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22/02/2010

Forte croissance de l'activité à l'international pour Standard Investments

La société de gestion britannique Standard Life Investments a indiqué que ses ventes nettes pour compte de tiers ont totalisé l’an dernier 5,7 milliards de livres, en hausse de 67% d’une année sur l’autre. Plus de 80% de ces résultats ont été enregistrés hors Royaume-Uni.L’encours des fonds de tiers sous gestion ont fait un bond de 25% à 56,9 milliards de livres. Le total des fonds sous gestion s’est accru de 12% à 138,7 milliards de livres.
22/02/2010

Swissquote se lance dans le private banking en ligne

Selon L’Agefi suisse, Swissquote ouvre sa plateforme de trading en ligne à un nouveau segment de clientèle, avec un programme «ePrivate Banking». La moyenne des futurs comptes est estimée à 200.000 francs. Une extrapolation sur la base d’une demande déjà présente, mais pour l’instant adressée «manuellement». La solution informatique sera lancée en milieu d’année. Le courtier en ligne a dégagé l’an dernier un résultat net de 35 millions de francs suisses (+6,7%). Les encours sous dépôt ont augmenté de 45% à 6,58 milliards de francs.
22/02/2010

Julius Baer recrute un conseiller d’Etat

Le groupe Julius Baer a annoncé le 19 février la nomination au nouveau poste de «Head Public Affairs» du conseiller d’Etat Georg Hess, actuellement responsable des finances du Canton de Schwyz (jusqu’en juin 2010). En créant cette nouvelle fonction, Julius Baer entend renforcer encore les échanges entre les cercles politiques, l’économie et la société. «La fonction de Head Public Affairs nouvellement créée a pour but d’asseoir et de développer les travaux politiques réalisés jusqu’à présent afin d’améliorer les échanges entre les cercles politiques, l’économie et la société et de participer activement aux processus de décision. Cette fonction implique aussi d’assister la direction et le conseil d’administration dans ses prises de position politiques», précise Julius Baer dans un communiqué. Georg Hess prendra ses nouvelles fonctions le 1er octobre prochain.
22/02/2010
Fonds

Salus Alpha lance un fonds de situations spéciales

Avec l’Autrichien Roland Neuwirth, Salus Alpha lancera le 15 mars un fonds de situations spéciales qui sera investi à hauteur de 30-40 % dans des entreprises du monde germanophone (Allemagne, Autriche, Suisse) susceptibles de générer des performances sur le long terme, le reliquat (0-70 %) étant placé pour les court et moyen termes de manière opportuniste sur des sociétés faisant l’objet d’une OPA, connaissant un changement de dirigeants, entrant ou sortant d’un indice ou opérant des rachats d’actions. Le gérant Roland Neuwirth pourra aussi choisir des sociétés en fonction des transactions d’initiés (directors’ dealings), d’une introduction en Bourse, d’une augmentation de capital ou de surprises sur les bénéfices.Le fonds, conforme à la directive OPCVM III, sera géré dans une optique de performance absolue et visera une performance annuelle de 10-15 % avec une volatilité inférieure à 10 %.
Fonds
22/02/2010
Fonds

La Deutsche Bank prépare un sukuk

Lors d’un congrès bancaire organisé à Dubaï par Reuters, Hussein A. Hassan, directeur de la Deutsche Bank pour le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique du Nord, a annoncé que la banque allemande compte lancer un sukuk de plus de 500 millions de dollars avant fin mars en Arabie Saoudite, rapporte Fondsprofessionell.Pour sa part, Abdul Rahman Tolefat, directeur général, a indiqué que Takaful, filiale d’Allianz, a aussi l’intention d’émettre un emprunt islamique, mais que le projet n’en est qu’à un stade initial.
Fonds
22/02/2010

Hausse des actifs sous gestion de 14% pour Neue Bank

La banque du Liechtenstein Neue Bank AG a enregistré en 2009 une baisse de son bénéfice net de 8,2% à 8,2 millions de francs suisses. Les encours sous gestion ont augmenté de 13,9% à 3,9 milliards de francs suisses. La banque se dit «satisfaite» de ces résultats compte tenu des difficultés rencontrées l’an dernier par la place financière.
22/02/2010

Décès d'un gérant chez Fidelity

Selon Mutual Fund Wire qui cite le «Fund Times», Victor Thay, 35 ans, gérant chez Fidelity de Fidelity Export & Multinational et cogérant de Fidelity Advisor Global Capital Appreciation est décédé. La gestion des fonds en question sera reprise par Heather Carillo pour Fidelity Export & Multinational et Thomas Allen pour Fidelity Advisor Global Capital Appreciation. Le premier gère Fidelity Select Computers. Le second pilote la gestion de Fidelity Advisor Mid Cap II et VIP Mid Cap Portfolio.
22/02/2010

Dan Charles quitte Janus

Selon Mutual Fund Wire, Dan Charles, qui pilote les départements des investisseurs institutionnels aux Etats-Unis et à l’international chez Janus, quittera ses fonctions le 10 mars 2009. Il rejoindra William Blair Investment Management (WBIM) où il occupera le poste de global head of distribution. Il aura pour mission d’accroitre l’activité de la société de gestion auprès des institutionnels et des intermédiaires en matière de fonds d’investissement. L’intéressé sera sous la responsabilité de Michelle Seitz, head of William Blair Investment Management.
22/02/2010

Michael Bloomberg retire 5 milliards de dollars à Quadrangle

Le maire de New York, Michael Bloomberg, va récupérer environ 5 milliards de dollars d’actifs personnels qu’il avait placés auprès de la division gestion d’actifs de Quadrangle Group, indique le Wall Street Journal, citant des personnes proches du dossier. Il s’agit d’un revers pour la société qui a dû affronter le départ de l’un de ses fondateurs et une enquête. Un family office pourrait être créé pour gérer la fortune de Michael Bloomberg.
22/02/2010
Fonds

Van Eck lance son 24ème ETF

Avec le Market Vectors Egypt Index ETF (acronyme EGPT sur NYSE Arca), Van Eck Global a lancé son 24ème ETF. Ce fonds chargé à 0,94 % réplique l’indice Market Vectors Egypt qui comptait 28 valeurs au 31 janvier 2010, les trois plus «lourdes» étant Commercial International Bank (8,5 %), Orascom Construction Industries (8,4 %) et Orascom Telecom Holding (7,9 %).
Fonds
22/02/2010

Investors Against Genocide obtient une seconde victoire sur PetroChina

Après le fonds de pension TIAA-CREF qui a annoncé le 4 janvier avoir liquidé ses titres PetroChina qui valaient 58 millions de dollars fin septembre, le gestionnaire Capital Group s’est plié aux exigences de l’association Investors Against Genocide (IAG) et a indiqué avoir vendu toutes les actions PetroChina détenues dans les portefeuilles de trois American Funds (EuroPacific Growth, Capital Income Builder et Capital World Growth), ce qui représentait un total de 190 millions de dollars.IAG reproche à cette occasion à Vanguard, Fidelity et Franklin Templeton de rester passifs et de conserver des participations importantes dans des entreprises qui, comme PetroChina, sont impliquées dans un génocide en cours (celui du Darfour, au Soudan).
22/02/2010

Source mise sur la qualité de son offre

Dans un entretien aux Echos, Ted Hood, le directeur général de Source, qui s’est lancé sur le marché des ETF en avril 2009, estime que les objectifs principaux de la société sont d’accroître les encours «en améliorant la liquidité et en proposant des produits mieux construits». «Nous observons qu’un certain nombre de fournisseurs se développent principalement par le biais des encours captés au sein de leur propre réseau de distribution. Nous pensons que ces acteurs rencontreront des difficultés pour réaliser les économies d'échelle nécessaires au succès de leur modèle économique. Les gagnants seront ceux qui se concentreront sur la qualité de leurs produits et qui répondront fondamentalement aux besoins de leurs clients», précise-t-il.
22/02/2010

Swedish pension fund AP3 makes changes to strategy

The Swedish pension fund AP3 on 19 February announced that its assets as of 31 December last year totalled SEK206.5bn, or nearly EUR21bn, compared with SEK181bn one year earlier. Net gains were down 44.8% to SEK29.4bn, giving a 16.4% rate of return. AP3 states that its four largest funds earned net gains of SEK133.8bn, corresponding to average returns of 19.4%. AP3 stated at a presentation of its annual results that traditional management will be abandoned in favour of a management approach based on risk categories. The allocation to alternative assets (real esate, private equity and new strategies) currently represent 16.3% of the portfolio, while equities account for 49.7%, and fixed income weighs in at 34%. The alternative allocation earned returns of -2.1%, compared with 21.1% for publicly traded assets, but within alternative assets, new strategies, which aim to exploit market opportunities, earned 34.7%.
22/02/2010

Telefónica tightens leash of Fonditel

Telefónica will name the new CEO of Fonditel, the management firm responsible for its pension fund (EUR3.04bn), probably this week, Expansión reports. The new CEO will be a member of the team led by Santiago Fernández Valbuena, Telefónica’s CFO. Fonditel’s strategy will not be modified in an initial stage, as the new team will aim to retore Fonditel to the position as an investor of reference in the Spanish market, which it occupied until the crisis brought losses of 26.9% for the pension fund in 2008 (the fund earned 6.58% in 2009). Fonditel will seek to reduce its “public visibility,” i.e. high levels of media attention to its managers, and to improve the functioning and co-ordination of the team of specialists it employs.
22/02/2010

Change in composition of two Dow Jones indices

st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The index provider Dow Jones Indexes today announced changes to the composition of the Dow Jones Select Dividend France 20 and Dow Jones Germany Select Dividend 20 Indices. In the Jones Select Dividend 20 Index France index, Euler Hermes SA (France, insurance, ELE.FR) will be replaced by Crédit Agricole d’Ile de France (France, banking, CAF.FR). In the Dow Jones Select Dividend 20 Index Germany, Daimler AG (Germany, Automobiles & Parts, DAI.XE) will be replaced by Deutsche Euroshop AG (Germany, Real Estate, DEQ.XE). Euler Hermes SA (France, insurance, ELE.FR) and Daimler AG (Germany, Automobiles & Parts, DAI.XE) have been removed from the indices as dividend payouts were cancelled for this year. Modifications to the index will come into force from the opening of the trading day on Tuesday, 23 February 2010.
22/02/2010

Former government minister to take over as head of Assogestioni

st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Assogestioni, the Italian association of asset managers, will have a new chairman: Domenico Siniscalco. The board of directors of the association have decided to propose Siniscalco at the annual general meeting on 19 March 2010 as candidate for the presidency. The former director of the Italian treasury and minister of finance and the economy has been European vice president and head for Italy at Morgan Stanley since 2007. Siniscalco will succeed Marcello Messori, who will not be a candidate for the next term (2010-2013). Il Sole – 24 Ore reports on 20 February that the initiative to appoint Siniscalco was spearheaded by Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit, two heavyweights in the Italian asset management industry.
22/02/2010

Salus Alpha launches a special situations fund

Salus Alpha will on 15 March launch a special situations fund with the Austrian fund manager Roland Neuwirth, which will invest 30-40% of its assets in businesses of the German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) which are likely to generate returns in the long term, while the remainder of assets (0-70%) will be placed in short to mid-term opportunistic investments in firms which are the subject of takeover bids, which are undergoing a change in management, which are being added or removed from an index, or which are buying back shares. Neuwirth will also be allowed to select firms on the basis of directors’ dealings, IPOs, capital increase operations, or surprises in profit levels. The fund, which complies with the UCITS III directive, will be managed with an absolute return approach, and will aim for annual returns of 10-15% with volatility of under 10%.
22/02/2010

Investors Against Genocide wins a second victory against PetroChina

Following the pension fund TIAA-CREF, which announced on 4 January that it had liquidated its USD58m stake in PetroChina at the end of September, the management firm Capital Group has also followed the recommendations of the association Investors Against Genocide (IAG) and announced that it has sold off all the shares in PetroChina which had been held in the portfolios of three American Funds (EuroPacific Growth, Capital Income Builder and Capital World Growth), which represented a total of USD190m. The IAG association points the finger at Vanguard, Fidelity and Franklin Templeton, which it accuses of remaining passive and retaining significant stakes in businesses which, like PetroChina, are implicated in genocidal acts now taking place (as in Darfur, Sudan).
22/02/2010

Michael Bloomberg pulls USD5bn out of Quadrangle

The mayor of New York, Michael Blomberg, will withdraw about USD5bn in personal assets which he had invested with the asset management division of Quadrangle Group, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. The move comes as a setback for the asset management firm, which has recently had to deal with the departure of one of its founders and an investigation. A family office will be created to manage Bloomberg’s wealth.
22/02/2010

Fidelity manager dies

Mutual Fund Wire reports, citing the Fund Times, that Victor Thay, 35, manager of the Fidelity Export & Multinational fund and co-manager of the Fidelity Advisor Global Capital Appreciation fund at Fidelity, has died. Heather Carillo will take over as manager of the Fidelity Export & Multinational fund, while Thomas Allen will manage the Fidelity Advisor Global Capital Appreciation fund. Carillo is manager of the Fidelity Select Computers fund, while Allen manages the Fidelity Advisor Mid Cap II and VIP Mid Cap Portfolio.
22/02/2010

Don Charles leaves Janus

Mutual Fund Wire reports that Dan Charles, who is manager of the US and international institutional investor departments at Janus Investments, will be leaving his job on 10 March 2010. He will be joining William Blair Investment Management (WBIM), where he will serve as global head of distribution. He will aim to grow the management firm’s investment activities serving institutionals and intermediaries. Charles will report to Michelle Seitz, head of William Blair Investment Management.
22/02/2010

Optimism over planned alternative management directive

Members of the European Parliament will today vote on a draft alternative management directive. Despite 1,600 proposed amendments, the reporter for the bill, Jean-Paul Gauzès, says he is optimistic about its prospects, Agefi reports. A solution is crystallizing for third-party funds. During an initial trial period of three to five years, the current private investment regime will remain in place, which will provide time to negotiate bilateral agreements with affected countries outside the EU. If agreements are not reached, these funds will be barred from sale in the EU. A grandfathering clause will allow funds which are already on sale in the European Union to continue to be sold for the life of the fund, the newspaper adds.
22/02/2010

BofA GWIM appoints a new managing director

Bank of America has announced changes to its Global Wealth and Investment Management (GWIM) division, which are intended to make it more able to exploit opportunities in the retirement market. Kunal Kamlani will join the firm as a managing director and head of Global Investment Solutions (GIS). He will report directly to Sallie Krawcheck, president of GWIM. Kamlani was previously managing director and Chief Operating Officer at Citigroup Smith Barney.
22/02/2010

Guinness family office launches a Spanish fund

The family office which manages the wealth of the Guinness family, Iveagh, has registered its Global Strategies fund, with the aim of making it available on the Spanish market, Funds People reports. The fund will aim for annual returns of 10%, using various asset allocation and portfolio optimization techniques. The fund will invest in all asset classes through ETFs to minimise costs.
22/02/2010

Pantheon plans to increase Asia allocation

The private equity fund of funds Pantheon Ventures, which has recently been acquired by the US-based management firm AMG from Russell Investments, is expected to retain a 15% stake and its management independence, Despite the fact that it has been present in Asia for nearly 20 years, only 10% of assets in its funds (USD22bn in total) are invested in the Asian region. However, due to the strong potential for growth in the region, this percentage may increase to 15% in the next three years.
22/02/2010

Van Eck launches its 24th ETF

Van Eck Global has launched its 24th ETF, the Market Vectors Egypt ETF (traded under the acronym EGPT on NYSE Arca). The fund, which charges management fees of 0.94%, replicates the Market Vectors Egypt index, which included 28 positions as of 31 January 2010, of which the three largest positions were Commercial International Bank (8.5%), Orascom Construction Induatries (8.4%), and Orascom Telecom Holding (7.9%).
22/02/2010

Deutsche Bank to launch a sukuk

At a banking convention in Dubai hosted by Reuters, Hussein A. Hassan, director of Deutsche Bank for the Middle East and North Africa, announced that the German bank is planning to release a sukuk with over USD500m in assets in Saudi Arabia by the end of March. Meanwhile, Abdul Rahman Tolefat, CEO, has announced that Takaful, an affiliate of Allianz, is also planning to issue an Islamic bond but that the project is still in the initial stages.
22/02/2010

Former head of Man Group to launch a fund

According to the Financial Times, Larry Hite, the former chief executive of the Man Group, is to enter into a “strategic partnership” with ISAM, the hedge fund business set up by Stanley Fink, nicknamed the “godfather” of the UK hedge fund industry. The partnership will see ISAM launch a new fund, ISAM Systematic, in April, which will be managed by Larry Hite, the founder of systematic computer trading.
22/02/2010

Helvetia Wealth buys a stake in Dahl & Partner

The Swiss wealth management firm Helvetia Wealth has acquired a stake in Dahl & Partner Vermögensverwaltung, the former family office of the Springer family, from Donner & Reuschel Privatbank (Signal Iduna group), for an undisclosed amount. The transaction brings total assets at Helvetia Wealth to CHF1.1bn, says Otmar Ruoff, chairman of the board of directors at the Swiss firm.
22/02/2010

Architas unveils new fund range

Axa has unveiled a new range of 121 funds selected by its multi-management affiliate Architas, using quantitative and qualitative methods. Investment Week reports that the new Tailored Selection range includes 20 new funds, including Investec Emerging Markets Debt, Jupiter UK Growth, and Schroder US Mid Cap. Architas has also begun talks with IFA networks to offer a white-label version of the quantitative analysis tool used to construct the product range.

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