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01/09/2010

Eurazeo reconnaît un mieux dans le capital investissement mais aussi des prix trop élevés

A l’occasion mardi de la présentation des résultats semestriels de la société d’investissement Eurazeo, Patrick Sayer, son président du directoire, a noté que l’entreprise disposait à fin août 2010 d’une trésorerie de 725 millions d’euros contre 662 millions à fin avril, rapporte l’Agefi.En intégrant la future plus-value, de 184 millions d’euros, sur la cession de la chaîne d’hôtel B&B au fonds d’investissement Carlyle, le trésor de guerre d’Eurazeo s'élève dès lors à plus de 2 milliards d’euros. Bien qu’il constate un redémarrage des opérations, Patrick Sayer a également noté que les dossiers souvent mis en vente par des fonds d’investissement restent à des prix encore trop élevés, note le quotidien.
01/09/2010

Bats envisage une introduction en Bourse

Selon Les Echos, l’opérateur boursier Bats planche sur son introduction en Bourse au moment où on le dit intéressé par son concurrent Chi-X Europe. Outre-Atlantique, 11% des transactions sur actions passent par lui. En Europe, il enregistre environ 9% des échanges sur actions britanniques, un peu moins de 5% sur les françaises et les allemandes.
01/09/2010

Aberdeen AM poursuit la reprise en mains de sa filiale immobilière allemande

Récemment, Aberdeen Immobilien KAG annonçait le départ au 31 août de Roger Weltz, membre du comité de direction (lire notre article du 30 août). A présent, le gestionnaire allemand de fonds immobiliers rapporte que la fonction de global head of research à l'échelon du groupe Aberdeen va être centralisée à Londres et confiée à Andrew Smith, qui a été nommé global head of property voici trois mois (lire notre article du 26 mai). Il sera ainsi à la tête d’une équipe d’environ 600 spécialistes de l’immobilier, dont 15 analystes répartis sur huit pays européens (3 à Francfort) et Singapour.Cela signifie concrètement que le poste de patron de la recherche de la filiale allemande est supprimé. Donc Thomas Bayerle, qui occupait cette fonction d’abord chez DEGI, puis chez Aberdeen Immobilien après l’acquisition, quittera l’entreprise au 31 décembre. En mars, Aberdeen Immobilien s'était séparé aussi de Bärbel Schomberg (lire notre article du 2 mars), qui avait été sa présidente du comité exécutif et qui a été remplacée par Michael Determann. Le nouvel homme fort du groupe Aberdeen pour l’Allemagne est le directeur général Hartmut Leser, un ancien de Feri Institutional Management. Harmut Leser est aussi membre du comité de direction d’Aberdeen Immobilien. L’encours total du groupe Aberdeen dépasse les 200 milliards d’euros, dont environ 25 milliards d’euros pour les fonds immobiliers.
01/09/2010

Aviva Investors précise les fonctions de son directeur général Europe

Mardi 31 août, Aviva Investors a confirmé la nomination de Jean-Francois Boulier au poste de directeur général d’Aviva Investors Europe (lire notre article d’hier). L’intéressé reste basé à Paris et demeure président du directoire d’Aviva Investors France, fonction qu’il exerce depuis septembre 2009.Dans le cadre de ses fonctions élargies, Jean-Francois Boulier sera responsable du développement «d’une activité internationale et intégrée» en Europe continentale, comme le souligne Alain Dromer, directeur général d’Aviva Investors. Le nouveau promu «travaillera en étroite collaboration avec les autres membres de la direction pour accroître les infrastructures de vente et de marketing du groupe». Il sera également chargé des relations avec Aviva Europe et «veillera à ce qu’Aviva Investors bénéficie de la dimension et de la présence de sa maison-mère sur le marché», précise Aviva Investors.De son côté, Jean-François Boulier a fait part de son intention de poursuivre également à l'échelon européen le développement de la base de clientèle externe. Il a aussi indiqué à Newsmanagers qu’il compte rendre la sicav luxembourgeoise (5-6 milliards d’euros) «mieux adaptée et plus compatible», en complétant l’offre de produits sous l’angle des classes d’actifs et des stratégies disponibles. Par ailleurs, il compte étudier entre autres la possibilité de généraliser en Europe le concept des Tea-Time d’Aviva Investors pour les institutionnels et les clients Aviva.L’objectif général sera de distribuer partout en Europe les meilleurs produits, quelle qu’en soit l’origine géographique au sein du groupe, et de fournir à l’actionnaire et client principal qu’est Aviva, comme aux clients externes, la performance la plus élevée et constante possible.
01/09/2010

Scipion contracts Centaur to manage its funds

Scipion Capital, a specialist in Africa, has selected Centaur Fund Services as administrator for its funds, replacing BISYS, ICFA magazine reports. Nicolas Clavel, CEO of Scipion, says that the strategy of Centaur (USD1bn in assets under administration) is better suited to Scipion.
01/09/2010

Marlborough takes over British activities of SLFC

Investment Week reports that the British management firm Marlborough has added to its range of funds with the acquisition of the UK division of Sun Life Financial of Canada (SLFC). The acquisition of SLFC Investment Managers UK brings five new funds to Marlborough, giving it a range of 24 funds and total assets under management of over GBP1bn. The funds which will be taken over by Marlborough are the Marlborough Cash trust and the Income & Growth trust, managed internally, the Emerging Markets trust, managed by Ignis, the European trust, managed by Mirabaud, and the North American trust, managed by Emerson Capital Partners.
01/09/2010

Carmignac to enter UK market

Carmignac Gestion is planning to enter the UK market next year, writes Financial News. The French asset manager will target the retail market via financial advisers.
01/09/2010

Gartmore nomme l'ex-CEO d’Axa Framlington

Le conseil d’administration de la société de gestion britannique Gartmore vient de nommer Robert Kyprianou en tant qu’administrateur indépendant non exécutif, avec effet le 1er septembre. L’intéressé était précédemment CEO d’Axa Framlington jusqu’à son départ à la retraite en septembre 2009. Il avait aussi occupé des postes importants chez Axa Investment Managers et ABN Amro.
01/09/2010

Gartmore appoints former Axa Framlington CEO

The Board of Gartmore Group Limited has announced the appointment of Robert Kyprianou as an independent non-executive director with effect from 1st September 2010. Robert Kyprianou was formerly the CEO of AXA Framlington until his retirement in September 2009. Previous appointments include global head of fixed income, and later deputy CEO and global head of securities at AXA Investment Managers; business head and global head of fixed income at ABN AMRO Asset Management between 1995 and 1999; and director and head of portfolio management at Salomon Brothers Asset Management Ltd between 1990 and 1994.
01/09/2010

Schroders recruits a head from BlackRock

After 11 years at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), and then at BlackRock as managing director for scientific active equities, Mark Brandreth in early August joined Schroders as co-head of research in the global equities team in the quantitative equity products (QEP) division, which his new employer considers a key growth area, with over GBP10bn in assets under management. Brandreth will be based in London, and will work closely with David Philpotts, co-head of research, based in Sydney, and will report to Justin Abercrombie, head of quantitative equity products.
01/09/2010

Fidelity launches a UK equities fund

Investment Week reports that Fidelity International will launch a UK equities fund, which will aim to never fall below 80% of its highest reevaluated net asset value level. The Fidelity Equity Growth Defender Fund, which will be unveiled on 13 September, uses a combination of equities and cash to actively protect capital and provide consistent returns throughout the cycle. The equities in the portfolio will be selected by James Griffin, manager of the Fidelity MoneyBuilder Growth and Fidelity Growth & Income funds. Asset allocation will be undertaken by Stephen Fulford.
01/09/2010

SIG selects Henderson for UK Strategic Best Ideas fund

Skandia Investment Group (SIG) has selected Henderson Global Investors to manage a mandate within its UK Strategic Best Ideas Fund, a long / short equity multi-manager fund. The long / short UK equity mandate will be managed by Paul Casson replacing Neil Pegrum who managed the mandate before his departure from Cazenove.
01/09/2010

Neptune launches an Africa fund

Neptune Investment Management on Tuesday launched an Africa fund, which will be managed by Shelley Kuhn in South Africa. Kuhn was previously manager of the India and Asia Pacific Opportunities funds, before taking a seven-month sabbatical to visit Africa, Investment Week reports. The new equities fund will have a portfolio of 30 to 50 positions, and will invest in South African shares in a proportion which may vary from 50% to 100%, due to liquidity considerations. At launch, the fund will also invest in Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya, Fund Strategy reports.
01/09/2010

Légère progression de la collecte nette pour le suisse Valartis

Le groupe suisse Valartis (banque privée, asset management et banque d’investissement) a annoncé le 31 août un bénéfice net de 7 millions de francs suisses au titre du premier semestre contre 45,5 millions de francs au premier semestre 2009.Les actifs sous gestion s’inscrivaient à 6,46 milliards de francs suisses au 30 juin contre 6,37 milliards à fin décembre 2009. La collecte nette du semestre s’est élevée à 202 millions de francs suisses. Valartis prévoit des afflux de fonds supplémentaires dans les prochains mois en raison du recrutement de nouveaux chargés de clientèle en Autriche, au Liechstenstein et en Suisse.
01/09/2010

Vontobel: CEO Herbert Scheidt to become chairman

The board of directors at Vontobel will propose to its general shareholders’ meeting on 3 May 2011 to elect CEO Herbert J. Scheidt, 58, as successor to Urs Widmer as chairman of the board of directors of Bank Vontobel AG. Widmer will be completing his term, and will be above the age limit defined by internal company regulations. The new CEO will be named by the board of directors in spring next year. Shares with voting privileges in Vontobel Holding are listed on the Swiss stock exchange (SIX); the Vontobel family and the Vontobel foundation control the majority of shares and voting rights. As of the end of June 2010, assets at Vontobel totalled about CHF116bn.
01/09/2010

Assets under management up at Harcourt

The Swiss hedge fund management firm Harcourt Investment Consulting, part of the Vontobel group, has announced that its assets as of the end of June totalled USD4.7bn, which represents an increase of USD200m in first half. Most subscriptions have come from institutional clients. In first half, Harcourt launched a newcits fund, the fund of hedge funds Vonda (CTA and macro). In partnership with AC Investment Management, it also launched Belmont Community Trading, a fund of funds specialised in commodities.
01/09/2010

UBP recruits in Asia

Union Bancaire Privée’s Asset Management division has announced that it has hired Lawrence Lo as chief executive officer and head of sales for Asia ex Japan. He also takes up a seat on the executive committee of UBP Asset Management. He will be based in Hong Kong and will oversee the development of UBP’s Asian business and focus its sales efforts in «this important growth region», says a press release published on Tuesday. Prior to joining UBP he was chief executive officer of BSI Generali Asia Limited, where he was responsible for developing the company’s wealth-management and asset-management activities in the Far East. Before that he spent fifteen years at BNP Paribas, where he was appointed managing director/regional head of BNP Paribas Asset Management Group and a member of the bank’s executive committee for Asia. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics. Mr Lo’s arrival is further evidence of UBP’s commitment to expanding its presence in emerging markets, which it sees as a key growth area in the coming years.
01/09/2010

Bill Miller bets on US large caps

According to Bill Miller, chairman and chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management, who is writing an article in the Financial Times, «US large capitalisation stocks represent a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity to buy the best quality companies in the world at bargain prices». The last time they were this cheap relative to bonds was 1951, he recalls.
01/09/2010

CalPERS board member resigns

The California pension fund CalPERS on 31 August announced the resignation of a member of its board, Kurato Shimada, for personal reasons.
01/09/2010

J.P. Morgan to shut down all prop desks

The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to sources familiar with the matter, J.P. Morgan Chase has notified 20 traders at its commodities trading desk in London that they will be laid off. Following the passage of the Dodd-Frank law and the Volcker rule, which place limits on speculative proprietary trading by banks, J.P. Morgan has decided to discontinue all activities of this type.
01/09/2010

New director at Rothschild Patrimoine

Xavier de Laforcade has been appointed, from today, 1 September, as director and head of financial management at Rothschild Patrimoine, the private management arm of Rothschild Cie Gestion. De Laforcade, 36, had since 2005 been head of the “Major Client” mandated management unit and portfolio manager for “Major Clients Private Clientele” at Neuflize OBC Investment (ABN Amro).
01/09/2010

Oddo & Cie boosts assets to EUR21bn with acquisition

The acquisition announced on Tuesday of the Banque d’Orsay by Oddo & Cie will be completed by the end of the year. The operation, for an amount which will be slightly less than the total amount of owners’ equity at the WestLB affiliate – EUR112m – will initially result in a merger of the two banks, and then a merger of Oddo Asset Management and Orsay Asset Management. With EUR2.5bn in assets under management and 100 employees at the Banque d/Orsay, Oddo & Cie will now represent a group with EUR21bn in assets, and nearly 900 employees. Oddo says that it is planning to retain all employees at the acquisition target firm. In terms of product ranges, a working group will be created to consider future direction. Banque d’Orsay has 40 mutual funds, and Oddo has 120 investment vehicles. The acquisition will aim in particular to extend the group’s product offerings, an Oddo spokesman says. It gives the firm an opportunity to develop in alternative management. The operation will also bring Oddo above its objectives in terms of inflows. Last year, the group posted net subscriptions of EUR600m, and it was seeking to double that total this year. In first half, EUR800m had already flowed in, of which EUR200m were from international clients.
01/09/2010

Carmen Cires transferred from Madrid to Zurich by Vontobel AM

Carmen Cires, who for the past two and a half years has served as head of institutional clients for the Iberian peninsula at Vontobel Asset Management, has been appointed a product specialist and portfolio analyst for commodities products at the Swiss asset management firm, Funds People reports. Cires moves from Madrid to Zurich from 1 September.
01/09/2010

VP Bank, losing momentum, restructures

VP Bank has announced group-wide profits for first half of CHF16.1m, down 40% from first half 2009. Profits to be paid out to shareholders are down to CHF14.5m, compared with CHF25m previously. The Liechtenstein business has reported net outflows in first half of CHF300m, compared with CHF1bn one year earlier, meaning that the negative trend observed last year has not quite reversed itself, even though in international wealth management activities, the bank posted net inflows of CHF100m. Assets under management totalled CHF28.4bn as of 30 June, compared with CHF29.5bn as of 31 December 2009. In this difficult context, the bank has already responded with a cost reduction program. But due to the “profound” reversals on the market, the bank has decided to take on a new, lighter structure. From 1 September 2010, Group Executive Management will include only three members, down from five previously: Roger Hartmann, CEO, as chairman; Fredy Vogt, CFO, as head of the Corporate Center, and Jürg Sturzenegger as head of service units in the new Wealth Management Solutions & Services unit. Ernst Näf and Gerhard Häring, who were members of the executive board, will be leaving the VP Bank group. The firm is also planning to launch growth initiatives throughout the group. The heads are planning to extend the client base in key markets (in addition to Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Germany), and in emerging markets. The teams of advisors in Singapore and Zurich will be added to as planned, and will focus largely on Asia and central and eastern Europe. Expertise in international tax law will also be developed.
01/09/2010

Peter Lindgren joins Amundi

Peter Lindgren joined Amundi as deputy general manager for the Nordic region in July, according to IPE.com. He is based in Helsinki. Most recently, he served as managing director of alternative sales at Credit Suisse Asset Management.
01/09/2010

BNY Mellon creates two positions for directors of broker-dealer activities

On Tuesday, BNY Mellon Broker-Dealer Services announced the appointment of John Vinci as head of global product management and strategy, and Andrew Demko as business manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Both are newly-created positions, and the new appointees will both report to James Malgieri, CEO of BNY Mellon Broker-Dealer Services. Vinci was previously head of relationship management group in New York, while Demko was head of global sales, a position which he will retain despite his transfer to London.
01/09/2010

Olympia CM takes over management of hedge funds from Sal. Oppenheim (France)

The independent alternative management firm Olympia Capital Management announced on 31 August that it is taking over management of hedge funds from Sal. Oppenheim (France), including the Altipro range of French-registered FCP funds. The operation was approved by the AMF on 23 August 2010. The chairman of the Olympia group, Laurent Dupeyron, says “this operation contributes to the development strategy of the group, and will enrich our alternative management range. We are glad to be able to integrate these four French-registered funds, among other assets, into our range at a time when our clients are demanding more transparency and regulation. We are also proud to have been chosen as the best candidate to manage these funds in the best interest of clients. We will continue to explore consolidation opportunities of this type when they appear.” As of 30 June this year, assets under management at Olympia Capital Management totalled USD2.2bn.
01/09/2010

Investor confidence index down in August

The State Street Investor Confidence Index of institutional investor confidence from State Street Global Markets fell in August. The global index fell 4.4 points to 92.1, compared with a corrected level of 96.5 in July. The confidence of North American institutional investors fell 5.7 points to 95.3, compared with a corrected level of 101 the previous month. Confidence in Europe also fell, from 99.9 to 98.7, down 1.2 points. Asia followed the same trend; the regional index there was down 1.6 points, from 103.8 to 102.2.

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