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05/06/2012

Lehman ex-trader closes a hedge fund

Allan Bedwick, a former trader from Lehman Brothers, has decided to close his global macro hedge fund, after attempting for more than two years to increase assets in the fund, according to documents obtained by Reuters. Bedwick’s fund, whose assets under management totalled about USD120m, is based in Hong Kong. Facing ongoing uncertainties in the euro zone and concerns about a slowdown in growth, investors have been tending to steer clear of smaller alternative management actors in favour of heavyweights in the sector.
05/06/2012

Assets at Banca March up 16%

As of the end of March, assets in the private banking/wealth banking division of Banca March were up 15.7% to USD5.775bn. Assets managed by March Gestión, for their part, were up 11%. About 70% of funds beat their benchmarks.Banca March reports that in first quarter it launched the Family Businesses fund, which invests exclusively in publicly-traded family businesses, and which comes as an addition to the product range in the Luxembourg Sicav from March Gestión, alongside the Vini Catena (wine) and Terranova (defensive) funds.Net profits at Banca March in first quarter fell to EUR21.3m, comapred with EUR59m (-63.9%), and pre-tax profits are down to EUR58.7m from EUR244.4m (-76%). Profits in the corresponding period of 2011 were boosted by a one-time capital gain of EUR179.6m, which was generated by a sale of a 5% stake in ACS.Lastly, the bank reports that its tier 1 owners’ equity ratio as of the end of March stood at 24.1%, compared with 26.5% one year earlier.
05/06/2012

AmpegaGerling merges two funds

As of 1 June, Ampega Gerling Investment has absorbed the small fund Aktiv Trend Global (DE000A0NGJ51 / DE000A0Q8HK3), with EUR3.3m in assets in shares in equity funds, into the Gerling Portfolio Multi ETF Strategie (DE000A0NGJ69/DE0009847327), a fund of ETFs with EUR11.37m in assets, which may invest in equity and bond ETFs.
05/06/2012

UniImmo: Europa earns capital gains in United States

The open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Europa, from the German asset management firm Union Investment, has resold the Fremont Lake Union Center office building in Seattle (27,616 square metres) to Killroy Realty Corp for USD106m, USD40m higher than the acquisition price in 2005, and USD15m above the last expert valuation.The UniImmo: Europa has five other properties in its portfolio with a value of USD900m, in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Diego and Seattle.
05/06/2012

FTC offers a futures fund

The Austrian firm FTC Capital has announced the launch of a UCITS-compliant managed futures fund, FTC Global Diversified. The German-registered product will invest in equities, bonds, currencies, commodities and volatility, using several strategies. The volatility objective is 15% over a rolling 12-month period.CharacteristicsName: FTC Global DiversifiedISIN code: DE000A1JDWE7Management commission: 2%Performance commission: 20%, with high watermarkHurdle rate: 3%
05/06/2012

In BRIC countries, household wealth is growing fast

The financial assets of retail clients has increased by 1.9% worldwide in 2011, to EUR122.800trn, but that figure conceals highly varied realities: assets were down 0.9% in North America, 0.4% in Western Europe, and 2% in Japan, but up by 18.5% in BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) reports in the most recent edition of its Global Wealth 2012 report.The fastest increase by client segment was for the ultra-high net worth (UHNW) client category, with wealth of over USD100m, where the increase was 3.7%, compared with an average of 1.7% in all other segments.While there has been a decline of 182,000 in the number of these clients in the United States and Japan, the number of US dollar millionaire households last year increased by 175,000 in developing countries, including China and India.As of the end of 2011, the number of US dollar millionaire households totalled 12.6 million, 0.9% of the BCG sample. The highest number of millionaires (5.1 million) continues to be in the United States, followed by Japan (1.6 million) and China (1.4 million). The highest density of millionaires was in Singapore, with over 17% of households, followed by Qatar (14.3%), Kuwait (11.8%) and Switzerland (9.5%). But the United States is the country with the largest absolute number of millionaire households (2,928) and billionaire households (363).Compared with the size of the population, Switzerland has the largest number of ultra-high net worth households, while Hong Kong is the country with the largest number of billionaires, in both cases due to immigration.
05/06/2012

Euro zone crisis worries investors

Investors continued their search for safer places to park their money going into June as Spain struggled to avoid becoming the latest Eurozone market to require bailing out and economic data in the US continues to disappoint. Flows into EPFR Global-tracked US Money Market Funds during the week ending May 30 jumped to a 25 week high while US Bond Funds took in over USD1.5 billion for the 24th week in a row and Gold Funds recorded their biggest inflow since late January while Europe and Emerging Market Equity Funds extended their current outflow streaks.Despite the souring mood in global financial markets, Equity Funds managed to post net inflows of USD6.2 billion. But this was all due to flows into US Equity Funds and half of the total inflows were into a single S&P 500 index fund. While Monday inflows were strong, flows into the equity funds were dissipating at midweek. Bond Fund inflows amounted to USD1.5 billion while Money Market Funds took in a net USD2.2 billion as the flows into US funds were largely offset by redemptions from Europe Money Market Funds that hit an eight week high of USD7.6 billion.Nonetheless, «redemptions still haven’t hit the levels seen last August,» noted EPFR Global Research Director Cameron Brandt. «That may be due in part to the fact that flows are currently dominated by institutional investors. The retail investors who fled during 3Q11 have stayed away.»
05/06/2012

Assets and profits up at Hauck & Aufhäuser

The German private bank Hauck & Aufhäuser has reported an increase in its profits in 2011 to EUR12.9m, compared with EUR9.1m the previous year. Assets under management increased by about EUR3m to over EUR27bn, compared with EUR24bn as of the end of December 2011. The firm has also announced the recruitment of Stephan Rupprechts, from UBS, as the new partner who will be in charge of private and corporate clients. He will begin in his new role on 1 July next year. Hauck & Aufhäuser has also decided to recruit in the real estate sector, to provide clients with the opportunity to invest in residential real estate portfolios from the bank or to participate in club deals. The bank has been present in the financing of real estate projects for two years already.
05/06/2012

Deka may merge with Landesbank Berlin

Georg Fahrenschon, former finance minister of Bavaria, was on Monday elected as chairman of the supervisory board at Landesbank Berlin (LBB), three weeks before also succeeding Heinrich Haasis as chairman of the German savings banks association (DSGV). According to Handelsblatt, sources familiar with the matter say that Fahrenschon will soon merge LBB with the central asset management firm for the savings banks, DekaBank, as the two firms are now both controlled by the savings banks, and their activities overlap in several areas.
05/06/2012

Korean pension fund seeks to increase exposure to international equities

The National South Korean pension fund NPS is seeking to triple its exposure to international equities between 2013 and 2017, according to the five-year asset allocation plan for the fund, Asian Investor reports. Meanwhile, the NPS will reduce its exposure to South Korean bonds. The international equities allocation may increase from 5.7% to more than 10% by 2017.By the end of 2017, the equity allocation is expected to represent at least 30% of total assets, compared with 23.2% currently, an increase of 6.8 percentage points. The allocation to South Korean bonds will then not exceed 60% of total assets, compared with 64.5% currently. The international bond allocation may be increased to more than 10%, from 4.2%. The fund is also planning to increase its exposure to alternative investments, to more than 10%, from 7.8% currently.The performance objective is raised to 6.6% from 6.5% previously, on the basis of a growth outlook of 3.5% to 4% per year, and annual inflation of 3%.If the plan proceeds as projected, assets under management may total USD531bn by the end of 2017, compared with USD303bn at the end of 2011.
05/06/2012

LGT recruits a director from BZ Bank

Stefan Lindermann, who has been the director of distribution and marketing at BZ Fonds, the asset management affiliate of BZ Bank (based in Wilen, in the Swiss canton of Schwyz) since April 2011, has been recruited as director of private label funds for LGT Bank in Liechtenstein from the beginning of June.Lindermann will report directly to Norbert Biedermann, CEO of LGT Bank in Liechtenstein.
05/06/2012

Google fait ses emplettes

La jeune pousse californienne Meebo, active dans le domaine des sites de réseaux sociaux, a fait part d’un accord de rachat par Google. Le blog All Things Digital avait évoqué cette transaction le mois dernier en évoquant un montant voisin de 100 millions de dollars.
05/06/2012

La BCE prolonge le gel de ses rachats de dette

La Banque centrale européenne n’a procédé à aucun rachat d’obligations souveraines la semaine dernière, confirmant ainsi sa volonté de résister aux pressions en faveur d’une intervention pour faire baisser les rendements de la dette espagnole. Ces rachats dans le cadre du SMP sont donc restés en sommeil pour la douzième semaine consécutive.
05/06/2012

Moody’s rassure sur la décollecte dans l’assurance-vie

«Si cette décollecte, attribuable à des facteurs tant structurels que conjoncturels, pose des problèmes de rentabilité à moyen terme, elle ne s’accompagne pas pour l’heure d’un risque de liquidité», estime Moody’s dans un nouveau rapport. En janvier dernier, l’agence a maintenu sa perspective négative sur le secteur français de l’assurance-vie.
05/06/2012

L’Asie se taille la part du lion dans le private equity

La part destinée à l’Asie au sein des investissements mondiaux du capital-investissement a doublé au cours des quatre dernières années pour s’élever l’an passé à 21%. Cette part devrait poursuivre sa progression, selon Bruno Roy de McKinsey, auteur d’un rapport sur le sujet. La région représente en effet 28% du PIB mondial. Le rapport souligne que la Chine a accaparé 45% des investissements sur la zone en 2011.
05/06/2012

Bob Doll tire sa révérence

Le gérant vedette de BlackRock a annoncé son départ à la retraite dans une note interne destinée aux salariés de BlackRock et dont Reuters a obtenu copie. Il assurera la transition de la gestion jusqu’au 30 juin tout en restant disponible jusqu’à la fin de l’année.
05/06/2012

Recul inattendu des commandes à l'industrie aux Etats-Unis

Les commandes à l’industrie aux Etats-Unis ont reculé en avril pour la troisième fois en quatre mois, la demande baissant pour quasiment tous les produits. Selon les chiffres publiés par le département du Commerce, ces commandes ont baissé de 0,6% après un recul, plus marqué qu’initialement estimé, de 2,1% en mars.
05/06/2012

Le divorce entre les Français et la Bourse semble consommé

Seul un particulier sur dix estime qu’il s’agit d’un «bon moment» pour placer une partie de son épargne en Bourse. Une opinion partagée par 23% des actionnaires, réputés plus avertis, selon le journal qui cite une étude TNS Sofres. «Du jamais-vu» précise le quotidien. D’ailleurs, 91% des personnes sondées par l’étude jugent le marché des actions «risqué».
05/06/2012

Schroders prend le relais des banques

Le quotidien croit savoir de sources proches que le gestionnaire d’actifs britannique songe à mettre en place une activité dédiée au financement des foncières et promoteurs immobiliers au sein de la division spécialisée dans la détention d’actifs immobiliers. Les discussions n’en sont qu’à un stade préliminaire et Schroders n’a pas d’idée précise des sommes qui pourraient être mises en jeu. Responsable de l’immobilier chez Schroders, William Hill a refusé d’évoquer le projet tout en reconnaissant que «le retrait des banques du financement senior a créé une opportunité très intéressante à exploiter pour d’autres sources de capital».
05/06/2012

Pékin fait barrage à la cotation des sociétés étrangères

La commission chinoise de régulation des marchés a mis entre parenthèses son projet de compartiment dédié aux valeurs étrangères en Bourse de Shanghai en raison des turbulences rencontrées par les marchés de capitaux mondiaux et domestiques, fait savoir le 21st Century Business Herald. La commission préfère actuellement se consacrer à la mise en route d’un marché à terme.

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