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05/05/2009

Constellation rejoint Highbridge

Constellation Growth Capital, l"ex-groupe de capital investissement de Bear Stearns spécialisé sur les medias, la communication et les technologies liées à ces secteurs, a rejoint Highbridge Capital Management, la société de hedge funds contrôlée par JPMorgan Chase, rapporte le Financial Times. Cela s"inscrit dans le cadre des efforts de Highbridge de bâtir une activité de gestion d"actifs diversifiée, aux côtés de ses investissements alternatifs.
05/05/2009

UBS toujours dans le rouge au premier trimestre

UBS a réduit ses pertes mais est resté dans le rouge au premier trimestre avec une perte de près de 2 milliards de francs suisses contre 9,5 milliards au quatrième trimestre 2008. Cette évolution s"explique principalement par les pertes moindres sur les positions à risque des activités aujourd"hui abandonnées ou en cours d’abandon au sein du pôle de banque d"investissement. Au premier trimestre, UBS a continué de réduire son bilan. Le total des actifs est ressorti à 1861 milliards de francs suisses le 31 mars 2009, en recul de 153 milliards d"un trimestre à l"autre. Les actifs de collateral trading et le portefeuille de négoce ont été réduits de 55 milliards durant le trimestre, ces réductions se concentrant dans l"Investment Bank. Les résultats d"UBS reflètent également la réorganisation des activités de gestion de fortune d"UBS annoncée le 10 février 2009.
05/05/2009

Pour 2009, Avenir Finance vise plus de 2 millions d'euros de bénéfice

Selon Les Echos, Avenir Finance, concepteur et distributeur de produits de placement défiscalisés, a enregistré ses premières pertes en 2008 (5,6 millions d’euros dont 1,8 million de dépréciations d’actifs). «Pour 2009, le président d’Avenir Finance, Danyel Blain, vise plus de 2 millions d’euros de bénéfice», note le quotidien.
05/05/2009

Recrutements chez Sal. Oppenheim

Dans le cadre du développement des activités de gestion d’actifs de Sal. Oppenheim en France, Sal.Oppenheim (France) et sa filiale Oppenheim Investment Managers ont annoncé plusieurs recrutements.Anne-Marie Béziat est ainsi membre du directoire de Sal. Oppenheim (France) et directeur commercial clientèle institutionnelle. Elle travaillait précédemment au sein de la société d’investissement franco-anglaise Otcex Group.Bruno Zaraya, 31 ans, est directeur commercial distribution chez Sal. Oppenheim (France). Il était précédemment chez Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, responsable depuis 2007 des partnariats et grands comptes France.Stéphane Girardot, 41 ans, est directeur marketing & communication de Sal. Oppenheim (France) et directeur général délégué de Oppenheim Investment Managers, en charge du développement des produits. Il était précédemment chez Franklin Templeton.Gilles Etcheberrigaray, 42 ans, est directeur général délégué de Oppenheim Investment Managers, en charge de la gestion des fonds de fonds et de l’allocation d’actifs. Il était précédemment chez Franklin Templeton.
05/05/2009

BNP Paribas Factor obtient la certification ISO 14001

BNP Paribas Factor, société d"affacturage et filiale du groupe BNP Paribas spécialisée dans la gestion du poste clients annonce avoir obtenu la certification ISO 14001 pour ses activités et ses trois sites d"exploitation. Elle «démontre l"engagement de BNP Paribas Factor pour la maîtrise des effets de son activité sur l"environnement et reconnaît sa démarche pour en réduire les impacts via des actions de réduction de consommation de papier et de consommables, de maîtrise de CO2 rejeté dans l"air au travers d"une politique de transports et de communication adaptée, et de valorisation de ses déchets», précise le communiqué.
05/05/2009
Fonds

Banque Populaire lance un fonds garanti

Le Groupe Banque Populaire annonce le lancement de FructiZen 2, fonds commun de placement à capital garanti à l"échéance. La durée de placement est de 6 ans et 11 jours. L’objectif de gestion est d"offrir au porteur à l"échéance de la formule 100 % de la valeur liquidative de référence, majorée de 50% de la performance moyenne finale de l"indice. L"investisseur est assuré de récupérer le montant de son investissement initial, s"il conserve ses parts jusqu"à l"échéance. Fructizen 2 peut être souscrit jusqu’au au 27 août 2009. Jusqu'à cette date, la commission de souscription maximale s'élève à 2,5 %. Les frais de gestion annuels facturés sont de 2 % TTC, la commission de rachat est nulle à l"échéance de la formule.
Fonds
05/05/2009

Europe - La Liba et la Sifma unissent leurs forces

La London Investment Banking Association (Liba), un groupement de banques créé après la première guerre mondiale, va fusionner avec la partie européenne de la Securities and Financial Markets Association (Sifma), association basée aux Etats-Unis et représentant 650 banques, courtiers et gestionnaires d"actifs, selon le Financial Times.
05/05/2009

Actifs illiquides et risqués au Crédit Mutuel

La publication le 30 avril du rapport annuel de la Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM) confirme, selon l"Agefi, que le groupe porte une quantité non négligeable d’actifs illiquides et risqués. Le Crédit Mutuel, qui a été l’une des banques françaises les plus affectées par la faillite de Lehman Brothers, a d’ailleurs profité de l’assouplissement des normes comptables pour en transférer 18,8 milliards d’euros dès le 1er juillet 2008 vers ses portefeuilles de prêts et d’actifs disponibles à la vente, l"objectif étant d"éviter des dépréciations. Au deuxième semestre 2008, la valeur de marché de ces titres a baissé de 969 millions d"euros.
05/05/2009

HSBC GAM launches a multi-asset class fund

Babak Kiani and Christian Müller-Goedecke (co-head of portfolio management) are the managers of the new HSBC Trinkaus Multi Markets Select fund, launched by HSBC Global Asset Management (Deutschland), which will invest in five asset classes in addition to cash, largely via derivatives of shares in funds, CDS, ETS, and currency futures. The German-registered product, which may invest up to 100% of its assets in derivatives, aims for absolute returns of 5% per year, after fees. The selection process will occur in three stages to limit the risk of losses. After quantitative and selective stages, the portfolio is constructed with a horizon of one month, using an optimiser which takes into account the results of the two previous stages. The fund will only invest in asset classes which promise higher returns than the money markets. HSBC GAM Germany will charge a front-end fee of 5%, a 1% management commission, and a 20% performance commission on returns exceeding the 5% objective.
05/05/2009

Launch of first European CFD market

The Bayerische Börse AG, a market company which operates the Munich stock exchange, has announced that with the market-maker FXdirekt Bank AG of Oberhausen, it is launching a new segment of the Munich stock market entitled Contrex, on which contracts for difference (CFD) will be traded.
05/05/2009

db x-trackers lists two new ETFs

Deutsche Börse announced on Monday that it has admitted two new Luxembourg-registered ETF funds from db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank group, over EUR20bn in assets) to trading on the XTF segment of the Xetra electronic platform. One of them is a commodity fund db x-trackers db commodity booster-S&P GSCI Light Energy Euro ETF, which carries a management commission of 1%, according to Deutsche Börse, or 0.95% according to db x-trackers, and which uses the Deutsche Bank Commodity Booster-S&P GSCI Light Energy Euro Index as its benchmark. The product replicates the evolution of 24 commodities in the energy (30%), precious metals (7%), industrial metals (14%), soft commodities (35%) and livestock (12%) sectors.The DB Commodity Booster ETF replicates the S&P GSCI Light Energy Index via an optimum yield (OY) system which uses futures as its underlying, to increase profits from backwardation situations and reduce losses due to contango. db x-trackers points out that its ETF DBLCI - OY Balanced ETF is already the largest ETF in Europe based on a commodities index, with assets of over EUR400m. The other ETF, an equities product, is the db x-trackers MSCI Pan-Euro TRN Index ETF, which carries a management commission of 0.3%, and which replicates, as its name indicates, the MSCI Pan-Euro TRN Index, which covers 215 European large caps.With these new funds, the XTF segment now lists 445 ETF products.
05/05/2009

Circulation of money begins to improve

The chairman of the Bundesbank, Axel Weber, is reported by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to have declared on Monday that he sees the first cautious signs of an improvement in the German financial market. Subscriptions and assets in open-ended real estate funds and equities funds are increasing, and investors are returning to the Pfandbriefe market.
05/05/2009

Private equity market turns down

In the first four months of the year, only 17 private equity operations were realised in Italy, one third of the number of operations in the corresponding period of 2008 (45), Il Sole - 24 Ore reports, citing the Rapporto Private Equity Monitor Pem from the Università Carlo Cattaneo.
05/05/2009

Privalto UK launches Privalto Millenium Tracker Fund

Privalto UK, an affiliate of BNP Paribas, has announced the launch of the Privalto Millenium Tracker Fund, which replicates the performance of the BNP Paribas Millenium 10 Europe Series 3 (Sterling Hedged) Total Return index. The index is composed of liquid shares including US, European and Asian equities, as well as commodities, real estate, and foreign currencies, Hedge Week reports.
05/05/2009

Arabic sovereign funds have lost the equivalent of one year of oil revenues

Henry Azzam CEO of Deutsche Bank for the Middle Eastern region, based in Dubai, says that Arab sovereign funds last year lost USD450bn, the equivalent of one year in revenues from oil exports. The consensus estimates that they lost a total of 25% to 30%, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports, but the American Council of Foreign Relations estimates that the decline in assets at 88%, to USD1.2trn.These funds are becoming more prudent, and are now turning to industrial investments, focusing on businesses in the chemical, petrochemical, energy, and transport sectors.
05/05/2009

LIBA and SIFMA join forces

The London Investment Banking Association (LIBA), a group of banks created after World War I, is to merge with the European part of the Securities and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), an association based in the United States which represents 650 banks, brokers, and asset managers.
05/05/2009

Spain - Wealthiest families lost 20% in 2008

In 2008, Sicav funds, the vehicle of choice for Spanish high net worth families, lost more than 20% of their assets in one year. In terms of absolute value, and counting only the 13 largest fortunes in the country, losses ran to EUR1.2bn, Expansión reports. But during the same period, the stock markets lost 40%. Assets in the Sicav funds belonging to Amancio Ortega (founder and chairman of Inditex) fell by proportions of 32% to 52%, though this is largely due to redemptions of EUR350m, which were reinvested in real estate. Other significant losses include 41% for Soixa, the fund of Hernández Callejas (Ebro Puleva); 34% for Nomit IV, owned by the Polanco family (Prisa), and 44% for Arbarin (Juan Abelló), which was 81% invested in equities. Keeper Inversiones (Del Pino family, Ferrovial), which was 65% exposed to equities, lost 48%. However, Sicavs belonging to Isak Andic (chairman of Mango and a 5.6% shareholder in Sabadell), were invested exclusively in bonds, and their assets increased by 9% in 2008, to EUR517m.
04/05/2009

Morningstar acquiert Andex Associates

Morningstar Research Inc., filiale canadienne de Morningstar, Inc, qui a récemment annoncé l’acquisition de deux activités du canadien C.P.M.S. Computerized Portfolio Management Services (lire notre dépêche du 27 avril), a fait part vendredi de l’achat d’Andex Associates, de Windsor (Ontario), société leader dans la fourniture de graphiques financiers et de matériel de communication destinés aux CGPI. Les modalités financières de la transaction n’ony pas été divulguées. Andex Associates a été fondée en 1993 par Anthony DiMeo et Dexter Robinson. Andex dessert la plupart des grandes sociétés de services financiers au Canada, notamment BMO Groupe financier, la CIBC, la Great West, le Groupe Investors, London Life, RBC Banque Royale du Canada, la Banque Scotia et TD Canada Trust.
04/05/2009

Macquarie augmente son capital

Macquarie Group a déclaré vendredi un bénéfice net de AUD 871 millions pour l’exercice au 31 mars, ce qui représente une contraction de 52 % sur le record de 2007-2008 et son ROE a plongé à 9,9 % contre 23,7 %. Le capital-investisseur australien a par ailleurs procédé à une augmentation de capital en levant AUD 540 millions auprès d’investisseurs institutionnels, sur la base de AUD 27 par action. Ces titres seront éligibles au dividende qui doit être distribué le 3 juillet. Le prix représente une décote de 13,2 % sur le cours moyen de l’action pondéré par volume sur les cinq dernières séances. Le directeur financier Greg Ward a précisé que le placement privé devrait générer pour Macquarie Group un matelas de AUD 4,1 milliards qui s’ajoutera aux fonds propres prudentiels.
04/05/2009

Fund managers affected by national cultures

Les Echos reports that a study comparing the attitudes and behaviours of fund managers in four countries - the United States, Germany, Japan, and Thailand - finds that managers do not escape the effects of the culture, values, and norms in their home countries. These influence their investment decisions, and have effects on organisation and work styles.
04/05/2009

Lyxor offers simplified access to corporate bonds

The ETF Euro Corporate Bond, listed on NYSE Euronext since only 7 April, has already attracted more than EUR150m (EUR153.47m as of 30 April), which Lyxor considers a sufficient volume to justify an official introduction of the product to investors on Thursday evening.The French-registered FCP fund, with a management commission of 0.20%, is the ninth product in the bond ETF range from Lyxor, which has about EUR5.3bn in assets under management. The fund synthetically replicates the Markit iBoxx EUR Liquid Corporates index, which includes the 40 most liquid Euro-denominated corporate bonds (with a minimal issue size of EUR750m, and a minimal duration to maturity of 1.5 years), with the same diversified sector weighting as the larger index of 1,200 bonds. The underlying portfolio weighs banks at 45.6%, the automotive industry at 12.1%, telecommunications at 9.5%, and utilities at 8.4%. The index is updated every three quarters.
04/05/2009

Erste Sparinvest launches a corporate bond fund

Erste Sparinvest (EUR23bn in assets) is planning to launch a corporate bond horizon fund, which will aim for a distribution of at least 4.25% per year. The Austrian-registered product, ESPA Corporate Basket 2013, matures on 31 May 2012. The portfolio contains 100 positions, on investment grade bonds, with at least 50% of them rated BBB or better. Subscriptions will be open on 4 May, and closed permanently on 29 May. During the life of the fund, it will be passively managed. If the rating of a bond is altered, the bonds in the portfolio will not be changed, but rather retained until the fund matures. The fund is profiled so that a default rate of 0.85% per year in the portfolio will not affect the dividends targeted. If it is lower, then the distribution will be increased to up to 5%. If it is higher than this amount, the liquid value will be adjusted downward. Front-end fee and management commission are set at 2% and 0.40%, respectively. A penalty for early withdrawal of 2% will be applicable.
04/05/2009

Real estate fund commissions swallow up rental revenues

According to a report by the law firm Moreno-Luque, Spanish funds charge total management fees ranging from 1.6% (Segurfondo Inversión) to 3.4% (Santander Banif Inmobiliario), while their German counterparts as a general rule charge only 0.75%. These commissions swallow up the entirety of rental revenues earned by Spanish funds.The law firm states that in 2003-2008, the Santander Banif Inmobiliario earned commissions of EUR640m, which is equal to the total net amount of rental revenues.
04/05/2009

Money market funds receiving inflows but not benefiting from them

One of the few sectors in asset management to have had net inflows last year was money market funds, which now represent USD4trn in assets under management, the Financial Times reports. But firms which manage these funds do not benefit from these assets. Interest rates have fallen to nearly zero, and most funds have cancelled fees temporarily to allow investors to earn returns. Money market funds will also soon be subject to new regulations.
04/05/2009

Citadel recruits a team from Merrill Lynch

The alternative management firm Citadel Investment Group (USD11bn in assets) is extending its investment banking activities, with the recruitment of three specialists from Merrill Lynch, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal. The recruitments include Todd Kaplan, a specialist in leveraged financing, who will head of the new entity, and will report to Rohit D"Souza, also formerly of Merrill Lynch, who is the CEO of Citadel Securities. Brian Maier and Carl Mayer join the firm as head of industry groups and head of leverage finance, and will also report to Kaplan.Since Merrill Lynch’s acquisition by Bank of America, Citadel has recruited more than a dozen Merrill specialists.
04/05/2009

Sagent recruits two top brass from UBS

Sagent Advisors has announced that it has recruited Anthony Martino and Gregg Newman as co-heads of its alternative capital markets division. They will be in charge of structuring and placing new products, and providing advice to businesses on a vast range of capital structuring questions. The two new recruits worked together previously to direct the entire capital markets group at UBS; they will be based in New York. The two will be joined at Sagent by Chris Sweet, one of their former colleagues at UBS, who becomes an ?associate.?Since the beginning of last year, Sagent Advisors has recruited 11 senior bankers, increasing its senior executive personnel by 40%. The investment bank has also opened offices in Chicago, Charlotte, and San Francisco.

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