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12/01/2011
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Aviva enregistre deux fonds supplémentaires en Italie

Aviva Investors vient de lancer en Italie les fonds Aviva Investors Sustainable Future Pan-European Absolute Return et Aviva Investors Global Convertibles Absolute Return Bond. Ils seront accessibles aux investisseurs particuliers soit via le canal des conseillers financiers soit par le biais des réseaux bancaires, précise un communiqué de presse.Les deux fonds appartiennent à la gamme Absolute Return Ucits III d’Aviva Investors qui représente 2,9 milliards d’euros d’encours. Avec l’enregistrement de ces produits, l’intégralité de la gamme Absolute Return d’Aviva Investors est désormais disponible sur le marché italien, sachant qu’elle est ouverte à la fois aux investisseurs institutionnels et aux investisseurs privés.
Fonds
12/01/2011

Chris Ryan prend les rênes de Perpetual

La société de gestion australienne cotée à l’ASX Perpetual a annoncé le 11 janvier la nomination de Chris Ryan en qualité de managing director et CEO, à compter du 14 février prochain. Chris Ryan prend la succession de David Deverall et sera membre du conseil d’administration. David Deverell, qui avait annoncé son intention de quitter la société le 23 juin dernier, restera jusqu’au 4 mars prochain pour faciliter la transition.Avec plus de trente ans d’expérience dans les services financiers dans la zone Asie-Pacifique, Chris Ryan a développé une expertise particulière dans la gestion d’actifs. Il a notamment dirigé les activités de gestion d’actifs dans la région de HSBC, Fidelity International et ING Investment Management. Il avait dernièrement développé une activité de conseil auprès de Citibank. Les actifs sous gestion de Perpetual s'élèvaient à 27,3 milliards de dollars australiens au 30 novembre dernier.
12/01/2011

Une arrivée dans l'équipe de gestion actions de Petercam

Petercam Institutional Asset Management a annoncé, mardi 11 janvier, l’arrivée de Kris Hermie au sein de son équipe de gestion de fonds d’actions orientés vers les stratégies à haut rendement de dividendes. L’intéressé a déjà rejoint Olivier Hertoghe en tant que co-gérant du Petercam Equities Europe Dividend, précise un communiqué. Entre janvier 2007 et décembre 2010, Kris Hermie évoluait au sein de l'équipe «Value - Dividend equity» chez ING Investment Management (IIM).Chez Petercam, il sera, entre autres, chargé du développement des futures stratégies de la société de gestion basées sur les actions à haut rendement de dividendes.
12/01/2011

Les banques suisses optimistes pour 2011

Selon L’Agefi suisse, un sondage d’Ernst & Young réalisé en décembre dernier auprès d’une soixantaine de dirigeants de banques suisses indique que 58% d’entre eux sont optimistes pour 2011 et qu’ils sont même 34% à juger les perspectives très favorables. Corollaire de cet optimisme, certaines banques n’excluent pas une augmentation de leurs effectifs.Les évolutions actuelles concernant le secret bancaire, un éventuel impôt compensatoire et la transparence fiscale, sont considérées par une grande majorité de banques (73%) comme positives pour l’avenir de la place financière. La concurrence devrait se renforcer dans le domaine de la gestion de fortune, avec à la clef des fusions et acquisitions.
12/01/2011

European Securities and Markets Authority holds first meeting

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), which on 1 January replaced the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), on 11 January announced that its board of directors on that date held its first meeting in its Paris offices. At the inaugural meeting, Carlos Tavares, who was president of the CESR from July to September 2010, and who was previously vice president from February 2009, was elected as vice-president of ESMA. He will serve as president until the election of a president for ESMA, which will take place in the next few weeks. The members of the supervisory board were also established, as ESMA named its first six members: Karl-Barkhard Caspari, of the German BaFin, Jean Guill, from the Luxembourg financial sector surveillance commission (CSSF), Alexander Justham from the British FSA, Raul Malmstein from the Estonian Finantsinspektioon, Kurt Pribil from the Austrian financial markets authority, and Fernando Restoy from the Spanish national commission for securities markets (CNMV). ESMA also passed its main rules of operation, the decision-making process for the adoption of technical standards and recommendations, and several other dispositions, including a code of conduct and a body of financial regulations.
12/01/2011

Antoine de Salins succeeds Romain Boscher at Groupama AM

Groupama Asset Management this morning announced the name of the successor to Romain Boscher, its former chief investment officer. He is Antoine de Salins, who since 2003 had been a board member at the French national pension fund, the Fonds de réserve pour les retraites (FRR), and chairman of its manager selection committee. In addition to being appoints as director of management at Groupama AM, he also becomes deputy CEO and a member of the board of directors. He will begin in his new position on 7 February.Boscher will join Amundi, the asset management affiliate 75% controlled by the Crédit Agricole group and 25% by Société Générale, in mid-January, as global head of equities, a newly-created position, according to several sources.
12/01/2011

Hennessee hedge fund index up 3.04% in December

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Hennessee hedge fund index gained 3.04% in December, and 10.05% for the year as a whole, while at the same time, the S&P 500 gained 6.53% in December and 12.79% for the twelve months. Hedge funds showed their largest monthly gain of the year, but finished behind traditional equities indices for the year. Charles Gradante, co-founder of Hennessee Group, says this development is characteristic of a market environment driven by momentum rather than fundamentals. Since March 2009, the Hennessee hedge fund index has gained 39%, compared with 71% for the S&P 500. But since the beginning of the credit crisis in September 2008, the index has gained 16%, compared with a loss of 2% for the S&P 500 index. The best-performing strategies for the year 2010 as a whole were event-driven, distressed, fixed income and emerging markets.
12/01/2011

Two new heads at Swiss Life AM

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Swiss Life Asset Management (France) announced on Tuesday, 11 January that new members have joined the management firm: Gilles Frisch, head of the Asset Opportunities management unit, and Anne-Frédérique Cabasset Doyer, head of institutional clients. From 2 November 2010, Frisch, 41, who previously held the position of director of credit arbitrage management at Dexia Asset Management, is appointed to the Fixed Income Europe management department at Swiss Life AM. Doyer, 42, previously worked in the Exane group, where, a statement says, she was active in every step of the sales process for financial products, including management of calls for bids, design of sales assistance tools, adaptation of product offerings to local regulatory contexts, and creation of funds. At Swiss Life AM, she joins the sales team, and will report to Alain Konrad, director of business development.
12/01/2011

BlackRock France scales up distribution

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The team led by Eric Wohleber, CEO of BlackRock in France, has gained the addition of David Disneur, as head of development for distribution clients (funds of funds, private banks, platforms). He will assist Gad Amar, head of the segment since September 2010.Disneur joined the iShares marketing team in London in 2008, before BGI was acquired by BlackRock, an acquisition which took effect in December 2009. There, he developed various strategic campaigns.Sylvain Favre-Gilly is promoted to managing director. He was previously director, in charge of relations with institutional clients.Samiye Dumaz, vice president in charge of the business support team, is appointed director.
12/01/2011

Guillaume Ménabé joins Finisterre Capital

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Guillaume Ménabé has joined the US management firm Finisterre Capital, as junior portfolio manager of the Global Oopportunity Fund, Hedgeweek reports. He will also participate in the management of the Foreign Exchange and Commodities portfolio. Ménabé previously worked at JP Morgan in London.
12/01/2011

Universal launches a sustainable development bond fund for Sarasin

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The German management firm Universal-Investment has announced the launch of a sustainable development bond fund, managed by the Swiss firm Banque Sarasin, the Sarasin-FairInvest-Bond-Universal-Fonds A, on 3 January 2011. The German-registered product invests 80% of its assets in securities denominated in euros, and 20% in bonds denominated in other currencies. Two thirds of the issuers, all of them top-ranked, are from OECD countries, while the remainder is a combination of bonds from international institutions, and to a lesser degree, corporate bonds. Characteristics Name: Sarasin-FairInvest-Bond-Universal-Fonds A ISIN Code: DE000A1C2XF8 Front-end fee: 3.50% Management commission: 0.65% Advising commission: 0.40%
12/01/2011

Brummer & Partners closes a hedge fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Swedish hedge fund firm Brummer & Partners has for the second time in its history been required to close a hedge fund, Dagens Industri reports. The product in question is the firm’s Asia fund, which lost 18.2% between its launch in July 2009 and November 2010. Meanwhile, the fund is launching two new funds, the Swedish newspaper reports.
12/01/2011

AMF issues new securitisation regulations

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The French financial market regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), on 11 January published modifications to its general regulations, laid out in the announcement dated 5 January 2011, which appeared in the 9 January 2011 issue of the Official Journal, which take on board new rules for securitisation organisms, which will eventually replace common debt funds, and which may take the form of securitisation companies or common securitisation funds. The AMF has also published instruction number 2011-01 of 11 January 2011, which applies articles 421-17-1 to 421-17-18 of the general regulations, which lay out conditions and procedures for the issuance of a visa for the prospectus and sales details for financial securities issued by securitisation organisms, the content and distribution conditions for prospectuses, in keeping with article 212-7 of the general regulations of the AMF, and periodical documents published by the securitisation firm, or in the case of a common securitisation fund, the management firm. The AMF has also published a series of “questions and answers from the AMF related to securitisation organisms” (AMF position no. 2011-12, dated 11 January 2011), which responds to frequently-asked questions on the subject for professionals. The issued discussed there largely are related to the role of the management firm, the role of the depositary, eligible assets, offering to the public or the admission to trading of financial securities, and sales of the financial securities issued.
12/01/2011

French government launches consultation on modernisation of UCITS IV directive

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The French minister of the economy, Christine Lagarde, on 11 January announced that a proposed bill to modernise the legal framework for asset management, in order to strengthen protections for investors and savers as well as the competitiveness of products and actors at the time that UCITS IV legislation is transposed into French law, has been submitted to public consultation. In addition to the legal requirements, the consultation aims to fulfil “a market strategy to develop the French asset management industry, set out by the High Committee” on 15 October 2010, the minister says in a statement. In addition to the proposed legislation, the ministry has also submitted for consultation a draft bill which lays out the details of taxation for sales of shares in Sicav funds to non-resident shareholders. These details aim to ensure a competitive tax regime for the Paris industry as host to European master funds. Responses to the present consultation are due by 11 February. The consultation will be followed by a second consultation which will focus on funds which do not fall under UCITS IV, and other French-registered collective investment organisms. It will begin in February, the French government says.
12/01/2011

Bankinter launches a guaranteed fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } With the Bankinter Podium Garantizado FI, Bankinter has released a fund which guarantees 100% of initial capital (as of 15 February 2011) after four years, for which the minimal subscription is set at EUR600, Cinco Días reports. Remuneration will be equivalent to a 1-to-1 scale with the appreciation of a basket of three equally-weighted shares (Telefónica, Iberdrola and Santander), up to 65%. If the revualation is more than that, the subscriber will receive the totality of initial net asset value at maturity. Bankinter will not charge a front-end fee for the fund, with a management commission of 0.15%.
12/01/2011

Deka invests in Marseille

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } For its institutional retail fund Deka S-PropertyFund No. 2, the German management firm Deka Immobilien has acquired the Marseille building Le Patio (8,900 square metres), located in the Prado district, and leased to the Caisse Primaire Centrale d’Assurance-Maladie (CPCAM) and an affiliate of Electricité de France, for EUR26m. It is the first institutional investment for Deka in the southern French city. The vendor of the property is the management firm Custom House Capital.
12/01/2011

BNY Mellon AM releases three more funds in Germany

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } WestLB Mellon Asset Management KAG, a joint venture controlled 50/50 by BNY Mellon Asset Management and WestLB, on 11 January announced that three Irish-registered funds from the BNY Mellon AM group have been granted a sales license in Germany. The funds are the BNY Mellon Global Dynamic Fund, managed by Paul Brain at the British firm Newton Investment Management (see Newsmanagers of 30 September 2010), the Mellon Global Equity Higher Income Fund, managed by James Harries, also at Newton (see Newsmanagers of 4 August and 27 September 2010), and the BNY Mellon Latin America Infrastructures Fund, managed by the Brazilian affiliate BNY Mellon ARX Investimentos (See Newsmanagers of 11 January 2011). All three products carry a front-end fee of 5%. Management commission is 0.75% for the Global Dynamic Bond Fund, and 2% for each of the other two products.
12/01/2011

Union Investment rationalises product range

td p { margin-bottom: 0in; }p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As a part of its annual revision of its product range, which will take effect from 25 February, Union Investment announced on 11 January that six of its funds will be absorbed into other funds. This is in line with the strategy relied on at Union of withdrawing products from the market which are redundant in terms of investment objectives, or which have excessively low asset levels to allow for economically reasonable management.Union has not acquired any competitors, and since does not have the alibi of parallel product ranges, as do Allianz Global Investors (AGI), after its acquisition of cominvest from Commerzbank as part of the sale by Allianz of Dresdner Bank to Commerzbank. Therefore, the central asset management firm for the German co-operative banks must be understood to have succumbed to the trends of the times, launching funds which are fashionable at a particular time, but which were not necessarily economically rational. All the mergers will be undertaken with the strictest fiscal neutrality, automatically and with no fees for shareholders. Name of fund Absorbed by UniSelection: Europa UniEuroAktien UniMoneyMarket: EURO 2 UniMoneyMarket: Euro UniDollarBond UniMoneyMarket: USD UniEuroBond “XL“ UniEuroRenta Governments UniFavorit A UniFavorit: Renten UniFavorit -net- A UniFavorit: Rente
12/01/2011

Positive bottom line in 2010 for ETF activity on NYSE Euronext

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In 2010, two new providers launched ETFs replicating the Nyse Euronext indices: the German firm ComStage (Commerzbank), and the Portuguese Espirito Santo Activos Financeiros (ESAF). In total, at the end of last year, NYSE Euronext listed 491 ETFs from 16 providers 56a times in Europe (Frankfurt had 761 ETFs), which represents a year-on-year increase of 9.35%: 111 ETFs were launched, while 47 were removed from listing. For the year 2010 overall, total trading volumes for ETFs totalled EUR97.9bn, compared with EUR76.9bn the previous year (+27.3%), while the number of transactions increased 23.5% to nearly 2.27 million. As of the end of December, total assets in all ETFs listed on European markets of NYSE Euronext were up 24.8% year on year, to EUR132.7bn. NYSE Euronext says that the average spread for all ETFs listed was 34.2 basis points last year.
12/01/2011

PineBridge launches a Newcits fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } PineBridge Investments has announced the launch of a mergers and acquisitions arbitrage Newcits fund, the PineBridge Merger Arbitrage, Citywire reports. The fund is managed by Lan Cai, managing director.
12/01/2011

The time for feeling sorry is over, says Barclays

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Bob Diamond, president and CEO of the British bank Barclays, promised that his bank would show in the future that it had learned its lessons, Les Echos reports. But he also warned on 11 January before the finance commission of the British parliament that “the time for remorse and apologies will end” soon for the banking sector. He refused to say whether he would forgo his bonus, as he has done in the past two years. His pay totalled GBP21m in 2007.
12/01/2011

Inflows down in November in UK

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Net inflows in the UK totalled GBP1.4bn in November, compared with GBP2.04bn in October, and GBP2.4bn twelve months previously, according to statistics from the British investment management association (IMA). Equities were the most popular asset class last month, with net inflows of GBP685m, compared with GBP475m in October. Net inflows to bonds fell to GBP160m, a net decline compared with an average of GBP588m in the past twelve months. For the second consecutive month, the emerging markets sector earned the best results in November, with net inflows of GBP337m. Commodities funds, for their part, posted record net inflows of GBP208m in the month under review. In the first eleven months of the year, net inflows totalled GBP21.4bn, compared with a record GBP23.7bn between January and November 2009. As of the end of November, assets under management totalled GBP554.9bn, compared with GBP556.9bn the previous month, and GBP467bn one year previously. Gross inflows via platforms totalled GBP3.4bn in November, compared with a monthly average of GBP3bn since the beginning of the year. The market share for platforms totalled 36% of gross inflows in November.
12/01/2011

Michael Wasserman repositions Swip Financial fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The manager of the Swip Financial fund since December, Michael Wasserman, is planning to reduce the fund’s exposure to the British financial sector and to emerging markets, Fundstrategy reports. The manager is also planning to take a closer interest in European banks and the real estate sector in Austria, Germany and Poland.
12/01/2011

Henderson acquires Gartmore

The boards of Henderson and Gartmore announced this morning that agreement has been reached on the terms of a recommended acquisition by Henderson of the entire issued share capital of Gartmore. The combined estimated AUM of the new group is GBP78.1bn as at 31 December 2010, (GBP16.5bn for Gartmore). Under the terms of the Acquisition, Gartmore Shareholders will receive 0.6667 of a New Henderson Share for each Gartmore share. Based on the closing price of 138.2 pence per Henderson share on 11 January 2011, being the last business day prior to this announcement, the acquisition values each Gartmore share at 92.1 pence and values the issued share capital of Gartmore at approximately GBP335.3m.Gartmore shareholders will hold approximately 22.5 per cent of the enlarged share capital of Henderson immediately following completion of the acquisition, giving them the opportunity to share in the development of the enlarged business. Henderson has received irrevocable undertakings to support the scheme, in respect of a total of 218,252,401 Gartmore Shares representing, in aggregate, approximately 60 per cent. of the issued share capital of Gartmore including from Hellman & Friedman, Gartmore’s largest shareholder.Henderson has also secured commitments from the key Gartmore portfolio managers, who collectively have responsibility as lead managers for 84 per cent (including sub-advised AUM) of Gartmore’s Estimated AUM, that they will remain with the combined group and that they will agree to be bound by the scheme.
12/01/2011

Former SGAM UK manager joins Investment Solutions

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Rufus Warner, one of the founders of SG Asset Management UK, has been recruited by Investment Solutions, an investment services firm based in South Africa, to head its development in the United Kingdom, Financial News reports.
12/01/2011

ISAM recruits two heads from Man Group

ISAM, the London hedge fund manager set up by Stanley Fink, has hired two senior employees from Man Group, where Mr Fink was formerly working, the Financial Times wrote.Alexander Lowe, the former chief executive of Man global strategies, has joined ISAM as business development director, while Riva Waller, former head of managers at Man, has joined to become chief operating officer.
12/01/2011

Source makes major additions in distribution

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 11 January, Source announced that it has recruited five high-level heads for its distribution teams, to focus on the British, French, and Scandinavian markets, and on the bond and commodity asset classes.For institutional distribution in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Ceorgina Courtenay-Evans, director, who comes from Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Capital markets, has been recruited.For France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Monaco, Pierre Olivier Cohen will be director in charge of institutional investor clients, private banks, and fund distributors dedicated to retail clients. He joins from Pioneer Investments.Kenneth Barner-Rasmussen, who joins from Nordea Bank in Helsinki, is appointed director, and will be in charge of Scandinavian clients. For bonds, James Finch, head of the financial instututions team at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) in London, joins Source as executive director. He will primarily be in charge of developing distribution of bond products, relying for the better part on the partnership established in December with Pimco (Allianz Global Investors group). Patrick Witteveen joins Source as director, to concentrate on sales of publicly-traded index-based products investing in commodities. He was in charge of sales activities serving institutional investors in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Singapore at ETF Securities, and also spent some time at Type group Securities, assisting in the establishment of their ETF trading desk in Geneva.
12/01/2011

Daiwa Global Asset Services chooses BNY Mellon as depositary

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BNY Mellon Trustee & Despoitary (UK) has been selected by Daiwa Fund Asset Services, a division of Daiwa Securities Group Global Asset Services, as depositary for its funds licensed for sale in the United Kingdom. Daiwa Fund Asset Services is in the process of enlarging its hosting service for funds domiciled in Ireland as British products aimed primarily at institutional or high net worth private clients.
12/01/2011

New member joins equities management team at Petercam

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Petercam Institutional Asset Management announced on Tuesday, 11 January that Kris Hermie has joined its equities fund management team oriented to income strategies. Hermie has already joined Olivier Hertoghe as co-manager of the Petercam Equities Europe Dividend fund, a statement says. Hermie is also in charge of development of future strategies for the management firm based on income equities. Between January 2007 and December 2010, Hermie developed his skills in the “Value – Dividend equity” team at ING Investment Management (IIM).

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