors located in Italy. SGSS in Italy offers a complete range of securities services, including settlement, custody and trustee services, fund administration, liquidity management and transfer agent services. Rinascimento Sicav is a Luxembourg-registered open-ended collective investment fund.
24/05/2013

Banca Generali recruits from Banca Albertini Syz

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Banca Generali has recruited Elisa Feliciani, former director of the branch of Banca Albertini Syz in Rome, Bluerating reports. Last year, the bank had recruited Ernestina Anceschi from Banca Albertini Syz.
24/05/2013

Italian financial advisers ageing

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Financial advisers in Italy are increasing in age, Plus, the supplement of Il Sole – 24 Ore reports. In the past 10 years, the percentage of advisers aged under 30 registered with the Order of financial advisers has fallen from 14% to 2%, while advisers aged over 50 now represent 41%, up from 21% previously. As of the end of 2012, there were over 52,000 financial advisers in Itlay. Plus also notes a boom in registrations in 2013.
24/05/2013

Quilvest & Partners raises USD700m and launches new investment programme

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Quilvest & Partners, the private equity activity of the Quilvest group, on 23 May announced that it has closed fundraising for three funds: QS PEP 2012, QS REP II and QS Capital Strategies, with totals of USD150m, USD300m and USD230m, respectively. QS PEP 2012 and QS REP II have exceeded their fundraising objectives, while QS Capital Strategies has been oversubscribed and subjected to a hard cap. The USD80m committed by investors to QS Capital Strategies may be complemented by an additional USD150m, via Small Business Administration (SBA) debt financing in the United States. However, this supplementary financing is subject to the issuance of a license by the US authorities.Meanwhile, Quilvest & Partners has announced the launch of QS PEP Core, a four-year investment programme in private equity funds worldwide, which succeeds the annual Quilvest flagship programme, QS PEP. Quilvest aims to raise up to USD400m for the first generation of QS PEP Core. The fund will concentrate on the core strategy of Quilvest & Partners, which is to identify the best private equity funds from small and mid-sized LBO and capital development firms, with a selection process to select about 10 funds per year.
24/05/2013

Baillie Gifford replaces Marsico for Harbor fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } US-based asset management firm Harbor Funds (USD74bn as of 31 March) has announced that it has selected the US affiliate of the Scottish firm Baillie Gifford (USD142bn) to take over management of the Harbor International Growth Fund (ticker: HAIGX), whose assets total about USD220m, as sub-advisor. Since 1 March 2004, the sub-advisor for the fund had been Marsico Capital Management.The sole manager of the fund at Marsico had been a former Goldman Sachs manager, James Gendelman. He will be replaced by a team of four portfolio managers at Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited, composed of Gerard Callahan, Iain Campbell, Joe Faraday and Paul Faulkner. Callahan is chair of the international focus portfolio construction group and head of UK equities at Baillie Gifford.
24/05/2013

Lloyds Banking Group reduces stake in St James's Place

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The British bank Lloyds Banking Group, which was bailed out by the British government during the 2008 financial crisis, has sold part of its stake in the wealth management firm St James’s Place for about GBP450m (EUR526m), according to a statement released on 23 May. The website Fundweb had previously reported an amount of GBP500m (Newsmanagers of 23 May). Lloyds Bnaking Group has announced that it has sold 77 million shares at a price of GBP.580 per share, as part of a placement to investors. The gross proceeds of the placement are about GBP450m, the group has said in a statement, adding that its net capital gains will be about GBP40m. The operation will allow the bank to increase its tier 1 common equity ratio by about GBP500m, or 16 basis points. After the sale, the bank will still control 21% of capital in the firm.
24/05/2013

F&C adds to institutional team

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } UK-based F&C has announced the recruitment of Nick Woodwart, who will become a structurer in the liability-driven investment (LDI) team, and Kristy Barr as director, sales & client relationships. The two will be added to the institutional team.Woodwart had been head of modelling and head of LDI in the investment advisory team at KPMG, while the second had been founding partner and head of marketing & investor relations at Callanish Capital Partners.
24/05/2013

AUM and asset management profits up at Investec

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } For the fiscal year ending on 31 March, Investec has reported net inflows of GBP4.9bn, of which GBP4.1bn are for the asset management unit, and GBP0.8bn for the Wealth & Investment unit (to which Williams de Broë was transferred in August).Assets increased to GBP69.8bn, compared with GBP61.6bn for asset management, and GBP40.4bn compared with GBP34.8bn for Wealth & Investment. Overall, assets under management for third parties increased by 14.4% to GBP110.7bn as of the end of March, compared with GBP96.8bn twelve months previously.Operating profits increased 4.8% to GBP140.2m for asset management, and 30.9% to GBP50.7m for the Wealth & Investment unit.
24/05/2013

Partners Group issues mezzanine financing for RE project

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Zug-based wealth management firm Partners Group on 22 May announced that it has issued mezzanine financing for a real estate construction project in the United Kingdom. The loan will be used for renovation and development of the residential and commercial site Heyford Park in Oxfordshire. The site, on which 800 people reside and which has 1000 employees, includes 1.4 million square metres of commercial space and 312 housing units, a statement says. Dorchester Group acquired the site in 2009 and will continue to administer it. The objective is to renovate the existing homes and to create 750 new homes, as well as to lease out commercial space.
24/05/2013

Strong increase in profits at C-Quadrat

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Austrian-German asset management firm C-Quadrat Investment has reported net profits for first quarter 2013 of EUR1.93m, compared with EUR0.68m for the corresponding period of last year, which partly reflects the first consolidation of the asset management firms BCM (London/Geneva) and APM (Vienna).The acquisition of 50.01% of Kepler-Chevreux by QC Partners (EUR160m, an affiliate of C-Quadrat), in partnership with Q-Advisers and the management of the firm, was completed at the end of April.Over twelve months, the increase in assets at C-Quadrat totalled 47%, to EUR4.47bn as of the end of March.Revenues from management commissions totalled EUR11.68m, compared with EUR10.38m for first quarter 2012, while performance commissions totalled EUR2.28m, compared with EUR0.2m.
24/05/2013

New CIO for Korean teachers' pension fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Korea Teachers Pension Fund (KTPF) has appointed Park Min as chief investment officer, Asian Investor reports. The Asian website reveals that this is the first time that the pension fund has filled the position through an internal promotion. Assets under management by the pension fund totalled slightly over USD11bn as of the end of December 2011, according to available statistics.
24/05/2013

Henderson builds presence in Asian real estate

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Property Business division of Henderson Global Investors (HGI), whose assets total about GBP12.7bn, has recruited Tony He as director of property, China consultancy. He had been chief financial officer at Tesco Property China.He will be primarily based in the HGI office in Beijing, and will work in close collaboration with the real estate team at the British asset management firm for the Asia-Pacific region.
24/05/2013

Neue Helvetische Bank aims for CHF1bn in AUM in 2013

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Swiss bank Neue Helvetische Bank founded two years ago by Thomas Matter and Daniel Hefti, two former bankers from Swissfirst, has posted a loss of GBP695,000 for 2012. By March 2014, the directors of the firm are hoping to publish balanced books The Corporate Finance activity is primarily contributing to earnings, while wealth management and wealth management advising activities are less satisfactory than expected, Finews reports. In order to bring new dynamism to these two activities, NHB will soon launch new offers for clients.As of the end of 2012, the bank has CHF642m in assets under management. Currently, the newspaper estimates that assets are about CHF800m. NHB hopes to top CHF1bn during the year.
24/05/2013

MEAG acquires three wind farms in Sweden

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As part of the EUR2.5bn Renewable Energies & New Technologies (RENT) investment programme by its parent company Munich Re, the German asset management firm MEAG has announced that it has acquired three wind farms from Eolus Vind AB which are already connected to the Swedish power grid. The units have a total power generation capacity of 30 megawatts. Eolus will continue to be responsible for the operation of the installations. The sale price has not been disclosed.
24/05/2013

Seven representatives of BNP Paribas REIM Italy fined

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Italian financial market authority, Consob, has levelled pecuniary administrative sanctions against seven representatives of BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management Italy Sgr, and the firm itself, totalling EUR148,000, Bluerating reports. The Italian regulator accuses the individuals of “late and inadequate” planning for management of funds aimed at retail investors, and poor management of conflicts of interest.
24/05/2013

Round of appointments at Rogge Global Partners

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Michael Ganske, who since 2007 had been head of emerging markets research in the corporates & markets division of Commerzbank, is joining the London-based Rogge Global Partners (USD52bn as of 31 March) as head of emerging markets. He will report to Adrian James, senior partner and head of global sovereign. The new recruit will be responsible for research and portfolio management for emerging market debt and emerging market currencies, Institutional Money states.Meanwhile, the British asset management firm has promoted six partners to become senior partners. They are David Butler, head of credit analysis, Jens Moller-Butcher, chief technology officer, Julian Le Beron, head of developed markets, David Newman, head of global high yield, Igor Pikovsky, head of portfolio risk and Annabel Rudebeck, head of investment grade credit.Ten executives have also been appointed as partners: Rémi Casals, head of global distribution, Margaret Frost, head of Generalist Portfolio Management, John Makowske, gneralist portfolio manager, Ranjiv Mann, head of economic research, Daniel Mason, head of operations, Rachel Muscatt, head of trade execution, Damien Rimmer, head of development, Sukhjivan Singh, senior compliance monitoring manager, Marie-Louise Stenild, senior compliance manager and Jana Velebova, portfolio manager – emerging markets.
24/05/2013

Wellington creates EM bond fund for retirement planning institutions

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } With the Wellington Opportunistic Emerging Markets Debt II, Wellington Management is now offering an opportunistic strategy based on emerging market debt, in a Luxembourg-domiciled vehicle available to institutions which are subject to the German insurance surveillance law (VAG), including insurers and retirement institutions. The portfolio may be invested in government and corporate bonds, “hard” currencies and local currencies. “On average, the ratings of securities in the portfolio is at the crossover limit. Securities are hedged for currency risks, and reporting is adapted to the requirements of VAG regulations,” Absolut Report states. Characteristics Name: Wellington Opportunistic Emerging Markets Debt II ISIN code: LU0629164780 Management commission: 0.65% Total expense ratio: maximum 0.90%
24/05/2013

Australians want a more precise definition of hedge funds

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The hedge fund is a financial animal that eludes definition, we know. There is no definition of a hedge fund which is recognised worldwide. This has driven the Australian market authority (ASIC), which is not in its teething stages, to launch a consultation on the definition of the ineffable reality which is the hedge fund, or more precisely on the way to define the term.The market authority, which will soon release a revised guide for hedge funds and the improvement of their financial reporting, has even decided to delay the release of the document until February 2014.The reason for the consultation is concerns expressed by professionals who had observed that the current definition has classified certain funds which do not at all have the same risk levels as “real” hedge funds.The current reference document defines a hedge fund as a licensed investment firm which calls itself such. The major characteristics of a hedge funds are the complexity of the investment strategy of the structure, the use of debt, the use of derivatives, short-selling, and the charging of performance commissions. If a structure has two or more of these characteristics, it may be considered a hedge fund.
24/05/2013

Rasini Fairway launches fund on Alceda platform

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Rasini Fariway Capital has become the most recent asset management firm to move the domicile of its fund, Stafford SICAV Global Equity Fund, to a UCITS-compliant Luxembourg format, Investment Europe reports. For this, the Zurich and London-based firm is using the Alceda UCITS platform. The Sicav had previously been domiciled in the British Virgin Islands.
24/05/2013

Net rebond en mai du climat des affaires allemand

Le climat des affaires a rebondi nettement plus que prévu en mai après deux mois de baisse d’affilée, ce qui suggère que l'économie se redresse après un premier trimestre morose, selon l’indice Ifo. L’indicateur du climat des affaires s’est redressé à 105,7 contre 104,4 en avril. La composante des conditions actuelles s’est également redressée, à 110,0 après 107,3 le mois dernier (révisé de 107,2). Celle des attentes s’est maintenue à 101,6. Le moral du consommateur allemand s’est, quant à lui, encore amélioré en juin pour atteindre son meilleur niveau depuis octobre 2007, ce qui est de bon augure pour l’accélération de la croissance de la première économie de la zone euro au deuxième trimestre, a annoncé le cabinet d'études GfK vendredi. Son indice le mesurant est ressorti à 6,5 contre 6,2 en mai. A noter que l’indicateur général du climat général des affaires en France est resté stable à un bas niveau en mai, le redressement constaté dans l’industrie étant neutralisé par une nouvelle dégradation dans le bâtiment et le commerce de gros, selon les données publiées vendredi par l’Insee. Il s’inscrit ainsi comme en avril à 84 points, soit son plus bas niveau depuis août 2009. L’indicateur de l’industrie manufacturière a repris de son côté quatre points, à 92.
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