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12/07/2011

Tikehau group recruits a legal expert

The Tikehau group has announced the recruitment of Arnaud de Pesquidoux (a former partner at Gide Loyrette Nouel) as General Counsel. The recruitment comes at a time “when inflows are growing strongly, and the selection of investment opportunities more than ever requires rigour, particularly in legal areas,” the group says.The arrival of de Pesquidoux is also an indication of Tikehau’s desire to increase its real estate expertise. The firm is launching its first real estate OPCI fund, which will invest in properties that respect the highest environmental standards, and is also looking at a growing number of opportunities resulting from the ongoing recomposition of the real estate financing market, a statement says.
12/07/2011

Strong increase in transactions in 2011 for BNP Paribas REIM

The management firm BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management has posted a trading volume in the first six months of the year 2011 of EUR246.55m for its managed accounts, an increase of 67% compared with first half 2010 (EUR147.73m).In terms of deals, BNP Paribas REIM sold properties for EUR39.94m, compared with a volume of EUR17.20m in first half 2010. In office real estate, EUR38.25m in deals were done, corresponding to the sale of 10 properties. In residential real estate, four apartments were sold for a total of EUR1.69m, a statement says.
12/07/2011

Schroders registers five funds from its Luxembourg range in Spain

The CNMV has issued a sales license for three equities sub-funds of the Luxembourg Sicav Schroder ISF (European Equity Focus, Global Demographic Opportunities and US Equity Alpha), and for two fixed income compartments of the same Sicav, the Currency Absolute Return and the Euro Credit Duration Hedge.
12/07/2011

Barclays preparing a Spanish mortgage fund

Subscriptions to the future Barclays Renta 13 are open until 22 July, Funds People reports. The product is a fund which will invest primarily in cedulas hipotacarias (mortgage bonds) from Spanish issuers, and which promises returns of at least 3% per year over a 2 year, 5 month period. Minimal subscription is set at EUR600.
12/07/2011

Banque Degroof registers a fund in Spain

Funds People reports that the Belgian asset management firm Bank Degroof has registered a high dividend equities sub-fund of its Luxembourg Sicav, Degroof Equities International Selection, with the CNMV for sale in Spain.Currently, the fund is overweight in shares from the energy, materials, discretionary consumer goods and health sectors, with 60% of the portfolio invested in France and Germany.Management and administration commissions are limited to 0.1% and 0.135%, respectively, while assets are still below EUR125m. Once assets exceed that limit, the fees will be lowered to 0.05% and 0.105%. Distribution and depository banking commissions are 0.35% and 0.03%, respectively.
12/07/2011

South Korean pension fund increases exposure to emerging markets equities

The South Korean military pension fund MMAA 9Military Mutual Aid Association) is seeking to increase its allocation to equities, through investment in emerging markets in second half, Asian Investor reports. The fund, founded in 1984, has hitherto invested mostly in Korean and international real estate, but growth in its assets has led it to revise this strategy. Last year, assets under management increased 12%, to USD6.8bn as of the end of December; they now total USD7.6bn. The real estate allocation has already been lowered to 45.9%, as allocation to “financial investments” has been increased from 49.2% last year to 54.1% this year. The “financial investors” category, which will continue to increase, is 55.2% composed of engagements to private equity funds, and 44.8% of investments in equities and bonds.
12/07/2011

BlackRock offers FMA services in Spain

Funds People reports that Armando Senra, CEO of BlackRock for Iberia, and deputy CEO of BlackRock Latin America, has announced that the US group is planning to offer the services of Financial Markets Authority (FMA), one of the units of its division BlackRock Solutions, to Spanish entities.FMA may also assist interested establishments in setting up “bad bank” disposal structures, vehicles to house their toxic assets. The firm can also help firms which are obliged to turn to the markets to raise capital.BlackRock Solutions has a total of USD9.5trn under administration, of which USD3.6trn are for BlackRock. The remainder is distributed over 140 clients, including central banks, other asset managers, insurers, pension funds, and banks.
12/07/2011

Société Générale Private Banking plans to grow in Asia

Agefi reports that Société Générale Private Banking is planning to increase the number of advisers it has dedicated to Asian high net worth clients, from 100 currently, to 150 in the next 4 to 5 years. The group has about 400 employees in Asia outside Japan, the newspaper reports.
12/07/2011

AMP Capital Investors awards a major mandate to Intech (Janus)

Intech Investment Management, an affiliate of Janus Capital, has announced that it has been awarded a USD1.3bn mandate for a customised version of its Enhanced Global Core ex Australia strategy, from the asset management firm AMP Capital Investors, an affiliate of the insurer AMP. The objective will be to outperform the MSCI World ex Australia index with equal or less risk, using a mathematical risk-oriented process, which has been in use at Intech since 1987.
12/07/2011

McKinsey will need time to recover after Galleon scandal

Anil Kumar, a former partner at the consultant McKinsey, has pleaded guilty and confessed to passing confidential information to Raj Rajaratnam, the former head of Galleon Group. Rajat Gupta, a former McKinsey director, is facing a lawsuit filed by the SEC in connection with the case, but he denies the charges, the Financial Times reports. And Dominic Barton, global managing director, has pledged to take the necessary measures to “make the organisation stronger” in the future. He has told the Financial Times that the McKinsey brand has suffered, and that it might take it as long as two decades to recover from the scandal.
12/07/2011

Net subscriptions to long-term funds down by half in May

According to statistics from Lipper FMI published on 11 July, equity funds in Europe excluding ETFs saw net redemptions of EUR215m in May. Including ETFs, net subscriptions to equity funds fell to EUR2bn, from EUR13.4bn in April, which explains the overall decline in net susbcriptions to all funds excluding money markets to EUR13.2bn from EUR26.6bn the previous month.Overall, thanks to net subscriptions of EUR7.1bn to French money market funds, and more generally to inflows to money market funds (EUR9.6bn), European funds in May saw net subscriptions of EUR22.7bn.It is also worth noting that net subscriptions to bond funds increased to EUR9.5bn from EUR7.7bn in April, even though net inflows to high yield bond funds slowed slightly, to EUR2.7bn (a total of EUR21.6bn for the first five months of the year).Lipper FMI also points to the “phenomenal success” of global bonds, which attracted EUR3.3bn, and excellent results for emerging markets debt (EUR2.2bn).Commodities funds attracted EUR450m in May, and EUR4.2bn in the first five months of the year, while raw materials saw net outflows of EUR180m in May, and net inflows of EUR4.3bn in January-May.The top three for inflows in May were BlackRock, with EUR3bn, including ETFs from iShares. Excluding ETFs, the winner is Invesco (EUR530m), followed by Franklin Templeton (EUR2.6bn).
12/07/2011

Heavy outflows from Swedish equities funds in June

In June, Swedish funds saw total net redemptions of SEK4bn, meaning that in first half, net subscriptions total only SEK12.6bn, much of which is due to inflows to diversified funds (SEK11.9bn, despite net outflows of SEK0.1bn in June), and money market funds (SEK11.3bn, of which EUR5.3bn were in June). Poor results in June are due to outflows of SEK13.2bn from equities funds, where the bottom line is also negative to the tune of SEK14.2bn in January-June. June was the first month of net redemptions in 2011, following net subscriptions of SEK2.1bn in May, and SEK6.9bn in April, according to statistics from Fondsbolagens förening, the Swedish association of asset management firms.Bond funds, which saw net inflows of SEK3.6bn in June, show net subscriptions of only SEK0.6bn in first half. Hedge funds attracted SEK0.5bn in June, and SEK3bn in the first six months of the year.As of the end of June, total assets in Swedish funds came to SEK1.953trn, of which SEK1.140trn are in equities funds, SEK363bn in diversified funds, SEK210bn in money market funds, and SEK190bn in equities funds.
12/07/2011
Fonds

Les temps sont durs pour certains fonds macro

Pour le premier semestre, le sous-indice des hedge funds macro de Hedge Fund Research accuse une perte de 2,2 %, avec des baisses de 1,8 % en juin et de 2,2 % en mai, alors que pour la période de janvier à juin, le S&P 500 a gagné 5 % rapporte The Wall Street Journal.Certains grands noms de ce segment connaissent une période difficile : le Remington Investment Strategies de Moore Capital management a perdu 3,9 %, le Macro Fund de Fortress Investment Group a reculé de 3,6 % et le BVI Global de Tudor Investment a perdu 2,9 % en juin.Cependant, le Master Fund de Brevan Howard a gagné 0,8 % en juin et 4 % pour le premier semestre.
Fonds
12/07/2011
Fonds

Apax Partners lève 700 millions d'euros

Apax Partners, la société d’investissement dans les mid-caps dirigée désormais par Eddie Misrahi lève 700 millions d’euros, rapporte Les Echos. La base d’investisseurs du nouveau fonds est essentiellement nord-américaine et européenne sachant que la quête de fonds asiatiques aurait nécessité des mois supplémentaires. Cependant, «nous allons en faire une priorité stratégique pour le fonds prochain», a indiqué Eddie Misrahi. Sur les 700 millions d’euros levés, le fonds a déjà investi une quote-part dans trois de ses secteurs de prédilection, les technologies, les télécoms et la santé, précise le quotidien.
Fonds
12/07/2011

Le FMI tempère la crise grecque

Le FMI n’est pas encore en mesure d'évoquer les conditions d’un deuxième plan d’aide à la Grèce, selon Christine Lagarde. «A mes yeux, nous n’en sommes pas au stade des discussions sur les conditions et les termes, la durée et le volume, et rien ne doit être tenu pour acquis» a-t-elle averti. Elle a indiqué que les problèmes de l’Italie étaient «essentiellement dus au marché».
12/07/2011

Groupe OFI lance Zencap Asset Management

Société de gestion pour compte de tiers spécialisée dans les actifs distressed, Zencap Asset Management a reçu son agrément AMF. Avec la reprise de deux fonds gérés au sein d’OFI AM et un mandat de conseil pour le compte d’un institutionnel français, la filiale de Groupe OFI affiche désormais des actifs sous gestion et conseil s’élevant à 300 millions d’euros.
12/07/2011

Les notes de la Cades confirmées par S&P

S&P a confirmé les notes à long et court termes respectives AAA/A-1+ de la Cades, tout en donnant à la structure de cantonnement une perspective stable. L’agence juge «quasi certaine» la probabilité d’un soutien exceptionnel de l’Etat à la Caisse d’Amortissement de la Dette Sociale dans l'éventualité de difficultés financières.
12/07/2011

Flambée des prix immobiliers au Brésil

Le prix des logements vides de «classe A» dans la ville de São Paulo ont atteint une moyenne de 23,50 reals le mètre carré par mois à la location au premier trimestre de cette année, indique le quotidien. Il s’agit de la quatrième ville la plus chère au monde derrière Tokyo, Zurich et Hong Kong et devant Londres et Singapour, gagnant quatre rangs en un an.
12/07/2011

Chute de l’immobilier à Pékin

Les ventes immobilières dans la ville de Pékin ont chuté de 52% sur le premier semestre de cette année à 30,4 milliards de yuans, indique le quotidien qui cite des chiffres de SouFun Holdings, le plus important agent immobilier local. Dans le même temps, les ventes à Shanghai ont reculé de 27%, alors qu’elles ont reculé de 5,5% sur un panel de 130 villes chinoises.
12/07/2011

La gestion d’actifs navigue en eaux troubles

La neuvième étude du Boston Consulting Group révèle une hausse de 8% des actifs gérés en 2010 au sein d’un secteur en pleine mutation avec une demande pour des produits de plus en plus sophistiqués, une compétition accrue, et l’arrivée de nouvelles réglementations.
12/07/2011

Le défaut grec est inévitable

Dans une tribune publiée par le quotidien, George Soros avance clairement qu’un défaut de paiement de la Grèce sur sa dette est inévitable, ou tout du moins le pays doit-il consentir à une dévaluation. Les dirigeants européens seraient dès lors bien inspirés d’adopter un «plan B» afin d’éviter une contagion au reste de la zone euro. Un défaut ne doit pas se produire de façon désorganisée avertit l’investisseur.
11/07/2011

Ralentissement en vue dans la plupart des grandes économies

La croissance de la plupart des grandes économies mondiales, avancées et émergentes, devrait avoir décéléré en mai au vu des indicateurs composites avancés publiés lundi par l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques. Ces indicateurs suggèrent un ralentissement au Canada, en France, en Allemagne, en Italie, au Royaume-Uni, ainsi qu’au Brésil, en Chine et en Inde, précise l’OCDE dans un communiqué. L’indicateur composite avancé de la zone OCDE dans son ensemble recule à 102,5 pour mai après 102,8 en avril. Celui des pays du G7 se replie légèrement moins, à 103 après 103,2.

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