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04/03/2010

Les décideurs de la gestion d'actifs font de l'international leur priorité

La confiance revient chez les dirigeants du secteur de la gestion d’actifs, lesquels se sentent pousser des ailes à l’international, indique un sondage du consultant Investit réalisé fin janvier à Londres auprès de 60 représentants de 19 sociétés de gestion représentant 3.500 milliards de livres d’encours et de six administrateurs. 95 % des sondés sont confiants pour l’année qui vient. De plus, 64 % s’attendent à une amélioration des perspectives d’ici à la fin de l’année. Cela représente un clair contraste par rapport à 2009, où 41 % des personnes interrogées avaient suspendu leurs projets et seuls 27 % anticipaient une embellie. Avec le retour de la confiance, 88 % des personnes interrogées ont déclaré que l’expansion dans de nouvelles régions était leur priorité absolue pour l’année. La destination numéro un est sans surprise l’Asie-Pacifique (56 %), le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique du Nord arrivant en deuxième position avec 27 %. Viennent ensuite l’Amérique du Nord et l’Amérique du Sud, avec 9 % et 7 % respectivement. Parmi les autres priorités figurent les Ucits (88 %), la gestion des données (79 %) et le reporting clients (77 %).
04/03/2010
Fonds

Sal. Openheim lance cinq barrier reverse convertibles

La banque Sal. Oppenheim complète sa gamme de produits par l’émission de cinq Barrier Reverse Convertibles avec échéance au 8 mars 2011, indique l’Agefi suisse. Les titres sous-jacents sont Actelion, Geberit, Nestlé, Swisscom et Syngenta. Grâce à leur mécanisme de protection, ces produits offrent la possibilité de réaliser des gains même sur des marchés en stagnation ou en faible baisse. Pour autant que l’action correspondante ne baisse à aucun moment de 25% ou plus, l’investisseur obtient le gain maximal.
Fonds
04/03/2010

HSBC Private Bank renforce sa présence en Suisse

Selon L’Agefi suisse, HSBC Private Bank va ouvrir une nouvelle succursale à Gstaad qui sera opérationnelle d’ici mi-2010. Cette initiative s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une stratégie visant à accroître de manière significative la présence de la banque sur le marché onshore suisse.
04/03/2010

Julius Baer prêt à faire de la croissance externe

Selon L’Agefi suisse qui cite le Handelszeitung, la banque suisse Julius Baer est prête à effectuer des acquisitions «à tout moment», non seulement en Suisse, où une dizaine de banques seraient à vendre, mais aussi ailleurs en Europe (en France notamment) et en Asie, selon son directeur général, Boris Collardi. «Nous pouvons effectuer des acquisitions à tout moment, du moment que la cible correspond à nos attentes», a déclaré M. Collardi dans un entretien. L’établissement zurichois, qui a finalisé en début d’année l’intégration des activités suisses du bancassureur néerlandais ING, avait déjà affirmé en février étudier de possibles acquisitions en Chine, en Amérique latine et au Moyen-Orient.
04/03/2010
Fonds

La gratuité n'est pas un bon argument de vente pour les ETF

Selon un sondage effectué en février par Phoenix Marketing International auprès de 924 investisseurs disposant d’une épargne financière d’au moins 100.000 dollars, les émetteurs d’ETF préférés du public sont Charles Schwab, E*Trade, Fidelity, Scottrade, TD Ameritrade, Vanguard et Wells Fargo/Wachovia, devant un second peloton composé de Bank of America, Citibank, Edward Jones, ING/Sharebuilder, Merrill Lynch, T. Rowe Price et UBS.Cette analyse a aussi mis en évidence que réduire les commissions sur les ETF n’a pratiquement aucune utilité en tant qu’argument commercial pour toucher la majorité des investisseurs. L’auteur de l'étude, Kristina Terzieva, précise que près 64 % des investisseurs aisés attachent la plus grande importance au fait que les fonds viennent faire le complément de leur style d’investissement, qu’ils répliquent des indices de marché larges, qu’ils soient commercialisés au travers d’un service complet et qu’ils puissent faire l’objet d’ordres en ligne.En revanche, renoncer aux commissions sur un nombre limité d’ETF ou sur des ETF d’une marque ou encore sur des ETF commercialisés au travers d’un courtier donné n’a qu’une incidence minimale pour toucher de nouveaux investisseurs.
Fonds
04/03/2010
Fonds

Le "billion dollar club" grossit un peu

D’après Absolute Return, les 213 hedge funds américains dont l’encours dépasse le milliard de dollars, ceux du «billion dollar club», ont affiché en 2009 une augmentation de 48 milliards de dollars ou de 4,2 %, de leur encours total, qui est ressorti à 1.182 milliards de dollars. Il était de 1,6 billion de dollars fin 2007.JPMorgan a détrôné Bridgewater comme numéro un par les actifs sous gestion tandis que Soros Fund Management s’est installé en quatrième position, évinçant D.E. Shaw.
Fonds
04/03/2010

La Deutsche Bank prévoit de commercialiser 30 ETF

Mitsuhisa Murata, managing director et head of global markets structuring chez Deutsche Securities, a indiqué à Reuters que le groupe allemand envisage de faire coter 30 ETF (db x-trackers) ou davantage au Japon durant l’année qui vient, rapporte The Guardian.Dans un premier temps, la Deutsche Bank commercialise déjà depuis février six des treize db x-trackers cotés à Hong-Kong. Les suivants qui seront proposés sur le marché japonais seront également des produits cotés à Hong-Kong et à Singapour, mais il est prévu de faire coter des ETF directement au Japon dans une phase ultérieure.
04/03/2010

Fitch confirme la note de Wafa Gestion

Fitch Ratings a annoncé le 3 mars avoir confirmé la note Asset Manager nationale (Maroc) ‘M2(mor)’ de Wafa Gestion pour ses activités de gestion basées à Casablanca. Selon l’agence, la note reflète les quatorze années d’historique de Wafa Gestion, son solide positionnement sur le marché marocain en termes d’encours sous gestion (55,8 milliards de dirhams marocains d’actifs sous gestion, soit quelque 5 milliards d’euros), et d’offre produits, ainsi que le soutien de ses actionnaires de référence, AttijariWafa Bank (notée ‘BB+'/B/Perspective Stable) et Amundi (précédemment Crédit Agricole Asset Management). La note prend également en compte une plus grande stabilité des équipes suite aux changements importants intervenus en 2008, notamment au sein des équipes de gestion ainsi qu’aux postes de direction.Cependant, Fitch souligne la nécessité d’une structure organisationnelle de contrôle plus robuste, celle-ci étant temporairement affaiblie par l’absence de ressource dédiée. L’agence souligne qu’elle suivra attentivement les développements dans ce domaine.
04/03/2010
Fonds

Les hedge funds italiens commencent à débloquer les actifs illiquides

Un an après l’introduction de mesures exceptionnelles par la Banque d’Italie pour permettre aux sociétés de gestion alternative de freiner les rachats dans la phase la plus aiguë de la crise, les gestionnaires italiens ont déjà remboursé en moyenne aux investisseurs 45 % des portefeuilles des side pockets, ces fonds fermés dans lesquels ont été cantonnés les actifs illiquides des fonds d’origine, rapporte Plus 24, citant les chiffres de MondoHedge. Par exemple, Caam Sgr, qui va devenir Amundi Sgr, a remboursé entre 45 % et 74 % des encours initialement bloqués dans leurs six fonds fermés. Pioneer AI a de son côté remboursé entre 33 % et 43 % des actifs totaux gérés dans ses 12 side pockets.
Fonds
04/03/2010

Threadneedle builds sales team in Frankfurt

Threadneedle has announced the recruitment of Bernd Klapper and Patrick Sobotta, who join the sales team in Frankfurt, Germany. Klapper will be in charge of the northern and central regions of Germany. He was formerly sales director for ÖKOWORLD LUX S.A. Sobotta, for his part, becomes head of sales. He was previously sales support at Crédit Agricole Asset Management in Frankfurt.
04/03/2010

Pimco results set tone for AGI bottom line

Good results at Allianz Global Investors (AGI) in 2009 are largely attributable to Pimco, whose assets increased by EUR195bn (of which EUR107bn were in net subscriptions) to a total of EUR689bn as of the end of the year, Handelsblatt reports. Joachim Faber, head of AGI and an Allianz board member, admits that 84% of operating profits were generated by Pimco, which is specialised in bond management, while only 16% of profits were from equities management. For a few weeks now, there has been an added source of friction, as Pimco has announced plans to move into equities management, for which Allianz had previously relied on the US firm RCM. But Faber points out that Pimco’s management process is altogether different from RCM’s stock-picking technique. The manager has not ruled out the possibility that RCM may also make an foray into the world of bonds, especially corporate bonds.
04/03/2010

Schroders, Carmignac, CAAM and Robeco lead subscriptions

As the Inverco association announced that foreign real estate firms had gained ground in the Spanish market (see Newsmanagers of yesterday), Funds People was running reports, also relayed in Expansión, that the funds which attracted the largest subscriptions were the Robeco US Premium for equities, Schroder ISF Euro Corporate Bond for bonds, the Carmignac Patrimoine among diversified funds, and the CAAM Dynarbitrage Volatility for hedge funds.
04/03/2010

Deutsche Bank plans to release 30 ETF funds

Mitsuhisa Murata, managing director and head of global markets structuring at Deutsche Securities, has told Reuters that the German group is planning to list 30 or more ETF funds (db x-trackers) in Japan in the coming year, the Guardian reports. Deutsche Bank has initially been offering six of its 13 db x-trackers listed in Hong Kong since February. The next funds to be offered on the Japanese market will also be products listed in Hong Kong and Singapore, though in a later phase there are plans to list ETFs directly in Japan.
04/03/2010

A ratings agency within the ECB?

L’Echo reports, citing Handelsblatt, that the Euro zone countries are considering creating a European ratings agency which would be lodged within the European Central Bank (ECB). The newspaper cites sources close to European finance ministers as saying that Euro zone governments do not want to depend on the opinions of Standard & Poor’s (S&P), Moody’s and Fitch, which, according to an anonymous sources cited by Handelsblatt “were completely wrong in the case of Lehman Brothers.”
04/03/2010

Invesco, Union and Deka invest EUR529m in real estate properties

Invesco Real Estate (EUR18.4bn in assets) is acquiring five Accor hotels under the Pullman, Mercure and Novotel brand names in Paris, Rome, Munich, and Bratislava (with a total of 1,112 rooms), for EUR154m. The management firm is also planning to invest EUR10m to increase the value of the properties and the operating profits from them. The German asset management firm Union Investment Real Estate, meanwhile, has announced that it is spending EUR316m to acquire 91% of the Alexa shopping centre (180 shops) on Alexanderplatz in Hamburg. The vendors are Sonae Sierra and the French firm Foncière Euris/Rallye. Sonae Sierra will continue to manage the property, which has 43,000 square metres of shop space, 2,000 square metres of restaurant and 8,000 square metres of leisure space. The shopping centre will be added to the portfolio of the open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Deutschland. Lastly, Deka Immobilien has announced that it has acquired the certified green office building Bylingen on Söderalm island in Stockhom. The 14,500 square metre property will be transferred this month to the portfolio of the open-ended real estate fund WestInvest ImmoValue.
04/03/2010

Five new “Newcits”

The list of hedge fund management firms which are launching UCITS III-compliant products is growing, Citywire reports, citing the examples of Toscafund, Trycon GCM, Cheyne Capital, Castlestone Management and Merchant Capital-Tressis. Toscafund will launch a UCITS version of its small and midcaps strategy, Reuters reports, while Cheyne Capital will launch a mergers and acquisitions fund.
04/03/2010

Sovereign funds pay a high price for their investments in banks

According to statistics from Bloomberg, losses (actual or potential) for the sovereign funds of Abu Dhabi, Norway, Singapore and other countries could be as much as USD20bn, on investments of USD69bn in American and European financial institutions in 2007 and 2008, La Tribune reports. The Singapore sovereign fund Government Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) will need ten years to make back its initial investment in the Swiss bank UBS, according to analysts.
04/03/2010

BlackRock in prudent investment: Treasury bonds

In response to uncertain growth outlooks, looming problems for sovereign debt, and “continued” inflation risks, BlackRock has increased its allocation to US Treasury bonds, the Wall Street Journal reports. The management firm has meanwhile “noticeably” reduced its overweight position in other categories of bonds, such as corporate bonds and MBS, which saw major rallying last year. BlackRock is now neutral on Treasuries, where it was previously underweight on securities in this category.
04/03/2010

Nomura and Kepler come top for analysis in 2009

Les Echos reports that the most recent edition of the StarMine rankings of French equities investment firms puts Nomura at the top of the annual rankings for the quality of its recommendations for CAC 40 companies. It is followed yb Oppenheim Research, Deutsche Bank Securities, and Exane BNP Paribas in the study, which takes into account stock market performance in 2009. Nomura’s analysts stood out in particular with a recommendation to buy Schneider Electric, which gained about 50% between January and December 2009. The firm, born of the acquisition of the European teams from Lehman Brothers by Nomura, was not included in the rankings in previous years. StarMine also evaluates the comparative accuracy of estimates by the brokerage firms of results for French large caps: in this area, Kepler Capital Markets takes first place, followed by Exane BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse.
04/03/2010

Asset management decision makers have their eyes on the globe

Senior executives from the investment management industry feel confident enough about the future that they are expanding into new geographical locations, according to a survey taken at Investit’s bi-annual industry conference. The conference, held on 28 January 2010, was attended by 60 delegates from 19 investment management firms with GBP3.5 trillion of assets under management, and six third party administrators with GBP25 trillion of assets under custody and management.95% of respondents to the survey expressed confidence about the year ahead. Furthermore 64% expected the outlook to improve significantly by the end of the year. This is in sharp contrast to early 2009, when 41% of participants had put their projects on hold and only 27% expected the picture to improve. As confidence is returning, 88% of delegates stated that expanding into new regions is their top priority for the year ahead. In terms of where the industry is looking to expand, 56% of the participants ranked Asia Pacific as their number one destination, while the Middle East and North Africa region came second with 27% of the vote. North and South America followed with 9% and 7% respectively. As for other major areas of focus identified by respondents, UCITS (88%), data management (79%) and client reporting (77%) continue to feature prominently.
04/03/2010

“You liked BRIC? You will love Africa”

Under this attention-grabbing headline in Cinco Días, Baldwin Berges, CEO of Silk Invest, launches a plea for investment in Africa to promote the development of emerging markets. In Nigeria and South Africa, he sees similarities with Brazil: populations of over 200 million consumers, an abundance of natural resources, and the advantage of leading positions in regions with populations of over 500 million. Egypt and Morocco are comparable with India: few natural resources of their own, but a growing demographic pyramid and competitive advantages over Europe in terms of the manufacturing prices and services.
04/03/2010

Aquitaine launches a strategy investing in Asian hedge funds

Aquitaine Investment Advisors is launching a fund whose strategy is to buy stakes in Asian hedge fund management firms, Asian Investor reports. The Crescent Fund, based in the Cayman Islands, will aim for USD200m in assets. It is available to US charaities and Asian family offices.
04/03/2010

Sovereign funds on the comeback

Sovereign funds, which like other investors have been affected by a crisis that they did not anticipate, are now returning to the market. According to a study by International Financial Services London (IFSL), investments by sovereign funds increased from USD10bn in first half (their lowest level since 2005) to USD500bn in second half, mostly in Europe and the United States. The Chinese sovereign fund was particularly active, with investments of about USD15bn over the year as a whole. Two thirds of assets at sovereign funds, which totalled about USD2.5trn as of the end of 2009, are in the hands of funds which are supplied by exports of commodities, especially oil and gas, by countries. The percentage of assets in other funds, which are supplied largely from currency reserves, will increase to 38% by 2012, from 34% currently. However, assets under management by sovereign funds fell 3% for the year as a whole to USD3.8trn. According to estimates by IFSL, assets at sovereign funds may total about USD5.5trn by 2012.
04/03/2010

Rafael Hurtado becomes CIO of Popular Gestión

Rafael Hurtado, manager of the asset allocation fund of funds Popular Selección and head of multi-management since 2000, has been appointed as director of investments for the asset management division of Popular Gestión, replacing Miguel Colombás, who is taking over as CEO of the firm, replacing Carmen Ortiz (see Newsmanagers of 18 February).
04/03/2010

Le "billion dollar club" grossit un peu

D’après Absolute Return, les 213 hedge funds américains dont l’encours dépasse le milliard de dollars, ceux du «billion dollar club», ont affiché en 2009 une augmentation de 48 milliards de dollars ou de 4,2 %, de leur encours total, qui est ressorti à 1.182 milliards de dollars. Il était de 1,6 billion de dollars fin 2007.JPMorgan a détrôné Bridgewater comme numéro un par les actifs sous gestion tandis que Soros Fund Management s’est installé en quatrième position, évinçant D.E. Shaw.
04/03/2010

db x-trackers launches a corporate bond ETF

On Wednesday, db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank) announced the launch of its Luxembourg-registered fund db x-trackers II iBoxx EUR Liquid Corporate 100 Total Return Index ETF, which charges 0.20% fees, and which was created on 8 February. The synthetic replication fund replicates the iBoxx EUR Liquid Corporate 100 corporate bond index, which includes exclusively bonds denominated in Euros or currencies which preceded the Euro, with a remaining time to maturity of at least two years, and a minimal volume of EUR750m.
04/03/2010

ETFlab founds its first tracker fund of corporates

The Munich-based ETF management firm of the Deka group (German savings banks), ETFlab Investment, on Wednesday announced the launch and introduction on the XTF segment of the Deutsche Börse of its first publicly-traded corporate bond fund, the ETFlab iBoxx Euro Liquid Corporates Diversified. The German-registered product (DE000ETFL375) based on physical replication offers access to a diversified range of securities, as the index it replicates includes 75 issues from firms whose headquarters are located in the Euro zone, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, or Denmark, with a preference for fixed-rate securities. The manager is allowed to retain only up to two issues from the same borrower, and no issuer is allowed to account for more than 7.5% of assets. The securities are rated investment grade, or at least BBB-, but the limit is A- for financial sector borrowers. The remaining time to maturity for bonds in the portfolio is between 1.5 and 10.5 years. As for corporate bond ETFs launched the same day by db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank), the management commission for the product is 0.20%.
04/03/2010

German government seeks to toughen regulations applicable to several financial instruments

Wolfgang Schäuble, the German federal finance minister, announced on Wednesday that his services will prepare proposed legislation for April which would strengthen protection for investors and increase liquidity on capital markets. The bill would aim for passage during the summer before the Cabinet. The major points to be included in the legislation would be tougher measures to protect investors in the grey market, and tougher sanctions on financial services providers who give fallacious advice. The bill will also forbid naked shorts and introduce transparency requirements for declared short positions. The German government is also proposing to implement added disclosure for financial instruments, in order to prevent surprise take-overs of businesses. The minister is planning to introduce a minimum time period for retention of shares in open-ended real estate funds and minimal liquidity requirements which will be a function of the delay period for redemptions. In addition, the German government would create an “orderly” liquidation procedure for real estate funds which have been closed for a long period of time.
04/03/2010

Cowen launches a managed accounts platform

Cowen Group has created Ramius Trading Strategies, an affiliate of Ramius Alternative Solutions, Hedge Week reports. The group has also launched the RTS Global Fund, which offers exposure to hedge funds specialised in trading activities strategies, such as managed futures and global macro, via the managed accounts platform recently created by Ramius Trading Strategies. Ramius Trading Strategies is led by William Marr, preciously international head of hedge fund research and portfolio construction at Merrill Lynch. For the 2009 fiscal year, Cowen made a net loss of USD55.3m, or USD1.35 per share, compared with USD141.8m or USD3.78 per share the previous year. As of 1 January 2010, assets under management totalled USD7.85bn, a 26% decline year on year due to net outflows of USD3.05bn offset by performance gains of USD329m.
04/03/2010

Evercore launches its first retail funds

Evercore Pan Asset Capital Management has launched its first funds dedicated to the retail market, Fund Strategy reports. Pan Dynamic Balanced and Pan Dynamic Growth will invest mainly in ETFs.

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