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29/09/2010

Gartmore perd 51 millions de livres

Gartmore va perdre la gestion du Gartmore Growth Opportunities, l’un de ses principaux trusts (51 millions de livres), à la suite du départ du gérant Gervais Williams, rapporte le Financial Times. Le trust, qui a dénoncé le contrat avec Gartmore, a annoncé qu’il prévoyait de fusionner avec Artemis Alpha Trust. Le véhicule ainsi créé sera géré par John Dodd et Adrian Peterson d’Artemis.
29/09/2010
Fonds

Threadneedle repositionne son fonds UK Accelerando

Dans une lettre aux souscripteurs, Threadneedle indique avoir obtenu de la FSA l’autorisation de soumettre à une assemblée générale extraordinaire qui aura lieu le 20 octobre au Menzies Hotel Swindon (13 h 30, heure locale) la proposition d’autoriser le gestionnaire à utiliser des dérivés et des transactions à terme pour son fonds UK Accelerando. Ce qui ne changera rien à l’objectif du fonds et à sa politique d’investissement tout en permettant de mieux couvrir les risques d’un portefeuille qui restera concentré et axé sur les actions britanniques.Selon nos informations, cette lettre comporte non seulement une demande d’autorisation pour le changement de nom du fonds en UK Extended Alpha Fund, mais aussi une demande d’autorisation pour lever la limitation du nombre de parts (limited issue).La proposition de Threadneedle ne pourra être acceptée que si elle obtient d’une majorité d’au moins 75 % des suffrages exprimés.
Fonds
29/09/2010
Fonds

Les hedge funds néerlandais ont gagné 0,3 % en août

Au 1er septembre, l’indice Finles/IEX des hedge funds néerlandais s’est inscrit à 110,34 contre 110 fin juillet, gagnant 0,31 % en août après 0,2 % en juillet (lire notre dépêche du 8 septembre). Depuis le début de l’année, l’indice accuse une perte de 0,29 %.L’indice comprend depuis le 1er septembre le Callanish Global Macro Fund, mais le Robeco All Weather Equity Fund a été «arrêté» en septembre. Au 1er octobre, le Frog Fund sera intégré tant dans l’indice Finles/AEX des hedge funds néerlandais que dans l’indice Hollandse hedge fund 25.Sur les huit premiers mois de l’année, les hedge funds néerlandais affichant les meilleures performances sont DQS Absolute Return Fund, Finles Liquid Macro Fund, World View Global Macro Fund, VOC capital Commodity Alpha Fund et Fonds Bloemendaal.
Fonds
29/09/2010

UBS nomme Alex Wilmot-Sitwell Co-Chairman et Co-CEO pour l’Asie

UBS a annoncé le 28 septembre la nomination d’Alex Wilmot-Sitwell comme Co-Chairman et Co-CEO de la région Asie-Pacifique. Il dirigera cette région en commun avec Chi-Won Yoon, son actuel Chairman et CEO.Alex Wilmot-Sitwell prendra ses nouvelles fonctions le 1er novembre et travaillera à Hong kong. Carsten Kengeter, actuel Co-CEO UBS Investment Bank, devient l’unique responsable d’Investment Bank.
29/09/2010

La banque privée de JPMorgan Chase affiche ses ambitions en Asie

Selon l’Agefi qui reprend les propos de Douglas Wurth, le directeur de la banque privée de JPMorgan Chase à Bloomberg, l’objectif pour l'établissement est de multiplier par trois ses actifs en banque privée en Asie dans les 5 prochaines années. La banque compte également gonfler ses effectifs de 40% notamment en Chine et en Inde.
29/09/2010
Fonds

BlackRock lance deux fonds de performance absolue

La gamme BlackRock Strategic Funds (BSF) s’enrichit de deux fonds coordonnés market neutral de performance absolue, le BSF European Diversified Equity Absolute Return Fund (ISIN LU0525202155) et le BSF European Opportunities Absolute Return Fund (ISIN LU0525201009). Ils sont gérés par Simon Weinberger et Rob Fisher, d’un côté, par Carl Lee et David Tovey, de l’autre.Le premier affiche entre 1.500 et 2.000 lignes «long» et «short» (synthétiques, pour ces dernières), choisies parmi les petites et grandes capitalisations européennes selon la stratégie de l’European Scientific Investment Team de BlackRock qui allie une méthode quantitative à des éléments sur le moral du marché.Le European Opportunities applique la stratégie de l’European Specialist Equity Team. Il se focalise pour sa part sur les petites et moyennes capitalisations choisies par un processus de sélection de valeurs (bottom ump) en fonction d’un cadre thématique comme le changement des habitudes de la vie quotidienne, les changements démographiques ou économiques, des thèmes de marché ou les gains de productivité.
Fonds
29/09/2010

Northern Trust domicilie les fonds de Signina Capital au Luxembourg

Le gestionnaire de fonds Northern Trust a annoncé la migration des hedge funds, fonds de fonds et fonds autonomes offshores gérés par Signina Capital AG, société de gestion indépendante suisse, vers le Luxembourg. Signina Capital a récemment fait appel aux services de gestion de fonds de Northern Trust, notamment pour ses solutions d’administration de fonds et le service Hedge Fund Monitor, qui permet aux clients de suivre et d’analyser en temps réel leurs placements dans des fonds alternatifs."Dans le domaine des hedge funds, nous constatons un intérêt croissant en faveur du lancement de fonds UCITS et non-UCITS dans des juridictions telles que le Luxembourg et l’Irlande», déclare Ian Headon, directeur du développement de produit de la division hedge funds et fonds de fonds spéculatifs en EMEA pour Northern Trust.
29/09/2010
Fonds

Révision à la baisse de la valeur de TMW Immobilien Weltfonds

Le munichois TMW Pramerica Property Investment GmbH a annoncé le 28 septembre que la valeur liquidative des parts de son fonds immobilier offert au public TMW Immobilien Fonds (dont le gel des remboursements a été prorogé le 15 septembre) a été révisée à la baisse de 61 cents, à 50,48 euros, ce qui représente une dépréciation de 1,19 %.Cette mesure a été rendue nécessaire par une nouvelle expertise sur la valeur de l’immeuble Concord Terrace situé à Sunrise en Floride. Cet actif, précédemment valorisé à 10,6 millions de dollars, figure désormais dans les livres pour 0 euro, faute d’avoir trouvé des locataires.L’immeuble avait été loué en 2006 à Nortel Networks jusqu'à mars 2017. Mais, entre-temps, Nortel a fait faillite et a libéré les locaux au 31 octobre 2009, en pleine crise du marché de l’immobilier dans le Sud de la Floride.
Fonds
29/09/2010
Fonds

La Commerzbank a torpillé le Premium Management Immobilien d'AGI

Selon les informations de Die Welt, la crise qui a provoqué la suspension lundi des remboursements par le fonds de fonds immobilier Premium Management Immobilien-Anlagen (PMIA) d’Allianz Global Investors (AGI) est imputable à la Commerzbank, qui a l’exclusivité de la distribution de ce fonds et qui a décidé jeudi d’en abaisser la note à «inintéressant».De plus, elle préconise à ses clients de transférer leurs avoirs aux deux fonds immobiliers offerts au public de sa filiale Commerz Real, en faisant miroiter un droit d’entrée réduit à 3 % au lieu de 5 %. En un jour, cela a provoqué des sorties de plus de 520 millions d’euros pour le PMIA.De plus, ce fonds de fonds était aussi investi dans les deux fonds immobiliers de Commerz Real. Avant la suspension des remboursements, la ligne de 216 millions d’euros dans le hausInvest europa a pu être liquidée, mais Commerz Real a refusé de rembourser plus de 40 millions d’euros sur le hausInvest global.
Fonds
29/09/2010
Fonds

iShares lance trois ETF-pays

Le 28 septembre, iShares (BlackRock) a fait admettre à la négociation sur le segment XTF de la plate-forme électronique Xetra trois nouveaux ETF d’actions de droit allemand qui portent à 707 le nombre de ces produits cotés à Francfort.Les deux premiers, chargés à 0,59 % répliquent les indices MSCI Australie (DE000A1C2Y78) et MSCI Canada (DE000A1C2Y86). Le troisième, sur le MSCI Afrique du Sud (DE000A1C2Y94) affiche une commission de gestion de 0,74 %.
Fonds
28/09/2010

Julius Baer opens a desk dedicated to Russian clients in Singapore

Agefi Switzerland reports that the Julius Baer group is opening an office in Singapore aimed primarily at Russian high net worth clients seeking to seize opportunities to invest in Asia. Julius Baer will be competing with UBS and Credit Suisse in Singapore, as well as BSI, which in March transferred its services for eastern European clients, particularly Russians, from Zurich to Singapore. According to estimates, assets under management in the region for Russian clients may more than double in five years, to USD50bn, according to Roman Scott, CEO of Calamander Capital, based in Singapore.
28/09/2010

New fund administration service launched

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US-based Apex Fund Services on 27 September announced the launch of a fund administration service dedicated to the middle office, entitled Middle Office fund administration service (MOOR). The fund administration specialist says that the new service is the first in the world to offer hedge funds a real-time portfolio management system.
28/09/2010

Cullen Capital Management selects RBC Dexia Investor Services

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } RBC Dexia Investor Services has been selected by Cullen Capital Management, a New York-based management firm, to provide custody, fund administration, cash management and transfer agency services to its new UCITS-compliant fund domiciled in Dublin, specialised in high dividend strategies, Hedge Week reports.
28/09/2010

France advances in sustainable development

According to the most recent edition of a half-yearly study of sustainable development in OECD countries by Petercam, Sweden continues to lead, while Switzerland has taken a place in the top three for the first time.The study, based on 53 indicators in five categories (democracy, environment, education, economy, health, and distribution of wealth), finds that France has improved its position in the rankings, rising from fifteenth to twelfth place, largely due to improvement in environmental issues. France has one of the best indicators of environmental performance, and does honourably in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, its ecological footprint, and protected land area as a percentage of overall land area. But the debate now raging over pension reforms reveals its true scale in a country in which the ratio of population dependent on retirement as a percentage of the overall population is one of the highest. France ranks between Mexico and Japan, in 32nd place. Sweden remains the leader in terms of sustainable development, and does respectably in all categories. It is followed by Norway, which is top in environmental protection. Switzerland and Denmark tie for third place. With the best result in the areas of health and distribution of wealth, Switzerland has gained three places in the rankings, and now nudges out Finland and the Netherlands.
28/09/2010

Wealth managers cost too much

40 per cent of wealthy investors’ expected portfolio returns are being swallowed up by fees and other charges, according to research by Royal Bank of Scotland cited by the Financial Times Fund Management. European private banks and other wealth managers have maintained their cost base over the past two years, despite plunging investment returns and declining assets under management, eroding returns for their clients.
28/09/2010

Credit Suisse has ambitions in French private banking market

Agefi reports that Credit Suisse is predicting 15% growth for its net inflows for private banking activities in France in 2010. The growth objective for inflows group-wide is set at 65 per year.As of the end of June 2010, assets under management by Credit Suisse in France totalled EUR4.5bn, the newspaper notes.
28/09/2010

Lazard AM recruits three former HSBC fund managers

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Denise Simon, Arif Joshi and george Varino, who previously managed the GIF Global Emerging Marekets Bond, GIF New World Income and GIF Global Emerging Markets Local Debt funds at HSBC, are joining Lazard Asset Management, Investment Week reports. They will be based in New York, and will be responsible for creating a range of emerging market bond funds to be sold worldwide. Three research analysts will soon be joining them.
28/09/2010

The Hartford plans to launch ETF funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 22 September, The Hartford submitted a license application to the SEC (form 40-App 1), to create The Hartford Exchange-Traded Fund Trust. The firm plans initially to launch two passive bond ETFs, but other products, including equities products, may follow. The adviser for the funds will be Hartford Investment Financial Services, but the group is also planning to call in sub-advisers from within or outside The Hartford.
28/09/2010

Temenos adds to private banking and wealth management product range

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Temenos Group SA announced on 28 September that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Luxembourg-based software company Odyssey Group SA. The firm offers software solutions for private banking and wealth management, and is in line to post earnings this year of USD75m. The takeover will be largely financed with liquidity and credit totalling USD81m. Temenos will also take on Odyssey’s debt, totalling USD20.3m, which values the Luxemburg firm at USD101.3m.
28/09/2010

Merrill Lynch Bank (Switzerland) appoints an interim CEO

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Merrill Lynch Wealth Management on 27 September announced the appointment with immediate effect of Mario Alini as interim chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch Bank (Switzerland) S.A. Alini will divide his time between Geneva and Zurich. He will report to David Jervis, head of the Wealth Management sector for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. He will also retain his position as chief administration officer (CAO) of MLCM, in which position he reports to Franz Barthel, CAO of the Capital Markets sector of Merrill Lynch in Germany. Alini joined Merrill Lynch in 2007 as CAO for Capital Markets activities in Switzerland, and continues to occupy that position currently.
28/09/2010

Threadneedle focuses on charities and family offices

The asset management firm Threadneedle announced on Monday, 27 September that it has launched a service which will aim to assist charities and family offices in their asset allocation and strategy.At the same time, the fund manager has also announced the arrival of Ian Dalziel, who will take over as head of the new activity, in the newly-created position of Head of Global Private Wealth and Foundations. He will be based in Geneva. Dalziel is a former conservative member of the European parliament, co-founder of the private bank Adam & Company in Edinburgh in 1983, and from 1991 to 2008 was general manager and administrator of the family office Schlumberger-Primat.
28/09/2010

BNP Paribas SS launches a bond clearing service in RMB in Hong Kong

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BNP Paribas Securities Services announced on 27 September that it has launched a complete range of custody and settlement services for Chinese bonds denominated in RMB, in Hong Kong. Its first settlement operation took place on 22 September 2010. The new range of offerings comes as part of ongoing innovation at BNP Paribas Securities Services in the Asia-Pacific region, and its complete international network. It provides a full range of new investment opportunities in RMB to its current and future clients, based in Hong Kong and elsewhere in the world. Trading volumes in RMB settled throughout the region have been steadily rising, and now represent an average of CNY7.2bn per month since February 2010, which opens up new horizons to international investors. “Concretely, this agreement between Hong Kong and China will allow any investor of any type to achieve exposure to Chinese renminbi via the Hong Kong market,,” says Lawrence Au, head of Asia-Pacific at BNP Paribas Securities Services. In addition, “Hong Kong is becoming not merely a gateway to China, and we are very pleased to help our clients to seize opportunities which present themselves on this market.”
28/09/2010

max.xs takes over distribution of First Private funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Frankfurt-based distributor max.xs financial services AG has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with the management firm First Private Investment Management KAG, also based in Frankfurt, as exclusive distributor of First Private funds to bank advisers and IFAs. max.xs has about 27,000 advisors as members. Since March, it has also been distributor of funds from Veritas Investment Trust GmbH, a promoter of ETF funds. Previously, First Private (with assets of between EUR750m and EUR800m) had distributed its products only to institutional investors, funds of funds, and family offices, due to a lack of human resources.
28/09/2010

Axa Real Estate appoints a new head of sustainable development

Axa Real Estate, a specialist in real estate with over EUR39.5 billion of assets under management, wholly-owned by Axa IM, has appointed Jean-Francois Le Teno as global head of sustainable development. He will take over from Gilles Bouteloup who will retire at the beginning of October. Jean-Francois Le Teno has worked for Axa Investment Managers for 3 years across a number of areas of the business, including international projects management, organisation, management control and IT. He previously held similar roles at Société Générale CIB. Jean-Francois Le Teno will form an integral part of Axa Real Estate’s Sustainable Steering Committee, which, chaired by the global heads of asset and fund management, ensures that sustainability remains an essential part of Axa Real Estate’s daily business.
28/09/2010

AGI suspends subscriptions and redemptions for Premium Management Immobilien-Anlagen

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Buy and sell orders for shares in the German-registered real estate fund of funds Premium Management Immobilien-Anlagen – P – EUR (ISIN DE000A0ND6C8) have been suspended from 27 September, Allianz Global Investors (AGI) announced on Monday. The suspension is justified by redemption demands for about EUR1bn from the beginning of the year, half of which was from early September. The fund invests primarily in open-ended real estate funds which themselves have suspended their redemptions, and in properties which it is difficult to liquidate in the short term. As of 24 September, Premium Management Immobilien-Anlagen showed assets of about EUR1.7bn, compared with EUR1.96bn as of 31 March, and EUR2.4bn as of 30 September 2009. The fund was launched on 19 May 2008 by cominvest Asset Management GmbH.
28/09/2010

Primus AM launches a UCITS L/S fund which aims for 12% returns

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Armin Grabowski, founder of Primus Asset Management in Zug (Switzerland), is the manager of the new Flexile Fund – Multi Assets, a Luxembourg UCITS fund launched by Axxion SA, which has recently received a sales license for Germany from BaFin. The long/short product offers daily liquidity, and aims for returns of 12% per year, with average volatility of 5%, investing in equities, commodities and derivatives, with weighting that will depend on the situations in the various markets. The emphasis will be on equities and commodities. The portfolio will include about 25 positions. The largest are currently Metro, Nestlé, BMW and Volkswagen. Stock-picking will depend on fundamental criteria, but buy and sell orders will be triggered by a trend-monitoring system. Sales to retail and institutional investors in Germany will be provided by Dyas Beratungsgesellschaft GmbH of Hamburg. CharacteristicsName: Flexile Fund - Multi AssetISIN Code: LU0493120595Front-end fee: 5%Management commission: 2%Performance commission: 20% maximumMinimal subscription: EUR1,000
28/09/2010

IMA launches a call for bids

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The British asset management association (IMA) has launched a call for bids to outsource its fund surveillance, fundstrategy reports. The professional association says that UCITS regulations allow funds to invest more easily in derivative products, which make the verification process more difficult as to how well the funds are in line with the IMA’s sectoral nomenclature. Interested candidates should present themselves by mid-October and submit a bid by 19 November.
28/09/2010

Eaton Vance closes Global Macro Absolute Return Fund to new subscribers

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 27 September, Eaton Vance Management, an affiliate of Eaton Vance Corp., announced that from 1 October, it is suspending subscriptions to its Global Macro Absolute Return fund, which had USD6.4bn in assets as of the end of August. Current investors and pension fund subscribers may continue to invest in the product. The manager explains that the freeze for new subscriptions is due to the fact that investments in frontier markets are an important element in strategy, which imposes capacity restrictions. Eaton Vance has also announced that its Option Absolute Return Strategy Fund will be launched by Thursday this week.
28/09/2010

Invesco rationalises its product range

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 30 September, Invesco is closing seven funds in its range to subscriptions. The funds will be liquidated by 29 October 2010. The funds are the following: Invesco Alternatives Opportunities FundInvesco FX Alpha Strategy FundInvesco FX Alpha Strategy Fund PlusInvesco International Growth Equity FundInvesco Structured Growth FundInvesco Structured Value FundInvesco Van Kampen Global Bond Fund In addition, the firm has announced that it will be discontinuing the B class of shares in all its funds, which will be converted into A shares.

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