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16/03/2012

Alma Capital acquires 51% of Q&A Gestion d'Actifs

The former Quilvest & Associés Gestion d’Actifs, currently known as Q&A Gestion d’Actifs, is now adopting the name Alma Capital & Associés, following an acquisition of 51% of its capital by Alma Capital, while two of its three founders, François Genovese and Florence Albaret, retain 40% and 9% of capital, respectively. The third founder, Thierry Bourgain continues to serve as a director of the firm, but has sold his stake.Alma Capital is specialised in private equity and distribution of unique niche products, to institutional investors. It launched a fund in November (Alma USD Convertibles), a sub-fund of the Luxembourg Sicav Alma Capital Investment Funds (ACIF), which is presently legally managed by a local affiliate of La Française AM. The product is managed under an outsourcing contract by Shenkman Capital Management, a specialist in convertible bonds in the “best part of high yield.”Q&A, for its part, is a portfolio management firm which has been licensed since 2005 by the AMF, and which offers personalised service mostly to high net worth individuals and families. Its assets, in private and collective management, total about EUR200m.
16/03/2012

Eurazeo results move into negative territory in 2011

Results at the French investment firm Eurazeo moved into negative territory last year, as predicted at a publication of half-yearly results, with a net loss for the part of the group of EUR97.5m, according to a statement released on 16 March. The firm earned profits of EUR134.6m the previous year, in adapted figures.Earnings in the 2011 fiscal year totalled EUR4.2bn, compared with EUR3.8bn in 2010. As of 8 March, reevaluated net assets totalled EUR57.2 per share, well above the share price of EUR38.33 as of Thursday evening.
16/03/2012

Qatar acquires 1% of capital in LVMH

The Qatar Holding fund, controlled by the oil-rich Gulf state, has acquired 1.03% in the capital of LVMH, Les Echos reports. The entry into the capital of the French firm took place in 2011, the reference document released by LVMH, and published yesterday by the French financial market authority, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), indicates. The stake is valued at about EUR680m. The new shareholder is required to declare to the group controlled by Bernard Arnault that it has entered its capital at the general ahareholders’ meeting on 5 April, as it has passed the statutory threshold of 1%.
16/03/2012

BlackRock recruits a director from JPMorgan Private Bank (Asia)

Joseph Pacini, head of alternative investments at JP Morgan Private Bank (Asia), is joining BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI) as head of the strategy group Asia-Pacific ex Japan, Hedgeweek reports. He will be based in Hong Kong, and will report to Mark McCombe, chairman of BlackRock Asia-Pacific, and Rick Arney, head of hedge funds in the strategy group at BAI.As of the end of December, alternative assets under management by BlackRock totalled USD105bn worldwide (hedge funds, private equity and real estate).
16/03/2012

Fundinfo and Finesti team up to improve distribution of KIID

Finesti and fundinfo have announced that they are combining their respective expertise in investment fund data and documents to offer services intended to facilitate cross-border notifications and the dissemination of Key Investor Information Documents (KIIDs). The two companies will offer integrated solutions and packages to all fund groups and fund promoters who need to fulfil the requirements of the UCITS IV directive.
16/03/2012

DBS Private Bank sets up an international team dedicated to Asia

The private bank DBS Private Bank, one of the largest in the Asia ex Japan region, has set up an international team which will be led by Peter Triggs, previously of Bank of China (Switzerland), where had been deputy CEO and head of the international private bank. Triggs, who will be based in Singapore, will begin next month as managing director and head of international and wealth structuring. He will lead a team of four people, and will be in charge of development of wealth management activities serving high net worth clients in Asia. Among the four employees who will assist Triggs are Yann Mocellin, who had previously worked for a multi-family office (Swiss-Asia Financial Services), and James Tan, previously of Credit Suisse. Two client advisers will soon join the team.
16/03/2012

Schroders scales up institutional distribution in Germany

The British asset management firm Schroders has recruited Katja Börger, who will focus on insurers and businesses, for institutional client relationship management. She will report to Carlos Boehles, head of the institutional team in Frankfurt.Börger has over 20 years of experience in investment banking, including 18 years at Commerzbank, where she was most recently head of capital markets, North America, before becoming an independent financial adviser in the area of financing optimisation, derivative risk management and corporate finance.
16/03/2012

German fund population declined in 2011

Last year, 419 open-ended funds were launched in Germany, while 436 funds were closed, not counting closed-ended funds, according to statistics from the German BVI association of asset management firms. The number of new funds created has been at its lowest since 2005, with a peak in 2007 at 1,113 launches. In 2010, 482 funds were launched, while 389 were closed.Due to the development of the equities market, it is not overly surprising that the most negative population growth in 2011 was in the equity fund category, with 110 launches and 170 closures. However, creations of diversified funds totalled 128, while there were 93 closures.
16/03/2012

UK pension funds back out of equity markets

The UK’s big pension funds now own a smaller slice of shares quoted on the London stock market than at any time for nearly half a century, Henderson Global Investors reports. Figures from the Office for National Statistics claim that ownership has slipped to just 9% of the total – the lowest since 1963. The “cult of equity,” based on the belief that equities will outperform all other asset classes over the long term, is losing its appeal. However, UK’s pension funds are not completely neglecting equities, as they are increasingly focusing on non-UK equities. And foreign investors, including sovereign funds, consider the shares attractive long-term investments. Foreign owners now control about 40% of the UK equity market, which was valued at GBP1.8tn as the end of December 2011.
16/03/2012

Outflows of GBP7.2bn from F&C

F&C Investments has seen net outflows in 2011 of GBP7.2bn, the firm has announced at a publication of its annual results. These outflows have come largely from strategic partnerships. Assets have fallen from GBP105.8bn as of the end of 2010 to GBP100.1bn as of the end of 2011, and underlying operating profits have fallen from GBP67.2m to GBP65.2m. Despite that decline, net revenues increased from GBP243.2m to GBP267m as of the end of 2011. F&C has also announced that the first phase of its strategic review has been completed, and that the second phase will begin in May 2012. A cost reduction plan for GBP33.2m will also be completed by the end of 2012. Alain Grisay, CEO of F&C, has confirmed that he will be leaving the group following its general shareholders’ meeting in May.
16/03/2012

Luis Megías returns to BBVA AM

Two months after taking over as global head of BBVA AM, Paloma Piqueras has reshuffled teams and apointed Luis Megías as director fo Europe, after serving as head of Goldman Sachs Quartix for the Iberian peninsula in London, Funds People reports. Megías had been head of sales at BBVA AM until mid-2010.Eduardo García Hidalgo has been appointed as chief investment officer for Europe, replacing Olivier Asselin, who has left the business. Hidalgo was head of the Quality Funds unit (fund platform). He will be replaced by Belén Blanco, head of innovation and product development.
16/03/2012

Alliance Trust Investments recruits two managers

The global equities team led by Ilario Di Bon at Alliance Trust Investments has gained the addition of Adrien Bommelaer (formerly of Matrix Corporate Capital) and James Twyman (formerly of AllianceBernstein), Fundweb reports.
16/03/2012

Liontrust parts with Ian Furtado

According to reports in Investment Week, Liontrust Asset Management has made redundant Ian Furtado, director of sales at its new affiliate Occam, acquired in October. The other two sales personnel at the boutique, David Shephard and Edward Ford, remain at the firm, and will be in charge of international sales.
16/03/2012

Vontobel appoints Georg Schubiger as head of Private Banking unit

Vontobel has appointed Georg Schubiger as the new head of its Private Banking business unit with effect from 1 September 2012. He will take over responsibility for the private clients business from Peter Fanconi, who has decided to pursue a new professional challenge outside the group. As a member of the Group Executive Management, Georg Schubiger will report directly to Zeno Staub, CEO of the Vontobel Group. Over the last 10 years, Georg Schubiger has held various senior management functions within the Northern European Danske Bank Group, where he was most recently a member of the executive board. In addition to this, he brings with him experience of conducting business in Eastern Europe and Russia, which are among the Vontobel Group’s focus markets.
16/03/2012
Gestion d'actifs

La Carac compte doubler son exposition sur les obligations convertibles en 2012

Robert Gravil, directeur du patrimoine de la Carac dans Option Finance numéro 1164: Sur les 80% de titres obligataires que nous détenons actuellement, nous ne possédons plus aujourd’hui que 30% d’obligations souveraines, car nous préférons investir dans la dette de corporates européens ou même dans des obligations foncières. En 2011, nous avons remarqué que les fonds d’obligations convertibles ont bien joué leur rôle d’amortisseur en période de baisse des marchés. Nous comptons donc doubler cette année notre allocation en obligations convertibles. Nous avons fortement diminué notre poche actions qui est passée de 20% en 2007 à 7% en 2008, un niveau que nous avons maintenu depuis lors à cause de la forte volatilité de cette classe d’actifs.
Gestion d'actifs
16/03/2012

Les taux longs remontent aux Etats-Unis

Les espoirs de reprise se répercutent sur les taux des titres d’Etat américains qui ont pris près de 30 points de base en cinq jours. Certains analystes estiment que la Fed renoncera à toute forme de QE3 et reviendra sur sa politique de taux proches de zéro plus tôt que prévu.
16/03/2012

La Chine en chasse des actifs européens

«C’est le bon moment pour investir dans les actifs européens dépréciés et sous-évalués, la dette européenne et les obligations de la zone euro» a confié au quotidien Lee Kuan Yew, conseiller senior du fonds souverain singapourien GIC et ancien Premier ministre de la ville-Etat de 1959 à 1990. Et de rappler que « la Chine a 3.180 milliards de dollars de réserves de change ».
16/03/2012

Le Japon envisage un marché «offshore» pour le yuan

Le gouvernement japonais aurait réuni un groupe de travail visant à mettre en place un marché extérieur pour stimuler les échanges en yuan, sur le même modèle que le marché «offshore» de Hong Kong pour la Chine, selon le quotidien nippon. Une initiative qui fait suite à l’autorisation délivrée par Pékin au gouvernement japonais d’acheter pour 10,3 milliards de dollars d’obligations d’Etat chinoises.
16/03/2012

Le LSE fait le tour du monde

L’opérateur de la Bourse de Londres entend poser son empreinte aux antipodes. Le London Stock Exchange est en pourparlers, dans le sillage de l’annonce de son projet de rachat de la chambre de compensation LCH.Clearnet, avec les opérateurs boursiers singapourien (Singapore Exchange) et australien (ASX) afin de mettre en œuvre des cotations croisées.
16/03/2012

Les inscriptions américaines au chômage à un plus bas de 4 ans

Selon le département du Travail, les inscriptions hebdomadaires au chômage ont diminué pour s'établir à un plus bas de quatre ans aux Etats-Unis lors de la semaine au 10 mars, à 351.000 contre 365.000 (révisé) la semaine précédente. Les économistes attendaient en moyenne 356.000 inscriptions au chômage.
16/03/2012

La Française AM et Flornoy & Associés Gestion signent un partenariat

Dans un communiqué, La Française AM a annoncé une prise de participation à hauteur de 25% dans le capital de Flornoy & Associés Gestion. Cette dernière est une société de gestion de portefeuille indépendante avec une majorité de son capital détenu par les associés fondateurs et des clients partenaires.
15/03/2012

L'Europe prête à donner du temps au Portugal pour se réformer

«A mes yeux, la solidarité de ses partenaires européens donne au Portugal le temps nécessaire pour la mise en oeuvre des réformes», a déclaré Olli Rehn, commissaire aux Affaires économiques et monétaires, devant le parlement portugais après qu’il lui a été demandé si Lisbonne avait besoin d’un deuxième plan d’aide après le premier, de 78 milliards d’euros, décidé l’an dernier.
15/03/2012

Les inscriptions américaines au chômage à un plus bas de 4 ans

Selon le département du Travail, les inscriptions hebdomadaires au chômage ont diminué pour s'établir à un plus bas de quatre ans aux Etats-Unis lors de la semaine au 10 mars, à 351.000 contre 365.000 (révisé) la semaine précédente. Les économistes attendaient en moyenne 356.000 inscriptions au chômage.
15/03/2012

Le FMI donne son feu vert au soutien à la Grèce

La Fonds monétaire international a annoncé jeudi donner son aval à un crédit de 28 milliards d’euros pour la Grèce dans le cadre d’un nouveau programme de soutien de 130 milliards d’euros. Cet accord implique le versement immédiat de 1,65 milliard d’euros, a précisé le FMI.
15/03/2012

La Slovénie s'attend à une récession en 2012

Ljubljana subira une contraction économique de 0,9% cette année, en raison d’une baisse des dépenses de consommation et de la demande à l’exportation, avant d’enregistrer une croissance de 1,1% en 2013 et de 2,2% en 2014, a annoncé jeudi l’institut de macroéconomie du gouvernement. En janvier, ce dernier projetait une croissance de 0,2% en 2012 et de 2% en 2013.

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