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04/03/2010

Sal. Oppenheim launches five barrier reverse convertibles

The Sal. Oppenheim bank is adding to its product range with the launch of five Barrier Reverse Convertibles to mature on 8 March 2011. The underlying shares are Actelion, Geberit, Nestlé, Swisscom and Syngenta. Due to their protection mechanism, these products make it possible to earn gains even when markets are stagnating or decreasing slightly. So long as no share falls by 25% or more at any time, investors will receive maximal gains.
04/03/2010

db x-trackers launches a corporate bond ETF

On Wednesday, db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank) announced the launch of its Luxembourg-registered fund db x-trackers II iBoxx EUR Liquid Corporate 100 Total Return Index ETF, which charges 0.20% fees, and which was created on 8 February. The synthetic replication fund replicates the iBoxx EUR Liquid Corporate 100 corporate bond index, which includes exclusively bonds denominated in Euros or currencies which preceded the Euro, with a remaining time to maturity of at least two years, and a minimal volume of EUR750m.
04/03/2010

ETFlab founds its first tracker fund of corporates

The Munich-based ETF management firm of the Deka group (German savings banks), ETFlab Investment, on Wednesday announced the launch and introduction on the XTF segment of the Deutsche Börse of its first publicly-traded corporate bond fund, the ETFlab iBoxx Euro Liquid Corporates Diversified. The German-registered product (DE000ETFL375) based on physical replication offers access to a diversified range of securities, as the index it replicates includes 75 issues from firms whose headquarters are located in the Euro zone, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, or Denmark, with a preference for fixed-rate securities. The manager is allowed to retain only up to two issues from the same borrower, and no issuer is allowed to account for more than 7.5% of assets. The securities are rated investment grade, or at least BBB-, but the limit is A- for financial sector borrowers. The remaining time to maturity for bonds in the portfolio is between 1.5 and 10.5 years. As for corporate bond ETFs launched the same day by db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank), the management commission for the product is 0.20%.
04/03/2010

A ratings agency within the ECB?

L’Echo reports, citing Handelsblatt, that the Euro zone countries are considering creating a European ratings agency which would be lodged within the European Central Bank (ECB). The newspaper cites sources close to European finance ministers as saying that Euro zone governments do not want to depend on the opinions of Standard & Poor’s (S&P), Moody’s and Fitch, which, according to an anonymous sources cited by Handelsblatt “were completely wrong in the case of Lehman Brothers.”
04/03/2010

Le "billion dollar club" grossit un peu

D’après Absolute Return, les 213 hedge funds américains dont l’encours dépasse le milliard de dollars, ceux du «billion dollar club», ont affiché en 2009 une augmentation de 48 milliards de dollars ou de 4,2 %, de leur encours total, qui est ressorti à 1.182 milliards de dollars. Il était de 1,6 billion de dollars fin 2007.JPMorgan a détrôné Bridgewater comme numéro un par les actifs sous gestion tandis que Soros Fund Management s’est installé en quatrième position, évinçant D.E. Shaw.
04/03/2010

Invesco, Union and Deka invest EUR529m in real estate properties

Invesco Real Estate (EUR18.4bn in assets) is acquiring five Accor hotels under the Pullman, Mercure and Novotel brand names in Paris, Rome, Munich, and Bratislava (with a total of 1,112 rooms), for EUR154m. The management firm is also planning to invest EUR10m to increase the value of the properties and the operating profits from them. The German asset management firm Union Investment Real Estate, meanwhile, has announced that it is spending EUR316m to acquire 91% of the Alexa shopping centre (180 shops) on Alexanderplatz in Hamburg. The vendors are Sonae Sierra and the French firm Foncière Euris/Rallye. Sonae Sierra will continue to manage the property, which has 43,000 square metres of shop space, 2,000 square metres of restaurant and 8,000 square metres of leisure space. The shopping centre will be added to the portfolio of the open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Deutschland. Lastly, Deka Immobilien has announced that it has acquired the certified green office building Bylingen on Söderalm island in Stockhom. The 14,500 square metre property will be transferred this month to the portfolio of the open-ended real estate fund WestInvest ImmoValue.
04/03/2010

Five new “Newcits”

The list of hedge fund management firms which are launching UCITS III-compliant products is growing, Citywire reports, citing the examples of Toscafund, Trycon GCM, Cheyne Capital, Castlestone Management and Merchant Capital-Tressis. Toscafund will launch a UCITS version of its small and midcaps strategy, Reuters reports, while Cheyne Capital will launch a mergers and acquisitions fund.
04/03/2010

Sovereign funds pay a high price for their investments in banks

According to statistics from Bloomberg, losses (actual or potential) for the sovereign funds of Abu Dhabi, Norway, Singapore and other countries could be as much as USD20bn, on investments of USD69bn in American and European financial institutions in 2007 and 2008, La Tribune reports. The Singapore sovereign fund Government Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) will need ten years to make back its initial investment in the Swiss bank UBS, according to analysts.
04/03/2010

Threadneedle builds sales team in Frankfurt

Threadneedle has announced the recruitment of Bernd Klapper and Patrick Sobotta, who join the sales team in Frankfurt, Germany. Klapper will be in charge of the northern and central regions of Germany. He was formerly sales director for ÖKOWORLD LUX S.A. Sobotta, for his part, becomes head of sales. He was previously sales support at Crédit Agricole Asset Management in Frankfurt.
04/03/2010

Pimco results set tone for AGI bottom line

Good results at Allianz Global Investors (AGI) in 2009 are largely attributable to Pimco, whose assets increased by EUR195bn (of which EUR107bn were in net subscriptions) to a total of EUR689bn as of the end of the year, Handelsblatt reports. Joachim Faber, head of AGI and an Allianz board member, admits that 84% of operating profits were generated by Pimco, which is specialised in bond management, while only 16% of profits were from equities management. For a few weeks now, there has been an added source of friction, as Pimco has announced plans to move into equities management, for which Allianz had previously relied on the US firm RCM. But Faber points out that Pimco’s management process is altogether different from RCM’s stock-picking technique. The manager has not ruled out the possibility that RCM may also make an foray into the world of bonds, especially corporate bonds.
04/03/2010

Deutsche Bank plans to release 30 ETF funds

Mitsuhisa Murata, managing director and head of global markets structuring at Deutsche Securities, has told Reuters that the German group is planning to list 30 or more ETF funds (db x-trackers) in Japan in the coming year, the Guardian reports. Deutsche Bank has initially been offering six of its 13 db x-trackers listed in Hong Kong since February. The next funds to be offered on the Japanese market will also be products listed in Hong Kong and Singapore, though in a later phase there are plans to list ETFs directly in Japan.
04/03/2010

Nomura et Kepler meilleurs bureaux d’analyse en 2009

Selon Les Echos, le dernier palmarès de StarMine sur les valeurs françaises place Nomura en tête de ce classement annuel sur la qualité des recommandations sur les sociétés du CAC 40. Il est suivi par Oppenheim Research, Deutsche Bank Securities et Exane BNP Paribas dans cette étude prenant en compte les performances boursières en 2009. Les analystes de Nomura se sont notamment distingués sur un conseil d’achat sur Schneider Electric, qui a avancé d’environ 50% entre janvier et décembre2009. Issu de l’acquisition des équipes européennes de Lehman Brothers par Nomura, l'établissement n’apparaissait pas l’an dernier dans ce palmarès. StarMine évalue parallèlement la justesse des prévisions de résultats sur les grosses capitalisations françaises des brokers les uns par rapport aux autres: pour ce deuxième podium, c’est Kepler Capital Markets qui s’adjuge la première place, suivi par Exane BNP Paribas et Credit Suisse.
04/03/2010

Rafael Hurtado devient CIO de Popular Gestión

Gérant du fonds de fonds d’allocation d’actifs Popular Selección et directeur de la multigestion depuis 2000, Rafael Hurtado a été nommé directeur des investissements de la division gestion d’actifs de Popular Gestión en remplacement de Miguel Colombás, qui prend la direction générale de la société en remplacement de Carmen Ortiz (lire notre dépêche du 18 février).
04/03/2010
Fonds

Des fonds de Schroders, Carmignac, CAAM et Robeco en tête de souscriptions

Alors que l’association Inverco a annoncé que les gestionnaires étranger ont gagné du terrain sur le marché espagnol (lire notre Depeche d’hier), Funds People, relayé opar Expansión précise que les fonds ayant attiré les plus fortes souscriptions ont été le Robeco US Premium pour les actions, le Schroder ISF Euro Corporate Bond pour l’obligataire, le Carmignac Patrimoine pour les diversifiés et le CAAM Dynarbitrage Volatility pour l’alternatif.
Fonds
04/03/2010

Kutxa sur le point de vendre le Banco Madrid à BPA

Selon les proches du dossier, la Kutxa de Saint Sébastien met la dernière main à la cession de sa filiale de banque privée, le Banco Madrid, à Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA), rapporte Cotizalia. Cependant, le dossier est encore bloqué dans l’attente de la ratification de l’accord sur l'échange d’informations fiscales entre l’Espagne et la Principauté d’Andorre. Kutxa avait acheté le Banco Madrid à la Deutsche Bank en 2001.
04/03/2010
Fonds

Dexia AM va faire enregistrer son Long Short Risk Arbitrage

Dexia Asset Management a l’intention de faire enregistrer en Espagne son fonds de droit français Dexia Long Short Risk Arbitrage, un produit converti au format OPCVM III en décembre dernier, annonce Funds People. Ce produit à liquidité journalière est géré par la même équipe que le Dexia Risk Arbitrage dirigée par Sophie Elkrief.
Fonds
04/03/2010

Threadneedle renforce son équipe commerciale à Francfort

Threadneedle annonce le recrutement de Bernd Klapper et Patrick Sobotta, qui viennent renforcer son équipe commerciale de Francfort en Allemagne. Bernd Klapper sera responsable de la région d’Allemagne du Nord et du centre. Il était anciennement directeur commercial d'Ökoworld Lux S.A. Patrick Sobotta est pour sa part nommé responsable commercial. Il était auparavant sales support chez Crédit Agricole Asset Management à Francfort.
04/03/2010
Fonds

db x-trackers lance un ETF d'obligations d'entreprises

Mercredi, db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank) a annoncé le lancement de son fonds de droit luxembourgeois (LU0478205379) db x-trackers II iBoxx EUR Liquid Corporate 100 Total Return Index ETF qui est chargé à 0,20 % et qui a été créé le 8 février. Sur le site de la Deutsche Börse, le taux de frais a été initialement posté à 0,10 %. Le fonds est le 574ème à être coté sur le segment XTF de la plate-forme électronique Xetra.Ce fonds à réplication synthétique suit l’indice iBoxx EUR Liquid Croporate 100 d’obligations d’entreprises, des titres libellés exclusivement en euros ou en monnaies ayant précédé l’euro avec une échéance résiduelle d’au minimum deux ans et d’un volume minimal de 750 millions d’euros.
Fonds
04/03/2010

Pimco donne le ton chez AGI

Les bons résultats d’Allianz Global Investors (AGI) en 2009 sont attribuables pour l’essentiel à Pimco, dont l’encours s’est accru de 195 milliards d’euros (dont 107 milliards de souscriptions nettes) pour atteindre 689 milliards d’euros en fin d’année, constate le Handelsblatt. Parallèlement, reconnaît Joachim Faber, responsable d’AGI au directoire d’Allianz, 84 % du bénéfice d’exploitation ont été générés par Pimco, qui est chargé de l’obligataire, et seulement 16 % par la gestion actions.Depuis quelques semaines, il y a un motif de friction supplémentaire, parce que Pimco a annoncé son intention de se lancer dans la gestion actions qu’Allianz avait confiée à l’américain RCM. Mais Joachim Faber souligne que le procédé de gestion de Pimco est tout différent de celui de sélection de titres de RCM. Le manager n’exclut pas non plus que RCM tente une incursion dans le domaine obligataire, notamment dans celui des obligations d’entreprises.
04/03/2010
Fonds

ETFlab crée son premier tracker de corporates

Le gestionnaire munichois d’ETF du groupe Deka (caisses d'épargne allemandes), ETFlab Investment, a annoncé mercredi le lancement et l’introduction sur le segment XTF de la Deutsche Börse de son premier fonds indiciel coté d’obligations d’entreprises, le ETFlab iBoxx Euro Liquid Corporates Diversified. Ce produit de droit allemand (DE000ETFL375) à réplication physique offre l’accès à un panier diversifié de titres, l’indice répliqué comportant 75 émissions de sociétés dont le siège principal se trouve dans la zone euro, en Suisse, au Royaume-Uni, en Suède, en Norvège ou au Danemark, avec une préférence pour les titres à taux fixe.Le gérant n’est autorisé à entrer en portefeuille que deux titres du même emprunteur au maximum, et aucun des émetteurs ne peut peser plus que 7,5 % de l’encours. Les titres sont notés investment grade, soit au minimum BBB- , mais le plancher est fixé à A- pour les financières. L'échéance résiduelle des obligations se situera entre 1,5 et 10,5 ansComme pour l’ETF d’obligations d’entreprises lancé le même jour par db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank), la commission de gestion se situe à 0,20 %.
Fonds
04/03/2010

Fitch confirme la note de Wafa Gestion

Fitch Ratings a annoncé le 3 mars avoir confirmé la note Asset Manager nationale (Maroc) ‘M2(mor)’ de Wafa Gestion pour ses activités de gestion basées à Casablanca. Selon l’agence, la note reflète les quatorze années d’historique de Wafa Gestion, son solide positionnement sur le marché marocain en termes d’encours sous gestion (55,8 milliards de dirhams marocains d’actifs sous gestion, soit quelque 5 milliards d’euros), et d’offre produits, ainsi que le soutien de ses actionnaires de référence, AttijariWafa Bank (notée ‘BB+'/B/Perspective Stable) et Amundi (précédemment Crédit Agricole Asset Management). La note prend également en compte une plus grande stabilité des équipes suite aux changements importants intervenus en 2008, notamment au sein des équipes de gestion ainsi qu’aux postes de direction.Cependant, Fitch souligne la nécessité d’une structure organisationnelle de contrôle plus robuste, celle-ci étant temporairement affaiblie par l’absence de ressource dédiée. L’agence souligne qu’elle suivra attentivement les développements dans ce domaine.
04/03/2010

BlackRock in prudent investment: Treasury bonds

In response to uncertain growth outlooks, looming problems for sovereign debt, and “continued” inflation risks, BlackRock has increased its allocation to US Treasury bonds, the Wall Street Journal reports. The management firm has meanwhile “noticeably” reduced its overweight position in other categories of bonds, such as corporate bonds and MBS, which saw major rallying last year. BlackRock is now neutral on Treasuries, where it was previously underweight on securities in this category.
04/03/2010

Nomura and Kepler come top for analysis in 2009

Les Echos reports that the most recent edition of the StarMine rankings of French equities investment firms puts Nomura at the top of the annual rankings for the quality of its recommendations for CAC 40 companies. It is followed yb Oppenheim Research, Deutsche Bank Securities, and Exane BNP Paribas in the study, which takes into account stock market performance in 2009. Nomura’s analysts stood out in particular with a recommendation to buy Schneider Electric, which gained about 50% between January and December 2009. The firm, born of the acquisition of the European teams from Lehman Brothers by Nomura, was not included in the rankings in previous years. StarMine also evaluates the comparative accuracy of estimates by the brokerage firms of results for French large caps: in this area, Kepler Capital Markets takes first place, followed by Exane BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse.
04/03/2010

Asset management decision makers have their eyes on the globe

Senior executives from the investment management industry feel confident enough about the future that they are expanding into new geographical locations, according to a survey taken at Investit’s bi-annual industry conference. The conference, held on 28 January 2010, was attended by 60 delegates from 19 investment management firms with GBP3.5 trillion of assets under management, and six third party administrators with GBP25 trillion of assets under custody and management.95% of respondents to the survey expressed confidence about the year ahead. Furthermore 64% expected the outlook to improve significantly by the end of the year. This is in sharp contrast to early 2009, when 41% of participants had put their projects on hold and only 27% expected the picture to improve. As confidence is returning, 88% of delegates stated that expanding into new regions is their top priority for the year ahead. In terms of where the industry is looking to expand, 56% of the participants ranked Asia Pacific as their number one destination, while the Middle East and North Africa region came second with 27% of the vote. North and South America followed with 9% and 7% respectively. As for other major areas of focus identified by respondents, UCITS (88%), data management (79%) and client reporting (77%) continue to feature prominently.
04/03/2010

“You liked BRIC? You will love Africa”

Under this attention-grabbing headline in Cinco Días, Baldwin Berges, CEO of Silk Invest, launches a plea for investment in Africa to promote the development of emerging markets. In Nigeria and South Africa, he sees similarities with Brazil: populations of over 200 million consumers, an abundance of natural resources, and the advantage of leading positions in regions with populations of over 500 million. Egypt and Morocco are comparable with India: few natural resources of their own, but a growing demographic pyramid and competitive advantages over Europe in terms of the manufacturing prices and services.
04/03/2010

Aquitaine launches a strategy investing in Asian hedge funds

Aquitaine Investment Advisors is launching a fund whose strategy is to buy stakes in Asian hedge fund management firms, Asian Investor reports. The Crescent Fund, based in the Cayman Islands, will aim for USD200m in assets. It is available to US charaities and Asian family offices.
04/03/2010

Sovereign funds on the comeback

Sovereign funds, which like other investors have been affected by a crisis that they did not anticipate, are now returning to the market. According to a study by International Financial Services London (IFSL), investments by sovereign funds increased from USD10bn in first half (their lowest level since 2005) to USD500bn in second half, mostly in Europe and the United States. The Chinese sovereign fund was particularly active, with investments of about USD15bn over the year as a whole. Two thirds of assets at sovereign funds, which totalled about USD2.5trn as of the end of 2009, are in the hands of funds which are supplied by exports of commodities, especially oil and gas, by countries. The percentage of assets in other funds, which are supplied largely from currency reserves, will increase to 38% by 2012, from 34% currently. However, assets under management by sovereign funds fell 3% for the year as a whole to USD3.8trn. According to estimates by IFSL, assets at sovereign funds may total about USD5.5trn by 2012.
04/03/2010

Rafael Hurtado becomes CIO of Popular Gestión

Rafael Hurtado, manager of the asset allocation fund of funds Popular Selección and head of multi-management since 2000, has been appointed as director of investments for the asset management division of Popular Gestión, replacing Miguel Colombás, who is taking over as CEO of the firm, replacing Carmen Ortiz (see Newsmanagers of 18 February).
04/03/2010

Singapore sovereign fund invests in UBS

Agefi Switzerland reports that the GIC, one of the two major Singapore sovereign funds, will on 5 March convert a loan it made to the Swiss UBS group into shares in the firm. The CHF11bn, which it lent to UBS in 2007, will give GIC a stake of at least 6% in a capitalisation estimated at CHF59.453bn. This CHF11bn stake has nonetheless lost about 70% of its value in two years, giving it a potential value of CHF5.5bn, though the Singapore fund also holds about CHF2bn in coupons. It appears unlikely that GIC will seek to sell its stake off in the short term, and will be likely to hold it at least until it can break even on its initial outlay.
04/03/2010

HSBC Private Bank builds presence in Switzerland

Agefi Switzerland reports that HSBC Private Bank will open a new branch office in Gstaad, which will be operational by mid-2010. The move comes as part of a strategy to significantly increase the bank’s presence in the Swiss onshore market.

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