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18/08/2009

Trading platform up for sale

La Tribune reports, citing Bloomberg, that the trading platform Turquoise Alternative, launched in late 2008, is up for sale. Documents related to the potential sale were sent to 18 potential candidates, including NYSE-Euronext and the London Stock Ecxhange.
18/08/2009

City recruitments on the rise

According to the Financial Times, citing statistics from Morgan Mckinley, the number of new job vacancies in the financial services sector in London rose by 20% in June compared with May’s levels, the Financial Times reports - the highest so far this year. July was the second-best month, though job offers were down by 7%. However, the number of job opportunities remains 59% lower than last year.
18/08/2009

Use of equities as long-term investments on the wane

The Belgian newspaper L’Echo, citing De Tijd, reports that long-term investors are increasingly being replaced by investors seeking quick returns on stock markets. For example, on the Brussels stock exchange, investors hold the top shares for about 1.5 to 3 years. Twenty years ago, Belgian shares remained in portfolios for an average of 5 years. This trend can also be observed in other countries. In the United States, according to a study by Société Générale, shares in the New York Stock Exchange remain in the portfolio of investors for an average of 9 months, compared with an average of 10 years in the 1940s.
18/08/2009

Share pay package for Andrew Hall

Citigroup, which is under close scrutiny by the Obama administration, is seeking to persuade Andrew Hall, a trader in the energy sector, to agree to be paid in shares rather than cash in 2010. Last year, he received USD100m in pay, a well-informed source stated on Monday, 17 August. However, it is not certain that Hall will agree to the proposal, as his pay is based on the performance of Phibro LLC, which he heads, and not that of the bank.
18/08/2009

Société Générale opens Saudi office

La Tribune reports that the Saudi financial market regulator (Capital Market Authority) has granted permission to Société Générale to set up a business bank in Saudi Arabia
18/08/2009

Assets up slightly in June

In June, total net assets for funds in Luxembourg increased by 0.74% compared with May, to EUR1.63125trn, according to the most recent statistics from the CSSF (Commission de surveillance du secteur financier). In the past twelve months, assets are nonetheless down by 14.24%. EUR4.272bn of the increase in assets of EUR11.987bn comes from net inflows, while the remainder is a result of rising financial markets. As of the end of June, 20.4% of assets in Luxembourg OPC funds were in products from German promoters, 20% from US firms, and 16.5% from Swiss firms. France is in seventh place, with 8.5% of the market. In the August issue of its monthly newsletter, the CSSF announces that a new management firm, NBG Asset Management Luxembourg, has been registered on the official list of asset management firms under chapter 13 of the 20 December 2002 law on collective investment organisms. In total, the regulator has 192 asset managers on its registers as of 31 July.
18/08/2009

Capital increase at Swedbank

The Swedish bank Swedbank has announced a capital increase of SEK15bn, or EUR1.45bn, which has been 100% subscribed. The capital will go to strengthen the bank’s balance sheet.
18/08/2009

Hedge funds beginning to refuse money

Four major hedge fund managers have closed flagship funds to subscriptions which had been reopened earlier this year, Financial News reports. The companies are Nevsky Capital, Lansdowne Partners, Tudor Investment Corporation, and SAC Capital.
18/08/2009

Focused funds do more with less

The best equities funds often don’t own many stocks, the Wall Street Journal claims in an article on focused funds. On average, equities funds have 172 holdings, according to Morningstar, while focused funds tend to have only 25 names. Focused fund managers have little room for error, so they emphasize stock research. And as an extra protection, they buy shares at a steep discount.
18/08/2009

Private equity investments down

According to a report published by IFSL (International Financial Services London), cited by L’Agefi, private equity investments were down 80% worldwide, to USD24bn, in the first six months of 2009, their worst performance in twelve years. Less than USD100bn were raised in the first half of 2009.
18/08/2009

RBS to sell asset management affiliate

Financial News reports, citing sector sources, that Royal Bank of Scotland is preparing to put its asset management business, RBS Asset Management, up for sale. RBS Asset Management, which is specialised in funds of funds, advised USD50bn in assets as of the end of last year.
18/08/2009

RBS acquisition investigated

Les Echos reports, citing a statement from Royal Bank of Scotland, that the Financial Services Authority has launched an investigation into the Scottish bank’s acquisition of the Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007. RBS bought the company for EUR70bn, via a consortium including Santander and Fortis. The newspaper adds that RBS, in financial difficulties partly due to this deal, had to allow the government to buy a majority of its shares last year. The bank received GBP20bn (EUR23.16bn) in capital injections from the government.
18/08/2009

AIMA fights hedge fund directive

The hedge fund sector is mobilizing in an effort to convince the European authorities to reconsider its planned Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive. But, according to Andrew Baker, CEO of the alternative management association AIMA, speaking to Hedge Week, “it is vital that other economic actors, from members of the real estate sector to pension funds’ trustees, rally behind this campaign to prevent a hastily-written law from impeding the economic competitiveness of Europe.”
18/08/2009

L'AIMA se bat contre la directive hedge funds

Le secteur des hedge funds est en première ligne pour tenter de convaincre les autorités européennes de réexaminer le projet de directive sur la gestion alternative (Alternative Investment Fund Managers). Mais selon Andrew Baker, le directeur général de l’Association de la gestion alternative (Aima), qui s’exprime dans Hedge Week, «il est vital que d’autres acteurs économiques, allant des membres du secteur de l’immobilier aux administrateurs des fonds de pension, rallient cette campagne afin d’empêcher qu’une loi rédigée à la hâte n’entrave la compétitivité économique de l’Europe».
18/08/2009

Madoff: Massachusetts rejects offer from Fairfield

William Galvin, the Massachusetts secretary of state, has rejected a settlement proposed by the investment firm Fairfield Greenwich Group, which had offered to pay USD6bn to a dozen state’s investors who had lost money in the Bernard Madoff fraud, the Wall Street Journal reports. Galvin filed a civil suit against Fairfield, claiming that its directors were coached by Madoff in how to answer investigators’ questions, and that they have not said all they know, the WSJ reports.
18/08/2009

ARS: former Credit Suisse broker accused of fraud

A former Credit Suisse broker, Eric Butler, has been found guilty of fraudulently selling ARS (Auction rate securities), the Financial Times reports. He and his colleague are accused of lying to clients about what kind of securities they were being sold. Butler faces up 45 years in prison.
18/08/2009

Vice tightens on UBS

Les Echos reports that, in a court document viewed at California state court in Los Angeles, US resident John McCarthy, who has agreed to plead guilty of concealing sums of money from the US tax authorities in accounts he held with UBS in Switzerland and elsewhere, tells of how UBS helped him to commit tax fraud by setting up a complex international structure. McCarthy has also confessed to personally meeting or corresponding with UBS representatives and his Swiss lawyer between 2003 and 2008 “to discuss” accounts “at UBS and the funds they contained,” the newspaper reports.
18/08/2009

Norwegian fund throws spotlight on water management

Responsible water management is one of the new priorities of Norges Bank Investment Management, the firm which manages the investments of the Norwegian oil fund, as part of its shareholder responsibility initiatives. “Water shortages worldwide represent a financial risk for the fund,” NBIM explains in a statement, adding that the issue affects 1,100 companies in the fund’s portfolio, with total market capitalisation of NOK265bn, or USD43bn (out of a total of NOK2.385trn). “At NBIM, we think investors should receive sufficient information to be able to evaluate how risks related to water shortages and the costs of regulation and water purification could affect profits for a given business, and to evaluate the likelihood that this will occur,” says Anne Kvam, head of governance. The fund has identified seven sectors which are highly exposed to risks due to potential water shortages: agrobusiness, agriculture, paper and pulp, pharmaceuticals, the mining sector, energy production and manufacturing, and water provision. In third quarter, NBIM will publish “NBIM Investor Expectations: Water Management,” a document which will state the fund’s expectations of companies in relation to water and resource management and the associated risks. The firm, which is highly active in the area of responsible investment, has also recently published a document on climate change. In second quarter, the Norwegian fund posted returns of 12.7%. The proportion of the fund invested in equities stood at 60.3% at the end of the quarter.
17/08/2009
Fonds

Encours record pour les ETF

Fin juillet, les 1.768 ETF recensés dans le monde par Barclays Global Investors représentaient un encours de 862 milliards de dollars, soit le plus haut niveau jamais atteint. Le dernier pic avait été franchi en avril 2008, avec 805 milliards de dollars. Depuis le début de l’année, les actifs ont augmenté de 21,2 %, soit plus que la hausse du MSCI Monde en dollars (+13,5 %). Le nombre d’ETF a quant à lui progressé de 11,1 % depuis janvier, sachant que 240 nouveaux ETF ont vu le jour, tandis que 74 ont été fermés. Et la hausse devrait se poursuivre, si l’on en croit BGI, qui estime que 780 ETF sont dans les cartons. Le marché se partage entre 94 fournisseurs, mais iShares, désormais dans le giron de BlackRock, reste le plus gros pourvoyeur d’ETF à la fois en nombre de produits (391 ETF) et en encours (414,4 milliards de dollars). La société contrôle pratiquement la moitié du marché (48,1 %). State Street Global arrive loin derrière avec 15,2 % de part de marché, suivi par Vanguard (7,8 %). En Europe, les encours des ETF ont aussi atteint un niveau record en juillet avec 183 milliards de dollars, dépassant le précédent record de mai 2009 de 8,4 %. A la fin du mois, 753 ETF se négociaient, soit une hausse de 12,8 % depuis le début de l’année. iShares domine aussi le marché européen, avec une part de marché de 39,6 %. Ses principaux concurrents sont Lyxor, avec 20,5 % et db x-trackers avec 16,3 %.
Fonds
17/08/2009

Peu de femmes travaillent dans le private equity

Les femmes ne représentent que 10 % des 747 professionnels de l’investissement basés dans les 10 plus grandes sociétés européennes de private equity, selon le Wall Street Journal, qui cite Preqin. 3i Group, Permira et Axa Private Equity sont les sociétés ayant le plus de femmes dans leurs équipes.
17/08/2009

Nationalisation en vue pour Hypo Real Estate

L'établissement financier allemand spécialiste du crédit immobilier Hypo Real Estate devrait être totalement nationalisé début octobre, selon une sourceproche du dossier interrogée par l’AFP, rapporte les Echos. En juin, l’Etat était monté à 90 % de son capital
17/08/2009
Fonds

Souscriptions nettes pour les fonds allemands

Depuis le début de 2009, les fonds allemands ont enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 16,5 milliards d’euros, rapporte Citywire, citant Portfolio International et les statistiques du BVI.Allianz a été la société de gestion la plus performante, avec des souscriptions nettes de 1,6 milliard d’euros.
Fonds
17/08/2009

Importante levée de fonds pour China Merchants Bank

Dans un communiqué adressé à la Bourse de Shanghai, China Merchants Bank a indiqué vendredi espérer recueillir jusqu'à 18 milliards de yuans (1,8 milliard d’euros) grâce à une émission de droits de souscription à Shanghai et Hong Kong, précise les Echos. La sixième banque chinoise prévoit d’offrir à ses actionnaires pour 3,8 milliards de nouvelles actions.
17/08/2009
Fonds

Le fonds norvégien possède 1 % des actions mondiales

Le fonds souverain de la Norvège a dégagé au deuxième trimestre un retour sur investissements de 12,7 %, à 45 milliards de dollars, rapporte L’Agefi, citant la Banque centrale de Norvège. Le fonds, qui pèse 267,6 milliards d’euros, possède 1 % de l’ensemble des actions dans le monde.
Fonds
17/08/2009

Vontobel renoue avec les bénéfices

Vontobel Group a renoué avec la rentabilité au premier semestre, avec un bénéfice net de 62,4 millions de francs suisses au premier semestre, contre une perte de 1,2 million au semestre précédent. Cela reste néanmoins inférieur au bénéfice de 114,7 millions enregistré un an plus tôt.L’établissement suisse a enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 0,8 milliard de francs suisses au premier semestre, dont 0,6 milliard de la part de clients privés et 0,2 milliard de la part d’institutionnels. Au total, les encours sous gestion ont augmenté de 4 % sur les six mois à 65 milliards de francs suisses. Mais sur un an ils reculent par rapport aux 74 milliards d’euros de juin 2008.
17/08/2009

Contribution positive de l'or pour la Banque nationale suisse

Le quotidien suisse Le Temps rapporte que la banque nationale suisse a enregistré au premier semestre 2009 un bénéfice de 5,2 milliards de francs, contre une perte de 3,4 milliards un an plus tôt. Si toutes les catégories de placement ont contribué à ce résultat semestriel positif, un communiqué de la banque précise vendredi qu’elle a surtout profité d’une hausse du prix du kilo d’or depuis la fin 2008 (+9,8 %). La plus-value sur le stock d’or s’est élevée à 3 milliards de francs au 1er semestre.Par ailleurs, le fonds de stabilisation qui a repris les actifs illiquides d’UBS n’a pas pesé sur le résultat, a précisé également la banque centrale.

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