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17/05/2011
Fonds

First Trust lance un ETF sur l'industrie automobile

Selon Mutual Fund Wire, First Trust Advisors vient de lancer son premier ETF qui permet aux investisseurs d’investir sur l’industrie automobile. Le First Trust NASDAQ Global Auto Index Fund, qui est disponible depuis le 10 mai sur le Nasdaq, suit la performance de 30 sociétés actives dans le secteur automobile.
Fonds
17/05/2011

Changement en vue pour l'actionnariat de DNCA Finance

Les rumeurs selon lesquelles le groupe Banca Leonardo pourrait bientôt abandonner son activité de gestion d’actifs en France en cédant une partie de sa participation au sein de DNCA Finance à un fonds d’investissement américain pourraient vivre leurs dernières heures cette semaine. En effet, selon nos informations, la société de gestion de la rue de la Paix doit signer ou non, ce vendredi 20 mai, une entrée dans son capital d’un des plus anciens fonds de private equity, TA Associates. Ce dernier compte déjà 16 participations dans des sociétés de gestion d’actifs. En cas d’accord entre les deux parties, TA Associates deviendrait le premier actionnaire de la société, devant Jean-Charles Mériaux, directeur de la gestion (cf. Newsmanagers du 07/04/2011) et Joseph Chatel, son président.
17/05/2011

Fabien Madar va aussi couvrir l’Europe du Nord chez Pioneer

Fabien Madar, responsable de l’Europe de l’Ouest chez Pioneer Investments, voit ses fonctions étendues aux Pays-Bas et à l’Europe du Nord. Il remplace Jillert Blom, qui s’occupait de l’Europe du Nord, et qui a quitté la société de gestion du groupe italien UniCredit fin avril.Basé à Paris, Fabien Madar continuera à couvrir la France, la Suisse et le Luxembourg. Concernent les Pays-Bas et l’Europe du Nord, il travaillera en étroite collaboration avec Sander van de Giesen, directeur commercial. Un responsable pays sera également recruté. «Nous avons entamé la recherche d’un nouveau ‘Country Manager’ pour les Pays-Bas et les Pays Nordiques, et de forts potentiels nous ont d’ores et déjà exprimé leur intérêt», précise Fabien Madar.
17/05/2011

Caceis accompagne Tobam dans son développement à l'international

Le groupe français spécialisé dans les services financiers aux institutionnels Caceis a annoncé le 16 mai avoir mis en place auprès de la société de gestion Tobam son offre middle-office, Prime MO®, pour l’accompagner dans ses phases de développement à l’international. L’offre Prime MO®, construite en architecture ouverte, connecte tous les acteurs qui ont choisi Tobam dans le monde, dont récemment aux Etats-Unis, à une plate-forme de middle-office unique. Dépositaire, conservateur et valorisateur des fonds de droit français de Tobam, Caceis rappelle dans un communiqué qu’il est le partenaire Asset Servicing de Tobam depuis sa création. A fin 2010, les actifs en conservation de Caceis s'élevaient à 2.379 milliards d’euros, les actifs sous administration à 1.150 milliards d’euros.
17/05/2011
Fonds

Un nouvel ETF de HSBC sur Euronext Paris

Le 16 mai, NYSE-Euronext a annoncé avoir admis à la négociation sur sa plate-forme parisienne l’ETF irlandais HSBC SP BRIC 40 ETF de HSBC, qui réplique l’indice SP BRIC 40. Le fonds est chargé à 0,60 %.Désormais NYSE Euronext cotre 648 fois 556 ETF répliquant plus de 360 indices. Depuis le début de l’année, l’entreprise de marché a enregistré 107 nouvelles cotations de 81 ETF sur ses plates-formes européennes. (*) Code isin : IE00B5YLK706
Fonds
17/05/2011
Fonds

EQT cherche à lever un fonds de 4,2 milliards d’euros

La société de capital investissement EQT, qui est en partie détenue par la famille suédoise Wallenberg, offre aux investisseurs de son nouveau fonds qui s’engagent avant le premier «closing» un rabais de 10 % sur les commission de gestion de 1,5 %. La société cherche à lever 4,25 milliards d’euros d’ici à juillet lors du premier tour de table, selon les informations du Financial Times.
Fonds
17/05/2011
Fonds

Aviva envisage de lancer un fonds dédié aux actions américaines

Selon MoneyMarketing, Aviva Investors envisage de lancer un fonds de revenu sur les actions américaines dans les prochains mois.Le fonds sera géré par Henry Sanders, l’un des fondateurs de River Road Asset management, racheté par Aviva au début de l’année 2010. Le fonds sera une réplication du Dividend all-Cap Value Strategy de River Road. Le portefeuille du fonds pourrait être constitué à hauteur de 50% de grandes capitalisations, pour un tiers de valeurs moyennes, le reliquat étant réservé aux petites capitalisations.
Fonds
17/05/2011
Fonds

Morgan Stanley et Ascend Capital lancent un fonds Ucits III

Morgan Stanley vient d’annoncer le lancement d’un fonds au format Ucits III qui sera domicilié en Irlande et disponible sur sa plate-forme locale, FundLogic Alternatives.La société de gestion basée à San Francisco, Ascend Capital, qui gère quelque 3,2 milliards de dollars, a été désignée «investment manager» de ce fonds, le MS Ascend Ucits Fund, dont la promotion incombe à Morgan Stanley. Ce fonds est une stratégie actions long/short qui vise «une maximisation des gains conjuguée à une réduction de la volatilité», selon un communiqué de Morgan Stanley.
Fonds
17/05/2011
Fonds

Le contrat « variable annuities » d'Axa décolle en France

Selon La Tribune, les assurances-vie «variable annuities», ces assurances-vie multisupports promettant un revenu garanti à vie, décollent en France. « En trois mois en 2011, nous avons collecté autant sur les «variable annuities» en France, qu’en un an en 2010 », se félicite Matthieu André, managing director d’Axa Global Distributors. Pour lui, ces contrats pourraient atteindre 15 % des marchés de l’assurance vie-épargne et des OPCVM.
Fonds
17/05/2011

Le mix produits des banques s'est amélioré en gestion d'actifs

Selon Pierre Flabbée, analyste chez Kepler Capital Markets que cite L’Agefi, le mix produits des banques dans la gestion d’actifs s’est amélioré, marqué par un accroissement de la collecte sur des produits mieux margés tels que les OPCVM et les produits structurés. C’est le cas, d’une manière ou d’une autre, d'établissements comme Natixis, Amundi ou BNP Paribas, note le quotidien. Cela étant, compte tenu de l'évolution atone des marchés boursiers, Pierre Flabbée ne prévoit pas, à ce jour, d’accélération de la collecte dans la gestion d’actifs.
17/05/2011
Fonds

GAM rapatrie la gestion d’un fonds dette émergente

Suite à l’intégration par GAM du spécialiste des marchés obligataires et des changes Augustus Asset Managers, la gestion du fonds GAM Star Pharo Emerging Market Debt & FX va être rapatriée en interne, et confiée à Paul McNamara, investment director chez GAM. A cette occasion, le fonds prendra le nom de GAM Star Emerging Markets Total Return. Jusqu’ici, le fonds était géré par Pharo Global Advisors Limited. Le contrat de gestion par délégation sera résilié le 1er juin.Paul McNamara et son équipe ont rejoint GAM suite à l‘acquisition d‘Augustus Asset Managers en 2009. Cette société de gestion investit dans la dette des marchés et au 30 avril 2011, Paul McNamara gérait quelque 7,6 milliards de dollars d‘actifs. Le fonds continuera à viser un rendement total supérieur de 3% à 5% à l‘indice JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified Composite et sera toujours géré dans un style macroéconomique «top down» privilégiant une gestion active du risque.
Fonds
17/05/2011

Société Générale Private Banking (Suisse) pénalisée par le franc

Société Générale Private Banking (Suisse) a souffert de la vigueur du franc en 2010. L’entité publie un recul de 8,7% du produit net bancaire à 233,6 millions de francs et du résultat net à 40,7 millions, contre 55,4 millions en 2009. Les encours sous gestion ont également été affectés par la force de la monnaie helvétique. A fin décembre 2010, ils s’élèvent à 25 milliards de francs, contre 27 milliards un an plus tôt. Le recul du dollar et de l’euro face au franc a entraîné une baisse mécanique de 2,9 milliards, tandis que la performance des marchés a permis une hausse de 1,3 milliard, a indiqué la banque au Temps. Les souscriptions ont été positives et se montent à 360 millions.
17/05/2011

Change in shareholder structure on the table for DNCA Finance

Rumours that the Banca Leonardo group may soon be abandoning its asset management business in France, selling off a part of its stake in DNCA Finance to a US investment fund, may die out this week. According to information obtained by Newsmanagers, the asset management firm based in the rue de la Paix in Paris must decide by 20 May whether or not to sign an agreement for an entry into its capital by one of the oldest private equity funds, TA Associates. The private equity fund already holds 16 stakes in asset management firms. If the two parties reach an agreement, TA Associates would become the largest shareholder in the firm, with a larger stake than Jean-Charles Mériau, chief investment officer (see Newsmanagers of 7 April 2011) and Jacques Chatel, chairman.
17/05/2011

Daniel Roy joins La Banque Postale

La Banque Postale announced on Monday, 16 May that from 1 June 2011, Daniel Roy has joined the executive board at the bank. He will serve as advisor to the board, in charge of development of wealth management. Roy, 54, had been chairman of the board at HSBC Banque Privée France since 2007 (see Newsmanagers of 16 May 2011), after joining HSBC in 2006. For the previous five years, he had been director of the Asset Management unit at CDC Ixis.
17/05/2011

Soros sells off stakes in gold, BofA and JPMorgan

In first quarter, the hedge fund managed by George Soros sold off 4.7 million shares in the SPDR Gold Trust, in which as of the end of March he held only 49,400 shares, worth USD6.9m, the Wall Street Journal reports. The fund has also unloaded 9.4 million shares in NovaGold Resources, and has considerably reduced its allocation to shares in Bank of America (BofA) and JP Morgan.However, it has tripled its exposure to Citigroup to 29.4 million shares, and scaled up its exposure to Wells Fargo by a factor of six, to 3.5 million shares.
17/05/2011

Caceis supports Tobam in international development

The French Caceis group, specialised in financial services for institutional investors, on 16 May announced that it has set up a range of middle-office services with the management firm Tobam, entitled Prime MO®, in order to assist clients in their international development. The Prime MO® range operates in open architecture, and connects all clients who have selected Tobam worldwide, including recent additions in the United States, on a single middle-office platform.Caceis, which is depository, custodian and fund valuation provider for Tobam’s French-registered funds, says in a statement that it has been the asset servicing partner for Tobam since its creation.As of the end of 2010, assets under custody at Caceis totalled EUR2.379trn, while assets under administration totalled EUR1.150trn.
17/05/2011

DWS freezes subscriptions and redemptions for db ImmoFlex

On 16 May, DWS Investments (Deutsche Bank) has announced that it will be suspending subscriptions and redemptions for its open-ended real estate fund of funds db ImmoFlex (EUR259m) until further notice, since a large portion of its portfolio is invested in open-ended real estate funds from which redemptions have been frozen, and that freeze is likely to continue for some time to come.Liquidity in the db ImmoFlex fund is insufficient to meet all redemption demands; in order to satisfy those, the fund would need to sell assets at unjustifiable markdowns, which would result in a considerable deterioration in the quality of the portfolio (14 funds, invested in about 500 properties in more than 20 countries), as well as the risk structure of the fund.The fund, which has exclusively retail clients, is said to have undergone net outflows of EUR50m since the beginning of the year, and its liquidity levels are said to have fallen to 7% (while the legal minimum is 5%).
17/05/2011

Average German fund investment portfolio has grown by 8.9% in one year

As of the end of 2010, German clients had an average portfolio of about EUR8,650 each in investment funds, 8.9% more than the average of EUR7.946 recorded at the end of 2009 (see Newsmanagers of 29 June 2010). Between the end of 2000 and the end of 2010, the average portfolio of investment fund shares grew by 67.8%.However, German investors are far behind those in other countries. As of the end of December, the biggest investors were the Americans, with an average of EUR29.081, 5.4% more than as of 31 December 2010. The increase over the end of 2009 is 13.6%. French investors are in second place, with EUR19,427, down 4.4% compared with the end of 2010, and up 49.1% in ten years.Swedish, British and Austrian investors are also ahead of the Germans, with EUR17,657 (up 89.5% in ten years), EUR11,000 (+57.6%), and EUR10,197 (-0.7%).
17/05/2011

Assets up at Renta 4

The Spanish financial services firm Renta 4, which in February decided to acquire the Banco Alicantino de Comercio (see Newsmanagers of 9 February), on 31 March had record assets under custody and management of EUR5.7bn, 13.1% more than one year previously. Pre-tax profits were up 5.8% in first quarter compared with January-March 2010, at EUR2.9m.The firm has also announced the appointment of Antonio Fernández Vera, who remains president of Renta 4 Pensiones, a position he has held since March 2007, as president of the asset management affiliate Renta 4 Gestora.
17/05/2011

Amundi Iberia selects RBC Dexia IS for automated administration of its funds

The Spanish affiliate of RBC Dexia Investor Services, RBC Dexia Activos, has won an automated fund administration mandate for 46 investment funds from Amundi Iberia (EUR750m). Under the contract, Amundi will outsource administration of its products, while retaining complete control of the process. By the terms of the agreement, RBC Dexia has taken a transfer of three employees from Amundi Iberia.
17/05/2011

State Street appoints a global head of sales for alternative investments

The US State Street group on 16 May announced the appointment of Maria Cantillon as global head of sales for the Alternative Investment Solutions unit, dedicated to alternative investments. Cantillon will be based in London, and will report to Scott Fitzgerald, head of sales for the Global Services America unit at State Street. Cantillon was previously head of service activities dedicated to alternative investment managers and a member of the executive board at BNP Paribas Securities Services in London. Cantillon will oversee a team of 15 people, serving North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. She replaces Scott Fitzgerald, who has assumed new responsibilities since the end of last year. As of 31 March 2011, alternative assets under administration in the Alternative Investment Solutions arm of State Street totalled nearly USD770bn.
17/05/2011

Fidelity adds to sales staff in Germany

Kerstin Behnke, managing director and head of Northern Europe, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg at Gartmore Investment Services GmbH, will join Fidelity Investment Services GmbH on 20 June as head of distribution for Fidelity International for Germany. She will be responsible for banking clients, savings banks, IFAs, insurers and wealth managers.Christian Wrede, CEO of Fidelity International for Germany and managing director for Central Europe, points out that for Fidelity, Germany is a core market with major potential.
17/05/2011

WMAM hires chief economist

WestLB Mellon Asset Management (WMAM, EUR25.5bn in assets) has announced that since the beginning of May, Holger Sandte has become chief economist for the asset management boutique, which is a 50/50 joint venture of WestLB and BNY Mellon. It is a newly-created position.Since 2006, Sandte had been head of the economic research department at WestLB.
17/05/2011

German pension fund BVK adapts its SRI approach to each asset class

The largest German pension fund, Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), which manages about EUR54bn in assets, claims that there can be no such thing as a general approach to SRI investment, Citywire Global reports.Each asset class has distinctive traits, and responsible investment strategies need to be adapted to each of them. In April this year, the pension fund announced plans to roll out SRI strategies for its entire portfolio, and also signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).The head of asset management for the pension fund, André Heimrich, has announced that the group has opted for an engagement strategy, and adds that it is not possible to have a one-size-fits-all approach in this area. “It is impossible to have a general SRI approach for all asset classes,” says Heimrich. “A differentiated approach is necessary, since asset classes are very different from one another. For example, in fixed income, it is not possible to have direct engagement. You are required to take a different approach. We have therefore defined our own vision of the best possible approach for each asset class,” Heimrich says.This goes for bond investments as well, which represent about 65% of the total portfolio, and for which the pension fund uses SRI ratings from the oekom research agency to analyse each of its bond investments on the basis of criteria such as transparency.
17/05/2011

LGT plans to sell off wealth management activities in Germany

A spokesperson for LGT Bank has confirmed to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the collapse of its proposed acquisition of BHF-Bank from Deutsche Bank (see Newsmanagers of 19 April) will prevent it from achieving its strategic objectives for private banking in Germany. The firm will therefore sell off wealth management in the country (135 employees in seven locations), but will retain its institutional asset management activities there.
17/05/2011

Swiss government wants to toughen hedge fund regulations

The Swiss government is planning to announced proposed legislation this summer, which would bring Switzerland into line with the European directive on hedge fund management (AIFM) from 2013, thus toughening the regulations applicable to hedge funds and private equity funds in Switzerland, but allowing Swiss management firms continued access to EU markets, Handelsblatt reports.The move could be fatal for smaller hedge funds, due to the financial costs related to the license application process, auditing and personnel costs for recruitments to handle compliance and risk monitoring. Some experts claim that no hedge fund will be able to be profitable with less than CHF100m in assets, and that the regulatory changes will work to the advantage of London.In Switzerland there are now about 140 hedge fund management firms, with total assets of about CHF20bn.
17/05/2011

Société Générale Private Banking (Switzerland) pays price for strong franc

Société Générale Private Banking (Switzerland) suffered due to the strong Swiss franc in 2010. The entity has announced an 8.7% decline in its net banking income, to CHF233.6m, and net profits of CHF40.7m, down from CHF55.4m in 2009. Assets under management were also negatively affected by the strength of the Swiss currency. As of the end of December 2010, assets totalled CHF25bn, compared with CHF27bn one year earlier. The decline of the US dollar and the euro against the franc led to a mechanical decline of CHF2.9bn, while the performance of the markets brought in gains of CHF1.3bn, the bank has told Le Temps. Subscriptions were positive to the tune of CHF360m.
17/05/2011

GAM repatriates management of an emerging markets debt fund

Following the acquisition of the bond and currency markets specialist Augustus Asset Managers by GAM, the management of the GAM Star Pharo Emerging Market Debt & FX fund will be brought back in-house, and will be given to Paul McNamara, investment director at GAM. The fund will become known as the GAM Star Emerging Markets Total Return. The fund had previously been managed by Pharo Global Advisors Limited. The outsourcing contract for the management of the fund will conclude on 1 June. McNamara and his team joined GAM following its acquisition of Augustus Asset Managers in 2009. The asset management firm invests in emerging markets debt, and as of 30 April 2011, McNamara managed about USD7.6bn in assets. The fund will continue to aim for total returns 3% to 5% higher than the JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified Composite index, and will continue to be managed with a top-down macroeconomic style which prioritises active risk management.
17/05/2011

Apollo Multi AM offers two new funds

The British management firm Apollo Multi Asset Management will launch two new funds in early June, the IFDS Apollo Multi Asset Defensive and the IFDS Apollo Multi Asset Adventurous, Investment Week reports. The two funds will be structured as Non-UCITS Retail Schemes (NURS), which will be able to invest in ETFs, structured products, real estate, and directly, as well as in hedge funds.
17/05/2011

Newcits are not a new class of products, says EFAMA

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (Efama) has published a report on the evolving investment strategies of UCITS. A working group was convened to examine the increasing sophistication of these products. Traditionally, UCITS funds have been regarded worldwide as plain vanilla investment funds which only employ traditional investment strategies. However, as allowed by the UCITS III Directive of 2001, there are nowadays more and more UCITS funds that use a wider range of techniques and instruments with the aim of managing the trade-off between risk and return. One of the main examples is using derivative techniques to generate “absolute” returns to the investors. The investor demand for these types of products has significantly increased since the financial markets crisis. In particular, there is clear investor desire to achieve yield uplift relative to the low returns on deposit accounts. At the same time there is a demand from investors for capital security. Commenting on the publication of the report Peter De Proft, director general of Efama, said: “The “Newcits” label was coined by the media and should not be adopted by the industry or regulators. We do not believe that it is necessary or beneficial to have a specific label for these funds. The universe of UCITS is evolving but this is encompassed by the UCITS regulatory framework. Moreover, the regulatory requirements and supervisory tools are being developed, especially under the UCITS IV framework, which enters into force on 1 July 2011”.

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