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20/01/2011

OMAM to merge funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Old Mutual Asset Managers will merge its income funds, managed by Stephen Message, Investment Week reports. Pending approval from the FSA and shareholders, the Equity Income fund will absorb the Extra Income fund at the beginning of March, resulting in a vehicle with GBP58m in assets.
20/01/2011

Scottish Widows launches a currency fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Roddy Macpherson, investment director, currencies, is the manager of the new Currency Alpha fund, which was launched on 21 December by Scottish Widows Investment Partnership.The fund is an OEIC product focused on currencies, aimed at the “discretionary” market, meaning mainly wealth managers and multi-managers, using a quantitative model developed internally three years ago which gives good results.The capacity of the fund is limited to GBP400m, and the objective is to outperform the Libid 7-day in pounds sterling by 400 basis points, before fees. There will be a performance commission.CharacteristicsName: SWIP Currency Alpha FundISIN codes: G Acc shares: GB00B5KQZ301G Inc shares: GB00B5M00B30H shares: GB00B59V4845Front-end fee: 3.75%Management commission: 1% (H shares)0.75% (G shares)Minimal subscription: GBP10m
20/01/2011

Changing of the guard in M&G fund manager personnel

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Giles Worthington, manager of the M&G Pan European Fund (EUR363m), and Tim Short, manager of the M&G European Fund (EUR196m) and the M&G Special Situations Fund (EUR47m), are leaving the British management firm M&G Investments.Greg Alridge, manager of the M^&G Global Growth Fund, and Charles Anniss, manager of the M&G European Smaller Companies Fund (EUR123m) are appointed as co-managers of the M&G Pan-European Fund and the M&G European Fund. In addition, Anniss is taking over the M&G European Smaller Companies Fund. The M&G Special Situations Fund is now managed by Richard O’Connor, of the equities structured products team, until a decision is made about the future of the product.M&G also announced on 19 January that all of its multi-asset class funds will now be managed in a single global investment framework, developed and deployed for over 10 years by Dave Fishwick, an M&G “veteran” with more than 20 years’ seniority, who was appointed as head of macro and equities in July 2010. The framework involves the conviction that the best approach to manage a portfolio is a flexible allocation between various global asset classes which varies in response to changes in the valuation of assets as well as to economic and behavioural factors which determine these valuations.The adoption of the single framework has triggered a change in the management team. George Tsinonis, manager of the M&G Glboal Dynamic Allocation Fund, has left the business, and the fund is now managed by Juan Nevado and Tony Finding, who are longstanding members of the macro investment team. The risk profile and objectives of the fund remain unchanged.
20/01/2011

Former Sal. Oppenheim company bought out by management

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that the Zurich-based management firm 4IP has been taken over by its management. The former entity of Sal. Oppenheim Corporate Finance (Suisse) will not be involved in the transaction, as its parent is in the process of being acquired by the Italian bank Banca Leonardo. 4IP advises institutional or family investors in indirect real estate investments, i.e., investments not in real estate properties, but in real estate funds or realty companies, for example.
20/01/2011

Allianz GI adds to one of its sales teams

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The external distribution sales team at AllianzGI France (AGI France) on Wednesday, 19 January announced that it has added to its sales team, led by Marie Fortez. Marielle Garandet and Olivier Taek join Pierre Marion, who has been a member of the team since July 2010. The recruitments will aim to intensify coverage of the French and Monaco markets by the firm, which since 1 January has also put the team in charge of development on the Luxembourg market, a statement says. Previously, Garandet, who joined Allianz Global Investors in London in 2007, was an external distribution sales specialist. Taek, for his part, joined Allianz Global Investors France in 2007, and served in a series of positions in the areas of calls for bids and institutional product marketing. Marion joined the external distribution team at Allianz Global Investors France in July 2010.
20/01/2011

OFI launches OFI Investment Solutions

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }The OFIgroup on Wednesday, 19 January announced the launch of OFI InvestmentSolutions (OIS), a new services activity aimed at institutionalinvestors, corporates and family offices, in the area of financialproduct structuring. OFI Investment Solutions is organised as an“in-house” team, led by Guillaume Launay, and offers thefollowing services:investmentadvising, restructuring and divestmentsearchfor investment solutions via structured productscounter-valuationand reporting of positionsreceptionand transmission of ordersoriginationadvising
20/01/2011

Profits and assets down at Goldman Sachs

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Last year, Goldman Sachs earned net profits of USD8.35bn, compared with USD13.38bn in 2009.Assets under management at the firm fell 4% over 12 months, to total USD840bn as of the end of December, of which USD208bn (-21%) were in money market funds, USD340bn (+8%) in bond funds, USD144bn (-1%) in equities funds, and USD148bn (+1%) in hedge funds.Revenue from asset management increased 9% to USD5.01bn.
20/01/2011

BNY Mellon posts record assets at the end of December

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } For the year 2010, BNY Mellon has announced net profits of USD2.58bn, compared with losses of USD1.1bn in the previous year.As of the end of December, the group had record assets, both under custody and administration and under management. Assets under custody and administration totalled USD25trn, 25% higher than at the end of September and 12% higher than one year previously. Most of the increase in annual terms reflects the acquisition of Global Investment Servicing (GIS) on 1 July, and of BHF Asset Servicing on 2 August.Assets under management, excluding securities lending, as of the end of December totalled USD1.17trn, 3% higher than three months previously, and 5% higher than 31 December 2009.Accounts at BNY Mellon also show that revenues from asset and wealth management commissions totalled USD2.87bn in 2010, compared with USD2.68bn the previous year.
20/01/2011

LCF Rothschild “is doing reasonably well”

Michel Cicurel, chairman of the board at La Compagnie financière Edmond de Rothschild (LCF Rothschild) on 19 January announced that “the bank is doing well and has returned to its pre-crisis levels.” Total assets topped EUR100bn. Assets in Paris now total over EUR37.6bn as of the end of December, (“a little on the light side of” EUR40bn), compared with EUR33.7bn one year previously (see Newsmanagers of 15 January 2010).Profits for 2010, even with a highly prudent accounting approach, “will be higher than the EUR51m earned in 2008, but lower than the EUR105.3m earned in 2007.” In 2009, profits totalled “slightly under half” of the 2008 profits.Private banking activities posted a net inflow of EUR900m, and assets have increased 11%, to EUR12.6bn, largely due to deployment in the provinces.Asset management, which has gained a lot of momentum internationally, and which is planning to enter new international markets this year, has assets of EUR25bn, of which EUR14bn (+16%) are at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management (EDRAM), with net subscriptions of EUR900m, while Edmond de Rothschild Investment Managers (EDRIM) has EUR9bn, with net inflows of EUR600m, excluding money markets.The private equity unit, with four dedicated affiliates, has assets of EUR1.9bn.
20/01/2011

Mobius considers a hedge fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi reports that Mark Mobius, the star emerging markets manager at Franklin Templeton, has told Reuters that he is considering launching a hedge fund at the traditional asset management firm.
20/01/2011

Robeco transfers management of four funds to SAM

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Swiss SRI management firm Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) on 19 January announced that its Dutch parent company, Robeco, has transferred the management of the Luxembourg funds Robeco Agribusiness Equities (EUR144.8m) and Robeco European Equities (EUR439.8m), which are changing prefixes to adopt the SAM name.The management of the two products, with 40-60 positions each, will become “even more sustainable” upon their transfer to Zurich. The first of the two funds, with a TER of 1.63%, will now be managed by Martin Jochum, while the second (which charges 1.47%) will be managed by Kai Fachinger.On 18 January, Robeco also transferred the management of the Robeco European Stars fund (EUR22m) and the Robeco European Midcaps (EUR142m).
20/01/2011

Hedge fund assets near all-time high

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that a report published on 19 January by Hedge Fund Research shows that the value of assets held by hedge funds rose unprecedentedly in fourth quarter 2010, to USD1.917trn, not far off its all-time record of USD1.93trn in second quarter 2008. 2010 ended with the highest quarterly increase ever observed for assets held by the hedge fund industry, at nearly USD149bn, according to figures from HFR. For the year as a whole, inflows of new capital to the hedge fund sector totalled USD55.5bn, the highest annual total since 2007, the firm says.
20/01/2011

Premier closing pour D&PV

Le fonds d’investissement D&P a réalisé le premier closing à près de 46 millions d’euros de son cinquième et nouveau véhicule, D&P V. Ce montant est conforme aux objectifs fixés par l’équipe de gestion au début de la levée de fonds qui devrait atteindre la somme de 150 millions d’euros d’ici fin 2012. Les tickets d’investissement seront compris entre 3 et 4,5 millions d’euros et devraient augmenter graduellement.
20/01/2011

Les actifs des hedge funds en forte croissance

Selon Hedge Fund Research, les actifs des fonds alternatifs ont progressé de 149 milliards de dollars au quatrième trimestre, à un niveau record de 1.917 milliards de dollars.
20/01/2011

Fitch confirme le triple A de la CDC

L’agence de notation a confirmé à «AAA» la note de défaut émetteur (Issuer Default Rating - IDR) à long terme de la Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations et sa note IDR à court terme à «F1+». La perspective de la note IDR à long terme est stable. Les notes sont fondées sur le bénéfice de la garantie implicite de l’Etat qui, selon Fitch, s’étend à l’ensemble des engagements financiers de la CDC.
20/01/2011

Paulson et Starwood enchérissent sur Taylor Morrisson

Selon Reuters, le constructeur immobilier britannique Taylor Wimpey a reçu au moins trois offres pour ses activités nord-américaines, pour un montant susceptible d’atteindre 950 millions de dollars. Le hedge fund Rain Tree Investment de John Paulson, Starwood Capital Group et un constructeur américain ont soumis des offres pour ces actifs connus sous le nom de Taylor Morrisson aux Etats-Unis.
20/01/2011

BNP Paribas REIM poursuit ses investissements

Le prestataire de services immobiliers a acquis pour environ 80 millions d’euros d’ensembles immobiliers de commerce au cours du quatrième trimestre pour le compte de Shopping Property Fund 1, la SPPICAV (Société à Prépondérance Immobilière à Capital Variable) dédiée au secteur du commerce. Après un an d’existence, le véhicule disposait en fin d’année de plus de 200 baux répartis sur une cinquantaine d’immeubles, pour une valorisation globale d’environ 220 millions d’euros.
20/01/2011

Un hedge fund pour Templeton

Mark Mobius, gérant vedette de Franklin Templeton sur les marchés émergents, a fait savoir à Reuters qu’il envisageait de lancer un fonds alternatif au sein du gestionnaire d’actifs traditionnel, sans donner davantage de détails sur son projet.
20/01/2011

LCF Rothschild efface la crise

La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild a «retrouvé des taux de croissance d’avant-crise», selon Michel Cicurel, président du directoire. La société, dont les encours ont crû de 11% à 37,6 milliards d’euros en 2010, vise une collecte nette supérieure à 2,5 milliards en 2011.
20/01/2011

La Corée du Nord séduit la Chine

Les investissements chinois sont partout. Le quotidien américain évoque la signature d’une lettre d’intention de la part d’une société chinoise, Shangdi Guanqun Investment, qui serait disposée à investir deux milliards de dollars au sein d’une zone industrielle nord-coréenne. Il s’agirait de développer les infrastructures dans la zone économique spéciale de Rason, proche de la frontière russe.

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