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26/03/2013

DoubleLine adds to its equity unit

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Mutual Fund Wire reports that, according to Reuters, the equity unit at DoubleLine has been scaled up with the recruitment of Jonathan Ainley, Sunny Ommanney, Brian Shim and Kristine Smith as equity analysts, and Rodney Boone as equity trader.With the exception of Ommanney, former CEO of Nyima Foundation, all of them join from TCW and will report to Brendt Stallings and Husam Nazer, portfolio managers, with whom they had worked previously at TCW.
26/03/2013

Prudential seeking head of compliance

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Mutual Fund Wire reports that Prudential Investment Management (PIM, USD827bn in assets) has posted a job opening on LinkedIn for a head of compliance.
26/03/2013

Standard Life Investments selected by CalPERS

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is investing USD500M with Edinburgh, Scotland-based Standard Life Investments as part of its Multi-Asset Class (MAC) Partners Program. Standard Life is the first of four external managers selected to partner with CalPERS in the MAC program. The MAC Program has two strategic objectives. First, the Program is intended to outperform the CalPERS total fund over a market cycle, using primarily public market assets, and doing so with lower volatility and less risk.Secondly, the Program is expected to facilitate a transfer of meaningful information from the MAC Partners to CalPERS investment staff, to help develop scalable, sustainable, and efficient methods of increasing the likelihood of meeting long-term CalPERS investment return goals.
26/03/2013

BlackRock Alternative Investors hires former Credit Suisse PM

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BlackRock has recruited Andy Stewart, head of one of the entities dedicated to hedge funds at Credit Suisse, as an addition to its alternative management unit, Reuters reports. Stewart will co-direct BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI), the division of BlackRock dedicated to hedge funds and private equity, with Matt Botein, who will also be chief investment officer for alternative management. Meanwhile, BlackRock is parting with a team recruited in 2011, which had invested directly in private equity. Nathan Thorne, George Bitar and Mandy [sic] will also leave the firm. Under the new organisation, Stewart will be responsible for management of development activities, while Botein will concentrate on performance and investors. Assets under management at BAI, which last year acquired Swiss Re Private Equity Partners, which had about USD7.5bn in BAI private equity fund of fund activities, finished the year 2012 with USD110bn, up 5% year on year, as commissions and other revenues were up 12% to USD968m.
26/03/2013

Groupama AM recruits head of extra-financial analysis

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Groupama Asset Management has announced the arrival of Sébastien Thévoux-Chabuel as head of extra-financial analysis. He will report to Marie-Pierre Peillon, director of research, and will evaluate sectors and stocks in relation to the three major ESG themes: environmental, social and governance challenges. Thévoux-Chabuel had previulsly been a member of the teams at Oddo Securities, first as a sell-side financial analyst, and then as an SRI analyst, from June 2008.
26/03/2013

Carmignac Gestion expected to post improved results

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } For 2012, Carmignac Gestion is expected to post higher profits than for 2011, when they totalled EUR282m, Les Echos reports. The newspaper estimates that Carmignac is at a turning-point in its history. The firm, which has been developing its services to institutional investors and clients abroad, will need to adapt its model.
26/03/2013

Kames offers a Singapore dollar version of its flagship fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The asset management firm Kames, based in London, is now offering a sub-fund denominated in Singapore dollars of its flagship fund, the Kames Strategic Global Bond Fund, Citywire reports. The fund is now available in Singapore dollars, pounds sterling, euros, yen, Swiss francs and US dollars. The Kames Strategic Global Bond fund, which has assets of USD550m, is co-managed by Philip Milburn and David Roberts. It has earned returns of 21.37% in the past three years, compared with 18.5% for the Barclays Global Aggregate EUR TR.
26/03/2013

Putnam offers “all-terrain” versions of six funds

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US asset management firm Putnam Investments has announced the launch of six new products intended to address several current preoccupations of the markets, such as volatility, a need for additional sources of income, and a need to adapt to changes in the fiscal environment.Using its range of traditional and non-traditional funds as a basis, Putnam has released the following funds on the market:•Putnam Low Volatility Equity Fund (scronym: PLVEX), which aims for returns comparable to those of US equities, but with lower volatility,•Putnam Strategic Volatility Equity Fund (PSVEX), whose objective is to outperform equities, but with volatility comparable to that of the market,•Putnam Global Dividend Fund (PGDEX), which aims for income and growth via value equities which pay dividends from throughout the world,•Putnam Emerging Markets Income Fund (PEMWX), whose objective is high income and capital appreciation on emerging debt markets,•Putnam Short-Term Municipal Income Fund (PSMEX), a portfolio of US short-term bonds to manage tax-exempt income with low sensitivity to interest rates, and•Putnam Intermediate-Term Municipal Income Fund (PIMEX), which invests in mid-term municipal bonds which generate high ongoing income exempt from Federal income tax.
26/03/2013

Frankfurt Trust recruits a fund manager and a salesman

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The asset management firm for BHF Bank, Frankfurt Trust, has announced that at the beginning of March it recruited Klaus Spöri as a bond fund manager. He had previously been at LBBW Asset Management.Meanwhile, Carsten Ükermann (ex-Fidelity) has joined the open-ended fund distribution team, where he will be responsible for IFA clients and broker pools.
26/03/2013

Berenberg nabs CIO from Credit Suisse

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Berenberg private bank on 25 March announced that as of 1 September, Stefan Keitel, managing director and CIO of asset management and private banking at Credit Suisse Group, will become CIO of the Hamburg-based firm, as well as chief strategist for the asset and wealth management business unit. In this role, he will be responsible for discretionary management.
26/03/2013

Swiss & Global releases EMD fund in Germany

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } With the Emerging Markets Investmennt Grade sub-fund of the Julius Baer Luxembourg Sicav, Swiss & Global Asset Management is releasing an investment grade emerging market debt fund for sale in Germany, with a portfolio of government and corporate bonds, from virtually all emerging countries (see Newsmanagers of 7 March). The fund will be managed by Enzo Puntillo, CIO for emerging market debt.CharacteristicsName: Julius Bär Bond Funds Emerging Markets Investment GradeISIN code: LU0854726667Management commission: 0.55%
26/03/2013

Axa IM launches all-weather multi-asset fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Axa Investment Managers on March 8 announced the launch of Axa WF Global Optimal Income, an ‘all weather’ multi-asset fund that provides flexible and dynamic access to the most compelling global opportunities with the aim of capturing a portion of the upside while mitigating the downside.The equities component, which focuses on high quality stocks from developed and emerging markets, can comprise between 0 per cent and 100 per cent of the portfolio according to market conditions. The fixed income portion tactically allocates to emerging market, high yield, government and corporate bonds. In the event of anticipated market downturn, exposure can be tactically adjusted through the use of listed derivatives.Axa WF Global Optimal Income is managed by Serge Pizem, global head of multi-asset investments at Axa IM, with the support of a team of four portfolio managers.The fund which is a Luxembourg-domiciled Sicav fund is available to both retail and institutional investors and is currently registered for sale in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden. Axa IM is considering registration across a number of other European countries.CharacteristicsName: AXA WF Global Optimal IncomeISIN codes:LU0465917630 (I shares)LU0465917390 (E shares)LU0465917473 (F, capitalisation shares)LU0465917556 (F, distribution shares)LU0465917044 (A, capitalisation shares)LU0465917127 (A, distribution shares)Front-end fee: maximum 5.50% (A shares)Management commissions:0.60% (A and F shares)1.20% (E and A shares)
26/03/2013

Banco Madrid concludes acquisition of Liberbank Gestión

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The acquisition of Liberbank Gestión and its EUR931m in assets was completed on 25 March by Banco Madrid, whose assets under management total over EUR3bn, Funds People reports. Banco Madrid now has exclusive rights to distribute Liberbank products.
26/03/2013

Italian funds continue to post inflows in February

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In February, funds on sale in Italy recorded net inflows of EUR4.51bn, according to the most recent statistics from Assogestioni, the Italian association of asset managers. That brings inflows since the beginning of the year to EUR7.68bn, and assets to EUR493.9bn. Inflows in February went largely to bond funds (EUR2.5bn) and flexible funds (EUR1.9bn). However, money market funds, equity funds and hedge funds had net redemptions (-EUR352m, -EUR138m and -EUR112m, respectively). With the addition of closed-end funds and mandated management, the asset management industry in February posted net inflows of EUR5.25bn. The asset management firms which posted the largest inflows were Banca Popolare, with +EUR1.38bn, Intesa Sanpaolo (+EUR999.7m), Poste Italiane (+EUR908m), and Pioneer (+EUR871.7m). Franklin Templeton has posted inflows of EUR786.3m. However, Generali has posted outflows of EUR1bn.
26/03/2013

Amundi launches a Japan ETF in Milan

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Amundi has released its Amundi ETF Topix EUR Hedged Daily ETF, which offers exposure to the Japanese equity market, with daily hedging of the euro/yen exchange rate, on the Milan stock exchange, Bluerating reports.
26/03/2013

Co-head of fixed income at Aberdeen AM departs

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The co-head of fixed income at Aberdeen Asset Management, Paul Griffiths, is leaving the firm in order to “take on other challenges” in the sector, Citywire Global reports. His responsibilities will be taken over by Brad Crombie, who becomes global head of the fixed income activity of the group. He had previously been co-head.
26/03/2013

LGIM recruits four and promotes one

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Andrew Hitchings, who was recruited in September 2012 as head of large UK clients from State Street Global Advisors, has been promoted to head of UK institutional business at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM).The British asset management firm has also announced that it has recruited Johan Rydqvist to the newly-created position of European sales manager, to develop the commmercial activities of LGIM in Scandinavian countries, Switzerland and Germany. The objective is to increase assets under management from abroad, which totalled GBP43bn as of 31 December. Rydqvist was recruited from Merrill Lynch.John Tsalos, for his part, has left Standard Life to take the newly-created position of head of defined contribution distribution & product strategy at LGIM, with assets in the area of defined contributions as of the end of last year of GBP25.4bn.LGIM has also announced that it has recruited Victoria Parrish from Credit Suisse Asset Management to serve as head of RFPs & marketing analytics. Net inflows in the area of requests for proposals totalled GBP7.1bn last year.Lastly, Taryn Liebbrandt has left T. Rowe Price International to become client relationship manager at LGIM, with responsibility for developing a portfolio of institutional clients.
26/03/2013

Man Group to finance OMI quantitative finance institute until 2018

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }Man Group and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (OMI) announced on March 25 the extension of Man’s funding of the Institute through to 2018. This five-year funding extension underscores Man’s commitment to building a world-leading quantitative investment business following the recent combination of AHL, Man’s quantitative investment manager, and Man Systematic Strategies, its specialised quantitative division.Founded in 2007 with funding from Man, the OMI is the home of interdisciplinary research in quantitative aspects of finance at the University of Oxford.
26/03/2013

Mark Lyttleton leaves BlackRock

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The manager of BlackRock, Mark Lyttleton, will be leaving the firm after 21 years at the US group, MoneyMarketing reports. Lyttleton is expected to hand over management of the UK Dynamic fund (GBP624m) and the UK Absolute Alpha fund (GBP427m) by 28 March. The former will be managed by Nick Little, while the latter will be co-managed by Nigel Ridge and Nick Osborne. BlackRock is also planning to merge the UK Dynamic fund with the UK fund (GBP513.6m).
26/03/2013

Aberdeen posts GBP3.5bn in inflows in two months

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } From the beginning of the year to 28 February, Aberdeen has recorded net inflows of GBP3.5bn, the British asset management firm announced on 25 March. Inflows went mainly to equities, with GBP4.3bn, and particularly to global emerging market funds (GBP2bn), despite measures taken to slow inflows to these products. Aberdeen notes, however, that inflows were lower than in the past, and that they are expected to return to more “sustainable” levels. Asia Pacific funds in particular posted large inflows in the first two months of the year (GBP2bn). Assets increased to GBP212.3bn as of the end of February, compared with GBP193.4bn as of the end of December. Aberdeen notes that net subscriptions went largely to high-margin funds, which will result in additional revenues from annual commissions of GBP35m.
26/03/2013

HMRC will consider rebates to investors taxable

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } From 6 April, all commission refunds and rebates paid by asset management firms to investors will be subject to income tax, the UK tax authorities (HMRC) announced on 25 March, Fundweb reports. However, the decision will not be applied retroactively.
26/03/2013

FCA plans to review RDR

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Scott Sinclair reports in Investment Week that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which will from April take over part of the prerogatives of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has announced plans to modify some terms of Retail Distribution Review (RDR) regulations sooner than planned, if it identifies a widespread failure to respect (widespred non-compliance of) the rules, or undesired negative effects.Natalie Holt reports in Fundweb, meanwhile, that the FCA’s «business plan 2013/14» announces an investigation into complex management commissions, to determine the extent to which they have negative effects on consumers.The FCA states that fund management commissions have risen in the past ten years, that “hidden” fees have increased, and that the structure of fees has become more complex as performance commissions have become more widespread.The FCA is concerned by the fact that asset management firms apply more complex fee structures to retail clients than to institutional investors, and that the long-term impact of small fee increases has been downplayed.
26/03/2013

LNG offers a long/short corporates fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } London-based LNG Capital has announced the launch of the LNG Europa Credit Fund Strategy UCITS, a multi-strategy long/short fund investing in European corporate bonds. It is the UCITS-compliant version of a fund registered in the Cayman Islands.Depending on the position in the credit cycle, it uses long bias, high yield and event-driven strategies in times of rising markets, and short bias in times of falling markets, while generally betting on relative value and long/short for investment and speculative grades. Leverage may total up to twice assets, while the return objective is 15%, with volatility of 10%.The fund carries a management commission of 1%, and a performance commission of 20%, with high watermark.
26/03/2013

Groupama AM recrute un responsable de l’analyse extra-financière

Groupama Asset Management annonce l’arrivée de Sébastien Thévoux-Chabuel en tant que responsable de l’analyse extra-financière. Placé sous la responsabilité de Marie-Pierre Peillon, directrice de la recherche, il est chargé d’évaluer les secteurs et les valeurs au travers des trois grands thèmes ESG : enjeux environnementaux, sociaux et sociétaux et de gouvernance. Auparavant, l’intéressé était membre des équipes d’Oddo Securities d’abord comme analyste financier sell-side, puis comme analyste ISR à partir de juin 2008.
26/03/2013
Fonds

Changement de référence pour un fonds de CamGestion

CamGestion (groupe BNP Paribas) a annoncé le changement de l’indicateur de référence du fonds CamGestion Avenir Investissement à compter du 1er avril 2013. La performance de CamGestion Avenir Investissement pourra être rapprochée a posteriori de celle de l’indice de comparaison MSCI World en Euro dividendes réinvestis, indique la société de gestion. Auparavant, l’indice de comparaison MSCI World en Euro s’entendait coupons non réinvestis.CamGestion précise cependant que compte tenu de la recherche de la maximisation de la performance, l’appréciation de la gestion n’impose pas le suivi d’un indicateur de référence spécifique.
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26/03/2013
Fonds

Des modifications dans la gestion de CNP Assur Ixis Crédit

A compter du 27 mars 2013, le fonds CNP Assur Ixis Crédit verra sa fourchette de sensibilité comprise entre 0 et 8 contre 2 et 8 actuellement, a annoncé Natixis AM qui gère l’OPCVM. Par ailleurs, l’indicateur de référence sera, désormais, exprimé en «excess return».La notion d’excess return consiste à retraiter la performance des obligations des emprunts obligataires à taux fixe libellés en euro, émis par des émetteurs privés notés au moins BBB-/Baa3, en excluant la performance liée aux variations des taux gouvernementaux, indique la société de gestion. L’indice composite sera le Barclays Capital Euro Aggregate Corporate 500 MM+, exprimé en excess return. Ce dernier est composé de 70 % de l’indice Barclays Capital Euro Aggregate Corporate 500 A, exprimé en excess return et de 30 % de l’indice Barclays Capital Euro Aggregate Corporate 500 BBB, exprimé en excess return. CNP Assur Ixis CréditCode : FR0007085816
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26/03/2013

DoubleLine muscle son pôle actions

Mutual Fund Wire rapporte que, selon Reuters, le pôle actions de DoubleLine vient d’être renforcé par le recrutement de Jonathan Ainley, Sunny Ommanney, Brian Shim et Kristine Smith comme analystes actions et de Rodney Boone comme trader actions.A l’exception de Sunny Ommanney, ancien CEO de Nyima Foundation, tous viennent de TCW et seront subordonnés à Brendt Stallings et Husam Nazer, les gérants de portefeuille, avec lesquels ils avaient d’ailleurs déjà travaillé chez TCW.
26/03/2013

Carmignac Gestion devrait afficher des résultats en hausse

Pour 2012, Carmignac Gestion devrait publier un résultat net supérieur à celui de 2011, alors de 282 millions d’euros, rapporte Les Echos. Le quotidien estime par ailleurs que Carmignac est à un tournant de son histoire. La société, qui se développe auprès des institutionnels et à l'étranger, doit adapter son modèle.
26/03/2013

IPO de Facebook : UBS refuse l'indemnisation de Nasdaq OMX

Les courtiers de Wall Street victimes des failles techniques ayant affecté et retardé les premiers pas en Bourse de l’action Facebook en mai 2012 ont une semaine pour déposer un dossier de demande d’indemnisation, rapporte L’Agefi. Selon la SEC, la proposition de 62 millions de dollars fournit «une compensation bien plus importante pour des demandes éligibles, en dehors de toute procédure judiciaire, que ce qui serait disponible autrement». Tous ne l’entendent pas ainsi. UBS, qui estime ses pertes à plus de 350 millions de dollars, a fait part de son intention de requérir un arbitrage pour recouvrer la totalité.
26/03/2013

BlackRock Alternative Investors recrute un ancien de Credit Suisse

BlackRock vient de recruter Andy Stewart, responsable de l’une des entités dédiées aux hedge funds de Credit Suisse, pour renforcer son pôle de gestion alternative, rapporte Reuters.Andy Stewart va co-diriger BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI), la division de BlackRock dédiée aux hedge funds et au private equity avec Matt Botein, qui sera également chief investment officer pour la gestion alternative. Parallèlement, BlackRock se sépare d’une équipe recrutée en 2011 qui investissait en direct dans le private equity. Nathan Thorne, George Bitar et Mandy devraient ainsi quitter la société.Dans le cadre de la nouvelle organisation, Andy Stewart sera chargé de la gestion des activités et du développement alors que Matt Botein se concentrera sur les performances des investissements.Les actifs sous gestion de BAI, qui a acquis l’an dernier Swiss Re Private Equity Partners, qui a représenté environ 7,5 :milliards de dollars pour l’activité fonds de fonds de private equity de BAI, ont terminé l’année 2012 à 110 milliards de dollars, en progression de 5% d’une année sur l’autre, les commissions et autres revenus affichant une hausse de 12% à 968 millions de dollars.

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