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03/05/2010

March Gestión recrute chez Banque Rothschild

José Antonio Méndez, analyste actions et gérant de portefeuille chez Banque Rothschild à Zurich, a été recruté par March Gestión (1,5 milliard d’euros) comme responsable des fonds européens et co-gérant du fonds March Vini Catena, un fonds qui investit dans la filière viti-vinicole. March Gestión est l’une des filiales de Banc March.
03/05/2010
Fonds

Banca March lance un fonds photovoltaïque

Rafael Ciruelos, directeur des produits de banque patrimoniale chez Banca March a annoncé à Cinco Días le lancement d’un fonds, March Solar destiné aux grandes fortunes et qui devrait lever entre 130 millions et 140 millions d’euros pour investir dans des installations photovoltaïques d’une puissance de 30 megawatts (MW) au total, répartis sur cinq ou six unités. Banca March a déjà réussi à convaincre 220 clients auxquels l'établissement propose une rentabilité de 12 % par an à ceux qui accepteront de rester six ans. La souscription minimale est fixée à 50.000 euros et le produit s’adresse à des investisseurs disposant au minimum de 450.000 euros d'épargne financière.Le March Solar sera conseillé par Vita Renovables et Banca March a l’intention de détenir environ 15 % du fonds.
Fonds
03/05/2010
Fonds

Pimco commercialise son Global Multi-Asset Fund en Espagne

Depuis quelques semaines, Pimco (Allianz Global Investors) distribue en Espagne son fonds «tous terrains» Global Multi-Asset (2,11 milliards de dollars fin mars) géré par Vineer Bhansali, Mohamed El-Erian et Curtis Mewbourne. L’objectif est une performance de 8-10 % avec une volatilité de l’ordre de 10 %. Depuis le lancement le 29 octobre 2008, le fonds affiche une performance de 22,3 % avec une volatilité de 8,6 %. Sur un an, la performance a été de 23,52 % ; elle se situe à 3,02 % sur le premier trimestre.
Fonds
03/05/2010

SGSS ne lâche pas la conservation de titres en Espagne

Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) a démenti vendredi 30 avril les informations parues dans la presse espagnole la semaine dernière, notamment sur Expansión, selon lesquelles l'établissement mettrait fin à ses activités de conservation en Espagne, activités exercées en l’occurrence par Euro-VL. Dans son démenti, SGSS a précisé qu’elle offrait en Espagne deux types d’activités : la conservation de titres et l’administration de fonds - anciennement connu sous le nom d’Euro-VL."Dans un contexte financier en Espagne qui continue à se dégrader et qui se traduit dans l’industrie de la gestion d’actifs par la baisse des actifs en administration, SGSS a décidé de recentrer son activité espagnole sur son cœur de métier, la conservation, précise le communiqué de l'établissement, qui ajoute que sur les 32 salariés qu’elle emploie en Espagne, seules 2 personnes seront impactées par le recentrage de ses activités d’ici la fin de l’année.
03/05/2010

Spängler et IQAM créent une marque commune

La société de gestion Carl Spängler Kapitalanlagegesellschaft, filiale de la banque privée Spängler, et l’Institut für Quantitatives Asset Management (IQM) ont décidé de créer une marque commune Spängler IQAM Invest pour des fonds et d’autres produits de gestion d’actifs. La Spängler KAG sera chargée de la clientèle «de gros» (wholesale) recouvrant les banques, les fonds de fonds et les gestionnaires de fortune tandis que l’IQAM servira les investisseurs institutionnels (assurances, entreprises, caisses de retraite et chambres professionnelles).La gamme de Spängler IQAM (la Spängler KAG avait acquis depuis un certain temps une participation dans l’IQAM) comprend des fonds offerts au public, des «solutions d’investissement» (mandats gérés par l’IQAM), des fonds institutionnels (de Spängler) et des prestations de conseil.
03/05/2010
Fonds

L'encours des fonds autrichiens renoue avec ses niveaux d'août-septembre 2008

A fin mars, les actifs gérés par les fonds d’investissement autrichiens représentaient 142,1 milliards d’euros, contre 138,6 milliards fin février et 136,7 milliards au 31 décembre, d’après les statistiques de l’association VÖIG. En un an, le total a augmenté de 20,8 milliards d’euros ou de 17,1 % pour revenir à un niveau compris entre ceux d’août et septembre 2008 (respectivement 144,3 milliards et 138,6 milliards).
Fonds
03/05/2010
Fonds

ProShares lance quatre ETF à effet de levier

Jeudi, ProShares a lancé sur la plate-forme NYSE Arca quatre ETF à effet de levier visant à doubler la performance journalière d’indices étrangers déjà disponibles comme sous-jacents, également avec effet de levier de 2, mais en inversé.Il s’agit des ETF Ultra MSCI Europe, Ultra MSCI Pacific ex-Japan, Ultra MSCI Brazil et Ultra Mexico Investable Market. Les frais de gestion se situent à 0,95 %.A présent, la gamme ProShares comporte 19 ETF à effet de levier, longs ou short.
Fonds
03/05/2010
Fonds

GLG gèle les souscriptions d'un de ses fonds

A compter du 5 mai, GLG Partners ferme aux nouvelles souscriptions la version coordonnée de son fonds UK Alpha Select parce qu’elle a désormais atteint les 300 millions de dollars ou 195 millions de livres qui lui avaient été assignés comme objectif d’encours.Ce produit a été lancé seulement le 19 février et il réplique un hedge fund long/short equity market neutral géré par une équipe que dirige John White.
Fonds
03/05/2010

Le patron de H&M investit à Londres

Par l’intermédiaire de sa société Ramsbury, de Stockholm, le milliardaire suédois Stefan Persson, qui possède H&M, vient d’acheter pour 225 millions de livres un ensemble de bureaux et de magasins sur Regent Street à Londres, indique The Sunday Times. Parmi les locataires figurent Banana Republic, H&M et Armani Exchange.Le vendeur est la société immobilière non cotée Delancey, qui semble avoir perçu plus que le double de son investissement de 2006, le prix étant si élevé que la transaction génère seulement un rendement initial de 4,75 % pour Stefan Persson.
03/05/2010
Fonds

Lloyds va lancer un fonds infrastructures

Lloyds Banking Group prépare le lancement d’un nouveau fonds d’infrastructures qui aidera à financer des projets du secteur public au Royaume-Uni et en Allemagne, rapporte le Financial Times. Le fonds serait centré sur les infrastructures sociales et économiques comme les aéroports, les ports et l’énergie.
Fonds
03/05/2010

Prudential veut vendre ses actifs britanniques et américains

Pour financer l’acquisition de son concurrent asiatique AIA (groupe AIG), Prudential envisage selon les milieux financiers de vendre ses activités au Royaume-Uni pour 4,5 milliards de livres, puis celles aux Etats-Unis (Jackson National Life) pour 6,5 milliards de livres, rapporte The Sunday Times.Le fonds souverain singapourien GIC figurerait parmi les investisseurs ayant l’intention de souscrire à l’augmentation de capital de «The Pru».
03/05/2010

Bronca des institutionnels contre Home Retail Group

Un investisseur institutionnel qui a refusé d'être identifié considère que le programme de rachat d’actions de 150 millions de livres monté par Home Retail Group est un gaspillage et que la société, qui possède les enseignes Argos et Homebase, ferait mieux de consacrer cet argent à lutter contre la concurrence des grandes chaînes de supermarchés, rapporte The Sunday Times.Deux autres grands investisseurs ont également critiqué le rachat d’actions et suggèrent un démantèlement du groupe. Plusieurs capital-investisseurs seraient intéressés par Homebase (bricolage) que KKR, souhaiterait fusionner avec sa filiale néerlandaise Maxeda, qui dispose déjà d’une importante division bricolage à l'échelon européen.
03/05/2010

Equiduct negotiating with Nasdaq OMX over Neuro

Agefi reports that, following an announcement on Wednesday by Nasdaq OMX Europe that it will be closing Neuro, its alternative trading platform (MTF) on 21 May, the trading platform Equiduct on Friday announced that it is in exclusive talks with the operator to offer Neuro clients an opportunity to connect the two systems without interruption to trading flows.
03/05/2010

Development finance banks attack hedge fund directive

The Association of European Development Finance Institutions, a group of 15 government bodies investing in emerging markets, wrote to the EU to criticise its plans to regulate hedge funds and private equity, says the Financial Times. The move highlights growing opposition to the EU’s planned regulations from private equity groups based in Africa, Asia and Latin America, which are worried about being cut off from European investors, who provide at least a quarter of their funding.
03/05/2010

European Commission to restrict short-selling

The European Commission has decided to follow the recommendations of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) and introduce a proposed directive in October on short-selling, the Börsen-Zeitung reports. The bill will be specific to the issue of short-selling, as the European Commission concluded that it would be counter-productive to integrate rules on this subject into the new version of the market abuse directive.
03/05/2010

Deutsche Bank in real estate fund drive

RREEF, the real estate fund management affiliate of Deutsche Bank, has repositioned its open-ended real estate fund grundbesitz invest, which is now known as grundbesitz Europa, with EUR2.6bn in assets, while the grundbesitz Global now has EUR615m, and has had the largest volume of net subscriptions in the category since the beginning of this year, Handelsblatt reports. Georg Allendorf, CEO of RREEF, expects investments this year of EUR500m for the open-ended real estate fund operation, and another EUR500m for the institutional real estate fund division, with the objective of becoming one of the top five management firms in the latter category. The competition is not idle, however: IVG, the top firm in the sector, is making a major effort to recruit new clients, while iii, the number two provider, is refocusing on institutional funds as its open-ended fund operations have gone awry. The number three asset management firm, Hansainvest, is planning to raise EUR300-400m by the launch of up to four new institutional real estate funds by the end of the year.
03/05/2010

ETF tax reforms may slow development of these funds, says Samsung AM

From the month of July, ETFs based on Korean assets will be taxed at a more attractive rate than ETFs with foreign underlying assets, which will be required to pay a tax of 15.4%, Asian Investor reports. Bae Jae-Kyu, chief investment officer for ETF activities at Samsung AM, says the tax will damage the development of ETF funds in Korea.
03/05/2010

Funds seek more than USD2bn from Porsche

Elliott Associates has confirmed that 18 more funds have joined the first 17 plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Porsche for share price manipulation, and the demands for damages and interest now exceed USD2bn, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The funds accuse Porsche of knowingly misleading investors and lying about its true intentions concerning Volkswagen. At the end of October 2008, the firm cornered the market for shares in Volkswagen, whose share price at one point topped EUR1,000.
03/05/2010

Pimco releases Global Multi-Asset Fund in Spain

For several weeks, Pimco (Allianz Global Investors) has been offering its all-terrain Global Multi-Asset fund (USD2.11bn in assets as of the end of March), managed by Vineer Bhansali, Mohamed El-Erian and Curtis Mewbourne. For sale in Spain. The objective is performance of 8-10%, with volatility of about 10%. Since the fund’s launch on 29 October 2008, the fund has earned 22.3%, with volatility of 8.6%. Performance over one year has totalled 23.52%,, while it comes to 3.02% for first quarter of this year.
03/05/2010

More net redemptions in April

For the sixth consecutive month, Spanish securities funds have seen net outflows in April, totalling EUR1.26bn (compared with EUR913m in March), and bringing total net redemptions in the first four months of the year to nearly EUR4.47bn. Assets, for their part, have declined by EUR1.46bn, to a total of EUR158.93bn, which represents a decline of 0.9% compared with March, when they were up 0.6%.
03/05/2010

Banca March launches a solar energy fund

Rafael Siruelos, director of wealth management products at Banca March, has announced to Cinco Días that the management firm has launched a fund entitled March Solar, aimed at high net worth private clients, and which will aim to raise EUR130m-EUR140m by investing in solar power installations able to generate a total of 30 megawatts (MW), in five or six locations. Banca March has already convinced 220 clients to invest in the fund, offering them 12% returns per year if they agree to remain invested for six years. Minimal subscription is set at EUR50,000, and the product is aimed at investors who have at least EUR45,000 in financial savings. The March Solar fund will be advised by Vita Renovables, and Banca March is planning to retain a stake of about 15% in the fund.
03/05/2010

Italian tax amnesty leads to repatriation of assets from Ticino canton

On the basis of figures from the Bank of Italy, Franco Citterio, director of the association of bankers in the Swiss canton of Ticino (ATB), says that Italians at the end of February “legalised” EUR85bn in undeclared assets deposited abroad, of which EUR60bn came from Switzerland, largely from Ticino, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung reports. But of this total, only EUR25bn actually returned to Italy. Many banks, such as the Banca della Svizzera Italiana (BSI) and Banca del Sempione, for example, were able to recuperate a large amount of the funds which were eligible for this tax amnesty, either through Italian affiliates, or through “legal repatriation.” Eventually, the fiscal amnesty offered by the Italian finance minister, Guilio Tremonti, did not achieve its other objective which was to draw assets out of the Swiss financial centre in Lugano.
03/05/2010

Macquarie planning acquisitions

In the fiscal year to 31 March, Macquarie Group Limited has posted net profits of AUD1.05bn, which represents a 21% increase over 2008-2009. Assets under management have increased by a total of 34% to AUD326bn, largely due to the acquisition of the American asset management firm Delaware Investments, which brought in USD125bn in assets. The Macquarie Funds Group contributed AUD95m, or 4% of total operating profits, compared with AUD45m and 6% in the previous period. For the division, assets increased to AUD209.9bn as of the end of March, from AUD49.7bn twelve months previously, thanks to the addition of Delaware (AUD151bn), and to net subscriptions to institutional products and AUD9.1bn in positive market effects. The annual report states that Macquarie is continuing to study potential strategic acquisitions in the area of investment funds, particularly on the largest financial markets.
03/05/2010

March Gestión recruits a manager from Banque Rothschild

José Antonio Méndez, an equities analyst and portfolio manager at Banque Rothschild in Zurich, has been recruited by March Gestión (EUR1.5bn) as head of European funds and co-manager of the March Vini Catena fund, which invests in wine production and vineyards. March Gestión is an affiliate of Banca March.
03/05/2010

SGSS will not pull out of European custody activities

Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) on Friday, 30 April denied reports in the Spanish press last week that it the firm will be shutting down its securities custody services in Spain, which operate under the name Euro-VL. SGSS explains in its denial that in Spain it has previously offered two types of activities – custody, and fund administration – both of which have been available under the Euro-VL name. “In a financial context in Spain which is continuing to deteriorate, leading to a decline in assets under administration in the asset management industry, SGSS has decided to refocus its Spanish activities on its core profession of custody,” a statement from the firm says, adding that of the 32 employees the firm has in Spain, only 2 will be affected by the refocusing of activities, which which will take place by the end of this year.
03/05/2010

Long term money market funds popular with investors again

Les Echos reports that a survey undertaken in mid-April by MultiRatings of 50 professional treasurers who manage assets of over EUR200bn finds that “long term money market” funds are returning in force to the allocations of French institutional investors. Within the new classifications of money market funds, the “long terme” category includes diversified funds with volatility of less than 2%. These funds have less risk and aim to outperform the Eonia rate through various strategies. Most institutional investors surveyed were planning to increase (45%) or maintain (41%) their allocation to these products. Only a minority (14%) were planning to reduce the weight of these funds in their future allocations.
03/05/2010

GLG freezes subscriptions for one of its funds

From May 5th, GLG Partners will close its newcits UK Alpha Select to new subscriptions, since this vehicle has already reached the USD300m (GBP195m) mark it had been assigned at the time of the launch, on February 19th. The fund is et UCITS III compliant version of the long/short equity market neutral fund managed by John White.
03/05/2010

Banque Sarasin gets a new CFO

From 1 May, Thomas Mueller has taken over as chief financial officer of Banque Sarasin (Rabobank group), replacing Matthias Hassels, “who has decided to leave the firm after 12 years there, to take on a new professional challenge.” Mueller, who for the past three years had been CFO and Chief Risk Officer at Swiss Life, will be in charge of investor relations, corporate development, and enterprise financing, and will oversee the Legal & Compliance, human resources, group finance, Controlling, Risk Office, credit and tax departments at the group. Mueller will report directly to Joachim H. Straehle, CEO of Banque Sarasin.
03/05/2010

Assets in Austrian funds return to August-September 2008 levels

As of the end of March, assets under management in Austrian investment funds represented EUR142.1bn, compared with EUR138.6bn as of the end of February, and EUR136.7bn as of 31 December, according to statistics from the VÖIG association. In one year, total assets increased by EUR20.8bn, or 17.1% to a total which measures in between the levels observed in August and September 2008 (EUR144.3bn and EUR138.6bn, respectively).
03/05/2010

ProShares launches four leveraged ETFs

On Thursday, ProShares launched four leveraged ETFs on the NYSE Arca platform, which aim to double the daily performance of foreign indices which are already available as underlying assets for ETF products, with leverage of 2, but inverse. The products are the ETF Ultra MSCI Europe, Ultra MSCI Pacific ex-Japan, Ultra MSCI Brazil and Ultra Mexico Investable Market. Management fees are 0.95%. The ProShares range now includes 19 long and short leveraged ETFs.

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