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28/09/2012

Arbuthnot muscle sa gestion de fortune

James Fleming, qui est devenu CEO d’Arbuthnot Latham en mars et qui était précédemment head of international private banking chez Coutts, a annoncé trois recrutements pour la banque privée et la gestion de fortune. Liz Bottomley, qui était senior manager/client partner dans la division dirigée par James Fleming chez Coutts, va prendre la tête de la banque privée chez Arbuthnot, rapporte Investment Europe.De même, Kieran McDonnell quitte Coutts, où il était senior financial planning specialist, pour devenir senior chartered financial planner chez Arbuthnot.Enfin, Linda Amili Clack devient head of Middle East private banking. Elle était en dernier lieu directrice du Mubarkia Familiy Office.
28/09/2012

James Senior a quitté Ignis AM

Selon Fundweb, Ignis Asset Management a confirmé que James Senior, son directeur du marketing, a quitté la société, son poste devant être supprimé dans le sillage d’une réorganisation.
28/09/2012

Hausse des souscriptions et des encours pour Liontrust

Dans son «trading update» daté du 26 septembre, Liontrust Asset Management rapporte qu’entre le 1er avril et le 24 septembre les souscriptions nettes ont porté sur 181 millions de livres contre 59 millions pour le semestre au 30 septembre 2011. Durant la même période, les encours ont gonflé à 2.364 millions de livres contre 1.529 millions à fin mars.Les actifs gérés pour le retail représentaient au 24 septembre quelque 576 millions de livres tandis que les encours institutionnels représentaient 1.749 millions.
28/09/2012

RBC Investor Services launches global derivatives platform

RBC Investor Services has announced the launch of its Global Derivatives Platform, a new, fully integrated global operating model for listed and OTC derivatives. This single platform and operating model was developed to deliver middle and back-office services to listed and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives for a wide range of global clients.
28/09/2012

Deka acquires a property in Germany and sells one in Italy

Deka Immobilien GmbH has purchased a real estate property with 50,300 square metres of area, located in Mönchengladbach, from Erste Logistik Entwicklungsgesellschaft MG GmbH, an affiliate of DHL, for about EUR30m.The logistical centre is currently wholly leased to the Irish clothing retail chain Primark. It will be added to the portfolio of teh open-ended real estate fund WestInvest TargetSelect Logistics, a sectoral fund reserved for institutionals.Deka has also announced that it has sold the office property located at Via Disciplini 3 in Milan to the Italian asset management firm Arca SGR. The property had been in the portfolio of the open-ended retal fund Deka-ImmobilianGlobal since 2003. The sale is motivated by a change in strategy by Deka, which does not wish to retain assets with a value of under EUR10m. It was the last Italian property in the portfolio of ImmobilienGlobal.
28/09/2012

Change of captains for Union's flagship

From 1 October, the largest equity fund from Union Investment, UniGlobal (DE0008491051), which has EUR7.26bn in assets, will be managed by Gunther Kramert, the central asset management firm for the German co-operative banks has announced. The new manager is a senior portfolio manager for global equities, and had previously been co-manager of the fund.The current manager, André Köttner, who had been in the role since June 2007, and who joined Union in 1998, has resigned and is leaving the business on 30 September. According to sources in professional circles, Köttner is joining DWS (Deutsche Bank group).
28/09/2012

Swisscanto releases UCITS-compliant hedge fund in Germany

The Swiss asset management firm Swisscanto has obtained a sales license for Germany from BaFin for its UCITS-compliant hedge fund Swisscanto (LU) Equity Fund Long/Short Selection International, a Luxembourg-registered long/short market neutral product (see Newsmanagers of 17 August). The fund has also been approved by the Austrian FMA.
28/09/2012

Kerstin Behnke leaves Fidelity

Christian Wrede, CEO of Fidelity Investment Services GmbH, will be taking over the responsibilities of Kerstin Behnke, head of distribution for Germany, who joined the firm from Gartmore 15 months ago (see Newsmanagers of 17 May 2011), for an interim period, the asset management firm has confirmed to Fondsprofessionell. Behnke has resigned “to take on other professional challenges.”
28/09/2012

Amundi takes over 7.5% of NextStage

Amundi is acquiring 7.5% of NextStage, an asset management firm specialised in investment in French publicly-traded and private small and mid companies, with EUR300m in assets under management. The stake was acquired from Artémis, the financial holding company of the Pinault group, which also retains a 7.5% stake. The remainder of capital, 85%, remains in the hands of the firm’s chairman, Grégoire Sentilhes, and partners. The acquisition of the stake is a new stage in a partnership as a part of which Amundi has already outsourced some of its FCPI funds to NextStake, a spokesperson for the asset management unit of Crédit Agricole and Société Générale explains. “That allows us to make the relationship ongoing,” he adds. Amundi has more than EUR700bn in assets (as of the end of June 2012), of which EUR4bn are in private equity. The operation comes after an acquisition in May this year of 17.5% of capital in Tobam by Amundi. When asked about the reasoning behind these acqusitions, the spokesperson for the asset management firm responds that the objective is to offer a range which includes the best expertise to clients, based on internal as well as external expertise.
28/09/2012

Subscriptions and assets up at Liontrust

In its “trading update” for 26 September, Liontrust Asset Management reports that between 1 April and 24 September, net subscriptions totalled GBP181m, compared with GBP59m for the half-year to 30 September 2011. In the same period, asset sincreased to GBP2.364bn, from GBP1.529bn as of the end of March.Assets under management for retail clients as of 24 September totalled about GBP576m, while institutional assets totalled GBP1.749bn.
28/09/2012

Japan manager leaves J.P. Morgan AM

David Mitchinson, Japan manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, is leaving the firm, Investment Week reports. His fund will be managed by Robert Lloyd, manager of the JF Japan Sicav from the group.
28/09/2012

Legal & General IM appoints head of credit for Europe

Legal & General Investment Management has announced the appointment of Colin Reedie as head of European credit portfolio management. He will begin on 1 October. Reedie joined LGIM in 2005 from Henderson Global Investors. Following the appointment, Robert Barnard-Smith will singlehandedly direct the UK Investment Grade credit team.
28/09/2012

Invesco acquires 49% of an India's Religare

Invesco has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 49 percent interest in Religare Asset Management Company (RAMC) Limited, the asset management arm of Religare Enterprises Limited (REL), which is among the top fifteen asset management companies in India, with combined assets under management of over USD2.6 billion (as of August 31, 2012). The joint venture, Religare Invesco Asset Management Company, will be headed by Mr. Saurabh Nanavati (CEO- RAMC) along with the existing management team. Invesco currently has a presence in India (Mumbai) through its affiliate WL Ross & Co. It also operates an enterprise center in Hyderabad, first opened in 2006, employing more than 600 staff across a range of global support functions including information technology, investment operations, finance, compliance and human resources. «This addition will enhance Invesco’s presence in an important and growing market, while providing Religare’s clients access to our broad range of investment solutions,» said Martin L. Flanagan, President and CEO of Invesco Ltd.
28/09/2012

Arbuthnot recruits for wealth management

James Fleming, who became CEO of Arbuthnot Latham in March, and who was previously head of international private banking at Coutts, has announced three recruitments for the prive bank and wealth management. Liz Bottomley, who had been senior manager/client partner in the division directed by Fleming at Coutts, will take over as head of the private bank at Arbuthnot, Investment Europe reports. Kieran McDonnell is also leaving Coutts, where he had been senior financial planning specialist, to become senior chartered financial planner at Arbuthnot. Lastly, Linda Amili Clack becomes head of Middle East private banking. She had most recently been head of Mubarakia Family Office.
28/09/2012

Lloyds to discontinue advising for those with “less than GBP100,000”

From November, Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) will cease to provide investment advising services to clients with less than GBP100,000 in financial savings to invest, Money Marketing reports. The decision is motivated by the fact that according to a survey, investors are generally not willing to pay an advising fee. The clients concerned will be referred to Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB.The discontinuation of the service will affect about 1,000 advisers, but LSB states that it does not plan any involuntary layoffs.
28/09/2012

James Senior leaves Ignis

Fundweb reports that Ignis Asset Management has confirmed that James Senior, its head of marketing, has left the firm. His position will be removed in the wake of a reorganisation.
28/09/2012

Syz&Co launches emerging market fund

The Syz & Co group has announced the launch of the Oyster Emerging Opportunities fund. Although the emerging market equity fund aims to outperform the usual MSCI Emerging Markets NR Net USD index, it is not based on that index for the construction of the portfolio, but instead on a new index developed internally by Syz Fund Research. The index, the Syz Emerging Markets Index, is equally weighted between the 21 countries which compose the MSCI EM index, adjusted for market liquidity. The index is rebalanced once per year, or in the case of exceptional events. The management strategy, undertaken by Acadian Asset Management, limits changes in allocations to countries to +/-2.5% compared with the index, and 5% ex ante tracking error from the Syz Emerging Markets index.Acadian uses a multi-factoral optimisation model, which allows for the introduction of constraints, such as those imposed on the fund for country allocation or risk budget. The fund does not have sectoral constraints, and invests in companies with a market capitalisation of at least USD200m. The portfolio will contain about 200 holdings, with a turnover of 40% to 80%.CharacteristicsEUR share class: LU0497641547Management commission: 1.50%
28/09/2012

Berenberg unites complex wealth management activities

With the creation of Berenberg Office, the oldest private bank in Germany has united the teams responsible for wealth management for entrepreneurs (Unternehmer Office), charities (Stiftungs Office) and family office, Consilisto Berenberg Privat-Treuhand GmbH, in a single unit. Berenberg Office will operate independently of the four Berenberg divisions (private banking, investment banking, asset management and corporate banking).The reshuffle will result in the departure of Eberhard Hofmann, co-head of Berenberg Office and co-CEO of Consilisto, who says that he “did not find a satisfactory place after the reogranisation.”Meanwhile, Berenberg has announced the recruitment of Magnus, count von Schlieffen, from 1 November, as co-head of Berenberg Office. He had most recently been a member of the executive committee at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Frankfurt, and will be the alter ego of Marc Breidenbach.
28/09/2012

Amundi absent from new recipients of Novethic SRI label

Amundi, a French leader in socially responsible investment, with assets of over EUR25bn, is absent from the list of funds which have newly been awarded an SRI label form Novethic, released on Wednesday morning. The asset management firm did not wish to apply this year, as it did with 31 funds in 2011. The reason given by a spokesperson from Amundi contacted by Newsmanagers is a “change in methodology in the attribution of labels.”This absence contributed to reduce the number of candidate funds, from 184 in 2011 to 140 in 2012, and the number of labels awarded, which fell from 156 to 109. But the reduction in the number of funds granted the label is also due to a higher percentage of funds declined this year, compared with the previous year: 22%, up from 15%.This increase is a direct result of tougher methodology in the attribution of labels. This year, Novethic is requiring that SRI fund providers seeking the label to prove that their analysis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria has an impact on the selection of businesses in the portfolio. This is a delicate exercise, which largely involves comparing portfolios to the universe analysed on the basis of environmental, social and governance criteria. Overall, “28 out of 31 funds were rejected for ESG analysis having too slight an impact on management,” says Dominic Blanc, head of research at Novethic.
28/09/2012

Tim Geithner proposes money market reforms

Tim Geithner, secretary to the US Treasury, has called for reforms to the money market sector, the Financial Times reports. In a letter to the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which includes the largest Federal financial regulators, he cites several optoins, including increased capital and liquidity requirements, limits on activities, supervision by the Federal Reserve and forced shift to floating prices. The board will meet on Friday to discuss the proposals, which follow a failed effort at reform by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
28/09/2012

PGGM SRI team goes independent

Alex van der Velden, head of equity strategies at PGGM, has left the Netherlands-based pension fund with EUR125bn in assets, with three colleauges (Antoinette van Lier, François Schockaert and Otto van Buul), to create his own socially responsible equity fund, IPE.com reports. Felix Landers has been appointed to provisionally replace him at PGGM.
28/09/2012

Fund distribution model limits competition in Spain

According to a CNMV survey, competition on the Spanish investment fund market is weaker than the abundance of products may lead one to believe, Funds People reports. This large number of funds actually allows major asset management firms to increase their dominance, as investors prefer to limit themselves to a single provider. And banks perfectly control their entire distribution chain ! The CNMV states that the four largest asset management firms in the country have increased their market share from 36.2% in 1995 to 49.2% in 2010.
28/09/2012

Commerz Real imposes new standards on hausInvest

From 1 January 2013, Commerz Real will apply the terms of the new law (Anlegerschutz- und Funktionsverbesserungsgesetz) for real estate funds to shares in its open-ended real estate fund hausInvest ( DE0009807016), which had more than EUR9.43bn in assets as of the end of August: there will be a one-year advance notice period for redemptions, a minimal two-year investment duration for new subscribers, and a limit for withdrawals by retail investors to EUR30,000 per half-calendar-year period (see Newsmanagers of 14 February 2011).
28/09/2012

Modest increase in assets for Asian hedge funds

In first half 2012, assets in Asian hedge funds increased by 2.5%, or USD3.5bn, to a total of USD144bn as of 30 June China Daily reports, relayed by HedgeWeek.Assets under management in Hong Kong have increased by USD6.5bn, to a total of USD47.1bn, while assets managed in Singapore have fallen by slightly over USD1bn, to USD19.8bn. Assets in Japanese hedge funds have fallen 41%, to USD5.72bn.
28/09/2012

Kommalpha exec joins RBC IS

Dirk Bednarz on 1 August joined RBC Investment Services SA in Luxembourg as head of development for Germany and Austria, Fondsprofessionell reports. For five years, he had been one of three heads of the German consulting firm Kommalpha, most recently as a managing board member (see Newsmanagers of 6 October 2010).
28/09/2012
Gestion d'actifs

Le groupe Humanis préfère les fonds ouverts aux fonds dédiés et mandats

Suite à la fusion des groupes Aprionis, Novalis-Taitbout et Vauban-Humanis, la nouvelle entité gère près de 15 milliards d’euros, avec une forte propension en direct. « Cependant, nous n’avons pas la compétence en interne sur des sujets comme les actions et dettes des pays émergents ou les convertibles par exemple. C’est pourquoi, nous recherchons toujours des sociétés de gestion disposant de ces compétences. Nous apprécions d’ailleurs les sociétés de gestion entrepreneuriales car les fondateurs ont leur propres fonds investis. Les fonds ouverts nous offrent une grande flexibilité, c’est pourquoi nous privilégions aujourd’hui ce type de véhicule d’investissement. Par ailleurs, nous exigeons une grande transparence de nos prestataires, nous réalisons par exemple une due diligence assez poussée avant d’investir » note un responsable en charge de la gestion financière.
Gestion d'actifs
27/09/2012

Chute des commandes biens durables aux Etats-Unis

Le département du Commerce a fait état d’un recul de 13,2% des commandes globales, le plus marqué depuis janvier 2009, lorsque l'économie américaine était en récession. Il a révisé en légère baisse le chiffre de juillet, qui montre désormais une augmentation de 3,3%, contre +4,1% annoncé initialement. Le chiffre d’août s’explique en grande partie par la chute de plus d’un tiers (-34,9%) des commandes d'équipements de transport.
27/09/2012

Les discussions sur l'austérité avancent lentement en Grèce

Les trois partis de la coalition au pouvoir en Grèce ne sont toujours pas parvenus à un accord sur la répartition des 12 milliards d’euros d'économies nécessaires au versement d’une nouvelle tranche d’aide internationale, ont déclaré jeudi des responsables gouvernementaux. «Il y a un accord de principe (entre les chefs de parti), nous progressons vers des négociations finales», a déclaré le ministre grec des Finances Yannis Stournaras à l’issue d’une réunion des trois chefs de parti.
27/09/2012

Rothschild et Invesco distingués par MyFlow

MyFlow a publié la seconde édition de son tableau de bord trimestriel de la gestion flexible, qui vise à attirer l’attention des CGPI sur les meilleures gestions. Dans la catégorie des fonds diversifiés et de performance absolue accessibles en assurance-vie, Rothschild et Cie Gestion s’illustre avec son fonds R Club (+22,5% au 14 septembre). Dans celle des fonds référencés dans un compte-titres, c’est Invesco Management pour son fonds Pan European High Income qui remporte la palme (+26,8%).
27/09/2012

Les promesses de vente retombent outre-Atlantique

Selon des données de l’Association nationale des agents immobiliers (NAR), les promesses de vente immobilières ont baissé de 2,6% en août, après une hausse d’autant en juillet (+2,4% en première estimation. L’indice correspondant a ainsi reculé à 99,2 contre 101,9 en juillet (révisé de 101,7).Les promesses de vente restent toutefois en hausse de 10,7% par rapport à août 2011. L’indice était alors à 89,6.

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