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04/11/2011
Fonds

Ashmore IM lance deux fonds

Ashmore Investment Management Limited, société de gestion britannique spécialisée dans les marchés émergents, lance deux compartiments actions : Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets Global Equity Fund et Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets Global Small-Cap Equity Fund. Ces deux produits portent le total des fonds actions d’Ashmore à trois et complètent l’offre obligataire émergente de la société, composée de 13 produits et représentant un total de 6,4 milliards de dollars. Dans le détail, le compartiment Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets Global Equity sera investi en actions et en quasi-souverains tandis qu’Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets Global Small-Cap Equity se concentrera sur les actions de petites entreprises (capitalisation de moins de 2 milliards de dollars) et les quasi-souverains. Ils seront gérés par AshmoreEMM, anciennement EMM, une société spécialisée dans la gestion actions émergentes rachetée par Ashmore en février dernier (lire article du 28 février 2011).Les compartiments seront accessibles en plusieurs devises (dollars, euros, livres sterling, couronnes danoises, couronnes norvégiennes, couronnes suédoises, francs suisses et yens).
Fonds
04/11/2011

Collecte nette pour Skandia UK en neuf mois

Filiale d’Old Mutual Wealth Management, Skandia UK a indiqué le 3 novembre avoir enregistré pour les neuf premiers mois de cette année des souscriptions nettes de 1,8 milliard de livres, soit 5 % de moins que pour la période correspondante de 2010, alors que les souscriptions nettes des fonds retail au Royaume-Uni ont dans l’ensemble chuté de 26 %.Les souscriptions nettes enregistrées par la plate-forme Skandia Investment Solution ont augmenté de 4 % d’une année sur l’autre, à 2,8 milliards de livres.A fin septembre, l’encours total de Skandia UK ressortait à 32,2 milliards de livres, soit 5 % de moins que fin décembre 2010, alors que l’indice FTSE 100 a accusé durant la même période une baisse de 13 %.
04/11/2011
Fonds

Skandia lance un fonds coordonné de managed futures

Les investisseurs grand public britanniques peuvent désormais compléter leur allocation en produits actions et obligations au moyen du nouveau Skandia Global Futures Fund, qui investit sur le marché des manages futures (d’un volume de 290 milliards de dollars).La commercialisation et la distribution de ce produit coordonné de droit irlandais, un compartiment de la sicav Skandia Global Funds, est confiée par Skandia Investment Group (SIG) au londonien Aspect Capital, un gérant spécialiste des manages futures dont l’encours au 1er octobre ressortait à 6 milliards de dollars. Le fonds démarre avec 25 millions de dollars collectés auprès de clients de SIG.En choisissant Aspect Capital comme partenaire, SIG recherche des performances comparables à celles du Diversified Programme d’Aspect Capital, la stratégie-phare d’Aspect qui est proposé à des investisseurs institutionnels avertis et qui justifie d’un historique de plus de 12 ans.CaractéristiquesDénomination : Skandia global Futures FundCodes Isin : IE00B4Z94309 (parts en livres)/IE00B6SRG396 (parts en dollars)/IE00B4P4MM04 (part retail en EUR hedgée) Commission de gestion : 2 %Commission de performance : 20 % avec high watermark
Fonds
04/11/2011

BlackRock recrute un directeur pour son équipe immobilier

BlackRock vient de recruter Paul Tebbit dans son équipe dédiée à l’immobilier au Royaume-Uni en tant que directeur. Sous la responsabilité de Jeff Morton, responsable des investissements et managing director de l’équipe immobilier de BlackRock, il aura un rôle clé dans la gestion des joint-ventures stratégiques de la société de gestion et dans l’identification de nouvelles opportunités pour le fonds UK Property Fund, qui représentait à fin septembre un encours de 2,119 milliards de livres.Précédemment, Paul Tebbit travaillait comme directeur pour Telereal Trillium, qui fait partie de William Pears Group.
04/11/2011

Polar Capital lance une stratégie European Market Neutral

Polar Capital a annoncé la nomination de Ton Tija qui aura en charge le lancement d’une stratégie European Market Neutral pour le groupe. Elle devrait plus généralement contribuer à l’enrichissement de la gamme de produits au format Ucits dans les prochains mois.Ton Tija travaillait précédemment chez Ratio Asset Management où il gérait une stratégie européenne. Polar Capital a par ailleurs annoncé le lancement d’un fonds long only dédié aux actions américaines qui sera piloté par deux gérants, Andrew Holliman et Richard Wilson, arrivés dans la société en août dernier en provenance de Threadneedle. Le Polar Capital North American fund, qui sera domicilié à Dublin comme un fonds Ucits, sera lancé le 15 novembre.
04/11/2011

Forte baisse des encours de Man Group

Les actifs sous gestion de Man Group se sont établis au 30 septembre à 64,5 milliards de dollars contre 69,1 milliards de dollars à fin mars 2011, a indiqué le groupe le 3 novembre dans son rapport intérimaire sur le semestre à fin septembre.Cette baisse des encours reflète des souscriptions de 1 milliard de dollars, des rachats de 2,5 milliards de dollars, un effet de change négatif de 1,4 milliard de dollars et d’autres mouvements pour un montant de -1,7 milliard de dollars. Les actifs sous gestion de AHL s'établissaient à fin septembre à 24,4 milliards de dollars contre 23,9 milliards à fin juin, ceux de GLG Alternatives à 16,5 milliards de dollars contre 20,2 milliards de dollars, ceux des fonds long only à 10,9 milliards contre 13,7 milliards et ceux du pôle multigestion à 12,7 milliards contre 13,2 milliards de dollars. Le groupe souligne que les rachats se sont ralentis en octobre. Les actifs sous gestion s’inscrivaient à 63,5 milliards de dollars au 31 octobre 2011. Le résultat imposable des six mois à fin septembre s’est inscrit à 154 millions de dollars contre 115 millions de dollars pour le semestre à fin mars 2011.
04/11/2011

Pioneer renforce son équipe commerciale en Europe

Julia Reher, senior institutional sales manager chez State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) à Munich, a rejoint l'équipe de distribution institutionnelle de Pioneer Investments Allemagne en tant que senior director - institutional clients. Elle sera chargée du suivi de la clientèle entreprises et fonds de pension.D’autre part, Pioneer a aussi recruté pour l’Espagne et le Portugal une nouvelle senior sales officer, Teresa Molins, qui sera l’alter ego d’Almudena Mendaza et travaillera sous la responsabilité de José Castellano, le patron des marchés ibérique, de l’Amérique du Nord (offshore) et de l’Amérique latine.Teresa Molins était auparavant chargée des relations investisseurs pour le site Internet spécialiste des mariages Bodaclick.com, après avoir été directrice des ventes obligataires chez Dresdner Kleinwort et Merrill Lynch Capital Markets.
04/11/2011

La banque privée Frick s'implante à Londres

La banque privée liechtensteinoise Frick a obtenu le feu vert des autorités britanniques pour l’ouverture d’une succursale à Londres, rapporte L’Agefi suisse. La banque veut ainsi permettre aux contribuables britanniques de légaliser les fortunes placées au niveau mondial et non soumises à l’impôt.
04/11/2011

Julius Baer se met au régime

Les membres de la direction et du conseil d’administration ainsi que certains cadres de la banque privée Julius Baer ont été priés de renoncer librement à une partie de leurs revenus. Le pourcentage demandé est de 5 à 10% du salaire net, a déclaré le 3 novembre à l’agence AWP le porte-parole de la banque, Jan Vonder Muehll.Le reste des économies de coûts proviendra de départs naturels, ainsi que du programme appelé «HR Tool Box», selon le porte-parole. Ce programme consiste en une offre que fait la banque à ses collaborateurs leur permettant de réduire leur temps de travail sous certaines conditions ou de prendre des congés non payés. Les diverses mesures d’économies ont été communiquées en interne le mois dernier. Le groupe suisse emploie quelque 3.600 personnes.
04/11/2011

Légère progression des actifs sous gestion de Pictet

Les actifs sous gestion de Pictet & Cie ont augmenté de 1% au troisième trimestre, rapporte l’agence Bloomberg. En excluant les fonds administrés, les avoirs des clients atteignaient 252 milliards de francs suisses fin septembre, contre 249,8 milliards fin juin. La banque genevoise a enregistré des souscriptions nettes de fonds en provenance de France en particulier. «Le montant global dans le wealth management est positif de manière significative», selon Jacques de Saussure, associé-gérant de la banque genevoise. En incluant les fonds administrés, les actifs des clients de la banque privée atteignent 365 milliards de francs.
04/11/2011

Création d’une agence de chasseurs de têtes pour "asset managers"

Deux anciens cadres bancaires, Robert Zimmermann et Matthias Schulthess, viennent de créer SchulthessZimmermann, une société de chasseurs de têtes basée à Zurich, rapporte L’Agefi suisse. La société, qui aura des antennes à Londres, se propose de recruter des spécialistes dans la banque privée, les marchés des capitaux, et l’asset management. Robert Zimmermann est issu de Goldman Sachs en Suisse, Matthias Schuthess d’UBS.
04/11/2011

SEB AM still hoping to reopen ImmoInvest

The German asset management firm SEB Asset Management on 3 November announced that its open-ended real estate fund SEB ImmoInvest (DE0009802306), from which redemptions have been frozen for one and a half years (see Newsmanagers of 10 May 2010), has successfully sold 10 properties for EUR680m.The properties are located in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, France and the United States, and are said to have been sold at an average of 0.5% above their current market value. The sales will increase liquidity in the fund to 21.8% of assets (EUR6.33bn as of the end of September), or EUR1.4bn. Total property sales now come to 14 properties, for over EUR910m.In these conditions, SEB AM remains confident that it will be possible to reopen the fund before the deadline of 5 May 2012, beyond which date the firm would be legally required to liquidate the product.
04/11/2011

HVB promoting a frozen real estate fund

On its website, HypoVereinsbank (HVB, UniCredit group) is recommending an investment in shares in the open-ended real estate fund CS Euroreal from Credit Suisse Germany to investors. However, Die Welt reports, redemptions from the EUR6.1bn funds are frozen.Although the bank considers that this well-managed real estate fund offers attractive prospects of returns for long-term investors, consumer defence associations in Hamburg and Bremen have called the recommendation “scandalous,” because the risks are so high. If the asset management firm does not manage to mobilise enough liquidity, the fund may have to be liquidated from May 2012.Die Welt has also pointed out that shares in the CS Euroreal fund sold by HVB generate 5% commissions for the bank, which neglects to mention to investors that they can buy shares in the fund on the stock market, currently at a 17.7% discount.
04/11/2011

Allianz offers to reimburse investors in DEGI International

Clients of Allianz Germany who subscribed to the DEGI International fund, a real estate fund whose liquidation was announced on 25 October, may be offered redemption of their shares at EUR42.78 each, under certain conditions.As of 3 November, the theoretical redemption price was EUR42.80 per share.Fondsprofessionell reports that the offer, valid until 15 February 2012, is restricted to investors who bought their shares in the fund before redemptions were frozen by Aberdeen on 17 November. The shares also need to be held in an account at Allianz Bank or Allianz Global Investors.
04/11/2011

Profits at Och-Ziff down in third quarter

Assets under management at the alternative management firm Och-Ziff Capital Management Group as of the end of September totalled USD28.8bn, compared with USD29.8bn as of 30 June 2011, and USD26.5bn as of the end of September 2010. Growth of USD2.3bn, or 9%, year on year reflects net inflows of USD1.6bn and performance-related appreciation of USD767.6m. Och-Ziff in third quarter earned profits of USD49.9m, compared with USD52.1m in third quarter 2010.
04/11/2011

Assets up at Prudential Financial

For third quarter 2011, Prudential Financial has announced net profits of USD1.5bn, compared with USD1.16bn in the corresponding period of last year. Operating profits for the asset management activity totalled USD123m, compared with USD148m in July-September 2010. Assets in the asset management division as of 30 September totalled USD599.4bn, up 16% (USD518.1bn) year on year. For the group as a whole, assets totalled USD871bn, compared with USD784bn as of the end of December, and USD750.1bn as of the end of September 2010.
04/11/2011

Schroders France poaches two from Axa IM

Schroders has recruited two former employees of Axa Investment Managers for its sales teams based in Paris. Aurore Wannesson-Raynaud, who had previously been director, senior product specialist, fixed income at Axa IM, has been appointed as head of sales for institutional clients. She will report to Mustapha Bouheraoua, director of institutional clients at Schroders France. Thomas Strievi, who had served as product specialist at AXA IM in the Invesments Solutions division, becomes head of commercial distribution. He will report to Alexandre Gabus, director of distribution at Schroders France. The recruitments, which were expected, follow a reorganisation of the sales team at Schroders in Paris (see Newsmanagers of 27 April 2011).
04/11/2011

Charles Bouaziz joins PAI Partners as a partner

PAI Partners on 3 November announced the arrival of Charles Bouaziz in the consumer goods activity based in Paris. He will oversee the Portfolio Performance Group, which is dedicated to optimising the operational performance of companies in the PAI portfolio. Bouaziz had previously been senior adviser to PAI for nearly a year. From 1991 to 2010, he was one of the major architects of growth at PepsiCo in Europe, where he began as head of the French franchise and eventually became CEO for western Europe.
04/11/2011

New German mandate for BNY Mellon Service

The largest savings bank in Hamburg, Hamburger Sparkasse, or Haspa, has awarded an institutional fund administration mandate to BNY Mellon Service KAG, to monitor investment limits on assets of EUR1.4bn. The bank becomes the eighth German client to outsource its funds administration to the German affiliate of the BNY group.
04/11/2011

Eaton Vance Management launches a multi-asset class fund

Eaton Vance Management has announced the launch of a mutual fund investing in a wide range of asset classes. The Eaton Vance Multi-Strategy All Market Fund may invest in equities, bonds, and alternative investments, allocating the fund’s assets to portfolios from Eaton Vance. The product is managed by the Eaton Vance Customized Solutions Group team, which reports to Jeffrey Rawlins and Dan Strelow. Target volatility for the Eaton Vance Multi-Strategy All Market Fund is 4% to 14% per year, a statement adds.
04/11/2011

Ashmore IM launches two funds

Ashmore Investment Management Limited, specialist manager of emerging market debt and equity securities, with assets under management of USD58.9 billion has announced the launch of the Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets Global Equity Fund and the Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets Global Small-Cap Equity Fund, which further complement its existing SICAV fixed income funds. These two new SICAV funds bring the total of equity-focused Ashmore SICAV funds to three and complement the existing Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets Fixed Income range of 13 funds, with a total of USD6.4bn of assets under management across all SICAVs. All Ashmore funds focus exclusively on emerging markets. The emerging markets fixed income strategies include external debt, local currency, local currency bond as well as corporate debt, blended debt (“total return”) and multi strategy investing. The Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets Global Equity fund will invest in equities issued by corporates and quasi-sovereigns whereas the Ashmore SICAV Emerging Markets Global Small-Cap Equity fund will invest in equities issued by small-cap corporates with a market cap of up to USD2 billion and quasi-sovereigns. The funds will be managed by AshmoreEMM, a member of the Ashmore Group.
04/11/2011

Ashmore hires a head of European third party distribution

Ashmore, the London based emerging markets asset manager, has appointed Dominick Peasley as head of European third party distribution. Reporting directly to Christoph Hofmann, Ashmore’s global head of distribution, he is based at Ashmore’s London office and responsible for establishing key relationships with retail and wholesale distributors. Dominick Peasley joins Ashmore from Goldman Sachs Asset Management where he was an Executive Director, heading UK third party distribution. This recruitment is part of the ongoing effort to complement Ashmore’s predominantly institutional business. Approximately 87% of Ashmore’s assets under management (USD58.9bn) are from institutional investors from across the globe, including central banks, sovereign wealth funds, public and corporate pensions and insurance companies.
04/11/2011

Net subscriptions to Skandia UK in January-September

Skandia UK, an affiliate of Old Mutual Wealth Management, on 3 November announced that in the first nine months of this year, it registered net subscriptions of GBP1.8bn, 5% less than in the corresponding period of 2010, while net subscriptions to retail funds in the United Kingdom overall fell by 26%.Net subscriptions for the Skandia Investment Solutions platform increased 4% year on year, to GBP2.8bn.As of the end of September, total assets at Skandia UK came to GBP32.2bn, 5% less than at the end of December 2010, while the FTSE 100 index in the same period lost 13%.
04/11/2011

BlackRock recruits a director for its real estate team

BlackRock has announced that Paul Tebbit has joined its UK Real Estate team as a director. He will take a leading role in the management of BlackRock’s strategic joint venture investments, as well as sourcing new opportunities for the UK Property Fund. He will report to Jeff Morton, head of investment and managing director in BlackRock’s Real Estate team. Most recently Paul Tebbit worked as a director for Telereal Trillium, which is part of the William Pears Group, and specialised in the origination of real estate and corporate investment opportunities, debt raising, valuation and transaction structuring.
04/11/2011

Polar Capital launches European Market Neutral strategy

Polar Capital has announced the appointment of Ton Tija, who will be in charge of launching a European Market Neutral strategy for the group. Tija will also contribute more generally to enriching the UCITS product range in the next few months. Tija previously worked at Ratio Asset Management, where he managed a European strategy. Polar Capital has also announced the launch of a long-only fund dedicated to US equities, which will be managed by two managers who arrived at the firm in August this year from Threadneedle, Andrew Holliman and Richard Wilson. The Polar Capital North American fund, which will be domiciled in Dublin as a UCITS fund, will be launched on 15 November.
04/11/2011

Steep drop in assets at Man Group

Assets under management at Man Group as of 30 September totalled USD64.5bn, compared with USD69.1bn as of the end of March 2011, the group announced in its interim report on the half year to the end of September, on 3 November. The decline in assets reflects subscriptions of USD1bn, redemptions of USD2.5bn, negative market effect of USD1.4bn, and other movements totalling -USD1.7bn. Assets under management at AHL as of the end of September totalled USD24.4bn, compared with USD23.9bn as of the end of June, while GLG Alternatives had USD16.5bn, compared with USD20.2bn, long-only funds had USD10.9bn, compared with USD13.7bn, and the multi-management unit had USD12.7bn, compared with USD13.2bn. The group emphasizes that redemptions slowed in October, Assets under management totalled USD63.5bn as of 31 October 2011. Pre-tax profits in the six months to the end of September totalled USD154m, compared with USD115m in the half-year to the end of March 2011.
04/11/2011

Pioneer scales up sales team in Germany and Iberia

Julia Reher, senior institutional sales manager at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) in Munich, has joined the institutional distribution team at Pioneer Investments Germany as senior director – institutional clients. She will be in charge of relationship management for business clients and pension funds.Pioneer has also recruited a new senior sales officer for Spain and Portugal, Teresa Molins, who will be the alter ego of Almudena Mendaza, and will report to José Castellano, head of the Iberian markets, North America (offshore) and Latin America.Molins had previously been in charge of investor relations for the wedding specialist website Bodaclick.com, after serving as director of bond sales at Dresdner Kleinwort and Merrill Lynch Capital Markets.
04/11/2011

iShares preparing diversifying products based on ETFs

Joseph Linhares, managing director, has announced that iShares is currently considering launching ETFs of equity and bond ETFs.The head of the firm for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region has revealed that the asset management firm is considering importing asset allocation solutions to Europe based on quantitative models, which would invest in ETFs without necessarily being ETFs themselves. iShares may also design products using fundamental methods, but that would probably pose both legal and industrial secrecy issues, related to timing disclosure of the composition of portfolios so as not to reveal the alpha signal too quickly. But this would be something near active management...However, Linhares is hostile to the notion of launching reverse and/or leveraged ETFs, which may be dangerous for retail investors, who find it difficult to understand the methodology and performance of these products over the long term.
04/11/2011

Frick private bank opens an office in London

The Liechtenstein private bank Frick has obtained permission from the British authorities to open an office in London, Agefi Switzerland reports. The bank is hoping to make it possible for British taxpayers to legalise their worldwide savings which are not subject to tax.
04/11/2011

Specialist headhunting agency founded in Zurich

Two former bank executives, Robert Zimmermann and Matthias Schulthess, have founded SchulthessZimmermann, a headhunting agency based in Zurich, Agefi Switzerland reports. The firm, which will have offices in London, plans to recruit specialists in private banking, capital markets, and asset management. Zimmermann comes from Goldman Sachs in Switzerland, while Schuthess comes from UBS.

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