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08/11/2010

UBS recrute trois personnes de la banque privée de J.P. Morgan

UBS a recruté trois collaborateurs de la banque privée de J.P. Morgan afin de renforcer son offre de gestion de fortune en Asie, rapporte FinanceAsia. Elan Cohen devient managing director ; Rizvan Baig est nommé directeur exécutif ; et Matthew Peh est désigné directeur associé.
08/11/2010
Fonds

Prorogation du gel des remboursements pour les DEGI International et Global Business

Aberdeen Immobilien KAG a annoncé le 5 novembre que la suspension des rachats des fonds immobiliers DEGI International (offert au public, 17 milliard d’euros) et Global Business (institutionnel, 0,3 milliard d’euros) est allongée de 12 mois jusqu’au 16 et 11 novembre 2011 respectivement. Dans les deux cas, la liquidité disponible est insuffisante pour faire face aux demandes prévisibles ou annoncées de remboursements.Le gestionnaire précise qu’il mène «intensivement» des négociations pour vendre des actifs et se procurer les liquidités nécessaires à une reprise des remboursements, mais que l’amélioration du marché de l’immobilier est encore trop fragile pour permettre des cessions avant le courant de l’année prochaine. D’autant que l’objectif est de vendre à des prix adéquats. On se souvient que la société de gestion a été obligée récemment de décider la liquidation sur trois ans du DEGI Europa (lire notre article du 25 octobre) faute d’avoir pu revendre suffisamment d’actifs pour faire face aux demandes de rachat concernant ce fonds de 1,3 milliard d’euros.Aberdeen Immobilien souligne que le taux de remplissage des immeubles du portefeuille se situe à 97 % pour le DEGI International et à 93 % pour le DEGI Global Business, ce qui témoigne de la bonne qualité du portefeuille.
Fonds
08/11/2010

GOAM recrute chez Oppenheim

Thomas Olbrich, gérant de portefeuille senior pour les taux chez Oppenheim KAG où il avait la responsabilité de plusieurs fonds obligataires offerts au public ou institutionnels, a rejoint Gothaer Asset Management (GOAM) comme gérant de portefeuille senior. Il sera chargé de la poche dérivés de taux pour les fonds offerts au public de GOAM ainsi que pour les investissements de l’assureur Gothaer Versicherung.
08/11/2010

LGT reste seul en lice pour acheter la BHF

Selon les milieux financiers, la banque privée Lampe (groupe Oetker) a jeté l'éponge peu avant la date limite (vendredi 5 novembre) fixée par la Deutsche Bank pour le dépôt d’une offre ferme pour l’acquisition de la BHF-Bank (1.500 salariés, 40 milliards d’euros d’encours), rapporte la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. On ne sait pour l’instant quelle sera l’attitude du capital-investisseur KKR, qui faisait équipe avec Lampe et qui était censé fournir le plus gros du financement.En tout cas, il semble que les autres candidats repreneurs (Hinduja et Apollo) aient également renoncé, de sorte que seule la LGT-Bank reste en lice. Il semble toutefois que la banque de la famille princière du Liechtenstein soit uniquement intéressée par la gestion d’actifs et la gestion de fortune de la BHF et non par ses activités de banque des entreprises et de négoce pour compte propre.
08/11/2010
Fonds

Lancement d’un premier ETF sur l’or physique à Hong Kong

Hedgeweek a assisté au lancement du Value Gold ETF (3081 HK) à la Bourse de Hong Kong. Il s’agit du premier ETF or physique au monde où le sous-jacent est stocké à Hong Kong et non dans des endroits comme Zurich. C’est aussi le deuxième ETF à avoir été lancé par Sensible Asset Management Hong Kong, une joint venture entre Value Partners Group et Ping An.
Fonds
08/11/2010

Augmentation du bénéfice de Renta 4

Dans une notification à la CNMV, Renta 4 indique que son bénéfice net pour les neuf premiers mois de l’année s’est accru de 9,1 % sur la période correspondante de l’an dernier, à 5,1 millions, pour un chiffre d’affaires en hausse de 9,8 % à 45,3 millions d’euros.L’augmentation de l’encours observée les mois précédents s’est poursuivie, de sorte que les actifs sous gestion ou administration au 30 septembre dépassaient 5,09 milliards d’euros, grâce à des souscriptions nettes de 293 millions depuis le début de l’année.
08/11/2010
Fonds

Man Group vend un fonds aux particuliers à Singapour

Man Group a décidé d’entamer la commercialisation de Man AHL Trend Fund à des investisseurs particuliers à Singapour, rapporte hedgeweek. Il s’agit d’une première pour la société de hedge funds. A noter que Man AHL Trend Fund est un OPCVM coordonné européen (Ucits III).
Fonds
08/11/2010

State Street remporte un mandat au Canada

State Street Corporation a été sélectionné par la Commission de la sécurité professionnelle et de l’assurance contre les accidents du travail (CSPAAT) au Canada pour fournir des services d’investissement pour ses fonds de pension, fonds pour perte de revenu de retraite et fonds d’assurance totalisant 15 milliards de dollars canadiens d’actifs.La Commission de la sécurité professionnelle et de l’assurance contre les accidents du travail administre le régime d’assurance pour les employeurs et les travailleurs de l’Ontario, et supervise le système d’éducation et de formation de la province en matière de sécurité du travail. State Street fournira pour les trois fonds des services de garde, de comptabilité, et de prêt de titres ainsi que des services d’analyse des investissements, indique un communiqué.
08/11/2010

"La distribution des produits financiers en Europe est archaïque"

Dans un entretien exclusif donné à Newsmanagers, Jean-Baptiste de Franssu revient sur les grands chantiers qui animent l'association européenne qu'il préside. De l'harmonisation de la distribution des OPCVM à la problématique des retraites, le responsable de l'Efama fait un point sans complaisance sur ce qu'il reste à faire et sur les pierres d'achoppement aussi. Il n'oublie pas pour autant de signaler les expériences convaincantes menées par des autorités de tutelle locales et rappelle également les atouts dont dipose la France dans l'univers de la gestion d'actifs.
08/11/2010

LVAM recrute chez SVM Asset Management

Au 1er novembre, LV= Asset Management (LVAM) a recruté Liz Adnitt comme investment sales director. Elle était depuis quatre ans chez SVN Asset Management où elle avait la responsabilité des clients discrétionnaires et intermédiaires pour Londres et la région Sud-Est de l’Angleterre. Elle se concentrera sur la clientèle discrétionnaire de la région londonienne, sous la direction de Matthew Wright, head of sales.Ce recrutement fait suite à ceux, en octobre, de Ben Rumary, investment sales manager pour Londres et le Sud de l’Angleterre, et de Roland Bagnall comme sales support executive.
08/11/2010
Fonds

Martin Currie lance un fonds Amérique latine

Martin Currie vient d’ouvrir son nouveau fonds Amérique latine aux investisseurs britanniques. Le Martin Currie Latin America Fund est géré par Jeff Casson, qui était le gérant principal entre 2006 et 2010 du OEIC Amérique latine de Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (Swip).Ce nouveau fonds de convictions sera investi sur 35 à 55 actions représentant les meilleures idées du gérant. Ce dernier n’a pas de contraintes géographiques, ni sectorielles, et utilise une stratégie multi-capitalisations, orientée sur la croissance avec une gestion «bottom-up» . Le fonds se focalisera sur le Brésil, le Mexique, le Chili, la Colombie, le Pérou et l’Argentine.L’investissement minimal est de 1.000 livres pour la part retail et de 1.000.000 livres pour la part institutionnelle. Les frais de gestion annuels sont de 1,5 % pour la part retail et de 1 % pour la seconde. Les frais d’entrée ressortent à 5 %.
Fonds
08/11/2010

Redemption freeze extended for DEGI Europa and Global Business

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Aberdeen Immobilien KAG announced on 5 November that its suspension of redemptions from the real estate funds DEGI International (open-ended, EUR17bn) and Global Business (institutional, EUR0.3bn) have been extended for a further 12 months, until 16 and 11 November 2011, respectively. In both cases, the available liquidity is not enought to meet expected or announced redemptions. The asset manager says that it will be “intensively” pursuing negotiations to sell properties in order to get the necessary liquidity to open the funds to redemptions again, but that improvement in the real estate market is still too fragile to permit sales before next year. The objective is to sell at adequate prices. The asset management firm was also recently obliged to announce a liquidation of the DEGI Europa fund over three years (see Newsmanagers of 25 October) due to inability to sell enough properties to keep up with redemption demands for the EUR1.3bn fund. Aberdeen Immobilien says that the occupancy rate for properties in the portfolio is 97% for the DEGI International and 93% for the DEGI Global Business, which is a sign of the good quality of the portfolio.
08/11/2010

LVAM recruits a director from SVM

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As of 1 November, LV= Asset Management (LVAM) has recruited Liz Adnitt as investment sales director. She had spent four years at SVN Asset Management, where she was in charge of discretionary and intermediated clients for the London and South-East England regions. She will concentrate on discretionary clients in the London region, and will report to Matthew Wright, head of sales. The recruitment follows those of Ben Rumary, investment sales manager for London and South-East England, and Roland Bagnall as sales support executive, in October.
08/11/2010

Strong net subscriptions for John Hancock

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In its quarterly report, the Canadian firm Manulife has announced that net subscriptions to mutual funds from John Hancock in the United States totalled Usd2.3bn in third quarter, and USD7.2bn in the first nine months of the year, topping the total for 2009. As of 30 September, assets in these funds totalled USD31.6bn, 23% more than one year earlier.
08/11/2010

Operating profits up at Berkshire Hathaway

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In third quarter 2010, Berkshire Hathaway, the firm controlled by Warren Buffett, saw a decline in its net profits to USD2.99bn, down from USD3.24bn in the corresponding period of last year, which still allowed the total for the first nine months of the year to increase to USD8.08bn, from USD5.54bn. Operating profits, for their part, increased to USD2.79bn in July-September, compared with USD2.05bn in third quarter 2009, putting profits for January-September at USD8.08bn, compared with USD5.54bn. Currency effects due to a weak US dollar and low interest rates provoked losses on the derivatives portfolio, which were partly offset by positive effects of the integration of Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), which contributed USD706m in profits in July-September (and USD1.56bn since its consolidation in February). Losses on derivatives represented USD95m for third quarter, and USD1.24bn in January-September.
08/11/2010

MatlinPatterson recruits a team from KeyCorp

MatlinPatterson, a USD9bn asset management firm specialising in distressed assets, is hiring a credit investment team which used to work for KeyCorp, the US bank, people familiar with the matter said according to the Financial Times. The team, headed by Craig Ruch, is expected to invest in corporate credit and municipal debt.
08/11/2010

Net increase in profits at Prudential Financial

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } For the third quarter and the first nine months of 2010, Prudential Financial has announced net profits of USD1.17bn and USD2.5bn, respectively, compared with USD1.09bn and USD1.62bn in the corresponding periods of last year. Operating profits for asset management activities increased to USD148m for July-September, compared with USD29m for third quarter 20009, bringing the total for January-September to USD355m, compared with USD61m. Assets under management by the asset management division as of 30 September totalled USD518.1bn, compared with USD443.9bn one year previously. For the group as a whole, assets totalled USD750.1bn, compared with USD640.9bn, in addition to which come assets of administration clients totalling USD100.8bn, compared with USD116.3bn. In total Prudential Financial had assets under management and administration of USD850.9bn as of the end of September, compared with USD757.2bn twelve months earlier.
08/11/2010

Neuflize OBC beats targets for inflows

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In the first nine months of the year, the French private bank Neuflize OBC has posted net subscriptions of EUR2.183bn. “These results exceed our objectives set at the beginning of the fiscal year of net inflows of EUR2.047bn for the year 2010 as a whole, compared with EUR1.526bn in 2009,” a statement says. The bank projects that by the end of the year it will have net inflows higher than its budgetary projections. Fort the year as a whole, net banking proceeds are expected to total EUR300m, compared with EUR272m in 2009, while net profits are expected to top EUR30m, compared with EUR24.1m in 2009. Operating costs will be in line with the anticipated EUR244m.
08/11/2010

Oppenheimer adds to bond unit

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US management firm Oppenheimer has announced the recruitment of Mark Anderson as managing director in the fixed income sales & trading department. Anderson previously worked at Stone & Youngberg and Merrill Lynch. Oppenheimer has also recruited Neil Snoep as director and banking strategist. In his new role, he will be in charge of strategic and tactical recommendations, quantitative analysis and active/passive management. He previously worked at Sandler O’Neill Partners, JP Morgan and Lehman Brothers.
08/11/2010

Setbacks for Clarium Capital

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Since the beginning of the year, according to Bloomberg reports cited by Cotizalia, Clarium Capital Management, the hedge fund firm founded by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, has seen losses of 17.1%. His fund Clarium LP (USD347m) lost 1% in October, while hedge funds earned an average of 1.1%. Since 2008, when they peaked at USD7bn, assets at Clarium CM, a global macro specialist, have consistently been on the decline, and most recently stood at USD742m.
08/11/2010

UBS recruits three from J.P. Morgan private bank

UBS has poached three employees from J.P. Morgan private bank to strengthen its wealth management offering in Asia, says FinanceAsia. Elan Cohen has joined as managing director. Rizvan Baig becomes executive director. And Matthew Peh is associate director.
08/11/2010

Martin Currie gives UK investors access to its new Latin America fund

Martin Currie gives UK investors access to its new Latin America fund. The Martin Currie Latin America Fund is managed by Jeff Casson, who has 10 years’ investment experience. From January 2006 until May 2010, Jeff was lead manager of the Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (Swip) Latin American Oeic. The new high-conviction fund holds between 35 and 55 best ideas, is unconstrained at country and sector level, and employs a multi-cap, growth-oriented, bottom-up strategy. Its investment focus is on Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Argentina. Its benchmark is the MSCI Latin America 10/40 index. The minimum investment is GBP1,000 for the retail ‘A’ share class and GBP1,000,000 for the institutional ‘B’ share class. The annual management charge is 1.5% for the ‘A’ share class and 1% for the ‘B’ share class. The initial charge is 5%.
08/11/2010

GlobalX launches two Uranium ETFs

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 4 November, Global X Management Company listed the Global X Gold Explorers ETF, which charges fees of 0.65%, on the NYSE-Arca platform, under the acronym GLDX. The fund replicated the Solactive Global Gold Explorers index, developed and calculated by the German management firm Structured Solutions, based in Frankfurt, in cooperation with Commodity Capital, in Zurich. The fund was created on 11 March 2010. The portfolio includes 30 positions on shares in gold mining companies whose projects are not yet at the production stage, but in the feasibility study stage with financing not yet complete. Currently, the index consists 70.3% of Canadian firms, 17.83% of US equities, 9.6% Australian and 2.27% Hong Kong shares. On 5 November, Global X also added to trading on the NYSE-Arca platform the first ETF of producers, refiners, prospectors and makers of equipment for the Uranium sector, the Global X Uranium ETF (acronym URA), which carries a management commission of 0.69%. The benchmark is the Solactive Global Uranium fund, which includes shares in 23 firms (compared with 20 as of the end of June), 50.45% Canadian, 31.26% Australian, and 13.55% American. The fund was created on 11 March 2010. The two new ETFs are distributed by SEI Investments Distribution.
08/11/2010

Christian Bito and Vladmir Danesi launch EBT action euro vol 20

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 5 November, CBT Gestion (see Newsmanagers of 29 September) opened subscriptions for its first product, the FCP CBT action euro vol 20, a UCITS-compliant fund of funds which uses an active version of minimisation of variance (minvar) techniques. As Christian Bito, former managing partner at Rothschild & Cie Gestion, who manages the new products with Vladimiar Danesi, former director of multi-management at Rothschild & Cie Gestion, explains, the objective is to control the volatility of investments and seek performance in “corrugated iron” markets. The fund aims to beat the performance of the Eurostoxx 50 index over rolling 5-year periods. The principle developed by CBT Gestion is to set a risk budget and then to manage investments in order to control it. Risk, either measured by volatility or by value at risk (VaR), has virtually doubled. An investment in European PEA equities now has an average volatility of 24%, compared with 12% in 2006. For the FCP, CBT Gestion is offering shares for institutional investors with EUR100,000, and an R share which is eligible for PEA investment at EUR100; the latter shares are also on sale from Sélection R, Swiss Life and soon, AXA-Thema.
08/11/2010

State Street wins a mandate in Canada

State Street Corporation has been appointed by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario (WSIB) to provide a full range of investment services for its Pension Fund, Loss of Retirement Income Fund and Insurance Fund totaling CAD$15 billion in assets.The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board administers Ontario’s no-fault workplace insurance plan for workers and employers and oversees the province’s workplace safety education and training system. State Street will provide custody, accounting, securities lending and investment analytics services across the three funds.
08/11/2010

SEC investigates Citigroup bond funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to sources familiar with the matter, the SEC is investigating losses from bond funds at the broker Smith Barney, which was at the time owned by Citigroup (before being sold to Morgan Stanley). The regulator is asking former brokers from Smith Barney, who have since been laid off, to testify. They accuse their former employer of misleading clients about the level of risk for its MAT Finance (municipal arbitrage trust) and Falcon (municipal bonds, bank loans, MBS) funds, products for which leverage was as high as 8, and which lost 77% in March 2008. The funds raised USD2.8bn between 2002 and 2007, from investors with at least USD5m in investable assets. Citigroup then partly reimbursed these subscribers, bringing their total losses down to 61%.
08/11/2010

Brussels returns to question of ratings agencies

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The European Commission on 5 November launched a consultation on credit ratings agencies. “It became apparent during the debt crisis which affected the Euro zone that a re-examination of certain aspects of the regulatory framework may be necessary. There are increasing concerns that financial establishments and institutional investors are relying excessively on external ratings to the detriment of internal evaluation of credit risks, which could lead to market volatility and instability of the financial system,” the Commission says in a statement. The deadline to respond to the consultation is 7 January 2011. In the chapter on improving ratings of sovereign debt, the Commission proposes that agencies should be required to inform countries three days before ratings of their sovereign debt are to be altered. The consultation document also addresses excessive confidence placed in ratings by agencies, conflicts of interest for the thee major ratings agencies that have a stranglehold on the market, and the possibility of introducing a civil responsibility regime as part of the European Union’s regulatory framework which would be applicable to ratings agencies.

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