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08/03/2012

Mirae launches a bond fund on US market

Mirae Asset Global Investments, the US affiliate of the Korean asset management firm, is now offering US investors its Global Dynamic Bond Fund. The product is the first bond fund from the firm to be offered in the United States. Mirae manages over USD50bn worldwide.
08/03/2012

Gargoyle launches a market neutral fund

The alternative management firm The Gargoyle Group, specialised in equity options strategies, has launched a market neutral fund with a continuous hedging mechanism based on index options, FINalternatives reports. The fund uses a number of proprietary elements for the vehicle, which have contributed to the success of the flagship fund from Gargoyle, the Gargoyle Hedged Value Fund. The fund seeks to earn alpha from stock-picking and the addition of premiums from the sale of overvalued call options.
08/03/2012

Ahorro Corporación offers a guaranteed fund based on 5 equities

Among the six funds registered on 2 March by the CNMV was the Ahorro Corporación Garantizado Selección, a product guaranteed by Banco Mare Nostrum (BMN), whose complementary returns may vary from 0% at the worst to 5.09% at best at maturity (7 May 2015), depending on the evolution of the share prices of Telefónica, ENI, France Telecom, Inditex and TotalFina.CharacteristicsName: Ahorro Corporación Garantizado Selección, FIISIN code: ES0107438006Front-end fee: 5%Management fee: about 1.08%Withdrawal penalty: 5%
08/03/2012

Deka acquires a hotel in Hamburg

Deka Immobilien has acquired the Suite Novotel in Hamburg for one of its institutional real estate funds, from the German asset management firm iii-investments, for an undisclosed sum. The 8,700 square metre property has 186 rooms.
08/03/2012

Social and environmental responsibility unimportant to German investors

Although German investors have a reputation for being sensitive to environmental and social issues, savings investors pay virtually no attention to these aspects when they make their investment decisions. According to a recent study by Faktenkontor, only 4% of Germans choose their financial products on the basis of ethical criteria (ecological, social, governance, etc). Security remains the dominant criterion, with 49% of respondents prefering less volatile products. Performance tops the list of concerns for 21% of German investors.
08/03/2012

Pioneer recruits for external distribution

Since 1 March, the external distribution team at Pioneer Investments Germany has taken on two newly-appointed sales directors. They are Ronny Alsleben (former portfolio manager at Top Vermögen) and Reinhold Dirschl (formerly of MEAG Munich Ergo KAG).Alsleben will focus on wealth management clients, some banks and family offices, while Dirschl will focus on savings and co-operative banks.
08/03/2012

Assets under management at DZ Privatbank up by more than EUR2bn

Assets under management at the private bank of the DZ group, DZ Privatbank, as of the end of 2011 totalled EUR12.7bn, up EUR2.2bn year on year.In addition to an increase in assets related to the merger with WGZ Bank (EUR0.7bn) and the acquisition of a significant stake in UniCredit Luxembourg (EUR2.1bn), net inflows in Germany have totalled over EUR1bn. This has largely offset the impact of negative market effects.
08/03/2012

Deutsche Bank creates an asset and wealth management unit

The Financial Times reports that, according to sources familiar with the matter, as part of an overhaul to the top management at Deutsche Bank announced on Wednesday, the investment banker Michele Faissola will become the head of a new unit dedicated to asset and wealth management. [This profession already exists within the group, but as part of a larger unit known as PCAM, for private client & asset management -ed].
08/03/2012

Semper appoints a CIO

The Swiss wealth management firm Semper has announced the recruitment of Jean-Evrard Dominicé as chief investment officer of the structure. He has also been appointed as a partner at the firm. Dominicé will aim to enlarge the range of investment products and services on offer to high net worth clients of Semper. Dominicé remains a managing partner at Dominicé & Co, an asset management firm founded by his cousin Michael Dominicé, which he joined in 2004. He will also continue to sit on the board of directors at Anaconda, another Geneva-based alternative management firm.
08/03/2012

Alexander Gebauer appointed new CEO of Allianz Suisse Immobilien AG

Alexander Gebauer is the new CEO of Allianz Suisse Immobilien AG. He succeeds Stefan Brendgen, who is switching to the company’s Supervisory Board. Alexander Gebauer has been COO of the Allianz Real Estate Group since 2009 and will continue to perform this role. In his new role, Gebauer will continue to expand the company’s operations while focusing on quality in terms of both investment and asset management. The real estate portfolio of Allianz Suisse Immobilien is valued at about CHF3.5bn. It currently comprises about 60% residential and 40% commercial property, chiefly in Zurich, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Basel.
08/03/2012

Lyxor lists three ETF funds in Milan

Lyxor has listed 3 more ETF funds based on AAA-rated euro zone government bonds on the Italian stock exchange, FonciOnline reports. The range thus grows to 4 ETF funds, each of them specialised in different maturities (1-3 years, 5-7 years and all maturities). Government bonds to which the ETFs are exposed are issued by Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria and Finland.
08/03/2012

Skandia IG changes manager of China fund

Skandia Investment Group (SIG) has announced the appointment of a new sub-advisor for its USD363m USD Skandia Greater China Equity Fund, with the fund’s management changing from First State Investments to MIR Investment Management as of March 5 2012. James Millard, chief investment officer for Skandia Investment Group said: “First State has been an excellent investment partner, but we are in agreement that further asset growth could be a future constraint in sustaining performance (...).”
08/03/2012

BlackRock loses an emerging markets manager

Daniel Tubba, manager of the BGF Emerging Markets fund, whose assets under management total USD1.1bn, has left the group, Investment Week reports.Tubba has been co-head of a team dedicated to emerging markets worldwide, which also includes Diren Shah and Sam Vecht.Emerging markets funds, both offshore and onshore, will now be managed by Shah and Luiz Soares, who has joined the group from Axiom International Investors.
08/03/2012

Jupiter AM holds out well in crisis

The British asset management firm Jupiter Asset Management has reported net inflows of about GBP750m for the 2011 fiscal year, after GBP2.3bn in 2010. The major contributors were mututal funds, which attracted a net total of GBP500m (compared with GBP1.9bn the previous year).Assets under management as of the end of the year totalled GBP22.8bn, compared with GBP24.1bn as of the end of 2010, while mutual funds had assets of GBP`17.2bn, compared with GBP18.4bn as of the end of 2010.Pre-tax profits were up to GBP70.3m, compared with GBP42.4m in 2010. The head of Jupiter, Edward Bonham Carter, says that the company is hoping to increase its distribution capacities, particularly in both French and German-speaking Switzerland. With this in mind, Jupiter has opened a representative office in Zurich. Evelyn Lederle, previously of Clariden Leu, will be in charge of development for activities in German-speaking Switzerland as senior sales manager.
08/03/2012

Patrick Kanters becomes chairman of INREV

The European association of investors in private real estate (INREV) on 7 March announced that Patrick Kanters, managing director Global Real Estate at the Netherlands-based APG Asset Management, will succeed Michael Morgenroth as its president on 24 April.Kanters was unanimously elected by the board at INREV, and his predecessor has to leave his position because he has recently been appointed to the board at the Austrian real estate fund management firm Signa Group (see Newsmanagers of 1 December 2011).
08/03/2012

Aberdeen AM joins FTSE 100 index

The index provider FTSE Group on 7 March announced that from the opening of the trading day on 19 March, the asset management firm Aberdeen Asset Management, which will have left the FTSE 250, will be one of the new components in the FTSE 100 index.
08/03/2012

Fund association opposes fund fee legislation in Sweden

The Swedish investment fund association is opposed to proposals by the chairman of the taxation committee of Parliament which would require asset management firms to charge fund fees separately, rather than taking them out of assets, in order to promote transparency. In a statement released on Tuesday, Thomas Eriksson and Pia Nilsson, charman and CEO, respectively, of the Fondbolagens Förening association, explain why they find the proposals of Henrik von Sydow inappropriate. “In our opinion, that would have a negative impact on the capacity of investors to compare funds, without taking into account the bureaucracy which it would imply. Management fees are charged every day at 1/365. How often would invoices need to be sent?” they ask. They also point out that the Swedish market includes 5,000 funds, but there are only 800 Swedish-registered funds which would be affected by the proposed legislation. “Can we have different rules for Swedish and foreign funds?” they ask.
08/03/2012

Une sicav « charia-compatible » lancée en France

Le Monde rapporte que la société de gestion CFCI lancera mi-avril au plus tard une sicav basée sur les principes de la finance islamique. Dirigée par Anouar Hassoune, ancien vice-président de Moody’s, elle sera la première de ce type à être commercialisée en France auprès des particuliers.
08/03/2012

Le Japon affiche un déficit record de ses comptes courants

La balance des comptes courants japonais a enregistré un déficit record au mois de janvier de 437,3 milliards de yens. Un déficit qui pourrait n’être que temporaire selon les économistes. «Couplés avec les récentes cessions de yens, ces chiffres ont conduit à se demander si la flambée des rendements d’Etat que beaucoup prévoient va réellement se produire» s’interroge Barclays Capital. Par ailleurs, la contraction du PIB au quatrième trimestre 2011 a finalement été de 0,7%, contre 2,3% initialement estimé.
08/03/2012

Bruxelles veut ouvrir le règlement-livraison

Les nouvelles règles présentées hier par la Commission prévoient une séparation plus stricte entre activités bancaires et de règlement. Bruxelles veut aussi faciliter l’intervention des dépositaires nationaux sur des marchés tiers. Le délai de livraison sera enfin raccourci à deux jours.
08/03/2012

L’Allemagne s’offusque du dédain grec

Le ministre allemand de l'économie juge décevante l’incapacité de la Grèce à accepter l’aide offerte par Berlin afin de réduire le poids de sa bureaucratie et relancer l’investissement privé en attirant les investisseurs étrangers. «L’aide a à peine été acceptée, beaucoup a été accompli en vain pour l’instant, cela est très décevant», explique Philipp Rösler dans un entretien accordé au quotidien.
08/03/2012

Les BRICs s’entendent pour réduire leur dépendance au dollar

China Development Bank (CDB), qui assure majoritairement ses financements à l’étranger en dollars, devrait signer un protocole d’accord à New Delhi avec ses partenaires brésilien, russe, indien et sud-africain le 29 mars prochain destiné à assurer des prêts multilatéraux libellés dans leurs monnaies locales respectives plutôt qu’en billet vert, selon le quotidien qui cite des sources proches du dossier. Moins de 13% des échanges chinois avec ses partenaires asiatiques se font en yuan, selon Helen Qiao, chef économiste Asie chez Morgan Stanley, citée par le journal. Une proportion qui pourrait grimper à 50% d’ici 2015, selon HSBC.
08/03/2012

Les compagnies aériennes chinoises réclament l’aide de Pékin

La Chine devrait investir de 18 à 20 milliards de dollars provenant de ses réserves de change dans les trois compagnies aériennes du pays, réclame dans le quotidien Liu Shaoyong, président de China Eastern Airlines. Un investissement qui ajouterait de la valeur aux réserves et permettrait aux compagnies d’investir pour faire face aux pressions inflationnistes.

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