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14/06/2013

Neuberger Berman offers flexible fund investing primarily in equities

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } With the Neuberger Berman Flexible Select Fund, the New York-based Neuberger Berman Group (USD216bn in assets as of the end of March) has launched a flexible fund in the United States investing in all cap sizes, with the objective of generating attractive risk-adjusted returns with lower volatility than that of the US equity market.The product is managed by 17 to 20 teams, with strategies used for high net worth retail clients. The long-only portfolio may also be invested in cash and bonds if necessary, depending on the allocation of assets to various portfolio management teams.The selection, monitoring, appreciation of risk and rebalancing of weight between the various teams will be led by an investment committee headed by Joseph Amato, chairman and CIO of Neuberger Berman.
14/06/2013

Union resells property at La Défense

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } After a 13 years tenure, the German firm Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE) has resold the Le Wilson office property (14,767 square metres) for EUR67.2m to a fund of the Perial group.Reinhard Kutscher, chairman of the executive committee at UIRE, has estimated that the deal is another success for the open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Deutschland, as the property has always been fully occupied and the expert valuation of the property has increased by EUR10.7m.
14/06/2013

Santander extends prudent range with Cumbre passive funds

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The CNMV has issued a sales license for the Santander Cumbre 2018 and Santander Cumple 2018 Cumbre Plus funds, the first two passive funds with a performance objective launched by Santander Asset Management, Funds People reports.The first product aims for returns of 2% per year and will invest solely in bonds from the kingdom of Spain, while the second may also invest in bonds from official bodies or autonomous communities with the same rating as Spanish government bonds. It aims for 2.3% per year for the B share class, and 2.45% for C class shares.
14/06/2013

Loomis Sayles to launch a UCITS version of a long/short credit fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The US asset management firm Loomis Sayles will on 1 July launch a UCITS version of its long/short credit fund, Loomis Sayles Credit Long/Short fund, through a partnership with Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, Citywire Global reports. The fund will be registered on the dbalternative Platinum platform.
14/06/2013

Wellington registers in Spain

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } On 31 May, the CNMV registered the Irish Sicav Wellington Management Portfolio (Dublin) Plc from Wellington Management. The US asset management firm becomes the fifth foreign asset management firm to register with the Spanish regulator since the beginning of this year, after J. Chahine Capital, Ellipsis AM, Oaks Field Partners and Larrain Vial.
14/06/2013

Women under-represented in British asset management

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Only 5% of retail funds are managed or co-managed by women in the United Kingdom, according to a survey completed by Bestinvest,Fund Web reports. In the five major IMA (Investment Management Association) IMA sectors, the percentage of funds managed by women varies from 2% for the UK Equity Income sector to 7% for the UK All Companies sector.
14/06/2013

Australian mandate for Henderson in real estate

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The pension fund AustralianSuper (AUD60bn) has awarded a mandate to Henderson Global Investors (HGI, GBP68.9bn) a management mandate for UK retail real estate investments.The real estate portfolio of AustralianSuper represents a total of about AUD4.6bn, and the pension fund has recently announced plans to invest internationally in order to diversify. For its part, HGI has USD12.7bn in real estate assets, of which USD7.4bn are in the retail sector.
14/06/2013

Old Mutual GI adds to European distribution team

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Kirk Hotte, European business director at Investec Asset Management, after working for 12 years at Axa IM, most recently as director, global distributors, has joined Old Mutual Global Investors as European sales director. He will be based in London and will report to David Aldred, head of European distribution.
14/06/2013

Net subscriptions for German asset management up

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } In January-April, funds and mandates at asset management firms which disclose their subscriptions and assets to the German BVI trade association posted net subscriptions of EUR43.73bn, compared with EUR18.33bn in the first four months of 2012. Institutional funds posted inflows of EUR30.4bn, compared with EUR18.64bn, while mandates attracted EUR2.82bn, compared with EUR3.31bn, and open-ended funds (including real estate funds) had net inflows of EUR10.5bn, compared with net redemptions of EUR3.66bn.However, it is important to note that results for April 2013 were thrown off for open-ended securities funds by the fact that within the Union Investment group a diversified management mandate for EUR4.4bn which had previously been held by the Luxembourg affiliate IPC Concept has been transferred to another entity of the group, which is not a BVI member. Union Investment has posted net outflows in January-April of EUR2.42bn from open-ended securities funds, at a time when the asset management firm for the German co-operative banks has been regularly posting net subscriptions.Deka (savings banks) is continuing to post outflows, but they are limited to EUR711m for the first four months of the year, while Allianz Global Investors has seen inflows of EUR2.83bn, and Deutsche Bank EUR2.67bn.As to ETFs, db x-trackers products from Deutsche Bank have posted inflows of EUR358m in January-April, while ETFlab (Deka) has attracted EUR214.6m. However, BlackRock has suffered outflows of EUR408.2m from iShares, while ComStage (Commerzbank) has seen net redemptions of EUR129.5m.
14/06/2013

GAM integration successful for former Arkos Capital

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Assets under management at the hedge fund firm GAM Investment Mnagement, known as Arkos Capital before its acquisition in February 2012 by the asset management group GAM, has topped EUR1bn, with assets of EUR1.3bn, compared with EUR550m when the deal was announced, Gianmarco Mondani, founder of Arkos, and currently CEO and CIO of GAM Investment Management, tells AGEFI Switzerland. This is “a positive sign of the contribution of the new GAM range as well as additional sales resources,” says Mondani.
14/06/2013

Risk management is a challenge for insurers

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } More than one quarter of insurance companies worldwide report difficulties in managing risk. In addition to this observation, a survey by State Street of the insurance sector, in all types of business, finds that 29% of top directors surveyed have seen their businesses withdrawn from some activities since the beginning of the financial crisis “due to new capital requirements or requirements related to risk,” a statement says. This percentage reaches as high as 39% for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. This survey, sponsored by State Street and conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit, examines the current state and future outlook for the global insurance industry. Fielded during April 2013, the survey encompassed 307 insurance executives globally across all industry sub-sectors. Half of respondents were C-suite, while the remainder were senior management. 25% of respondents in the EMEA region reported difficulties in recruiting qualified personnel in risk management. In North America, the percentage was 16%. For a complete summary of the results of the survey, go to http://statestreet.com/ourbusiness.
14/06/2013

Fund range from Sal. Oppenheim to be severely amputated

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Sal. Oppenheim, a private banking affiliate of Deutsche Bank, will become a pure wealth management firm, and will retain only less than 10 funds, Fondsprofessionell reports.Funds from the German asset management affiliate Oppenheim Kapitalanlagegesellschaft (OKAG), with EUR3.6bn in assets, will be transferred to Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM), and merged with DWS or liquidated funds.Sal. Oppenheim will, however, retain the white-label products from its Luxembourg affiliate, which have total assets of EUR3.5bn to EUR4bn.
14/06/2013

Investors in local currency EMD suffer most

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Investors in emerging market bonds denominated in local currencies are among the biggest losers from recent sales which have affected emerging market assets, the Financial Times reports. On average, funds denominated in local currencies have lost 7.8% since the beginning of May, according to Lipper, while funds of emerging market debt in hard currencies have lost 6.1%, and emerging market equity funds have lost 6.7%.
14/06/2013

Andrew Baker to leave as head of AIMA at end 2013

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Andrew Baker, who since 2007 has been deputy CEO and then CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), has announced that he will be leaving the position at the end of this year. However, to ensure a smooth transition, he will retain his position until his successor can be recruited and take over his responsibilities.AIMA has more than 1,300 member businesses in 50 countries.
14/06/2013

HFRI hedge fund index gained 0.5% in May

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The good performance of Equity Hedge and Event Driven strategies have allowed hedge funds to post gains for the seventh consecutive month and for the eleventh time in 12 months. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index gained 0.5% in the month of May, driving a gain of 1.8% for the HFRI Equity Hedge index. The HFRI Event Driven index, for its part, posted a gain of 1.7%, the 12th in a row, due to the dynamism of the corporate transactions market. The HFRI Macro/CTA Index, however, lost 1.5% in May.
14/06/2013

Assets in SWFs total nearly USD5.5trn

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Assets in sovereign wealth funds worldwite total USD5.473trn, according to the most recent statistics from the SWF Institute. Last year, assets in sovereign funds topped USD5trn, with a total of USD5.019trn.The largest SWFs are the Norwegian government pension fund, with USD737.2bn as of June 2013, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) with USD627bn, and the Chinese Safe Investment Company with USD567.9bn (estimated).SWFs tied to oil and gas revenues total USd3.1931trn.With USD25.5bn, the French Strategic Investment Fund (FIS) places in the SWF Institute rankings between the Brunei sovereign fund (USd30bn) and the Texas Permanent School Fund (USD25.5bn).The FIS has a transparency rating of 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. The SWF Institute awarded a better rating to 10 sovereign funds, including the Norwegian sovereign fund, the Singapore fund Temasek and the Australian Future Fund.
14/06/2013

Swedes have a strong appetite for equities

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In the next 12 months, 71% of Swedes would like to invest in equities or equity funds, according to a study by Schroders cited by Dagens Industri. Emerging market equities are the most often cited, followed by global and European equities. Swedish investors have earned an average return of 6% since the financial crisis in 2008, the highest level of any of the 10 European countries studied by Schroders. This undoubtedly explains their appetite for risk.
14/06/2013

TCW adds to sales staff in Asia

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In the wake of the acquisition by TCW last year of the Carlyle company and group from Société Générale, the US asset management firm is recruiting in Asia with the recruitment of sales personnel in Hong Kong, Asian Investor reports. TCW, which has no immediate plans to install investment teams in Asia, will initially distribute funds to investors in Hong Kong and the region. All products in UCITS format will be registered in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.
14/06/2013

Better performance for UCITS hedge funds in May

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The UCITS Alternative Index Global of UCITS-compliant hedge funds calculated by the Swiss firm Alix Capital in May posted returns of 0.53%, compared with 0.21% in April, bringing gains in the first five months of the year to 2.34%. The UCITS Alternative Index Funds of Funds has posted its fifth consecutive monthly increase, up 0.65% in May, compared with 0.22% in April. It shows a gain of 3.14% since the beginning of the year.Only two strategies show losses for single hedge funds in May: CTA has lost 1.34%, and volatility, 0.12%. The only stand-out gain is for long/short equity, with 1.53%, allowing this fund category to lead for the first five months of the year, with returns of 4.77%.Total assets in UCITS-compliant single hedge funds as of the end of May totalled EUR161bn, compared with EUR160bn one month earlier. They totalled EUR147bn at the end of March, EUR143bn at the end of February, and EUR141bn at the end of January.Currently, the UCITS Alternative index includes 860 hedge funds and funds of hedge funds.
14/06/2013

Algebris launches low-fee financial sector fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Algebris Investments, the London-based hedge fund led by Davide Serra, is preparing to launch a new low fee long-only fund which invests in global financial sector equities and bonds, the Financial Times reports. “It is time to invest in the financial sector. The crisis is over. The financial sector will be the primary beneficiary of increases in interest rates in the next 3 to 5 years,” Serra tells the FT. The new fund, which will charge annual fees of 0.9%, will be created in August and released in September. The firm has already received commitments for over USD100m.
14/06/2013

Retraites: le rapport Moreau prône d'allonger la durée de cotisation

La commission présidée par Yannick Moreau, qui a rendu vendredi son rapport sur les retraites au Premier ministre, considère un allongement de la durée de cotisation jusqu'à 44 ans comme «la réponse la plus pertinente pour adapter le système de retraites au progrès social que constitue l’allongement de l’espérance de vie». La commission propose aussi d’aligner le taux maximal de Contribution sociale généralisée (CSG) des retraités, qui est de 6,6%, sur celui des actifs (7,5%), et de réviser certains avantages fiscaux propres aux retraités. La hausse de CSG permettrait un gain estimé à 2 milliards d’euros à l’horizon 2020 selon le rapport. Celui-ci propose également une sous-indexation «exceptionnelle» des pensions et une hausse des cotisations d’assurance-vieillesse de 0,1 point par an pendant quatre ans au-delà d’un certain plafond de salaire. Cette hausse, répartie à parts égales entre salariés et employeurs, rapporterait 2,6 milliards d’euros. A plus long terme, le rapport Moreau propose de «rapprocher davantage les règles applicables aux fonctionnaires de celles en usage dans le secteur privé».
14/06/2013

La Caisse des dépôts veut revoir ses relations avec l'Etat

Henri Emmanuelli, président de la commission de surveillance de la Caisse des dépôts, souhaiterait ouvrir le dossier du prélèvement que l’Etat opère chaque année sur les fonds d'épargne gérés par la CDC en rémunération de sa garantie. «L’Etat prélève de l’argent sans jamais mettre un sou dans le groupe. C’est donc un chantier à ouvrir à la rentrée par les députés lors des discussions sur le projet de loi de Finances», indique vendredi le député dans un entretien aux Echos.
14/06/2013

S&P maintient l'Espagne en catégorie investisseur

Standard & Poor’s a confirmé vendredi la note BBB- attachée à la dette souveraine de l’Espagne, maintenant ainsi le pays en catégorie investissement. La perspective attachée à cette note reste négative. S&P salue l’engagement fort témoigné par le gouvernement de Madrid à mettre en place un programme de réformes financières et structurelles dans le pays. L’agence table sur une contraction de 1,5% de l'économie espagnole cette année avant un retour à une croissance de 0,6% en 2014. Certains investisseurs craignaient une dégradation de l’Espagne en catégorie «junk», qui entraînerait des flux vendeurs. Les notes de S&P et de Moody’s pour l’Espagne ne sont qu'à un cran au-dessus de la catégorie spéculative, celle de Fitch à deux crans. Le taux à 10 ans espagnol se détendait de 8 points de base vendredi à 4,52%, comme l’ensemble des rendements souveraines en zone euro.
14/06/2013

Del Monte met en vente ses conserves

Le quotidien assure que le groupe de San Francisco, racheté en 2011 par un consortium emmené par KKR, songe à céder son emblématique activité de conserve pour concentrer ses efforts sur la nourriture animale. L’opération pourrait atteindre 2 milliards de dollars. Centerview Partners et Morgan Stanley seraient en charge de la vente.
14/06/2013

Algebris mise sur les valeurs financières

«C’est le bon moment pour investir dans les financières», croit savoir Davide Serra, le patron du hedge fund londonien Algebris. «La crise est finie», assure le dirigeant, selon lequel «les financières vont être les grandes bénéficiaires de la montée des taux dans les 3 à 5 prochaines années». Algebris s’apprête à lancer un fonds mondial actions et obligations dédié au secteur.

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