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18/05/2010

Man Group acquires its rival GLG Partners

The British alternative management firm Man Group on 17 May announced the acquisition of GLG Partners for a total of about USD1.6bn. The new entity will have approximately USD63bn in assets under management (of which Man accounts for slightly over USD39bn as of 31 March this year). The transaction is composed of two parts: a cash offer for GLG shareholders, and an offer in shares for the main partners at GLG, including Noam Gottesman, Pierre Lagrange, and Emmanuel Roman. By the terms of the agreement, GLG shareholders will receive USD4.50 per share, about 55% above their closing price on Friday, 14 May. The main shareholders and associated entities will be offered 1.0856 net Man share for each ordinary GLG share, valuing GLG shares at USD3.50. Man says the cost savings generated by the deal, which is expected to close by the end of September, could total about USD50m per year. Noam Gottesman, chairman and co-CEO of GLG, says the two firms have highly complementary activities insofar as both firms pursue long-term performance objectives with different client bases and investment strategies.
18/05/2010

JOHCM recruits Sandy Black

Alexander (Sandy) Black, who was head of equities at Insight Investment after serving as head of European equities at Deutsche Asset Management, has been recruited at investment director by J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM). He is a full-time replacement for Vicky Hastings, who had served in this role part-time since September 2006. For a few months, Hastings will remain at the firm to ensure a smooth transition.
18/05/2010

UK no longer opposed to EU hedge fund agreement

Les Echos reports that the 27 European Union member states will today vote to pass the planned AIFM directive, without opposition from the United Kingdom. The UK government announced yesterday evening that it would accept the compromise offered by the Spanish EU presidency. For the moment, the British will abandon their efforts to allow asset management firms based outside Europe to apply for a “European passport” which would allow them to make their funds available throughout the EU as soon as they have obtained authorisation from any single EU member state. This position will now be brought into line with that of the European Parliament, whose specialised commission yesterday evening announced its support for the planned directive, in a vote in favour of a passport for asset management firms from countries outside the EU.
18/05/2010

Regulation will be costly for European banks

La Tribune reports, citing estimates from Credit Suisse, that measures by the Basel Committee to strengthen the regulation of the global banking industry as part of Basel III and the introduction of double taxation by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could cost European banks EUR244bn. The weight of these costs could put the banks at a competitive disadvantage compared with US banks, though these banks will also be required to pay “IMF tax” as part of the same initiative.
18/05/2010

HSBC shareholders may get vote on management bonuses

La Tribune reports, citing the consulting firm Pensions Investment Research Consultants, that shareholders in HSBC may be allowed to vote against management bonuses. The head of the investment bank, Stuart Gulliver, for example, was paid 1,125% of his salary last year.
18/05/2010

Jupiter AM plans IPO

According to the Financial Times, Jupiter Asset Management, which manages GBP20bn, will on Tuesday announce its intention to list its shares publicly on the London Stock Exchange, potentially capitalising the group at up to GBP1bn. The fund manager is hoping the listing will raise up to GBP200m to GBP250m from new shares and from staff selling some of their shares.
18/05/2010

Grail and WAM launch an actively-managed ETF fund

Grail Advisors on Monday registered a new ETF fund in its ETF Trust range with the SEC (form N-1A), entitled Grail Western Asset Enhanced Liquidity ETF. The product will be actively managed and will use a short-term bond strategy established by Western Asset Management (WAM), a Legg Mason affiliate which manages USD478bn. The new product will be listed on NYSE Arca, will charge a 0.30% management commission, and will be managed by four people: Kenneth Leech, Stephen Walsh, Martin Hanley, and Kevin Kennedy.
18/05/2010

Hedge fund lobbying group required to dislcose member list

The Managed Funds Association, which is the biggest lobbying group for hedge funds, has handed over names and contact information for its more-than 2,600 members to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission under threat of subpoena from the congressional commission, according to a letter the lobbying group sent to member, says the Wall Street Journal. The lobbying association also said in the letter that the commission intends to ask funds directly about «specific trading information» related to Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch & Co. from 2007 to the present. The commission also wants to ask hedge funds about their leverage and short-selling.
18/05/2010

Dexia experienced a bumpy ride in 2009 for SRI

Thanks to market appreciation, SRI assets under management at Dexia Asset Management rose 12% last year to EUR18bn, according to the 2009 sustainable development report published by Dexia. The 2009 fiscal year however ended with net outflows of EUR99m while 2008 had generated EUR500m in net inflows. Dexia AM’s share of the European SRI market dropped 11.1% to 5.6% from 6.3% in ’08 and 7.5% in ’07. This decrease might possibly be ascribed to the arrival of new competitors on the market, but it also could be blamed on Dexia’s lower returns. The asset manager experienced the loss of an SRI mandate from the French Fonds de réserve des retraites (FRR) at the beginning of this year. Since March, Isabelle Cabie a taken over the sustainable and responsible investment operation, replacing Gaëtan Herinckx, who quit to develop a personal project from South Africa.
18/05/2010

Joyce Shapiro joins Franklin Templeton REA

Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors (FTREA) has recruited Joyce T. Shapiro as managing director for its new team specialised in multi-management of «real» assets. She was previously at Brookfield Asset Management. The new team will cover infrastructure, energy, water, agriculture, and timber.
18/05/2010

TIAA-CREF moves into outsourced management for charities

The pension fund for New York teachers, TIAA-CREF, is planning to develop its investment management activities serving charities, Bloomberg reports. Goldman Sachs and Pacific Investment Management (Pimco) have already made moves into this market. US charities are expected to invest over USD500bn through external management firms by the end of 2012, according to estimates by Casey & Associates LLC. Most outsourcing candidates are organisations with assets ranging from USD250m to USD750m.
18/05/2010

Morningstar France Holding acquires Seeds Group

Morningstar France Holding announced on Monday, 17 May, that it has acquired the Seeds Group and its affiliates, Seeds Finance and Multiratings, two financial investment consulting and fund research companies in France. The acquisition price was not revealed. Joe Mansueto, president and CEO of Morningstar Inc, says the acquisition of Seeds Group, which has 30 clients, will allow the firm to extend its financial investment advisory services in France. Morningstar is planning to rely on the expertise of the firm in the area of alternative management, and to increase its fund of fund advising capabilities. With multiratings.com, the group will have a site offering analysis of UICTS funds and financial training for independent financial advisers and institutional investors. Once the acquisition is completed, Jean-François Bay and Vianney Dubois, co-founders and CEO, will continue to lead the activities of the new Morningstar affiliate.
18/05/2010

SSgA launches Build America, an ETF of US municipal bonds

State Street Global Advisors (SsgA) and Nuveen Asset Management (an affiliate of Nuveen Investments) have announced the launch of an ETF fund based on US municipal bonds, the SPDR Nuveen Barclays Capital Build America Bond. Management fees are set at 0.35% per year. The ETF will seek to replicate the performance of the Barclays Capital Build America Bond fund, which as of 30 April this year was invested in 85 bond issues. Build America Bonds, created as part of last year’s recovery and stimulus program (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), will attract investors for whom investment in traditional municipal bonds represent a tax reduction, insofar as these bonds are taxed, but also offer returns equivalent to those of corporate bonds with much lower risk. Between the launch of the program in April 2009 and 31 March this year, there have been 1,066 issues of Build America Bonds totalling over USD90bn.
18/05/2010

Jean-Baptiste Segard joins Union Bancaire Privée

The new long-only CIO of Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) from this summer will be Jean-Baptiste Segard, who was previously head of business development at GLG Partners in London, and CEO of Société Générale Asset Management Royaume-Uni (SGAM UK).In his new role, Segard will supervise the existing long-only investment centres of UBP in Europe, and “will undertake an expansion of the group’s resources and expertise in this segment worldwide.” Segard’s immediate priorities will include setting up several funds managed by the UBP Multi-Asset team in Geneva, and continuing to strengthen the group’s expertise in emerging markets.
18/05/2010

Warburg acquires 80% of Private Client Partners

The German group M.M. Warburg & Co KGaA on Monday announced the acquisition of an 80% stake in the Zurich-based Family Office Bank Private Client Partners AG, in which a 20% stake continues for the moment to be controlled by the founder and CEO, Andreas Bodemann. Warburg has an option to later increase its participation to 100%. The operation will allow the German private bank to build its presence in the family office market, a sector of activity in which it began in 1998, and since concentrated in its Hamburg-based affiliate Marcard, Stein & Co. Private Clients Partners will retain its operational independence. The acquisition price has not been revealed.
18/05/2010

Julius Baer recruits 11 private bankers in Singapore

As part of its strategy to make Asia its second domestic market, the bank Julius Baer (CHF175bn in assets under management as of the end of April) has announced 11 recruitments for its private banking and products team. Among the senior relationship managers joining the team are the country market manager for Singapore and Malaysia from Société Générale, Vincent Lim Chuan Hoo, who becomes team head of private banking for South East Asia. Evelyn Yeo joins from the private wealth management division of Deutsche Bank to become head of investment advisory services. The other recruitments include specialists in structured products, capital markets and government bonds.
18/05/2010

Hedge funds up 1.35% in April

Hedge funds posted gains of 1.35% in April, bringing performance in the first four months of the year to 4.63%, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund index calculated by BarclayHedge. Three strategies finished in the red in April: European equities (-0.05%), health and biotechnologies (-0.02%), and equity short bias (-5.46%).
18/05/2010

BNY Mellon AM launches an absolute return fund

The Dreyfus Corporation, a part of BNY Mellon Asset Management, has announced the launch of the Dreyfus Global Return Fund, an absolute return fund managed by Newton Capital Management, a boutique belonging to BNY Mellon AM specialised in regional and international equities and bonds, as well as in multi-asset class absolute return funds. The fund will concentrate its investments in international equities, bonds, and cash, and to a lesser extent in real estate, commodities, currencies, alternative and non-traditional assets.
18/05/2010

BNY Mellon AM launches an absolute return fund

The Dreyfus Corporation, a part of BNY Mellon Asset Management, has announced the launch of the Dreyfus Global Return Fund, an absolute return fund managed by Newton Capital Management, a boutique belonging to BNY Mellon AM specialised in regional and international equities and bonds, as well as in multi-asset class absolute return funds. The fund will concentrate its investments in international equities, bonds, and cash, and to a lesser extent in real estate, commodities, currencies, alternative and non-traditional assets.
18/05/2010

Lyxor: hedge funds gained less than 1% in April

The global investible hedge fund index from Lyxor Asset Mangement which is down 1.02% for the 1st-11th May period, in April posted a gain of 0.92%, compared with 2.12% in March (see Newsmanagers of 12 April), bringing performance in the first four months of the year to 2.96%. Three strategies were in the red for April, including long/short equity short bias (-1.64%) and L/S equity statistical arbitrage (-1.04%). In January-April, long/short equity short bias is the only category showing a loss (-11.06%). However, the strategy gained back 2.56% between 1st and 11th May, reducing its losses since the beginning of the year to 8.78%.
18/05/2010

Reyl AM goes into hedge fund seeding business

Reyl Asset Management has launched an Irish hedge fund firm specialised in seed and development capital for hedge funds. The Reyl Accelerator Fund will be advised by FRM Capital Advisors, which will select hedge fund managers eligible for the fund, which will aim to unite a diversified portfolio of managers practicing a wide range of strategies (directional trading, relative value, equity long short, specialist credit, and idiosyncratic strategy).
18/05/2010

CESR issues consultation papers on ratings agencies

The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) on 17 May published two consultation documents on the subject of ratings agencies. The first concerns the supervision of ratings agencies by the competent authorities under the terms of article 21.3(a) of the regulation which stipulates that the CESR will publish recommendations in this area by 7 September 2010. The second document covers recommendations in relation to the applicable standards to evaluate the suitability of methodologies employed by ratings agencies to the regulatory requirements set out in article 8(3). These recommendations will also be published by 7 September of this year. The two consultations will remain open until 18 June.
18/05/2010

Italy lags behinds in Islamic finance

Islamic finance worldwide is expected to measure USD1.4trn in 2010, and USD1.6trn by 2012. But Italy will not be able to capture more than a small fraction of this total, since its legal system is not designed to be compatible with investment instruments that respect Sharia law, Il Sole – 24 Ore reports. So far, no legislation has been proposed to address this issue, and the country is still in the phase of gaining awareness of it, while other countries such as France, the United Kingdom, and Germany have already adapted their legislative frameworks.
18/05/2010

HSBC launches an ETF based on the S&P 500

On Monday, HSBC launched a new sub-fund of HSBC ETFs plc, the Irish-registered fund HSBC S&P 500 ETF, which replicates the US S&P 500 index. Farley Thomas, head of ETFs at HSBC, says the new product, denominated in US dollars and listed on the London Stock Exchange, will physically replicate the US large caps index, to minimise tracking error. Characteristics Name: HSBC S&P 500 ETF ISIN: IE00B5KQNG97 Management commission: 0.15%
17/05/2010

UBS se dote d'un CEO pour sa nouvelle plateforme MTF

UBS Investment Bank vient de nommer Robert Barnes à la tête de sa nouvelle plateforme multilatérale de trading UBS MTF dédiée aux actions européennes.Robert Barnes travaille chez UBS depuis plus de seize ans. Après Nomura, UBS est la deuxième banque d’investissement à lancer sa propre plateforme MTF.

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