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31/08/2009

Dietmar Zantke rejoint R&W

Gérant du fonds obligataire LBBW Renta Max de LBBW Asset Management, Dietmar Zantke, a quitté son employeur pour rejoindre la boutique Röcker & Waltz de Stuttgart, rapporte Das Investment. L’intéressé sera associé à la création d’une société de gestion dont le premier produit sera un fonds obligataire.Chez LBBW AM, Dietmar Zantke est remplacé par Thomas Schneider, le directeur de la gestion obligataire.
31/08/2009

Cerberus donne un nouveau patron à la Bawag

Vendredi, David Roberts (46 ans) a annoncé qu’il démissionne pour raisons de santé (maladie cardiaque) de son poste de directeur général de la Bawag. Il sera remplacé par le Britannique Byron Haynes qui est depuis un an directeur financier de l'établissement autrichien. Il représente, lui aussi, l’actionnaire majoritaire, le capital investisseur Cerberus, souligne Die Presse.Avant de quitter son poste, David Roberts a négocié un train de mesures d’aides gouvernementales. L’Etat fédéral va souscrire pour 550 millions d’euros de titres sans droit de vote (rémunérés à 9,3 % par an) et fournir une garantie de 400 millions d’euros. Cerberus a dû accepter que l’Etat puisse transformer ses titres préférentiels en titres ordinaires si la Bawag accuse des pertes durant deux années consécutives.
31/08/2009

NBIM complète son état-major

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), la filiale de la Banque de Norvège qui gère notamment le fonds de pension Government Pension Fund - Global (l’ex Fonds pétrolier), a annoncé vendredi l'élargissement de son comité exécutif, qui demeure dirigé par Yngve Slyngstad, nommé CEO en janvier, et par Stephen A. Hirsch, deputy CEO.Bengt O. Enge, qui est depuis 13 ans salarié de NBIM, a été promu directeur de l’investissement (CIO) tandis que Trond Grande, qui dirigeait la gestion du risque depuis 2007, devient chief risk officer. Age Bekker est promu chief operating offier.Jessica Irschick, qui était auparavant chief of staff chez UBS à Londres, devient chief treasurer, tandis que Mark Clemens, global chief administrative officer chez Citigroup, prend les fonctions de chief administrative officer. Dag Dyrdal, pour sa part, est nommé chief strategic relations officer. Le poste de chief compliance officer sera pourvu ultérieurement.Yngve Slyngstad a souligné que cette internationalisation de l'état-major de NBIM est cohérente avec le fait que le portefeuille comprend des investissements dans plus de 8.000 entreprises. L’effectif de 230 personnes est composé de 20 nationalités et la société de gestion dispose de bureaux à Oslo, Londres, New York et Shanghai, ce qui oblige l’entreprise à se doter de dirigeants ayant une vaste expérience internationale.
31/08/2009

Bon semestre pour la Banque cantonale de Zurich

Selon L’Agefi suisse, la Banque cantonale de Zurich (BCZ), le premier établissement bancaire cantonal de Suisse, a dégagé au premier semestre un résultat net en progression de 37% à 414 millions de francs. Elle affiche sur la période un afflux net d’argent frais de 3,7 milliards de francs. A fin juin, la masse sous gestion se montait à 128,8 milliards de francs, en hausse de 6% par rapport à la même date de l’an passé. Outre l’afflux de fonds de privés à hauteur de 4,9 milliards de francs, la hausse illustre aussi un contexte boursier favorable dont l’impact s’est inscrit à 3,6 milliards. En revanche, la banque, qui figure au rang des huit plus importants gestionnaires de fortune de Suisse, a subi des retraits de 1,2 milliard de francs de ses clients commerciaux et institutionnels.
31/08/2009

Bellevue Group développe sa gestion d'actifs

L'équipe de gestion de portefeuille de Bellevue Asset Management (2,6 milliards de francs suisses d’encours) a été musclée pour atteindre 24 spécialistes de l’investissement contre 16 antérieurement. La boutique suisse, spécialiste des valeurs de santé, s’est renforcée notamment dans le domaine des marchés émergents.Les recrutements ont permis d'élargir l’offre de produits de Bellevue Asset Amanagement, la gamme ayant été complétée par un produit de capital risque, un hedge fund et cinq fonds d’actions de droit luxembourgeois conformes à la directive OPCVM III, des compartiments de la nouvelle Sicav Bellevue Funds (Lux).Cette plate-forme doit permettre à Bellevue Group d'élargir sa base de clientèle à toute l’Europe. Elle comprend un produit de sélection de valeurs BB Selection, deux fonds marchés émergents (BB Silk Road Opportunities et BB African Opportunities), une version luxembourgeoise du BB Biotech (dont l’encours atteint 1,5 milliard de francs) et un produit de niche, le BB Entrepreneur Europe. A compter de septembre, une version luxembourgoise du BB Medtech devrait également être disponible.Au 30 juin, les encours gérés par Bellevue Group se situaient à plus de 5,57 milliards de francs contre 5,43 milliards fin décembre, Les rentrées nettes ont porté au premier semestre sur 95 millions de francs.
31/08/2009

Eurazeo dans le rouge au premier semestre

Selon les Echos, le holding d’investissement coté Eurazeo a enregistré des pertes de près de 121 millions d’euros au premier semestre, à comparer à un gain de 241,7 millions sur les six premiers mois de 2008. L’absence de plus-values a pesé sur les comptes ainsi que la détérioration de la situation de certaines participations, Europcar, Rexel et Accor, pénalisées par les effets de la crise. La société revendique des ressources mobilisables de 1,8 milliard d’euros à fin août. Le Crédit Agricole s’est légèrement renforcé au capital de la société, passant de 16,6% à 18%.
31/08/2009

Nyse Euronext rachète Nyfix

Nyse Euronext a indiqué le 27 août l’acquisition de la société spécialisée dans les systèmes de gestion des transactions Nyfix, pour un montant de 144 millions de dollars. L’entreprise de marché se propose de payer 1,675 dollar par action ordinaire Nyfix, soit une prime de 95 % par rapport au cours de clôture de la cible mercredi dernier sur le Nasdaq.Déjà approuvée par les conseils d’administration de Nyse Euronext, de Nyse Technologies, la filiale à 100 % de Nyse Euronext qui doit réaliser la transaction, et de Nyfix, l’opération doit encore obtenir le feu vert des actionnaires de Nyfix et des autorités concernées. La transaction devrait être bouclée dans le courant du quatrième trimestre 2009.
31/08/2009

Plus de cessions pour AIG

La préoccupation actuelle de Robert Benmosche, le nouveau patron d’AIG, n’est pas de payer vite ses dettes à l'État mais de valoriser au mieux les actifs à vendre indique la Tribune. Dans l’immédiat, les préparatifs pour l’introduction en Bourse d’AIA et d’Alico se poursuivent. Mais la vente d’autres activités comme l’intermédiation financière a été stoppée et Robert Benmosche a déclaré n’avoir pris aucune décision pour la gestion d’actifs.En ce qui concerne le profil du groupe, Robert Benmosche opte pour la diversification en assurance-vie et dommages alors que son prédécesseur avait annoncé un recentrage sur l’assurance dommages.Reste que les prétentions financières du patron d’AIG sont élevées - 7 millions de dollars par an (3 millions en cash et 4 millions en actions) plus un bonus de 3,5 millions - et doivent être validées par le «tsar» des rémunérations du gouvernement américain, Kenneth Feinberg. Le maintien de Robert Benmosche est donc pour l’heure encore en suspens, conclut la Tribune.
31/08/2009

Dominic Martellaro quitte Janus

Janus Capital Group a annoncé le départ de Dominic Martellaro, vice-président exécutif et managing director de Janus Global Advisors, à compter du 31 octobre. Pour assurer une transition en douceur, l’intéressé, qui supervise la distribution des produits de la société de gestion par le biais des intermédiaires financiers et les ventes internationales, restera consultant jusqu’en février 2010. Ses responsabilités seront réparties entre Robin Beery et Dan Charles. Robin Beery, vice-président exécutif et directruce du marketing, va reprendre les intermédiaires aux Etats-Unis, tout en continuant à assumer ses fonctions dans le marketing et la communication. Dan Charles, vice-président exécutif et managing director de l’activité institutionnelle US, va de son côté s’occuper de l’activité internationale.
31/08/2009

Les souscripteurs siphonnent les hedge funds de Cerberus

Selon des proches du dossier cités par le Wall Street Journal, les investisseurs ont retiré ces derniers temps 5,5 milliards de dollars ou 71 % de l’encours des hedge funds du capital investisseur Cerberus. Ces retraits seraient imputables d’une part au mécontentement suscité par les mauvaises performances et de l’autre aux besoins de liquidités des souscripteurs.
31/08/2009

IMA welcomes Lord Turner's proposals

The chairman of the British management association IMA, Richard Saunders, has welcomed the proposals of Lord Turner for improved regulatory framework for financial activities. “Lord Turner has very correctly identified the need for banks to do a better job of managing risks and to maintain higher levels of owners’ equity when they engage in higher-risk activities,” said the chairman of the association. “We welcome the debate. However, taxes on transactions also carry risk that, as for stamp taxes, the savings investor will ultimately pay the price. In the debate to come, this factor must also be taken into account,” Richard Saunders continues.
31/08/2009

Cerberus appoints new head for Bawag

On Friday, David Roberts, 46, announced that he will be resigning for health reasons (cardiac illness) from his position as CEO of Bawag. He will be replaced by the British Byron Haynes, who has been CFO of the Austrian bank for the past year. He also represents the majority shareholder, the private equity investor Cerberus, Die Presse reports. Before leaving his hob, Roberts negotiated a series of governmental assistance measures. The Federal government will subscribe for EUR550m shares without voting rights (which willl pay 9.3% per year) and will provide a guarantee for EUR400m. Cerberus has been required to agree that the Govenrment will be able to transform its preferential shares into ordinary Bawag shares if the firm shows losses in each of the next two years.
31/08/2009

Investors flee Cerberus

According to inside sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, investors have recently withdrawn USD5.5bn, or 71% of assets in hedge funds from the private equity investor Cerberus. These redemptions are reportedly due partly to discontent over the poor performance of funds, and partly to the need of liquidity on the part of subscribers.
31/08/2009

84 banks have been shut down in the United States

The US regulatory authorities on Friday closed down the California-based bank Affinity, which had USD1bn in assets and USD922m in deposits, La Tribune reports. This is the 84th bank closure this year.
31/08/2009

Dominic Martellaro leaves Janus

Janus Capital Group has announced that Dominic Martellaro, executive vice president and managing director of Janus Global Advisors, will step down from his position effective October 31, 2009. To help ensure smooth succession and continuity in service to clients, Martellaro will remain as a consultant until February 2010. Martellaro, who oversees distribution of the firm’s products sold through financial intermediaries and international sales through subsidiary Janus Capital International Limited, will transition his responsibilities to fellow distribution executives Robin Beery and Dan Charles. Robin Beery, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, will assume responsibility for Janus’ US intermediary business. Dan Charles, executive vice president and managing director of Janus’ US institutional business, will assume responsibility for Janus Capital Group International, the firm’s non-US distribution channel.
31/08/2009

Merkel and Sarkozy seek to regulate bonuses

Les Echos reports that French president Sarkozy and German chancellor Merkel will meet this afternoon in Berlin to harmonise their positions ahead of the G20 conference in Pittsburgh at the end of the month. They will both call for stricter regulation of the international financial system, and will put pressure on their partners to limite variable pay scales in the banking sector. The German government supports the French proposal for an international initiative to oversee pay scales in the banking sector and the Chancellor has called it “infuriating that, at some banks, nearly everyhing is the same as before.”
31/08/2009

Subsidiaries demand USD100bn from Lehman

Lehamn Brothers’ European subsidiaries plan to demand up to USD100bn from their former holding company in the coming weeks, the Financial Times reports. the filings have been repared by PwC and should be sent before Septembre 22nd, which is the deadline the US bankruptcy court has set.
31/08/2009

Axa IM bets on stocks exposed to emerging markets

Despite the recent falls on the Chinese market, emerging markets have posted spectacular growth of 52% since their previous lows. It may be time to ask whether it is time to “catch the Emerging Express,” as Axa IM states in a recent commentary. The scale of the performance on these markets may “become problematic,” the management firm estimates, noting that valuations are high on these markets. “The historic tracking errors for the MSCI GEM compared with the MSCI Europe and World indexes are at their lowest long-term average levels since 1995. As a result, emerging markets may be considered expensive compared to developed markets.” However, these shares “are appreciating at exceptional rates as investors seek increasingly high-risk investments in a context of global recovery,” the management firm notes in a commentary. To play emerging markets, AXA IM bets on European shares with high exposure to emerging markets, a “good compromise to profit from economic recovery while retaining a defensive profile (a lower exposure to commodities),” the management firm says.
31/08/2009

Bellevue group adds to asset management activities

The portfolio management team at Bellevue Asset Mangement (CHF2.6bn in assets under mangement) has added to its teams, for a total of 24 specialists, up from 16 previously. The Swiss boutique, which is specialised in health sector securities, strengthened its staff in emerging markets in particular. Recruitments made it possible to increase the range of products on offer from Bellevue Asset Management, as the range gains a venture capital product, a hedge fund, and five Luxembourg-registered equities funds compliant with the UCITS III directive, all sub-funds of the Sicav Bellevue Funds (Lux). This platform will allow Bellevue Group to extend its client base throughout Europe. It includes the stock-picking product BB Selection, two emerging markets funds (BB Silk Road Opportunities and BB African Opportunities, a Luxembourg version of the BB Biotech fund (whose assets total CHF1.5bn), and a niche product entitled BB Entrepreneur Europe. From September, a Luxembourg version of the BB Medtech will also be available. As of 30 June, assets under management at Bellevue Group totalled CHF5.57bn, compared with CHF5.43bn as of the end of December. Net inflows in first half totalled CHF95m.
31/08/2009

Inflows to Luxembourg-registered funds in July

In July, Luxembourg-registered collective investment organisms and specialised investment funds posted net subscriptions of EUR22.48bn, according to the most recent statistics from the financial sector supervisory commission (CSSF). With positive market effects of EUR52.326bn, net assets for the sector rose by 4.58% for the month, to EUR1.706trn. However, in the past twelve months, net assets are down 10.04%/ The number of collective investment organisms monitored is 3,438, compared with 3,435 the previous month, the CSSF reports. 2,063 entities have adopted a structure with multiple sub-funds, which represents 10,789 sub-funds. With the addition of the 1,375 traditionally-strucured funds, the total number of funds on the market is 12,164.
31/08/2009

Jupiter recruits a CFO

Jupiter Investment Management Holdings has appointed Philip Johnson to the newly-created role of Chief Financial Officer - a board-level position created to reflect the growth of Jupiter’s business. Philip Johnson will join Jupiter in October from Marshall Wace LLP, where he worked as Finance Director. He also worked at M&G.
31/08/2009

Wages rise at BlueCrest

Wages and salaries at BlueCrest rose from GBP17.5m in 2007 to GBP32m in 2008, while the number of employees rose only marginally to 260, up from 224 the year previously, says the Financial Times. 2008 was a successful year for most of the company’s hedge funds.
31/08/2009

Qatar and China bail out Canary Wharf

On Friday, a historic agreement was signed to inject GBP800m into Songbird, the firm that owns Canary Wharf, The Sunday Times reports. The sovereign funds Qatar Holding (which already is a shareholder in the firm) and China Investment Corporation (CIC) will buy stakes of nearly 30% and 19% in the capital fo the firm, respectively. Simon Glick will control 27%, and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds (MSREF) will hold about 10%. In addition, Qatar Holding and CIC will subscribe for GBP275m in non-convertible preferential shares without voting rights.
31/08/2009

Jupiter creates a position for CFO

Michael Johnson, currently finance director at Marshall Wace LLP, has been appointed to the newly-created position of CFO at Jupiter Investment Management Holdings, fondsprofessionell reports. He will join his new employer in October.The CEO of Jupiter Asset Management, Edward Bonham Carter, says the creation of the position for a CFO on the board was rendered necessary by developing international and institutional activities, though the British retail market remains primary for the business.
31/08/2009

Foresight creates a second solar fund

Foresight Group, which has already invested 85% of its Solar Fund (EUR35m), has announced that it is launching the Solar Fund 2, which will invest in solar energy projects with a total output of 250 megawatts at most. The first investments will be located in Spain.
31/08/2009

Options market may conceal insider trading

Les Echos reports that a study by three researchers at the University of Zurich has found that there are unusual trading volumes on options markets ahead of mergers and acquisitiosn or publications of results. The researchers found 37 transactions in the United States whose characteristics may be associated with possible insider trading. In particular, they found trades ahead of 4 merger-acquisitions, 14 before announcements of results, and 13 ahead of the terrorist attacks in 2001.
31/08/2009

Nyse Euronext buys Nyfix

Nyse Euronext announced on 27 August that it has acquired Nyfix, a specialist in management systems and transactions, for a total price of USD144m. The stock market business offered to pay USD1.675 per ordinary share in Nyfix, a premium of 95% over its closing price on Wednesday on the Nasdaq. The transaction, already approved by general shareholders’ meetings at Nyse Euronext, Nyse Technologies, the wholly owned affiliate of Nyse Euronext which will make the transaction, and by Nyfix, must still be approved by shareholders in Nyfix and the authorities concerned. The transaction is expected to be concluded during fourth quarter 2009.
31/08/2009

Morale is low in UK asset management sector

A study of 234 asset management professionals (managers, analysts, client service representatives) this July, undertaken by eFinancialCareers.fr, a website specialised in job offers and career management, has found that further layoffs for economic reasons are expected in the second half of 2009 in the UK, La Tribune reports. The most pessimistic respondents (61%) are employed at the asset management affiliates of banks or insurers, while only 27% of those working at mono- or multi-management firms are fearful that there will be a new wave of layoffs to come. On the subject of bonuses, 39% of businesses surveyed say they have bonus structures in place. The periods of evaluation for performance are longer (up to five years), and it is possible to receive bonuses even at times when the business is running a loss. Lastly, the exodus of hedge fund management talent due to taxation policies, and opposition to the European directive on alternative management, are issues that worry that management industry in the United Kingdom.
31/08/2009

Europe continues to be unpopular with investors

Investors are continuing to avoid Europe. According to the most recent statistics from the British management association IMA, for funds domiciled in the United Kingdom, the continental European management sector has seen outflows of EUR36.6m, the largest outflows observed in the month under review. However, interest in corporate bonds remains high, with inflows in July of GBP466.6m, following GBP533.3m in June. “Corporate bonds are continuing to attract investors, but more recently, equity fund creations have also increase, and are now at nearly the same level as bond funds,” says Jane Lowe, director of markets at the association, in a statement. Net sales of funds domiciled in the United Kingdom totalled GBP2.3bn last month (of which GBP829m were in bond funds, and GBP711m in equities funds) light compared with the previous month (GBP2.5bn), but strongly up compared with July 2008, which saw total net outflows of GBP552.8m. Assets under management totalled GBP412.6bn in July, compared with GBP389bn the previous month, and GBP415.1bn one year previously. For funds domiciled abroad, the month saw net sales of GBP280m, compared with GBP44.2m the previous month, and outflows of GBP91.3m in July 2008. Assets in these funds totalled GBP21.1bn in July of this year, up 6% compared with the previous month.
31/08/2009

Islamic banks show good results

With USD580bn from USD350bn total assets at the 100 biggest Islamic banks worldwide have grown 66% yoy in 2008, despite the global financial crisis, La Tribune reports, citing an article by The Asian Banker from Friday.

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