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12/11/2009

DeAM appoints Boris Liedtke to head Asia-Pacific ex Japan activities

Deutsche Bank has announced that Boris Liedtke has been appointed CEO for the activities of Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM, USD646bn in assets as of the end of June) for Asia-Pacific ex Japan. Liedtke will be based in Singapore, and will report to Mark Cullen, Global COO of Deusche Asset Management, who also served as interim CEO of DeAM for Asia-Pacific. Liedtke has spent 8 years in Asia (in Hong Kong and Singapore) since joining the Deutsche Bank group 15 years ago. Most recently, he was COO of the DeAM/DWS Investments ensemble in Frankfurt and New York.
12/11/2009

BlueCrest transfers part of its activities to Geneva

BlueCrest Capital, one of the UK’s largest hedge funds, is moving a 50 staff to Geneva amid growing concerns about London’s status as a centre for alternative asset managers, says the Financial Times. The new office will be BlueCrest’s largest after its headquarters in London, where it currently employs 300 people.
12/11/2009

Cheuvreux joins NYSE Euronext dark pool

NYSE Euronext announced on 10 November that its European opaque alternative trading platform SmartPool has taken on three new members, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux, who join BNP Paribas, JP Morgan, HSBC, Credit Suisse and UBS in the dark pool. The identity of the third new member has not been divulged. SmartPool now has more than 15 members.
12/11/2009

Frank Wieser leaves Sal. Oppenheim for Vontobel

First fallout from Sal. Oppenheim’s acquisition by Deutsche Bank? According to sources close to the firm, Frank Wieser, currently director of Sal. Oppenheim’s Düsseldorf branch, will join the Swiss firm Vontobel next spring, to head its German affiliate, Bank Vontobel Europa, in Munich, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. He will also be head of Vontobel’s private banking activities in Germany.
12/11/2009

Operating results at AWD begin to recover

On the same day as its rival MLP reported results, the financial services provider AWD (Swiss Life group) presented its own business update for third quarter. It reports operating profits of EUR6.2m, excluding one-time and restructuring costs, bringing the positive score for the year from January to September to EUR3.5m. However, in the first three quarters of the year, AWD has posted a net loss of EUR20m, compared with net profits of EUR27.5m in the corresponding period of 2008, while revenues for their part have fallen 19.7% to EUR381.5m, largely due to difficulties on the Austrian, Eastern European and British markets. One-time and restructuring costs represented EUR22.9m, of which EUR15.3m were in July-September.
12/11/2009

K1 Invest hedge fund to be liquidated

The director of the K1 hedge fund has assigned Grant Thornton to undertake the liquidation of the K1 Invet hedge fund, which has defaulted, Das Investment reports. The administrator of K1 in Switzerland says that the fund had about EUR348m in assets as of the end of July, but it is not known what proportion of those assets correspond to debt owed to banks. K1 was founded by Michael Kiener, who has been jailed since the end of October, awaiting trial on charges of fraud against Barclays and BNP Paribas amounting to EUR280m.
12/11/2009

European ETF funds top USD200bn in assets

Assets in 801 European ETF funds from 32 issuers, listed 2001 times on 18 stock exchanges, set a new record at the end of October, with USD205.54bn, compared with a previous record of USD204bn as of the end of September, Barclays Global Investors (BGI) announces. Since the beginning of the year, assets have increased 44.2%, while the MSCI Europe index has gained 25.5% in US dollars. According to Lipper FMI, net inflows in the first eight months of the year totalled USD23.6bn. The top three providers of funds remain unchanged; iShares (BGI) controlled 39% of the European market as of the end of August, with 168 products and USD80.2bn in assets, ahead of Lyxor Asset Management (Société Générale) with 118 products and USD41.94bn, and db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank) with 113 ETF funds and USD34.53bn. These three playors controlled 39%, 20.4%, and 16.8% of the market, respectively.
12/11/2009

Jupiter lands in France

As Newsmanagers reported in June of this year, the UK asset management firm Jupiter is opening operations in France. At the time, CEO Edward Bonham-Carter announced the recruitment of a salesperson and the opening of a small branch office in Paris. But ultimately, the firm has signed a partnership with Alfi Partners, a third party marketer. Jupiter, which manages assets of EUR24bn, largely in equities, is not wholly unknown to French investors, as the asset manager is indirectly represented via a fund from CCR, Centrale Croissance Europe, which it manages under a subcontract. This partnership goes back to the time when Commerzbank was a shareholder in both asset management firms, which is no longer the case today, as CCR is owned by UBS, and a majority stake in Jupiter is controlled by its employees. With Alfi, the UK asset management firm is hoping to go a step further on the French market, which it considers to be one of the most important in Europe. It is planning to target professional and qualified French investors with its Luxembourg Sicav Jupiter Global Funds, which has been licensed for sale for some time already. Among the sub-funds which will be promoted in France are an Asia Pacific fund, a climate change fund, and others.
12/11/2009

Losses for hedge funds in October

Though the Credit Suisse/Tremont index still appears to be in positive territory for last month, the Hennesee hedge fund index has posted its first decline after seven months of growth in October. It shows losses of 0.50%, bringing average performance in the first ten months of the year to 20.12%. The Barclays hedge fund index, for its part, is down 0.17% for October, based on a sample of 1,177 funds which had reported results as of 11 November. For January-October, average performance comes to 19.80%, despite losses of 15.02% for the 6 equity short bias funds in the sample, and 0.77% for the 35 equity market neutral funds. In October, 9 strategies out of 17 are in the red, with the heaviest losses (-1.94%) for equity long bias. For October, the best performance belonged to distressed securities (2.96%), while since the beginning of the year, the best results belong to convertibles arbitrage (48.71%), which is also the best overall in the Hennessee index, which shows performance of 40.74%, compared with 45.64% for Credit Suisse/Tremont.
12/11/2009

ETF assets set a new record

Assets under management in ETF funds worldwide have set a new all-time high of USD941.85bn as of the end of October, 0.9% higher than the USD933bn recorded at the end of September, Barclays Global Investors (BGI) reports in its most recent monthly bulletin. Since the beginning of the year, assets have risen 32.5%, while the MSCI World index has gained 20.2% in US dollars. As of the end of August, according to Strategic Insight, net subscriptions have totalled USD76.8bn. As of the end of October, there were 1,859 ETF funds on sale, from 97 providers, listed 3,327 times on 40 stock markets. The number of ETF products on offer has increased 16.8%, with 336 launches and 73 closures. There are currently plans underway to launch 805 new ETF funds. BGI also states that its iShares brand remains the largest operator in the world, with 405 ETFs and assets of USD455.72bn as of the end of October, which represents a market share of 48.4%. The number two and three operators remain State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), with 106 products and USD137.08bn, and Vanguard with 40 products and EUR80.76bn. This corresponds to market shares of 14.6% and 8.6%, respectively.
12/11/2009

Layoffs expected ahead of Amundi launch

Amundi, which is pending approval from antitrust authorities in Brussels, will save an estimated EUR120m annually in economies of scale on a horizon of three years, half of which will be in IT, thanks to reduced reliance on outside providers, AGEFI reports. Internal sources say that 250 to 300 jobs will also be lost, most of them in France. These layoffs, which are not expected to include involuntary dismissal, will be expected to affect largely employees from SGAM, who will be allowed to return to Société Générale, the newspaper adds. For its part, CAAM in October 2007 pledged to save money through a 10% reduction in staff numbers, including a reduction from 70 to 30 brokers, rationalisation in IT, and the closure of the alternative management affiliate Systeia. These measures will bring EUR150m in cost savings.
12/11/2009

Assets under management at Pictet up 17%

The Geneva-based private bank Pictet has announced a 17.7% increase in assets under management as of 30 September. These assets now total CHF244.3bn, evenly divided between private and institutional wealth management, according to statistics obtained by Le Temps on Tuesday.
12/11/2009

Myriam Luque takes over as head of Quality Funds

Funds People reports that Myriam Luque, who was previously director of distribution for global markets, has been appointed CEO of the multi-management platfrom from BBVA, Quality Funds. She replaces Juan Pablo Jimeno (appointed in July), who becomes head of traditional asset management at BBVA Asset Management.
12/11/2009

ETF Securities launches another oil ETC

This week, the ETC segment of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) will add the ETFS Forward Crude Oil fund to trading, an addition to the range of oil ETC funds from ETF Securities. The product replicates the DJ-UBS Crude Oil 3 Month Forward Sub-Index SM, and carries a management commission of 0.49%. The 14 oil ETC funds from ETF Securities have total assets of USD1.4bn.
12/11/2009

Madoff: Swiss court find former star manager of Optimal fund liable to claims

A Geneva court has agreed to hear a case against the former CEO and CIO of Optimal, the hedge fund affiliate of Santander, who served until October 2008, Expansión reports. Manuel Echeverría is accused of negligence of his due diligence duties to clients in the Madoff fraud scandal. According to the lawsuit, Echeverría visited Bernard Madoff at least four times per year, and earned an annual commission equivalent to 0.15% of assets in the Optimal Strategic US Equity fund, which had ties to Madoff. Echeverría joined the Swiss private bank Notz Stucki in October 2008, but his employment at that firm has recently been terminated.
12/11/2009

Angel Martínez-Aldama re-elected as EFRP chairman

The CEO of the Spanish Inverco association of management firms and pension funds, Angel Martínez-Aldama , has been re-elected as chairman of the European federation of pension funds (EFRP), at a meeting held on Monday in Budapest. He will serve for a new three-year term as chairman of the EFRP. The Federation includes sixteen countries of the European Union, along with Croatia, Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland.
12/11/2009

"Say on pay" an increasingly popular practice worldwide

Les Echos reports that “say on pay,” or the opportunity for shareholders in publicly traded firms to have a say about the pay scale of directors of the business, is becoming increasingly widespread in the United States, Switzerland, and Australia. This development is, however, being met with criticism in France, Bernard Lemée, secretary of the board of directors at BNP Paribas, explains to the newspaper. “Remuneration policies and structures for directors are often complex and rely on technicalities or ‘benchmarks’ which shareholders, or most of them, don’t have,” he says.
11/11/2009

Collecte mensuelle record pour les fonds suédois

Total net sales of funds amounted to SEK 17 billion (EUR1.6bn) in October. That constitutes an all time high net inflow for a single month, according to the Swedish Investment Fund Association Fondbolagens Förening. October also represented the eleventh month in a row with net inflows into investment funds.Equity funds recorded net inflows of SEK 12 billion and balanced funds had a net inflow of SEK 2.8 billion. Also bond funds and money market funds recorded net inflows of SEK 1.7 and 0.6 billion respectively. Hedge funds had net sales close to zero. Since the end of year 2008, net inflows into investment funds totals to SEK 86.7 billion and equity funds has a total net inflow of 79.1 billion.
10/11/2009

SG Private Banking se renforce au Moyen-Orient

Afin de renforcer son dispositif au Moyen-Orient, SG Private Banking, la ligne métier de gestion de fortune du groupe Société Générale, vient d’annoncer la nomination d’Eddy Abramo, directeur général de SG Private Banking (Middle East), et d’Eric Lorentz, directeur en charge de la clientèle fortunée arabe.Eddy Abramo, 37 ans, poursuivra la stratégie de croissance de la banque privée à Bahreïn, Abu Dhabi et Dubaï, précise SG Private Banking, et supervisera notamment le développement de l’offre de produits et de services destinée aux particuliers fortunés arabes et indiens. Basé aux Emirats Arabes Unis, Eric Lorentz, 49 ans, dirigera et coordonnera les activités marketing et commerciales à destination de la clientèle arabe des bureaux de SG Private Banking en Europe et au Moyen Orient.
10/11/2009

Stockholm vend des pharmacies à des capital-investisseurs

466 pharmacies de la chaîne Apoteket sur un total de 946 ont été vendues par l’Etat suédois pour 6 milliards de couronnes (578 millions d’euros) à un consortium composé des capital-investisseurs suédois Altor, Segulah et Investor ainsi qu’à une co-entreprise du grossiste en pharmacie finlandais Oriala et de la coopérative suédoise KF, rapporte la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Apoteket a réalisé en 2008 un bénéfice net de 90 millions d’euros pour un CA de 4 milliards.
10/11/2009
Fonds

Octobre "plat" pour les hedge funds

Sur la base des résultats publiés par 71 % du panel, l’indice Credit Suisse/Tremont des hedge funds devrait avoir affiché pour octobre une progression de 0,17 % seulement, contre 3,04% pour septembre. Depuis le début de l’année, la performance moyenne ressortirait ainsi à 15,16 %.Sur 14 stratégies et sous-stratégies, seules trois ont terminé le mois dernier dans le rouge, l’equity market neutral avec – 0,53 % et le long/short equity, avec – 1,18 %, la plus forte baisse (- 2,23 %) concernant les fonds de futures (managed futures). En revanche, la stratégie equity short bias affiche un gain de 5,53 %.Pour les dix premiers mois de l’année, la plus forte performance est enregistrée par l’arbitrage de convertibles (45,64 %) tandis que la plus forte perte (18,53 %) est constatée pour l’equity short bias.
Fonds
10/11/2009
Fonds

La crise financière touche aussi la microfinance

Selon Les Echos, la crise financière a accentué, pour ses différents acteurs, les risques de surendettement, de défaut et de change. Dans certains pays, les institutions de microfinance ont enregistré une multiplication par plus de trois du taux des impayés. C’est le cas notamment de la Bosnie (de 4% à 17%) et du Tadjikistan (de moins de 2% à 12% en seulement huit mois). Du coup, les investisseurs ont préféré, par prudence, se constituer des poches de liquidités, qui ne sont plus introduites dans le circuit de financement. Au-delà de son impact direct, la crise financière a également révélé les difficultés techniques inhérentes à ce segment encore réduit - environ 50 milliards de dollars d’encours - de la finance mondiale, notamment l’absence fréquente de centrale du risque proposant des données fiables sur l’endettement des ménages.
Fonds
10/11/2009

Arques perd de l’argent sur la cession d’Agencia Servicios Mensajeria

Le capital-investisseur Arques Industries indique avoir cédé pour 1 euro symbolique les messageries espagnoles Agencia Servicios Mensajeria (ASM) à un groupe d’investisseurs espagnols du même secteur. Cette transaction, qui se solde pour l’allemand par une perte de 0,6 million d’euros, marque le retrait d’Arques du marché espagnol. ASM avait été achetée également pour un euro symbolique en avril 2008. Arques avait ensuite acheté en octobre, également pour un euro symbolique, le réseau de distribution d’un des concurrents d’ASM.
10/11/2009
Fonds

Frankfurt Trust lance un fonds d’infrastructures

Lundi, Frankfurt Trust (BHF-Bank, groupe Sal. Oppenheim) a lancé le fonds FT Global InfraStructure Diversified géré par Birgit Ebner et censé tirer parti de la “méga-tendance” des investissements en infrastructures. Le portefeuille comportera entre 80 et 100 titres pour la plupart équipondérés. Il comprend initialement de grandes capitalisations comme Telefónica ou Duke Energy, mais sera focalisé sur des petites et moyennes capitalisations innovantes comme le brésilien AES Tiete ou l’américain Itron. Ce produit géré activement comporte deux classes de parts, une pour les particuliers, l’autre pour les institutionnels.CaractéristiquesDénomination : FT Global InfraStructure Diversified ISIN: DE000A0NEBS3 Droit d’entrée : 5 % Commission de gestion: 1,50 % Souscription minimale : 2.500 euros ou 50 euros/mois
Fonds
10/11/2009

Allianz annonce un encours record

Au titre du troisième trimestre 2009, le groupe Allianz a publié un bénéfice en hausse de 143 % à 1,3 milliard d’euros, contre 545 millions d’euros il y a un an. La division Financial Services enregistre une hausse de 22,5 % à 1,1 milliard d’euros, pour un résultat opérationnel de 332 millions d’euros sur le trimestre, soit presque le double sur un an. Les actifs sous gestion pour compte de tiers, par l’activité gestion d’actifs, ont grimpé de 65 milliards d’euros pour atteindre un total de 878 milliards, un record selon le groupe, dont l’encours pour le compte de tiers a gonflé de 175 milliards sur les neuf premiers mois de l’année. Les produits obligataires ont particulièrement soutenu l’activité, indique un communiqué. L’encours total, avec les actifs en compte propre ressortait fin septembre à 1.175 milliards d’euros.Le rapport trimestriel fait aussi ressortir qu’au troisième trimestre le bénéfice d’exploitation de la gestion d’actifs a gonflé de 97,8 % sur juillet-septembre 2008, pour ressortir à 368 millions d’euros, contre 246 millions en avril-juin et 211 millions en janvier-mars. Le résultat de juillet-septembre 2009 comporte 15 millions d’euros de gains de change et 17 millions attribuables à l’intégration de Cominvest.
10/11/2009

Frankfurt-Trust lance un fonds infrastructures

Frankfurt-Trust lance FT Global Infrastructure Diversified, un fonds pariant sur la mégatendance des infrastructures. Géré par Birgit Ebner, le portefeuille réunit des actions de sociétés actives dans les secteurs transport, approvisionnement, recyclage et communication. Il n’y a pas de limitation géographique pour ce fonds. En revanche, Frankfurt Trust souligne l’importance des petites et moyennes capitalisations au sein du portefeuille, précise Fondsprofessionell.
10/11/2009

Le marché allemand de la banque privée en perte de vitesse

Au cours des deux dernières années, les volumes, les marges et les salaires sur le marché allemand de la banque privée se sont tous orientés à la baisse. Selon la dernière étude réalisée tous les deux ans par la firme de conseil spécialisée Stephan Unternehmens- und Personalberatung évoquée par le Börsen-Zeitung, le volume géré par banquier s’est replié de 17 % à 73 millions d’euros.Pour un portefeuille compris entre 1 million et 2,5 millions d’euros, la marge se situe en moyenne autour de 76 points de base ; elle tombe à 53 points de base pour un volume supérieur à 5 millions d’euros.Parallèlement, la rémunération fixe est tombée à 90.000 euros contre 92.000 euros deux ans plus tôt, la part variable revenant à 23.000 euros contre 34.000 euros précédemment. L'étude souligne toutefois qu’on observe de fortes disparités régionales, la capitale financière arrivant en tête alors que Berlin figure en queue de peloton. A noter aussi que la plupart des grands établissements, à l’instar de la Deutsche Bank, du Credit Suisse ou d’UBS, ont perdu des parts de marché récupérées par les banques privées indépendantes comme Berenberg, Metzler, BHF-Bank ou Hauck & Aufhaüser. A une exception près, Sal. Oppenheim récemment rachetée par la Deutsche Bank.

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