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16/03/2009

Etats-Unis - Daniel Sontag rejoint le board de BlackRock

Daniel C. Sontag, president de Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, a été nommé membre du conseil d’administration de BlackRock (1,3 billion de dollars d’encours fin décembre). Avec Brian T. Moynihan, president of blogal banking and wealth management de Bank of America, il remplace comme administrateur John Thain et Gregory J. Fleming, démissionnaires.
16/03/2009

Belgique - Fortis : expiration de la convention avec Ping An

Selon le site Boursorama, citant Reuters, Fortis a indiqué dimanche que la convention signé en 2007 avec l’assureur chinois Ping An et qui détient 4,99% de son capital, a expiré en fin de semaine dernière sans préciser les conséquences de cette implication.
16/03/2009

Belgique - Fortis : pas de dividende en 2008

Selon le site Boursorama, citant Reuters, Fortis a indiqué dimanche qu’il ne versera pas de dividende au titre de l’exercice 2008, lequel devrait se conclure par une perte de 22,5 milliards d’euros.
16/03/2009

Allemagne - Les gestionnaires réclament un marché des "corporates" transparent et liquide

Le Handelsblatt indique que Deka (caisses d'épargne) et Union Investment (banques populaires) sont prêtes à soutenir l’initiative de DWS (Deutsche Bank), qui réclame de la Deutsche Börse des transactions plus transparentes et plus liquides sur les obligations d’entreprises, un marché qui se fait pour l’essentiel actuellement de gré à gré, par téléphone. DWS souhaite que la Bourse nomme un teneur de marché qui fixerait des prix fermes et qui exécuterait les ordres correspondants à ces prix. Il serait aussi concevable de séparer la formation du prix et l’exécution. Mais les banques jugent que de tels projets sont difficilement réalisables en cette période de désendettement, indique le porte-parole de leur association, la Sifma.
16/03/2009

Allemagne - Gestion : 3 sociétés prétendent à la première place

DWS (Deutsche Bank), Deka (caisses d'épargne) et Allianz Global Investors prétendent toutes trois être le numéro un des sociétés de gestion en Allemagne. Elles ont toutes trois raison. Pour DWS, c’est vrai en ce qui concerne les fonds de valeurs mobilières, pour Deka c’est vrai si l’on compte à la fois les fonds de fonds et les fonds maison dans lesquels ils sont investis et pour AGI c’est vrai si l’on compte les actifs gérés pour le compte du groupe d’assurance. Quant à Union Investment (banques populaires), il est numéro un pour l’encours de plans d'épargne retraite Riester, souligne la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Cela posé, si l’on sait qui est le numéro un par les encours, cela ne dit pas qui est le meilleur?
16/03/2009

Allemagne - J.C. Flowers veut garder ses parts dans HRE

Dans un entretien avec la Börsen-Zeitung, Ravi Sinha, directeur pour l’Europe de J.C. Flowers, souligne que la société de capital investissement souhaite conserver sa participation dans Hypo Real Estate (HRE), alors que le gouvernement fédéral songe à l’exproprier. Il souligne d’une part que son maintien dans le capital permettrait d’affecter tous les moyens financiers à la remise sur pied de HRE plutôt que d’en distraire une partie à désintéresser les minoritaires, et d’autre part que Flowers peut apporter son expérience en matière de retructuration. En juin 2008, Flowers avait acquis sa participation pour 1 milliard d’euros sur la basse de 22,50 euros par action. Vendredi, le titre cotait 87 cents, si bien que la capitalisation boursière représentait environ 184 millions d’euros.
16/03/2009

Allemagne - Avertissement de Fitch à la BHF

Fitch Ratings a tiré les conséquences des rumeurs de cession de la BHF-Bank par Sal. Oppenheim, rapporte la Börsen-Zeitung. Le «support-rating» de la BHF est ramené de «1» à «wacth negative».
16/03/2009

Allemagne - Berlin refuse un traitement spécial pour J.C. Flowers

La réunion dimanche après-midi entre les représentants du gouvernement fédéral, du Fonds de stabilisation des marchés financiers (SoFFin) et de J.C. Flowers a été un échec, rapporte la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. La chancelière Angela Merkel refuse de payer au capital-investisseur un prix supérieur à celui du marché, lors de l’expropriation d’Hypo Real Estate (HRE). Actuellement, la participation de Flowers dans HRE serait tombée à 17 %, de source gouvernementale.
16/03/2009

United States - Proportion of overseas investments decreases for Loomis Global Bond Fund

Although it is supposed to be a ?global? product, David Rolley, Kenneth Buntrock and Lynda Schweitzer, co-managers of the Global Bond Fund (USD1.5bn) from Loomis, Sayles & Co (USD106bn), now have a ?recovery exposure? to the private sector in the United States, which accounts for 47% of assets, the Wall Street Journal reports.Although the fund’s largest positions are still in European bonds, the Euro is underweighted. The fund is only 10% invested in junk bonds, but none of the 283 assets it holds in this category present serious default risks.
16/03/2009

United States - Departure of Legg Mason senior vice president

The executive vice-president of Legg Mason, Peter Bain, will be leaving the bank at the end of the month, eFinancialNews reports. Bain was head of the asset management division, but has chosen to ?pursue other opportunities.? His responsibilities will be redistributed to several other team members internally.
16/03/2009

Germany - Management firms call for transparent and liquid corporate bond market

Handelsblatt reports that Deka (savings banks) and Union Investment (co-operative banks) are willing to support an initiative led by DWS (Deutsche Bank), which is calling on Deutsche Börse to provide more transparent and liquid trading of corporate bonds, a market on which trading now takes place largely on an ad-hoc basis by telephone. DWS would like the stock market enterprise to appoint a market maker, who would be respnsible for setting firm prices and executing the corresponding orders at these prices. It would also be possible to separate price formation and execution. But banks see these plans as difficult to realise at a time when they are in the midst of efforts to reduce debt, a spokesman for the Sifma banking association says.
16/03/2009

Europe - Private equity in the red

The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association will announce on Friday that the European venture capital sector lost 26.4% in 2008, the Financial Times reports.
16/03/2009

United Kingdom - RAB changes managers of UK fund

The hedge fund manager RAB Capital has replaced the managers of its British fund, Mark Darell Brown and Steve Thompson, as the fund’s assets have fallen from USD400m two years ago to less than USD5m currently, the Financial Times reports. Nearly all the fund’s clients left in the wake of 31% losses last year. The fund will now be managed by Simon Acton and Alex Codrington, the managers of the RAB European fund.
16/03/2009

United States - Madoff appeal to be heard on 19 March

Following the incarceration of Bernard Madoff, his lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin will appeal the decision before a New York federal court. The former broker’s appeal will be heard on Thursday, 19 March. Les Echos reports that the estimated size of the fraud has been revised upward from USD50bn to USD65bn.
16/03/2009

United States - JPMorgan leads US managers

JPMorgan posted the largest subscriptions of any US management firm last year, with USD140bn, the Financial Times reports, citing Morningstar. But excluding money market funds, the management firm posted net redemptions of USD1.3bn in the twelve months to the end of February.
16/03/2009

United States - Oppenheimer recruits former Stanford managers

Not all is lost for the 1,000 former employees of Stanford who lost their jobs last week, says the Financial Times. 100 of them have been offered jobs at the financial services group Oppenheimer Holdings, which is hoping to grow by opening new branches in the United States.
16/03/2009

United States - Stanford's labyrinth

Compared to Bernard Madoff, Sir Allen Stanford is small fry. But he stands out for the size and complexity of his USD8bn fraud, the Financial Times reports. The Stanford group controlled at least 175 entities, including banks and restaurants in more than 100 cities, such as Houston, Montreal, Caracas, Quito, and St. Croix.
16/03/2009

United States - Deutsche Bank attacks Reserve Management

Ignites relays reports in Financial Times Deutschland that Deutsche Bank is suing Reserve Management in the United States for a refund of USD72.2m which were invested in the Reserve Primary Fund. On the morning of 15 September, before the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the German bank ordered a redemption of USD500m, and received verbal consent - but they only got USD428m the next day.
16/03/2009

Norway - Government pension fund puts Siemens under surveillance

Kristin Halvorsen, the Norwegian finance minister, has decided to place Siemens under observation due to systematic large-scale corruption practiced by the group over many years. This may lead to the firm being expelled from the portfolio of the Government Pension Fund - Global, formerly known as the Oil Fund. ?Even so, Siemens is now in the eye of public opinion, and has begun rolling out a series of anti-corruption measures. Putting the firm under observation will allow the Fund to maintain pressure to incite the German group to continue its efforts in the fight against corruption,? the Norwegian minister stated.As of 31 December 2008, the Government Pension Fund - Global held NOK6.3bn in Siemens shares, which represent 1.34% of voting rights in the firm.
16/03/2009

Switzerland - SFA wants to see reciprocal agreements with EU markets

The Swiss Fund Association (SFA) on Friday welcomed propositions by the Federal Council to provide administrative assistance on tax-related questions. Gérard Fischer, chairman of the SFA, says that in return, the Swiss government should ask for access to markets for Swiss actors, in order to connect Switzerland to European OPCVM markets in particular. Matthäus den Otter, president of the SFA, declares that discrimination against Switzerland practised by other states such as Germany and Italy should be stopped.
16/03/2009

World - Alex Stanic leaves BNY Mellon

Alex Stanic, manager of the Newton Global Opportunities fund, has resigned, and is expected to join the British management boutique River & Mercantile as its new head of equities management, Citywire reports on 12 March. Stanic also managed the BNY Mellon Global Equity and the BNY Mellon Global Intrepid.
16/03/2009

Sweden - Funds post net subscriptions of SEK2bn

In February, Swedish funds posted net subscriptions of SEK2.1bn, largely thanks to net inflows of EUR1.1bn to equities funds, the Swedish investment fund association (Fondbolagens Förening) states.Hedge funds and diversified funds posted net inflows of SEK0.6bn and SEK0.2bn, respectively. Money market funds are also in positive territory (+SEK0.3bn), while bond funds have seen net outflows of SEK0.1bn.
16/03/2009

World - Hedge fund sector shrank in 2008

According to the most recent Investhedge Billion Dollar Club survey, assets in hedge funds contracted by about 30% in 2008, and losses averaged 16.63%. The largest funds of hedge funds, those with more than USD1bn in assets, had assets under management at the end of last year of USD744bn. There were 137 of them at the end of December, compared with 164 one year previously. The three actors with more than USD30bn in assets are UBS Global Asset Management with USD34bn, Union Bancaire Privée with USD33bn, and HSBC Alternative Investments with USD31.88bn.
16/03/2009

World - Eleven ?sustainable? banks create an international alliance

At a meeting in the Netherlands from 2 to 4 March, eleven banks with strong commitments to sustainable development founded the Global Alliance of Banking on Values, which will aim to deliver a social, ecological and sustainable economic response to the global financial crisis. The establishments in the alliance have assets of over USD10bn, and more than 7 million clients in 20 countries.The alliance includes the following banks: Alternative Bank ABS (Switzerland), Banca Popolare Etica (Italy), GLS Bank (Germany), Banex (Nicaragua); BRAC Bank (Bangladesh), Mibanco (Peru), Merkur Bank (Denmark); New Resource Bank and ShoreBank Corp (United States), Triodos (Netherlands) and XacBank (Mongolia).
16/03/2009

United Kingdom - Paulson made more than USD300m money by shorting Lloyds and HBOS

Fondsprofessionell relays Bloomberg reports that the alternative management firm Paulson & Co has earned gains since September of GBP311m by short-selling shares in Lloyds Banking Group and HBOS. Paulson also declared a short position amounting to 1.17% of capital in Barclays, whose shares have since fallen by two thirds.
16/03/2009

United States - Daniel Sontag joins board at BlackRock

Daniel C. Sontag, chairman of Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, has been appointed as a member of the board of directors at BlackRock (USD1.3trn in assets as of the end of December). He and Brian T. Moynihan, president of global banking and wealth management at Bank of America, will replace John Thain and Gregory J. Fleming, who have resigned.
16/03/2009

Germany - Mirror, mirror, on the wall...

DWS (Deutsche Bank), Deka (savings banks) and Allianz Global Investors are all claiming to be the number one management firm in Germany. All three of them are right, in their way. In the case of DWS, it is true in terms of asset volumes in securities funds; for Deka, it is true if funds of funds and house funds in which they are invested are included in the count; and for AGI, it is true counting assets under management for the insurance group. Union Investment (co-operative banks), meanwhile, is number one for assets in Reister retirement savings accounts, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. But the question of which firm has the most assets under management doesn’t say anything about which one is the best.
16/03/2009

Germany - Talanx to buy stakes in Swiss Life and MLP

According to financial industry sources, Talanx is preparing to buy a 10% stake in Swiss Life, and to buy up 10% of the 24% stake in MLP held by the insurer, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The Talanx group incudes Hannover Rück (Hanovre Ré), HDI-Gerling and Aspecta, the latter two of which already cooperate with AWD and MLP in life insurance distribution. Swiss Life owns 100% of AWD; its stake in MLP was diluted by a capital increase which Axa and Allianz subscribed to.

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