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05/06/2012
Fonds

Un ex-trader de Lehman ferme son hedge fund

Allan Bedwick, ex-trader chez Lehman Brothers, a décidé de fermer son hedge fund global macro après avoir tenté pendant plus de deux ans de gonfler les actifs, selon des documents obtenus par Reuters.Le fonds d’Allan Bedwick , dont les actifs sous gestion s'élèvent à environ 120 millions de dollars, est basé à Hong Kong. Confrontés aux incertitudes persistantes dans la zone euro et aux inquiétudes de ralentissement de la croissance, les investisseurs ont tendance à délaisser les petits acteurs de la gestion alternative au profit des poids lourds du secteur.
Fonds
05/06/2012
Fonds

La crise de la zone euro obnubile les investisseurs

Les investisseurs sont toujours à la recherche des poches de sécurité dans un environnement plus instable que jamais avec la persistance de la crise en zone euro, mais aussi les inquiétudes relatives à l'évolution des économies américaine et chinoise. Durant la dernière semaine au 30 mai, les fonds d’obligations américaines ont drainé plus de 1,5 milliard de dollars alors que les fonds dédiés à l’or ont enregistré leur plus forte collecte depuis janvier dernier, selon les statistiques communiquées par EPFR Global.Les fonds d’actions ont réalisé une collecte nette de 6,2 milliards de dollars, mais -il est vrai- grâce surtout aux souscriptions des fonds d’actions américaines. Cette collecte a surtout été favorisée par les souscriptions dans les ETF grandes capitalisations. Depuis le début de l’année, les investisseurs ont racheté en net pour 8,3 milliards de dollars alors que sur la période correspondante de 2011, ils avaient souscrit en net pour un un peu plus de 35 milliards de dollars.Durant la dernière semaine de mai, les fonds obligataires ont attiré 1,5 milliard de dollars, les fonds monétaires enregistrant pour leur part une collecte nette de 2,2 milliards de dollars. Les souscriptions dans les fonds monétaires américains ont été en partie effacées par les rachats enregistrés du côté des fonds monétaires européens à hauteur de 7,6 milliards de dollars.Cela dit, «les rachats n’ont pas atteint les niveaux observés en août dernier. Une évolution qui pourrait être due en partie au fait que les flux sont actuellement dominés par les investisseurs institutionnels. La clientèle retail, qui est sortie au cours du troisième trimestre 2011, est restée à l'écart».
Fonds
05/06/2012

Schroders lorgne sur le marché des prêts immobiliers

Schroders est en négociations pour entrer sur le marché des prêts immobiliers, selon le Financial Times. La société de gestion étudie la possibilité de lancer une division qui fournira un financement par la dette aux propriétaires de biens immobiliers et aux développeurs. Les négociations sont à un stade précoce et, selon des sources proches du dossier, Schroders n’a pas encore pris de décision concernant la taille de la plate-forme de prêts.
05/06/2012
Fonds

AmpegaGerling fusionne deux fonds

Au 1er juin, Ampega Gerling Investment a fait absorber son petit fonds Aktiv Trend Global (DE000A0NGJ51 / DE000A0Q8HK3), avec 3,3 millions d’euros d’encours en actions et fonds d’actions par le Gerling Portfolio Multi ETF Strategie (DE000A0NGJ69/DE0009847327), un fonds d’ETF de 11,37 millions d’euros qui peut investir en ETF d’actions et d’obligations.
Fonds
05/06/2012

Deka pourrait fusionner avec la Landesbank Berlin

Georg Fahrenschon,l’ancien ministre des Finances de Bavière, a été élu lundi président du conseil de surveillance de la Landesbank Berlin (LBB), trois semaines avant de succéder à Heinrich Haasis également comme président de l’association allemande des caisses d'épargne (DSGV). Selon le Handelsblatt, les proches du dossier estiment que Georg Fahrenschon ne tardera pas à lancer la fusion entre la LBB et le gestionnaire central des caisses d'épargne, DekaBank, deux établissements qui appartiennent désormais tous deux aux caisses d'épargne et dont les activités se recoupent sur plusieurs points.
05/06/2012

Julius Bär recrute un ancien de HSBC

Stephen Kamp a été nommé responsable, «deputy head», pour l’Amérique latine, l’Espagne et Israël, a a annoncé Julius Bär le 4 juin dans un communiqué. Il sera basé à Genève. Stephen Kamp assistera Gustavo Raitzin, membre de l’exécutif de la banque de gestion privée. Il participera aussi à de nombreux projets, selon un communiqué diffusé lundi.Il s’occupera aussi des clients israéliens, résidents ou non. Julius Bär a ouvert un bureau à Tel Aviv en mars dernier. La banque a aussi acquis en 2011 une participation minoritaire de 30% dans GPS, le plus important gestionnaire de fortune privée brésilien. Stephen Kamp travaillait précédemment chez HSBC, où il occupait la fonction de «chief administrative officer» pour la banque privée dans la région EMEA (Europe, Moyen Orient, Afrique).
05/06/2012
Fonds

La liquidité des fonds monétaires a un coût élevé, selon Fitch

Le maintien d’un niveau élevé de liquidité coûte environ 20 à 30 points de base à un fonds monétaire, selon une nouvelle étude de Fitch sur la liquidité des fonds monétaires européens.L’agence de notation constate que les fonds monétaires européens ont bien amélioré leur profil de liquidité depuis 2008, ce qui est un coussin de protection efficace face à la volatilité des investisseurs, mais présente un coût."Les coussins de liquidité des fonds monétaires européens notés par Fitch ont continuellement été maintenus à des niveaux élevés depuis la crise de 2008, avec une exposition aux titres arrivant à échéance hebdomadaire excédant typiquement 25 % des actifs totaux d’un fonds», commente Charlotte Quiniou, directeur au sein du groupe Fund and Asset Manager Rating chez Fitch. En réponse à la crise de la zone euro, la liquidité de portefeuille a été augmentée davantage, et les actifs au jour le jour et très liquides ont atteint 33 % en moyenne.
Fonds
05/06/2012

LGT recrute chez BZ Bank

Directeur de la distribution et du marketing chez BZ Fonds, filiale de gestion d’actifs de BZ Bank (Wilen, canton de Schwyz), depuis avril 2011, Stefan Lindemann a été recruté comme directeur de l’activité produits blancs par LGT Bank in Liechtenstein à compter de début juin.L’intéressé est directement subordonné à Norbert Biedermann, CEO de LGT Bank in Liechtenstein.
05/06/2012

Le suisse CPCI affiche ses projets de croissance externe

A la suite de l’assemblée générale de ses actionnaires qui s’est tenue le 25 avril, le conseil d’administration du gestionnaire de fortune Compagnie Privée de Conseils et d’Investissements (CPCI) a procédé à la deuxième tranche de l’augmentation du capital-actions de 6 à 7 millions, en exécution de la décision prise à cet effet par l’assemblée du 9 juillet 2010, rapporte L’Agefi suisse. Cette augmentation de capital se situe dans l’optique de la poursuite de la stratégie de développement de CPCI, qui comprend en particulier l’intégration ou l’acquisition de tiers gérants. Au-delà des tiers gérants, CPCI reste intéressée par tout type d’acquisition en Suisse compatible avec sa structure actuelle et ses projets de développement.
05/06/2012

Un quart des gestionnaires chinois dans le rouge en 2011

Selonune étude de Z-Ben Advisors, la baisse de 7,35 % des chiffres d’affaires et la hausse des coûts l’an dernier se sont soldés par des pertes pour 25 % des sociétés de gestion de fonds chinoises. Cela a touché plus particulièrement les acteurs de petite et de moyenne taille qui manquaient de capitaux pour s’adapter à l'évolution de la demande des investisseurs, à l’augmentation des charges et aux tendances de marché. Certains sont cependant parvenus à augmenter leur marge bénéficiaire en développant leurs lignes de produits „non-core“.
05/06/2012

Invesco nomme un reponsable des ventes retail

Invesco a nommé Peter Gallagher au poste de head of US retail sales. Il remplace à ce poste John Cooper dont le départ fait suite à la réorganisation des équipes commerciales. Le retail pour les Etats-Unis, le marketing, le product management et les ETF seront réunis dans une seule division commerciale américaine. Elle sera dirigée par Andrew Schlossberg.
05/06/2012

Are German real estate funds doomed?

In a very long article relayed by Handelsblatt, the weekly newsmagazine Wirtschaftwoche claims that subscribers to open-ended real estate funds currently in the process of being liquidated cannot be sure that they will soon see a redemption of their shares, since the banks which provided credit to the funds will have first dibs on the proceeds of sales of properties. Eurohypo (Commerzbank) and WestImmo (WestLB), two institutions which will soon be liquidated, prove to be the toughest at getting their money back. Open-ended real estate funds in Germany still have assets of EUR85bn, distributed over 19 products.The problem of asset sales for vendors is that the banks are hesitant to finance real estate, and that fund managers are not able to get the amounts for the properties that they had figured them at on their books.
05/06/2012

One quarter of Chinese asset managers had losses in 2011

According to a survey by Z-Ben Advisors, a decline of 7.35% in revenues and rising costs last year resulted in losses for 25% of asset management firms with Chinese funds. This particularly affected small and mid-sized actors, who did not have sufficient capital to adapt to changing investor demand, rising costs and market trends. Some, however, were able to increase their profit margins by developing non-core product lines.
05/06/2012

Switzerland's CPCI announces external growth ambitions

Following a general shareholders’ meeting held on 25 April, the board of directors at the wealth management firm Compagnie Privée de Conseils et d’Investissements (CPCI) has held the second round of its capital increase share offering, increasing the number of shares from 6 to 7 million, enacting a decision by the shareholders’ meeting of 9 July 2010, Agefi Switzerland reports. The capital increase comes as part of a continuing development strategy at CPCI, which includes the integration or acqusition of third-party asset management firms. In addition to third-party asset management firms, CPCI continues to be interested in all types of acquisitions in Switzerland which are compatible with its current structure and its development plans.
05/06/2012

Appointment at Julius Bär

Stephen Kamp has been appointed as deputy head for Latin America, Spain and Israel, Julius Bär announced in a statement on 4 June. He will be based in Geneva. Kemp will assist Gustavo Raitzin, member of the executive board at the private bank. He will also participate in several projects, according to a statement released on Monday. Kamp will serve Israeli clients, whether or not they are resident in Israel. Julius Bär opened an office in Tel Aviv in March this year. The bank also acquired a minority stake of 30% in GPS, the largest Brazilian private wealth management firm, in 2011. Kamp previously worked at HSBC, where he served as chief administrative officer for the private bank in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa).
05/06/2012

Western Asset Management drops Legg Mason brand

Western Asset Management has decided to drop the name of its parent company, Legg Mason, from the names of its products, Bloomberg reports. The decision will take effect from 1 August, and aims to boost sales of funds, particularly to retail investors, who are highly sensitive to brand reputation.
05/06/2012

Qatari fund QSI finalises acquisition of Paris Handball

The investment fund Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), which is already a majority shareholder in the Paris SG football team, on Monday officially acquired a 100% stake in Paris Handball, which is becoming a first-division team. QSI would like to make a long-term engagement to Paris Handball, and over the long term hopes to construct a top-calibre national and European team, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of the PSG football club, who will also direct the handball team, says.
05/06/2012

Assets and profits up at Hauck & Aufhäuser

The German private bank Hauck & Aufhäuser has reported an increase in its profits in 2011 to EUR12.9m, compared with EUR9.1m the previous year. Assets under management increased by about EUR3m to over EUR27bn, compared with EUR24bn as of the end of December 2011. The firm has also announced the recruitment of Stephan Rupprechts, from UBS, as the new partner who will be in charge of private and corporate clients. He will begin in his new role on 1 July next year. Hauck & Aufhäuser has also decided to recruit in the real estate sector, to provide clients with the opportunity to invest in residential real estate portfolios from the bank or to participate in club deals. The bank has been present in the financing of real estate projects for two years already.
05/06/2012

Deka may merge with Landesbank Berlin

Georg Fahrenschon, former finance minister of Bavaria, was on Monday elected as chairman of the supervisory board at Landesbank Berlin (LBB), three weeks before also succeeding Heinrich Haasis as chairman of the German savings banks association (DSGV). According to Handelsblatt, sources familiar with the matter say that Fahrenschon will soon merge LBB with the central asset management firm for the savings banks, DekaBank, as the two firms are now both controlled by the savings banks, and their activities overlap in several areas.
05/06/2012

Euro zone crisis worries investors

Investors continued their search for safer places to park their money going into June as Spain struggled to avoid becoming the latest Eurozone market to require bailing out and economic data in the US continues to disappoint. Flows into EPFR Global-tracked US Money Market Funds during the week ending May 30 jumped to a 25 week high while US Bond Funds took in over USD1.5 billion for the 24th week in a row and Gold Funds recorded their biggest inflow since late January while Europe and Emerging Market Equity Funds extended their current outflow streaks.Despite the souring mood in global financial markets, Equity Funds managed to post net inflows of USD6.2 billion. But this was all due to flows into US Equity Funds and half of the total inflows were into a single S&P 500 index fund. While Monday inflows were strong, flows into the equity funds were dissipating at midweek. Bond Fund inflows amounted to USD1.5 billion while Money Market Funds took in a net USD2.2 billion as the flows into US funds were largely offset by redemptions from Europe Money Market Funds that hit an eight week high of USD7.6 billion.Nonetheless, «redemptions still haven’t hit the levels seen last August,» noted EPFR Global Research Director Cameron Brandt. «That may be due in part to the fact that flows are currently dominated by institutional investors. The retail investors who fled during 3Q11 have stayed away.»
05/06/2012

Korean pension fund seeks to increase exposure to international equities

The National South Korean pension fund NPS is seeking to triple its exposure to international equities between 2013 and 2017, according to the five-year asset allocation plan for the fund, Asian Investor reports. Meanwhile, the NPS will reduce its exposure to South Korean bonds. The international equities allocation may increase from 5.7% to more than 10% by 2017.By the end of 2017, the equity allocation is expected to represent at least 30% of total assets, compared with 23.2% currently, an increase of 6.8 percentage points. The allocation to South Korean bonds will then not exceed 60% of total assets, compared with 64.5% currently. The international bond allocation may be increased to more than 10%, from 4.2%. The fund is also planning to increase its exposure to alternative investments, to more than 10%, from 7.8% currently.The performance objective is raised to 6.6% from 6.5% previously, on the basis of a growth outlook of 3.5% to 4% per year, and annual inflation of 3%.If the plan proceeds as projected, assets under management may total USD531bn by the end of 2017, compared with USD303bn at the end of 2011.
05/06/2012

Invesco appoints a head of retail sales

Invesco has appointed Peter Gallagher as head of US retail sales. In this position he replaces John Cooper. The departure follows a reshuffle of sales teams. Retail activities in the United States, marketing, product management and ETFs will be reunited in a single US commercial division, which will be led by Andrew Schlossberg.
05/06/2012

Outflows in life insurance continue

In France, the life insurance sector has continued to post negative flows in the first four months of 2012, Moody’s Investors Service reports in a study published on 4 June. Though these outflows, due to both structural and conjunctural factors, pose mid-term profitability issues, they do not presently pose liquidity risks. “The level of net outflows in France from life insurance companies does not presently endanger the liquidity of the sector,” says Benjamin Serra, an analyst at Moody’s and author of the study. “There is, however, a mid-term profitability issue, and opportunities to develop new activities to compensate for falling profits from savings activities in the future remain limited in the present context. Strong involvemnt in the phenomenon of outflows in the next few quarters, while not representing the base scenario projected by Moody’s, would accentuate pressure on life insurance companies,” he says.
05/06/2012

BlackRock puts IFAs and ETF specialists in contact

BlackRock has unveiled a new version of its “connect” service, which helps US IFAs to get in touch with ETF investment strategists (EIS), Financial Times Fund Management reports. BlackRock predicts that the EIS sector will total USD120bn by 2015.
05/06/2012

Claire Rodrigue leaves Comgest

The fund manager of the European fund at Comgest, where she began 13 years ago, Claire Rodrigue will be leaving the firm at the end of June. In a move which has been long-planned with complete cooperation of the management at Comgest, Rodrigue will be joining a small firm which may subsequently collaborate with Comgest.Due to the departure and growth at the firm, two recruitments have recently been finalised for marketing to the French-speaking countries. The two new recruits will join Comgest in the next few weeks, the first on 25 June, and the second slightly later in the year.
05/06/2012

Lehman ex-trader closes a hedge fund

Allan Bedwick, a former trader from Lehman Brothers, has decided to close his global macro hedge fund, after attempting for more than two years to increase assets in the fund, according to documents obtained by Reuters. Bedwick’s fund, whose assets under management totalled about USD120m, is based in Hong Kong. Facing ongoing uncertainties in the euro zone and concerns about a slowdown in growth, investors have been tending to steer clear of smaller alternative management actors in favour of heavyweights in the sector.
05/06/2012

Assets at Banca March up 16%

As of the end of March, assets in the private banking/wealth banking division of Banca March were up 15.7% to USD5.775bn. Assets managed by March Gestión, for their part, were up 11%. About 70% of funds beat their benchmarks.Banca March reports that in first quarter it launched the Family Businesses fund, which invests exclusively in publicly-traded family businesses, and which comes as an addition to the product range in the Luxembourg Sicav from March Gestión, alongside the Vini Catena (wine) and Terranova (defensive) funds.Net profits at Banca March in first quarter fell to EUR21.3m, comapred with EUR59m (-63.9%), and pre-tax profits are down to EUR58.7m from EUR244.4m (-76%). Profits in the corresponding period of 2011 were boosted by a one-time capital gain of EUR179.6m, which was generated by a sale of a 5% stake in ACS.Lastly, the bank reports that its tier 1 owners’ equity ratio as of the end of March stood at 24.1%, compared with 26.5% one year earlier.
05/06/2012

AmpegaGerling merges two funds

As of 1 June, Ampega Gerling Investment has absorbed the small fund Aktiv Trend Global (DE000A0NGJ51 / DE000A0Q8HK3), with EUR3.3m in assets in shares in equity funds, into the Gerling Portfolio Multi ETF Strategie (DE000A0NGJ69/DE0009847327), a fund of ETFs with EUR11.37m in assets, which may invest in equity and bond ETFs.
05/06/2012

UniImmo: Europa earns capital gains in United States

The open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Europa, from the German asset management firm Union Investment, has resold the Fremont Lake Union Center office building in Seattle (27,616 square metres) to Killroy Realty Corp for USD106m, USD40m higher than the acquisition price in 2005, and USD15m above the last expert valuation.The UniImmo: Europa has five other properties in its portfolio with a value of USD900m, in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Diego and Seattle.
05/06/2012

FTC offers a futures fund

The Austrian firm FTC Capital has announced the launch of a UCITS-compliant managed futures fund, FTC Global Diversified. The German-registered product will invest in equities, bonds, currencies, commodities and volatility, using several strategies. The volatility objective is 15% over a rolling 12-month period.CharacteristicsName: FTC Global DiversifiedISIN code: DE000A1JDWE7Management commission: 2%Performance commission: 20%, with high watermarkHurdle rate: 3%

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