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19/06/2012

LRI Invest launches a securitisation platform

The Luxembourg firm LRI Invest has announced that in June it opened a securitisation platform via LRI Invest SA and LRI Invest Issuance SA. The objective is to offer originators and investors custom solutions for fully structured products, which carry no issuer risks. LRI Invest is in a position to combine these new services with a Luxembourg special investment fund (SIF) formula, CEO Markus Kierke says.LRI Invest has 90 employees, and manages or administers 230 funds with total assets of EUR8bn.
19/06/2012
Fonds

Edrim distribue le Millésima 2018 outre-Pyrénées

La CNMV a annoncé avoir accordé le 15 juin son agrément de commercialisation en Espagne au fonds de droit français EdR Millésima 2018 d’Edmond de Rothschild Investment Managers (lire Newsmanagers du 12 juin). Il s’agit d’un produit obligataire à échéance destiné à capturer les possibilités offertes actuellement par le marché du crédit.
Fonds
19/06/2012

BBVA AM récupère Mar Matilla en provenance de l'Efama

Après trois ans comme conseiller senior à l’Association européenne des sociétés de gestion (Efama), Mar Matilla réintègre le pôle gestion d’actifs du BBVA comme responsable de l’innovation et de la gestion de produits chargée du développement de produits pour les différents réseaux de commercialisation des fonds du BBVA, rapporte Funds People. Elle avait auparavant travaillé chez Quality Funds, une émanation du BBVA. A présent, elle rejoint l'équipe produits dirigée par Maria Taboada Fernandez de Navarrete.
19/06/2012

UBP AM lance son fonds dividendes en Italie

UBP Asset Management, qui fait partie d’Union Bancaire Privée, vient de lancer en Italie son nouveau fonds actions européennes UBAM – Europe Equity Dividend+, compartiment de la Sicav luxembourgeoise UBAM, rapporte FondiOnline.
19/06/2012
Fonds

Les sociétés de gestion suédoises chiffrent le coût des fonds

Plusieurs sociétés de gestion suédoises ont choisi de calculer le «Normanbeloppet», c’est-à-dire le montant que coûte un fonds en couronnes et centimes pour un investisseur qui épargne 1.000 couronnes par mois pendant dix ans, rapporte Dagens Industri. Il s’agit d’Amf Fonder, Folksam LO Fond, Handelsbanken Fonder, Nordea Fonder, SEB Fonder et Skandia Fonder. En revanche, East Capital Asset Management et Carnegie Fonder n’ont pas le projet de le faire.Ce «Normanbeloppet» est censé permettre de faire la transparence sur ce que coûte un fonds et de permettre les comparaisons. Mais beaucoup de sociétés de gestion pensent que cela est inutile et prête à confusion.
Fonds
19/06/2012

L'Union Financière de France crée une direction du développement

L’Union Financière de France annonce la création d’une direction du développement, confiée à Philippe Gragé. La nouvelle division aura pour mission, en premier lieu, de développer une politique de recrutement ambitieuse (300 recrutements par an) et d’accompagner la réussite des entrants grâce à un parcours de formation au métier de conseiller en gestion de patrimoine.
19/06/2012

LRI Invest lance une plate-forme de titrisation

Le luxembourgeois LRI Invest a annoncé avoir ouvert en juin une plate-forme de titrisation au travers de LRI Invest SA et de LRI Invest Issuance SA. L’objectif consiste à proposer aux originateurs et aux investisseurs des solutions sur mesure pour des produits structurés ne comportant aucun risque d'émetteur.LRI Invest est en mesure de combiner ce nouveau services avec la formule des fonds d’investissement spécialisés de droit luxembourgeois, a précisé le CEO Markus Gierke.LRI Invest compte 90 salariés et gère ou administre 230 fonds d’un encours total de 8 milliards d’euros.
19/06/2012

Eaton Vance acquiert 49 % d'Hexavest

L’américain Eaton Vance Corp (197,5 milliards de dollars d’encours fin avril) a annoncé l’acquisition de 49 % du gestionnaire canadien Hexavest Inc (9,9 milliards de dollars au 31 mai) de Montréal, que ses actionnaires salariés continueront de contrôler et de gérer. Le montant de la transaction, qui s’effectuera en numéraire, n’a pas été dévoilé.Hexavest assure la gestion discrétionnaire de portefeuilles d’actions et d’allocation tactique pour une centaine de clients institutionnels au Canada.Lorsque la transaction aura été finalisée, Eaton Vance prendra en charge le développement des activités d’Hexavest hors du Canada. De plus, le gestionnaire américain a l’intention de lancer aux Etats-Unis et sur les marchés extérieurs une gamme de nouveaux mutual funds qui seront conseillés par Hexavest.
19/06/2012

Felix Ronner (ex UBS) rejoint Reuss Private

Le gestionnaire de fortune indépendant Reuss Private annonce que Felix B. Ronner, ancien directeur général d’UBS, est devenu associé senior et responsable de produits de la société.
19/06/2012

Chinese regulator planning huge wave of liberalisation

The Chinese securities commission (CSRC) has announced that it is planning to liberalise access to Qualified Foreign Institutional Investment (QFII) licenses, which would involve lowering the required operational experience for insurance companies and pension funds with long-term investment plans from five years to two years. According to Z-Ben Advisors, the CSRC is also said to be planning to extend eligibility to the inter-bank bond market, index futures and margin trading.The regulator is also planning to relax the requirements for mutual fund sales licenses; it is planning to restitute sales licenses previously issued to certain firms which no longer are licensed due to administrative sanctions against them in the past three years.The CSRC is planning to launch a consultation with professionals in the sector on reforms to regulations applicable to fund management firms: it is hoping to incite managers to launch more fixed income products, in order to increase the proportion of total assets in the industry in these funds to 50%.
19/06/2012

IIF calls for new approach to shadow banking

The Institute of International Finance (IIF) on 18 June issued a report “Shadow Banking”: A Forward-Looking Framework for Effective Policy” calling for a new policy approach to non-bank financial activities sometimes described as “shadow banking”. The IIF focused on the potential benefits and risks of these activities and the most appropriate use of risk mitigation tools. The IIF Report suggests that any policy framework be based on three stages of action: first, the identification of relevant activities and collection of relevant information about them, second, an assessment of whether they could pose systemic risk, and third, if risks are identified, the use of risk mitigation tools.
19/06/2012

Barclays reshuffles European fund range

Barclays has announced an overhaul of its range of European funds, under the UCITS IV directive. French Premier Barclays clients will have an extended range of investments available to them, including all GlobalAccess sub-funds of the Irish SICAV Barclays Multimanagers, and some sub-funds of the Luxemburg Sicav Barclays Funds. Some management expertise will also be grouped together through mergers and absorptions of French-registered funds into sub-funds of the Barclays Funds Luxembourg Sicav, with the objective of offering investors a unified product range throughout Europe, with larger portfolio sizes, mutualising total costs for sub-funds, and authorising better management of them. These operations will proceed from 13 to 20 July 2012.Aside from its range of French-registered funds, developed for local and specific solutions, Barclays is making two international Sicav funds available to its French Premier clients (Global Access, an Irish Sicav, and Barclays Funds, a Luxembourg Sicav), offering 40 sub-funds denominated in GBP, USD, JPY and EUR, which are actively managed and cover the major international asset classes.
19/06/2012

GLG releases a UCITS-compliant financial sector hedge fund

The British firm GLG Partners, an affiliate of Man Group, has obtained a sales license from the Irish central bank to release GLG Financials Alternative, a sub-fund of the Sicav GLG Investments VI plc, launched on 30 March 2012, but which continues a long/short financial sector strategy launched in May 2002 with an absolute return objective and returns of 9.71% per year, at a time when the MSCI World Financials index has lost 2.6%, to retail and institutional clients.The fund is managed by David Sanders, with the assistance of Stephen Holliday and Erkin Adylov. The fund is now also available in Germany and Austria.CharacteristicsName: GLG Financials AlternativeISIN codes:Retail: IE00B73DP106Institutional EUR: IE00B771GJ57Minimal subscription:Retail: EUR1,000Institutional: EUR100,000AMC (retail): 2.75%Performance fee: 20%
19/06/2012

Edrim releases Millésima 2018 in Spain

The CNMV has announced that on 15 June it issued a sales license for Spain to the French-registered fund EdR Millésima 2018 from Edmond de Rothschild Investment Managers (see Newsmanagers of 12 June). It is a target-date bond product which aims to capture the potential offered by the credit markets currently.
19/06/2012

UBS Global AM lists four more ETFs in Germany

Deutsche Börse has announced that it has admitted four ETFs from UBS Global Asset Management to trading on the XTF segment of its Xetra electronic trading platform, which replicate strategy indices developed by Hedge Fund Research. The Irish-registered products track the Equity Hedge, Event Driven, Macro CTA and Relative Value Arbitrage indices. With these funds, the XTF segment now lists 983 products.Characteristics Name: UBS ETFs plc – HFRX Equity Hedge Index SF (EUR) A-accISIN code: IE00B76VD289TER: 1.50%Name: UBS ETFs plc – HFRX Event Driven Index SF (EUR) A-accISIN code: IE00B76VD396TER: 1.50%Name: UBS ETFs plc – HFRX Macro CTA Index SF (EUR) A-AccISIN code: IE00B76VD404TER: 1.50%Name: UBS ETFs plc – HFRX Relative Value Arbitrage Index SF (EUR) A-AccISIN code: IE00B76VD511TER: 1.50%
19/06/2012

UBS launches first ETF of US infrastructure firms

SIX Swiss Exchange has announced that UBS has become the first Swiss asset management firm to launch an ETF of shares in US infrastructure companies, replicating the MSCI USA Infrastructure index.The Irish-domiciled, physical replication product, whose base currency is the US dollar, is available in an A (retail) distribution share class (US dollars and Swiss francs), and an I (institutional and ultra-high net worth private client) share class in US dollars. The market makers are UBS and Commerzbank.CharacteristicsName:UBS (Irl) ETF plc - MSCI USA Infrastructure (USD) A-disUBS (Irl) ETF plc - MSCI USA Infrastructure (USD) A-disUBS (Irl) ETF plc - MSCI USA Infrastructure (USD) I-dTER: 0.65%
19/06/2012

Hedge fund closures at their highest levels in two years

In first quarter, 232 hedge funds were liquidated, according to statistics from Hedge Fund Research. This is the highest level observed since first quarter 2010, when 240 hedge funds were closed down.The trend has been compensated by an increase in new fund launches (304), which have brought assets in the sector to USD2.13trn.Hedge Fund Research has also recorded 64 closures of funds of hedge funds, and 34 creations.In the first five months of the year, the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index has gained 2.54%.
19/06/2012

GLG plans to close down European equity long/short strategy

GLG is planning to close the GLG European Equity Alternative fund to new investors, Investment Week reports. The fund, launched barely one year ago, at last reading had assets of USD760m, compared with USD735m at the end of May (see Newsmanagers of 11 June 2012). The fund will undergo a soft closing when it reaches USD1bn, and will then be closed more definitively at USD1.25bn.
19/06/2012

BBVA AM gets back Mar Matilla from Efama

After three years as a senior adviser at the European fund and asset management association (EFAMA), Mar Matilla is rejoining the asset management unit of BBVA as head of innovation and product management, in charge of product development for various BBVA fund sales networks, Funds People reports. She previously worked at Quality Funds, a BBVA entity. She now joins the product team led by Maria Taboada Fernandez de Navarrete.
19/06/2012

MFS develops abroad

At a presentation of its new logo on 18 June, CEO Robert Manning has announced that the US asset management firm MFS Investment Management (USD280bn in assets) is planning to open two new fund management centres, one in Hong Kong, and one in São Paulo, Funds People reports. The firm is also planning to open a sales office in Australia.
19/06/2012

S&P cuts ratings for AllianceBernstein

The ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) on Friday announced that it is lowering the long-term and short-term ratings for AllianceBernstein (USD400bn as of the end of May) to A+ and A-1, respectively, from AA- and A-1+, with a negative outlook.The ratings downgrade is due partly to ongoing net redemptions, which have reduced operating revenues, and on the other hand to distortion of portfolios, with bond assets representing more than half of the total, so that they would be at risk if debt markets were to deteriorate. The negative outlook is due to the disappointing performance of large cap products, which may lead to a continuation of outflows.However, S&P recognizes that the financial risk profile of AllianceBernstein is healthy.
19/06/2012

Trian fund acquires 5.1% stake in Lazard bank

The US investment fund Trian Fund Management on 18 June announced that it has amassed a stake of about 5.1% in the French-American bank Lazard, to become one of the bank’s largest shareholders. Trian, which has acquired 6.3 million ordinary shares in Lazard, claims in a statement that the bank is a top-calibre global financial services business with a high-value brand. The Lazard model, based on commissions, is positioned to naturally profit from long-term financial market trends. Trian supports the new strategic plan at Lazard, unveiled on 27 April, which focuses on increasing margins, and estimates that Lazard shares are significantly undervalued.
19/06/2012

KKR acquires Prisma Capital Partners

Agefi reports that the private equity firm KKR is acquiring the fund of hedge fund management firm Prisma Capital Partners, for an undisclosed amount. Prisma CP, founded by three partners from Goldman Sachs, has USD7.8bn in assets under management, 90% of them institutional. The acquisition is a symptom of a larger desire on the part of private equity firms to diversify their activities, the newspaper remarks.
19/06/2012

Swedish asset management firms count cost of funds

Several Swedish asset management firms have decided to calculate the “Normanbeloppet,” or the cost of a fund in Swedish crowns for an investor who saves SEK1,000 per month for ten years, Dagens Industri reports. Amf Fonder, Folksam LO Fond, Handelsbanken Fonder, Nordea Fonder, SEB Fonder and Skandia Fonder have done so. However, East Capital Asset Management and Carnegie Fonder have no plans to do so. The “Normanbeloppet” is intended to provide some transparency about the cost of a fund, and to allow comparison. But many asset management firms think the figure is unuseful and tends to confuse matters.
19/06/2012

Losses in May for several alternative strategies

Of 13 hedge fund strategies regularly monitored by the Edhec-Risk Institute, 10 saw losses in May, with the heaviest lsoses (5.83%) for funds specialised in emerging markets. However, funds specialised in short-selling earned returns of 7.23%, but they were the only ones, along with emerging markets (-0.4%) to post a loss for the first five months of the year (-5.9%). The largest gains in January-May were for distressed securities (4.6%) and convertible arbitrage (4.2%).
19/06/2012

Man appoints a new CFO

Kevin Hayes, who joined Man Group plc as finance director in 2007, is leaving the company to pursue other professional and personal interests. Jonathan Sorrell, currently Man’s head of strategy and corporate finance, is taking over as finance director with immediate effect.
19/06/2012

TCI calls for conversion of Lloyds cocos

The Children’s Investment Fund has called on regulators to require Lloyds Banking Group to strengthen the bank’s capital reserves, the Financial Times reports. The fund’s CEO, Christopher Hohn, has written to the British Financial Services Authority to call on it to require Lloyds to replace GBP10bn in coco bonds with ordinary shares.
19/06/2012

Private investments highly sought after in times of turbulence

Professional investors are increasingly seeking investments in the private market segment, meaning private debt, private equity, direct investment in real estate and investment in infrastructure, the Swiss Funds Association (SFA), the organisation representing the Swiss investment fund and asset management sector, reports. “Currently, volumes in private markets represent, in the private debt segment alone, more than 30% of the approximately EUR160bn invested in third-party capital,” the association reports in a statement published on 18 June.Swiss and German investors are nonetheless increasingly moving into investment portfolios composed of mortgages and corporate debt from top-calibre businesses. According to the SFA, this development is due to the fact that government bonds and investments in financial sector businesses, once considered safe, are increasingly risky.Hans-Jörg Baumann, chairman and CEO of Swiss Capital Alternative Investments, and also president of the commission which includes promoters of alternative investments within the SFA, says that the government bond and financial sector investment segments have the highest growth rates over time periods of more than 10 years, but that they are currently undergoing some re-rating.

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