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30/09/2011

ABN Amro acquires LGT Bank Deutschland

The German private bank Delbrück Bethmann Maffei (ABN Amro group) will acquire a 100% stake in LGT Bank Deutschland for an undisclosed amount.Pending approval from the Cartels Office and BaFin, the deal should be closed by the end of this year.The two entities have also signed a cooperation agreement in the area of products, by which clients of Delbrück Bethmann Maffei will have access to the expertise and investment support of Liechtenstein’s LGT (CHF88.1bn in assets).
30/09/2011

BVI elects a new board

The AGM of the BVI association of German asset management firms on 29 September elected a new board for the next three years. The elected board then re-elected Thomas Neiße, who is also chairman of the executive board at Deka Investment, as its president.Four new members were elected to the board: Georg Allendorf (RREEF, Deutsche Bank group), Holger Nauman (DWS, Deutsche Bank group), Tobias C. Pross (Allianz Global Investors) and Axenander Schindler (Union Asset Management Holding). They replace Oliver Clasen (Allianz Global Investors), Klaus Kaldemorgen (DWS) and Götz Kirchhoff (Avana Invest).Four board members were re-elected. They are Dirk Klee (BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland), Barbara Knoflach (SEB Asset Management), Karl Stäcker (Frankfurt Trust, BHF Bank group) and Bernd Vorbeck (Union Investment Gesellschaft).
30/09/2011

Oliver Bilal joins executive board at Pioneer Germany

Oliver Bilal, who joined Pioneer Investments Germany in March from Allianz Global Investors (see Newsmanagers of 11 March 2011), has been appointed to the executive board at the asset management firm. He had previously been central director. In his new role, Bilal will be in charge of marketing, in addition to his previously responsibilities for institutional and wholesale distribution for Pioneer Investments in Germany.
30/09/2011

New country head for Switzerland at BlackRock

BlackRock has appointed Martin Gut as Country Head for Switzerland, from 1 October 2011. He succeeds Heinz Rothacher, according to a statement published on 29 September. Gut is already in charge of the institutional activities of BlackRock in Switzerland. Gut previously worked at Credit Suisse, where he was in charge of the team for major institutional investors. In his new role, he will also be a member of the EMEA Leadership Committee (Europe, the Middle East and Africa).
30/09/2011

Pimco plans to develop alternative management activities

Pacific Investment Management (Pimco, Allianz group) has appointed Jennifer Bridwell as head of development for alternative products, Bloomberg reports. Bridwell had previously been head of mortgage strategies. The appointment is a sign of Pimco’s desire to develop its activities in hedge funds and distressed debt in a new alternative management unit which will be led by Bridwell.
30/09/2011

OFI AM appoints a new head of projects for Asia

Following the departure of Haiyan Li-Labbé to Carmignac Gestion (see Newsmanagers of 28 September 2011), OFI Asset Management has appointed a new head for its Asian projects. According to information obtained by Newsmanagers, the new head of Xinghang Li, who previously worked with Li-Labbé at ADI Alternative Investments. Like Li-Labbé, Li will be responsible for investment and development projects of the OFI group in Asia, and will lead the management team specialised in Asian markets. He will also manage the Luxembourg-registered SIF fund from OFI AM specialised in China, which invests in local Chinese equities (A-class shares) and is aimed at institutional investors, in cooperation with manager-analysts at Great Wall Fund Management (see Newsmanagers of 7 January 2011).
30/09/2011

KKR and BlackRock woo Axa PE

The Financial Times reports that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and BlackRock are interested in acquiring Axa Private Equity. They are two of several candidates who have been asked to submit an initial offer next week, according to sources familiar with the matter.
30/09/2011

European finance industry highly concerned about FATCA legislation

The FATCA law (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) appears to be attracting a lot of attention worldwide already, particularly in Europe. According to a survey by RBC Dexia Investor Services, only 26% of financial companies surveyed had little or no knowledge of the legislation, which was passed last year, but about which few details are known so far. The survey finds that European financial institutions appear to attach a particularly high importance to the FATCA law, with 86% of respondents familiar with it. Despite questions which remain about the legislation, institutions which know about the law are actively preparing for it. The cost of application for the law is estimated at about USD1m. At the annual conference of the Luxembourg Investment Fund Association (ALFI), held on 27 and 28 September in Luxembourg, the president of the American financial management association (ICI), Paul Scott Stevens, expressed some reservations about the potential impact of the law. “We understand the concerns of foreign actors on this subject. But I don’t think the law can be substantially amended,” Stevens says. “I therefore think that we need to set up a functional framework.” After all, he concludes, “tax evasion is a subject which is not limited to the US tax authorities. Tax evasion is a concern for many authorities worldwide.”
30/09/2011

Financial innovation and ETFs under the eye of ESMA

ETFs remain of central concern for the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA). “Activities such as securities lending, or specific forms of ETFs, such as synthetic ETFs, require more attention from the point of view of financial stability,” ESMA’s chairman, Steven Maijoor, said in a speech in Vienna on 29 September. Maijoor says that ESMA is planning to launch a consultation on proposals for legislation of ETFs and UCITS funds by the end of this year, with the primary objective of improving the transparency of these products. The ESMA chairman also stated that a permanent financial innovation committee (FISC) has been recently created, and will play a central preventative role in the area of financial products.
30/09/2011

BlackRock recruits its first head of fixed income for Asia

BlackRock has recruited Joel Kim for the newly-created position of head of fixed income for the Asia-Pacific region, Asian Investor reports. Kim previously worked at ING IM, and left that firm two weeks ago. He will begin in his new role in November or early December. He will be based in Singapore, the centre of fixed income expertise for Asia ex Japan. Kim will aim to improve coordination of bond specialists’ work in the region, which is spread out over seven countries, and had previously been overseen by different heads. He will also be in charge of development of the bond product range in the region.
30/09/2011

Oddo launches a new bond horizon fund

Oddo Asset Management has announced the launch of the Oddo Rendement 2017 fund, which has received a license from the AMF. Via a selection of convertible bonds and private bonds selected from a flexible universe (in the non-publicly traded invesment category), the fund will seek to profit from the high returns currently available in European bond markets. Oddo Am already has several active horizon bond funds, representing EUR462m of overall assets. The management team is composed of two senior managers, Xavier Hoche, head of convertibles management, and Muriel Blanchier, convertibles manager, and two dedicated credit analysts, Anne-Claire Saussun and Olivier Mulin. The objective for the new fund is to earn higher returns than the euro-denominated bonds issued by the French government by 2017, with an investment horizon of 6 years from the date of creation of the fund. The fund will mature on 31 December 2017. The initial portfolio includes 20% to 40% investment grade bonds, 20% to 40% high yield, and 20% to 50% non-publicly traded securities. 40% of convertible bonds are unrated, meaning high levels of opportunities in this segment. Primary characteristics of the fund Name: Oddo Rendement 2017 Legal format: French-registered FCP AMF classification: diversified OPCVM ISIN codes: A share class, FR0011113380 – B share class FR0011113398 Minimal investment duration: 6 years Benchmark: none Minimal initial subscription: A share class: EUR100; B share class: EUR1m Front-end fee: Maximum 4% TTC, assets not acquired by the OPCVM fund Redemption commission: none Management fees: A share class: maximum 1.4% TTC of net assets; B share class: 0.6% TTC of net assets Performance commission: 10% TTC of performance exceeding 6% annual returns
30/09/2011

OMAM releases a hedge fund on Lyxor UCITS platform

Lyxor Asset Management and Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) are launching the first single hedge fund manager on the UCITS Lyxor Dimension Platform. The Lyxor/Old Mutual Global Statistical Arbitrage Strategy Index Fund offers exposure to a pure alpha strategy managed by Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK).Paul Simpson, head of systematic investments and senior portfolio manager at Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) commented: “Our strategy is a quantitative equity market neutral model exploiting short term pricing opportunities and actively trading large capitalisation equities.” This investment process has been in place since 2007 at Old Mutual. “It is the first time we are implementing it in a UCITS vehicle,” adds Paul Simpson. Launched in 2009, Lyxor Dimension offers investors access to a variety of alternative strategies and themes in a UCITS format. It complements Lyxor’s established offshore managed account platform and consists of more than 10 multimanager funds and one absolute return program. Old Mutual will be the first single hedge fund manager on the platform and Lyxor plans to launch more UCITS hedge funds in the coming months.
30/09/2011

GAM launches an Asean fund

GAM launches GAM Star Emerging Asia Equity, a fund which aims to access the potential of ASEAN markets. The fund, managed by Michael Lai, investment director with Camille Vergara, investment manager, invests in quoted securities in ASEAN markets, primarily Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, with opportunistic allocations to companies in other ASEAN markets, as well as other emerging Asian countries outside China. This results in a high conviction portfolio of 35-45 stocks focused on mid-cap, under researched, overlooked and mispriced companies. The fund seeks to outperform the MSCI AC South East Asia index over the long-term and is authorised for sale in Austria, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Macau, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
30/09/2011

State Street recruits a head for client relationships in Italy

Marietta Cisari has joined State Street as head of client relationships for Italy and southern Europe in the Global Relationship Management Team. She will be based in Milan, and will report to Thomas Bergenroth, CEO and global head of the Global Relationship Management team at State Street. Before joining State Street, Cisari spent six years at BNY Mellon in London, where she was head of key accounts for the EMEA region, covering investment banks, insurers, fund managers, large corporations, and banks.
30/09/2011

Swisscanto forms a partnership with Allfunds in Italy

Swisscanto Asset Management International has formed a partnership with Allfunds Bank, by the terms of which the platform will distribute the 23 funds of the Swiss group registered for sale in Italy, Bluerating reports. The firm of the Swisscanto group, which has been present in Italy since September 2010, will also soon be converting its Italian representative office into a branch office, once it obtains permission from the Bank of Italy.
30/09/2011

Etica Sgr has a new major investor

According to information obtained by Bluerating, the Italian regional bank Banca Popolare dell’Emilia Romagna has entered the capital of the small asset management firm specialised in socially responsible investment Etica Sgr. The bank is reported to have invested EUR500,000.
30/09/2011

Taiwan pension fund launches a call for proposals for bond mandates

The Taiwan pension fund PSPF is launching a call for proposals from asset management firms for three global fixed income mandates, totalling USD450m. Previously, management of mandates of this type had been undertaken internally, Asian Investor reports. Applications must be submitted by 26 October.
30/09/2011

Lloyd George plans a UCITS-compliant version of its frontier markets fund

The asset management boutique Lloyd George Management, an affiliate of BMO Asset Management, has announced plans to offer a UCITS IV-compliant version of its equities fund dedicated to frontier markets, launched in early September (see Newsmanagers of 27 September), Citywire reports. The Dublin-domiciled fund would be launched in the next few weeks. The British version of the fund will be managed by Thomas Vester Nielsen, who has recently been recruited by the firm.
30/09/2011

Rob Hall becomes head of multi-manager at Schroders

Schroders has appointed Rob Hall as head of multi-manager, reporting to Johanna Kyrklund, head of multi-asset investments. He joined Schroders in March 2011 in the position of head of manager selection. In his new capacity as head of multi-manager, Rob Hall will continue to be head of manager selection while taking on additional responsibilities for portfolio management and client service. As a result, he will co-manage the three multi-manager funds: Schroders Cautious Managed, Schroders Strategic Balanced and Schroders High Alpha Funds, alongside fund manager, Jane Turner, who has been involved in managing the funds since 2005. The changes follow the restructuring of Schroders GBP35bn multi-asset team in March this year, which saw the multi-manager team combined with the multi-asset team under the direction of Johanna Kyrklund. The team now consists of 70 investment professionals globally.
30/09/2011

F&C makes further recruitment for emerging markets debt team

F&C Investments has recruited Peter Svoboda as a product specialist in its emerging market debt team. He is set to join F&C in November and will report to Jonathan Mann, the new head of emerging market debt, following Helene Williamson’s departure.Peter Svoboda joins F&C from Vienna‐based Erste Group where he has worked since 2005. Recently he was promoted to head of sales and marketing for the group’s private banking channel.
30/09/2011

HSBC launches three low-cost funds of funds

HSBC will launch three low-cost funds of funds in the next four to six weeks, Money Marketing reports. The three funds will use selected passive funds from the house range, as well as third-party funds. The fees for the funds will be structured like those of the low-cost funds from Fidelity Worldwide Investment, with a management commission of 0.5% per year, but no specific limit on total expense ratio (TER).
30/09/2011

Sovereign funds may invest more in alternative assets

The disastrous situation on the markets may lead sovereign funds to pull out of equities in favour of alternative investments, Reuters reports. More than half of all assets in sovereign funds are often invested in equities, 31% in bonds and cash, and the remainder in alternative strategies, hedge funds, commodities, real estate, and infrastructure. This distribution may yet change, due to the disappointing performance of equity markets in the past ten years. According to statistics from Thomson Reuters, the real estate sector represented more than 12% of total acquisitions by sovereign funds in the past twelve months, behind the financial, energy and industrial sectors.
30/09/2011

Frontier markets do not carry higher risk than emerging markets

Investing in frontier markets does not involve more risk than investing in most countries considered emerging markets, according to the most recent publication from the Research Foundation at the CFA Institute, on the subject of frontier markets (“Frontier Market Equity Investing: Finding the Winners of the Future”). The study encourages investors not to underestimate the potential of frontier markets. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the economies of many frontier markets have been totally restructured, and have become more emerging than stagnant, from an economic point of view. Frontier markets offer investors a way to identify high potential investments, which have previously been ignored by the traditional investment community. Frontier markets are not merely distant stock markets: they represent more than 1.2 billion people, a total market capitalisation of USD270bn, and daily liquidity of USD388m.
30/09/2011

BlackRock recrute son premier responsable du fixed income en Asie

BlackRock vient de recruter Joel Kim pour occuper le poste nouvellement créé de responsable du fixed income pour la région Asie-Pacifique, rapporte Asian Investor.Joel Kim travaillait précédemment chez ING IM qu’il a quitté il y a deux semaines. Il devrait prendre ses nouvelles fonctions fin novembre ou début décembre. Il sera basé à Singapour, le centre d’expertise du fixed income pour l’Asie hors Japon. Joel Kim devrait notamment améliorer la coordination des travaux des spécialistes obligataires dans la région dispersés dans sept pays et précédemment rattachés à différents responsables. Il aura également en charge le développement de l’activité et de l’offre obligataire dans la région.
30/09/2011

State Street recrute une responsable des relations clients en Italie

Marietta Cisari rejoint State Street en tant que responsable des relations clients pour l’Italie et l’Europe du sud au sein de l’équipe Global Relationship Management. Elle sera basée à Milan sous la direction de Thomas Bergenroth, directeur général et responsable mondial du service Global Relationship Management chez State Street.Avant de rejoindre State Street, Marietta Cisari a travaillé six ans chez BNY Mellon à Londres où elle était responsable grands comptes pour la région EMEA couvrant les banques d’investissement, compagnies d’assurances, gestionnaires de fonds, grandes entreprises et banques.
30/09/2011

Etica Sgr aurait un nouvel actionnaire de poids

Selon les informations de Bluerating, la banque italienne régionale Banca Popolare dell’Emilia Romagna vient d’entrer au capital de la petite société de gestion spécialisée dans l’investissement socialement responsable, Etica Sgr. La banque aurait investi 500.000 euros.
30/09/2011

Swisscanto noue un partenariat avec Allfunds en Italie

Swisscanto Asset Management International a noué un partenariat avec Allfunds Bank aux termes duquel la plate-forme distribuera en Italie les 23 fonds du groupe suisse enregistrés dans la péninsule, selon Bluerating. La société du groupe Swisscanto, présente en Italie depuis septembre 2010, va par ailleurs bientôt transformer son bureau de représentation italien en succursale une fois obtenue l’autorisation de la Banque d’Italie.
30/09/2011

Pimco veut développer ses activités de gestion alternative

Pacific Investment Management (Pimco, groupe Allianz) a nommé Jennifer Bridwell en qualité de responsable du développement des produits alternatifs, rapporte Bloomberg.Jennifer Bridwell était précédemment responsable des stratégies hypothécaires. Cette nomination illustre la volonté de Pimco de développer ses activités dans les hedge funds et la dette distressed au sein d’un nouveau pôle alternatif qui sera dirigé par Jennifer Bridwell.
30/09/2011

ABN Amro achète LGT Bank Deutschland

La banque privée allemande Delbrück Bethmann Maffei (groupe ABN Amro) va prendre 100 % de LGT Bank Deutschland pour un montant qui n’a pas été divulgué. Sous réserve de l’obtention des autorisations de l’Office des Cartels et de la BaFin, cette transaction devrait être bouclée d’ici à la fin de cette année. En outre, les deux entités ont conclu un accord de coopération dans le domaine des produits, accord selon lequel les clients de Delbrück Bethmann Maffei auront accès aux compétences et aux supports d’investissement du liechtensteinois LGT (88,1 milliards de francs suisses d’encours).

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