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30/09/2011
Fonds

Federal Finance lance un fonds à formule à capital garanti

La société de gestion Federal Finance, filiale du groupe Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, annonce le lancement du fonds à formule à capital garanti à l’échéance du 29 novembre 2019, baptisé Stereo 4/8. Deux scenarii de remboursement sont possibles, conditionnés par l’évolution de l’indice Euro Stoxx 50. A 4 ans, si l’indice a progressé d’au moins 15 % entre le 29 novembre 2011 et le 30 novembre 2015, le fonds offre une performance unique de 28% du capital net investi, soit un taux de rendement actuariel annualisé de 6,36%, versée par anticipation le 30 novembre 2015. A 8 ans, si la condition de remboursement anticipé n’a pas été réalisée au 30 novembre 2015, les souscripteurs bénéficieront, à l’échéance du 29 novembre 2019, de la performance moyenne de l’Euro Stoxx 50 constatée trimestriellement à partir du 29 novembre 2011.Les porteurs détenant des parts sur la valeur liquidative du 29 novembre 2011 et les conservant jusqu’à l’échéance du 29 novembre 2019 bénéficieront du remboursement à 100% de leur capital net investi, précise Federal Finance.Caractéristiques : Code ISIN : FR0011082965Forme juridique : FCP de droit françaisCadre fiscal : Compte-titres, PERP et assurance-vie (y compris Fourgous)Période de commercialisation : 26 septembre 2011 au 29 novembre 2011, 26 novembre 2011 pour l’assurance-vie et le PERP.Durée de la formule : 8 ans
Fonds
30/09/2011

KKR et BlackRock convoitent Axa PE

Selon le Financial Times, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts et BlackRock sont intéressés par un rachat d’Axa Private Equity. Ils font partie d’une poignée de candidats potentiels à qui on a demandé de soumettre une première offre la semaine prochaine, d’après des personnes proches du dossier.
30/09/2011
Fonds

Le FSI ne travaille pas sur le dossier Axa PE

Selon L’Agefi, le Fonds stratégique d’investissement (FSI) a indiqué, jeudi 29 septembre, qu’il n’envisageait pas un rachat d’Axa Private Equity, la filiale de capital investissement que l’assureur français vient de mettre en vente. La Tribune mentionnait dans son édition de jeudi un possible intérêt du fonds souverain français, précise l’Agefi .
Fonds
30/09/2011
Fonds

Cobepa et BeCapital ensemble dans le capital développement

L’Agefi rapporte que BeCapital a bouclé son fonds de capital-développement dédié aux entreprises «éco-innovantes» à hauteur de 150 millions d’euros (au lieu des 100 visés à l’origine). L’initiative est issue du partenariat entre Cobepa, ex-société de capital-développement de BNP Paribas en Belgique, qui investit 30 millions d’euros dans ce nouveau fonds, le cabinet de conseil en stratégie environnementale BeCitizen, qui apporte son expertise, et La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild (CBR), pour 15 millions. Hormis un fonds de pension, le solde provient d’une trentaine de grandes familles industrielles européennes.
Fonds
30/09/2011

La dette italienne met sous pression les notes des banques françaises

Fitch note que plusieurs facteurs exercent une certaine pression sur les notes de crédit des banques françaises, rapporte L’Agefi. Outre les inquiétudes sur leur capital et leur liquidité, il est question de leur exposition aux pays du Sud de l’Europe, notamment à la dette italienne, résume l’agence dans une note.La dette transalpine représente un tiers (47,7 milliards d’euros) de l’exposition des banques françaises aux GIIPS (Grèce, Irlande, Italie, Portugal et Espagne) et BNP Paribas en détient à elle seule près de la moitié (22,8 milliards), soit 40% de son capital «dur», calculé par Fitch, précise le quotidien. «Le moindre problème avec la dette souveraine ou une récession majeure en Italie serait plus inquiétant», explique l’agence.
30/09/2011
Fonds

HSBC lance trois fonds de fonds à bas coûts

HSBC va lancer trois fonds de fonds à bas coûts au cours des quatre à six prochains semaines, rapporte Money Marketing.Les trois fonds utiliseront des fonds passifs sélectionnés dans sa gamme mais aussi à l’extérieur. La tarification de ces fonds sera structurée comme celle des fonds low cost de Fidelity Worldwide Investment, avec une commission de gestion de 0,5% par an mais pas de plafond pour le total des frais sur encours (TFE ou TER).
Fonds
30/09/2011

Rob Hall promu responsable de la multigestion de Schroders

Schroders vient de promouvoir Rob Hall en tant que responsable de la multigestion, sous la responsabilité de Johanna Kyrklund, responsable des investissements multi-actifs.Rob Hall avait rejoint Schroders en mars 2011, en provenance de Russell, en tant que responsable de la sélection de gérants. Il continuera à exercer ces fonctions tout en assumant de sucroît des responsabilités de gestion de portefeuilles et de service clients. Ainsi, il cogérera les trois fonds multigérés du groupe - Schroders Cautious Managed, Schroders Strategic Balanced et Schroders High Alpha Funds – aux côtés de Jane Turner, qui contribue à la gestion de ces fonds depuis 2005.Ces changements font suite à la refonte de l’équipe multi-actifs de Schroders en mars dernier, fruit de la fusion des équipes multi-manager et multi-asset. Cette équipe se compose de 70 professionnels de l’investissement dans le monde et gère 35 milliards de livres.
30/09/2011
Fonds

Lloyd George envisage une version Ucits de son fonds de marchés frontières

La boutique de gestion Lloyd George Management, filiale de BMO Asset Management, a indiqué vouloir proposer une version Ucits IV de son fonds d’actions dédié aux marchés frontières lancé début septembre (NewsManagers du 27 septembre), rapporte Citywire.Le fonds domicilié à Dublin devrait être lancé dans les toutes prochaines semaines. La version britannique du fonds sera pilotée par Thomas Vester Nielsen, récemment recruté.
Fonds
30/09/2011

Le fonds de pension taïwanais lance un appel d'offre

Le fonds de pension taïwanais PSPF lance un appel d’offre à destination des sociétés de gestion pour trois mandats de global fixed income totalisant 450 millions de dollars. Pour le moment, la gestion des mandats de ce type se font en interne, précise Asian Investor. Les candidatures doivent être déposées avant le 26 octobre.
30/09/2011

Nouveau responsable pays pour la Suisse chez BlackRock

BlackRock a nommé Martin Gut au poste de «Country Head» pour la Suisse à compter du 1er octobre 2011. Il succède à Heinz Rothacher, selon un communiqué publié le 29 septembre. Martin Gut s’occupe d’ores et déjà des activités institutionnelles de BlackRock en Suisse.Martin Gut travaillait précédemment au Credit Suisse, où il dirigeait l'équipe s’occupant des gros investisseurs institutionnels. Dans ses nouvelles fonctions, il sera aussi membre de l’EMEA Leadership Committee (Europe, Moyen-Orient et Afrique).
30/09/2011

Julius Bär va supprimer 150 emplois dans le monde

Dans le cadre de ses efforts d'économies, Julius Bär va supprimer environ 150 emplois dans le monde, selon un porte-parole de la banque cité par la «Neue Zürcher Zeitung». La direction mise surtout sur les fluctuations naturelles, mais des licenciements ne sont pas exclus, selon le quotidien de Zurich.Le porte-parole n’a pas voulu préciser quel sera le montant des économies ainsi réalisées. Des collaborateurs de toutes les régions seront touchés, y compris à Singapour et Hong Kong. Le journal précise que les suppressions concerneront surtout le Private Banking et l’Investment Solutions, alors que «Markets and Custody» devrait être plutôt épargné. Au milieu de cette année, Julius Bär employait environ 3700 collaborateurs en équivalent plein temps.
30/09/2011

Pimco veut développer ses activités de gestion alternative

Pacific Investment Management (Pimco, groupe Allianz) a nommé Jennifer Bridwell en qualité de responsable du développement des produits alternatifs, rapporte Bloomberg.Jennifer Bridwell était précédemment responsable des stratégies hypothécaires. Cette nomination illustre la volonté de Pimco de développer ses activités dans les hedge funds et la dette distressed au sein d’un nouveau pôle alternatif qui sera dirigé par Jennifer Bridwell.
30/09/2011

Pimco plans to develop alternative management activities

Pacific Investment Management (Pimco, Allianz group) has appointed Jennifer Bridwell as head of development for alternative products, Bloomberg reports. Bridwell had previously been head of mortgage strategies. The appointment is a sign of Pimco’s desire to develop its activities in hedge funds and distressed debt in a new alternative management unit which will be led by Bridwell.
30/09/2011

OFI AM appoints a new head of projects for Asia

Following the departure of Haiyan Li-Labbé to Carmignac Gestion (see Newsmanagers of 28 September 2011), OFI Asset Management has appointed a new head for its Asian projects. According to information obtained by Newsmanagers, the new head of Xinghang Li, who previously worked with Li-Labbé at ADI Alternative Investments. Like Li-Labbé, Li will be responsible for investment and development projects of the OFI group in Asia, and will lead the management team specialised in Asian markets. He will also manage the Luxembourg-registered SIF fund from OFI AM specialised in China, which invests in local Chinese equities (A-class shares) and is aimed at institutional investors, in cooperation with manager-analysts at Great Wall Fund Management (see Newsmanagers of 7 January 2011).
30/09/2011

KKR and BlackRock woo Axa PE

The Financial Times reports that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and BlackRock are interested in acquiring Axa Private Equity. They are two of several candidates who have been asked to submit an initial offer next week, according to sources familiar with the matter.
30/09/2011

European finance industry highly concerned about FATCA legislation

The FATCA law (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) appears to be attracting a lot of attention worldwide already, particularly in Europe. According to a survey by RBC Dexia Investor Services, only 26% of financial companies surveyed had little or no knowledge of the legislation, which was passed last year, but about which few details are known so far. The survey finds that European financial institutions appear to attach a particularly high importance to the FATCA law, with 86% of respondents familiar with it. Despite questions which remain about the legislation, institutions which know about the law are actively preparing for it. The cost of application for the law is estimated at about USD1m. At the annual conference of the Luxembourg Investment Fund Association (ALFI), held on 27 and 28 September in Luxembourg, the president of the American financial management association (ICI), Paul Scott Stevens, expressed some reservations about the potential impact of the law. “We understand the concerns of foreign actors on this subject. But I don’t think the law can be substantially amended,” Stevens says. “I therefore think that we need to set up a functional framework.” After all, he concludes, “tax evasion is a subject which is not limited to the US tax authorities. Tax evasion is a concern for many authorities worldwide.”
30/09/2011

Financial innovation and ETFs under the eye of ESMA

ETFs remain of central concern for the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA). “Activities such as securities lending, or specific forms of ETFs, such as synthetic ETFs, require more attention from the point of view of financial stability,” ESMA’s chairman, Steven Maijoor, said in a speech in Vienna on 29 September. Maijoor says that ESMA is planning to launch a consultation on proposals for legislation of ETFs and UCITS funds by the end of this year, with the primary objective of improving the transparency of these products. The ESMA chairman also stated that a permanent financial innovation committee (FISC) has been recently created, and will play a central preventative role in the area of financial products.
30/09/2011

Taiwan pension fund launches a call for proposals for bond mandates

The Taiwan pension fund PSPF is launching a call for proposals from asset management firms for three global fixed income mandates, totalling USD450m. Previously, management of mandates of this type had been undertaken internally, Asian Investor reports. Applications must be submitted by 26 October.
30/09/2011

Lloyd George plans a UCITS-compliant version of its frontier markets fund

The asset management boutique Lloyd George Management, an affiliate of BMO Asset Management, has announced plans to offer a UCITS IV-compliant version of its equities fund dedicated to frontier markets, launched in early September (see Newsmanagers of 27 September), Citywire reports. The Dublin-domiciled fund would be launched in the next few weeks. The British version of the fund will be managed by Thomas Vester Nielsen, who has recently been recruited by the firm.
30/09/2011

Rob Hall becomes head of multi-manager at Schroders

Schroders has appointed Rob Hall as head of multi-manager, reporting to Johanna Kyrklund, head of multi-asset investments. He joined Schroders in March 2011 in the position of head of manager selection. In his new capacity as head of multi-manager, Rob Hall will continue to be head of manager selection while taking on additional responsibilities for portfolio management and client service. As a result, he will co-manage the three multi-manager funds: Schroders Cautious Managed, Schroders Strategic Balanced and Schroders High Alpha Funds, alongside fund manager, Jane Turner, who has been involved in managing the funds since 2005. The changes follow the restructuring of Schroders GBP35bn multi-asset team in March this year, which saw the multi-manager team combined with the multi-asset team under the direction of Johanna Kyrklund. The team now consists of 70 investment professionals globally.
30/09/2011

F&C makes further recruitment for emerging markets debt team

F&C Investments has recruited Peter Svoboda as a product specialist in its emerging market debt team. He is set to join F&C in November and will report to Jonathan Mann, the new head of emerging market debt, following Helene Williamson’s departure.Peter Svoboda joins F&C from Vienna‐based Erste Group where he has worked since 2005. Recently he was promoted to head of sales and marketing for the group’s private banking channel.
30/09/2011

State Street recruits a head for client relationships in Italy

Marietta Cisari has joined State Street as head of client relationships for Italy and southern Europe in the Global Relationship Management Team. She will be based in Milan, and will report to Thomas Bergenroth, CEO and global head of the Global Relationship Management team at State Street. Before joining State Street, Cisari spent six years at BNY Mellon in London, where she was head of key accounts for the EMEA region, covering investment banks, insurers, fund managers, large corporations, and banks.
30/09/2011

Swisscanto forms a partnership with Allfunds in Italy

Swisscanto Asset Management International has formed a partnership with Allfunds Bank, by the terms of which the platform will distribute the 23 funds of the Swiss group registered for sale in Italy, Bluerating reports. The firm of the Swisscanto group, which has been present in Italy since September 2010, will also soon be converting its Italian representative office into a branch office, once it obtains permission from the Bank of Italy.
30/09/2011

Etica Sgr has a new major investor

According to information obtained by Bluerating, the Italian regional bank Banca Popolare dell’Emilia Romagna has entered the capital of the small asset management firm specialised in socially responsible investment Etica Sgr. The bank is reported to have invested EUR500,000.
30/09/2011

OMAM releases a hedge fund on Lyxor UCITS platform

Lyxor Asset Management and Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) are launching the first single hedge fund manager on the UCITS Lyxor Dimension Platform. The Lyxor/Old Mutual Global Statistical Arbitrage Strategy Index Fund offers exposure to a pure alpha strategy managed by Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK).Paul Simpson, head of systematic investments and senior portfolio manager at Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) commented: “Our strategy is a quantitative equity market neutral model exploiting short term pricing opportunities and actively trading large capitalisation equities.” This investment process has been in place since 2007 at Old Mutual. “It is the first time we are implementing it in a UCITS vehicle,” adds Paul Simpson. Launched in 2009, Lyxor Dimension offers investors access to a variety of alternative strategies and themes in a UCITS format. It complements Lyxor’s established offshore managed account platform and consists of more than 10 multimanager funds and one absolute return program. Old Mutual will be the first single hedge fund manager on the platform and Lyxor plans to launch more UCITS hedge funds in the coming months.
30/09/2011

GAM launches an Asean fund

GAM launches GAM Star Emerging Asia Equity, a fund which aims to access the potential of ASEAN markets. The fund, managed by Michael Lai, investment director with Camille Vergara, investment manager, invests in quoted securities in ASEAN markets, primarily Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, with opportunistic allocations to companies in other ASEAN markets, as well as other emerging Asian countries outside China. This results in a high conviction portfolio of 35-45 stocks focused on mid-cap, under researched, overlooked and mispriced companies. The fund seeks to outperform the MSCI AC South East Asia index over the long-term and is authorised for sale in Austria, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Macau, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
30/09/2011

German institutional investors' preferences on bond markets have changed

An annual survey by Feri EuroRating Services has found that nearly 80% of 152 institutional investors surveyed consider bonds a preferred asset class. However, the structure of bond portfolios has been altered compared with previous years, due to low interest rates and the fact that government bonds from industrialised countries are no longer risk-free assets. Portfolios have recently taken on more corporate and emerging market bonds.Asset managers with the necessary resources in research, analysis and portfolio management in these segments are well-regarded by institutional investors, particularly if they also have local expertise on the markets. Feri finds that Swiss & Global Asset Management and HSBC Asset Management in particular have seen a considerable rise in their reputations.In terms of quality of service, managers who offer custom services have scored points, with the Swiss firm Sarasin in particularl scoring very high satisfaction marks from investors. Among the Master KAG vehicles to which institutionals outsource centralised administration of their externally-managed investments, BayernInvest, Helaba Invest and Universal Investment got the highest ratings.
30/09/2011

ABN Amro acquires LGT Bank Deutschland

The German private bank Delbrück Bethmann Maffei (ABN Amro group) will acquire a 100% stake in LGT Bank Deutschland for an undisclosed amount.Pending approval from the Cartels Office and BaFin, the deal should be closed by the end of this year.The two entities have also signed a cooperation agreement in the area of products, by which clients of Delbrück Bethmann Maffei will have access to the expertise and investment support of Liechtenstein’s LGT (CHF88.1bn in assets).
30/09/2011

BVI elects a new board

The AGM of the BVI association of German asset management firms on 29 September elected a new board for the next three years. The elected board then re-elected Thomas Neiße, who is also chairman of the executive board at Deka Investment, as its president.Four new members were elected to the board: Georg Allendorf (RREEF, Deutsche Bank group), Holger Nauman (DWS, Deutsche Bank group), Tobias C. Pross (Allianz Global Investors) and Axenander Schindler (Union Asset Management Holding). They replace Oliver Clasen (Allianz Global Investors), Klaus Kaldemorgen (DWS) and Götz Kirchhoff (Avana Invest).Four board members were re-elected. They are Dirk Klee (BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland), Barbara Knoflach (SEB Asset Management), Karl Stäcker (Frankfurt Trust, BHF Bank group) and Bernd Vorbeck (Union Investment Gesellschaft).
30/09/2011

Oliver Bilal joins executive board at Pioneer Germany

Oliver Bilal, who joined Pioneer Investments Germany in March from Allianz Global Investors (see Newsmanagers of 11 March 2011), has been appointed to the executive board at the asset management firm. He had previously been central director. In his new role, Bilal will be in charge of marketing, in addition to his previously responsibilities for institutional and wholesale distribution for Pioneer Investments in Germany.

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