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20/01/2011

Hedge fund assets near all-time high

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that a report published on 19 January by Hedge Fund Research shows that the value of assets held by hedge funds rose unprecedentedly in fourth quarter 2010, to USD1.917trn, not far off its all-time record of USD1.93trn in second quarter 2008. 2010 ended with the highest quarterly increase ever observed for assets held by the hedge fund industry, at nearly USD149bn, according to figures from HFR. For the year as a whole, inflows of new capital to the hedge fund sector totalled USD55.5bn, the highest annual total since 2007, the firm says.
20/01/2011

Wave of real estate funds in creation to take advantage of property sell-offs

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In its bulletin for fourth quarter, the Spanish securities commission (CNMV) has announced that it is expecting several applications in the next few months for licenses to allow Spanish and foreign businesses to create collective real estate management firms, Cinco Días reports. The objective will be to create vehicles starting from zero, to take advantage of recent falls in real estate prices, and to score discounts from banks seeking to unload some of their ample stock of real estate properties.
20/01/2011

Deutsche Bank introduces a new investment assistance tool

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } Deutsche Bank on 19 January announced the introduction of a new decision-making aid to assist investors: fundamental analysis of indices. According to a statement from the bank, the new instrument will cover up to 20 of the most representative indices of the equities, credit and commodities universes. Analysts at the bank will give positive, neutral or negative outlooks for each index. Each time the outlook for an index changes, the analysis will be updated. “Investments in indices, for example via tracker funds, are growing fast. With fundamental analysis of indices, we will cover a large variety of asset classes and provide investors with a useful decision-making aid,” says Lars Slomka, head of German equities strategy. Deutsche Bank has also published its first analysis of the DAX index, which gets a positive outlook due to a 2% growth projection for Germany, the strongest of the major Euro zone economies, and attractive valuations for DAX companies. Deutsche Bank will publish its analyses at the web address http://www.dbxtrackers.com/, on the page for institutional investors.
20/01/2011

Dealis now administers 2,500 funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On schedule, on 31 December, Dealis Fund Operations GmbH, a joint venture of Allianz Global Investors (AGI) and DekaBank, completed its 18-month migration of 1,300 open-ended and institutional funds from the DekaBank group onto the SimCorp Dimension (SCD) platform. The 260 German-registered cominvest funds were successfully migrated on 1 July 2010. Dealis now administers about 2,500 funds domiciled in Germany and Luxembourg, with assets of over EUR340bn. AGI and Deka in late 2008 decided to move all their back office operations into a central joint venture, Dealis, which commenced its operations in early 2009. Dealis may now develop its range of services, and may invite other German and Luxembourg asset management firms to join the SCD platform, which operates independently of its two parent companies.
20/01/2011

End of the line for Agathon Investment

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Michael Hallacker, former director of Deka Investment, and founder of the management boutique Agathon Invest in 2009, sold his remaining shares in the asset management firm specialised in bonds and currencies in late December, portfolio institutionell reports. The sale spells the end for Agathon Invest, which had launched only one bond fund, and which had only one client, who invested EUR2.5m in the product.
20/01/2011

Vontobel gearing up for external growth

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Herbert J. Scheidt, chairman of the board, announced on 19 January in Frankfurt that with 20% owners’ equity, Vontobel has the adequate means to acquire private banks in Switzerland and Germany, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. In Germany, assets total EUR2bn, half of which is in private banking, and half in institutional management.Meanwhile, the Swiss firm has a choice between three teams of advisers to recruit for its Munich offices, and the team in Cologne, where Sal. Oppenheim is showing signs of weakness, will be adding to its range of products aimed at high net worth private clients, under the leadership of Johannes Ollischläger (ex Deutsche Bank). In Frankfurt, Vontobel has recruited Petra Mennong (ex UBS) to direct the private banking operation, and in Hamburg, the Swiss bank has recruited a team of advisers from Hauck & Aufhäuser.
20/01/2011

Vontobel clients approve of all-in fee structure

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Frank Wieser, chairman of the board at the Munich-based firm Vontobel Europe, has announced increases of 31%. in assets and 40% in earnings for private banking activities in Germany last year, while costs increased by only 3%, the Börsen-Zeitung reports. Personnel will increase this year from 73 to 86.The manager says the minimal amount of assets required to engage the services of Vontobel has been doubled, to EUR1m. 90% of clients have accepted the new all-in fee structure, with a commission of 1% on assets, while all commissions and kickbacks are paid back to the client.
20/01/2011

Allianz backs price transparency

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Maximilian Zimmerer, chairman of the board at Allianz Lebensversicherung, has announced that his company will in the future release all-in fee information for its life insurance products, the Börsen-Zeitung reports. On the one hand, this will explain the impact of performance on costs, and on the other, will make products more comparable with competing products. According to Zimmerer, fund manager DWS (Deutsche Bank) has already adopted a comparable system.
20/01/2011

Former Sal. Oppenheim company bought out by management

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that the Zurich-based management firm 4IP has been taken over by its management. The former entity of Sal. Oppenheim Corporate Finance (Suisse) will not be involved in the transaction, as its parent is in the process of being acquired by the Italian bank Banca Leonardo. 4IP advises institutional or family investors in indirect real estate investments, i.e., investments not in real estate properties, but in real estate funds or realty companies, for example.
20/01/2011

OMAM to merge funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Old Mutual Asset Managers will merge its income funds, managed by Stephen Message, Investment Week reports. Pending approval from the FSA and shareholders, the Equity Income fund will absorb the Extra Income fund at the beginning of March, resulting in a vehicle with GBP58m in assets.
20/01/2011

Scottish Widows launches a currency fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Roddy Macpherson, investment director, currencies, is the manager of the new Currency Alpha fund, which was launched on 21 December by Scottish Widows Investment Partnership.The fund is an OEIC product focused on currencies, aimed at the “discretionary” market, meaning mainly wealth managers and multi-managers, using a quantitative model developed internally three years ago which gives good results.The capacity of the fund is limited to GBP400m, and the objective is to outperform the Libid 7-day in pounds sterling by 400 basis points, before fees. There will be a performance commission.CharacteristicsName: SWIP Currency Alpha FundISIN codes: G Acc shares: GB00B5KQZ301G Inc shares: GB00B5M00B30H shares: GB00B59V4845Front-end fee: 3.75%Management commission: 1% (H shares)0.75% (G shares)Minimal subscription: GBP10m
20/01/2011

Changing of the guard in M&G fund manager personnel

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Giles Worthington, manager of the M&G Pan European Fund (EUR363m), and Tim Short, manager of the M&G European Fund (EUR196m) and the M&G Special Situations Fund (EUR47m), are leaving the British management firm M&G Investments.Greg Alridge, manager of the M^&G Global Growth Fund, and Charles Anniss, manager of the M&G European Smaller Companies Fund (EUR123m) are appointed as co-managers of the M&G Pan-European Fund and the M&G European Fund. In addition, Anniss is taking over the M&G European Smaller Companies Fund. The M&G Special Situations Fund is now managed by Richard O’Connor, of the equities structured products team, until a decision is made about the future of the product.M&G also announced on 19 January that all of its multi-asset class funds will now be managed in a single global investment framework, developed and deployed for over 10 years by Dave Fishwick, an M&G “veteran” with more than 20 years’ seniority, who was appointed as head of macro and equities in July 2010. The framework involves the conviction that the best approach to manage a portfolio is a flexible allocation between various global asset classes which varies in response to changes in the valuation of assets as well as to economic and behavioural factors which determine these valuations.The adoption of the single framework has triggered a change in the management team. George Tsinonis, manager of the M&G Glboal Dynamic Allocation Fund, has left the business, and the fund is now managed by Juan Nevado and Tony Finding, who are longstanding members of the macro investment team. The risk profile and objectives of the fund remain unchanged.
20/01/2011

RCM recruits an Asia specialist

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } RCM, an affiliate of Allianz Global Investors, has appointed Andres Allende as an Asia specialist in its global emerging markets team, Investment Week reports. Allende joins from RAB Capital, where he was in charge of global emerging markets long/short strategy.
20/01/2011

Franklin Templeton completes acquisition of Rensburg

Franklin Templeton Global Investors Limited (UK) has completed the acquisition of Rensburg Fund Management Limited, a subsidiary of Investec focused on UK equity. The purchase was closed in an all cash transaction for GBP 45 million (approximately USD 71 million) on 18th January 2011. Rensburg manages approximately GBP 935 million (approximately 1.5 billion USD as of 31 December 2010) in UK equities.
20/01/2011

Sherborne attacks acquisition of Thames River by F&C

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The acquisition of Thames River and REIT by F&C may be prejudicial to shareholders, Sherborne Investors, the activist investor which bought a 17.5% stake in F&C and is seeking to unseat the chairman, Nick MacAndrew, claims. According to Investment Week, the investor had written to shareholders in F&C calling for a vote in favour of resolutions it has submitted for the general shareholders’ meeting on 3 February.
20/01/2011

Jupiter experienced net inflows of GBP2bn in 2010

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Jupiter Fund Management has experienced net inflows of GBP772m in fourth quarter 2010. Including positive market effects of GBP1.13bn, this means that assets under management at the firm have increased by 9% to GBP24bn as of 31 December. For the year, the UK asset management firm shows net inflows of GBP2.32bn.
20/01/2011

Two former Deutsche Bank managers move to UBS London

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that the UBS group has recruited two former Deutsche Bank employees, Marcus Overhaus and Ricardo Honegger, for its equity business department, in the area of structured and synthetic products, in London, according to an internal UBS memo obtained by Bloomberg. They will both report to Yassine Bouhara and Francois Gouws, join global heads of equities, and Roberto Hoornweg, global head of securities distribution. Overhaus and Honegger become managing directors, and began in their new positions last week.
20/01/2011

Former Brevan Howard trader goes solo

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to reports in Financial News, Frederic Denjoy, a former trader at Brevan Howard Asset Management, has founded his own firm in London, Denjoy Capital Partners. The firm is planning to launch a long/short equities fund on 1 May.
20/01/2011

Premier closing pour D&PV

Le fonds d’investissement D&P a réalisé le premier closing à près de 46 millions d’euros de son cinquième et nouveau véhicule, D&P V. Ce montant est conforme aux objectifs fixés par l’équipe de gestion au début de la levée de fonds qui devrait atteindre la somme de 150 millions d’euros d’ici fin 2012. Les tickets d’investissement seront compris entre 3 et 4,5 millions d’euros et devraient augmenter graduellement.
20/01/2011

Les actifs des hedge funds en forte croissance

Selon Hedge Fund Research, les actifs des fonds alternatifs ont progressé de 149 milliards de dollars au quatrième trimestre, à un niveau record de 1.917 milliards de dollars.
20/01/2011

Fitch confirme le triple A de la CDC

L’agence de notation a confirmé à «AAA» la note de défaut émetteur (Issuer Default Rating - IDR) à long terme de la Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations et sa note IDR à court terme à «F1+». La perspective de la note IDR à long terme est stable. Les notes sont fondées sur le bénéfice de la garantie implicite de l’Etat qui, selon Fitch, s’étend à l’ensemble des engagements financiers de la CDC.
20/01/2011

Paulson et Starwood enchérissent sur Taylor Morrisson

Selon Reuters, le constructeur immobilier britannique Taylor Wimpey a reçu au moins trois offres pour ses activités nord-américaines, pour un montant susceptible d’atteindre 950 millions de dollars. Le hedge fund Rain Tree Investment de John Paulson, Starwood Capital Group et un constructeur américain ont soumis des offres pour ces actifs connus sous le nom de Taylor Morrisson aux Etats-Unis.
20/01/2011

BNP Paribas REIM poursuit ses investissements

Le prestataire de services immobiliers a acquis pour environ 80 millions d’euros d’ensembles immobiliers de commerce au cours du quatrième trimestre pour le compte de Shopping Property Fund 1, la SPPICAV (Société à Prépondérance Immobilière à Capital Variable) dédiée au secteur du commerce. Après un an d’existence, le véhicule disposait en fin d’année de plus de 200 baux répartis sur une cinquantaine d’immeubles, pour une valorisation globale d’environ 220 millions d’euros.
20/01/2011

Un hedge fund pour Templeton

Mark Mobius, gérant vedette de Franklin Templeton sur les marchés émergents, a fait savoir à Reuters qu’il envisageait de lancer un fonds alternatif au sein du gestionnaire d’actifs traditionnel, sans donner davantage de détails sur son projet.
20/01/2011

LCF Rothschild efface la crise

La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild a «retrouvé des taux de croissance d’avant-crise», selon Michel Cicurel, président du directoire. La société, dont les encours ont crû de 11% à 37,6 milliards d’euros en 2010, vise une collecte nette supérieure à 2,5 milliards en 2011.

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