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29/03/2010

Frédéric Jolly et Philippe Collas lancent leur société

Selon Financial News, Frédéric Jolly, l’ancien directeur général Europe de Russell Investments, s’est associé avec Philippe Collas, l’ex patron de Société Générale Asset Management, pour créer Lexam Partners, à Londres. Ils ont l’intention de créer un véhicule de private equity qui investira dans des sociétés de gestion et d’autres acteurs de la gestion d’actifs, indique le journal sur son site Internet.
29/03/2010
Fonds

Aberdeen veut muscler son offre obligataire

Aberdeen Asset Management envisage de lancer le mois prochain deux nouveaux fonds obligataires, l’un investi sur l’Asie (Asian Bond Fund), l’autre sur les obligations high yield paneuropéennes (Aberdeen High Yield Bond Fund), selon Funds Strategy. Il y a quelques jours, Aberdeen avait annoncé le lancement d’un fonds obligataire onshore sur les marchés émergents.Les deux fonds seront structurés comme des Oeic britanniques.
Fonds
29/03/2010
Fonds

Jon Rebak remplace Nicholas Pothier chez HSBC

Les fonds Open Global Distribution (342,30 millions de livres d’encours) et Global Return (132,81 millions de livres) de HSBC seront désormais pilotés par Jon Rebak, en remplacement de Nicholas Pothier qui a fait part de sa décision de quitter la société et de regagner son pays d’origine, l’Afrique du Sud, pour s’engager dans des activités d’agriculture durable.Nicholas Pothier devrait toutefois garder une activité de conseil pour faciliter la transition avec son successeur qui devrait assumer la gestion des deux fonds à compter du 1er mai.Jon Rebak a rejoint HSBC en 1992 et a géré des fonds de fonds pendant plus de dix ans. Il a également assuré le pilotage du fonds de fonds de croissance de HSBC (161 millions de livres d’encours) depuis février 2003.
Fonds
29/03/2010

Un nouveau CEO pour UBS Switzerland

UBS a nommé Lukas Gähwiler en tant que CEO d’UBS Suisse et co-CEO de la division Wealth Management & Swiss Bank. Il deviendra aussi membre du comité exécutif du groupe et prendra ses fonctions le 1er avril 2010, succédant à Franco Morra.Jusqu’en février dernier, Lukas Gähwiler était sous contrat avec Credit Suisse, où il avait commencé sa carrière en 1990. Dernièrement, il était Chief Credit Officer de Credit Suisse Private Banking, responsable de l’activité crédit dans le monde.
29/03/2010

L'intégration de cominvest dans AGI est presque bouclée

Allianz Global Investors (AGI) a annoncé vendredi que l’intégration complète de la société de gestion cominvest, achetée à la Commerzbank lors de la vente de la Dresdner Bank par Allianz, aura lieu dans le courant du deuxième trimestre.La dernière étape sera l’absorption de cominvest Asset Management GmbH par Allianz Global investors KAG. Une fois cette transaction inscrite au registre du commerce, la fusion entrera en vigueur avec effet rétroactif du 1er janvier 2010.En conséquence, Sebastian Klein, le CEO de cominvest, va démissionner de ses fonctions et quitter le groupe AGI.
29/03/2010
Fonds

AGI rationalise la gamme de fonds en multigestion de cominvest

Depuis le 1er mars, la responsabilité des fonds de multigestion de cominvest a été transférée à RCM, une filiale d’Allianz Global Investors (AGI) spécialiste des actions, parce que le conseiller de ces produits, SEI Investments, s’est retiré du marché allemand. La gestion des produits a ainsi été confiée à l'équipe RCM MultiManagement qui assurait déjà la gestion des fonds Commerzbank allstars-anlage, Dresdner Vermögensmanagement, cominvest Best-In-One World I et cominvest Multi Asia Active.Trois des quatre fonds en multigestion restant chez cominvest seront fusionnés avec d’autre produits : le cominvest Multi Manager Global Balanced II sera absorbé le 14 mai par le cominvest Multi Manager Global Balanced I. Ensuite, le cominvest Multi manager Global Dynamic sera repris par le cominvest Best-In-One World I le 16 juillet et le cominvest Multi Manager Global Conservative sera absorbé par le Allianz Pimco Rentenfonds le 3 décembre. Le dernier fonds, le cominvest Multi Manager Global Balanced I, subsistera, mais l’allocation d’actifs sera plus dynamique. L'équipe de gestion pourra investir non seulement dans des fonds AGI mais aussi dans des produits d’autres sociétés de gestion.
Fonds
29/03/2010

Le Sabadell vend 378 agences à Moorpark

Dans le cadre d’une opération de sale & lease-back, le Banco Sabadell a réalisé une plus-value de 265 millions d’euros sur la cession pour 403 millions d’euros de 378 agences au fonds Moorpark Capital Partners, rapporte Cinco Días. Cela permet de porter le ratio de fonds propres de premier rang du Sabadell à près de 8 % contre 7,6 %.
29/03/2010
Fonds

Le Sabadell mise sur les hedge funds non coordonnés

Au moment où plusieurs gestionnaires lancent des fonds de hedge funds coordonnés, BanSabadell Inversión commence à commercialiser activement auprès des particuliers haut de gamme et des investisseurs institutionnels le Sabadell BS Selección Hedge Top, qui a commencé à investir en septembre dans les hedge funds traditionnels, a indiqué Sergio Miguez, directeur de la gestion performance absolue.Funds People rapporte que le fonds a affiché une performance de 2,17 % sur les quatre derniers mois de 2009 et qu’il reste en territoire positif depuis le début de l’année.Ce produit à liquidité trimestrielle est investi à 60 % dans des hedge funds à liquidité mensuelle ou plus fréquente. A la différence d’autres maisons espagnoles, BanSabadell Inversión dispose d’une équipe en interne pour la gestion du produit
Fonds
29/03/2010
Fonds

M&G lance un fonds multi classes d'actifs sans benchmark

Avec le Global Dynamic Allocation Fund, le gestionnaire britannique M&G Investments lance un OEIC de droit britannique qui n’est pas encore commercialisable en France et qui vise à générer avec une gestion flexible une performance positive sur toute période de trois ans grâce à une allocation multi classes d’actifs (actions, obligations d’Etats, obligations d’entreprises, convertibles, matières premières, alternatif, dérivés, devises, numéraire, etc).Ce produit confié à George Tsinonis (qui dirige l'équipe stratégie de portefeuille et risque de M&G depuis 2005) n’a pas d’indice de référence et sera géré avec une conviction forte, l’allocation d’actifs s’effectuant sur la base des perspectives macro-économiques retenues par le gérant, de la valorisation des différentes classes d’actifs et une gestion active du risque dans la construction de portefeuille.Le concept consiste à tirer profit de plusieurs sources potentielles de performance. Cependant, en période d’incertitude marquée sur les marchés, la priorité sera donnée à la préservation du capital.Pour l’instant, ce produit est le seul dans la gamme M&G à figurer sous la rubrique «multi assets funds». Il vient compléter l’offre plus traditionnelle de fonds d’actions (18 produits) et obligataires (3 produits). Le gestionnaire ne facture pas de commission de performance pour ce fonds qui bénéficie déjà d’un agrément de commercialisation en Allemagne, en Espagne et au Luxembourg.
Fonds
26/03/2010

Morgan Stanley AIP raises USD370m for real estate

Morgan Stanley Investment Management has announced that its unit, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (Morgan Stanley AIP), has raised USD370m for its fund Morgan Stanley AIP Phoenix Global Real Estate Secondaries 2009 LP (Phoenix), which is dedicated to opportunity-driven investments in private equity real estate funds. AIP had set itself an objective of USD250m.
26/03/2010

SEB AM preparing a “soft” version of its Asset Selection funds

Barely two months after registering its UCITS III absolute performance fund in Spain, the SEB Asset Selection fund managed by Hans-Olov Bernemann, SEB Asset Management is preparing to launch a more defensive version of the product in the very near future, says Daniel Rubio of Capital Strategies, the firm which represents SEB AM in Spain. The new product will aim for average volatility of only 5%, down from the 10% of the original fund, Funds People reports.
26/03/2010

C-Quadrat to launch ETF funds

In a press statement, the Austrian-German management firm C-Quadrat has announced that it is planning to add a range of ETF funds, entitled iQ Products, to its offerings. The funds will represent a new generation of ETFs which limit the risk of losses. The issuer of the first iQ ETF is Commerzbank. The products of the range will be unveiled in mid-April.
26/03/2010

Sovereign funds to increase risk exposure

Sovereign funds, which have accumulated more than USD3.5trn in assets worldwide, now have cash allocations that are not doing anything for them. They are thus planning to make a further increase in their allocation to higher risk investments, but their investments will be for far lower amounts each, and far more diversified. In addition, says Bernard Eschweiler, senior economic advisor for the German independent investment bank Silvia Quandt & Cie AG, the centre of gravity for these investments will move from industrialised countries towards emerging markets, and from financial institutions to infrastructure and alternative energies. According to the study by Eschweiler, sovereign funds in 2008-2009 lost nearly 15% of their assets, while incoming amounts fell due to the recession and the falling price of oil. However, even at a more moderate rate of growth, assets will probably exceed USD6trn in five years.
26/03/2010

Strong rise in profits and assets at Mediolanum

In 2009, Banca Mediolanum has announced net profits of EUR217m, up 66% on the pro forma results for 2008, when net profits including the impact of the Lehman collapse came in at EUR24m. Pre-tax profits are up 56%, to EUR258m. Net subscriptions rose 177% compared with 2008 to total EUR6.94bn, which represents an all-time high. Assets increased 37% last year, to total more than EUR40.39bn. In terms of the Italian market, including the group’s 50% stake in Esperia, net profits increased 55% to EUR224m, and assets increased 38%, to a total of EUR38.53bn as of the end of December. For Banca Mediolanum, net subscriptions rose 122% to EUR5.795bn, while net inflows to managed accounts totalled EUR1.99bn (+1.01%), of which 57% went to equities products. In Spain, 2009 saw losses of EUR0.1m, compared with losses of EUR6.3m the previous year, but Fibanc Mediolanum earned profits of EUR0.5m. In Germany, losses remained similar to those in 2008, at EUR6.8m, while activities retained at Bankhaus August Lenz brought losses of EUR7.6m. In total, foreign banking affiliates of the group as of the end of December had assets of EUR1.86bn, which represents a 13% increase in one year.
26/03/2010

Amundi ETF plans to list 50 funds in Italy

Amundi ETF is planning to list up to 50 products in Italy by the end of 2010, an article from Soldi published on the Italian website Bluerating states. In early March, the firm launched 15 new equities products.
26/03/2010

Guy Wyser-Pratte denounces limited partnership tactics of Lagardère at Poussielgue group

The French-American financier Guy Wyser-Pratte has denounced the law of limited partnership of shareholders which allows Arnaud Lagardère to completely control his group Poussielgue with only a 10% stake in its capital, Les Echos reports. He claims that the partnership has a negative impact on the value of shares. He is seeking a place on the supervisory board of the group, and to reform the group’s statutes.
26/03/2010

Madoff: UBS faces Paris courts

Les Echos reports, citing AFP, that UBS has been summoned before the Paris courts on charges of defrauding 80 investors who lost money they had invested in the Luxembourg-registered fund Luxalpha, which was offered for sale by the bank, and which invested in companies operated by Bernard Madoff. The investors accuse UBS of having presented Luxalpha as a low-risk investment, and of having neglected its responsibilities as a manager and depositary for the product, which funnelled investments to the firm of the frauster Madoff without informing clients. The savings investors, who lost all of their investments in Luxalpha, have “strong grounds to seek reparation for the prejudice they suffered as a result of the deception of which they were victims and of the serious errors committed by UBS,” says the summons, of which a copy was obtained by AFP.
26/03/2010

SEC probes use of derivatives by funds

The Wall Street Journal reports that the SEC has announced that it has launched a review into the use of derivatives by mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other investment companies. The review effectively means that any new or pending exemptive requests under the Investment Company Act submitted by ETF management firms that are seeking to heavily invest in derivatives will be suspended until the results of the study are clear, the SEC says. The regulator is seeking to verify that current market practices using derivatives respect the regulations of the Investment Company Act in relation to leverage and risk distribution. The regulator will also seek to determine what risk control instruments are used by funds which invest in derivatives.
26/03/2010

DWS to use ETFs for target-date funds

In an SEC filing dated 17 March, DWS Investments (Deutsche Bank) has announced that from May, the equities portion of its target-date funds in the Target range (2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014) will be largely invested in large and liquid ETF funds.
26/03/2010

Tressis advising its first UCITS III compliant FoHF

Tressis is in the process of registering its first UCITS III compliant fund of hedge funds, which it advises and which is offered by Merchant Capital, for sale in Spain, Funds People reports. The Merchant European Equity Fund, which offers daily NAV, will include 20 long positions and 20 short positions (via CFD), applying a market neutral approach to a long/short equities strategy trading in shares of the DJ Eurostoxx 600 index. The objective of the fund, which will be offered in Spain by Tressis and in the rest of Europe by Merchant Capital, will be returns of 12%, with volatility of under 6%.
26/03/2010

Biotech funds top performance tables

Six out of the ten funds on sale in Spain with the best returns since the start of this year are products which invest in biotech firms. The product from Dexia has gained 37%, while the DWS product has gained 26%, and the UBS fund 25%, Cinco Días reports. However, the asset management firms point out that the volatility of these funds may be higher than the average for equities funds.
26/03/2010

Morningstar acquires an equities research specialist

Morningstar Australasia, the Australian affiliate of the Morningstar group, on 24 March announced the acquisition of the firm Aegis Equities Research, which produces independent research into equities from more than 200 firms listed on the ASX. The acquisition, for an undisclosed price, will be completed in the next few weeks.
26/03/2010

Cantonal Bank of Geneva seeks to develop in Asia

The Cantonal Bank of Geneva (BCGE), minuscule compared with the giants of Swiss finance, and which, like most other Swiss cantonal banks, has been largely spared from the crisis, and even profited from a wave of capital in search of higher quality, is now planning to develop its international presence, particularly in Asia. The BCGE opened an office in Hong Kong on 1 January of this year, Asian Investor reports. The bank is also planning to open a Dubai office.
26/03/2010

QDII fund from China Merchants raises CNY553m

China Merchants announced on Friday that its first QDII fund, the Global Resources Equity Fund, has attracted CNY553m, which is not necessarily a good sign for other fund management firms which have QDI products in the pipeline. The consultant Z-Ben Advisors, however, points out that the China Merchants fund raised CNY553m in only 19 days, while other asset management firms will open subscriptions for a period of 30 days. In addition, E-Fund, which is much larger than China Merchants, opened a fund for 40 days a month ago, and raised a similar amount (CNY593m) for its Asia Ex-Japan Equity fund.

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