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04/11/2009

Un nouveau CEO pour l'alternatif chez BNY Mellon

BNY Mellon a annoncé le 2 novembre la nomination de Brian Ruane au nouveau poste de Chief Executive Officer des services dédiés à l’investissement alternatif (AIS). BNY Melon Alternative Investment Services est un administrateur de hedge funds à la tête de 200 milliards de dollars de fonds sous adminsitration. Brian Ruane, qui reste basé à New York, sera directement rattaché à Art Certosimo, senior executive vice president et responsable de Broker-Dealer/Alternative Investment Services.
04/11/2009

Credit Suisse launches a convertible bond fund

The Global Convertibles sub-fund of the Credit Suisse Sicav One (Lux), launched on 19 October, has obtained its sales licenses for Germany and Austria. The Luxembourg-registered convertible bond fund covers the entire world, and is actively managed using a multi-asset class approach. The fund may invest in traditional bonds, equities, and structured products, while currency positions are largely hedged for risks. Characteristics Name: Credit Suisse SICAV One (Lux) Global ConvertiblesISIN Codes: B class USD shares: LU0426279682; R class EUR shares: LU0457025293; S class EUR shares (minimum EUR0.3m): LU0456270396Benchmark: UBS Global Convertibles Focus (FX hedged) Front-end fee: maximum 5%Management commission: B USD: 1.20%; R EUR: 1.20%; S EUR: 0.70%
04/11/2009

Islamic finance: Paris seeks to make a place for itself

Islamic resources offer attractive solutions for businesses in search of financing, but there are still obstacles to overcome before their use becomes commonplace, Les Echos reports. At a conference held at Bercy on the subject of Islamic finance, participants defined several of these obstacles, including the very limited presence of instruments denominated in Euros; the cost of constructing the financial apparatus; the lack of harmonisation between varying interpretations of Sharia law, the need to develop expertise in these financial instruments, and the difficulty of obtaining direct access to the final investor. The rising presence of the Paris centre in this segment could make it possible to alleviate some of these difficulties.
04/11/2009

JP Morgan AM recruits three senior portfolio managers from Fortis

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has recruited three senior portfolio managers from Fortis, where they will join a team specialised in emerging market bonds, Investment Week reports. Didier Lambert, Alain Defise and Michal Wozniak will join the team led by Pierre-Yves Bareau, who is himself a recent arrival from Fortis. “We think the emerging market debt sector presents enormous opportunities for our global fixed income clients, and we have modified the structure of the team, and centralised international coordination in London, in order to benefit from the situation,” says Bob Michele, chief investment officer for fixed income at JP Morgan AM since September of this year.
04/11/2009

Insight announces 120 job cuts

Insight Investments has announced that about 120 jobs will be lost by March 2010, after the migration of its assets to SWIP and BNY Mellon, IFAonline reports. The news has also been carried by FT Adviser.
04/11/2009

Martin Currie adds to global equities team

Martin Currie Investment Management Limited announced on 3 November that it has added to its team dedicated to international equities, with the appointment of Christine Montgomery and Neil Robson. Montgomery was formerly employed by Edinburgh Partners, while Robson formerly worked at Pioneer. Montgomery and Robson will join the team led by James Fairweather, which manages about USD4.6bn, by the end of the year.
04/11/2009

14% decline in new mandates at LGIM in nine months

Legal and General Investment Management has reported a gross total for new mandates down 14% to GBP24.3bn, compared with GBP28.3bn previously. However, assets under management reached a record GBP311bn, up GBP38bn since the corresponding period of 2008. In the period under review, net inflows totalled GBP12.2bn. Funds managed for external clients totalled GBP246bn, including pension funds for 51 FTSE 100 companies and 41 local collectivities.
04/11/2009

St. James's Place creates a position for a chief investment officer

The founder and former partner at Maia Capital, Chris Ralph, has joined St. James’s Place, where he will occupy the newly-created position of chief investment officer, Investment Week reports. The investment committee at St. James’s Place will also gain two new members from January 2010: Vivian Bazalgette, formerly CIO of Prudential, and Peter Dunscombe, chief investment officer at BBC Pension Trust.
04/11/2009

Brazilian tax doesn't worry HSBC Global Asset Management

The introduction in Brazil of an IOF tax of 2% on financial transactions involving investments in foreign currency “will create unfavourable conditions in the short term for local equities and for the Brazilian Real,” HSBC Global Asset Management reports. Jose Cuervo, manager of a Brazilian equities fund, says the tax will generate short-term volatility. But the manager says the tax will not have a significant impact in the long term “since factors favourable to equities and the Real remain positive,” according to a statement. As a result, HSBC Global Asset Management will retain a positive approach to the Brazilian market.
04/11/2009

Donner concludes acquisition of Reuschel

The transaction by which Conrad Hinrich Donner Bank, an affiliate of Signal Iduna, has acquired the private bank Reuschel & Co Privatbankiers from Commerzbank was concluded on Monday, 2 November. The integration of the acquired entity must be completed in the space of twelve months. The new establishment will be known as “Donner & Reuschel Privatbank seit 1798,” and will have two headquarters, one in Hamburg, and one in Munich (see Newsmanagers of 25 September), but the legal headquarters will be located in Hamburg, as Donner is the buyer. The new merged entity will have about EUR7.5bn in assets.
04/11/2009

DB Advisors: Master KAG activities obtain "excellent" rating from Telos

The Telos agency, based in Weisbaden, announced on Tuesday that DB Advisors, the institutional management division of Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has for the first time subjected its Master KAG activities to an audit, which resulted in the issuance of a rating of “1-”, or “excellent.” The Master KAG activities (fund accounting and administration, reporting, etc.,) are a part of the Fiduciary Management division of DB Advisors. Assets at DB Advisors as of 30 June 2009 were EUR79.18bn. The overall rating corresponds to ratings of “1-” for its four components: management, clients/sales, production, and infrastructure.
04/11/2009

Allianz Pensionsfonds takes over management of corporate pensions for MAN Ferrostaal

For the first time, the financial surveillance authority BaFin has authorised the transfer of assets between two pension funds: Allianz Pensionsfonds AG, the pension fund vehicle at Allianz for retirement savings plans for third-party businesses, will take over the delivery of benefits for 2,700 members of the MAN Ferrostaal pension fund. The benefits had previously been delivered by MAN Pensionsfunds AG, which in October transferred all its accounts to the Allianz affiliate, along with the corresponding EUR155m. The operation was rendered necessary by the fact that the Abu Dhabi sovereign fund, the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), had acquired a majority stake in MAN Ferrostaal.
04/11/2009

Insurance firm VIG caught up in "German Madoff" scandal

Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) has been caught up in a storm triggered by the scandal related to the hedge fund K1, founded by Michael Kiener, Handelsblatt reports. The group had sold life insurance policies vis its Liechtenstein affiliate, Vienna Life, whose unit-linked accounts were based on rights of beneficial interest from K1 Invest Lts, a structure based in the British Virgin Islands, which, according to its own claims, had assets of EUR3.488bn. VIG and Vienna Life are denying all liability, claiming that Vienna Life was responsible solely for the insurance portion, while performance was the responsibility of K1. The insurance group states that losses total EUR10m; policies were held by 1,600 investors.
04/11/2009

Madoff's auditor pleads guilty

David Friehling, Bernard Madoff’s auditor, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to securities fraud and filing false audit reports, says the Financial Times. Mr Friehling faces up to 114 years in prison. He is co-operating with prosecutors in the hope of receiving less prison time and is likely to be sentenced by mid-February.
04/11/2009

SEC appoints hedge fund examiner

The Securities and Exchange Commission has recruited Norm Champ, general counsel to a multibillion-dollar hedge fund, Chilton Investment, to lead its New York examinations group, says the WSJ. Mr. Champ will run the SEC’s New York examinations team, which reviews investment advisers including hedge funds.
04/11/2009

Fees doubled for a Vanguard fund

Mutual Fund Wire.com reports that the management firm Vanguard has doubled the front-end fees for its Emerging Markets Stock index, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index as its benchmark. Fees have been increased from 25 to 50 basis points, the website states. The increase is the result of the application of a 2% tax imposed by the Brazilian government from 20 October on securities acquired by foreign investors. The weight of Brazilian assets in the portfolio is 16%. The fund, which invests primarily in emerging markets such as Russia, China, Korea, and Taiwan, posted performance as of Friday, 31 October, of 67% since the beginning of the year.
04/11/2009

New mandate for State Street

State Street Corporation announced on Tuesday that it will provide the teachers’ federation of Saskatchewan, Canada, with a range of investment services on CAD2.2bn in assets in the pension fund and funds related to collective insurance benefits. State Street will provide custodial services, fund accounting and securities lending, a statement from the firm states.
04/11/2009

ING sells three broker-dealers to Lightyear

ING has sold three of its broker-dealer locations in the United States, and their holding company, ING Brokers Network, for an undisclosed amount to the private equity investor Lightyear Capital LLC, which manages about USD3bn. The broker-dealers are Financial Network Investment Corporation, located in El Segundo, California, Multi-Financial Securities Corporation of Denver, Colorado, and PrimeVest Financial Services, Inc of St Cloud, Minnesota. ING stated on Tuesday that it will retain ING Financial Advisors in Windsor, Connecticut, and ING Financial Partners, Inc, in Des Moines, Iowa, as these entities are highly integrated into its activity and play a key role in the group’s strategy in the United States, which is focused on retirement, life insurance, and rollover annuities.
04/11/2009

New CEO for alternative investments at BNY Mellon

BNY Mellon on 2 November announced the appointment of Brian Ruane to the newly-created position of Chief Executive Officer for alternative investment services (AIS). BNY Mellon Alternative Investment Services is a hedge fund administrator, which has USD200bn in assets under administration. Brian Ruane, who will continue to be based in New York, will report directly to Art Certosimo, senior executive vice president and head of Broker-Dealer/Alternative Investment Services.
04/11/2009

SGAM undergoes net redemptions but improves result

In third quarter, the asset management unit at Société Générale underwent net redemptions of EUR1.6bn. The major reason for these outflows was alternative management, which saw outflows of EUR2.1bn. However, traditional management also shows a slight outflow, as “clients of money market funds are continuing to prefer bond funds (-EUR2.5bn and +EUR1.9bn, respectively),” the bank explains. Due to positive market effects of EUR15.1bn, and negative currency effects of EUR2.3bn, assets under management came out to a total of EUR273.3bn, as of the end of September 2009. They break down as follows: EUR171.3bn at SGAM, which correspond to the perimeter determined by the merger with CAAM. Of these, 65% are in fixed income products and 35% in diversified equities; EUR73.8bn at TCW; and EUR16.8bn at SGAM AI. Revenues at SGAM totalled EUR197m in third quarter, a 9.4% increase over the corresponding period of last year (+7.1% according to ongoing data). “Due to the effects of staff reductions and cuts in variable pay, management costs are down 2.2% compared with Q3 2008 (-5.3% in ongoing data). As a consequence, gross operating results total EUR17m, while they were -EUR6m in Q3 2008. Net results for the part of the group total EUR12m,” Société Générale states. In the first 9 months of the year, revenues at SGAM totalled EUR536m, an increase of 18.8% (+21.8% in ongoing data) compared with the end of September 2008. In the same period, management costs are down 10.3% (-9.4% in ongoing data). Gross operating results and net results for the part of the group balance out to -EUR3m and -EUR2m, respectively, though they were -EUR155m and -EUR97m one year earlier.
04/11/2009

Management fees in the hands of the Supreme Court

Les Echos reports that the United States Supreme Court will hand down a verdict as to the appropriate level of management fees, when it considers several questions raised in the case Jones vs. Harris Associates, a US affiliate of Natixis Global AM. The retail investors who are plaintiffs in the class action suit claim that they paid the firm excessive management fees for three funds (under the Oakmark name), particularly in comparison to the far lower commissions which the manager charged for the same products to institutional investors. The plaintiffs claim that in some manner they were subsidizing the larger clients of the management firm. The claim highlights the fact that management fees are, as required by law, set by a board of directors composed of independent administrators. The verdict of the Supreme Court, which has begun hearing the case, is not expected for several months.
04/11/2009

Two departures from Chinese joint venture of JPM AM

Mandy Wang is leaving China International Fund Management, the joint venture of JP Morgan AM based in Shanghai, where she had spent five years as CEO, Asian Investor reports. Her deputy general manager, Fu Fan, is also leaving to join Shanghai International Trust Corporation (Sitico), the Chinese partner of JPM AM.
04/11/2009

Two departures from Chinese joint venture of JPM AM

Mandy Wang is leaving China International Fund Management, the joint venture of JP Morgan AM based in Shanghai, where she had spent five years as CEO, Asian Investor reports. Her deputy general manager, Fu Fan, is also leaving to join Shanghai International Trust Corporation (Sitico), the Chinese partner of JPM AM.
04/11/2009

Record trading volumes for ETFs

In its monthly report for October, Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) reports that in the first ten months of the year, the number of transactions on ETFs has leapt 111% in annualised terms, to 41,982, of which a record 5,333 were in the month of October alone, when trading volumes came to EUR290.6m. In January-October, trades totalled slightly less than EUR2.67bn. By comparison, the monthly trading volumes for the XTF segment in Frankfurt represent about EUR12bn.
03/11/2009
Fonds

Legg Mason transfère la gestion d'un fonds à Batterymarch

La gestion du fonds luxembourgeois Legg Mason Asia Pacific (ex Japan) sera transférée le 30 novembre par Legg Mason à sa filiale Batterymarch en remplacement d’Esemplia Emerging Markets, qui est le nom commercial de Legg Mason International Equities, rapporte Investment Week. L’objectif d’investissement ne changera pas, mais la méthode de gestion sera différente. Legg Mason indique que Batterymarch augmentera probablement le nombre de lignes à 120-160 et que le taux de rotation se situera à 80-100 %.
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03/11/2009

Les hedge funds néerlandais progressent de 1,31% en septembre

Selon Hedge Week, les hedge funds néerlandais ont progressé en moyenne de 1,31% au mois de septembre, d’après l’indice de référence Finles/IEX. Sur neuf mois, l’indice affiche une hausse de 11,48% contre 10,8% pour l’indice HFRX Global.Depuis le début de l’année, les cinq meilleurs hedge funds sont HIQ Invest Market Neutral Fund (+40 %); Antaurus Europe Fund (+36 %); IdB Real Estate Fund (+34 %); EV Smaller Companies Fund (+31 %); et Farringdon Alpha One Fund (+30 %).
03/11/2009

BinckBank pousse ses pions en Europe

Selon Les Echos, le courtier en ligne néerlandais BinckBank, qui affiche de fortes ambitions en France où il compte déjà plus de 10.000 clients, compte aussi lancer des OPCVM aux Pays-Bas, où ces produits sont mal connus. Cherchant à renouveler le succès rencontré en Belgique où il s’est installé voilà trois ans, BinckBank vise une ouverture de quelque 30.000 comptes français en 2011 et 40.000 l’année suivante. De fait, avec 29.500 comptes outre-Quiévrain (+48% en un an), le néerlandais talonne désormais la filiale Keytrade du Crédit Agricole, numéro un du secteur en Belgique. Sur les neuf premiers mois de l’exercice, le résultat net du courtier a progressé de 45% à 33 millions d’euros pour un chiffre d’affaires en hausse de 22% à 131,4 millions d’euros.
03/11/2009
Fonds

Robeco repositionne sa gamme de fonds d'actions

Six fonds à thème vont prendre la relève des fonds d’actions sectoriels de Robeco à compter du 30 novembre 2009, annonce Robeco Deutschland. Les produits actuels qui ne peuvent s’adapter aux thématiques de long terme seront soumis à un changement de politique d’investissement ou fusionneront, voire seront fermés. Le gestionnaire néerlandais met surtout en exergue dans son offre les marchés émergents et les actions américaines «solides», sans oublier un accent particulier sur le développement durable.Les six nouveaux fonds thématiques, tous de droit luxembourgeois, sont * le Robeco New World Financials Equities, qui résulte du changement de politique d’investissement du Financial Equities ; * le Robeco Agribusiness Equities, qui résulte de l’absorption du Food & Agri Equities par l’Agribusiness Equities ; * le Robeco Health & Wellness Equities, qui est la transformation du Healthcare Equities. Ce fonds a SAM Sustainable Asset Management comme sub-advisor ; * le Robeco Infrastructure Equities, qui continue mais prend en charge l’Industrials Equities ; * le Robeco Consumer Trends Equities qui résulte du changement de politique d’investissement du Consumer Goods qui absorbe le IT Equities et le Telecom Services Equities ; * enfin, le Robeco Natural Resources Equities qui procède d’un changement de gestion du Energy Equities, tandis que les fonds Materials Equities et Utilities Equities seront fermés.
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