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16/09/2013

Former SEB trader joins Deutsche Bank

After more than 10 years at SEB, Tomas Rosengren is leaving for Deutsche Bank, where he will join the hedge fund team based in London, according to reports from Realtid.se. At SEB, Rosengren had worked in hedge fund sales since 2006.
16/09/2013

Schroder GAIA platform tops USD2bn in assets

Activities managed by the Schroder GAIA (Global Alternative Investor Access) UCITS platform have reached USD2.3bn slightly over three and a half years, since its launch in November 2009, Bluerating reports. So far, four funds are available on the platform, including three managed by external asset management firms (Schroder GAIA CQS Credit, Schroder GAIA Egerton Equity and Schroder GAIA Sirios US Equity) and one fund managed internally (Schroder GAIA Global Bond Macro).
16/09/2013

JP Morgan sets aside a further USD4bn for risk management

JPMorgan Chase, which was severely affected last year by the “whale of London” scandal, is planning to set aside USD4bn more, and mobilise a further 5,000 employees to settle questions concerning risk management and regulations, as the bank is subject to multiple investigations, the Wall Street Journal writes, citing sources familiar with the matter. This sum includes USD2.5bn placed in provisions for legal costs in second half, according to the financial newspaper, which also observes that the teams responsible for risk controlling will be increased by 30%. The banking group had announced on Monday that it had mobilized an additional 3,000 employees for controlling functions, and a source close to the situation has told Reuters that 2,000 more employees, who are present in the group’s various activities, will also work on regulatory questions.
16/09/2013

Citi administers over USD500bn in alternative assets

Mike Sleightholme, global head of hedge fund services, and Joe Patellaro, global head of private equity servies, have announced in a joint statement that Citi now has over USD500bn in alternative assets under amdinistration, of which USD300bn are in hedge funds, and USD200bn in private equity, HedgeWeek reports.
16/09/2013

BNP Paribas SS completes migration of assets from Nikko AM

BNP Paribas Securities Services on 13 September announced that it had completed the integration fo Nikko Asset Management in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas was selected in October 2011 by Nillo AM to provide middle- and back-office services, and fund custody and administration for its activities in Asia, as well as for its affiliate Tyndall Investment Management, based in Australia and New Zealand.
16/09/2013

Eaton Vance applies for a license to launch ETMFs

The Boston-based Eaton Vance Management, an affiliate of Eaton Vance Corp, has announced that it has submitted an application to the SEC for exemptive relief to allow it to launch exchange-traded managed funds, or ETMF, products which can use an ETF structure for active strategies. ETMFs combine cost and tax-efficiency with protection for shareholders in an ETF, while preserving the confidentiality of trading activities of the portfolio.Eaton Vance (USD268.8bn in assets as of the end of July) is planning to launch a range of ETMFs, which would mirror mutual funds from Eaton Vance. The asset management firm is also planning to issue licenses to other asset management firms via its wholly-owned subsidiary Navigate Fund Solutions LLC.
16/09/2013

CalSTRS seeks to diversify its portfolio

The pension fund for California teachers, CalSTRS, whose assets under management total about USD170bn, has decided on a measured diversification of its portfolio, with a reduction in its allocation to equities and bonds, in favour of inflation-linked assets, according to a statement released on 10 September.The new allocation reduces the most highly represented asset classes, such as international equities, which will be reduced from 53% (current objective) to 51% (new long-term objective), fixed income, which goes from 20%. to 16%. The less liquid asset classes of real estate and private equity both gain 1 percentage point, to 13%.The allocation dedicated to assets which are sensitive to inflation will be increased from 2% to 6%, but this objective of 6% represents a threshold which will be met under all conditions in which the risk of inflation remains very low. CalSTRS will continue to invest in infrastructure and commodities. Hermes Fund Managers is one of the asset management firms retained for commodities.Hermes Fund Managers has been managing commodity mandates since 2005 for its institutional clients, the firm’s website says.
16/09/2013

Mirabaud France recruits two private managers in Paris

Mirabaud France on 13 September announced the arrival of Cyril Lejeune and William Chatin as private managers. Lejeune had previously served as a financial adviser at Merrill Lynch. Chatin had been a private banker at the Banque de Gestion Privée Indosuez in Paris. Before joining Mirabaud France in September 2013, Lejeune, 41, had been a financial advisor for key families and French entrepreneurs at Merrill Lynch since April 2007. Lejeune had previously been in London at Morgan Stanley, to work to reinforce the presence of the firm in France. Before serving as a private banker, he had been an internet entrepreneur. Lejeuna holds a Bachelor of Arta in Business Administration from IFAM, and a level 3 (derivative trading) license from the Securities & Investment Institute of London. Before joining the team at Mirabaud France in August 2013, Chatin, 40, had been a senior private banker at the Banque de Gestion Privée Indosuez from 2008 to 2013. He began his career at l’Oréal in Germany as management controller, and took his first steps into private management in 2002, when he joined AGF Assurfinance as a wealth management adviser. He continued his career from 2004 to 2008 at Cyrus Conseil as a senior wealth adviser.
16/09/2013

Amundi willing to consider acquisitions in ETFs

Amundi is willing to consider acquisition oppportunities in order to become one of the three providers of ETFs in Europe, Financial Times fund management reports. Rumours have recently suggested that the group was interested in Lyxor. “We would strongly consider participating in any consolidation process within Europe’s ETF industry,” says Valérie Baudson, managing director of ETF activities and indexing operations at Amundi (USD50bn). “Scale is important in the ETF industry. … We aim to grow even larger,” she adds.
16/09/2013

Assets at Trian Partners top USD7bn

Nelson Peltz’s activist hedge fund Trian Partners has topped USD7bn in assets under management, Institutional Investor Alpha reports. These assets were up 11% from their level at the beginning of July (USD6.3bn). A large part of the increase in assets is reported to be the result of good returns. Funds gained 25% in the first eight months of the year.
16/09/2013

Invesco, Franklin, Legg and AllianceBernstein return to asset losses in August

The four US firms Invesco, Franklin Templeton, Legg Mason and AllianceBernstein along have posted a decline in assets as of 31 August of USD48.4bn for the month, where in July they had posted an increase in assets under management of USD63.8bn.In detail, Invesco has seen a decline in its asets of USD9.7bn, after an increase of USD23.8bn the previous month, while Franklin has lost USD16.8bn of the USD19.1bn in increases it posted in July. AllianceBernstein as posted a decline in assets of USD8bn, after an increase of USD9bn the previous month, while Legg Mason has lost exactly the same amount it gained in July, USD11.9bn.
16/09/2013

Inflows to equity funds on the rise

With fears of an imminent US strike on Syria receding and positive GDP numbers coming in from all corners of the globe, flows into equity funds rebounded during the second week of September to their highest level since mid-July.Equity funds collectively absorbed USD14.38 billion during the week ending September 11, according to statistics released by EPFR Global. Europe equity funds posted their second biggest inflow year-to-date.Bond Funds recorded net redemptions of USD3.54 billion, while money market funds took in USD7.5 billion.
16/09/2013

Credit Suisse to sell its private banking operation in Germany

According to Wirtschaftswoche, BNP Paribas and Santander are in the running to acquire the private banking activity of Credit Suisse in Germany, which the Swiss group is reported to have put up for sale. That would represent a network of nine branches, with assets of EUR4-5bn.Spokespersons for the three entities cited refused to comment.
16/09/2013

Lyxor lists new ETF in Paris

NYSE Euronext has announced that on 13 September it admitted a new ETF of Italian governmentbonds launched by Lyxor for trading on the Paris stock market. This brings the number of ETFs traded on the European markets of NYSE Euronext to 560, while the total including secondary listings comes to 650. Characteristics Name: LYXOR ETF MTSIT10 Benchmark index: MTS 10Y Italy Government Bond Total expense ratio: 0.165%
16/09/2013

Baupost to pay back some of its assets to investors

The US hedge fund Baupost group has announced that it will be paying back some of its assets to investors at the end of the year, according to Institutional Investor Alpha. The amount to be paid out has not been disclosed. As of the end of 2012, the hedge fund, the 7th-largest of its type, had total assets under management of USD26.7bn. These assets are said to have become too large to ensure ideal management of the fund. Baupost has set itself the objective of not exceeding USD25bn in assets under management.
16/09/2013

MSCI offers EM index of non-BRIC countries

With the MSCI EM Beyond BRIC, MSCI has launched a new emerging market index which covers 17 countries, but excludes the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), which currently represent over 40% of the MSCI Emerging Markets index. The new product was developed at the request of clients, and may be used for fnancial supports such as ETFs or structured products.In order to diversify the index, MSCI has decided to limit the allocation to Taiwan and South Korea to 15%, which gives more weight to smaller emerging markets such as Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.Backtesting reveals that the new index would have outperformed the MSCI Emerging Markets index since 1999, with annualised gross performance in US dollars of 12%, compared with 11.1%. Between 1999 and 2007, it would have lagged 2.1 percentage points behind, with 18%, compared with 20.1%, but since 2007, the new index would have earned annualised returns of 2.85%, at a time when the Emerging Markets index lost 2.1%.Weightings as of 31 July 2013:South Africa: 15.78%Chile: 3.90%Colombia: 2.76%South Korea: 15.03%Egypt: 0.58%Hungary: 0.50%Indonesia: 6.59%Malaysia: 8.92%Morocco: 0.18%Mexico: 12.45%Peru: 0.98%Philippines: 2.42%Poland: 3.72%Czech Republic: 0.54%Taiwan: 15.33%Thailand: 6.11%Turkey: 4.22%
16/09/2013

Lyxor releases its European Senior Debt fund in Spain

Funds People has announced that Lyxor Asset Management has launched its European senior debt fud aimed at insurers (see Newsmanagers of 23 May). Assets in the fund already total EUR325m. The average duration totals between 6 and 8 years.
16/09/2013

Fonditel simplifies absolute return range

The pension fund management firm for Telefónica, Fonditel, has applied for permission from the CNMV to absorb two of its absolute return funds, Octopus and Velociraptor, into a third, Smart Beta, Funds People reports.If the planned operation receives approval from the Spanish regulator, the absolute return range from Fonditel will include only two products thereafter, the Smart Beta and Albatross, with the former pursuing an absolute return objective and a volatility objective, and the latter being a “pure” absolute return fund.
16/09/2013

Eurekahedge HF index down 0.32% in August

The Eurekahedge hedge fund index has finished the month of August with a decline of 0.32%, at a time when the MSCI world index has seen a fall of 2.26%, according to Hedgeweek. The various strategies have shown mixed trajectories. Event-driven strategies have earned returns of 0.95%, which have allowed them to post gains of 5.70% since the beginning of the year. However, macro and CTA strategies have seen losses of 0.85% and 0.79%, respectively.
16/09/2013

Hedge funds turn to psychological software to boost returns

Were you alone in a small office after breakfast, or in an open space with a hangover when you made this brilliant trade? These questions are being asked by some major hedge funds, which are turning to psychology to plumb the souls of the best managers and boost performance and profits, the Financial Times reports. Man Group is one companies which adopted a software program very early on which seeks to create the perfect environment to help fund managers work at their best. The software package, designed by Clare Flynn Levy, a star fund manager at Morgan Grenfell, allows manages to save various information, ranging from the time at which a transaction was made to the mood of the person. The technology, which will be launched this week, was designed by Essentia Analytics.
16/09/2013

China opens up to hedge funds

Chinese regulators have awarded a quota of USD300m to a total of six alternative asset management firms as part of its Qualified Domestic Limited Partner (QDLP) programme, which is expected to have a total volume of USD5bn, the news agency Reuters reports, citing information in the 21st Century Business Herald. The six companies concerned are Man Group, Winton Capital Management, Oak Tree, Citadel, Och-Ziff Capital Management and Canyon Partners. Each firm has received a quota of USD50m.
16/09/2013

Credit Suisse loses co-head of asset management

According to Finews, relaying reports in Bloomberg, Gerhard Fusenig, one of the co-heads of asset management at Credit Suisse, will be leaving the business. The 49-year-old businessman would like to spend more time with his family, the newspaper says. Fusenig plans to remain in his position for a few more weeks in order to ensure a smooth transition. His responsibilities will be distributed between Michael Strobaek, the other co-head of asset management, and Bob Jain, head of alternative management.
16/09/2013

Des changements au capital d'Eiffage

BlackRock, agissant pour le compte de clients et de fonds dont elle assure la gestion, a franchi en hausse les seuils de 5 % du capital et des droits de vote et détient 5,67 % du capital et des droits de vote de la société Eiffage. Pour sa part, vendredi, Groupama a franchi en baisse directement et indirectement par l’intermédiaire de ses filiales, les seuils de 5 % du capital et des droits de vote et détient 0,02 % du capital et des droits de vote.
16/09/2013
Fonds

Baupost va reverser une partie des encours aux investisseurs

Le hedge fund américain Baupost Group a annoncé qu’il reverserait une partie de ses encours aux investisseurs à la fin de l’année, selon Institutional Investor Alpha. Le montant distribué n’a pas été dévoilé. A fin 2012, le hedge funds, 7e plus grand de ce type, totalisait des encours sous gestion de 26,7 milliards de dollars. Ces encours seraient devenus trop importants pour assurer une gestion idéale du fonds. Baupost s’est fixé comme objectif de ne pas dépasser les 25 milliards de dollars d’actifs sous gestion.
Fonds
16/09/2013
Fonds

Les actifs de Trian Partners dépassent 7 milliards de dollars

Le hedge fund activiste Trian Partners a dépassé la barre des 7 milliards de dollars d’actifs sous gestion, indique Institutional Investor Alpha. Ces encours s’affichent en hausse de 11 % depuis le niveau enregistré au premier juillet (6,3 milliards de dollars). Une grande partie de la croissance des encours serait le résultat de bonnes performances. Les fonds ont gagné 24 % sur les huit premiers mois de l’année.
Fonds
16/09/2013

Amundi prêt à des acquisitions dans les ETF

Amundi est disposé à envisager des opportunités d’acquisition en vue de devenir l’un des trois fournisseurs d’ETF en Europe, rapporte le Financial Times fund management. Des rumeurs indiquaient d’ailleurs récemment que le groupe était intéressé par Lyxor."Nous envisagerions avec force de participer à tout processus de concentration dans le secteur européen des ETF», indique Valérie Baudson, managing director de l’activité ETF et fonds indiciels d’Amundi (50 milliards de dollars). «La taille est importante dans le secteur des ETF (…). Nous avons pour ambition de devenir plus gros», ajoute-t-elle.
16/09/2013

Atos annonce le remboursement anticipé des OCEANEs 2009 et des rachats d'actions

Atos SE a décidé de procéder au remboursement anticipé de la totalité des OCEANEs émises en 2009 et à échéance au 1er janvier 2016, selon un communiqué publié le 16 septembre. Un avis en ce sens, figurant en annexe, sera publié au Journal Officiel et au Bulletin des Annonces Légales Obligatoires le 18 septembre prochain.Les porteurs d’OCEANEs 2009 auront l’option de convertir leurs instruments en actions Atos SE à raison de 1,03 action Atos SE pour une OCEANE 2009 présentée, ou de bénéficier d’un remboursement en numéraire sur la base d’un montant de 47,08708 euros par OCEANE 2009 au plus tard le 9 octobre 2013.Dans l’hypothèse où la totalité des porteurs choisiraient l’option de conversion, le nombre d’actions nouvellement créées serait de 5,6 millions. La situation de trésorerie nette au bilan du Groupe serait alors augmentée d’un montant de 230 millions d’euros. Dans ce contexte, le Conseil d’Administration a décidé, en vertu de l’autorisation donnée par l’Assemblée Générale Mixte d’Atos SE du 29 mai 2013, d’initier dans le même temps un programme de rachat d’actions Atos SE correspondant à la moitié de ce montant, soit 115 millions d’euros, qui sera lancé dans les prochains jours et réalisé au cours des six prochains mois. Le prix maximum et les autres modalités de ce programme seront conformes à la résolution approuvée par l’Assemblée Générale Mixte d’Atos SE du 29 mai 2013 et les opérations effectuées dans le cadre de ce programme feront l’objet d’une communication régulière au marché, conformément à la réglementation en vigueur.Les actions ainsi rachetées ont vocation à être soit annulées, soit remises dans le cadre de la gestion d’autres instruments dilutifs.
16/09/2013
Fonds

Lyxor fait coter un nouvel ETF à Paris

NYSE Euronext annonce avoir admis à la négociation le 13 septembre un nouvel ETF d’obligations souveraines italiennes lancé par Lyxor sur la place de Paris. Cela porte à 560 le nombre d’ETF négociés sur les places européennes de NYSE Euronext, le total en comptant les notations secondaires atteignent les 650 unités.CaractéristiquesDénomination : LYXOR ETF MTSIT10Indice de référence : MTS 10Y Italy Government BondTaux de frais sur encours : 0,165 %
Fonds
16/09/2013

Mirabaud France recrute deux gérants privés à Paris

Mirabaud France a annoncé le 13 septembre l’arrivée de Cyril Lejeune et de William Chatin aux postes de gérants privés. Cyril Lejeune exerçait jusqu’alors la fonction de conseiller financier chez Merrill Lynch. William Chatin était banquier privé senior à la Banque de Gestion Privée Indosuez à Paris. Avant de rejoindre Mirabaud France en septembre 2013, Cyril Lejeune, 41 ans, était conseiller financier de grandes familles et entrepreneurs français chez Merrill Lynch depuis avril 2007. Auparavant, Cyril était à Londres chez Morgan Stanley pour travailler au renforcement de la présence de la société en France. Avant d’exercer le métier de banquier privé, il était entrepreneur dans l’internet. Cyril Lejeune est titulaire d’un Bachelor Degree of Arts in Business Administration de l’IFAM et d’un agrément de niveau 3 (derivative trading) délivré par le « the Securities & Investment Institute of London ». Avant d’intégrer l’équipe de Mirabaud France en août 2013, William Chatin, 40 ans, était banquier privé senior chez Banque de Gestion Privée Indosuez, de 2008 à 2013. Il a débuté sa carrière chez L’Oréal en Allemagne en qualité de contrôleur de gestion et a fait ses premières armes dans la gestion privée en 2002, en intégrant AGF Assurfinance en qualité de conseiller en gestion de Patrimoine. Il a poursuivi sa carrière de 2004 à 2008 chez Cyrus Conseil en tant que consultant patrimonial senior.
16/09/2013

Citi administre plus de 500 milliards de dollars en alternatif

Mike Sleightholme, global head of hedge fund services, et Joe Patellaro, global head of private equity services, ont indiqué dans un communiqué commun que Citi a désormais franchi la barre de 500 milliards de dollars d’encours alternatifs, dont 300 milliards pour les hedge funds et 200 milliards pour le private equity, rapporte HedgeWeek.

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