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19/11/2012

Fiona Reynolds joins PRI

The international network of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) on 19 November announced the appointment of Fiona Reynolds as managing director. In this newly-created position, Reynolds will be responsible for development of the organisation and its day-to-day activities. She will begin in the position in London in February 2013. Reynolds is currently CEO of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, an organisation which defends the interests of the Australian pension fund sector.
19/11/2012

More than 250 new signatories sign PRI since September 2011

The international network of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has published an updated list of signatories to the Principles. As of 9 November 2012, the network had 254 new signatories since 12 September 2011, bringing the total number of signatories to over 1,100, from 50 countries, representing assets under management of over USD32trn. In the same period, 61 signatories were removed from the list for various reasons (voluntarily, failure to pay contributions, or failure to participate in the annual evaluation).
19/11/2012

DJ Credit Suisse hedge fund index down 0.18%

The Dow Jones Credit Suisse hedge fun index finished the month of October down 0.18%, as six out of the 13 strategies of the index posted negative returns. Managed futures strategies fell by 4.64%, after a decline of 1.37% in September.
19/11/2012

Heavy outflows from US equity funds

The second week of November saw investors digesting an unpleasant cocktail of European data, US budget skirmishes, Japanese politics and renewed violence in the Middle East. They responded by pulling over USD7 billion out of US Equity Funds and over USD1 billion from US High Yield Bond Funds while slowing the pace of their commitments to Emerging Markets Equity and Bond Funds. Overall, EPFR Global-tracked Bond Funds took in $5.29 billion during the week ending Nov. 14 while net redemptions from Equity Funds hit their highest level since the week preceding the US Federal Reserve’s announcement of QE3. Money Market Funds recorded outflows of USD7.06 billion and Balanced Funds, which invest in both debt and equities, saw USD1.12 billion taken out.
19/11/2012

Franklin Templeton controls one tenth of Irish debt

Franklin Templeton funds have increased their exposure to Irish bonds by more than one third, to EUR.84bn in third quarter, the Financial Times reports. The US asset management firm holds about one tenth of the total market in Irish government bonds. Most of these bonds are in the hands of funds controlled by Michael Hasenstab, co-director of the international bonds department at Franklin Templeton.
19/11/2012

Hedge funds may lose out in UPS-TNT talks

Several hedge fund managers will lose hundreds of millions of dollars if the merger of UPS and TNT Express falls through, the Financial Times reports. Merger arbitrage funds bought positions in TNT this year, anticipating gains at a time when the operation was about to be completed. But since then, the European Commission has surprised observers by raising objections.
19/11/2012

Henderson va vendre le Horizon Euro High Yield Bond en Espagne

Funds People rapporte qu’Henderson Global Investors enregistre aujourd’hui pour la vente en Espagne son Henderson Horizon Euro High Yield Bond Fund, un produit coordonné géré par Stephen Thariyan et Chris Bullock, qui gèrent déjà le Henderson Horizon Euro Corporate Bond Fund.
19/11/2012

Good inflows for JPMorgan AM in Paris

Since the beginning of this year, the Paris office of JP Morgan Asset Management has posted net subscriptions of about USD1bn, bringing its assets to about USD5.2bn as of the end of October.One third of inflows went to equities, including emerging markets, while two thirds went to bods, largely emerging markets, credit and investment grade, and flexible products, as well as to a fund from the affiliate Highbridge.In a presentation in Paris by Pierre-Yves Bareau, director of the emerging markets debt unit of JPMAM, Bareau stated that assets for his team now include USD29bn, due to net subscriptions of USD9bn, while emerging market debt represents USD3.1bn, of which about USD2bn are from net inflows. The team includes 32 people at several locations worldwide, including 9 corporate bond specialists.
19/11/2012

Seven new members of AFG

The French financial management association (AFG) has seven new members, according to the most recent edition of Info Gestion (November 2012, No. 6). They are Aureo Alpha, BNP Paribas Private Equity, Cedrus Asset Management, Energies Asset Management, GTI Asset Management, Notus Capital and Prevaal Finance. Henderson Global Investors Limited is also joining the professional association as a corresponding member.
19/11/2012

Julien Moutier joins Groupama AM

To replace Dimitri Boismare, manager of the Groupama FP Flexible Allocation fund, who left the business in October, Groupama Asset Management has recruited Julien Moutier, a fund-picker and head of multi-management funds at FundQuest (BNP Paribas group), who will be joining the firm on 3 December, Citywire Global reports. The site also reports the recent departure of the FundQuest CIO for Europe, Christophe Belhomme.
19/11/2012

Morgan Creek builds presence in Asia

The US asset management firm Morgan Creek Capital Management is scaling up its presence in Asia with the recruitment of Anand Prasanna as director, in charge of the global investment team. He will begin in his new role next month, and will be based in Shanghai, where Morgan Creek now has 8 investment professional employees. Prasanna, who had previously worked at the private equity investor Squadron Capital, based in Hong Kong, will concentrate on the Indian market. Assets under management at Morgan Creek total about USD7bn.
19/11/2012

Libra Advisors liquidates a hedge fund

Ranjan Tandon, founder of the hedge fund management firm Libra Advisors, has announced in a letter to investors that the hedge fund will return USD2bn to them by the end of the year, and then to convert into a family office, the Wall Street Journal reports. The fund shows returns of 26% after fees since its inception in 1990, but lost money in 2011, and saw a 15% fall in the first ten months of this year.
19/11/2012

“We are considering launching ETFs based on volatility or certain smart betas”

Gilles Guérin discusses the positioning of Theam, the firm he has been leading since its creation within BNP Paribas IP, with Newsmanagers. Of the various types of expertise it offers, guaranteed products are suffering due to the current low interest rates, and are showing outflows, but flows to systematic active management, and absolute return products, are showing double-digit growth. Index-based management may extend its range of innovative ETFs. THEAM is maintaining its objectives, and plans to strengthen its presence serving institutional investors in particular.
19/11/2012

Bankia to absorb its private banking affiliate

Funds People reports that Bankia has decided to absorb its private banking affiliate, Bankia Banca Privada, which has assets of EUR7bn. The new division will be led by Jaime González Lasso de Vega, who takes up the position left acant by Gustavo Rivero, who has left the business. De Vega had previously been director of the bank’s international corporate banking arm.Bankia Banca Privada earned pre-tax profits in January-September of EUR14.7m.
19/11/2012

Centerbridge acquires Aktua from Banesto

Aktua, the credit portfolio management and debt collection affiliate of Banesto, has been acquired for about EUR100m by the “vulture” fund Centerbridge, Cotizalia reports, citing financial sector sources.
19/11/2012

Investir avec la famille March avec seulement 10 euros

Dans un article consacré aux Sicav, le véhicule préféré des grandes fortunes espagnoles, Cinco Días souligne que Terranova, celle de la famille March, se distingue parce qu’elle permet à des particuliers externes à la famille de souscrire, avec un plancher de 10 euros.Terranova affiche un encours de 430 millions d’euros et une performance de 5,4 % depuis le début de l’année. Elle n’a perdu qu’une seule fois de l’argent depuis 2002, en 2008, avec une perte de 5,4 %. Sur les dix dernières années, sa performance annuelle moyenne a dépassé les 4 %, avec une volatilité très faible.
19/11/2012

Principal loses staff and recruits

Following the departure of more than 10 people from the emerging markets team, the CEO for Asia at Principal Global Investors, Andrea Muller, stated that the firm has an integrated approach which will allow it to continue its activities without excessive disruption, Asian Investor reports. “We have an in-house global research platform, which is at the centre of our stock-picking process, and which allows us to continue working even after all these departures. We have more than 60 equity professionals employed worldwide, and we are entirely capable of covering emerging markets,” says Muller. Muller states that of the two emerging market directors who left the firm, only one will be replaced: the head of the Singapore office, Michael Ade. She also confirms that teams in Hong Kong and China will be strengthened in 2013. As of the end of September, assets under management at Principal totalled USD276bn, of which USD5.6bn come from Asia, USD5.6bn from Australia and New Zealand, and USD4.4bn from Japan.
19/11/2012

Brummer & Partners assists two former Rubicon managers

The Swedish alternative management firm Brummer & Partners has acquired a stake in a new alternative management firm founded by Tim Attias and Santiago Alarco, two former chief investment officers of Rubicon Fund Management. The London-based firm is planning to launch a macro fund, in which Brummer & Partners is planning to invest via its multi-strategy fund.
19/11/2012

Lyxor AM to launch ETFs in physical replication

In September, Lyxor International Asset Management announced plans to launch a range of physical ETFs by the end of 2012. On December 6th and 11th, 4 ETFs based on the EuroMTS Macro Weighted AAA Government Index series will be converted to physical replication. As announced previously, Lyxor diversifies its offer to physically replicated ETFs in order to fully address investors’ needs.The funds will be managed using full replication: each fund will invest directly in all the sovereign bonds that make up the respective EuroMTS Macro Weighted AAA Government Index, without any sampling. Securities lending is not part of the management process as the performance benefit to investors would be negligible, and would not justify the addition of counterparty risk to the fund. The EuroMTS Macro-Weighted AAA Government Bond Indices are Eurozone sovereign indices grouped by maturity, and based on issuers with the highest credit ratings (denoted “AAA”) from 2 out of the 3 main ratings agencies. The “macro-weighted” strategy is an innovative weighting methodology that uses macroeconomic indicators. Country weights are primarily based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and then adjusted using the following 4 indicators: debt to GDP ratio; current account (as a % of GDP); quarter-on-quarter GDP growth; long-term interest rates. Characteristics : Lyxor ETF EuroMTS AAA Macro-Weighted Government 1-3YIsin code: FR0011146315Launch date: December 11; 2012 Lyxor ETF EuroMTS AAA Macro-Weighted Government 3-5YIsin code: FR0011146349Launch date:: December 6, 2012Lyxor ETF EuroMTS AAA Macro-Weighted Government 5-7YIsin code: FR0011146356Launch date: December 11, 2012 Lyxor ETF EuroMTS AAA Macro-Weighted Government BondsIsin code: FR0010820258Launch date: December 11, 2012
19/11/2012

db x-trackers converts to physical replication

According to financial industry sources, the Börsen-Zeitung reports, db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank), which had focused exclusively on synthetic replication, is now planning to also offer physical replication ETFs, which will be listed in Frankfurt, London and Milan from late 2013/early 2013. Initially, the product range will be concentrated on physical replication version of ETFs based on the Dax, the FTSE 100, the S&P 500, Euro Stoxx 50 and Nikkei 225, in addition to which there will be a new physical replication ETF based on the Euro Stoxx 50 ex Financials. The physical replication ETF product range will gradually be extended over the following months.
19/11/2012

ETF assets may triple by 2016, according to Cerulli

According to Alec Papazian, a senior analyst at Cerulli Assocates, assets under management in US ETFs as of the end of 2011 totalled USD1.05trn, and may total USD1.33trn by the end of 2012, InvestmentNews reports. By 2016, they may have virtually tripled to USD3.45trn.
19/11/2012

Funds struggle to outperform deposits

On the basis of statistics provided by the Spanish Inverco association of asset management firms, Cotizalia has found that no money market funds can compete with the returns from bank savings.In the current environment of a “war for deposits,” only 6.95% of short-term bond funds, or 16 productss out of a total of 230, have posted returns of over 5% in the twelve months to the end of October, compared with 57% of long-term bond funds, which are more risky. The Leaseten RF Corto and Eurovalor Bonos Corporativos show respective returns of 10.4% and 10%, putting them ahead of the foncaixa RF Corporative with 9.39%. Of diversified funds with a predominant exposure to bonds, only 13% beat savings deposits.However, 39.7% of guaranteed bond funds (146 out of 368) show returns of over 5%.
19/11/2012

Safra joins Sarasin activities

The Safra group will be joining the trading and treasury activities of the Sarasin group, in the corresponding Safra divisions, according to information on the website finews, which has been confirmed by Sarasin. Before initiating the operation, the Structured Products division of Sarasin will in early December be integrated into the Trading & Family Office (TFO) division of Sarasin. The changes will result in the departure of the head of the TFO unit, Peter Wild, by the end of third quarter 2013. Activities with external wealth managers will be integrated into the Institutional Clients & Wholesale unit in early December.
19/11/2012

Aberdeen wants to grow in funds of hedge funds

Aberdeen Asset Management is planning to more than double the size of its funds of hedge funds business to USD10bn in the next few years, from USD4bn currently, Financial Times Fund Management reports. The news comes at a time when the alternative multi-management industry is under pressure. Andrew McCaffery, global head of hedge funds at Aberdeen, tells FTfm that the growth may come via acquisitions, or through the winning of new mandates.
19/11/2012

Barclays Wealth adopts a regressive RDR fee structure

The wealth management firm Barclays Wealth has unveiled the structure of the fees it will be adopting in the RDR regulatory environment, Fundweb reports. Management commission will be 0.75% for the first GBP1m, and then 0.6% for accounts with GBP1-3m, and 0.5% for the GBP3-7m category, and 0.25% thereafter.Execution fees for structured products will be set at 0.7% up to GBP100,000, and then 0.4% for higher amounts. In the same classes, fees will be 1% and 0.65% for equities, while clients who rely on the services of a dedicated portfolio manager may be 1.25% up to GBP5m, and then 1% for the next category from GBP5-10m.Barclays Wealth has set the minimum investment for new clients at GBP3m, and is planning to introduce a minimal charge of GBP37,500. Clients to whom a portfolio manager is assigned must pay a financial planning fee of 2% on the first GBP250,000, while the fee will be reduced to 1% above that amount.
19/11/2012

Gains of more than 6% for hedge funds in January-October

On average, the 1,748 hedge funds and funds of hedge funds which had published their results for October as of 16 November have posted returns in October of 0.26%, bringing their gains to 6.04% in the first ten months of the year, according to estimates by BarclayHedge.Five strategies showed losses last month, including 26 tech funds (-1.98%) and 27 merger arbitrage funds (-1.96%), while the 98 global macro funds have lost an average of 0.95%. However, the 29 distressed securities funds gained 2.10%.Since the beginning of the year, the 7 equity short bias funds are the only class to show losses (-17.15%), while the 21 health and biotechnology funds have gained 13.51%, and 29 distressed funds have gained 9.70%.
19/11/2012

Veritas Asset Management UK restructures

Veritas Asset Management UK is restructuring, and separating its fund management activities from its private client activities, Fundweb reports. The private client activities will become Veritas Investment Management, while fund management activities, which include institutional management, will be renamed as Veritas Asset Management. Veritas Investment Management will be led by Mark Rayward. Veritas Asset Management will be led by chairman Charles Richardson, managers Andy Headley and Ezra Sun, and COO Richard Grant.
19/11/2012

Old Mutual Wealth appoints a director of marketing

Old Mutual Wealth has appointed Graham Bentley as head of investment marketing, Fundweb reports. Bentley had previously been in charge of proposals by Skandia. In his new position, he will cover the United Kingdom, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
19/11/2012

Man Group sells exposure to Lehman for USD456m

The hedge fund management firm Man Group on 16 November announced the sale of its remaining exposure to Lehman Brothers for a total of USD456m. The operation strengthens owners’ equity at Man, which is also facing an erosion of its client base over the past several quarters. Hutchinson Investors, managed by the Baupost group, has agreed to acquire the portfolio at a 32% markup over its valuation on 30 June 2012. Man may receive an additional USD5m, if certain thresholds are met in the future. Man acquired the portfolio in July 2011 from funds managed by the affiliate GLG Partners, for a total of USD355m.
19/11/2012

IPD and BVI launch index for RE institutional funds

In collaboration with the German fund association BVI, IPD (Investment Property Databank GmbH) on September 14th published a full IPD/BVI German quarterly Spezialfonds Index (SFIX) for the first time. The new index measures the performance of German Spezialfonds (institutional funds) and public real estate funds for institutional investors, not only in the current quarter, but also - and for the first time – back to December 2006 on a quarterly basis.For the third quarter of 2012 the SFIX covered 110 funds worth EUR27.5bn in terms of net asset value (NAV), implying a market coverage of 60%. In addition to the overall SFIX index, the data assembled allows for the production of regional and sector sub-indices, grouping the funds covered by investment focus. The SFIX measures the total return of the contributing funds at NAV level, net of leverage, liquidity and fund costs, and is published six weeks after the end of each quarter.The SFIX recorded a total return of 0.2% for July-September. Those funds with at least 70% of their real estate in Germany achieved a return of 0.8%, significantly better than funds predominantly investing in the rest of Europe, which lost 0.1%. Differentiated by type of use, funds invested mainly in retail properties returned 1.0%, significantly outperforming office-focused funds, which lost 0.1%. Sector-diversified funds stood in between with a return of 0.4%.Over the twelve months to September 30, the ranking of the sub-indices is identical. And over the last five years, SFIX Germany funds again lead the field with an annualised return of 4.3%, while the performance of diversified funds, at 3.6%, surpasses that of office funds, which returned only 2.5%.

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