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24/06/2013

Assets at Mainstay Marketfield Fund quintuple in twelve months

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Handelsblatt reports that assets under management by the contrarian fund Mainstay Marketfield Fund now total USD9.5bn, compared with USD1.7bn as of the end of May 2012. The product is managed by an amateur poet, Michael Aronstein, and a doctor of philosophy, Michael Shaoul.The strategy is simple: invest against the grain. The managers currently consider German, Italian and Irish equities to be attractive, they see banks recovering and they stress that refinancing costs are almost 0%.
24/06/2013

Morgan Stanley buys up the remaining 35% of Smith Barney from Citigroup

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US bank Morgan Stanley on 21 June announced that it is planning to exercise its buy option for the remaining 35% it does not already control in its joint venture with its rival Citigroup, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Wealth Management (MSSB).The transaction is expected to be completed by 28 June or a date soon thereafter, at a price which had previously been set at USD4.7bn in cash, a statement says. Once controlled entirely by Morgan Stanley, the entity will become known as Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.The operation will conclude a very long story which has long complicated relations between Morgan Stanley and Citi. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney was created in 2009, from the merger of financial product retail distribution activities at Morgan Stanley and activities at Citigroup which had been operating under the name Smith Barney.Morgan Stanley had made complete integration a priority, but the project ran into a series of divergences between the partners with respect to the value of the business. The two banks in September agreed on a total valuation of USD13.5bn. Morgan Stanley, which then held 51% of MSSB, exercised an initial buy option for an additional 14%. The remaining 35% were expected to be acquired by the end of June 2015.James Gorman, chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, claims in a statement that the operation represents “a historic day” for his group. “It’s the culmination of several years of effort to transform our business model into something that offers the best returns to shareholders and more stability on volatile markets,” he said.
24/06/2013

New buyout fund created

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Sander Levy and Alok Singh, who cooperated eight years ago in the creation of the reinsurer Validus Holdings in Bermuda, have now teamed up with the former CEO of the software firm New Mountain, Kevin Parker, to create a private equity firm specialised in buyouts, Bridge Growth Partners LLC, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to sources familiar with the matter, they are aiming to raise funds totalling USD1bn, and are planning to focus exclusively on financial services and technology.
24/06/2013

Gilles Darde joins Convictions AM

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Gilles Darde has joined Convictions Asset Managemnet as head of distribution and marketing, according to his Linked-In profile. He had previously served as head of sales for external distribution at Aviva Investors. He has also worked at Fortis Investments.
24/06/2013

Mirabaud recruits convertibles manager in Paris

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Swiss firm Mirabaud Asset Management has recruited Nicolas Crémieux as part of its team dedicated to convertible bonds based in Paris, as a senior analyst-manager, Newsmanagers has learned. Crémieux joins from Dexia Asset Management, where he was a senior manager in charge of international convertible bonds.His arrival, slated for the end of August, will coincide with the launch of a global convertible bond fund in autumn. The product already exists in the form of an internal portfolio. It will be released in a UCITS format.The new product will join the existing Mirabaud Convertible Bonds Europe fund, which invests in European convertible bonds, launched in October 2011, and managed by Renaud Martin, head of convertible bonds since that time.The recruitments, which provide reinforcements to the expertise of Mirabaud AM in convertible bonds, follow several other recruitments to the management team. More will be announced in the weeks to come, particularly in Paris.
24/06/2013

Dreyfus launches EMD fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Dreyfus Corporation, a company of the BNY Mellon group, has launched an actively-managed mutual fund, the Drefus Opportunistic Emerging Markets Debt Fund.The fund aims to invest in all categories of emerging market debt, including debt denominated in hard currencies and debt denominated in local currencies issued by government and corporate issuers.The fund is managed by Alexander Kozhemiakin, managing director for emerging market strategies and senior portfolio manager in charge of management for all emerging market debt portfolios at Standish, as well as Javier Murcio, portfolio manager and senior government debt analyst.Assets under management at Dreyfus Corporation total about USD294bn.
24/06/2013

CFOs optimistic for 2013

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Most CFOs say they are optimistic about their ability to develop their activities and to acquire new clients in 2013, according to the most recent quarterly survey by Russell Investments of US chief financial officers (Financial Professional Outlook).In the present year, 48% of respondants say that they hope to win over more than 10 clients, while 30% of them are aiming for 7 to 10 clients. Last year, 86% of advisers managed to take on more clients than they lost, while 48% of them took on 10 or more new clients.As a corollary of this optimism, 32% of the advisers say that clients expect capital markets to perform well in the next three years, a level not seen since March 2011. Three quarters of CFOs are themselves optimistic about the evolution of the markets.
24/06/2013

PREI recruits Asia-Pacific CEO from Grosvenor

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US firm Prudential Real Estate Investors (PRE), the real estate investment and advising arm of Prudential Financial, has announced the appointment of Eryck Su as managing director and chief investment officer at Pramerica Real Esate Investors (Asia) Ltd, its affiliate for Asia-Pacific.Su will be responsible for acquisitions and sales in the region, and the development of its regional strategy and portfolio management. He will also be responsible for the strategy of the business in China, and will be a member of the Asia-Pacific investment committee.Su had previously been managing director and head of Greater China at Grosvenor Fund Management.
24/06/2013

HSBC fait le ménage suite au scandale des frères blanchisseurs

HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) a adressé au début du mois de juin un courrier à ses clients du portefeuille «Médis» (Méditerranée et Israël) leur indiquant que leurs comptes seraient fermés. Leurs avoirs leur seront versés sous forme de chèque, indique Le Temps. La banque a indiqué au quotidien suisse avoir décidé de «restructurer» ses activités. Selon une source interne, la fermeture de cette équipe serait liée à un scandale de blanchiment en lien avec un trafic de cannabis dans les banlieues françaises, découvert l’année dernière. Selon Le Temps, le présumé cerveau de cette affaire, Meyer Elmaleh, un gérant de fortune indépendant établi à Genève, a écopé de 6 mois de prison ferme. Deux de ses frères travaillaient au sein de HSBC à Genève à l’époque des faits. L’un, gestionnaire au sein de l’équipe «Médis», a également été condamné dans le cadre de cette affaire.
24/06/2013

Konrad Hummler revient aux affaires

L’ancien homme fort de la banque privée Wegelin reprend du service. L’ex-associé gérant Konrad Hummler, dont les commentaires d’investissement étaient toujours très attendus, a créé une société M1 AG, domiciliée à St-Gall, qui propose des services de conseil en investissement.Dans ce cadre, Konrad Hummler, entouré de trois associés, lance une publication papier ou électronique, «Bergsicht», qui doit sortir au moins six fois dans l’année et qui rappelle les commentaires d’investissement de la période Wegelin.
24/06/2013

Un ancien d'UBS lance sa société de gestion

Selon Finews, Cesar Gueikian, ancien head of special situations d’UBS a créé une société de gestion baptisée Melody Capital Partners. Ses partenaires sont Andres Scaminaci et Omar Jaffrey, également d’anciens d’UBS. Les trois spécialistes lancent un fonds investi dans des crédits garantis aux Etats-Unis et en Europe de l’Ouest. Ils espèrent lever plus de 500 millions d’euros.
24/06/2013

Man nomme un CEO pour sa filiale australienne

Jamie Douglas, qui a été managing director au sein du chief investment office, chargé des devises et des marchés émergents, chez JPMorgan à Londres, rejoint Man Group comme CEO de Man Investments Australia, à compter du 1er juillet. Il sera subordonné à Emmanuel Roman, CEO de Man Group.Le nouvel arrivant aura pour mission de commercialiser toute la gamme de produits de MAN, dont les stratégies quantitatives d’AHL, les stratégies discrétionnaires long-only et alternatifs de GLG ainsi que les les fonds de hedge funds de FRM.
24/06/2013

Medobanca to establish alternative management platform

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The board of directors at Mediobanca on 21 June unveiled its 2014-2016 plan for the group, with the objective of generating returns on owners’ equity in 2016 of 10-11%. It plans to simplify structures, focusing on the three pillars on investment banking, retail banking, and wealth management.For this unit, Mediobanca is planning to invest in human resources (including private equity, private debt, and non-performing credit) as well as in IT in order to develop the most highly profitable and least costly activities, including the launch of Mediobanca Alternative Asset Management (MAAM). The objective assigned to wealth management is to generate 15% of the group’s banking revenues by 2016.
24/06/2013

Azimut and Italian SWF team up in private equity

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Fondo italiano d’investimento is teaming up with Azimut to launch Programma 101, a private equity operator specialised in investments in startups in the digital sector, Il Sole – 24 Ore reports. The structure is starting up with about EUR35m, but is aiming for EUR50m. The financial commitment of Azimut is EUR10-15m.
24/06/2013

Mercer adds to its wealth management product range

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Financial advisers and wealth managers may in the future avail themselves of an addition to the product range from the consultant Mercer, which is now offering High Volume Research (HVR) and High Volume Monitoring (HVM) services, to address all potential questions raised by the funds in which their clients invest.HVR is a concise, high level tool (as opposed to complete research reports on managers), aimed at wealth managers, to help them to identify issues which may concern funds in which they may invest their clients’ money. For its part, HVM is a regular monitoring service, with which Mercer aims to identify concrete changes in a fund which may have an impact on the end result for clients.HVR and HVM allow investment advisers and wealth managers access to a quality of service which had previously been reserved for institutional investors and pension funds.
24/06/2013

Schroders wants to grow in the United States

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } UK-based Schroders wants to grow and is not hiding it. “We have GBP580m in cash,” its executive vice president, Massimo Tosato, tells Les Echos. This money “could be used both for acquisitions of local companies for international development and fo investments in organic growth,” he continues.Growth is proving more timid in Europe, its favourite market, and Schroders is turning to Asia and the United States.In the latter country, which can be hyper-competitive and closed off to foreigners, it is expecting to double in size in the next five years. As of 31 March 2013, assets under management in the United States already totalled GBP42bn, of which GBP7bn were at STW, a bond asset management firm acquired in December.
24/06/2013

Hermes Real Estate appoints head of RE debt

Hermes Real Estate Investment Management Limited (HREIML), with over GBP5.8 billion assets under management, has announced the appointment of Marcus Palmer as head of real estate debt. Based at the company’s headquarters in London, he will report into Ben Sanderson, Director of International Investment, HREIML. He will be responsible for managing the real estate debt programme. Prior to joining HREIML, Marcus was a Partner at Chalkhill Partners LLP.
24/06/2013

Polar Capital increases investment in healthcare

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The British firm Polar Capital has recruited two investment professionals, Deane Donnigan and David Pinniger, who will serve in the healthcare unit at the asset management firm, Fundweb reports.Donnigan previously worked at Axa Framlington, while Pinniger has for more than 12 years worked in the healthcare sector.Polar Capital offers two healthcare strategies: the Polar Capital Healthcare Opportunities fund (GBP478.4m), and the Polar Capital Global Healthcare Growth and Income trust (GBP152.6m).
24/06/2013

Investors have bought up GBP2.3bn in equities in the past six months

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Private investors continued to buy equities in the six months to the end of May, according to statistics released by Capita Registrars in its Private Investor Watch.Investors in the United Kingdom added GBP2.3bn to their portfolios, bringing their total assets to GBP222.2bn, the equivalent in value of 11% of the British equity market.Since the beginning of the rising market cycle in 2009, investors have added GBP6.1bn to their equity assets, of which BP3.6bn have been in the past 12 months.Between December 2012 and May 2013 investors traded about GBP45bn in equities, the most active period in the past two years.However, investors did not anticipate the fall on the market which began in June, and therefore did not take profits. They even continued to invest until the end of May. As of 18 June, they had lost GBP11.5bn, and their assets were down to GBP210.7bn.
24/06/2013

Yuan: UK signs swap deal with China

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In the competition amongst European financial centres to become the preferred offshore platform for the Chinese yuan in Europe, the British capital scored a point this weekend, Les Echos reports. The governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Mervyn King, has signed a currency exchange, or swap, agreement with a Chinese counterpart, Zhou Xiaochuan, which will allow the London market to have liquidity in yuan under all circumstances.The agreement covers an amount of up to CNY200bn (or RMB200bn), for the BoE, or up to GBP20bn for the People’s Bank of China (PBOC). In other words, slightly over USD30bn which can be mobilised on the market on both sides in order to meet the needs of businesses. Beijing has already signed numerous swap agreements, but so far only with emerging markets. This is the first time that a member of the group of seven most industrialized nations has achieved such a relationship with China.
24/06/2013

Private banking is becoming less profitable in Europe

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to an annual study by the consultant Mckinsey, no less than 15% of European private banks had operating losses in 2012, Les Echos reports. Only 2% to 3% of banks were in this situation before the financial crisis, and the percentage has been increasing each year. However, overall, the 110 banks examined by the agency have returned to their pre-crisis profit levels, and 25% of them have even surpassed them. Total assets under management have recovered by 8% in one year. But this increase in assets is more due to improved markets in 2012 than to inflows, which have increased only modestly.
24/06/2013

Outflows from emerging markets, inflows to frontier markets

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Ahead of a meeting of the Federal Reserve, investors do not appear worried. They bought fewer bonds and invested more in US, Japanese and European equity funds. However, their defiance with respect to emerging market funds remains tenacious, and outflows totalled more than USD3bn in the week to 19 June, a level not seen for nearly two years, according to statistics released by EPFR Global.Despite their circumspection with respect to most of the major emerging markets, such as China Brazil, Russia and South Africa, investors retain a marked appetite for smaller markets, which are riskier but also more dynamic. Funds dedicated to frontier markets have been posting inflows since mid-March and have also attracted more than USD2.5bn since the beginning of this year.Overall, equity funds have posted a net inflow of USD4.81bn in the week to 19 June, while bond funds have seen redemptions totalling USD7.48bn. Money market fund have seen outflows of over USD25bn in the week to 19 June, the highest level since the third week of February.
24/06/2013

Konrad Hummler gets back to business

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The former heavyweight in private banking at Wegelin, Konrad Hummler, is returning to the industry. Hummler, whose investment columns were always highly popular, has founded the M1 AG company, domiciled in St. Gall, which offers investment advisory services.Hummler, with three partners, is launching a paper or electronic publication, “Bergsicht,” which will be released at least six times per year, and which will resemble the investment columns of the Wegelin period.
24/06/2013

Former UBS manager launches an asset management firm

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to Finews, Cesar Gueikian, former head of special situations at UBS, has founded an asset management firm entitled Melody Capital Partners. His partners are Andres Scaminaci and Omar Jaffrey, also formerly of UBS. The three specialists are launching a fund to invest in guaranteed credit in the United States and Western Europe. They are hoping to raise more than EUR500m.
24/06/2013

Dalton Strategic Partnership arrives in Spain

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Although it had already been selling its products as private investments in Spain, the British asset management firm Balton Strategic Partnership has now officially entered the Spanish market, with the registration of its Luxembourg Sicav, Melchior Selected Trust, with the CNMV. The Sicav has five sub-funds and assets of EUR540m, Funds People reports.The firm becomes the sixth foreign asset management firm to enter Spain since the beginning of the year, following J. Chahine Capital, Ellipsis AM, Oaks Field Patenrs, LarrainVial and Wellington Management.
24/06/2013

Christian Dargnat prend la présidence de l'Efama

Christian Dargnat, directeur des gestions (CIO) de BNP Paribas Investment Partners, a été élu président de l’Efama, l’association européenne des gérants d’actifs, pour un mandat de deux ans. Il était vice-président de l’Efama depuis 2011. Christian Dargnat remplace Claude Kremer.
24/06/2013

TIAA Henderson Global Real Estate, une nouvelle société mondiale de gestion d`actifs immobiliers

TIAA-Cref, société prestataire de services financiers et Henderson Global Investors, l’un des plus importants gestionnaires de fonds en Europe, sont aujourd’hui convenus de lancer TIAA Henderson Global Real Estate, une nouvelle société mondiale de gestion d`actifs immobiliers. Le total combiné des actifs immobiliers sous gestion de TIAA-Cref et de la nouvelle entreprise représente 63 milliards de dollars.
24/06/2013

AXA PE cède ses parts du capital d’Outremer Telecom à Altice

AXA Private Equity, un des leaders mondiaux du capital investissement, annonce aujourd’hui avoir signé un accord pour la vente de sa participation majoritaire dans la société Outremer Telecom à Altice, le fonds d’investissement spécialisé dans les télécommunications. Fondé en 1986, Outremer Telecom est le premier opérateur alternatif de télécommunications dans les départements et régions d’outremer. Avec sa marque commerciale Only, le groupe est présent sur la zone Antilles-Guyane et la zone Océan Indien. En 2012, la société a réalisé un chiffre d’affaires de 195 millions d’euros.
24/06/2013

Schroders reste à l’affût

La société de gestion britannique poursuit ses développements internationaux après le rachat de Cazenove. Schroders «veut grossir et le fait savoir», selon le quotidien. «Nous disposons de 580 millions de livres sterling de trésorerie», clame ainsi son vice-président exécutif Massimo Tosato. Pour grandir, Schroders se tourne vers l’Asie et les Etats-Unis du fait d’un marché timide en Europe.
24/06/2013

Les banques privées en mal de rentabilité

En Europe, un gestionnaire de fortune sur six était déficitaire l’an dernier, selon l'étude annuelle de McKinsey. Certains acteurs vont logiquement disparaître ou se consolider, même si l’attrait pour le métier rend les pertes supportables pour certains groupes pluridisciplinaires.

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