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13/05/2009

Nomination chez Oddo

Selon la Tribune, Fatine Layt, l’ancienne associée de Jean-Marie Messier a été nommée au poste de président d’Oddo Corporate Finance (OCF). La banque d’affaires était jusqu’ici présidée par Laurent Mignon, appelé à la tête de Natixis, et dirigée par Dominik Belloin. Mis à l'écart il y a quelques semaines par Laurent Mignon, Dominik Belloin ne sera désormais plus associé d’ Oddo Corporate Finance mais conseil du président.
13/05/2009

Etats-Unis - Le Trésor choisit les gestionnaires des fonds PPIP

Le Département du Trésor doit notifier ce mercredi à plusieurs sociétés de gestion d’actifs parmi les 104 candidates qu’elles ont été retenues pour gérer la première vague de fonds du Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP). Parmi elles, se trouveront certainement BlackRock et Pimco (groupe Allianz), rapporte The Wall Street Journal. Ces gestionnaires auront jusqu'à trois mois pour lever au moins 500 millions de dollars pour acheter des #legacy securities# qui pèsent sur le bilan des banques.
13/05/2009

Paul-Henri de La Porte du Theil élu président de l'AFG

Paul-Henri de La Porte du Theil, directeur général délégué de CAAM et de CAAM Group, a été élu à la présidence de l"AFG pour une durée de 3 ans au cours du conseil d’administration du 12 mai. Le président sortant, Alain Leclair, a été nommé président d’honneur de l’association. Muriel Faure et Francis Ailhaud ont été élus Vice-présidents
13/05/2009

Simon Ward, nouvel économiste en chef de Henderson Global Investors

Poursuivant la réorganisation de New Star, Henderson Global Investors a nommé Simon Ward, précédemment stratège et économiste de New Star, comme nouvel économiste en chef de la société, indique Funds People. Simon Ward détient une expérience d’une vingtaine d’années sur les marchés financiers, notamment chez WorldInvest, Lombard Street Research y Bank Julius Baer.
13/05/2009

Relève en vue chez Rothschild & Cie

Marcel Nicolaï, associé gérant chez Rothschild & Cie doit prochainement prendre sa retraite. Jean-Louis Laurens actuellement président de Banque Robeco et de Robeco Gestions devrait le remplacer.
13/05/2009

Un nouveau gérant chez Nextstage

Vincent Bazi rejoint Nextstage, société de gestion spécialisée dans l"investissement et le financement des PME où il occupera le poste de gérant responsable de la gestion en titres cotés. Auparavant, Vincent Bazi a été analyste financier chez Cheuvreux puis chez JP Morgan, directeur de la recherche Actions Françaises chez ING Baring puis Schroders et enfin responsable dans la vente d"actions européennes aux clients institutionnels chez Oddo puis chez Dexia.
13/05/2009

BofA vend 5,8 % de CCB

Bank of America (BofA) a vendu mardi 5,8 % de China Construction Bank (CCB) pour environ 7,3 milliards de dollars américains (4,2 dollars de Hong-Kong l’unité) à plusieurs investisseurs institutionnels dont China Life, le fonds souverain singapourien Temasek Holdings et le chinois Hopu Investment Management. Selon la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ce dernier est un fonds privé dirigé par une société partenaire de Goldman Sachs et dans lequel Goldman Sachs et Temasek sont investis. BofA conserve 10,6 % de CCB, participation assujettie à un lock-up jusqu'à fin août 2011.
13/05/2009

Cerberus et Flowers veulent fusionner leurs banques déficitaires

Selon les proches du dossier, Cerberus Capital Management LP et J.C. Flowers & Co ont notifié au régulateur nippon, la Financial Services Agency, leur intention de fusionner d’ici à fin juin 2010 leurs filiales bancaires locales qui sont déficitaires, rapporte The Wall Street Journal. Cerberus détient la majorité d’Aozora Bank tandis que J.C. Flowers contrôle un tiers de Shinsei Bank. En fait, l’opération est orchestrée par la Financial Services Agency et c’est la seconde fois que le gouvernement nippon aide les deux banques qu’il a déjà sauvées durant les années 90 en leur apportant 4 billions de yen (41 milliards de dollars) qu’elles n’ont toujours pas entièrement remboursé.
13/05/2009
Fonds

Brandes réclame à MSIG le versement d'un dividende

Brandes Investment Partners, qui détient 9,46 % de Mitsui Sumitomo Life Insurance Group, fait pression sur le groupe japonais afin que ce dernier procède au versement d’un dividende additionnel aux actionnaires, pour un coût maximum de 55,8 millions de dollars. Une lettre a été envoyée au directoire de la société, indique le Financial Times.
Fonds
13/05/2009

Turner IP launches a fund invested in six house strategies

Turner Investment Partners has announced the launch of the Turner Spectrum Fund, which includes both retail and institutional share classes. The product is a no-load mutual fund, which will invest in six market neutral long/short equities strategies managed by Turner itself: Turner Market Neutral, Turner Long/Short Equity, Turner Select Opportunities, Turner Global Medical Sciences, Turner Global Financial Services and Turner Global Consumer. This is the first time that the asset management firm has offered a mutual fund which allows subscribers access to alternative strategies. Minimal subscription will be USD100,000 for institutional shares and USD2,500 for retail shares, with an expense ratio what will initially be capped to 1.95% and 2.20%, respectively. Turner IP will charge no performance commission on the Spectrum fund.
13/05/2009

Treasury selects managers for PPIP fund

The Department of the Treasury will this Wednesday notify several asset management companies chosen from the 104 candidates who applied that they will be in the first wave of participants in the Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP). The managers selected will certainly include BlackRock and Pimco (Allianz group), the Wall Street Journal reports. These asset management firms will have up to three months to raise at least USD500m to buy up legacy securities which are weighing down the portfolios of banks.
13/05/2009

AEW Europe buys a logistical portfolio from ProLogis

AEW Europe announced on Tuesday that its core-plus fund Curzon Capital Partners II has spent EUR119.5m on the acquisition of a portfolio of seven logistical properties measuring a total of 229,000 square meters and located throughout Germany and the Netherlands from ProLogis. The net initial yield on the investment comes to over 8%.
13/05/2009

ETF assets up 6% in January-April

Compared with the end of March, when they totalled USD135.6bn, assets in European ETF funds have increased by USD15.8bn, to a total of USD151.4bn, iShares reports. This represents a 6% increase since the beginning of the year, while the MSCI Europe index in US dollars has lost 4.7%. The total as of the end of April comes to 701 ETFs, compared with 672 as of the end of March, while the increase in the number of products in the first four months of the year totals 66 funds, or 10.9%. The number of providers has risen from 29 in March to 32 in April, and the number of listings has risen from 1,702 to 1,826. However, the number of stock markets on which these products are listed has remained unchanged at 21. The three leaders in the European market remain the same as in March: iShares (Barclays Global Investors) with 158 ETFs, USD58.9bn in assets under management, and 38.9% market share, followed by Lyxor Asset Management (116 products, USD33.3bn in assets and 22% market share), and db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank) with 101 Etfs, USD25.2bn, and 16.7% of the market as of the end of April. The top three actors control 77.6% of the market, compared with 78.5% at the end of March.
13/05/2009

Petercam recruits a head from ABN Amro

Peter de Keyzer, who is currently chief investment advisor at ABN Amro Belgium, will join the asset management firm Petercam by 1 September at the latest, as chief economist. De Keyser comes as an addition to Petercam’s personnel in investment policy, in charge of elaborating strategy within and between the various asset classes for institutional and private management. More specifically, his role will be to define the macro-economic framework and to assist in identifying the best investment themes for the future.The macroeconomic analysis team at Petercam is led by Xavier van Campenhout, a partner at Petercam, who is responsible for strategy at the Swiss private bank. In addition to de Keyzer, the team also includes Filip Verstreken and Stijn De Cock.
13/05/2009

Jean-Baptiste de Franssu (Invesco Europe) to assume Efama presidency

Mathias Bauer, chairman of the Austrian VÖIG association of management firms, will be leaving office as president of Efama at the conclusion of his term at the end of June. On 19 June in Athens, a general assembly of delegates will elect his successor. The Börsen-Zeitung reports that, according to the outgoing Austrian, the only candidate to succeed him at the moment is Jean-Baptiste de Franssu, CEO of Invesco Europe since 1996.
13/05/2009

Goldman Sachs has potential conflict of interest in Whitehall funds

In a market environment in which commercial real estate prices have plunged, external investors in the Whitehall real estate fund from Goldman Sachs are beginning to consider conflicts of interest, the Wall Street Journal reports. They point out that Goldman Sachs, which is both an investor in, lender to, and manager of the fund (and which thus earns the management commissions) is in a position to profit from the situation to the detriment of outside investors. In 18 years, Goldman Sachs has raised USD31bn for the various Whitehall funds, external investors providing two third or more of this total. These ?opportunity funds? are high-leverage vehicles financed by Goldman Sachs, its employees, and outside subscribers.Currently, problems are emerging in relation to capital losses on Nevada casinos, a hotel chain (Equity Inns), and 36 properties acquired from DEGI in Germany.
13/05/2009

Capitalia Familiar licensed as a financial advisory firm (EAFI)

Capitalia Familiar has become one of the first companies to be registered by the Spanish market regulator (CNMV) as a financial advisory company (?Empresa de Asesoramiento Financiero,? or EAFI), Funds people reports. For advisory firms with this format, clients retain their assets at their usual financial institutions, while the EAFI provides them with analysis and consolidated assistance with the management of their assets. Capitalia Familiar is directed by Félix González, previously CEO of private wealth management at Renta4.
13/05/2009

Les fonds de pension rappelés à l?ordre par la banque centrale

Selon Les Echos, la Banque centrale des Pays-Bas, qui avait sommé les fonds de pension néerlandais éreintés par la chute des marchés actions, de lui soumettre des mesures de remise à flot, vient d’exiger que des dizaines d’entre eux revoient leur copie.
13/05/2009

Les fonds de pension rappelés à l?ordre par la banque centrale

Selon Les Echos, la Banque centrale des Pays-Bas, qui avait sommé les fonds de pension néerlandais éreintés par la chute des marchés actions, de lui soumettre des mesures de remise à flot, vient d’exiger que des dizaines d’entre eux revoient leur copie.
13/05/2009

Santander updates portfolio of Fondo Superselección

Santander Asset Management has updated the composition of the portfolio of its Fondo Superselección, whose performance is tied to a basket of funds selected according to Lipper criteria, Cinco Días reports. The asset management firm has added two value-style US equities funds, Eaton Vance Emerald US Value M2 USD and JPM US Value A Dist USD. It will also invest in two European equities funds, Carmignac Portfolio Grande Europe and Oyster European Opportunities.
13/05/2009

Partage du profit : le Medef mise sur l?épargne salariale

Selon Les Echos, le directeur général de l’Insee, Jean-Philippe Cotis, remet aujourd’hui à Nicolas Sarkozy son rapport sur le partage de la valeur ajoutée, sur celui des profits et sur les écarts de rémunération. Le Medef veut développer l"intéressement et la participation alors que les syndicats insistent sur les salaires. Les partenaires sociaux devraient commencer à débattre du sujet le 27 mai.
13/05/2009

CalPERS adopts a policy of increased transparency for ?placement agents?

Rob Feckner, chairman of the board at CalPERS, has announced that the California pension fund (USD177bn in assets) has adopted a new policy which requires external managers to disclose details of commissions they pay to placement agents and other information about their dealings with these entities in order to obtain mandates from CalPERS. The agencies will also be required to be registered with the SEC and Finra as broker-dealers: if they are not, CalPERS will refuse to award the mandates to the asset management firm.These new rules come in the wake of the recent ?pay-to-play? scandal, in which a ranking politician in New York used his influence at the city pension fund to direct mandates to certain asset management firms who paid him for the favour.
13/05/2009

BBVA signs partnership agreements with CITIC group

BBVA on Tuesday signed two partnership agreements with the Chinese CITIC group to create joint ventures in which the Spanish bank will control 35% of an entity that will lend money to finance purchases of automobiles in China, and 20% of a private bank to be founded with China Citic Bank (CNCB) as partner. BBVA points out that China is a market in which 320,000 households have financial savings of over EUR1m. The agreements are a materialization of the ?Framework Agreement on Further Strengthening Strategic Cooperation in Core Business Areas? signed in Madrid in January by the two groups.In private banking, BBVA will participate in the management of the existing specialised division of CITIC, which will serve as the embryo of the future joint venture. BBVA will bring to bear its expertise in private banking in several countries, in investment policy, risk management, and technology.
13/05/2009

Capital increase at BNY Mellon

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) has announced a capital increase through an issue of USD1bn in ordinary shares. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will jointly oversee the books for the operation. They will have a greenshoe option of 15%.Pending the approval of the regulators, the bank has proposed officially notifying the Department of the Treasury that it is buying back the last preferential shares in the firm issued to the government as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).BNY Mellon had previously announced that, on the basis of stress tests, it did not need to raise further capital.
13/05/2009

UBS : Olencoff will stick to his guns in lawsuit

L’Agefi Suisse reports that the American-Russian businessman Igor Olenicoff is refusing to drop his lawquit against UBS. On Monday he appeared before a court in Santa Ana, California, to testify that he is a victim of the tax avoidance system operated by the largest wiss bank, and is demanding USD500m in damages and interest. The Californian promoter, caught by the Californian tax authorities, pleaded guilty to tax fraud and agreed to pay a heavy fine.
13/05/2009

UIRE acquires a logistical centre from Goodman

For its institutional real estate fund Immo-Invest: Europa, Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE, German co-operative banks) has acquired a logistical centre measuring 102,020 square metres in Bad Hersfeld. Ownership of the property, leased for 10 years to Amazon, will be transferred in September. The vendor is Goodman Bad Hersfeld Logistics (Lux) S.a.r.l. The price of the acquisition, for which Savills served as the intermediary agent, has not been disclosed.
13/05/2009

Brandes calls on MSIG to pay added dividend

Brandes Investment Partners, which owns 9.46% of Mitsui Sumitomo Life Insurance Group, is putting pressure on the Japanese group to pay an additional dividend to its shareholders, at a cost of up to USD55.8m. A letter has been sent to the board of the company, the Financial Times reports.

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