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05/06/2012

Claire Rodrigue quitte Comgest

Gérante du fonds Européen chez Comgest qu’elle a rejoint il y a treize ans, Claire Rodrigue devrait quitter la société fin juin. Un départ préparé de longue date et en parfaite intelligence avec la direction de Comgest, souligne-t-on au sein de la société de gestion. Claire Rodrigue devrait rejoindre une petite structure qui pourrait être amenée à collaborer avec Comgest.Compte tenu de ce départ et du développement de la société, deux recrutements viennent d'être finalisés pour renforcer le marketing pour la zone francophone. Les deux renforts devraient rejoindre Comgest dans les prochaines semaines, le premier le 25 juin, le second un peu plus tard dans le courant de l'été.
05/06/2012

BlackRock met en relation conseillers financiers et spécialistes des ETF

BlackRock vient de dévoiler une nouvelle version de son service “connect” qui aide les conseillers financiers américains à se mettre en relation avec des stratèges en investissements spécialisés dans les ETF (EIS), rapporte Financial Times Fund Management. BlackRock prédit que le secteur des EIS va atteindre 120 milliards de dollars d’actifs d’ici à 2015.
05/06/2012

Julius Bär recrute un ancien de HSBC

Stephen Kamp a été nommé responsable, «deputy head», pour l’Amérique latine, l’Espagne et Israël, a a annoncé Julius Bär le 4 juin dans un communiqué. Il sera basé à Genève. Stephen Kamp assistera Gustavo Raitzin, membre de l’exécutif de la banque de gestion privée. Il participera aussi à de nombreux projets, selon un communiqué diffusé lundi.Il s’occupera aussi des clients israéliens, résidents ou non. Julius Bär a ouvert un bureau à Tel Aviv en mars dernier. La banque a aussi acquis en 2011 une participation minoritaire de 30% dans GPS, le plus important gestionnaire de fortune privée brésilien. Stephen Kamp travaillait précédemment chez HSBC, où il occupait la fonction de «chief administrative officer» pour la banque privée dans la région EMEA (Europe, Moyen Orient, Afrique).
05/06/2012

Money market fund liquidity comes at a cost

Maintaining a high degree of liquidity costs about 20bp to 30bp of yield to a money market fund, says Fitch Ratings in a newly-published report on the liquidity of European money market funds. European money market funds have substantially improved their liquidity profile since 2008, which is proving an efficient buffer to the more opportunistic volatility of investors’ flows, but comes at a cost, according the rating agency.'Liquidity cushions in Fitch-rated European MMFs have been continuously maintained at high levels following the 2008 crisis, with exposure to securities maturing within a week typically exceeding 25% of a fund’s total assets’ says Charlotte Quiniou, Director in Fitch’s Fund and Asset Manager Rating Group. In response to the eurozone crisis, portfolio liquidity has been rising even further, with overnight and highly liquid assets reaching 33% on average.
05/06/2012

Western Asset Management drops Legg Mason brand

Western Asset Management has decided to drop the name of its parent company, Legg Mason, from the names of its products, Bloomberg reports. The decision will take effect from 1 August, and aims to boost sales of funds, particularly to retail investors, who are highly sensitive to brand reputation.
05/06/2012

Qatari fund QSI finalises acquisition of Paris Handball

The investment fund Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), which is already a majority shareholder in the Paris SG football team, on Monday officially acquired a 100% stake in Paris Handball, which is becoming a first-division team. QSI would like to make a long-term engagement to Paris Handball, and over the long term hopes to construct a top-calibre national and European team, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of the PSG football club, who will also direct the handball team, says.
05/06/2012

In BRIC countries, household wealth is growing fast

The financial assets of retail clients has increased by 1.9% worldwide in 2011, to EUR122.800trn, but that figure conceals highly varied realities: assets were down 0.9% in North America, 0.4% in Western Europe, and 2% in Japan, but up by 18.5% in BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) reports in the most recent edition of its Global Wealth 2012 report.The fastest increase by client segment was for the ultra-high net worth (UHNW) client category, with wealth of over USD100m, where the increase was 3.7%, compared with an average of 1.7% in all other segments.While there has been a decline of 182,000 in the number of these clients in the United States and Japan, the number of US dollar millionaire households last year increased by 175,000 in developing countries, including China and India.As of the end of 2011, the number of US dollar millionaire households totalled 12.6 million, 0.9% of the BCG sample. The highest number of millionaires (5.1 million) continues to be in the United States, followed by Japan (1.6 million) and China (1.4 million). The highest density of millionaires was in Singapore, with over 17% of households, followed by Qatar (14.3%), Kuwait (11.8%) and Switzerland (9.5%). But the United States is the country with the largest absolute number of millionaire households (2,928) and billionaire households (363).Compared with the size of the population, Switzerland has the largest number of ultra-high net worth households, while Hong Kong is the country with the largest number of billionaires, in both cases due to immigration.
05/06/2012

AmpegaGerling merges two funds

As of 1 June, Ampega Gerling Investment has absorbed the small fund Aktiv Trend Global (DE000A0NGJ51 / DE000A0Q8HK3), with EUR3.3m in assets in shares in equity funds, into the Gerling Portfolio Multi ETF Strategie (DE000A0NGJ69/DE0009847327), a fund of ETFs with EUR11.37m in assets, which may invest in equity and bond ETFs.
05/06/2012

UniImmo: Europa earns capital gains in United States

The open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Europa, from the German asset management firm Union Investment, has resold the Fremont Lake Union Center office building in Seattle (27,616 square metres) to Killroy Realty Corp for USD106m, USD40m higher than the acquisition price in 2005, and USD15m above the last expert valuation.The UniImmo: Europa has five other properties in its portfolio with a value of USD900m, in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Diego and Seattle.
05/06/2012

FTC offers a futures fund

The Austrian firm FTC Capital has announced the launch of a UCITS-compliant managed futures fund, FTC Global Diversified. The German-registered product will invest in equities, bonds, currencies, commodities and volatility, using several strategies. The volatility objective is 15% over a rolling 12-month period.CharacteristicsName: FTC Global DiversifiedISIN code: DE000A1JDWE7Management commission: 2%Performance commission: 20%, with high watermarkHurdle rate: 3%
05/06/2012

Schroders eyes real estate lending market

Schroders is in talks to enter the real estate lending market, the Financial Times reports. The asset management firm is studying the possibility of launching a division which would provide financing through lending to real estate property owners and developers. Talks are at an early stage, and according to sources familiar with the matter, Schroders has not yet taken a decision about the size of the lending platform.
05/06/2012

LGT recruits a director from BZ Bank

Stefan Lindermann, who has been the director of distribution and marketing at BZ Fonds, the asset management affiliate of BZ Bank (based in Wilen, in the Swiss canton of Schwyz) since April 2011, has been recruited as director of private label funds for LGT Bank in Liechtenstein from the beginning of June.Lindermann will report directly to Norbert Biedermann, CEO of LGT Bank in Liechtenstein.
05/06/2012

One quarter of Chinese asset managers had losses in 2011

According to a survey by Z-Ben Advisors, a decline of 7.35% in revenues and rising costs last year resulted in losses for 25% of asset management firms with Chinese funds. This particularly affected small and mid-sized actors, who did not have sufficient capital to adapt to changing investor demand, rising costs and market trends. Some, however, were able to increase their profit margins by developing non-core product lines.
05/06/2012

Switzerland's CPCI announces external growth ambitions

Following a general shareholders’ meeting held on 25 April, the board of directors at the wealth management firm Compagnie Privée de Conseils et d’Investissements (CPCI) has held the second round of its capital increase share offering, increasing the number of shares from 6 to 7 million, enacting a decision by the shareholders’ meeting of 9 July 2010, Agefi Switzerland reports. The capital increase comes as part of a continuing development strategy at CPCI, which includes the integration or acqusition of third-party asset management firms. In addition to third-party asset management firms, CPCI continues to be interested in all types of acquisitions in Switzerland which are compatible with its current structure and its development plans.
05/06/2012

Appointment at Julius Bär

Stephen Kamp has been appointed as deputy head for Latin America, Spain and Israel, Julius Bär announced in a statement on 4 June. He will be based in Geneva. Kemp will assist Gustavo Raitzin, member of the executive board at the private bank. He will also participate in several projects, according to a statement released on Monday. Kamp will serve Israeli clients, whether or not they are resident in Israel. Julius Bär opened an office in Tel Aviv in March this year. The bank also acquired a minority stake of 30% in GPS, the largest Brazilian private wealth management firm, in 2011. Kamp previously worked at HSBC, where he served as chief administrative officer for the private bank in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa).
05/06/2012

Lehman ex-trader closes a hedge fund

Allan Bedwick, a former trader from Lehman Brothers, has decided to close his global macro hedge fund, after attempting for more than two years to increase assets in the fund, according to documents obtained by Reuters. Bedwick’s fund, whose assets under management totalled about USD120m, is based in Hong Kong. Facing ongoing uncertainties in the euro zone and concerns about a slowdown in growth, investors have been tending to steer clear of smaller alternative management actors in favour of heavyweights in the sector.
05/06/2012

Assets at Banca March up 16%

As of the end of March, assets in the private banking/wealth banking division of Banca March were up 15.7% to USD5.775bn. Assets managed by March Gestión, for their part, were up 11%. About 70% of funds beat their benchmarks.Banca March reports that in first quarter it launched the Family Businesses fund, which invests exclusively in publicly-traded family businesses, and which comes as an addition to the product range in the Luxembourg Sicav from March Gestión, alongside the Vini Catena (wine) and Terranova (defensive) funds.Net profits at Banca March in first quarter fell to EUR21.3m, comapred with EUR59m (-63.9%), and pre-tax profits are down to EUR58.7m from EUR244.4m (-76%). Profits in the corresponding period of 2011 were boosted by a one-time capital gain of EUR179.6m, which was generated by a sale of a 5% stake in ACS.Lastly, the bank reports that its tier 1 owners’ equity ratio as of the end of March stood at 24.1%, compared with 26.5% one year earlier.
05/06/2012

Are German real estate funds doomed?

In a very long article relayed by Handelsblatt, the weekly newsmagazine Wirtschaftwoche claims that subscribers to open-ended real estate funds currently in the process of being liquidated cannot be sure that they will soon see a redemption of their shares, since the banks which provided credit to the funds will have first dibs on the proceeds of sales of properties. Eurohypo (Commerzbank) and WestImmo (WestLB), two institutions which will soon be liquidated, prove to be the toughest at getting their money back. Open-ended real estate funds in Germany still have assets of EUR85bn, distributed over 19 products.The problem of asset sales for vendors is that the banks are hesitant to finance real estate, and that fund managers are not able to get the amounts for the properties that they had figured them at on their books.
05/06/2012

Invesco appoints a head of retail sales

Invesco has appointed Peter Gallagher as head of US retail sales. In this position he replaces John Cooper. The departure follows a reshuffle of sales teams. Retail activities in the United States, marketing, product management and ETFs will be reunited in a single US commercial division, which will be led by Andrew Schlossberg.
05/06/2012

Outflows in life insurance continue

In France, the life insurance sector has continued to post negative flows in the first four months of 2012, Moody’s Investors Service reports in a study published on 4 June. Though these outflows, due to both structural and conjunctural factors, pose mid-term profitability issues, they do not presently pose liquidity risks. “The level of net outflows in France from life insurance companies does not presently endanger the liquidity of the sector,” says Benjamin Serra, an analyst at Moody’s and author of the study. “There is, however, a mid-term profitability issue, and opportunities to develop new activities to compensate for falling profits from savings activities in the future remain limited in the present context. Strong involvemnt in the phenomenon of outflows in the next few quarters, while not representing the base scenario projected by Moody’s, would accentuate pressure on life insurance companies,” he says.
05/06/2012

BlackRock puts IFAs and ETF specialists in contact

BlackRock has unveiled a new version of its “connect” service, which helps US IFAs to get in touch with ETF investment strategists (EIS), Financial Times Fund Management reports. BlackRock predicts that the EIS sector will total USD120bn by 2015.
05/06/2012

Claire Rodrigue leaves Comgest

The fund manager of the European fund at Comgest, where she began 13 years ago, Claire Rodrigue will be leaving the firm at the end of June. In a move which has been long-planned with complete cooperation of the management at Comgest, Rodrigue will be joining a small firm which may subsequently collaborate with Comgest.Due to the departure and growth at the firm, two recruitments have recently been finalised for marketing to the French-speaking countries. The two new recruits will join Comgest in the next few weeks, the first on 25 June, and the second slightly later in the year.
05/06/2012

Italian funds: online procedure for documentation submission

On 1 June 2012, a new procedure came into force, by which asset management firms are required to comply with disclosure requirements imposed by the Italian regulatory agency Consob, Bluerating reports. Asset management firms and Sicavs which would like to submit documentation for offerings of OPCVM investment products are now required to use exclusively the online procedure, which requires an account to log in.
05/06/2012

L’Asie se taille la part du lion dans le private equity

La part destinée à l’Asie au sein des investissements mondiaux du capital-investissement a doublé au cours des quatre dernières années pour s’élever l’an passé à 21%. Cette part devrait poursuivre sa progression, selon Bruno Roy de McKinsey, auteur d’un rapport sur le sujet. La région représente en effet 28% du PIB mondial. Le rapport souligne que la Chine a accaparé 45% des investissements sur la zone en 2011.
05/06/2012

Bob Doll tire sa révérence

Le gérant vedette de BlackRock a annoncé son départ à la retraite dans une note interne destinée aux salariés de BlackRock et dont Reuters a obtenu copie. Il assurera la transition de la gestion jusqu’au 30 juin tout en restant disponible jusqu’à la fin de l’année.
05/06/2012

Recul inattendu des commandes à l'industrie aux Etats-Unis

Les commandes à l’industrie aux Etats-Unis ont reculé en avril pour la troisième fois en quatre mois, la demande baissant pour quasiment tous les produits. Selon les chiffres publiés par le département du Commerce, ces commandes ont baissé de 0,6% après un recul, plus marqué qu’initialement estimé, de 2,1% en mars.
05/06/2012

Google fait ses emplettes

La jeune pousse californienne Meebo, active dans le domaine des sites de réseaux sociaux, a fait part d’un accord de rachat par Google. Le blog All Things Digital avait évoqué cette transaction le mois dernier en évoquant un montant voisin de 100 millions de dollars.
05/06/2012

La BCE prolonge le gel de ses rachats de dette

La Banque centrale européenne n’a procédé à aucun rachat d’obligations souveraines la semaine dernière, confirmant ainsi sa volonté de résister aux pressions en faveur d’une intervention pour faire baisser les rendements de la dette espagnole. Ces rachats dans le cadre du SMP sont donc restés en sommeil pour la douzième semaine consécutive.
05/06/2012

Moody’s rassure sur la décollecte dans l’assurance-vie

«Si cette décollecte, attribuable à des facteurs tant structurels que conjoncturels, pose des problèmes de rentabilité à moyen terme, elle ne s’accompagne pas pour l’heure d’un risque de liquidité», estime Moody’s dans un nouveau rapport. En janvier dernier, l’agence a maintenu sa perspective négative sur le secteur français de l’assurance-vie.

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