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21/09/2012
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Les fonds obligataires s’écartent des indices

Alors que les rendements obligataires sont orientés à la baisse, de nombreux fonds ont trouvé un moyen de paraître meilleurs : ils investissent dans des obligations plus risquées mais continuent de mesurer leur performance par rapport à des indices composés d’investissements plus sûrs, rapporte The Wall Street Journal. C’est notamment le cas chez Putnam et Pimco. Cette pratique peut être dangereuse en cas de retournement des marchés, prévient le WSJ.
Fonds
21/09/2012
Fonds

Ignis AM lance en France un fonds obligataire rendement absolu

Ignis Asset Management lance en France son fonds Ignis Absolute Return Credit Fund, après avoir obtenu le feu vert de l’Autorité des marchés financiers.Ce fonds obligataire de rendement absolu a vu le jour en juillet dernier. Il est investi dans des crédits investment grade et high yield par le biais de CDS (credit default swaps). «L’équipe crédit identifie des anomalies de valorisation entre les crédits et exploite les opportunités de valeur à l’aide d’un portefeuille de 10 à 30 paires, un long et un short», explique Philip Goldsmith, managing director Europe. Market neutral, le portefeuille vise un rendement positif quelles que soient les conditions de marché, une volatilité de 2 à 6 %., un risque de duration et de taux d’intérêt nul.Le produit est géré par Chris Bowie, le responsable crédit de la société de gestion, et son équipe de 14 personnes, qui gère un total de 17,3 milliards d’euros d’encours. Il s'élève à ce jour à environ 25 millions d’euros d’encours, mais devrait atteindre les 80 millions d’euros d’ici à la fin du mois.Il s’agit du deuxième produit de la gamme absolute return d’Ignis- et probablement pas du dernier - après le Ignis Absolute Return Government Bond Fund lancé l’an dernier. Ce produit d’obligations d’Etat a d’ailleurs été l’un des moteurs de la collecte d’Ignis en Europe en 2012. Des souscriptions qui ont été enregistrées principalement en Italie et en Allemagne.
Fonds
21/09/2012
Fonds

Swiss & Global lance un fonds d'obligations émergentes

La gamme des fonds luxembourgeois Julius Bär Multibonds s’est enrichie d’un nouveau fonds institutionel focalisé sur les obligations d’entreprises des marchés émergents et frontière du monde entier libellées en dollars, le Julius Bär Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund.Le portefeuille est investi principalement en titres de catégorie investissement selon un processus de sélection fondamental alliant des approches macro-économique (top-down) et de sélection de titres (bottom-up).CaractéristiquesDénomination : Julius Bär Emerging Markets Corporate Bond FundCode Isin : LU0784392978Commission de gestion : 0,60 %Souscription minimale : 0,5 million d’euros
Fonds
21/09/2012

BNY Mellon administrera les fonds en marque blanche de VVO Haberger

Les fonds en marque blanche du munichois VVO Haberger KAG seront à l’avenir lancés et administrés par le francfortois BNY Mellon Service KAG. En dehors de ces prestations de société de gestion, la filiale de BNY Mellon fournira également des services de conservation et de banque dépositaire, ont annoncé les deux parties.
21/09/2012
Fonds

LRI Invest se targue d'une première sur le marché allemand

Le luxembourgeois LRI Invest est selon ses propres dires la première société de gestion étrangère à obtenir de la BaFin l’agrément (le 17 septembre) pour un fonds de droit allemand conforme à la directive OPCVM IV. Le produit est le LRI Invest DeLux, un fonds multi-classes d’actifs pour lequel la banque dépositaire sera LBBW Stuttgart.CaractéristiquesDénomination : LRI Invest DeLuxCode Isin : DE000A1J0BZ9Droit d’entrée : 5 % maximumCommission de gestion : 1,1 % maximum
Fonds
21/09/2012

RHJI paie la BHF 1,06 % des encours

Jeudi matin, la Deutsche Bank et Kleinwort Benson Group ont confirmé l’information de Die Welt (lire Newsmanagers du 20 septembre) selon laquelle, sous réserve d’un agrément des autorités de régulation, la première se propose de vendre 100 % de la BHF-Bank à RHJ International (RHJI), une filiale du second.Le montant envisagé est de 384 millions d’euros en numéraire, ce qui représente 1,06 % des encours de la BHF (environ 36 milliards d’euros).RHJI est un groupe de services financiers dirigé par Leonhard «Lenny» Fischer, un ancien dirigeant-vedette de la Dresdner Bank.
21/09/2012

Invesco AM adopte Eagle pour la mesure de performance en Europe

Le gestionnaire Invesco a sélectionné la solution de mesure de la performance proposée par Eagle Investment Systems pour la gestion de ses activités retail et institutionnelle en Europe continentale, a annoncé BNY Mellon, dont Eagle est une filiale.Invesco utilisait déjà la plate-forme Eagle pour l’Amérique du Nord et pourra désormais disposer d’une image consolidée de ses activités couvrant les deux continents. Le gestionnaire utilise également les données d’Eagle pour améliorer son reporting sur la performance, la composition des portefeuilles, les transactions, le classement et la notation des fonds ainsi que les données de risque. De plus, la plate-forme Eagle permet d’améliorer le reporting aux clients, les comptes de pertes et profits et le développement des fiches de données des antennes de Paris et de Francfort.
21/09/2012
Fonds

Union revend un immeuble de Singapour à ERC

Pour 38,7 millions d’euros, l’allemand UniImmo: Global a revendu l’immeuble de magasins The House of Tan Yeok Nee (2.100 mètres carrés) à ERC International Private. Ce montant est supérieur de 17,7 millions d’euros au prix d’acquisition de 2007.Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE) a l’intention d’acquérir d’autres actifs en Asie, notamment à Séoul et Shanghai, a indiqué Volker Noack, membre de l'équipe dirigeante d’UIRE. Le gestionnaire a l’intention d’investir jusqu'à 1 milliard d’euros dans les «marchés de croissance» d’Asie sur les cinq prochaines années.
Fonds
21/09/2012

Union resells a property in Singapore to ERC

The German real estate fund UniImmo: Global has resold the commercial property The House of Tan Yoek Nee (2,100 square metres) to ERC International Private for EUR38.7m. This amount is EUR17.7m higher than the acquisition price in 2007.Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE) is planning to acquire other properties in Asia, particularly in Seoul and Shanghai, says Volker Noack, a member of management at UIRE. The asset management firm is planning to invest up to EUR1bn in “growth markets” in Asia in the next five years.
21/09/2012

LRI Invest claims place as a pioneer on German market

The Luxembourg-based firm LRI Invest claims to be the first foreign asset management firm to receive a license from BaFin for a German-registered UCITS IV-compliant fund, on 17 September. The product is the LRI Invest DeLux, a multi-asset class fund for which the depository bank will be LBBW Stuttgart.CharacteristicsName: LRI Invest DeLuxISIN code: DE000A1J0BZ9Front-end fee: 5% maximumManagement commission: Maximum 1.1%
21/09/2012

Swiss & Global launches emerging market bond fund

The Luxembourg fund range Julius Bär Multibonds has been enriched with the addition of a new institutional fund focused on global emerging and frontier market corporate bonds denominated in US dollars, the Julius Bär Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund.The portfolio invests primarily in investment-grade securities, according to a fundamental selection process which allies macroeconomic (top-down) and stock-picking (bottom-up) approaches.CharacteristicsName: Julius Bär Emerging Markets Corporate Bond FundISIN code: LU0784392978Management commission: 0.60%Minimal subscription: EUR0.5m
21/09/2012

French regulator to fine OFI AM

At a hearing of the sanctions committee of the French financial regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) on 20 September, in the case of the asset management firm OFI, the AMF College handed down a reprimand and a fine of EUR500,000 against OFI AM, as well as a warning to two of its directors, and a fine of EUR60,000 each, Les Echos reports.The college found that OFI AM had not undertaken required due diligence in the selection and monitoring of funds related to the Bernard Madoff company between June 2006 and the end of 2008. The firm also faced other charges: it failed to respect regulatory ratios, and invested in excess of the permitted maximal levels in some types of funds unrelated to Madoff.
21/09/2012

Madoff victims get back another USD2.48bn

In the second wave of reimbursements for losses caused by the fraud perpetrated by Bernard Madoff, victims will receive USD2.48bn, Irving Picard has announced, cited by Expansión. The trustee has so far recuperated USD9.147bn, equivalent to 53% of the USD17.3bn fraud.
21/09/2012

Highbridge loses its chief risk officer

Subramanyam Venkataraman, chief risk officer (CRO) at Highbridge, has decided to leave the asset management firm at the end of this year, according to reports by the news agency Reuters. Jeff Holman, who joined Highbridge in 2008, will succeed Venkataraman, who had worked at Highbridge for nine years. Holman, who is currently in charge of the Highbridge Quantitative Portfolio Construction fund, will start as CRO on 1 October. Assets under management at Highbridge, which is owned by JP Morgan Chase, total about USD28bn.
21/09/2012

Ignis launches AR bond fund in France

Ignis Asset Management is launching the Ignis Absolute Return Credit Fund in France, after receiving approval from the French financial market regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF). The absolute return bond fund was created in July this year. It invests in investment grade and high yield credit via credit default swaps (CDS). “The credit team has identified anomalies in valuation between credits, and exploits opportunities to create value with a portfolio of 10 to 30 pairs, one long and one short,” explains Philip Goldsmith, managing director Europe. The market neutral portfolio aims to earn positive returns in all market conditions, with volatility of 2% to 6%, some handling risk, and zero interest rates. The product is managed by Chris Bowie, head of credit at the asset management firm, and his team of 14 people, which manages a total of EUR17.3bn in assets. It currently has a total of about EUR25m in assets, but is expected to reach EUR80m by the end of the month. This is the second product of the absolute return range from Ignis, and probably not the last, following the Ignis Absolute Return Government Bond Fund, launched last year. The government bond product has also been a driver of inflows at Ignis in Europe in 2012. Subscriptions were registered primarily in Italy and Germany.
21/09/2012

Bond funds break away from indices

At a time when bond yields are falling, many funds have found a way to look better: they are investing in higher-risk bonds, but are continuing to measure their performance against indices composed of safer investments, the Wall Street Journal reports. Putnam and Pimco in particular have been doing this. The practice may be dangerous if the markets turn down, the WSJ warns.
21/09/2012

C-Quadrat liquidates three funds

Due to a lack of sufficient assets, three funds from the Austrian-German asset management firm C-Quadrat have been liquidated, effective 20 September.They were the following products:C-QUADRAT ARTS Best Momentum VT-A PLN (AT0000A0HQM6)C-QUADRAT ARTS Total Return Balanced VT-A PLN (AT0000A0HQN4)C-QUADRAT ARTS Total Return Dynamic VT-A PLN (AT0000A0HQP9)
21/09/2012

Solvency II: EIOPA to undertake an impact study of long branches

In the matter of the future of long branches under the new Solvency 2 regime, Agefi reports, the European insurance authority (EIOPA) will in the next few months test the minimal levels of risk and capital required for long-term liabilities (life insurance, construction, etc.) This move has been long demanded by industry. Insurers say the development will prevent regulators from overestimating the capital requirements associated with long-term liabilities, when they are measured against long-term assets. A delay is expected in the imposition of Solvency 2, which had initially been slated to come into force on 1 January 2014. The EIOPA report is not expected before March, which would result in an extension to the deadline to transpose the directive into national law, which had initially been set for 30 June 2013, the newspaper reports.
21/09/2012

BNY Mellon administers VVO Haberger white label funds

White-label funds from the Munich-based firm VVO Haberger KAG will in the future be launched and administered by the Frankfurt-based BNY Mellon Service KAG. In addition to these asset management services, the BNY Mellon affiliate will also provide depository banking and custody services, the two parties have announced.
21/09/2012

Vontobel pulls out of Austrian private banking market

finews.ch reports that Austrian clients of Bank Vontobel will in the future be served from Zurich, and the Salzburg branch of the bank will be closed. Private banking services in Salzburg and Vienna will also be closed down.Bank Vontobel Österreich has 38 employees, and as of the end of August manages about EUR1bn.The Swiss group has also announced that clients in Eastern Europe and Russia will in the future be served by the Zurich and Geneva offices.
21/09/2012

RHJI pays 1.06% of assets for BHF

On Thursday morning, Deutsche Bank and Kleinwort Benson Group confirmed reports in Die Welt (see Newsmanagers of 20 September) that, pending the permission of regulatory authorities, the former firm is proposing to sell 100% of BHF-Bank to RHJ International (RHJI), an affiliate of the latter.The total sale price propsoed is EUR384bn in cash, which is equivalent to 1.06% of assets at BHF (about EUR36bn).RHJI is a financial services group led by Leonhard “Lenny” Fischer, a former star manager at Dresdner Bank.
21/09/2012

Finma plans to temporarily relax its solvency test

The Federal financial market surveillance authority, Finma, is planning to ease the Swiss solvency test (SST) by two points. The authority is also planing “adaptations of the interest rate curve” on the one hand, and “a modification of the thresholds at which it intervenes and requires corrections,” on the other. A statement released on 20 September states. The objective is to address two major challenges in the insurance sector, Finma explains. The first is related to the environment of persistently low interest rates, which engenders considerable difficulties, particularly for life insurers. The second is related to the postponement of the obligatory rollout of new solvency requirements under the European insurance regulatory programme, Solvency II. This decision penalises Swiss insurers in terms of competitiveness, Finma claims, and it has therefore decided to propose a temporary relaxation of the SST. The proposals will be subject to a consultation until 19 October 2012.
21/09/2012

Hedge funds gain 4.22% in January-August

According to BarclayHedge, the 2,041 hedge funds which have reported their results as of 20 September show returns of 1.11% in August, and 4.22% for the first eight months of the year, while the 607 UCITS-compliant hedge funds gained 0.30% last month, and 5.42% in January-August.In August and in the first eight months of the year, the only strategy to show losses among hedge funds worldwide was equity short bias (5 funds), with respective losses of 3.75% and 12.87%. Among UCITS-compliant hedge funds, the 97 emerging market funds show a loss of 1.45%, and the 21 CTA funds show a loss of 0.35% in August. No strategy shows losses since the beginning of the year.The best segments in January-August worldwide were the 34 healthcare funds, with gains of 10.78%, and convertible arbitrage funds, with a 6.82% performance. For UCITS-compliant hedge funds, the best results were for the 118 equity long bias funds, with gains of 9% in January-August.
21/09/2012

IMA releases guidance for improved management fee information

The British Investment Fund Association (IMA) on 20 September published a guidance on ways to improve information published about fees and transaction costs for licensed British funds.The guidance suggests that actors in the sector should go further than the terms of the MiFID directive, by offering more complete information about transaction costs, including average transaction costs over three years in brokerage commissions and stamp duties, expressed as a percentage of net assets.It also suggests that an ongoing charges figure (OCF) should be published, rather than annual management fees (AMC), since OCF provides a much more complete picture of fees, while also complying with the new key investor information document (KIID) requirements.
21/09/2012

Franklin Templeton recruits in Zurich

Franklin Templeton has moved into new and larger quarters in Zurich. The asset management firm has undergone significant growth in Switzerland since the end of the financial crisis, and is now one of the top 10 providers of Swiss funds. In the retail market, assets under management have increased from USD2bn in 2009 to USD15bn currently.The firm is now developing its international activities and its support capacities. “We have already planned for a new position in institional sales. We are now looking for a head of middle office, who will be responsible for numerous support functions and carious co-ordination tasks worldwide,” says Jens Kruse, director of Franklin Templeton Switzerland, in a statement released on 20 September.
21/09/2012

T. Rowe Price recruits in Switzerland

The US asset management firm T. Rowe Price International has appointed Paolo Corredig as head of intermediary business for Switzerland, in Zurich. He will report to Peter Preisler, head of Europe, finews.ch reports. Corredig was previously head of wholesale business Switzerland at Invesco Asset Management, also in Zurich.
21/09/2012

SGSS S.p.A awarded a mandate bt Aberdeen AM

Société Générale Securities Services in Italy (SGSS S.p.A.) has been retained by Aberdeen Asset Management to act as local transfer agent for the Aberdeen Global and Aberdeen Global II funds, the range of cross0border funds from the asset management firm, which represent over EUR38bn in assets under management. SGSS will provide paying agency and relationship management services for mutual funds with investors in Italy.
21/09/2012

Standard Life Investments preparing an emerging market debt fund

Standard Life Investments will be launching an emerging market debt fund, after recruiting the former head of emerging market debt from Threadneedle, Richard House, Fund Web reports. House joined SLI in April as head of emerging market debt, along with two colleagues, Mark Baker and Nicolas Jacquier.
21/09/2012

Axa IM launches short-term emerging market debt fund

According to information obtained by Newsmanagers, Axa Investment Managers will on Monday launch the Axa WF Emerging Market Short Duration Bond fund, which has received a license from the Luxembourg authority CSSF, as reported by Fundweb on Thursday.The product will be managed by Damien Buchet, director of the emerging market debt team.

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