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29/02/2012

Bestinver facilitates access to six of its funds

The board of directors at Bestinver Gestión has decided to considerably lower the minimum threshold for additional subscriptions to six of its funds, Funds People reports. The level has been reduced from EUR3,000 to EUR1,000 for the Bestinver Bolsa, Bestinfond, Bestinver Mixto, Bestinver Mixto Internacional, and Bestinvest International. The level has been lowered from EUR6,000 to EUR3,000 for the Bestinver Renta.
29/02/2012

NEIF fund, advised by BNP Paribas, acquires a property in Hamburg

The Next Estate Income Fund (NEIF) has acquired an office property measuring nearly 16,000 square metres in Hamburg, which represents an investment volume of about EUR45bn. The property, which carries a DNGB Silver label (a German label standing for High Environmental Quality) is located in Hamburg City South, very near the city centre. It has excellent transport links, particularly for public transport. “This is a significant acquisition for the international professional area at BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management in Germany, a market on which we are already present and where we are hoping to develop. Forthcoming acquisitions will follow in 2012 with the major target markets being Munich, Berlin, and Brussels,” says David Aubin, CEO for Investment Management at BNP Paribas Real Estate, in a statement.
29/02/2012

Gamax creates an institutional share class for two funds

The Luxembourg-based asset management firm Gamax (Mediolanum group) on 28 February announced the launch of institutional share classes for its Gamax Funds Maxi-Fonds Asien International (LU0743995689) and Gamax Funds Junior (LU0743996067), which are managed by DJE Kapital.The share classes, available with a minimum investment of EUR1m, carry a management fee of 0.9%, rather than the 1.5% charged for retail shares. There are no front-end fees, placement fees, or sale fees.Gamax, which is distributed by max.xs financial services in Germany, says that it has created a special website dedicated to those clients who have invested more than EUR500,000 in these products. The complementary service, Premium Investors Club, offers reports on the funds and alerts by SMS, email, or telephone if the portfolio is modified. It also provides access to the international Gamax community blog and an information service relaying the Gamax Twitter feed.
29/02/2012

Inflows in UK, Switzerland and Sweden in 2011

The United Kingdom, Switzerland and Sweden were the three markets that attracted the strongest net inflows in Europe in 2011, with nearly EUR46bn, EUR17bn and EUR8bn, respectively, according to estimates by Lipper, which has recently published its latest annual study of the European fund market.Overall, only eight countries out of 32 posted inflows last year, while the market overall saw outflows of EUR70.5bn. After the top three come Norway, Romania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Russia.France, however, is at the bottom of the rankings, with net outflows of nearly EUR65bn, after Italy (-EUR34.2bn), Germany (-EUR22bn) and Spain (-EUR6bn).In terms of products, the two equity funds which sold best in 2011 were ETFs based on Germany: the iShares DAX with EUR8.4bn, and the DB X-Trackers DJ Dax, with EUR4bn.In bonds, the best-sellers are managed by Franklin Templeton: the Templeton Global Total Return (EUR5.8bn) and the Templeton Global Bond (EUR4.8bn). Pimco comes next, with two global bond funds. In 2011, the 25 best-selling funds accounted for 33% of total inflows.
29/02/2012

Favourite asset management firms of funds of funds

In 2011, BlackRock, JP Morgan and Schroders were the favourite asset management firms of funds of funds, with 1,277, 1,047 and 1,028 clients of this type investing with them, respectively, according to Lipper, which analysed 2,000 third-party type funds of funds domiciled in Europe. In terms of assets, that represents EUR4.3bn, EUR3.4bn and EUR2.3bn. But only one fund from the three asset management firms places in the top ten best-selling products to this population in 2011: the BlackRock GF World Gold Fund, with 120 investors and EUR172m.The most popular fund for funds of funds in 2011 was the Templeton Global Bond fund, with 157 clients and EUR588m, followed by the M&G Global Basics (157 clients and EUR215.6m), and the Alken Fund – European Equities (155 clients and EUR407.3m).Two French firms place in the rankings of the top 10 favourite companies of funds of funds in 2011: Amundi, in seventh place, with 7661 fund of fund clients and EUR2bn in assets, and BNP Paribas, just behind with 705 clients and EUR2.4bn. But none of their funds placed in the top 10 products.Overall, in 2011, inflows from external funds of funds totalled EUR7.8bn in Europe, while the market saw outflows of about EUR70bn.France was the largest market in terms of assets in external funds of funds, according to Lipper, with EUR66.2bn, followed by the United Kingdom and Germany.
29/02/2012

Head of iShares Asia Pacific transferred to strategy at BlackRock

Nick Good will continue to be based in Hong Kong, and will continue to serve as head of iShares for Asia-Pacific until a replacement is found, but he has been appointed to the newly-created position of head of strategy and business development for Asia-Pacific at BlackRock, Asian Investor reports.
29/02/2012

Sal. Oppenheim recruits head of communications from Lups alpha

Five months after the departure of Dirk von Manikowsky as head of the office of the consultant Hering Schuppener in Düsseldorf, Sal. Oppenheim (Deutsche Bank group) has appointed Pia Kater as head of its press and external relations department, from 2 April. Kater had since 2005 been head of communications and marketing at the independent asset management firm Lupus alpha.The position has been filled in the interim by Markus Bohm, director of press and external relations for the asset management unit at Sal. Oppenheim.
29/02/2012

HSBC releases a frontier markets fund to retail investors

The Frontier Markets Fund, a sub-fund of the Luxembourg-registered Sicav HSBC GIF, is now available in Germany to retail investors (see Newsmanagers of 1 December 2011). The portfolio includes 70 to 90 positions, of which 50% are African and Middle Eastern firms, 40% are Asian and Latin American, and 10% are European. About 50% of the fund is invested in the financial sector.CharacteristicsName: HSBC GIF Frontier Markets FundISIN code: LU0666199749Front-end fee: 5.54%Management commission: 2.15%
29/02/2012

Commerzbank launches 8 ETCs based on WTI and cocoa

Since Monday, 16 new ETC products from Commerzbank have been available for trading on the Xetra electronic platform from Deutsche Börse, which now lists 251 instruments of this type. The new products, all registered in Germany, are ETCs based on WTI oil and cocoa, in long and short versions, plus, for each type of instrument, versions with leverage of 2, 3 and 4. Management commissions vary from 0.40% to 0.75%.
29/02/2012

Lyxor AM and Ikos launch a UCITS-compliant futures strategy

Lyxor Asset Management has announced its partnership with Ikos to launch the second alternative manager on its Lyxor Dimension UCITS Platform. The Lyxor / Ikos Futures Strategy Index Fund offers access to a diversified managed futures strategywhich applies a systematic quantitative global macro approach to trade highly liquid listed futures. Ikos will be the second alternative strategy on the platform - after Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) -and Lyxor plans to launch more alternative UCITS funds in the coming months.ISIN Code = IE00B7FN3698
29/02/2012

Hedge fund assets may top USD2.1trn by the end of 2012

Institutional investors remain sympathetic to hedge funds, whose assets under management may reach USD2.13trn by the end of the year, according to a study by Credit Suisse of more than 600 institutionals with over USD1trn in assets. According to institutional investors, their hedge fund portfolios may post returns of 8.6% in 2012, compared with 11% last year. In light of this performance and inflows, assets in the sector are expected to increase by about 12%, or about USD200bn in additional assets. The favourite strategies of investors are global macro (more than 25%), long/short equity (19%) and emerging markets (18%). Among the concerns expressed by institutionals are the high level of correlation between long/short and equity indices, and the excessive correlations between hedge funds, followed by sovereign default risks and counterparty risks. Interestingly, the mediocre results last year, which saw average losses of 5% for hedge funds, according to Hedge Fund Research, did not affect the confidence of institutional investors, with only 5% of respondents predicting that the sector would finish 2012 with losses.
29/02/2012

Noticeable fall in institutional investor morale in February

The global investor confidence index by State Street Global Markets for February came out to 86.5 points, compared with 92.6 in January, with the largest declines in North America, where confidence is down 9.5 points, to 80.5, its lowest level in three years.However, the confidence of European investors has improved, with the regional index up 4 points, to 95.2 in February. In Asia, the confidence of investors has held relatively stable, with the index down slightly to 96.3 from a corrected level of 96.6.Ken Froot, one of the «authors» of the index, explains that in February, institutional investors reduced their allocations to equities. As this asset class has generated returns in the past three months, they have tended to act as “purveyors of liquidity” to the market, as they rebalance their portfolios to these higher valuations.At the same time, the specialist continues, there has been a pro-cyclic bias in reallocations: “institutional investors are tending to retain or increase their positions in growth sectors such as industrial sector equities and shares related to discretionary consumer spending, to the detriment of sectors such as consumer staples, health, and telecoms.”
29/02/2012

RepRisk extends access to reputation database

The ESG business intelligence agency RepRisk on 28 February announced that its database of over 20,000 reports on the reputation of publicly-traded and private businesses worldwide is now available on the Webshop page on its website.The studies of these firms provide information about environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks related to controversial activities for which businesses may have met with criticism in publicly available sources (think tanks, universities, NGOs, the media, governments, communities).As CEO Philipp Aeby points out, clients of RepRisk had previously been banking and financial institutions, asset management firms, and pension funds. Now, the ESG database will also be available to multinational companies, NGOs, small and mid-sized businesses, consultants, and retail clients.
29/02/2012

Nearly USD70bn in inflows to Asian funds in 2011

Mutual funds based in Asia and Japan posted net inflows of USD69.4bn in 2011, in line with a trend observed in the United States, while Europe saw significant redemptions, according to statistics from Strategic Insight relayed by Asian Investor. Worldwide, net inflows totalled USD200bn, five times less than the USD1trn in net subscriptions observed in each of the previous two years. Worldwide, inflows have been concentrated in recent years on fixed income products, but equities are expected to return to the foreground this year, Strategic Insight predicts. Currently, equities represent slightly over 42% of a total of USD30trn in assets.
29/02/2012

Ray Dalio is now the world's best hedge fund manager

Ray Dalio has dethroned George Soros as the best hedge fund manager in the world, after Bridgewater Pure Alpha made investors USD13.8bn last year, the Financial Times reports, citing rankings by LCH Investments. The fund is also the largest in the world, with USD72bn in assets.
29/02/2012

RBC Dexia IS recruits a new head of strategy

RBC Dexia Investor Services on 28 February announced the recruitment of Paul Stillabower as head of strategy, in charge of deploying the group’s growth strategy. Stillabower, who had previously been at HSBC Securities Services, replacex Alex Muto, who will take up a new position as head of Enterprise Transformation, responsible for the integration of new acquisitions and transformation programmes announced by the business.
29/02/2012

Goldman Sachs executive under investigation

David Loeb, managing director of Goldman Sachs Group, is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US federal authorities, who are seeking to determine whether he transmitted insider information about IT sector shares to hedge fund manager clients of the bank, the Wall Street Journal reports.
29/02/2012

Insider trading investigation extended to pharmaceutical stocks

A US investigation into insider trading on Wall Street has been extended to shares in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors, the Financial Times reports, citing a source familiar with the matter. The FBI and the attorney general’s office in Manhattan are investigating transactions by hedge funds in both sectors, in connection with approvals of new medicines and acquisitions or mergers of businesses. On Monday, the FBI identified 300 people concerned in the investigation.
29/02/2012

SEC investigates Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs

After Citigroup and Bank of America, which have been under investigation since earlier this month, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs have announced that they have been sent Wells notices by the SEC, stating that they are suspected of providing misleading information to investors in order to sell them sub-prime backed securities, the Financial Times reports.
29/02/2012

European MPs debate ratings agencies and transaction tax

The Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament will Wednesday debate two highly controversial issues in the financial community, the tax on financial transactions and ratings agencies. Anni Podimata, the MEP in charge of the financial transaction tax legislation, will present the proposals as rather an extension of existing frameworks. For his part, Leonardo Domenici, the MEP responsible for the new legislation on ratings agencies, will call for unsolicited ratings of sovereign debt to be forbidden, and for the creation of an entity to evaluate the solvency of European Union member countries.
29/02/2012

Bad start to the year for Italian funds

In January, open-ended funds on sale in Italy underwent net outflows of EUR3.236bn, according to the most recent statistics from Assogestioni, the Italian association of asset managers. All categories of funds showed outflows, particularly money market funds, which saw outflows of EUR1.115bn. As of the end of January, assets in open-ended funds totalled EUR427bn, slightly up compared with December (EUR419bn). With the addition of closed funds and discretionary portfolios, assets totalled EUR469bn, compared with EUR938bn one month earlier. Asset management firms which posted the strongest net inflows in January for open-ended funds and discretionary management were Poste Italiane (EUR570.5bn), Credit Suisse (EUR314.9m) and Arca (EUR223m). At the other end of the rankings, the asset management firms which psoted the largest redemption demands were Generali (-EUR1.375bn), Pioneer (-EUR1.303bn) and Banca Popolare (pEUR434.6m). The French firms Amundi and BNP Paribas, for their part, posted outflows (-EUR399.4m and -EUR387.5m, respectively), while Axa posted a positive balance (+EUR89.6m). The sector is dominated by three Italian firms: Intesa Sanpaolo, Generali and Pioneer, which control nearly 50% of assets.
29/02/2012
Fonds

HSBC distribue son fonds de marchés frontière en retail

Le compartiment Frontier Markets Fund de la sicav luxembourgeoise HSBC GIF est désormais commercialisé en Allemagne auprès des particuliers (lire Newsmanagers du 1er décembre 2011). Le portefeuille se compose 70 à 90 lignes, dont 50 % de sociétés africaines et moyen-orientales, 40 % d’asiatiques et latino-américaines ainsi que 10 % d’Europe. Environ 50 % du fonds sont investis en valeurs financières.CaractéristiquesDénomination : HSBC GIF Frontier Markets FundCode Isin : LU0666199749Droit d’entrée 5,54 %Commission de gestion : 2,15 %
Fonds
29/02/2012

La Deutsche Bank en négociations exclusives avec Guggenheim Partners

La Deutsche Bank a annoncé le 28 février qu’elle avait engagé des négociations exclusives avec la société de services financiers Guggenheim Partners dans le cadre de la vente de ses activités de gestion d’actifs. La première banque allemande avait fait part de ses intentions en novembre dernier, évoquant la nouvelle réglementation, une hausse des coûts et une concurrence croissante. Les activités de gestion d’actifs, qui font l’objet d’une évaluation stratégique, comprennent les fonds ouverts (mutual funds) en Amérique du Nord (DWS Americas), ainsi que le pôle de gestion internationale dédié aux investisseurs institutionnels (DB Advisors), pour les compagnies d’assurances (Deutsche Insurance Asset Management) et pour les investissements alternatifs (RREEF). Sont ainsi exclues des négociations les activités de DWS en Allemagne, en Europe et en Asie, une partie essentielle de l’offre de la Deutsche Bank à destination de la clientèle privée sur ces marchés. Guggenheim Partners, dont le siège se partage entre New York et Chicago, est un groupe de services financiers qui a développé une expertise en gestion d’actifs à destination de la clientèle institutionnelle, notamment du côté des assureurs et des instituts de prévoyance et de retraite. Ses actifs sous gestion dépassent les 125 milliards de dollars. Déjà en 2010, Guggenheim Partners avait racheté LBBW Securities, la filiale broket-dealer de l’allemand Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW). Beaucoup plus récemment, Guggenheim a vendu sa filiale canadienne Claymore dédiée aux ETF.
29/02/2012

AGI et DWS plébiscités pour leurs produits d'épargne retraite

Dans le domaine de l'épargne retraite, deux promoteurs de produits d'épargne retraites sont plébiscités par la majorité des institutionnels et des gestionnaires. Selon la dernière édition de l'étude Kommalpha, tant les investisseurs institutionnels allemands spécialisés (assureurs, caisses de retraite, etc.) que les gestionnaires d’actifs interrogés par l’agence classent Allianz Global Investors (AGI) et DWS/DB Advisors (groupe Deutsche Bank) en tête, avec respectivement 67%/63 % et 63%/61% de réponses favorables. En troisième place on retrouve Metzler KAG pour les investisseurs (33%) et Union Investment pour les gestionnaires d’actifs (44%). La quatrième place est occupée par Fidelity (27%) pour les institutionnels et par Deka (30%) pour les asset managers. Union Investments est plébiscité par 17 % des investisseurs institutionnels pour ses produits d'épargne retraite, Fidelity est choisi par 26 % des sociétés de gestion.
29/02/2012

Sal. Oppenheim recrute la "dircom" de Lupus alpha

Cinq mois après le départ de Dirk von Manikowsky comme patron du bureau du consultant Hering Schuppener à Düsseldorf, Sal. Oppenheim (groupe Deutsche Bank) a nommé Pia Kater directrice de son service de presse et des relations extérieures à compter du 2 avril. Elle était depuis 2005 directrice de la communication et du marketing chez le gestionnaire d’actifs indépendant Lupus alpha.L’intérim a été assuré par Markus Bohn, directeur presse et relations extérieures du pôle gestion d’actifs du groupe Sal. Oppenheim.
29/02/2012
Fonds

Gamax crée une classe institutionnelle pour deux de ses fonds

Le luxembourgeois Gamax (groupe Mediolanum) a annoncé le 28 février le lancement de classes de parts institutionnelles pour son Gamax Funds Maxi-Fonds Asien International (LU0743995689) et son Gamax Funds Junior (LU0743996067) qui sont gérés par DJE Kapital.Ces parts accessibles à partir d’un million d’euros et la commission de gestion se situe à 0,9 %, au lieu de 1,5 % pour la part retail. Il n’y a ni droit d’entrée ni frais de dossier ou commission de distribution.D’autre part, Gamax, qui est distribué par max.xs financial services en Allemagne, indique avoir créé un portail spécial dédié à ceux de ses clients qui ont investi plus de 500.000 euros dans ses produits. Ce service complémentaire, Premium Investors Club, propose des rapports sur les fonds et des alertes par sms, courriel ou téléphone en cas de modification de portefeuille. Il permet aussi d’accéer au blog international Gamax communitye et à un service d’informations par le compte Twitter de Gamax.
Fonds
29/02/2012
Fonds

La Commerzbank lance huit ETC sur le WTI et huit sur le cacao

Depuis lundi, 16 nouveaux ETC de la Commerzbank ont été admis à la négociation sur la plate-forme électronique Xetra de la Deutsche Börse, qui cote ainsi désormais 251 instruments de ce type.Les nouveaux produits, tous de droit allemand, sont des ETC sur le pétrole WTI et sur le cacao en versions longue et courte, plus, pour chaque variété des instruments à effet de levier de 2, 3 et 4 . Les commissions de gestion s'échelonnent entre 0,40 % et 0,75 %.
Fonds
29/02/2012
Fonds

Bestinver facilite l'accès à six de ses fonds

Le conseil d’administration de Bestinver Gestión a décidé d’abaisser considérablement le plancher des souscriptions minimales additionnelles pour six de ses fonds, rapporte Funds People. Le montant diminue à 1.000 euros contre 3.000 pour les fonds Bestinver Bolsa, Bestinfond, Bestinver Mixto, Bestinver Mixto Internacional et Bestinvest Internacional. Il revient à 3.000 euros contre 6.000 pour les Bestinver Renta.
Fonds
29/02/2012

Le patron de iShares AsPac est muté à la stratégie chez BlackRock

Nick Good va rester basé à Hong-Kong et continuera d’exercer ses fonctions de Asia-Pacific head of iShares jusqu'à ce qu’un successeur lui soit trouvé, mais il vient d'être nommé au poste nouvellement créé de head of strategy and business development for Asia-Pacific chez BlackRock, rapporte Asian Investor.
29/02/2012

Progression de 8% du bénéfice de Swiss Life en 2011

Swiss Life a annoncé le 29 février avoir dégagé en 2011 un bénéfice net de 606 millions de francs, contre 560 millions l’année précédente. Corrigé des effets exceptionnels et des écarts de conversion, le bénéfice d’exploitation s’est inscrit à 793 millions de francs, ce qui représente une hausse importante par rapport à 2010 (751 millions de francs). La contribution du secteur Investment Management au résultat du groupe est en hausse de 26%, à 130 millions de francs. Le prestataire de services financiers AWD confirme le succès de sa réorientation avec un bénéfice opérationnel corrigé de 54 millions d’euros (contre 49 millions d’euros l’année précédente) et une progression de sa marge EBIT à 9,7% ( 9% en 2010). Son résultat opérationnel est toutefois grevé par des réserves pour litiges d’un montant de 47 millions d’euros, ce qui débouche sur un EBIT de 7 millions d’euros au total.Le chiffre d’affaires d’AWD affiche une hausse de 3%, à 561 millions d’euros. Les actifs gérés par Investment Management se sont élevés à 134,3 milliards de francs, soit une progression de 10%. Ces actifs sont en partie gérés pour compte de tiers : ils progressent de 4,3 milliards de francs. Cette croissance est notamment due à une acquisition en France (Viveris Reim) et au lancement d’un nouveau groupe de placement de la Fondation de placement Swiss Life.

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