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28/03/2011
Fonds

Les hedge funds intéressés par le subprime d’AIG

Le Wall Street Journal et CNBC livrent une liste de noms des candidats au rachat des obligations subprime d’AIG, quelque 30 milliards de titres détenus par la Fed dans le véhicule ad hoc Maiden II, rapporte L’Agefi suisse. Plusieurs grands hedge funds souhaitent faire des offres pour mettre la main sur les obligations adossées à des prêts immobiliers risqués d’AIG, rachetées au plus fort de la crise par la Réserve fédérale (Fed) pour empêcher l’assureur américain de faire faillite. Selon la chaîne financière CNBC, qui cite des sources proches du dossier, les hedge funds intéressés incluent celui du milliardaire John Paulson, DoubleLine Capital, Avenue Capital Group et Oaktree Capital Management.
Fonds
28/03/2011
Fonds

La SEC enquête sur les fonds souverains, selon KKR

Le fonds de capital-investissement américain KKR a indiqué dans un document remis à l’autorité boursière (SEC) à l’attention des investisseurs que l’autorité boursière lui avait demandé des informations sur ses clients fonds souverains, rapporte L’Agefi suisse. KKR précise qu’il «coopère avec l’enquête de la SEC», sans plus de détail. Des porte-parole de KKR et de la SEC se sont refusés à tout autre commentaire.
Fonds
28/03/2011

Verena Ross confirmée en tant que executive director à l'Esma

Après accord du Parlement européen, l’Autorité européenne de supervision des marchés (Esma) a annoncé en fin de semaine que Verena Ross avait été confirmée en qualité de première «executive director» de la nouvelle autorité en place depuis le 1er janvier dernier.L'équipe de direction de l’Esma est ainsi au complet. Le président de l’Autorité, Steven Maijoor, prendra ses fonctions le 1er avril prochain. La date d’entrée en fonction de Verena Ross devrait être précisée à bref délai.
28/03/2011

Sarasin propose d'élire Dagmar Wöhrl au conseil d'administration

La Banque Sarasin & Cie AG a proposé l'élection de Dagmar Wöhrl au conseil d’administration. Dagmar Wöhrl a été proposée pour succéder à Christian Brückner, qui renonce à une réélection en raison de son âge, a indiqué la banque le 25 mars dans un communiqué.Dagmar Wöhrl est juriste et membre du Bundestag allemand.
28/03/2011
Fonds

CS Real Estate Fund Green Property augmente son capital

Le fonds immobilier Credit Suisse Real Estate Fund Green Property (CS REF Green Property) réalise du 4 au 15 avril 2011 une augmentation de capital de 309 millions de francs suisses au maximum. Une part existante donne droit à la souscription d’une nouvelle part. Au total, 3 millions de nouvelles parts sont émises au maximum. Le prix d'émission a été fixé à 103 francs net par nouvelle part, a indiqué la banque le 25 mars dans un communiqué.CS REF Green Property est le premier fonds immobilier suisse investissant exclusivement dans des projets et des biens durables réalisés sur des sites urbains attractifs en Suisse, répondant aux exigences du nouveau label de qualité «greenproperty».
Fonds
28/03/2011

Fukushima pourrait amener des clients japonais vers la Suisse

Interrogée le 25 mars à Tokyo, la société de gestion de fortune basée à Genève Atticus Finance estime que le tremblement de terre du 11 mars et ses conséquences pourraient paradoxalement accroître l’intérêt des investisseurs japonais pour la Suisse, rapporte L’Agefi suisse. En effet, la pression fiscale devrait encore augmenter, alors qu’elle est déjà très forte, notamment au niveau des successions. Mais surtout, la nécessité de ne pas mettre tous ses oeufs dans le même panier apparaît maintenant dans toute son urgence. Traditionnellement très conservateurs, les investisseurs japonais sont en règle générale réfractaires à la diversification en matière de placement. Mais cela est susceptible de changer dans le contexte actuel.
28/03/2011
Fonds

Un long/short coordonné pour Danske Invest

Danske Invest compte commercialiser en avril au Danemark une version luxembourgeoise et coordonnée de son fonds long/short Danske Invest European Equities Absolute Fund enregistré à Guernesey et qui vise une surperformance de 600-800 points de base par rapport à l’Eonia, rapporte Citywire (lire notre dépêche du 22 mars).Ce produit de 50-70 lignes en actions européennes et dérivés d’actions concentrées sur 5 à 10 thématiques vise une exposition brute au marché de 150-200 %. La stratégie peut être aisément transposée dans le cadre OPCVM III puisque le fonds n’utilise pas de levier et affiche déjà une liquidité hebdomadaire.
Fonds
28/03/2011
Fonds

Lyxor lance un fonds retail de managed futures à Hong Kong

Selon Asian Investor, Lyxor Asset Management va lancer un fonds de managed futures à destination de la clientèle retail de Hong Kong. Le fonds (Lyxor Epsilon Managed Futures fund) est un véhicule irlandais lancé initialement en 1999 mais qui visait à l'époque la clientèle institutionnelle exclusivement, à savoir les institutionnels japonais.
Fonds
28/03/2011

Nomination chez Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong

Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong (Daiwa Securities Group) a annoncé la nomination de Joost Lobler en qualité de responsable des ventes pour l’Asie (hors Japon) pour ses activités de Global Asset Services.Joost Lobler travaillait précédemment chez Butterfield Fulcrum en qualité de responsable des ventes pour l’Europe et l’Asie.
28/03/2011

Petercam turns one of its equities funds deeper green

Since the beginning of this year, Petercam has toughened the sustainable development approach of its European equities fund Petercam Equities Europe Sustainable, the former Petercam Equities Europe Ethical fund, in order to satisfy demand from numerous institutional investors and multi-managers.The Belgian-registered product (EUR79.5m) is distributed in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The management team, led by Lieven Op de Beeck, applies the selection process already used for bonds in the Petercam L Bonds Government Sustainable fund (see Newsmanagers of 8 July 2009) to equities. In other words, the fund is no longer based solely on the grid provided by Ethibel (Vigeo), but instead its managers use a more critical approach, reprocessing data from the sustainable development universe, within a time-frame of one month to liquidate the positions which are to be excluded. To achieve this, the Belgian management firm uses a matrix developed by Stijn Decock, who uses a best-in-class selection from rankings provided by Vigeo, with a detailed report for each share. Petercam also receives alerts in case of serious or controversial incidents.
28/03/2011

Appointment at Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong

Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong (Daiwa Securities Group) has announced the appointment of Joost Lobler as head of sales for Asia (ex Japan) for its Global Asset Services activities. Lobler previously worked at Butterfield Fulcrum as head of sales for Europe and Asia.
28/03/2011

HSBC and Citi launch RMB bond indices

HSBC Global Research on 24 March announced the launch of its first CNH bond index, the HSBC Offshore Renminbi (RMB) Bond index, aimed at institutional investors who hold bonds and savings certificates through CNH (the offshore yuan bond market in Hong Kong). Citi is also planning to launch its own index, the Dim Sum Bond index, which will replicate the performance of CNH bonds.
28/03/2011

Andreas Römer takes over as head of emerging markets unit at DWS

DWS Investments on Friday evening confirmed to Newsmanagers that Andreas Römer, who for a time had been head of the Paris office of the group, before management was centralised in Frankfurt, will on 1 April become director of the emerging markets equities team, and will retain responsibility for emerging market debt management.The move comes following the resignation of Thomas Gerhardt, who was head of the emerging markets equities team, and supervised the management of the DWS Top 50 Asean and Asia, DWS BRIC Plus, Emerging Markets Asia and Emerging Markets Typ O funds, with assets of about USD5bn in total. The DWS Top 50 Asia fund will now be managed by Andreas Wsendelken, and the BRIC fund will be taken over by Robert Kalin.
28/03/2011

Citi wins a mandate from Man Group

Man Group on 25 March announced that it has finalised an agreement with Citi Global transaction Services, to provide administration services worldwide. From the end of March, the Securities and Fund Services unit at Citi will take charge of shareholder services and transfer agency for AHL and multi-management products from Man, which are distributed worldwide by the Man intermediary and distributor network.
28/03/2011

Deutsche Bank cleans house in private management

Tom Bower, head of private wealth management for the Americas, has announced in an email relayed by Bloomberg that Patrick Harris is replacing Jeff Whitaker, who is resigning, as COO of private wealth management for the Americas at Deutsche Bank. In London, Johannes Baratta, head of key clients, and Colin Woolcock, vice-chairman of private wealth management, have also resigned (see Newsmanagers of 25 March).The private wealth management division of Deutsche Bank saw pre-tax losses of EUR168m and net outflows of EUR1bn in 2010.
28/03/2011

Cem Dikmen appointed as head of CMC Markets for Germany and Austria

Cem Dikmen, who is already a member of the management team and head of client relationships, has been appointed as CEO of CMC Markets for Germany and Austria, Douglas Richards, CEO of CMC Markets UK plc, has announcd.CMC Markets, a specialist in CFDs, opened its new trading platform in Germany a few days ago. The British firm says that it is relying on the German market for a good part of its future development.
28/03/2011

Hedge funds interested in AIG subprime bonds

The Wall Street Journal and CNBC have published a list of names of candidates to acquire subprime bonds from AIG, totalling about USD30bn in assets held by the Fed in the ad-hoc vehicle Maiden II, Les Echos reports. Several major hedge funds would like to bid on the bonds backed by sub-prime real estate mortgages from AIG, which were acquired by the Federal Reserve (Fed) at the height of the crisis in order to protect the US insurer from bankruptcy. According to the financial news network CNBC, citing sources familiar with the matter, hedge funds interested in the bonds include the hedge fund of the billionaire John Paulson, DoubleLine Capital, Avenue Capital Group and Oaktree Capital Management.
28/03/2011

First closing for a Japan fund from Longreach

The private equity investor Longreach Group will announce this Monday that after nine months, it has completed the first round of fundraising at USD125m for its second Japan fund, which is aiming to eventually reach USD750m in assets, the Wall Street Journal reports. Interestingly, some of the investment commitments were made after the earthquake.
28/03/2011

Pimco recruits two managers specialised in bank loans

Pimco has announced the recruitment of Elizabeth MacLean and Jason Duko. The two former employees of Lord Abbet will join the asset management firm in early April and will be appointed as managers specialised in bank loans, and as executive vice president and senior vice president, respectively.
28/03/2011

BNY Mellon announces 2011 product range

During a recent visit to Paris by Alexander Gorra, director of the Brazilian platform BNY Mellon Arx (USD7.1bn as of the end of December), the former Paris office of BNY Mellon Asset Management has launched a promotion of an Irish-registered fund focused on Latin American infrastructure, the BNY Mellon Latin America Infrastructure fund (see Newsmanagers of 29 November 2010 and 11 January 2011), with assets of about USD22m, on the French market. The diversified product will be made available to institutionals as well as multi-managers and distributors.The Irish fund has a portfolio of about 35 positions, selected with a bottom-up approach, and, due to the nature of the sector, top-down analysis. In the selection of stocks, Alex Gerra will consider operators and providers of equipment equally, but clearly has a preference for Brazilian stocks, which account for 70% of the portfolio. Other countries present in the portfolio include Mexico, Chile and Peru.The other core areas of development for 2011 in France are continued sales efforts for the local currency emerging market debt fund BNY Mellon Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund (from the affiliate Standish); the Global Real Return fund from Newton (see Newsmanagers of 24 March 2010), and absolute return strategies from the boutique Insight.
28/03/2011

Fidelity Capital Markets appoints a president

Fidelity Capital Markets, an affiliate of Fidelity Investments which offers trading and settlement services to retail and institutional investors, has appointed a new president, Brian B. Conroy. Conroy was previously head of global equity trading at Fidelity Management & Research Company.
28/03/2011

Philippe Jabre made a USD300m blunder

Philippe Jabre bought Japanese equities just after the earthquake, but lost his cool, and resold them the following week, just before the market rebounded. The mistake cost the Swiss manager of the hedge fund Jabre Capital Partners (USD6bn in assets) USD300m, although the rally on US equity markets has helped some of his funds, the Wall Street Journal reports.The hedge fund JabCap Global, the firm’s largest fund, with USD1.5bn in assets, has lost 7% in March, and 3% since the beginning of the year.However, although Jabre Capital has lost 6 months of returns, there have been no outflows.
28/03/2011

Direxion launches three “bear” ETFs

direxionshares has announced the launch of three new “bear” ETFs in bonds. The first of the three funds is the Direxion Daily Total Bond Market Bear 1x Shares (US25459Y3062), with the acronym SAGG, which charges 0.65%. It inversely replicates the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The second is the Daily 7-10 Year Treasury Bear 1x Shares (US25459Y1082), which is the inverse mirror of the NYSE 7-10 year Treasury Bond Index, with the acronym TYNS. The net management commission is 0.65%. Lastly, the 20 Year Plus Treasury Bear 1x Shares (US25459W4052, acronym TYBS), which also charges 0.65%, inversely replicates the performance of the NYSE 20 Year+ Treasury Bond index.
28/03/2011

Bad start to the year for emerging markets equities

Outflows form equities funds dedicated to emerging markets topped USD26bn in the first months of the year to 23 March, according to the most recent statistics from EPFR Global. It has been the worst start to a year since statistics began in 1995.In the week ending on 23 March along, equities funds underwent outflows of USD7.68bn, of which Usd2.65bn were from emerging markets alone. Bond funds, however, saw net inflows of USD1.86bn.Among the BRIC countries, investors avoided Brazil, India and China, but Russian equities funds saw subscriptions on such a scale that since the beginning of the year, net inflows now total over USD3bn.
28/03/2011

Spanish “mini-Madoff” arrested

The Spanish police on Friday arrested Germán Cardona Soler and two other people in Valencia, suspected of orchestrating a Ponzi scheme which cost about 100,000 people in 110 countries about EUR215m. Finanzas Forex promised to deliver total returns of 10% to 21%, Cinco Días reports.The CNMV had warned the public since 7 April 2008 about the Finanzas Forex brand, pointing out that its operator, Evolution Market Group, had no license to provide investment services.
28/03/2011

British fund of funds bets on Asia

FRM Capital Advisors (FCA), the investment unit of the London-based fund of hedge fund group Financial Risk Management, with assets under management of USD9bn, is planning to launch three to four hedge funds in 2011, Reuters reports. One of the funds may be based in Asia, the firm’s COO, Patric de Gentile-Williams, says. Last October, the firm had already invested USD50m in a hedge fund based in San Francisco, Sensato Capital Management. In October 2009, FCA invested in the Hong Kong hedge fund Isometric Capital.
28/03/2011

LGIM launches its first income equities fund

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) is planning to launch its first UK income equities fund, Investment Week reports. The fund, which will be launched during second quarter 2011, will be managed by Richard Black, currently an analyst in the group’s British equities team.
28/03/2011

Verena Rose confirmed as executive director of Esma

Following approval by the European Parliament, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) at the end of last week announced that Verena Ross has been confirmed as the first executive director of the new authority, which has been in place since 1 January. The management team at ESMA is now complete. The chairman of the Authority, Steven Maijoor, will begin on 1 April. The date on which Ross will begin in her new role will be announced soon.
28/03/2011

PerTrac teams up with Alix Capital

PerTrac, a US provider of financial software for the asset management sector, has announced that it will now host the UCITS Alternatives index from Swiss Alix Capital and its 13 sub-indices of UCITS-compliant hedge funds on its platform, Hedge Week reports. The index currently includes 700 funds, with total assets of EUR108bn.

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