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09/03/2009

Allemagne - Berlin s'attaque aux paradis fiscaux

Mercredi, le conseil des ministres devrait adopter un projet de loi de lutte contre l'évasion fiscale. Ce texte, rapporte la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, punira les particuliers et les entreprises entretenant des relations avec des paradis fiscaux en leur retirant le bénéfice des exemptions fiscales auxquelles ils avaient droit jusqu'à présent. Si la Suisse est ajoutée à la liste qui comprend déjà notamment le Liechtenstein, Andorre et Monaco, cela pourrait frapper tout particulièrement la Lufthansa, qui a acheté Swiss.
09/03/2009

Monde - Les pays du secret bancaire se défendent

Dimanche, à Luxembourg, l’Autriche, le Grand-Duché et la Suisse «ont par avance refusé d'être placés sur la liste noire du G20», rapporte Les Echos. «Les trois pays ont confirmé leur volonté de mieux aider à sanctionner la fraude fiscale, mais ont exclu d’abolir le secret bancaire, à l’origine de leur prospérité», précise le quotidien.
09/03/2009

Royaume-Uni - F&C Investment Trust affiche d'importantes moins-values

Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust a indiqué que le fait d’avoir misé sur les actions lui a fait perdre 680 millions de livres l’an dernier, 2008 ayant été plus mauvais exercice depuis 1974, rapporte The Times. Le portefeuille d’actions s’est déprécié de plus d’un quart à 1,78 milliard de livres et la valeur liquidative a chuté de 28,5 % à 256,6 pence.
09/03/2009

Russie - Standard Bank prend 33 % de Troïka Dialog

Selon La Tribune, la banque sud-africaine Standard Bank, va acquérir 33 % de la banque d’affaires russe Troika Dialog pour 200 millions de dollars, récupérant ainsi la totalité de ses activités en Russie.
09/03/2009

Espagne - Un nouveau patron pour Aviva Investors

Aviva investors a recruté Alfonso del Moral comme directeur pour l’Espagne et le Portugal, rapporte Funds People. L’intéressé a rejoint ces jours derniers le bureau de Madrid (qui compte deux commerciaux et un chargé de clientèle) et remplace William Pawson qui est parti chez Standard Life. Jusqu'à fin décembre, Alfonso del Moral était responsable commercial chez Schroders. Il sera subordonné à Adam Lessing, directeur du développement pour l’Europe et à José Caturla, CEO d’Aviva Gestión de Inversiones.
09/03/2009

Etats-Unis - RBC recrute une équipe d'UBS

Le bureau de Minneapolis/St Paul de RBC Wealth Management a recruté l'équipe Johnson Karels de gestion de fortune d’UBS Financial Services, qui comprend quatre personnes et qui apporte un portefeuille de clientèle haut de gamme de 200 millions de dollars, rapporte le Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal.
09/03/2009

Espagne - Fonditel limoge son directeur des investissements

Après les pertes de 35 % et de 28 % affichées en 2008 par le Velociraptor et l’Albatros, ses deux fonds de hedge funds, Fondtiel, la société de gestion des fonds de pension de Telefónica, a décidé de limoger son directeur des investissements, Íñigo Colomo, rapporte Expansión. Le poste est repris par l’administrateur délégué, Luis Peña. L’encours total de Fonditel est tombé à 400 millions contre 700 millions, et de plus le Velociraptor et l’Albatros ont confié au total plus de 7 millions à Madoff.
09/03/2009

Espagne - JPMAM présente ses deux fonds STEEP

Catherine Vaughn, responsable du développement de Highbridge en Europe, a présenté à Madrid ses fonds US STEEP et Europe STEEP qui reprennent la stratégie d’arbitrage statistique utilisée pour le JPMorgan Highbridge Statistical Market Neutral Fund dans une enveloppe OPCVM III à liquidité journalière, rapporte Funds People. Les portefeuilles comprennent 650 lignes pour le produit axé sur l’Europe et 770 pour celui spécialiste des valeurs américaines. Le US STEEP lancé en mai , a surperformé de 2,11 points de pourcentage son indice de référence tandis que l’Europe STEEP a produit un rendement excédentaire de 1,61 point. Pour janvier, le US STEEP a perdu 2,26 % pour une baisse de 8,43 % du S&P 500 tandis que l’Europe STEEP affichait un résultat stable contre une perte de 6,12 % pour le MSCI Europe.
09/03/2009

Espagne - Claudio Aguirre lance une nouvelle société de private equity

Ancien patron de Merrill Lynch Espagne et fondateur d’Altamar Private Equity, Claudio Aguirre crée une nouvelle société de private equity, Sextante Partners, qui sera dirigée par María Vasquez Ferrandize, qui était responsable de la gestion alternative chez Abante avant que cette société n’arrête son activité hedge funds, rapporte Funds People. Sextante Partners opérera sur toutes les classes d’actifs.
09/03/2009

Suisse - Secret bancaire : le secteur financier sceptique

Selon L"Agefi suisse, les aménagements du secret bancaire rendent sceptique le secteur financier. La plupart des établissements estiment notamment que les banques pourraient se montrer réticentes à l"idée de devenir le bras armé des autorités fiscales étrangères, souligne le quotidien.
06/03/2009

United States - SEC orders freeze of Westgate CM assets

The SEC has instructed the US department of justice to freeze all assets of Westgate Capital Mangement and its director, James M. Nicholson, due to suspected fraud, Hedge Week reports. Nicholson is accused of having deceived investors with unlikely reports of the performance of his eleven hedge funds. A criminal investigation of Nicholson has been launched by the New York state prosecutor’s office. Nicholson was barred in 2001 from practicing as a broker, for giving misleading testimony to an investigation by the NASD, which has since become Finra.
06/03/2009

Germany - Commerzbank to sell fund of hedge fund activities

The Financial Times reports that Commerzbank has put its USD900m fund of hedge fund firm, Comas, up for sale. The German bank is already in negotiations with several groups, including fund of hedge fund managers and private family offices. The expected sale price for Comas is estimated at about EUR10m.
06/03/2009

Germany - Legg Mason adds to sales staff

Marc Homsy, sales director for Fortis Investments, has been recruited as director of business development at Legg Mason Investments. He will be in charge of developing sales in Germany and Luxembourg of open-ended funds, particularly direct sales to institutional investors, and via external networks. He will report to Klaus Dahman, head of sales Germany & Austria.
06/03/2009

Poland - Sarasin opens a Warsaw office

The Polish financial services authority has granted permission to Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd (Rabobank group) to open a representative office in Warsaw. The office has been opened under the name Bank Sarasin & Co Ltd SA Przedstawicielstwo w Polsce. Sarasin is planning to offer ?sustainable Swiss private banking? products to high net worth clients. The primary representatives of Bank Sarasin in Warsaw are Yves Sarasin and Daniel Raemy.
06/03/2009

Germany - Irregularities at Deka?

The asset management for the German savings banks, DekaBank, has announced that it has suspended two of its securities traders for undertaking irregular transactions, who caused the bank excess brokerage fees of EUR0.1-0.25m, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. Die Welt reports that, according to some sources close to the firm, the traders made personal gain from these transactions.Two external auditing committees, one from Deloitte & Touche and the other from PwC, are investigating the bank’s transactions. The PwC committee is seeking to verify whether the Bundesbank’s suspicions of possible irregularities are justified that the irregularities may affect a portfolio totalling EUR1.6bn. For the moment, there are no results; the report is expecting to be ready in time for an annual press conference on 25 March. As a precaution, Deka has already revised its ?economic profits? for 2008 downward by about EUR100m.
06/03/2009

United Kingdom - New CIO for Pension Protection Fund

Ian McKinlay, formerly head of advising for asset management at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), has been appointed chief investment officer of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), Professional Pensions reports. McKinlay had already been acting in this role as an external consultant from April to October 2008. The PPF currently manages assets of over GBP3bn.
06/03/2009

Ireland - Ethical committee to consider NPRF policies

The Irish finance minister, Brian Lenihan, has announced that the lower chamber of Parliament (Dáil Éireann) will soon found an inter-ministerial commission to study the possibility of establishing ethical investment directives for the National Pension Reserve Fund (NPRF), IPE reports. When the national pension fund was founded in 2001, it was decided that an ethical investment policy would not be appropriate or practical since it would be restrictive. But opinions have changed since, and the MPRF commission has introduced several environmental, social and governance (ESG) guidelines into the management of the fund.
06/03/2009

United States - Merrill Lynch sues Deutsche Bank

Merrill Lynch has field a civil suit against Deutsche Bank in New York, for poaching its treasurer, Eric Heaton. Handelsblatt relays reports in Bloomberg that Heaton resigned from Merrill Lynch in February, and immediately joined Deutsche Bank, without respecting a non-competition clause which would have required him to observe a gardening leave of one year. On top of that, eleven experienced managers are said to have been recruited by Deutsche Bank over the course of several months; they left the same day as Heaton. Deutsche Bank admits that it recruited only six senior managers from Merrill Lynch, including Eric Heaton and his brother David, the former head of asset management.
06/03/2009

United Kingdom - Profits at Aviva Investors contract

Aviva Investors has posted operating profits by IFRS accounting standards for 2008 of GBP114m, or 6% less than in 2007, and assets as of 31 December were stable at GBP236bn, while assets under management for the group were up 6% to GBP381bn.
06/03/2009

United States - SSgA recruits a head of sales from ING

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has announced the recruitment of James (Jamie) Kase as executive vice president, head of global sales and marketing. Kase was previously executive vice president of ING Investment Management in New York, and was in charge of distribution in the United States. In his new position, Kase will direct all aspects of sales and marketing in the United States, with a particular emphasis on institutional clients and intermediaries.
06/03/2009

Germany - Fidelity, Franklin Templeton and Pioneer suffered in 2008

In 2008, foreign managers highly specialised in equities were affected particularly severely by the falling markets, Handelsblatt reports. Fidelity has seen a record fall of 44% in its German assets to a level close to EUR7bn. At Fidelity, more than 85% of assets are invested in equities; institutionals brought some improvement to results for the group, and net subscriptions represented EUR60m. The same is true at Franklin Templeton and Pioneer. The former suffered a decline of nearly half of its assets under management to EUR8bn, while net redemptions represented only EUR1.3bn. At Pioneer, assets fell 38% to EUR20.17bn, while market effects were responsible for nearly two thirds of this contraction.In total, assets under management at management firms belonging to the BVI association fell by about 14%.
06/03/2009

Germany - Fidelity satisfied with 2008 results

Due to market effects, assets at Fidelity International on the German market (retail and institutional clients) at the end of December totalled EUR6.97bn (of which EUR1.1bn were for institutional clients and EUR2.2bn for retail clients), compared with EUR12.4bn twelve months earlier. However, the manager declared that it is satisfied to have been able to post net subscriptions of EUR60m, while net redemptions began in November, and, in January-February 2009, they totalled EUR315m. During this latter period, Fidelity has taken on five well-known businesses as clients.

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