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07/08/2012
Fonds

Les projets alternatifs du Texas Permanent School Fund dans l'impasse

Le fonds d’investissement du Texas dédié à l'éducation, le Texas Permanent School Fund, a été invité par sa tutelle à revoir sa décision de mettre fin à trois de ses cinq contrats de gestion avec des gérants de fonds de hedge funds, rapporte Pensions & Investments.Mauvaise nouvelle pour le fonds texan, qui gère quelque 24,4 milliards de dollars d’actifs et qui depuis plus d’un an bataille pour qu’on l’autorise à investir directement dans les hedge funds et à parallèlement arrêter ses investissements avec une partie de ses gérants de fonds de fonds.
Fonds
07/08/2012

Fidelity se lancerait dans les ETF

Fidelity Investments s’apprête à se lancer dans les ETF, selon une personne proche du dossier citée par Bloomberg News. La société basée à Boston veut devenir le premier gestionnaire à introduire des ETF gérés par des stock-pickers actifs en ouvrant une série de produits basés sur sa gamme de fonds actions «Select» investis par secteurs. Le pôle qui s’occuperait de ces ETF sera basé à Denver et dirigé par Anthony Rochte qui a été recruté chez State Street en mars.
07/08/2012
Fonds

Progression de 0,56% du patrimoine des OPC luxembourgeois en juin

Au 30 juin 2012, le patrimoine global net des organismes de placement collectif et des fonds d’investissement spécialisés au Luxembourg s’est élevé à 2.224,479 milliards d’euros contre 2.212,027 milliards d’euros au 31 mai 2012, soit une augmentation de 0,56% sur un mois, selon les statistiques communiquées par la Commission de surveillance du secteur financier (CSSF). Considéré sur la période des douze derniers mois écoulés, le volume des actifs nets est en augmentation de 1,81%. L’industrie des OPC luxembourgeois a donc enregistré au mois de juin une variation positive se chiffrant à 12,452 milliards d’euros. Cette augmentation représente le solde des émissions nettes négatives à concurrence de 2,081 milliards d’euros (-0,10%) et de l’évolution favorable des marchés financiers à concurrence de 14,533 milliards d’euros (+0,66%). Les catégories d’OPC à actions ont enregistré des gains de cours sur la période sous revue. Ces mouvements, dans un contexte d’incertitudes conjoncturelles persistantes dans les principales zones économiques, sont en relation avec les décisions prises lors du sommet européen de fin juin visant à stabiliser la zone euro ainsi que les mesures de politique monétaire accommodante prises aux Etats-Unis. La catégorie d’OPC à actions de l’Europe de l’Est a pu enregistrer la variation la plus favorable (+6,31% contre 3,95% pour les actions japonaises et 3,33% pour les actions européennes) pour le mois sous revue. Par contre, au mois de juin, toutes les catégories d’OPC à actions, à l’exception des actions japonaises, ont subi des rachats nets.
Fonds
07/08/2012

La reprise d'une division de Merrill Lynch par Julius Baer se précise

La banque privée zurichoise Julius Baer avance dans les négociations avec Bank of America sur le rachat des activités de gestion de fortune hors des Etats-Unis de Merrill Lynch, rapporte Le Matin."Julius Baer est fermement déterminé à reprendre la division non américaine de la gestion de fortune de Merrill Lynch», déclare une personne proche la banque. La division gestion de fortune de Merrill Lynch gère environ 90 milliards de dollars d’acifs, principalement en Asie, en Amérique latine et en Europe. La part hors des Etats-Unis est située dans les régions où Julius Baer a l’intention de croître. En Suisse, Merrill Lynch gère 11,4 milliards de francs. Le prix de ce rachat est estimé entre 1,5 et 2 milliards de dollars.
07/08/2012

UBS serait intéressé par la BHF-Bank

Le groupe suisse UBS serait intéressé par l’acquisition de la BHF-Bank, la filiale de gestion privée de la Deutsche Bank, rapporte finews qui évoque la dernière lettre d’information de la Bank Gutenberg.La lettre d’information précise que tant UBS que la Deutsche Bank se sont refusé à commenter cette information.
07/08/2012

Alternative investment projects at Texas Permanent School Fund hit a brick wall

The Texas state education investment fund Texas Permanent School Fund has been asked by its supervisory authority to review a decision to cancel three of its five management contracts with fund of hedge fund managers, Pensions & Investments reports. The news will be a setback for the Texan fund, which has about USD24.4bn in assets under management, and which has been struggling for over a year to gain clearance to invest directly in hedge funds, and simultaneously to discontinue its investments with a portion of its fund of fund managers.
07/08/2012

Head of European high yield bonds leaves Axa IM

Andrew Wilmont, head of the team in charge of European high yield bonds, has left Axa IM “to pursue new opportunities,” according to a letter from the asset management firm sent to clients, and obtained by Newsmanagers. Wilmont will be replaced by James Gledhill, global head of the high yield bond management team, who will take over direct management of the European team. Axa IM points out that its European high yield bond management team has recently gained two new members, Julie Lamirel and Shamin Ahmad, meaning that the European high yield bond team now has four members in London and a fifth in Paris. As of the end of May 2012, Axa IM had EUR17.2bn in assets under management in high yield strategies.
07/08/2012

Fidelity to enter ETF market

Fidelity Investments is preparing to enter the ETF market, according to a source familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg News. The Boston-based firm is hoping to become the first asset management firm to introduce ETFs managed actively by stock-pickers, with a series of products based on its “Select” sectoral equity range. The unit which would manage the ETFs would be based in Denver, and led by Anthony Rochte, who was recruited from State Street in March.
07/08/2012

Ossiam plans to launch two funds by end 2012

Ossiam, the Natixis affiliate dedicated to ETFs, is planning to launch two new funds, oriented to reducing risk, between the end of September and the end of the year. The firm, which issued its first ETFs one year ago, has seen a 65% increase in its assets, to EUR394m, since the beginning of the year. Six ETFs were launched in July 2011 and listed on Nyse Euronext Paris.
07/08/2012

Julius Baer in talks to acquire Merrill Lynch division

The Zurich-based private bank Julius Baer is moving forward in negotiations with Bank of America to acquire the wealth management activities of Merrill Lynch outside the United States, Le Matin reports. “Julius Baer is firmly determined to buy the non-US wealth management division of Merrill Lynch,” a source close to the bank says. The wealth management division at Merrill Lynch has about USD90bn in assets under management, largely in Asia, Latin America and Europe. The portion outside the United States is located in regions where Julius Baer is planning to grow. In Switzerland, Merrill Ynch has CHF11.4bn in ssets. The acquisition price is estimates at USD1.5bn to USD2bn.
07/08/2012

UBS reportedly interested in BHF-Bank acquisition

The Swiss group UBS is reported ot be interested in an acquisition of BHF-Bank, the private wealth management affiliate of Deutsche Bank, finews reports, citing the most recent newsletter from Bank Gutenberg. The newsletter states that UBS and Deutsche Bank have both declined to comment on the reports.
07/08/2012

Partners Group invests in a Hong Kong hotel

The wealth management firm Partners Group has invested in a hotel located in one of the major commercial arteries of the city of Hong Kong. Partners Group says in a statement released on 7 August that the property was purchased jointly with Gaw Capital Partners and CSI Properties.
07/08/2012

Assets in Italian funds at a low point

At the end of 2011, assets in Italian-registered funds totalled EUR188bn, their lowest leel since 1998, according to Mediobanca statistics cited by Il Sole – 24 Ore. In terms of performance, Italian funds lost an average of 2.2% last year. The only funds to do well were closed funds (+1.4%), money market funds (0.8%) and corporate pension funds (0.1%).
07/08/2012

United Arab Emirates toughens fund regulations

The United Arab Emirates has introduced new, tougher regulations for funds on sale in the country, regardless of their country of origin, the Financial Times reports. The new rules include a transfer of authority over the funds from the central bank to the Emirates market watchdog authority. All foreign funds on sale in the Emirates will be required to be approved by this regulatory authority, and must be sold via a licensed local placement agent.
07/08/2012

IndexIQ hedge fund indices post gains in July

The IndexIQ company, specialised in index-based alternative solutions, has reported positive performance for six out of seven of its hedge fund indices in the month of July. The IQ Hedge Global Macro Beta Index has posted the best returns of the month, with gains of 3.28%, followed by the IQ Hedge Event-Driven Beta Index, which is up 2.14%. The IQ Hedge Market Neutral Beta Index finished the month down 0.07%.
07/08/2012

ETF assets have gained nearly 14% since the beginning of the year

Assets in ETFs worldwide have increased by 13.9% in the first seven months of the year, to USD1.541trn, from USD1.353trn as of the end of December 2011, according to statistics from ETF GI. In the month of July alone, assets in ETFs rose by 2.4%. Since the beginning of the year, inflows to ETFs have totalled USD123bn, of which USD24bn were in July. In the month under review, the largest subscriptions went to SPDR ETFs (USD5.94bn), followed by iShares (USD5.87bn) and Vanguard (USD4.31bn). In the first seven months of the year, Vanguard retains the top spot for inflows, with a total of USD34.25bn, followed by iShares (USD30.79bn), and SPDR ETFs (slightly over USD16bn). The largest net redemptions were from db x-trackers (USD293m in July and USD1.74bn since the beginning of the year), and Commerzbank (USD211m in July and USD1.08bn in the first seven months of the year). As of the end of July, the European ETF sector had 1,332 ETFs, and assets of USD284bn (a gain of 6.1% since the beginning of the year), from 39 providers, compared with 1,190 ETFs on the US market, with assets of USD1.083trn (a gain of 15.3% since the beginning of the year), from 34 providers, last year.
07/08/2012

ETF trades on S&P 500 to exceed trading on S&P 500

Trading volumes on ETFs which replicate the Standard & Poor’s 500 index are for the first time set to exceed the value of trades ont the benchmark index of US equities, the news agency Bloomberg reports. Trading volume for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, iShares S&P 500 Fund and Vanguard S&P 500 ETF last month reached an average trading volume over twelve months of USD28bn per day, equivalent to 98% of transactions on companies in the benchmark index, according to statistics compiled by Bloomberg. Pessimists claim that the growth of ETFs shows that investors are moving away from stock-picking as a way of finding value, and are preferring to rely on automated strategies which can damage the integrity of the market when they fail. Optimists counter that the trend in favour of these products shows that retail and institutional investors want to own shares, but don’t want to pay high commissions when returns are unlikely. According to statistics from BlackRock, ETFs dedicated to North American equities have seen USD29.3bn in inflows since the beginning of the year, compared with cumulative inflows of USD103bn in the past three years. Statistics published by EPFR Global reveal that US funds which invest in US equities have seen net outflows of USD18bn since the beginning of the year, following cumulative redemptions of USD257bn between 2008 and 2011. Open-ended equity funds from developed countries have seen outflows of about USD52bn since the beginning of the year, following cumulative redemptions of USD491bn in the previous four years.
07/08/2012

Aberdeen identifies best opportunities in real estate

Aberdeen’s long-term leading indicator suggests that the best opportunities in Europe for real estate lie in the retail and industrial sectors in France, Germany and the Nordic economies. France and Germany in aggregate are very close to fundamental value.Despite broad overpricing at a country level in the US and Canada as Aberdeen’s long-term leading indicator suggests, favorable investment opportunities exist across US suburban office and apartments as well as warehouse and retail in both countries.In Asia, Aberdeen’s long-term leading indicator suggests the best investment opportunities are located in Australia, while Hong Kong and Korea office remain the most overpriced markets.
07/08/2012

Hedge funds invest in Spanish real estate

Hedge funds and private equity firms are buying in the heavily depressed Spanish real estate sector, Financial Times Deutschland reports, citing the chief investment officer for Spain at CBRE, Adolfo Ramirez-Escudero. The head, who in the past few months has advised on four real estate operations representing over EUR100m, says that his clients are now trading a cumulative total of about EUR1.8bn, twice as high as the transaction levels a year ago.
07/08/2012

Money-laundering: Standard Chartered targeted by US prosecutors

The British firm Standard Chartered has been accused of laundering USD250bn in Iranian money over several years via a New York affiliate, Les Echos reports. Although the State of New York has called the firm “dishonest” and claims that it has “grounds” to withdraw its license, StanChart shares gained 6% in trading yesterday as the news was announced just before markets closed. The blow comes only a few days after another City bank, HSBC, also accused of money-laundering, decided to write down USD700m for potential fines.
07/08/2012

Invesco Perpetual fund removed from Principal white list

The Invesco Perpetual Income fund, managed by Neil Woodford, whose assets under management total GBP9bn, has been withdrawn from the preferential list at Principal Investment Management for the first time since 2002, Money Marketing reports. The list includes the top 14 sectoral funds on the basis of total returns and risk over a five-year period. The top three on the list are now the Troy Trojan Income fund (GBP684m in assets), Threadneedle Equity Income fund (GBP1.3bn), and the RBS Income fund (GBP60m). Paul Surguy, investment manager at Principal AM, says Woodford’s fund has posted returns below the average for funds on the list between June 2010 and June 2011, but that it continues to have a buy recommendation. Principal has also removed the CF Liontrust Macro Equity Income Fund (previously known as the CF Walker Crips Equity Income), whose assets under management total GBP253m. The two funds have been replaced by the JO Hambro UK Equity Income Fund (GBP1.1bn in assets) and the Franklin UK Equity Income Fund (GBP142m).
07/08/2012

RWC reopens a European fund

RWC Partners is reopening the European Absolute Alpha fund, managed by Ajay Gambhir, Investment Week reports. The vehicle had been closed with GBP170m last year, as the firm sought to ensure that the manager would retain investment flexibility. The fund now has GBP150m in assets, and Gambhir claims that investment opportunities in Europe have increased.
07/08/2012

UBS recruits a head of wholesale for the United Kingdom

UBS Global Asset Management has recruited Stephen Hutton as head of wholesale in the United Kingdom, Investment Week reports. Hutton joins from Zurich Intermediary Group. At UBS, wholesale activities represent GBP2.3bn, and 8 team members.
07/08/2012

Goldman Sachs AM sued

A Netherlands pension fund, Vervoer, has filed a lawsuit in the United Kingdom against Goldman Sachs Asset Management, seeking EUR250m for negligence, according to reports in Financial News. The EUR11bn pension fund accuses the asset management firm of advising it to invest in sub-prime MBS in mid-2007, at a time when it already knew that the proprietary trading desk was short-selling the same MBS to make gains from their falling price.
07/08/2012

Assets in Luxembourg OPC vehicles up 0.56% in June

As of 30 June 2012, the overall assets in collective investment organisms and specialised investment funds totalled EUR2.224479trn, compared with EUR2.212027trn as of 31 May 2012, an increase of 0.56% year on year, according to statistics from the Luxembourg financial sector surveillance commission (CSSF). Over the past twelve-month period, net asset volumes have increased 1.81%. The Luxembourg OPC industry has this posted a positive variation in the month of June measuring EUR12.452bn. This increase is equivalent to the balance of negative net issues of EUR2.081bn (-0.10%) and a favourable evolution of financial markets totalling EUR14.533bn (+0.66%).
07/08/2012

Benoît Coeuré souhaite une intervention ciblée de la BCE

Benoît Cœuré, membre du directoire de la BCE, a émis le souhait dans un entretien accordé à un journal slovaque, de voir les opérations de financement de la banque centrale «ciblées vers le financement de l'économie réelle, en particulier les PME». Et d’ajouter que «tous les moyens de diriger les liquidités de la BCE vers ceux qui en ont le plus besoin, c’est-à-dire les ménages et les entreprises, méritent considération.»
07/08/2012

«Stop and go» de la Bourse de Madrid

Les échanges ont été interrompus hier à la Bourse de Madrid peu après l’ouverture alors que l’indice Ibex 35 progressait de 0,25% à 6.772 points du fait d’une panne technique. Ils ont ensuite repris en début d’après-midi en nette hausse, l’Ibex 35 progressant de 2,19% à 6.907,0 points, dopé par le rebond des valeurs bancaires.

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