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19/03/2009

Germany - Feri rolls out ratings of certificates

Feri EuroRating Services announced on Wednesday that it is offering ratings of bonus, discount, guaranteed, and index-based certificates. The ratings will be 70% based on qualitative criteria related to the product and 30% on qualitative estimates of the issuer. Feri has 52,000 ratings of certificates in its database. To be eligible for a rating, the certificate must be traded on Scoach (Francfort) or Euwax (Stuttgart), information about the issuer and the price must be available in real time, and the remaining time to the maturity of the certificate must be at least 180 days. In addition, there must be at least 20 products in the peer group.
19/03/2009

France - Pop/Ecureuil banks: another legal challenge to Pérol

An association entitled Anticor (short for anti-corruption) is challenging the appointment of François Pérol as head of the new firm born of the merger of the French co-operative banks and savings banks, due to ?illegal conflicts of interest,? as Pérol participated in the government’s project to merge the entities to create the new banking entity.CGT has already filed a similar suit against Pérol.
19/03/2009

United Kingdom - Paddy Bingham leaves Henderson for Invesco RE

Paddy Bingham is joining Invesco Real Estate as director of pan-European management for direct real estate. In this role, he will be in charge of two non-public pan-European real estate funds, including the OPCI OPC1 (Opportunité Placement Ciloger 1), which invests in the Euro zone.Bingham will be based in London and will work with all transaction and asset management specialists at Invesco Real Estate based in Paris, Madrid, Munich, Prague. Before joining Invesco Real Estate, he served as director of real estate at Henderson Global Investors.
19/03/2009

Germany - KKR and Permira restructure debt of ProSiebenSat.1

The Financial Times reports that KKR and Permira have recruited advisors to restructure about EUR1.8bn in debt at the firm the jointly control, Lavena, which owns a 88% stake in ProSiebenSat.1. In March, the German group announced that it would be reducing dividends.
19/03/2009

United States - Citi rally catches hedge funds off guard

Hedge funds are licking their wounds after their strategy of buying preference shares in Citigroup and selling ordinary shares turned against them, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since 5 March, the price of ordinary shares in Citigroup has tripled, to finish Wednesday at EUR3.08.
19/03/2009

World - Managers still avoiding equities

Although managers are increasingly optimistic about the macroeconomic environment, they are still not moving their assets from cash to equities, according to the most recent survey from Merrill Lynch-Bank of America. Pessimism about this asset class has increased in the past month, as 41% of respondents say they are expecting to be underweight in equities, compared with 34% in February. Managers are preferring bonds, in which 26% of respondents are overweight. In February, only 7% of respondents favoured bond investments.
19/03/2009

Italy - Assogestioni sees some hope for funds

Redemptions from funds on sale in Italy seem to be slowing, in a sign that the market is beginning to stabilise, Marcello Messori, chairman of Assogestioni (the Italian association of management professionals), has said at the association’s annual meeting. Redemptions primarily affected mid-sized and large firms, particularly those owned by banking groups, Il Sole - 24 Ore reports.
19/03/2009

Norway - Norwegian Kroner: a new currency of refuge?

David Bloom at HSBC, cited by the Financial Times, says that ?the best refuge currency in our opinion is currently the Norwegian Kroner. It is probably the best currency in the world.? The Norwegian Kroner is one of the few currencies in the world to have outperformed the US dollar since the beginning of the year. It has climbed 3% to NOK6.694. Bloom says the currency can be expected to rise in the next 18 months.
19/03/2009

Germany - Sopep hopes to double assets in five years

Rolf Enders, partner at the new firm Sal. Oppenheim Private Equity Partners (Sopep), says that the private equity firm born of the merger of the private equity activities of Sal. Oppenheim with CAM Private Equity and VCM Capital Management has assets of EUR5bn. About 95% of this total is invested in 380 funds from private equity firms worldwide, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. Enders expects assets under management to double through organic growth. This year, Sopep will launch an infrastructure fund and a buyout fund of funds.
19/03/2009

United States - Yields of money market funds expected to fall

The Wall Street Journal reports that it is likely that the yields of money market funds will decline as the recommendations of the Investment Company Institute (ICI) are applied. The ad hoc working group formed in the wake of the Reserve Primary Fund affair recommends increasing liquidity and shortening maturities. Paul Schott Stevens, president & CEO of the ICI, says fund management firms will probably follow the recommendations in advance of any rule-making from the SEC.
19/03/2009

France - BNP interested in acquisitions in management

Alain Papiasse, a board member at BNP Paribas, has told Reuters at the Reuters Fund Summit that the bank may be examining possible acquisition opportunities in the asset management sector. ?Our CEO has told analysts that we may consider new consolidation opportunities so long as we emerge with control,? Reuters reports.
19/03/2009

United Kingdom - Multi-management at New Star and Henderson to be merged

The multi-management team at New Star, composed of Craig Heron and Mark Harris, will join Henderson Global Investors, following New Star’s acquisition by Henderson, Citywire reports. The two product ranges will be merged and will result in one of the largest multi-management firms in the United Kingdom.
19/03/2009

Europe - db x-trackers captures 44% of flows to ETF funds

Between June 2007 and February 2009, assets in ETF funds in Europe increased from EUR9bn to EUR31bn, db x-trackers, the specalised affiliate of Deutsche Bank, reports. Net subscriptions to db x-trackers in the area of bonds represented EUR10bn, or 44% of total inflows in this category, and the db x-trackers II Eonia Total Return Index ETF now has more than EUR6.5bn in assets, which represents more than 20% of assets under management in European bond ETF funds. Thorsten Michalik, head of db x-trackers, has announced that the management firm is preparing a range of bond ETFs for the British market to be launched this year. Currently, tracker funds from db x-trackers are listed primarily on Deutsche Börse (XTF) and Borsa Italiana (ETFplus).
19/03/2009

Germany - DEGI invested EUR1.7bn in 2008

DEGI, which was taken over by Aberdeen Property Investors on 28 March 2008, has stated that last year it invested EUR1.7bn. The occupancy rate for properties in the portfolios of its five open-ended funds as of 28 February 2009 ranged from 93.3% for the DEGI Europa fund and 100% for the DEGI Europe Retail, while the one-year performance ranged from 4.4% (compared with 4.7% one year ago) for the DEGI Europa to 5% (compared with 4.5%) for the DEGI Europe Retail.Assets total roughly EUR6bn. The manager says the evolution of prices and returns have now extended the number of markets on which investments may be attractive. Among the markets which have now become affordable are the UK, France, and Germany.
19/03/2009

United Kingdom - Mark Skinner to join HGI

Investment Week has announced that Henderson Global Investors (HGI) is recruiting Mark Skinner, managing director of New Star, as head of retail distribution. He will begin in his new role as soon as HGI completes its acquisition of New Star.
19/03/2009

United Kingdom - Jonathan Colchester joins GAM

GAM has announced that Jonathan Colchester, who was in charge of a team of six bankers serving ultra high net worth clients at Barclays Private Bank, will join the management firm in London on 22 May as head of private clients, Investment Week reports.
19/03/2009

United Kingdom - Aviva Investors plans to import a European equities fund

John Clougherty, managing director UK, retail, at Aviva Investors (GBP235bn in assets) will meet French colleagues this week to prepare the launch of a European equities fund on the British market, Investment Week reports. It is not certain that the fund will replicate a Luxembourg Sicav. Clougherty says that institutional investors represent a potential market for recovery real estate funds, and that such a product could then be made available to retail investors, once the press has given a better image to real estate investments.
19/03/2009

World - HFR launches 38 new indexes

Hedge Fund Research has announced the launch of 38 new HFRX indexes, which constitute a major extension of its range of strategy, region and country sub-indexes. The new offerings bring the total number of products available from HFRX to 65. HFR says the methodology complies with the UCITS III directive. The indexes are designed to be investible, and the funds used are selected from 7,500 products in the HFR database.The new indexes are the HFRX Energy/Basic Materials Index, HFRX Fundamental Growth Index, HFRX Fundamental Value Index, HFRX Quantitative Directional Index, HFRX Short Bias Index, HFRX Technology/Healthcare Index, HFRX EH: Multi-Strategy Index, HFRX Activist Index, HFRX Credit Arbitrage Index, HFRX Private Issue/Regulation D Index, HFRX Special Situations Index, HFRX ED: Multi-Strategy Index, HFRX Active Trading Index, HFRX Commodity Index, HFRX Currency Index, HFRX Discretionary Thematic Index, HFRX Systematic Diversified Index, HFRX Macro: Multi-Strategy Index, HFRX Fixed Income-Asset Backed Index, HFRX Fixed Income-Corporate Index, HFRX Fixed Income-Sovereign Index, HFRX Yield Alternative Index, HFRX RVA: Multi-Strategy Index, HFRX BRIC Index, HFRX Brazil Index, HFRX Russia Index, HFRX India Index, HFRX China Index, HFRX MENA Index, HFRX Multi-Emerging Markets Index, HFRX Total Emerging Market Index, HFRX Latin America Index, HFRX Multi-Region Index, HFRX North America Index, HFRX Northern Europe Index, HFRX Russia/Eastern Europe Index, HFRX Western/Pan Europe Index and HFRX Aggregate Index.
19/03/2009

Allemagne - Forte perte pour la HVB

La HypoVereinsbank (groupe UniCredit) a accusé pour 2008 une perte de 671 millions d’euros contre un bénéfice net de 2 milliards pour 2007, rapporte die Welt. La banque d’investissement a occasionné une perte de 2 milliards d’euros, dont 1,18 milliard au T4.
19/03/2009

Espagne - La CNMV donne son agrément à l'OPA de Gas Natural sur Fenosa

Comme prévu, le conseil de la CNMV a donné mercredi son agrément au projet d’OPA de Gas Natural sur Unión Fenosa, rapporte Cinco Días. L’opération se fera à 18,05 euros par action sur 25 jours. Le paiement est garanti par des crédits bancaires de plus de 8,24 milliards d’euros fournis par le Santander, Barclays, BNP Paribas, ING, Scoiété Générale, RBS, Caja Madrid et La Caixa. L’acquisition sera également financée par une augmentation de capital de 3,5 milliards d’euros ainsi que par des cessions d’actifs.
19/03/2009

Royaume-Uni - Pru défend le prêt de titres

Harvey McGrath, le nouveau président de Prudential, défend le prêt de titres aux hedge funds par les assureurs, après qu"Aviva a annoncé qu"il envisageait de cesser cette pratique afin d"éviter les ventes à découvert, rapporte le Financial Times. Pour lui, pouvoir vendre à découvert est un élément important pour le fonctionnement des marchés.
19/03/2009

Suisse - Controverse sur le calcul des fonds étrangers

Selon L"Agefi suisse, le calcul des fonds de clients étrangers gérés par les banques en Suisse sème la discorde. Les statisticiens peinent en effet à tomber d"accord sur la méthodologie de calcul et, surtout, sur les sources de certains chiffres. Ainsi, ces derniers jours, le conseiller fédéral Hans-Rudolf Merz a avancé un chiffre: 14,5 milliards de francs. Ce montant correspondrait aux bénéfices générés par les fonds étrangers gérés par les banques suisses, soit une partie de la valeur ajoutée du secteur bancaire. Mais le département des finances s"interrogeait encore hier pour savoir comment cette statistique avait été établie et qui l"avait élaborée
19/03/2009

Monde - UBP pour une gestion alternative réformée

Dans un entretien à L"Agefi suisse, Christophe Bernard, responsable de la stratégie des investissements chez UBP, estime que «l"industrie de la gestion alternative est en profonde transformation et nous y participons activement. En ce qui nous concerne, nous avons adopté une vue plus large et décidé d"alléger notre exposition aux hedge funds de deux tiers». Selon Christophe Bernard, «sélectionner des fonds de fonds revient actuellement à trouver ceux qui sont capables de se réinventer. La possibilité d"utiliser du levier n"est plus d"actualité. Avec la nationalisation de fait du système bancaire dans les pays de l"OCDE, le financement des hedge funds ne constitue de loin pas une priorité. Politiquement, il est beaucoup plus porteur de financer l"économie réelle». De son point de vue, «nous allons assister au retour de stratégies plus simples et plus volatiles, comme le long-short equity, le global macro. L"industrie va probablement se polariser entre, d"un côté, ces stratégies liquides mais volatiles et, d"un autre côté, des stratégies plus agressives, dans le distressed ou l"activisme par exemple, qui nécessitent que les clients s"engagent à rester deux ou trois ans et qui pourraient séduire en priorité les clients institutionnels».
19/03/2009

Italie - Assogestioni voit une lueur d?espoir pour les fonds

Les retraits des fonds commercialisés en Italie semblent ralentir, signe d"un début de stabilisation, a estimé Marcello Messori, président d"Assogestioni (l"association italienne des professionnels de la gestion), lors de l"assemblée annuelle de l"association. Les rachats ont surtout touché les sociétés de taille moyenne et grande, et notamment celles appartenant à des groupes bancaires, rappelle Il Sole ? 24 Ore.
19/03/2009

Monde - L'euro à 1,35

Revigorée par la politique de relance de la FED, la monnaie unique s’est envolée mercredi au dessus de 1,35 dollar contre 1,3013 mardi soir.
19/03/2009

Etats-Unis - Le rally de Citi a piégé les hedge funds

Les hedge funds lèchent leurs plaies : leur stratégie consistant à acheter des actions préférentielles de Citigroup tout en vendant l’action ordinaire à découvert s’est retournée contre eux, constate The Wall Street Journal. Depuis le 5 mars, en effet, le cours de l’action ordinaire Citigroup a triplé, terminant mercredi en clôture à 3,08 dollars.

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