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26/03/2013

Amundi launches a Japan ETF in Milan

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Amundi has released its Amundi ETF Topix EUR Hedged Daily ETF, which offers exposure to the Japanese equity market, with daily hedging of the euro/yen exchange rate, on the Milan stock exchange, Bluerating reports.
26/03/2013

Banco Madrid concludes acquisition of Liberbank Gestión

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The acquisition of Liberbank Gestión and its EUR931m in assets was completed on 25 March by Banco Madrid, whose assets under management total over EUR3bn, Funds People reports. Banco Madrid now has exclusive rights to distribute Liberbank products.
26/03/2013

UBS places family offices under single leadership

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The head of private wealth management for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Morgan Stanley, Pavlos Bailas, will on 1 April join the UBS gorup as head of the global family office group (GFO), according to an internal memo obtained by finews.ch.The GFO, which will provide inter-regional and cross-sector wealth management and investment banking services, will be integrated into the ultra-high net worth (UHNW) services unit.Bailas, who is based in Zurich, will report to Joe Stadler, global head of UHNW, and to Jürg Zeltner, CEO wealth management, Andrea Orcel, CEO investment bank and Brian Hull, vice chairman UBS Americas.Jerry Wattenberg remains as senior representative of the GFO unit in the investment bank, and responsible for the largest family office clients worldwide, and will report to Bailas.
26/03/2013

Société Générale Private Banking Switzerland appoints deputy CEO

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Société Générale Private Banking Switzerland has announced the arrival of Jean Goutchkoff as deputy CEO. He is a member of the executive board at the private bank, alongside Yves Thieffry, CEO, Olivier Aubenas, head of sales, and Matthieu Vedrenne, director of support functions. Goutchkoff will be responsible for development of sales in emerging markets. Before joining Société Générale Private Banking (Suisse) SA, Goutchkoff had been at HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA since 2007. He was globla head of the central and eastern European region, and then was responsible for the Emerging Europe region and a member of the Executive Board at the bank.
26/03/2013

DoubleLine adds to its equity unit

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Mutual Fund Wire reports that, according to Reuters, the equity unit at DoubleLine has been scaled up with the recruitment of Jonathan Ainley, Sunny Ommanney, Brian Shim and Kristine Smith as equity analysts, and Rodney Boone as equity trader.With the exception of Ommanney, former CEO of Nyima Foundation, all of them join from TCW and will report to Brendt Stallings and Husam Nazer, portfolio managers, with whom they had worked previously at TCW.
26/03/2013

Prudential seeking head of compliance

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Mutual Fund Wire reports that Prudential Investment Management (PIM, USD827bn in assets) has posted a job opening on LinkedIn for a head of compliance.
26/03/2013

Standard Life Investments selected by CalPERS

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is investing USD500M with Edinburgh, Scotland-based Standard Life Investments as part of its Multi-Asset Class (MAC) Partners Program. Standard Life is the first of four external managers selected to partner with CalPERS in the MAC program. The MAC Program has two strategic objectives. First, the Program is intended to outperform the CalPERS total fund over a market cycle, using primarily public market assets, and doing so with lower volatility and less risk.Secondly, the Program is expected to facilitate a transfer of meaningful information from the MAC Partners to CalPERS investment staff, to help develop scalable, sustainable, and efficient methods of increasing the likelihood of meeting long-term CalPERS investment return goals.
26/03/2013

BlackRock Alternative Investors hires former Credit Suisse PM

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BlackRock has recruited Andy Stewart, head of one of the entities dedicated to hedge funds at Credit Suisse, as an addition to its alternative management unit, Reuters reports. Stewart will co-direct BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI), the division of BlackRock dedicated to hedge funds and private equity, with Matt Botein, who will also be chief investment officer for alternative management. Meanwhile, BlackRock is parting with a team recruited in 2011, which had invested directly in private equity. Nathan Thorne, George Bitar and Mandy [sic] will also leave the firm. Under the new organisation, Stewart will be responsible for management of development activities, while Botein will concentrate on performance and investors. Assets under management at BAI, which last year acquired Swiss Re Private Equity Partners, which had about USD7.5bn in BAI private equity fund of fund activities, finished the year 2012 with USD110bn, up 5% year on year, as commissions and other revenues were up 12% to USD968m.
26/03/2013

Groupama AM recruits head of extra-financial analysis

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Groupama Asset Management has announced the arrival of Sébastien Thévoux-Chabuel as head of extra-financial analysis. He will report to Marie-Pierre Peillon, director of research, and will evaluate sectors and stocks in relation to the three major ESG themes: environmental, social and governance challenges. Thévoux-Chabuel had previulsly been a member of the teams at Oddo Securities, first as a sell-side financial analyst, and then as an SRI analyst, from June 2008.
26/03/2013

Kames offers a Singapore dollar version of its flagship fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The asset management firm Kames, based in London, is now offering a sub-fund denominated in Singapore dollars of its flagship fund, the Kames Strategic Global Bond Fund, Citywire reports. The fund is now available in Singapore dollars, pounds sterling, euros, yen, Swiss francs and US dollars. The Kames Strategic Global Bond fund, which has assets of USD550m, is co-managed by Philip Milburn and David Roberts. It has earned returns of 21.37% in the past three years, compared with 18.5% for the Barclays Global Aggregate EUR TR.
26/03/2013

Co-head of fixed income at Aberdeen AM departs

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The co-head of fixed income at Aberdeen Asset Management, Paul Griffiths, is leaving the firm in order to “take on other challenges” in the sector, Citywire Global reports. His responsibilities will be taken over by Brad Crombie, who becomes global head of the fixed income activity of the group. He had previously been co-head.
26/03/2013

LGIM recruits four and promotes one

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Andrew Hitchings, who was recruited in September 2012 as head of large UK clients from State Street Global Advisors, has been promoted to head of UK institutional business at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM).The British asset management firm has also announced that it has recruited Johan Rydqvist to the newly-created position of European sales manager, to develop the commmercial activities of LGIM in Scandinavian countries, Switzerland and Germany. The objective is to increase assets under management from abroad, which totalled GBP43bn as of 31 December. Rydqvist was recruited from Merrill Lynch.John Tsalos, for his part, has left Standard Life to take the newly-created position of head of defined contribution distribution & product strategy at LGIM, with assets in the area of defined contributions as of the end of last year of GBP25.4bn.LGIM has also announced that it has recruited Victoria Parrish from Credit Suisse Asset Management to serve as head of RFPs & marketing analytics. Net inflows in the area of requests for proposals totalled GBP7.1bn last year.Lastly, Taryn Liebbrandt has left T. Rowe Price International to become client relationship manager at LGIM, with responsibility for developing a portfolio of institutional clients.
26/03/2013

Man Group to finance OMI quantitative finance institute until 2018

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }Man Group and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (OMI) announced on March 25 the extension of Man’s funding of the Institute through to 2018. This five-year funding extension underscores Man’s commitment to building a world-leading quantitative investment business following the recent combination of AHL, Man’s quantitative investment manager, and Man Systematic Strategies, its specialised quantitative division.Founded in 2007 with funding from Man, the OMI is the home of interdisciplinary research in quantitative aspects of finance at the University of Oxford.
26/03/2013

Mark Lyttleton leaves BlackRock

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The manager of BlackRock, Mark Lyttleton, will be leaving the firm after 21 years at the US group, MoneyMarketing reports. Lyttleton is expected to hand over management of the UK Dynamic fund (GBP624m) and the UK Absolute Alpha fund (GBP427m) by 28 March. The former will be managed by Nick Little, while the latter will be co-managed by Nigel Ridge and Nick Osborne. BlackRock is also planning to merge the UK Dynamic fund with the UK fund (GBP513.6m).
26/03/2013

Aberdeen posts GBP3.5bn in inflows in two months

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } From the beginning of the year to 28 February, Aberdeen has recorded net inflows of GBP3.5bn, the British asset management firm announced on 25 March. Inflows went mainly to equities, with GBP4.3bn, and particularly to global emerging market funds (GBP2bn), despite measures taken to slow inflows to these products. Aberdeen notes, however, that inflows were lower than in the past, and that they are expected to return to more “sustainable” levels. Asia Pacific funds in particular posted large inflows in the first two months of the year (GBP2bn). Assets increased to GBP212.3bn as of the end of February, compared with GBP193.4bn as of the end of December. Aberdeen notes that net subscriptions went largely to high-margin funds, which will result in additional revenues from annual commissions of GBP35m.
26/03/2013

Schroders agrees to buy Cazenove Capital

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Schroders on Monday announced a bid of GBP424m in cash to acquire all capital in Cazenove Capital.With GBP17.2bn in assets under management at Cazenove Cpaital, the deal will create an entity with GBP229.2bn in assets (by figures as of 31 December 2012).In private banking and wealth management in particular, the combined assets will total GBP28.4bn, and will allow Schroders to considerably increase its activities this field in the United Kingdom.The asset management firm will also increase its activities serving intermediated clients, with GBP5.1bn from Cazenove Capital.The acquisition price includes GBP29m in deferred pay packages to Cazenove employees. The operation will bring synergies and cost savings totalling GBP12m to GBP15m per year, before taxes.
26/03/2013

Bonne opération pour KKR au Japon

La société américaine de private equity cède le réseau nippon d’agences de travail temporaire Intelligence Holdings à un concurrent local de ce dernier, Temp Holdings, pour 68 milliards de yens, soit 560 millions d’euros. Un investissement réussi pour KKR, qui a payé 35 milliards en 2010 pour mettre la main sur Intelligence Holdings.
26/03/2013

Pour Ben Bernanke, le QE3 profite à l’économie mondiale

Le président de la Fed a estimé que la politique monétaire ultra-accommodante destinée à soutenir la reprise de l'économie américaine avait aussi des effets positifs sur l'économie mondiale. La politique d’assouplissement quantitatif de la Fed a été critiquée notamment par certains pays émergents qui lui reprochent de favoriser la dépréciation du dollar et de permettre ainsi aux Etats-Unis d’exporter leurs difficultés économiques chez leurs partenaires commerciaux. Dans un discours destiné à être prononcé à Londres, Ben Bernanke, souligne que l'économie mondiale dans son ensemble bénéficie de perspectives plus robustes de l'économie américaine. Il se défend aussi en expliquant qu’une croissance plus forte de chaque économie a des effets de contagion bénéfiques sur ses partenaires commerciaux et que les politiques ultra-accommodantes ne consistent pas à «exporter la crise» mais plutôt à «exporter la prospérité» dans un jeu à somme positive.
26/03/2013

La Malaisie investit plus que les Chinois en Afrique

Des statistiques de la Cnuced publiées à la veille du sommet des Brics à Durban montrent que la Malaisie est le plus gros investisseur direct asiatique en Afrique, devant la Chine. Les investissements directs de Kuala Lumpur dans le monde ont plus que quintuplé ces dix dernières années pour atteindre 106 milliards de dollars fin 2011. Ceux réalisés en Afrique atteignent 19,3 milliards de dollars.
26/03/2013

L’AMF et son homologue australien renouvellent leur partenariat

L’Autorité des marchés financiers et son homologue australien, l’Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), ont renouvelé à Sydney leur accord en matière d’assistance et de coopération mutuelle. Il remplace un précédent accord conclu en 1995 entre la COB et l’ASC. Les régulateurs échangeront notamment des informations sur les évolutions de leur environnement réglementaire respectif.
26/03/2013

Banques, le précédent chypriote

Il y avait un prix à payer pour que Chypre restât dans la zone euro sans tondre les petits déposants et appeler les contribuables européens à la rescousse de banques gavées de dépôts douteux. Il est élevé. Le plan de «sauvetage» forgé lundi matin impose une restructuration brutale et risquée. En mettant un terme immédiat à un modèle de place offshore que l’Europe n’a su ni contrôler ni gérer à temps, il annonce une dure récession ; et en instaurant un contrôle des capitaux le temps de gérer la phase de restructuration des banques locales, il pose déjà la question de sa gestion et de son démantèlement, toujours gros d’une menace de fuite des capitaux. Surtout, ce plan marque un virage dans le traitement des restructurations bancaires en Europe. Pour la première fois, non seulement les actionnaires, mais tous les créanciers, y compris les «seniors», sont appelés à régler l’ardoise aux côtés des déposants pour la part dépassant la garantie de 100.000 euros. Sur le plan de l’image, la zone euro n’en sort pas indemne. Un contrôle des capitaux et une mise à contribution de tous les créanciers et des déposants les plus riches, cela fait vraiment désordre. On peut y voir la preuve de l’urgence d’une union bancaire qui ne permettra plus ce genre de dérapage. Mais on peut s’inquiéter aussi des conséquences qu’en tireront les parties prenantes au système bancaire de la zone, confrontées à cette nouvelle doctrine, surtout dans le sud de l’Europe où les banques sont déjà très fragilisées.
26/03/2013

Les fonds de pension américains à la dérive

Le quotidien cite des calculs du consultant spécialisé Milliman faisant état d’un déficit cumulé record à fin 2012 de la part des cent plus importants fonds de pension privés aux Etats-Unis, à 388,8 milliards de dollars. Un chiffre en hausse de plus de 61 milliards sur l’exercice écoulé, sur fonde de taux d’intérêt historiquement bas.
26/03/2013

KKR et GIC financent l’immobilier indien

La société américaine de private equity et le fonds souverain de Singapour attendent l’homologation selon le quotidien d’une société financière non-bancaire (NBFC, non-banking financial company) destinée au financement des promoteurs immobiliers en Inde. Disposant à l’origine d’une capacité d’action de 150 millions de dollars, il s’agira de la première société du genre dans le pays.

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