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09/06/2010
Fonds

Nouveau fonds chez Harewood

Harewood a annoncé le lancement de Harewood UK Enhanced Income Fund, un fonds Ucits III investi en actions dont l’objectif est de servir des revenus élevés et réguliers de l’ordre de 8 % par an. Le fonds est destiné à des investisseurs modérément optimistes sur l'évolution des marchés mais qui, néanmoins, espèrent profiter d’un rendement interessant et d’une exposition sur le marché des actions britanniques via l’indice FTSE 100 TR.Le fonds utilise des couvertures sur le FTSE 100 TR, une stratégie qui combine une position longue sur l’indice et la vente simultanée d’options d’achat sur ce même sous-jacent, sur une base systématique et quotidienne.La stratégie est optimisée sur trois niveaux : la vente quotidienne d’options d’achat offre une plus grande réactivité face aux mouvements de marché. L’ajustement dynamique du prix d’exercice optimise la performance du fonds dans des marchés en baisse ou en hausse. Enfin, l’arrêt automatique de la vente d’options d’achat lorsque la volatilité est faible (inférieure 13%) donne une exposition totale au comportement du sous-jacent. CaractéristiquesCodes ISIN: Classe A: GB00B6371B76 / Classe B: GB00B61HS742Commissions de souscription : 4 % (Classe A)/ 1% (Classe B) Frais de gestion : 1,5 % (Classe A) /0,75 % (Classe B)Date de lancement le 21 mai 2010Investissement minimum : £ 1.000 (Classe A et C)
Fonds
09/06/2010

Le britannique Brooks Macdonald acquiert le groupe Braemar

La société de gestion et de conseil Brooks Macdonald a annoncé le 8 juin l’acquisition du groupe spécialisé dans l’immobilier et les produits structurés Braemar pour un montant de 4 millions de livres.Au 31 mars dernier, les actifs sous gestion de Brooks s'élevaient à 2,05 milliards de livres. La société, qui emploie plus de 160 personnes, est cotée sur l’AIM et au 7 juin, sa capitalistion boursière s’inscrivait à 79 millions de livres.
09/06/2010
Fonds

Le hedge fund de Moore Capital souffre en mai

Louis Bacon, le gérant de hedge funds qui avait dégagé des gains annuels d’environ 20 % ces vingt dernières années, a vu son plus gros hedge fund, Moore Global Investments, accuser une perte de 9,2 % en mai, indique le Wall Street Journal, citant des investisseurs. Il s’agit de la pire performance annuelle de l’histoire du fonds. Le mois de mai a été le plus mauvais pour les hedge funds depuis novembre 2008 selon Hedge Fund Research, avec un déclin moyen de 2,3 %.
Fonds
09/06/2010

Legg Mason recrute chez Allstate Financial

Laura Zimmerman, qui vient de passer 14 ans chez Allstate Financial, en dernier lieu comme chief strategy officer, rejoint Legg Mason Inc (685 milliards de dollars d’encours fin avril) comme head of marketing & product pour les activités du groupe aux Etats-Unis.Elle sera responsable du développement et de la mise en œuvre de la stratégie de marque et du marketing ainsi que des solutions d’investissement et de retraites pour la division Amériques de Legg Mason. Elle sera basée à Stamford dans le Connecticut.
08/06/2010

Helvetia Wealth acquires Mercury Wealth Management

The Swiss wealth management firm Helvetia Wealth AG has announced that it has acquired the investment advising firm Mercury Wealth Management, based in Dublin, which is one of the largest distributors of protected-capital investment products on the Irish market. The acquisition price has not been disclosed. Helvetia Wealth states that its assets have increased due to the acquisition by CHF70m. Gareth Fahey, who founded Mercury Wealth in 2003, will continue to lead the business.
08/06/2010

BlueBay launches European government bond activities

BlueBay Asset Management has announced that it has hired Mark Dowding to lead the development of a European government bond business at the firm. He comes to BlueBay from Deutsche Asset Management, where he was European Head of Institutional Fixed Income; and was previously at Invesco, where he worked closely with Raphael Robelin - BlueBay’s Head of Investment Grade Credit. Raphael and Mark, who joins as a Senior Portfolio Manager, will co-head the European Investment Grade team at BlueBay; with a focus on corporate and government bonds respectively. Following Mark Dowding’s arrival at BlueBay in early September, the firm will be launching funds in both the European government bond and European Aggregate space; the latter product combining both sovereign and corporate credit.
08/06/2010

BNP Paribas Wealth Management makes UK debut

BNP Paribas announces that it is combining BNP Paribas’ existing private banking activities with those of Fortis Private Investment Management and Insinger de Beaufort UK under the BNP Paribas Wealth Management brand. The combined business will offer a broad range of investment and wealth management services in addition to financing and structuring solutions for both onshore and international clients. The new business manages over GBP5.5 bn in assets and employs 130 people and will be led by Ligia Torres. Ligia was previously Head of Fixed Income Corporate and SAS Origination and Sales, EMEA at BNP Paribas, responsible for developing strategic business with corporate, sovereign, agency and supranational clients. In addition to offering cross asset class investment solutions and tax, legal and fiduciary services BNP Paribas Wealth Management UK’s clients will benefit from dedicated teams focussing on tailor made investment products, philanthropy, art and estates. BNP Paribas Wealth Management will also offer a range of financing solutions, says BNP Paribas.
08/06/2010

MLP relegated to SDax index

Deutsche Börse announced on Friday that HeidelbergCement, which ranks 22nd among German equities by market capitalisation and trading volume, will replace Salzgitter in the Dax index from 21 June. Salzgitter has been relegated to the MDax index, where it joins Kabel Deutschland and Brenntag, which replace Pfleiderer and MLP. The latter two shares have been moved down to the SDax, where they are joined by Tom Tailor. The three new entries replace VBH, Villeroy & Boch and Dykerhoff, which have been removed.
08/06/2010

Feri downgraded Ireland and Spain as soon as mid-2007

The current debate over the quality and pertinence of the models and methods used to issue credit ratings for countries has led Feri EuroRating Services to investigate the reliability of its own ratings. The German agency has reached the conclusion that its ratings of four out of the five PIIGS countries (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) were lowered considerably sooner than their ratings from other agencies, and by more severe degrees. In particular, Ireland and Spain were downgraded by Feri as early as mid-2007. Tobias Schmidt, a board member at Feri EuroRatings Services, says this good result is certianly due to the fact that these Feri ratings are largely based on projections.
08/06/2010

Deka Immobilien earns capital gains in Seoul

With the sale of the Eugene Investment & Securities Building office property in Seoul for EUR123m, to the South Korean Public Officials Benefit Association, the German asset management firm Deka Immobilien, via its open-ended fund Deka-ImmobilienGlobal, has earned significant capital gains. The property, with about 40,000 square metres, was purchased for EUR70m in September 2004, and expert estimates value it in the current market at EUR95m.
08/06/2010

SRI funds from Nordea divest from BP

The Nordea Responsible Investments (RI) Committee on June 4 2010 decided to divest from BP in the Nordea dedicated RI funds and mandates. Further on it was decided to suspend further investments in BP for all other Nordea funds until clarification from BP on systematic risk management has been evaluated. In total, some 20 Nordea funds available in the Nordic countries with BP investments are directly affected. The decision of the RI Committee was taken due to: the company has failed to comply with its own safety and environmental rules according to the informations available; the company does not disclose information and is not transparent regarding how other similar operations are managed from a safety and environmental perspective The RIG team (Responsible Investments & Governance) within Nordea is also currently conducting thorough analysis on the oil & gas sector companies in order to identify systematic safety and environmental risks associated with deep water drilling operations, adds Nordea.
08/06/2010

BBVA AM launches a commodities fund of funds

On 2 June, BBVA Asset Management registered the commodities fund of funds Quality Commodities, created on 26 May, with the CNMV. The new fund will be allowed to invest at least 50% of its assets in other funds with complete flexibility. BBVA AM will use a composite benchmark index, which will be 70% composed of the DJ UBS Commodity TR, while HSBC Global Mining TR will account for 19.5%, and the MSCI World Energy will represent 10.5%. The management team will be allowed to adopt short positions and to invest in derivatives of financial commodities indices traded on regulated markets. The product will offer daily liqudity, but the prospectus adds that a 10-day advance notice period will be required for all redemption demands. The minimal recommended investment period will be 5-7 years, and minimal subscription is set at EUR3,000, except for employees and pensioners from the BBVA group. A distribution agreement has been signed with BBVA Quality Funds. Characteristics Name: Quality Commodities FI Risk profile: Very high Manager: BBVA Asset Management Depository bank: Banco Depositario BBVA Management commission -direct: 0.95% of assets and 9% of performance -indirect: 3% of assets and 20% of performance
08/06/2010

SGSS to provide securities services to Grosvenor for launch of OPCI

In a statement, Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) announced on Monday, 8 June, that it has been granted a mandate by Grosvenor, a specialist in real estate investment and development, to provide securities services for the launch of its first French collective real estate investment organism, OPCI. The new fund will be managed by Viveris REIM, and capital in the fund will total nearly EUR300m. The mandate specifically mandates SGSS to provide depository services, custody of financial assets, market making for real estate assets, passive management, account administration, and valuation. As of the end of 2009, Grosvenor had GBP10.2bn in assets under management.
08/06/2010

Former Métropole Gestion manager moves to Skandia

Anne-France Gauthier, who previously served as director of retail activities in France at Métropole Gestion, whose departure was announced in Newsmanagers (see article on 28/04/10), is joining Skandia as director of sales for major client and private banking partnerships. Gauthier, 42, will be responsible for defining and deploying the organisation and commercial strategy of Skandia Labels, a product range which will be aimed at asset management firms, private management departments, and private banks, according to a statement from Skandia. She will also be in charge of the organisation and commercial development of Skandia Labels in France, and for promoting the range of products and services in question and developing synergies with other activities of the group, such as marketing, products, back-office, Service Partners, finance, and others.
08/06/2010

Jean-François Théodore joins HDF Finance

Jean-François Théodore, former deputy CEO of NYSE Euronext, on 6 May joined the supervisory board at the asset management firm HDF France. In addition to this responsibility, Théodore, who will remain as non-executive director of the stock exchange company, will “assist HDF with regulatory developments,” a statement says. In addition, HDF Finance has announced that it is in the process of recruiting a team member in the United States to replace one US-based departure, Gilles Guérin, at the end of June. The fund manager is also planning to request an SEC license for its US unit. In Switzerland, HDF has also recruited Joseph Steiger, formerly of Credit Suisse and SAM Asset Manaegment, to develop the German-speaking Swiss institutional client base. The Swiss affiliate of the asset management firm now has two offices: one in Geneva, for private banking clients, and one in Zurich. Some funds from the management firm are now in the process of being licensed in the country.
08/06/2010

M&G launches a “newcits” fund

Dave Fishwick and Eric Lonergan are the managers of the new M&G Macro Episode Fund, a UCITS-compliant rendition of the Prudential Life hedge fund, launched in early 2001, and another M&G hedge fund domiciled in the Cayman Islands. The product, which relies on behavioural finance techniques, is initially restricted to institutional and qualified retail investors, with a minimal subscription of GBP1m, Investment Week reports. The fund managed for Prudential has earned average annual returns of 12.2% since its launch, Hedge Week reports. The fund includes share classes in unhedged US dollars, and classes in pounds Sterling and Euros hedged for forex risks against the dollar.
08/06/2010

Martin Currie promotes a manager of flagship Japan fund

Martin Currie has announced the promotion of Clair Marwich from early June as co-manager of the Japan Alpha Fund, alongside Keith Donaldson and John-Paul Temperley. Marwick joined the Japan specialist team in August 2007. Martin Currie has also announced that it is planning to close the fund at GBP175m in assets. The Japan Alpha Fund is a conviction-based fund, with 30 to 40 positions. Since the beginning of the year, the GBP32m fund has earned returns of 23.6%, compared with 14.6% for the Topix index.
08/06/2010

JP Morgan plans to launch emerging markets value fund

Fund Strategy reports that JP Morgan Asset Management is planning to launch a global emerging markets value fund, with an initial performance objective of 4%. The head of emerging markets equities activities at the group, Richard Titherington, will manage the fund as a diversified portfolio of 50 to 70 positions which distribute dividends.
08/06/2010

First fund from Querns Asset Managers

The new asset management firm Querns Asset Managers will soon launch its first fund, an equities/bonds diversified product, the Querns Income Funds. It will primarily invest in UK equities and British corporate bonds. The fund, in which partners will invest GBP5m as seed capital, carries no front-end fee, and charges a management commission of only 0.75%. Querns Asset Managers was recently founded by the managers Phil Roantree and Stephan Whittaker, two former New Star managers, and Peter Gardner (formerly of Invesco Perpetual) and John Tierney (formerly of selectfunds and Perpetual). The objective for Querns AM is to reach assets of GBP250m in five years.
08/06/2010

Asian investors opt for equities

Net equity fund sales in Asia rose strongly in the first quarter to over USD10bn, according to the Lipper FMI’s latest FundFlash. They were two and half times the level of the previous quarter. In China, equity fund sales rose by 30% to USD7.5bn. But the picture was not so rosy in other asset classes. Total sales fell to a modest USD9bn, less than a quarter of the flows seen in the final three months of 2009. The main reason was the outflow from money market funds which totalled nearly USD15bn, almost as much as had flowed into this asset class in the previous quarter. The main culprits behind the large money market fund outflows were Chinese and Indian investors. In China, redemptions may have been influenced by the impending introduction of exit charges at the end of March. In India, more than USD10bn was taken out of money market funds, and there were also significant outflows from bond funds. Most of the withdrawals were in March when the Indian fund industry recorded its highest ever net outflows. Quarter-end redemptions are normal in India as banks and companies take out the excess cash they have accumulated in fixed-income and cash funds during the quarter. March is also the end of the tax year when many fixed-term plans reach maturity, says Lipper FMI. Meanwhile, sales of bond funds more than halved. The region’s most enthusiastic fund investors were the Japanese. They bucked the general trend with a 6% rise in overall sales.
08/06/2010

Nomura launches an absolute return fund

Funds Strategy reports that Nomura is launching an absolute return fund offering controlled exposure to interest rate movements. The vehicle, entitled Irisx4, is compliant with UCITS III format, and is based on the IRIS (Interest Rate Investment Strategy) benchmark index from Nomura. Jean-Philippe Royer, head of fixed income at Nomura, says that despite the current market environment, “investors are still expecting returns 7% to 8% above the money markets, but without the volatility that generally accompanies such high alpha.”
08/06/2010

New deputy CEO at Ceres AM

The asset management firm Ceres Asset Management announced on Monday, 7 June that it has recruited Franck Vivier as deputy CEO. Vivier will be responsible for Ceres Japan and Ceres Greater China, among others. Vivier began his career at Indosuez New York,a nd later became CEO of Daiwa France Gestion. Since 1995, he had been director of systematic management at Société Générale.
08/06/2010

BNY Mellon launches a USD700m rights issue

BNY Mellon at the end of last week announced the launch of an issue of ordinary shares totalling about USD700m (25.9 million shares at USD27 per share), to finance an acquisition of PNC Global Investment Servicing. The offer will remain open until 9 June. The co-bookrunners are Goldman Sachs and Citi, while BofA Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley will act as co-managers.
08/06/2010

Hedge funds lost more than 2.6% in May, according to HFR

In May, the HFRX global hedge fund index from Hedge Fund Research came in at 1153.39. This represents a decline of 2.64%, the heaviest loss since November 2008 (soon after the collapse of Lehman Brothers), and follows a positive performance of 0.80% in April. Since the beginning of the year, the index has lost 0.26%. The Ucits HFS Index, which tracks the evolution of UCITS-compliant hedge funds, has lost 1.08% in May, compared with gains of 0.90% in April. Since the beginning of the year, these funds have earned average returns of 2.16%. The heaviest loss in May (5.58%) was for convertible funds, compared with gains of 1.36% in April. The strategy shows losses of 0.26% in the first five months of the year. In January-May, long/short equity funds have lost 0.40%, and CTA have lost 2.53%, Structured Solutions reports. The largest gains in the first five months of the year have been for global macro (8.55%) and fixed income (7.63%) strategies.
08/06/2010

Assets rose in 2009, but subscriptions remain weak

Asset managers enjoyed growth in assets of USD5,000bn in 2009, taking total assets to USD49,000bn EUR41,000bn), according to research from Cerulli Associates cited by Financial Times Fund Management. Mutual funds made up USD21,000bn of the total, showing growth of 16 per cent, but just one percentage point, or USD240bn, of that was due to new money from investors.
08/06/2010

IOSCO to survey hedge funds

Il Sole – 24 Ore reports that the international organisation of securities commissions (IOSCO) is planning to announce a survey of hedge funds, at the annual conference of the organisation, to be held Wednesday in Montreal. It will initially concentrate on the largest entities. The goal is to obtain data on the identity of hedge funds, their performance, the composition of managed activities, investments in derivatives, and the banking intermediaries with whom they have credit relationships.

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