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03/05/2010

Jeffries renforce son équipe de taux

Jefferies annonce le recrutement de plusieurs personnes ces dernières semaines, qui sont venues rejoindre son équipe dédiée aux produits de taux en Asie-Pacifique. Shiran Dias et Sailesh K. Jha ont été nommés managing directors, et auront comme mission d'établir des relations commerciales avec les banques privées,, les banques centrales et les hedge funds de la region. Jun-ichi Kasakura et Philip Wen occupent le poste de senior vice président.
03/05/2010

Les investisseurs déçus par Barclays

Sur les trois premiers mois de l’année, rapporte l’Agefi, Barclays a réalisé un PNB de 8,1 milliards de livres, contre 9,4 milliards attendus par les analystes de KBW. Cette chute des revenus est particulièrement importante au sein du pôle banque d’investissement où le PNB a diminué de 26% à 3,8 milliards de livres là où les analystes visaient, en moyenne, 5 milliards de livres. De fait, la banque n’a pas profité autant que ses concurrentes du trading dans le taux fixe, les changes et les matières premières, ajoute le quotidien.
03/05/2010

Nominations chez UFFI REAM

UFFI REAM, la filiale du groupe Laurad spécialisée dans la création et la gestion de produits d’investissement immobiliers pour compte de tiers, vient d’annoncer le renforcement de ses équipes dédiées à la commercialisation des fonds ainsi qu’à l’asset management immobilier. Mikael Fellbom, 49 ans, est nommé directeur commercial, Virginie Romefort, 47 ans, prend la direction des Investissements. Enfin Clémence de Cambourg, 31 ans, est nommée «asset manager». Avant de rejoindre UFFI REAM, Mikael Fellbom était responsable de la Vente Actions chez Natixis Securities tandis que Virginie Romefort était depuis 2005 responsable des Acquisitions chez STAM Europe. Enfin Clémence de Cambourg occupait également depuis 2005 la fonction d’Asset Manager chez COGEDIM Valorisation.
03/05/2010

La Deutsche Bank se renforce dans les fonds immobiliers

RREEF, filiale de fonds immobiliers de la Deutsche Bank, a repositionné son fonds offert au public grundbesitz invest, rebaptisé grundbesitz Europa, qui pèse 2,6 milliards d’euros d’encours tandis que le grundbesitz Global affiche 615 millions d’euros et a été le numéro un des souscriptions nettes depuis le début de cette année, indique le Handelsblatt. Georg Allendorf, directeur général de RREEF, prévoit pour cette année des investissements de 500 millions d’euros pour la branche fonds immobiliers offerts au public et de 500 millions également pour sa division fonds immobiliers institutionnels, l’objectif étant, pour ces derniers, de figurer parmi les cinq premiers acteurs du secteur.Cependant la concurrence ne dort pas : IVG, le numéro un, cherche à recruter des clients tandis qu’iii, le numéro deux, se recentre sur les fonds institutionnels après la déroute de ses fonds offerts au public. Le numéro trois, Hansainvest, compte lever 300-400 millions d’euros en lançant d’ici à la fin de l’année jusqu'à quatre nouveaux fonds immobiliers institutionnels.
03/05/2010

Regain d'espoir pour Woolworth

La liquidation de Woolworth a pu être évitée in extremis jeudi. Depuis, rapporte la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, le capital-investisseur Gordon Brothers a présenté une nouvelle offre prévoyant la préservation des 4.500 emplois et de tous les magasins ainsi qu’un financement complet. Le capital-investisseur Cerberus, pour sa part, a indiqué qu’une nouvelle offre a été déposée par le holding HH, qui comprend notamment le groupe de distribution Tengelmann et le discompteur textile Kik.
03/05/2010

"Les banques qui se financent largement à court-terme occupent une place prépondérante dans notre gestion monétaire ISR"

Fonsicav est un fonds monétaire "paquebot" qui pèse entre six et dix milliards d'euros et vient d'intégrer une caractéristique ISR. Un mariage loin d'être forcé compte tenu de l'intérêt que les dimensions extra-financières peuvent trouver dans la gestion monétaire comme Hervé Guez, le responsable recherche ISR chez Natixis AM qui en assure le pilotage l'a expliqué à Newsmanagers. A noter que, qualité des émissions oblige, les banques sont très présentes au sein du portefeuille...
03/05/2010
Fonds

GLG gèle les souscriptions d'un de ses fonds

A compter du 5 mai, GLG Partners ferme aux nouvelles souscriptions la version coordonnée de son fonds UK Alpha Select parce qu’elle a désormais atteint les 300 millions de dollars ou 195 millions de livres qui lui avaient été assignés comme objectif d’encours.Ce produit a été lancé seulement le 19 février et il réplique un hedge fund long/short equity market neutral géré par une équipe que dirige John White.
Fonds
03/05/2010

Le patron de H&M investit à Londres

Par l’intermédiaire de sa société Ramsbury, de Stockholm, le milliardaire suédois Stefan Persson, qui possède H&M, vient d’acheter pour 225 millions de livres un ensemble de bureaux et de magasins sur Regent Street à Londres, indique The Sunday Times. Parmi les locataires figurent Banana Republic, H&M et Armani Exchange.Le vendeur est la société immobilière non cotée Delancey, qui semble avoir perçu plus que le double de son investissement de 2006, le prix étant si élevé que la transaction génère seulement un rendement initial de 4,75 % pour Stefan Persson.
03/05/2010
Fonds

Lloyds va lancer un fonds infrastructures

Lloyds Banking Group prépare le lancement d’un nouveau fonds d’infrastructures qui aidera à financer des projets du secteur public au Royaume-Uni et en Allemagne, rapporte le Financial Times. Le fonds serait centré sur les infrastructures sociales et économiques comme les aéroports, les ports et l’énergie.
Fonds
03/05/2010

Prudential veut vendre ses actifs britanniques et américains

Pour financer l’acquisition de son concurrent asiatique AIA (groupe AIG), Prudential envisage selon les milieux financiers de vendre ses activités au Royaume-Uni pour 4,5 milliards de livres, puis celles aux Etats-Unis (Jackson National Life) pour 6,5 milliards de livres, rapporte The Sunday Times.Le fonds souverain singapourien GIC figurerait parmi les investisseurs ayant l’intention de souscrire à l’augmentation de capital de «The Pru».
03/05/2010

Bronca des institutionnels contre Home Retail Group

Un investisseur institutionnel qui a refusé d'être identifié considère que le programme de rachat d’actions de 150 millions de livres monté par Home Retail Group est un gaspillage et que la société, qui possède les enseignes Argos et Homebase, ferait mieux de consacrer cet argent à lutter contre la concurrence des grandes chaînes de supermarchés, rapporte The Sunday Times.Deux autres grands investisseurs ont également critiqué le rachat d’actions et suggèrent un démantèlement du groupe. Plusieurs capital-investisseurs seraient intéressés par Homebase (bricolage) que KKR, souhaiterait fusionner avec sa filiale néerlandaise Maxeda, qui dispose déjà d’une importante division bricolage à l'échelon européen.
03/05/2010

Italian funds most exposed to Greek debt

Il Sole – 24 Ore has published a list of the Italian bond and money market funds most exposed to Greek debt. The top three, in terms of total exposure of the portfolio, are Amundi Funds Euro Select Bond (19.25%), Novara Aquilone Sicav – BT Euro R (13.58%), and Fondersel Reddito (10.08%).
03/05/2010

UBS-SDIC launches its first QDII fund

On 6 May, the management firm UBS-SDIC will launch its first QDII fund (the 16th since the launch of the program, and the 6th since the beginning of this year). The product will be the Global Emerging Market Equity Fund, which will be based on the MSCI Emerging Market index as its benchmark, and which will allocate at least 60% of its assets to equities, half of them in emerging markets. The custodians will be ICBC for China, and Standard Chartered in other countries. Z-Ben Advisors reports that the fund will be listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange, which will allow the management firm to attract capital through the banking network as well as through brokers. For each of these sources, investment is limited to CNY2bn. The new product, which received its sales license in mid-December, will be managed by Lu Rongqjanfg, who is already manager of the CSI 300 Index Classified Fund.
03/05/2010

ETF tax reforms may slow development of these funds, says Samsung AM

From the month of July, ETFs based on Korean assets will be taxed at a more attractive rate than ETFs with foreign underlying assets, which will be required to pay a tax of 15.4%, Asian Investor reports. Bae Jae-Kyu, chief investment officer for ETF activities at Samsung AM, says the tax will damage the development of ETF funds in Korea.
03/05/2010

Funds seek more than USD2bn from Porsche

Elliott Associates has confirmed that 18 more funds have joined the first 17 plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Porsche for share price manipulation, and the demands for damages and interest now exceed USD2bn, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The funds accuse Porsche of knowingly misleading investors and lying about its true intentions concerning Volkswagen. At the end of October 2008, the firm cornered the market for shares in Volkswagen, whose share price at one point topped EUR1,000.
03/05/2010

Deutsche Bank in real estate fund drive

RREEF, the real estate fund management affiliate of Deutsche Bank, has repositioned its open-ended real estate fund grundbesitz invest, which is now known as grundbesitz Europa, with EUR2.6bn in assets, while the grundbesitz Global now has EUR615m, and has had the largest volume of net subscriptions in the category since the beginning of this year, Handelsblatt reports. Georg Allendorf, CEO of RREEF, expects investments this year of EUR500m for the open-ended real estate fund operation, and another EUR500m for the institutional real estate fund division, with the objective of becoming one of the top five management firms in the latter category. The competition is not idle, however: IVG, the top firm in the sector, is making a major effort to recruit new clients, while iii, the number two provider, is refocusing on institutional funds as its open-ended fund operations have gone awry. The number three asset management firm, Hansainvest, is planning to raise EUR300-400m by the launch of up to four new institutional real estate funds by the end of the year.
03/05/2010

Equiduct negotiating with Nasdaq OMX over Neuro

Agefi reports that, following an announcement on Wednesday by Nasdaq OMX Europe that it will be closing Neuro, its alternative trading platform (MTF) on 21 May, the trading platform Equiduct on Friday announced that it is in exclusive talks with the operator to offer Neuro clients an opportunity to connect the two systems without interruption to trading flows.
03/05/2010

GLG freezes subscriptions for one of its funds

From May 5th, GLG Partners will close its newcits UK Alpha Select to new subscriptions, since this vehicle has already reached the USD300m (GBP195m) mark it had been assigned at the time of the launch, on February 19th. The fund is et UCITS III compliant version of the long/short equity market neutral fund managed by John White.
03/05/2010

Investors disappointed in Barclays

In the first three months of the year, Agefi reports, Barclays has earned net banking proceeds of GBP8.1bn, compared with a predicted estimate of GBP9.4bn advanced by analysts at KBW. This decline in revenues is particularly severe for the investment banking unit, where net banking proceeds fell by 26% to GBP3.8bn, compared with analysts’ expectations of GBP5bn. The bank has not profited as much as its rivals from trading in fixed income, currencies and commodities, the newspaper adds.
03/05/2010

New contract for BNY Mellon Asset Servicing

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has been selected by UOB Asset Management (UOBAM) to provide custody and administration services for its fund United Asia Bond Multi Currency Fund, domiciled int he Cayman Islands. The product has assets of about CNY5bn (USD50m).
03/05/2010

Carlyle takes over management mandates from Stanfield CP

On Thursday evening, the Carlyle Group announced that it will be taking over the management mandates of Stanfield Capital Partners, a specialist in bond management. These mandates represent USD5.1bn in the form of CLO (USD4.2bn) and other credit assets (USD950m); including these assets, total assets at Carlyle in alternative credit come to USD18.1bn, of which USD14.4bn are in CLO assets. The financial terms of the transaction have not been made public.
03/05/2010

Spängler and IQAM create a joint brand

The management firm Carl Spängler Kapitalanlagegesellschaft, an affiliate of the Spängler private bank, and the Institut für Quantitatives Asset Management (IQM) have decided to create the joint brand Spängler IQAM Invest for funds and other asset management products. Spängler KAG will handle wholesale clients, including banks, funds of funds and wealth managers, while IQAM will serve institutional investors (insurers, businesses, pension funds and professional organisations). The product range from Spängler IQAM (Spängler KAG acquired a stake in IQAM some time ago) will include open-ended funds, investment solutions (i.e., mandates managed by IQAM), institutional funds (from Spängler) and investment advising.
03/05/2010

Assets up at The Hartford

In first quarter, mutual fund activities at The Hartford posted net subscriptions of USD1.5bn, and assets totalled USD97.7bn as of the end of March, compared with USD69.4bn twelve months previously.
03/05/2010

Gottex adds to marketing team

The alternative management firm Gottex Fund Management on Thursday evening announced the recruitment in Boston of Debra Tothman as managing director, head of North American sales & marketing. She was previously head of business development at SCS Financial, where she contributed to the commercial development of the fund of hedge funds range. Gottex has also recruited Mark Ostergaard as marketing director in London. He will be in charge of developing and assisting North American clients. He was previously in charge of relations with Scandinavian establishments at London & Capital.
03/05/2010

Long term money market funds popular with investors again

Les Echos reports that a survey undertaken in mid-April by MultiRatings of 50 professional treasurers who manage assets of over EUR200bn finds that “long term money market” funds are returning in force to the allocations of French institutional investors. Within the new classifications of money market funds, the “long terme” category includes diversified funds with volatility of less than 2%. These funds have less risk and aim to outperform the Eonia rate through various strategies. Most institutional investors surveyed were planning to increase (45%) or maintain (41%) their allocation to these products. Only a minority (14%) were planning to reduce the weight of these funds in their future allocations.
03/05/2010

Jeffries adds to fixed income team

Jefferies has announced the recruitment of several people in the past few weeks, who will join the team dedicated to fixed income products in the Asia-Pacific region. Shiran Dias and Sailesh K. Jha have been appointed as managing directors, and will aim to establish commercial relations with private banks, central banks and hedge funds in the region. Jun-ichi Kasakura and Philip Wen will serve as senior vice presidents.
03/05/2010

Assets in Austrian funds return to August-September 2008 levels

As of the end of March, assets under management in Austrian investment funds represented EUR142.1bn, compared with EUR138.6bn as of the end of February, and EUR136.7bn as of 31 December, according to statistics from the VÖIG association. In one year, total assets increased by EUR20.8bn, or 17.1% to a total which measures in between the levels observed in August and September 2008 (EUR144.3bn and EUR138.6bn, respectively).
03/05/2010

ProShares launches four leveraged ETFs

On Thursday, ProShares launched four leveraged ETFs on the NYSE Arca platform, which aim to double the daily performance of foreign indices which are already available as underlying assets for ETF products, with leverage of 2, but inverse. The products are the ETF Ultra MSCI Europe, Ultra MSCI Pacific ex-Japan, Ultra MSCI Brazil and Ultra Mexico Investable Market. Management fees are 0.95%. The ProShares range now includes 19 long and short leveraged ETFs.
03/05/2010

Development finance banks attack hedge fund directive

The Association of European Development Finance Institutions, a group of 15 government bodies investing in emerging markets, wrote to the EU to criticise its plans to regulate hedge funds and private equity, says the Financial Times. The move highlights growing opposition to the EU’s planned regulations from private equity groups based in Africa, Asia and Latin America, which are worried about being cut off from European investors, who provide at least a quarter of their funding.
03/05/2010

European Commission to restrict short-selling

The European Commission has decided to follow the recommendations of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) and introduce a proposed directive in October on short-selling, the Börsen-Zeitung reports. The bill will be specific to the issue of short-selling, as the European Commission concluded that it would be counter-productive to integrate rules on this subject into the new version of the market abuse directive.

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