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18/03/2009

Germany - iShares lists seven new ETFs on Deutsche Borse

On Tuesday, Deutsche Börse admitted seven new ETFs from iShares (a brand from Barclays Global Investors, or BGI) onto the XTF segment of its Xetra electronic trading platform. Three are bond products, while the other four are based on equities indexes. All of them are German-registered products.The new products include the iShares JPMorgan $ Emerging Markets Bond, ? Covered Bond et Global Inflation-Linked Bond. D’autre part, iShares fait coter trois ETF de petites capitalisations : S&P Small Cap 600, MSCI Japan Small Cap and MSCI AC Far East Ex-Japan Small Cap.The seventh new product is the iShares S&P Emerging Markets Infrastructure, whose underlying index includes the 30 largest companies involved in the development of infrastructure in emerging countries. With these new ETFs, the total number of products available on the XTF segment comes to 420.
18/03/2009

Germany - Carsten Maschmeyer quits as head of AWD

The founder and now co-chairman of the board at AWD, Carsten Maschmeyer, has decided to quit his job as head of the German financial services provider. He will join the board of Swiss Life, a company in which he owns an 8% stake, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. In his new role, he plans to focus on development of strategy and internationalisation.
18/03/2009

Europe - DWS launches a fund which aims to outperform money markets

DWS (Deutsche Bank group) is launching the DWS Invest Sovereign Plus fund, which will aim for performance 100 basis points higher than the Iboxx Eurozone Sovereign, which measures returns on 3-5 year Euro zone government debt, Cinco Días reports. Management commission for retail shares in the fund in Spain is 1.2%.
18/03/2009

United Kingdom - Aviva to suspend securities lending to hedge funds

Aviva is planning to suspend securities lending to hedge funds, the Financial Times reports. The insurer believes it has been targeted by short-sellers, and that hedge funds are responsible for a 40% fall in its share price in 48 hours two weeks ago. The British group has also shared its concerns with other European insurers.
18/03/2009

Singapore - Clariden Leu recruits a new head for Asia

The Clariden Leu private bank (Credit Suisse group) on Tuesday announced the appointment of Jimmy Lee Kong Eng as ?head Asia.? In this position he will succeed Stefan Hausherr, who held the position in the interim, and who will remain as head operations and branch manager in Singapore. Jimmy Lee Kong spent four and a half years as head of private wealth management South East Asia/South Asia at Deutsche Bank in Singapore, with a team of 150 people under his responsibility.
18/03/2009

United States - BNY Mellon forms an advisory board for sovereign clients

David Jiang, head of BNY Mellon Asset Management for Asia-Pacific, and Hani Kablawi, head of Middle East & Africa, will be co-chairs of the new Sovereign Advisory Board at BNY Mellon, which will be composed of high-level executives representing the group’s various professions (asset management, asset servicing, issuer services, compensation activities, and treasury). The goal of the new board will be to ensure the best possible service to sovereign funds, sovereign pension funds, central banks, monetary authorities, and other government-controlled entities among the firm’s clients.
18/03/2009

United States - Heavy losses for CalPERS

In fourth quarter 2008, CalPERS (USD183.3bn in assets) posted losses of 13.7%, despite returns of 2.3% on its USD44.6bn bond portfolio, Global Pensions reports. Over one year, losses total 27.1%, and over three years, they total 2.5% per year.Documents examined on Monday by the board reveal that total risk for the fund has more than doubled in the past twelve months, to a total of 17% for the coming year.
18/03/2009

Spain - Flagship hedge fund from BBVA to become white-label product

BBVA has decided to close down its alternative management division. One of the firms affected, Próxima Alfa, has decided to negotiate with other managers to export its model as a white-label product under the brand name of the distributor. According to Expansión, the first fund concerned will be Próxima’s flagship, the Accurate Global Assets fund, managed by Narciso Vega and Igor Alonso. Assets in the fund fell to USD35.45m from USD100m when BBVA withdrew, but the fund has posted performance of 8.8% since the beginning of the year.
18/03/2009

Switzerland - UBS: Two managers return to the fold

UBS has announced that two big names have returned to its asset management division, Handelsblatt reports. René Mottas has rejoined the group from Goldman Sachs, to lead European wealth management, while Joseph Stadler is leaving JP Morgan to lead the VIP clients division.
18/03/2009

Germany - DEGI satisfied with relaunch of DEGI International

Bärbel Schomberg, CEO of DEGI (Aberdeen Property Investors group), estimates that the reopening of the real estate fund DEGI International to redemptions has been a success, the Börsen-Zeitung reports. After heavy initial redemptions, subscriptions and withdrawals have now reached near equilibrium.
18/03/2009

Liechtenstein - Limited net outflows for LGT Group

As of the end of 2008, assets at LGT Group totalled CHF78bn, which represents a contraction of CHF24.8bn compared with the end of 2007. Most of the decline is due to market effects, while net redemptions totalled only CHF1.3bn, as the banking affiliates in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Singapore and asset management all posted strong net inflows.The bank owned by the royal family has declared net profits for last year of CHF163m, compared with CHF255m (-36%) and a cost/income ratio which has deteriorated slightly to 68% from 66%. As of 31 December, the ratio of Tier 1 owners’ equity stood at 16.5%, compared with 17.8% one year previously.
18/03/2009

United Kingdom - City regulators: No more Mr. Nice Guy

Les Echos reports that Lord Turner, the chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), will this Wednesday unveil a report calling for toughened supervision of banks, particularly in relation to distribution of real estate loans and dependence on refinancing markets. ?Morever, Lord Turner promises to extend the regulator’s reach to include hedge funds, to supervise bank’s off-book assets, and to control bonus levels,? the newspaper adds.
18/03/2009

United States - Hedge funds will profit from government aid to AIG

Some of the billions of dollars in aid provided by the US government to inject liquidity into American International Group (AIG) will profit hedge funds who bet that the residential real estate market would go down, say sources close to the investors. These are perfectly legal transactions, the Wall Street Journal reports: investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank sold CDS to hedge funds, which allowed the funds to bet that default rates on mortgages would rise, which ultimately forced AIG to provide billions of dollars in collateral, largely to the banks which were lending it the money. The newspaper reports that of USD173.3bn in government assistance received by AIG, these bets on residential real estate will cost taxpayers about USD52bn.
18/03/2009

Europe - GLG Partners dethroned as largest hedge fund

After a disastrous year in 2008, GLG Partners has lost four notches in the Hedge Fund Journal’s rankings of the world’s largest hedge funds. GLG Partners has lost its place as the largest European hedge fund, and is now fourth, the Financial Times reports. Brevan Howard has climbed to first place, with EUR19.6bn under management as of the end of January. The AHL fund from Man Group, also based in London, ranks second, followed by Barclays Global Investors and GLC. The 50 hedge funds in the rankings have posted decreases amounting to 26% of their assets over the last 12 months.
18/03/2009

United Kingdom - Terra Firma head cuts loose

Guy Hands is withdrawing from day-to-day operational control of Terra Firma Capital Partners to concentrate on investments and investor relations, the Financial Times reports.
18/03/2009

Germany - Real estate funds expecting 4-5% preformance in 2009

According to a Handelsblatt survey of open-ended real estate fund management firms, significant depreciations are not expected in the value of properties in the portfolios of these funds, since the properties are often of the highest quality, and are therefore less affected by the crisis than the rest of the market. On average, managers are predicting returns this year of 4-5%, at least for funds which are invested in Europe. The only exception is Axa IM, which is predicting return for the Immoselect fund of 3-3.5%. In 2008, the average performance of open-ended real estate funds was 4.7%. Performance averaged 4.3% over the past year as of February, according to figures from the German BVI association of asset management firms.
18/03/2009

Europe - Future of VaR funds is uncertain

The rapid convergence of hedge funds and traditional asset management may sound a death knell for VaR funds, if the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) decides that ?value at risk? is no longer an adequate measure of risk for sophisticated UCITS funds, Financial Times Fund Management predicts in its 16 March edition. The abandonment of VaR as a measure of risk for UCITS funds would cause consternation in the management sector, FT FM predicts.
18/03/2009

China - Regulator approves three investment firms

The Chinese market regulator has granted permission to three new foreign financial services companies to invest on the domestic capital markets, Financial Times Fund Management reports on 16 March. The newly-licensed companies are Hanwha Investment Trust Management; Emerging Markets Management, a company based in Virginia, USA; and DWS Investment.
18/03/2009

World - Russell Global Index to include seven IPOs

Russell Investment will include seven IPOs in the Russell Global Index from 31 March. One of them will also be added to the Russell 3000® Index of American shares, while two will be added to the Russell Greater China Index. One each will be added to the Russell Kuwait, Russell Singapore, Russell South Korea, and Russell United Kingdom indexes.
17/03/2009

Inde - TCI revend un tiers de ses achats d'actions de 2008

Hedge Week rapporte que le hedge fund britannique TCI a vendu pour 115 milliards de roupies (2,2 milliards de dollars) d’actions indiennes depuis le début de l’année, ce qui correspond au tiers de ses achats de ces titres, surtout des bancaires, pour 2008. Apparemment, ces ventes s’effectuent avec une forte moins-value par rapport au prix d’acquisition.
17/03/2009

Luxembourg - Après Madoff, l'Alfi tente de redorer le blason de la Place

Selon Les Echos, l’Association luxembourgeoise de l’industrie des fonds, l’Alfi, tente d’apporter des remèdes aux inquiétudes suscitées par l’affaire Madoff. Lundi, au cours d’une conférence de presse, elle a publié deux documents : un rapport intermédiaire de son groupe de travail Madoff et des lignes directrices aux fonds de fonds pour évaluer les fonds affectés par Madoff. Le quotidien rappelle que pour l’industrie luxembourgeoise, l’impact direct de l’affaire Madoff a été estimé à 1,7 milliard d’euros
17/03/2009

Allemagne - "Source" arrive sur le marché des ETF

Sous la marque #Source#, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley et Merrill Lynch vont faire coter une première vague de 50 ETF sur la Deutsche Börse au début de la semaine prochaine, rapporte le Handelsblatt. Ce seront des fonds répliquant le Dax ainsi que des indices appartenant principalement aux univers MSCI et Stoxx.
17/03/2009

Allemagne - Union Investment ajoute deux produits à sa gamme de fonds garantis

Union Investment (banques populaires allemandes) lancera le 6 mai deux fonds qui viendront d’ajouter à sa gamme d’une quarantaine de produits garantis pesant environ 8,1 milliards d’euros à fin février. Ces nouveaux fonds sont distribués en Allemagne.Le UniGarant: Best of Assets Konservativ (2015) couvrira les marchés des actions et des obligations de la zone euro ainsi que le marché monétaire en euros tandis que le UniGarant: Europa (2016) est axé uniquement sur le marché européen des actions. La souscription est ouverte depuis lundi jusqu’au 30 avril. Dans les deux cas, le droit d’entrée et la commission de gestion sont fixés à respectivement 4 et 2 %, avec une commission de rachat de 2 % acquise au fonds en cas de sortie avant l'échéance (27 mars 2015 et 25 mars 2016). Union souligne que pour le Konservativ 2015 le panier d’indices sera pondéré à échéance en attribuant au marché le plus performant une valeur de 50 %, contre 30 pour le deuxième et 20 % pour le troisième.
17/03/2009

Etats-Unis - GMAM devient Promark Global Advisors

General Motors Asset Management (132 milliards de dollars d’encours) annonce qu’elle adopte le nom de Promark Global Advisors parce qu’elle va étendre ses activités hors du groupe GM et à l'étranger.
17/03/2009

Etats-Unis - Goldman convoite le marché de la dette ?distressed?

Goldman Sachs a demandé l"autorisation aux investisseurs de son fonds de private equity de 15 milliards de dollars pour placer l"argent qui n"a pas encore été investi dans de la dette d"entreprises en difficulté, rapporte le Financial Times. D"autres sociétés de capital investissement font de même.

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