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20/09/2012

CLS reshuffles top positions

The Omaha, Nebraska-based third-party money manager CLS Investments (USD6.5bn in AUM as of-end July) has promoted Todd Clarke from president to CEO.The firm also hired Ryan Beach to take his place; he most recently oversaw legal matters as associate general counsel of CLS’ parent company, NorthStar Financial Services Group.John Russel «Rusty» Vanneman has been hired as new CIO. He previously worked as a CIO and PM at Kobren Insight Management.
20/09/2012

Fund managers need to make themselves heard

US financial institutions now hold more than two thirds of shares in businesses in the United States, which gives them total control over votes, John C. Bogle, founder of Vanguard, observes in a column in the Financial Times. This capital is concentrated at a few major asset management firms: of USD9trn in shares held by the 300 largest US asset management firms, USD6trn are held by the 25 largest companies. The top 5 (Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street Global, Fidelity and American Funds) control about USD3trn. But so far, these companies have stood out for the lack of influence they exercise on the businesses in which they collectively invest. Bogle claims it is time for asset managers to assume their responsbilities in governance, and to break their silence.
20/09/2012

Franklin Templeton buys majority stake in K2 Advisors

For an undisclosed amount, Franklin Resources (Franklin Templeton Investments) on September 19th announced that it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in K2 Advisors Holdings («K2»), an independent fund of hedge funds manager with USD9.3bn in AUM as of end-August).The proceeds of this acquisition by Franklin Templeton will be used by K2 to purchase all of the equity currently held by TA Associates and to retire all of K2’s debt obligations. The current management of K2 will not sell any of its interests at this time. Beginning in 2016, Franklin Templeton will acquire the remainder of K2 over a multi-year period.
20/09/2012

Ali Ould Rouis leaves Robeco

Ali Ould Rouis has left Robeco Gestions, the French affiliate of the Netherlands group, where he had been chairman, a statement released on 19 September states. His departure comes in the wake of the closure of the firm’s asset management activities in Paris, while resulted in the loss of 20 jobs, equivalent to two thirds of Paris staff. The remaining structure will concentrate exclusively on distribution, and will now become known as Robeco France. It will be led by Philippe Sabbah. Sabbah joined the Robeco group in August 2011 as CEO and board member in charge of commercial and marketing activities at Robeco Gestions, after previously working at Threadneedle. “Philippe Sabbah will work to ensure the growth of Robeco on the French market, and to extend the product range on offer to French institutionals,” a statement says.
20/09/2012

FundQuest to stop asset management

FundQuest will become an advising structure, according to reports in Citywire Global. The firm, which has about EUR33bn in assets under management, will cease to be an asset management firm. The new entity will be renamed as FundQuest Advisors. Asset management will be transferred to BNP Paribas Asset Management. The reorganization will be announced in early October.
20/09/2012

AllianceBernstein recruits for alternative management unit

AllianceBernstein on 19 September announced the recruitment of George Yepes and Jeff Saltzman to assist with development of the firm’s alternative asset management activities (multi-management strategies, proprietary hedge funds and closed funds). Yepes previously worked at Financial Risk Management, where he had been in charge of client management and distribution for North America. Saltzman joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he had worked in the Cross Asset Solutions and Strategies unit.
20/09/2012

Edhec: two hedge fund strategies show losses in August

Dedicated short bias and CTA Global were the only strategies to show losses last month, out of the 13 strategies monitored by the Edhec Risk Institute, with losses of 3.24% and 0.90%, respectively. The best returns were for event-driven, with gains of 1.38%, and distressed securities (+1.21%), followed by long/short equity (+1.02%).The best strategy since the beginning of the year is convertibles arbitrage, with gains of 6.7%, followed by distressed securities (+6.3%). Only dedicated short bias shows losses in the first eight months of the year, with losses of 10.9%.
20/09/2012

Norwegian fund recruits a fund picker from Storebrand

Yvonne Silden Langlo has left Storebrand, where she had served in external fund selection, to join Norges Bank Investment Management, the asset management firm for the Norwegian fund, the Swedish website Fondbranschen reports.
20/09/2012

Assets at Australian boutiques and hedge funds total over AUD200bn

Australian hedge funds and asset management boutiques, supported by allocations from pension funds, have over AUD200bn in assets under management – to be more precise, AUD208.4bn, or nearly USD220bn, Asian Investor reports. This total represents about 17% of the AUD1,190trn in total in the Australian asset management sector. Of this total, assets at 62 hedge funds total AUD42.8bn, according to statistics from the Triple A Partners/Basis Point Consulting Australian Hedge and Boutique Fund Directory. The top five hedge funds based in Australia are Platinum Asset Management, with AUD14bn in assets under management, BlackRock Investment Management Australia (AUD5.8bn), GMO Australia’s Systematic Global Macro Trust (AUD1.9bn), Macquarie Group’s MQ Specialist Investment Management (AUD1.6bn), and PM Capital (AUD1.6bn). In the asset management boutique sector, there are 102 independent asset management firms, with AUD165.6bn in assets, mostly invested in long-only strategies.
20/09/2012

Director appointed at Cantonal Bank of Basel

The Cantonal Bank of Basel has announced in a statement released on 19 September that it has appointed René Bürgisser as director of Private Banking activities in Zurich. Bürgisser will begin in his new role by 1 April 2013 at the latest. Bürgisser has spent 17 years in various positions at Credit Suisse, and was director of the Banque Cial affiliate in Zurich. Since 2007, he has had a seat on the board at AKB Privatbank Zürich.
20/09/2012

Julius Baer shareholders approve capital increase

Julius Baer has taken a further step towards its acquisition of the wealth management activities of Merrill Lynch outside the Unuted States from Bank of America. At an extraordinary general shareholders’ meeting in Zurich, shareholders in the Zurich-based private bank approved a capital increase for this purpose, according to a statement released on 19 September. The owners of the wealth management firm on Wednesday agreed to constitute capital totalling up to CHF500m, via an issue of a maximum of 37.5 million new shares. These shares will be used exclusively to partially finance an acquisition of the wealth management activities of Merrill Lynch outside the United States and Japan. Of the 37.5 million newly-issued securitie, up to 7.5 million share will be issued or transferred to Bank of America (BofA), in keeping with an agreement for the transaction. According to the most recent estimates, BofA would hold a total stake in Julius Baer of between 2% and 4% following the integration of activities. The capital increase is to be held in October.
20/09/2012

Lazard AM opens an office in Zurich

Lazard Asset Management is this week opening a customer service office in Zurich, Agefi Switzerland reports. The reports have been confirmed to Le Temps by Andreas Hübner, director at Lazard Asset Management. There are two motives for the decision: on the one hand, changes in the Swiss banking market, including opportunities for asset management boutiques thanks to an increase in open architecture, and on the other, Lazard Asset Management is taking advantage of its specialisation in certain investment categories. Lazard AM says that it has EUR108bn in assets under management, of which 30% are on emerging markets.
20/09/2012

Lombard Odier launches two bond funds in Italy

Lombard Odier has unveiled two new bond funds for the Italian market in Milan, the Italian website Bluerating reports. They are the LO Funds Global Government Fundamental and LO Funds Global BBB-BB Fundamental funds.
20/09/2012

EFG AM plans to launch an Asia-Pacific bond fund

EFG Asset Management will soon be launching a bond fund dedicated to Asia-Pacific, Citywire reports. The new offering, the New Capital Asia Pacific Bond fund, follows a series of recruitments and the launch of a fund dedicated to Chinese equities, the New Capital China Equity fund.
20/09/2012

Carmignac Gestion recruits a new country head for Italy

Giorgio Ventura joined the Italian sales team of Carmignac Gestion as head of country Italy on September 17th. His principal objective will be to further develop the firm’s relations with financial institutions and intermediaries in Italy under the responsibility of Davide Fregonese, global head of sales and marketing.Giorgio Ventura joins from Eurizon Capital (Intesa San Paolo Group) in Milan, where he was co-head of sales and marketing.
20/09/2012

Jupiter Merlin range gets conservative addition

UK-based fund manager Jupiter announced it will launch the Jupiter Merlin Conservative Portfolio on 28th September 2012 to meet demand for a more cautious Jupiter Merlin range of multi-manager portfolios. The new fund, which has FSA approval, will sit within the IMA «Mixed Investment 0-35% shares» category.The Conservatice Portfolio will be managed by the Jupiter Independent Funds team comprising John Chatfeild-Roberts, Peter Lawery, Algy Smith-Maxwell, Amanda Sillars and David Lewis. The team currently manage GBP7.5bn of assets in four funds: Jupiter Merlin Income, Jupiter Merlin Balanced, Jupiter Merlin Growth and Jupiter Merlin Worldwide.
20/09/2012

Pictet recruits for the Nordic market

Pictet has hired Elisabeth Jädal as Nordic director, the Swedish website Fondsbranschen reports. Alongside Micael Haeglin, who was recruited in May 2011, she will strengthen the Swiss firm’s presence serving institutional investors. Jädal previously worked at GAM.
20/09/2012
Gestion d'actifs

La CAPSSA s'est positionnée sur les marchés émergents

Jean Pierre Mottura, directeur général de la CAPSSA à la rédaction de www.institinvest.com : « Bien que 80,8% du portefeuille soit investi dans des produits monétaires, notre gestion c??ur-satellite nous permet d’avoir de fortes convictions sur les 19,2% restant. Avec une approche macro économique, nous nous sommes positionnés, entre autres, sur les pays émergents qui représentent un relai de croissance que l’on ne retrouve plus en Europe. La Chine, l’Inde mais aussi la Turquie sont des pays dans lesquels nous croyons. Nos convictions sont bonnes, à titre d’exemple depuis le début de l’année, notre investissement sur la Turquie affiche un gain de 32% au 28 juin. Cependant, nous gérons en premier lieu le risque, et ensuite la performance, c’est pourquoi ces produits restent satellites. A titre d’information, la volatilité annualisée globale du portefeuille oscille autour de 1,53%, avec un c??ur monétaire à 0,10%. »
Gestion d'actifs
19/09/2012

Generali réorganise sa gestion en Europe

Dans une lettre aux investisseurs, Generali Investments France a détaillé la réorganisation des activités de gestion en Europe. Au 1er octobre, les activités éligibles au passeport européen seront fusionnées au sein de Generali Investments Europe, qui disposera d’une succursale en France. Les fonds non coordonnées seront transférés à Generali Investments Opera, une nouvelle société de droit français.
19/09/2012

Etats-Unis : lente reprise de la construction résidentielle

Les mises en chantier de logements ont augmenté de 2,3% en août, au taux annuel de 750.000 unités en données cvs, selon les chiffres officiels. Celles de juillet, initialement annoncées en repli de 1,1% à 746.000, ont finalement reculé de 2,8% à 733.000. Bien qu’en hausse, le chiffre d’août est inférieur aux attentes. Les permis de construire ont diminué de 1%, au rythme annuel de 803.000 unités.
19/09/2012

Les locaux parisiens d'UBS perquisitionnés

Les bureaux parisiens d’UBS ont fait l’objet d’une perquisition dans le cadre d’une enquête lancée à la suite de soupçons d’aide à l'évasion fiscale. UBS France, qui évoque «un acte normal dans ce genre d’enquête» entend «poursuivre pleinement sa coopération avec la justice». Cette nouvelle investigation fait suite à d’autres perquisitions menées en juillet à Bordeaux, Strasbourg et Lyon.
19/09/2012

Un atelier FMI-Bruegel sur la taxation du secteur financier

Des experts se sont réunis mercredi à Bruxelles à l’invitation du Fonds monétaire international et du think tank Bruegel dans le cadre d’un atelier de réflexion sur la taxation du secteur financier. Les participants ont souligné la nécessité que le secteur financier contribue de manière adéquate afin de supporter les coûts budgétaires des crises bancaires à l’avenir.
19/09/2012

Signe positif pour le marché immobilier américain

Les ventes dans l’immobilier ancien ont atteint leur rythme le plus élevé depuis deux ans en août aux Etats-Unis et les prix s’inscrivent en hausse sur une base annuelle, un signe positif pour la reprise du marché de l’immobilier. Les ventes ont augmenté le mois dernier de 7,8% à 4,82 millions d’unités en rythme annualisé, a annoncé mercredi l’Association nationale des promoteurs immobiliers (NAR).
19/09/2012

Robeco France change de patron

Philippe Sabbah a été officiellement nommé président de Robeco France SAS, qui est la nouvelle structure de distribution du groupe Robeco à Paris après la restructuration des activités de gestion cette année. Il remplace Ali Ould Rouis, qui présidait Robeco Gestions et a mené la réorganisation. Philippe Sabbah a rejoint le groupe en août 2011 au poste de directeur général, membre du directoire en charge des activités commerciales et marketing de Robeco Gestions.
19/09/2012

La Banque d'Angleterre reste détendue sur l'inflation

Les membres du Comité de politique monétaire de la Banque d’Angleterre (BoE) ont estimé lors de leur dernière réunion que les perspectives d’inflation à court terme s'étaient assombries en Grande-Bretagne en raison de la hausse des prix du pétrole et la menace d’augmentation des prix alimentaires et des tarifs des services collectifs. Mais cette poussée à court terme n’inquiète pas la BoE, dont un des neuf membres a estimé qu’il y avait «de bonnes raisons» pour une montée en puissance du programme de rachats d’actifs.
19/09/2012

Recul des IDE en Chine

Les investissements directs étrangers en Chine ont chuté de 1,4% au mois d’août sur un an pour tomber à 8,33 milliards de dollars, selon les chiffres publiés ce matin par le ministère du commerce. Il s’agit de la neuvième baisse en dix mois. Sur les huit premiers de l’année, les IDE ont reculé de 3,4% à 75 milliards.
19/09/2012

Le FMI met en cause le calcul des données en Argentine

Le Fonds envisage des sanctions formelles envers le pays concernant le calcul, jugé erroné, de ses chiffres officiels d’inflation et de croissance, si le gouvernement ne rectifie pas le tir «sans délai». Le FMI regrette «le manque de progrès suffisants». Jusqu’à présent, aucun pays n’a jamais été sanctionné par le FMI pour ce motif.
19/09/2012

La Colombie investit dans les infrastructures

Le gouvernement colombien a annoncé un programme d’investissement de 20 milliards de dollars dans la construction d’infrastructures routières, suivant l’exemple de son voisin brésilien. Un plan qui permettrait au pays «de tirer parti de l’amélioration de ses relations commerciales, ce qui serait bénéfique pour la croissance» estime Fitch.
19/09/2012

Dublin songe à innover pour l’ex-Anglo Irish

Le gouvernement irlandais envisage de mettre en place une obligation à long terme en vue de refinancer le coût du renflouement de l’ex-Anglo Irish. Cette obligation à quarante ans viendrait remplacer des billets à ordre (promissory notes). Selon le schéma à l’étude, l’Etat irlandais injecterait jusqu’à 40 milliards d’euros d’obligations, a précisé Bloomberg.
19/09/2012

Le patron de Deutsche Börse rempile

Le directeur général de Deutsche Börse, Reto Francioni, a été reconduit pour un nouveau mandat de quatre ans à la tête de l’opérateur boursier allemand. Il tient les rênes de l’entreprise depuis 2005. Deutsche Börse prévoit par ailleurs d’optimiser ses activités de trading de titres à compter de 2013 en unifiant la gestion de ses pôles «cash market» et dérivés.

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