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02/11/2011

Pimco recruits a product manager for emerging markets

Ignacio Sosa, managing director and portfolio manager at Voras Capital Management, has been recruited by Pimco (Allianz Global Investors group) as executive vice president of the emerging markets product management group at its Newport Beach headquarters. He began in his new position on 31 October.Sosa, who had been one of the founders and co-CIO of OneWorld Investments, from 1999 to 2008, will report to Wendy Cupps, managing director and head of the product management group, and David Fisher, executive vice president and head of global & emerging markets product management.
02/11/2011

Henderson GI hires a real estate asset manager

Henderson Global Investors’ property business, which manages around GBP12.4 billion of property assets, has hired Michael Samuel as an asset manager for its GBP1.3 billion North American Property Business. He will be based in Henderson’s Chicago office where he will be responsible for the ongoing management of operations, value enhancement and dispositions of a portfolio of North American fund and separate account assets, including industrial, multifamily and retail property types. Prior to joining Henderson, Michael Samuel was a senior associate and loan officer with Transwestern Investment Company (now Pearlmark Real Estate), where he was responsible for the origination and asset management of commercial real estate mezzanine loans on behalf of a series of institutional investment funds. He was also responsible for the workout and resolution of distressed loans and REO.
02/11/2011

Assets up at LG IM

Assets under management at LG Investment Management as of the end of September totalled GBP347bn, compared with GBP342bn one year earlier, according to a statement from the firm published on 1 November.Net inflows at LG IM totalled GBP4.8bn, of which GBP3.6bn (compared with GBP8.2bn in third quarter 2010) were for the Investment Management unit, and EUR1.2bn in savings assets under management by the group.LG IM says that gross inflows represented GBP25.1bn, of which GBP4.7bn were in the LDI (Liability-Driven Investment) segment. Assets under management in the LDI segment, which totalled GBP39bn in third quarter 2010, as of the end of September 2011 totalled GBP52bn.
02/11/2011

Threadneedle appoints new managers for LV= funds

In keeping with a partnership agreement signed on 15 August, Threadneedle on 1 November took over management of 21 retail funds from LV= Asset Management, and appointed new managers for the funds. The funds have total assets of about GBP8bn, while at the time of the announcement (see Newsmanagers of 18 August), assets under management were estimated at GBP8.5bn.The names of all the funds have been changed to include the Threadneedle brand name, but there are no changes to fee levels, and Threadneedle has no immediate plans to change the objectives or investment policies of former LV= funds.The complete list of funds, and their new names and managers, can be found here.
02/11/2011

Carmignac recruits a head of sales for UK

Mark Dunn, head of strategic business development at LV= Asset Management (LVAM), is joining Carmignac Gestion as sales director for the United Kingdom, according to reports in the British press.Dunn will report to Matthew Wright, who has recently been appointed as head of country UK at Carmignac Gestion (see Newsmanagers of 11 October). Wright had previously been head of professional clients at LVAM.
02/11/2011

Schroder PIM remporte un mandat auprès d'Invista

Le conseil d’administration d’Investa Foundation Property Trust a décidé de mettre fin au mandat de gestion confié à Invista Real Estate Investment Management (IREIM), rapporte Fund Web.Le mandat a été confié à Schroder Property Investment Management (Schroder PIM) dont la commission annuelle de gestion devrait s'élever à 1,1%. Selon le Trust, ce changement devrait entraîner une économie de l’ordre de 1,8 million de livres par an.
02/11/2011

Neil Robson joins Threadneedle

Threadneedle Investments has appointed Neil Robson as fund manager in its global equities team, reporting to Jeremy Podger, head of global equities. He will join in November 2011 and will be lead manager on the Threadneedle (Lux) Global Focus Fund. Neil Robson joins from Martin Currie Investment Management where he was global portfolio manager. Prior to this he was head of global equities at Pioneer Asset Management, having joined the company in 2003. Neil Robson’s appointment brings Threadneedle’s global equity team to a total of eight. The team manages EUR2.0bn.
02/11/2011

Schroder PIM wins a mandate from Invista

The board of directors at Investa Foundation Property trust has decided to withdraw a management mandate from Invista Real Estate Investment Management (IREIM), Fund Web reports. The mandate has instead been awarded to Schroder Property Investment Management (Schroder PIM), with an annual management commission of 1.1%. According to the Trust, the change will bring savings of about GBP1.8m per year.
02/11/2011

Octopus launches two new funds

The asset management firm Octopus Investments has added to its multi-manager range with two new products, one global absolute return fund, and one fund dedicated to emerging markets, Investment Week reports. Both funds, IM Octopus Global Strategies and IM Octopus Emerging Market Equity, will be launched on 8 November. The absolute return fund will invest in alternative strategies, including long/short equity funds and thematic funds offering low correlation to high-risk assets. The fund dedicated to emerging markets will invest largely in BRIC countries, via 30 funds, two third of them based on active strategies, while the remainder are ETFs.
02/11/2011

iShares releases an emerging markets ETF in Italy

On 17 October, iShares (BlackRock group) launched the ETF Barclays Capital Emerging Market Local Govt Bond fund, which has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 21 June, to trading on Borsa Italiana.The fund is the 43rd product of the bond range from iShares, which has total assets of USD30bn. It is a physical replication fund, which replicates the Barclays Capital Emerging Markets Local Currency Core Government index, which covers emerging market bonds in local currencies with a total initial duration of 2 to 30 years.
02/11/2011

Invesco modifies construction of one of its ETF portfolios

Fundweb reports that Invesco has announced to investors in the PowerShares EuroMTS Cash Three Months ETF that the fund may now invest more than 35% of its portfolio in government bonds and bonds from European local authorities.The fund had previously been required to invest in money market instruments and securities issued by the Italian government or by Italian local authorities.
02/11/2011

Insurers want to cut back ETF investment universe

The ABI association of British insurers is preparing a request to exclude newly-listed companies from indices such as the FTSE 100, for a period of three months. The rule would prevent ETFs from investing in these firms, the ABI claims, according to Money Marketing, which cites reports in the Mail on Sunday that ETFs have recently driven up the share prices of companies that have recently arrived on the market. These firms are said to include mining companies which joined the FTSE 100 as soon as they were admitted to trading in London.
02/11/2011

FSA launches a consultation on commissions

The British Financial Services Authority (FSA) on 31 October launched a consultation on the calculation of regulatory commissions. The FSA is proposing to modify the way in which commissions are calculated, so as to be based not on the number of qualified personnel, but on the regulated earnings of the firm. The initiative is related to the MiFID directive, which introduces a different distribution system for authorised personnel. Regulated earnings are earnings resulting from advising, brokerage, commissions, and other revenues related to regulated activities of companies, the FSA says.
02/11/2011

Outflows continue from Spanish funds

In October, Spanish securities funds saw further net redemptions of EUR891m, following outflows of EUR681m in September, and EUR699m in August. It is the seventh consecutive month of net outflows from funds, according to the Spanish Inverco association of asset management firms.However, total assets as of 31 October came to slightly over EUR129.48bn, stable compared with the initial Inverco estimates for the end of September (see Newsmanagers of 3 October), but an increase of EUR241m in one month compared with the revised total for 30 September.Of the twelve largest asset management firms by volume, ten saw net redemptions in October, with the heaviest outflows from Santander Asset Management (EUR239.6m), BBVA Asset Management (EUR183m) and CatalunyaCaixa Inversió (EUR127.6m).Of the leading firms, the two ones which posted net subscriptions are Ahorro Corporación, with nearly EUR1.5m, and Barclays Wealth Management, with EUR10.25m.
02/11/2011

Aquila Capital sets up shop in Singapore

The Hamburg-based alternative management firm Aquila Capital (EUR3bn in assets) on 31 October announced that it is opening a representative office in Singapore.The new location (Aquila Capital had already been present in seven other international locations) is led by Cumyong Quah, who in the past two years has been head of private banking & South East Asia development at Fidelity.
02/11/2011

Steep rise in pay scales in asset management

As corporate salary costs overall increased by 4% in 2010-2011 compared with 2009-2010, pay scales in asset management increased by an average of 18% (with bonuses up by as much as 30%). The 2011 issue of the “Asset Management Reward Survey” from Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) also finds that in asset management, remuneration (basic salary and bonuses) increased more rapidly for investment specialists than for distribution specialists. The average pay level for chief investment officers (CIO) also increased more rapidly than for all management positions, including chief investment officers (CEO).The survey also finds that pay scales are increasing at a faster pace in Asia, where asset management is a growing industry and inflation is high, and in some product niches such as ETFs, global emerging markets and international equities.PwC states that competition to win over the most talented managers, at a time when the subsequent evolution of bonuses depends particularly on the asset manager’s ability to deliver consitently high performance, has resulted in significant increases in pay scales.The study finds that although the third European Capital Requirements Directive (CRD III) is not as restrictive as initially thought, it does work to the disadvantage of European asset managers, particularly against their Asian counterparts, as 85% of respondents to the PwC study say that they are concerned about the new regulations, particularly due to practical difficulties in recruiting top talent when faced with competition from outside Europe.
02/11/2011

Kenya plans to offer ETFs

The Nairobi Securities Exchange is planning to offer ETFs in the near future. To start with, the exchange will offer a range of indices from next week, which will serve as underlyings for ETFs and other index-based products, in an effort to attract foreign capital, Handelsblatt reports.In June, the Kenyan Capital Markets Authority (CMA) had announced the opening of a derivatives market, which will trade futures on currencies and commodities.Ghana is also planning to launch ETFs, the newspaper notes.
02/11/2011

Paulson & Co limite la casse

Reuters croit savoir que le gestionnaire alternatif a informé ses clients que les demandes brutes de rachat pour la fin de l’année, qui devaient être formulées avec le 1er novembre, ont été limitées à moins de 8% des actifs sous gestion s’élevant à 30 milliards de dollars. Paulson & Co avaient nourri les pires craintes après avoir indiqué que 20 à 25% des actifs étaient potentiellement éligibles.
02/11/2011

KKR se rapproche d’un rachat de Samson

Selon des sources citées par les agences de presse, le groupe de private equity mène des discussions exclusives en vue du rachat de Samson Investment, un groupe gazier et pétrolier américain non coté en Bourse. Le groupe serait valorisé de 8 à 10 milliards de dollars.
02/11/2011

Les banques françaises très attendues

Chahutés hier après l’annonce du référendum grec, les établissements hexagonaux devraient publier dans les prochains jours des résultats en recul.
02/11/2011

Pékin souffle le chaud et le froid pour la gestion d’actifs

Le 21st Century Business Herald indique que Pékin a durci les conditions d’investissement pour les gestionnaires d’actifs dans l’immobilier et la gestion de fortune. Les professionnels sont appelés à un «nettoyage». En parallèle, Pékin envisage d’assouplir les règles applicables aux assureurs pour les investissements en actions, selon Financial News qui cite le vice-président du régulateur de l’assurance, Chen Wenhui.
31/10/2011

La BCE achète de la dette italienne et espagnole

La Banque centrale européenne (BCE) est intervenue sur le marché pour acheter de la dette italienne et espagnole à court terme, pour contrer le creusement de leur écart de rendement avec les Bunds, rapportent des traders. En fin de matinée, le rendement de l’emprunt italien à deux ans reculait à 4,92% contre 5,12% plus tôt. Celui de l’emprunt italien à 5 ans recule à 5,88% contre 5,92% auparavant.
31/10/2011

Faible hausse des ventes de détail en Allemagne

Les ventes au détail ont augmenté moins que prévu en septembre en Allemagne, a annoncé lundi l’Office fédéral de la statistique. Leur hausse est de 0,4% réel, alors que le consensus des analystes interrogés par Reuters était de 1%. Annuellement, ces ventes progressent de 0,3% (consensus +0,9%).

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