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20/01/2011

Un ancien trader de Brevan Howard se met à son compte

Selon les informations de Financial News, Frederic Denjoy, un ancien trader de Brevan Howard Asset Management, vient de créer sa propre société à Londres, Denjoy Capital Partners. Il prévoit de lancer un fonds long/short actions le 1er mai.
20/01/2011

Jupiter collecte plus de 2 milliards de livres en 2010

Jupiter Fund Management a enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 772 millions de livres au quatrième trimestre 2010. En comptant également un effet de marché positif de 1,13 milliard de livres, cela lui a permis d’accroître ses encours de 9 % à 24 milliards de livres au 31 décembre.Sur l’année, la société de gestion britannique a affiché une collecte nette de 2,32 milliards de livres.
20/01/2011

Sherborne fustige l’acquisition de Thames River par F&C

L’acquisition de Thames River et REIT par F&C pourrait être préjudiciable aux actionnaires, estime Sherborne Investors, l’investisseur activiste qui a pris 17,5 % de F&C et cherche à déloger le président Nick MacAndrew. Selon Investment Week, l’investisseur a écrit aux actionnaires de F&C leur demandant de voter en faveur des résolutions qu’il a soumises lors de l’assemblée du 3 février.
20/01/2011

L'équipe de direction du groupe Aviva annonce des changements

Le conseil d’administration d’Aviva Europe a annoncé, mercredi 19 janvier; le départ fin février d’Andrea Moneta, CEO d’Aviva EMEA.Igal Mayer, actuellement CEO d’Aviva Amérique du Nord, a été nommé CEO d’Aviva Europe, une fonction qui prend effet immédiatement, précise un communiqué. Igal Mayer rejoindra le Conseil d’administration du groupe Aviva, sous réserve de l’approbation des autorités de régulation. Simultanément, Richard Hoskins, actuellement directeur financier d’Aviva en Amérique du Nord, va en devenir le CEO - également sous réserve de l’approbation des autorités de régulation. Ce dernier rejoindra le comité exécutif du groupe Aviva.
20/01/2011
Fonds

Scottish Widows lance un fonds devises

Roddy Macpherson, investment director, currencies, est le gérant du nouveau Currency Alpha fund que vient de lancer (le 21 décembre) Scottish Widows Investment Partnership.Il s’agit d’un OEIC axé sur les devises et destiné au marché «discrétionnaire», c’est-à-dire notamment aux gérants de fortune et aux multigérants, qui utilise un modèle quantitatif développé en interne il y a trois ans, et qui a donné de bons résultats.La capacité est plafonnée à 400 millions de livres et l’objectif est de surperformaer de 400 points de base, brut de frais, le benchmark, le Libid 7 jours en livres.Il est prévu une commission de performance. CaractéristiquesDénomination : SWIP Currency Alpha FundCodes Isin : Part G Acc : GB00B5KQZ301Part G Inc : GB00B5M00B30Part H : GB00B59V4845Droit d’entrée : 3,75 %Commission de gestion : 1 % (part H)0,75 % (part G)Souscription minimale : 10 millions de livres.
Fonds
20/01/2011
Fonds

Remaniements dans l'équipe de gestion de M&G

Giles Worthington, gérant du M&G Pan European Fund (363 millions d’euros), et Tim Short, gérant du M&G European Fund (196 millions d’euros) ainsi que du M&G Special Situations Fund (47 millions d’euros) quittent le gestionnaire britannique M&G Investments.Greg Alridge, gérant du M&G Global Growth Fund, et Charles Anniss, gérant du M&G European Smaller Companies Fund (123 millions d’euros) sont nommés co-gérants du M&G Pan European Fund et du M&G European Fund. De plus, Charles Anniss reprend le M&G European Smaller Companies Fund. Quant au M&G Special Situations Fund, il est confié désormais à Richard O’Connor, de l'équipe produits structurés actions, en attendant qu’une décision soit prise sur l’avenir de ce produit.Par ailleurs, M&G a annoncé le 19 janvier que tous ses fonds multi classes d’actifs seront désormais gérés dans un cadre unique d’investissement mondial développé et mis en œuvre depuis plus de dix ans par Dave Fishwick, un «vétéran» de M&G (plus de 20 ans d’ancienneté) qui a été nommé head of macro and equities en juillet 2010. Ce cadre s’appuie sur la conviction que la meilleure approche pour gérer un portefeuille réside dans une allocation souple entre les différents classes d’actifs mondiales en réponse aux changements de valorisation des actifs ainsi qu’en fonction des déterminants économiques et comportementaux de ces valorisations.L’adoption de ce cadre unique a provoqué un changement dans l'équipe de gestion. George Tsinonis, gérant du M&G Global Dynamic Allocation Fund, a quitté l’entreprise et le fonds est désormais confié à Juan nevado et Tony Finding, qui font partie depuis longtemps de l'équipe macro investment. Les objectifs et le profil de risque du fonds demeurent inchangés.
Fonds
20/01/2011
Fonds

UBS fait coter trois ETF sur les hedge funds à Francfort

Depuis le 19 janvier, trois nouveaux ETF de droit irlandais répliquant des indices HFRX de hedge funds sont admis sur le segment XTF de la plate-forme de négociation électronique Xetra de la Deutsche Börse, ce qui porte à 763 le nombre de produits cotés.Deux de ces nouveaux fonds de hedge funds d’actions, l’UBS ETFs plc HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index SF (EUR) A-acc et le UBS ETFs plc HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index SF (USD) A-acc, sont chargés à 2 % tandis que le UBS ETFs plc HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index SF (USD) I-acc est assorti d’une commission de gestion de 1,50 %.Dans l’indice, les différentes stratégies sont pondérées en fonction de la répartition des encours au sein du secteur des hedge funds. Le troisième de ces nouveaux produits s’adresse avant tout aux investisseurs institutionnels.
Fonds
20/01/2011

Dealis administre désormais 2.500 fonds

Ponctuellement pour le 31 décembre, Dealis Fund Operations GmbH, filiale commune d’Allianz Global Investors (AGI) et de DekaBank, a bouclé les 18 mois de migration des 1.300 fonds offerts au public et institutionnels du groupe DekaBank sur sa plate-forme SimCorp Dimension (SCD), alors que celle des 260 fonds cominvest de droit allemand avait été parachevée au 1er juillet 2010.Désormais, Dealis administre environ 2.500 fonds domiciliés en Allemagne et au Luxembourg pour un encours supérieur à 340 milliards d’euros. AGI et Deka avaient décidé fin 2008 de regrouper leurs activités centres de back-office dans une filiale commune, Dealis, qui a entamé ses activités début 2009.A présent, Dealis peut développer son offre de services et proposer à d’autres sociétés de gestion allemandes et luxembourgeoises de rejoindre la plate-forme SCD, qui opère de manière indépendante vis-à-vis de ses deux maisons mères.
20/01/2011

Fin de l'aventure Agathon Invest

Michael Hallacker, ancien dirigeant de Deka Investment et fondateur en 2009 de la boutique de gestion Agathon Invest, a vendu fin décembre les parts qu’il détenait dans la société de gestion spécialisée sur l’obligataire et les changes, indique portfolio institutionell. Cette vente signifie la fin d’Agathon Invest, qui n’avait lancé qu’un seul fonds obligataire et ne comptait qu’un seul client, qui avait investi 2,5 millions d’euros dans le produit.
20/01/2011

Vontobel table sur un complément de croissance externe

Herbert J. Scheidt, président du directoire, a indiqué le 19 janvier à Francfort qu’avec 20 % de fonds propres, Vontobel dispose des moyens d’acquérir des banques privées en Suisse et en Allemagne, rapporte la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. En Allemagne, l’encours est de 2 milliards d’euros, pour moitié en banque privée et pour moitié en gestion institutionnelle.En attendant, l'établissement suisse a le choix entre trois équipes de conseillers pour renforcer son site de Munich, tandis que celui de Cologne -où Sal. Oppenheim donne des signes de faiblesse- va muscler son offre à destination des particuliers haut de gamme sous la direction de Johannes Ollischläger (ex Deutsche Bank). A Francfort, Vontobel a recruté Petra Mennong (ex UBS) pour diriger la banque privée. Enfin, à Hambourg, la banque helvétique a débauché une équipe de conseillers de Hauck & Aufhäuser.
20/01/2011

Les clients de Vontobel apprécient le tarif "all-in fee"

Frank Wieser, président du directoire du munichois Vontobel Europe, a fait état de hausses de 31 % de l’encours et de 40 % du chiffre d’affaires pour l’activité de banque privée en Allemagne l’an dernier, tandis que les charges ne progressaient que de 3 %, rapporte la Börsen-Zeitung. L’effectif va passer cette année de 73 à 86 personnes.Le manager a indiqué que le montant minimal pour accéder aux services de Vontobel a été doublé à 1 million d’euros. D’autre part, 90 % des clients ont accepté le nouveau système de facturation du type «tout-compris», avec une commission de 1 % sur l’encours, et rétrocession des rétrocommissions.
20/01/2011

Allianz mise sur la transparence des prix

Maximilian Zimmerer, président du directoire d’Allianz Lebensversicherung, a annoncé que sa compagnie va afficher à l’avenir le taux de changement global de ses produits d’assurance-vie, indique la Börsen-Zeitung. Cela permettra d’une part d’expliquer l’incidence de la performance sur les coûts et de l’autre de rendre les produits comparables avec ceux des concurrents. D’après Maximilian Zimmerer, le gestionnaire DWS (Deutsche Bank) a déjà adopté un système comparable.
20/01/2011

Former Julius Baer banker sentenced

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Rudolf Elmer, former head of the Julius Baer affiliate in the Cayman Islands, who earlier this week handed over disks with bank data to Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has been fined 240 fine-days (equivalent to CHF7,200), with the sentence suspended. The Zurich district court found Elmer guilty of repeated violations of banking confidentiality, attempted coercion and threats to his former employer.
20/01/2011

Galleon scandal: former trader pleads guilty

Danielle Chiesi, a former Bear Stearns hedge fund trader, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to US federal criminal charges in connection with the Galleon insider trading ase but she is not co-operating with the government, the Financial Times writes.She pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud for passing inside information about technology companies to hedge funds and others.
20/01/2011

BNY Mellon wins a QDII mandate in China

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BNY Mellon has been selected by China Construction Bank as international custodian for a new QDII (qualified domestic institutional investor) fund in China, which will be offered by Yinhua Fund Management. Yinhua, based in Beijing, has over RMB85bn in assets under management.
20/01/2011

UBS lists three hedge fund ETFs in Frankfurt

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Since 19 January, three new Irish-registered ETF funds, replicating HFRX hedge fund indices, have been available for trading on the XTF segment of the Xetra electronic platform from Deutsche Börse, bringing the number of listed products to 763. Two of the new funds of equities hedge funds, the UBS ETFs plc HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index SF (EUR) A-acc and the UBS ETFs plc HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index SF (USD) A-acc, charge fees of 2%, while the UBS ETFs plc HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index SF (USD) I-acc carries a management commission of 1.50%. In the index, the various strategies are weighted depending on the distribution of assets within the hedge fund sector. The third of the new products is primarily aimed at institutional investors.
20/01/2011

Robeco transfers management of four funds to SAM

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Swiss SRI management firm Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) on 19 January announced that its Dutch parent company, Robeco, has transferred the management of the Luxembourg funds Robeco Agribusiness Equities (EUR144.8m) and Robeco European Equities (EUR439.8m), which are changing prefixes to adopt the SAM name.The management of the two products, with 40-60 positions each, will become “even more sustainable” upon their transfer to Zurich. The first of the two funds, with a TER of 1.63%, will now be managed by Martin Jochum, while the second (which charges 1.47%) will be managed by Kai Fachinger.On 18 January, Robeco also transferred the management of the Robeco European Stars fund (EUR22m) and the Robeco European Midcaps (EUR142m).
20/01/2011

Deutsche Bank introduces a new investment assistance tool

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } Deutsche Bank on 19 January announced the introduction of a new decision-making aid to assist investors: fundamental analysis of indices. According to a statement from the bank, the new instrument will cover up to 20 of the most representative indices of the equities, credit and commodities universes. Analysts at the bank will give positive, neutral or negative outlooks for each index. Each time the outlook for an index changes, the analysis will be updated. “Investments in indices, for example via tracker funds, are growing fast. With fundamental analysis of indices, we will cover a large variety of asset classes and provide investors with a useful decision-making aid,” says Lars Slomka, head of German equities strategy. Deutsche Bank has also published its first analysis of the DAX index, which gets a positive outlook due to a 2% growth projection for Germany, the strongest of the major Euro zone economies, and attractive valuations for DAX companies. Deutsche Bank will publish its analyses at the web address http://www.dbxtrackers.com/, on the page for institutional investors.
20/01/2011

Dealis now administers 2,500 funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On schedule, on 31 December, Dealis Fund Operations GmbH, a joint venture of Allianz Global Investors (AGI) and DekaBank, completed its 18-month migration of 1,300 open-ended and institutional funds from the DekaBank group onto the SimCorp Dimension (SCD) platform. The 260 German-registered cominvest funds were successfully migrated on 1 July 2010. Dealis now administers about 2,500 funds domiciled in Germany and Luxembourg, with assets of over EUR340bn. AGI and Deka in late 2008 decided to move all their back office operations into a central joint venture, Dealis, which commenced its operations in early 2009. Dealis may now develop its range of services, and may invite other German and Luxembourg asset management firms to join the SCD platform, which operates independently of its two parent companies.
20/01/2011

End of the line for Agathon Investment

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Michael Hallacker, former director of Deka Investment, and founder of the management boutique Agathon Invest in 2009, sold his remaining shares in the asset management firm specialised in bonds and currencies in late December, portfolio institutionell reports. The sale spells the end for Agathon Invest, which had launched only one bond fund, and which had only one client, who invested EUR2.5m in the product.
20/01/2011

Vontobel gearing up for external growth

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Herbert J. Scheidt, chairman of the board, announced on 19 January in Frankfurt that with 20% owners’ equity, Vontobel has the adequate means to acquire private banks in Switzerland and Germany, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. In Germany, assets total EUR2bn, half of which is in private banking, and half in institutional management.Meanwhile, the Swiss firm has a choice between three teams of advisers to recruit for its Munich offices, and the team in Cologne, where Sal. Oppenheim is showing signs of weakness, will be adding to its range of products aimed at high net worth private clients, under the leadership of Johannes Ollischläger (ex Deutsche Bank). In Frankfurt, Vontobel has recruited Petra Mennong (ex UBS) to direct the private banking operation, and in Hamburg, the Swiss bank has recruited a team of advisers from Hauck & Aufhäuser.
20/01/2011

Vontobel clients approve of all-in fee structure

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Frank Wieser, chairman of the board at the Munich-based firm Vontobel Europe, has announced increases of 31%. in assets and 40% in earnings for private banking activities in Germany last year, while costs increased by only 3%, the Börsen-Zeitung reports. Personnel will increase this year from 73 to 86.The manager says the minimal amount of assets required to engage the services of Vontobel has been doubled, to EUR1m. 90% of clients have accepted the new all-in fee structure, with a commission of 1% on assets, while all commissions and kickbacks are paid back to the client.
20/01/2011

Allianz backs price transparency

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Maximilian Zimmerer, chairman of the board at Allianz Lebensversicherung, has announced that his company will in the future release all-in fee information for its life insurance products, the Börsen-Zeitung reports. On the one hand, this will explain the impact of performance on costs, and on the other, will make products more comparable with competing products. According to Zimmerer, fund manager DWS (Deutsche Bank) has already adopted a comparable system.
20/01/2011

OMAM to merge funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Old Mutual Asset Managers will merge its income funds, managed by Stephen Message, Investment Week reports. Pending approval from the FSA and shareholders, the Equity Income fund will absorb the Extra Income fund at the beginning of March, resulting in a vehicle with GBP58m in assets.
20/01/2011

Scottish Widows launches a currency fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Roddy Macpherson, investment director, currencies, is the manager of the new Currency Alpha fund, which was launched on 21 December by Scottish Widows Investment Partnership.The fund is an OEIC product focused on currencies, aimed at the “discretionary” market, meaning mainly wealth managers and multi-managers, using a quantitative model developed internally three years ago which gives good results.The capacity of the fund is limited to GBP400m, and the objective is to outperform the Libid 7-day in pounds sterling by 400 basis points, before fees. There will be a performance commission.CharacteristicsName: SWIP Currency Alpha FundISIN codes: G Acc shares: GB00B5KQZ301G Inc shares: GB00B5M00B30H shares: GB00B59V4845Front-end fee: 3.75%Management commission: 1% (H shares)0.75% (G shares)Minimal subscription: GBP10m
20/01/2011

Changing of the guard in M&G fund manager personnel

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Giles Worthington, manager of the M&G Pan European Fund (EUR363m), and Tim Short, manager of the M&G European Fund (EUR196m) and the M&G Special Situations Fund (EUR47m), are leaving the British management firm M&G Investments.Greg Alridge, manager of the M^&G Global Growth Fund, and Charles Anniss, manager of the M&G European Smaller Companies Fund (EUR123m) are appointed as co-managers of the M&G Pan-European Fund and the M&G European Fund. In addition, Anniss is taking over the M&G European Smaller Companies Fund. The M&G Special Situations Fund is now managed by Richard O’Connor, of the equities structured products team, until a decision is made about the future of the product.M&G also announced on 19 January that all of its multi-asset class funds will now be managed in a single global investment framework, developed and deployed for over 10 years by Dave Fishwick, an M&G “veteran” with more than 20 years’ seniority, who was appointed as head of macro and equities in July 2010. The framework involves the conviction that the best approach to manage a portfolio is a flexible allocation between various global asset classes which varies in response to changes in the valuation of assets as well as to economic and behavioural factors which determine these valuations.The adoption of the single framework has triggered a change in the management team. George Tsinonis, manager of the M&G Glboal Dynamic Allocation Fund, has left the business, and the fund is now managed by Juan Nevado and Tony Finding, who are longstanding members of the macro investment team. The risk profile and objectives of the fund remain unchanged.
20/01/2011

Former Sal. Oppenheim company bought out by management

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that the Zurich-based management firm 4IP has been taken over by its management. The former entity of Sal. Oppenheim Corporate Finance (Suisse) will not be involved in the transaction, as its parent is in the process of being acquired by the Italian bank Banca Leonardo. 4IP advises institutional or family investors in indirect real estate investments, i.e., investments not in real estate properties, but in real estate funds or realty companies, for example.
20/01/2011

Allianz GI adds to one of its sales teams

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The external distribution sales team at AllianzGI France (AGI France) on Wednesday, 19 January announced that it has added to its sales team, led by Marie Fortez. Marielle Garandet and Olivier Taek join Pierre Marion, who has been a member of the team since July 2010. The recruitments will aim to intensify coverage of the French and Monaco markets by the firm, which since 1 January has also put the team in charge of development on the Luxembourg market, a statement says. Previously, Garandet, who joined Allianz Global Investors in London in 2007, was an external distribution sales specialist. Taek, for his part, joined Allianz Global Investors France in 2007, and served in a series of positions in the areas of calls for bids and institutional product marketing. Marion joined the external distribution team at Allianz Global Investors France in July 2010.
20/01/2011

OFI launches OFI Investment Solutions

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }The OFIgroup on Wednesday, 19 January announced the launch of OFI InvestmentSolutions (OIS), a new services activity aimed at institutionalinvestors, corporates and family offices, in the area of financialproduct structuring. OFI Investment Solutions is organised as an“in-house” team, led by Guillaume Launay, and offers thefollowing services:investmentadvising, restructuring and divestmentsearchfor investment solutions via structured productscounter-valuationand reporting of positionsreceptionand transmission of ordersoriginationadvising
20/01/2011

Profits and assets down at Goldman Sachs

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Last year, Goldman Sachs earned net profits of USD8.35bn, compared with USD13.38bn in 2009.Assets under management at the firm fell 4% over 12 months, to total USD840bn as of the end of December, of which USD208bn (-21%) were in money market funds, USD340bn (+8%) in bond funds, USD144bn (-1%) in equities funds, and USD148bn (+1%) in hedge funds.Revenue from asset management increased 9% to USD5.01bn.

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