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24/02/2010

DWS to discontinue certificate offerings

The asset management firm DWS (Deutsche Bank) has decided to cease offering certificates, the Börsen-Zeitung reports. The last certificates in circulation will mature in three years, and DWS will continue to trade in them until that time, says Ingo Gefeke, head of distribution.
24/02/2010

Profits at Berenberg Bank up strongly

For 2009, the Berenberg private bank has posted a 38% increase to its net profits to EUR65.1m, “the best result in the 420-year history” of the business. The tier one ratio for the bank came in at 13.1%, up from 12% as of the end of 2008, and returns on owners’ equity (ROE) rose to 53%, from 37.5%, while the cost-income ratio improved to 61.9%, from 66.9%. Berenberg has seen record results in private banking, particularly in the high net worth private client segment. Assets in asset management, specialised in quantitative management, were up EUR1.6bn for the year, to a total of EUR29.1bn as of the end of December.
24/02/2010

Strong recovery at DWS

After a steep 37% drop in 2008, assets at DWS Investments last year, excluding Deutsche Bank products, rose 12% to a total of EUR108.1bn as of the end of December. The result is the strongest gain for any of the big four asset management firms in Germany (Deka: +3%, Union Investment: +11%, and AGI: +10%). Net subscriptions totalled EUR5.9bn for equities funds, compared with net redemptions of EUR3bn in 2008, and net inflows of EUR6.62bn in 2007. Assets in equities funds, which fell to EUR45.6bn as of the end of 2008 from EUR77.7bn twelve months earlier, returned to EUR63bn as of the end of 2009. DWS estimates that last year was its best since 2005 for this asset class, as net subscriptions alone represented about 60% of all subscriptions at German asset management firms. For bond funds, which in 2008 saw net outflows of EUR9bn, net subscriptions in 2009 totalled over EUR3.4bn. However, money market funds saw further net outflows of EUR10.7bn, compared with EUR13.9bn in 2008. Counting miscellaneous asset classes (EUR0.2bn), DWS saw total net redemptions last year of EUR1.6bn. Ingo Gefeke, global director of distribution and product management, says DWS will now focus on its core products and profession, and that the era of high frequency innovation is at an end. The management firm is now hoping to offer products and solutions with clear profiles which will be subject to sustained long-term demand: emerging markets funds, “trend” funds, target-date funds, and retirement planning products.
24/02/2010

Vontobel recruits a head from MSIM

The head of institutional client relations for Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) in Germany, Karin Moritz, has joined the sales team at the Frankfurt-based firm Vontobel Europe. She will be head of institutional investors there, says Matthias Klein, CEO of Vontobel Asset Management for Germany.
24/02/2010

SEB will also release its asset allocation fund on the Spanish market

The CNMV has issued a sales license for the absolute return fund SEB Asset Selection Fund, a Luxembourg-registered product which complies with the UCITS III directive, launched on 3 October 2006, with assets of EUR1.40667bn as of 19 February. The product is a multi-asset class fund from SEB Asset Management, managed by Hans-Olov Bornemann, with a performance objective of 500 basis points above the risk-free interest rate with a volatility of 10%. The fund is already available in France (see Newsmanagers of 26 January). Since its launch, annual performance of the product totals 9.1%, (equivalent to outperformance of 600 basis points), while volatility has been slightly above the objective, at 10.3%. Cumulative performance as of 29 January was 33.40%, compared with 10.57% for the benchmark.
24/02/2010

John Hancock launches an unconstrained version of its Strategic Income Fund

With the John Hancock Strategic Income Opportunities Fund (JIPAX), John Hancock Funds (USD53bn in assets as of 31 December) is releasing an unconstrained retail version of its Strategic Income Fund (USD1.06bn in assets as of 31 January), launches in 1992. Compared with the older fund, the new product will be allowed a higher exposure to currencies, including currencies from countries that do not belong to the G7. There will also be a higher allocation to international bonds. The fund, which carries management commissions of 117 basis points for A-class shares, and 187 basis points for C-class shares, will be managed by MFC Global Investment Management.
24/02/2010

New CIO for second Swedish national pension fund

Hans Fahlin has been appointed as the new CIO at the Second Swedish National Pension Fund/AP2. He will take up his new post in mid-April. He replaces Johan Held, who resigned last year.Fahlin has 25 years’ experience in the financial industry, the past 17 years of which have been spent in asset management. He has held several leading posts within Alfred Berg/ABN Amro, including a position as CEO for Alfred Berg Kapitalförvaltning.
24/02/2010

Achim Küssner takes on even more responsibilities at Schroders

Achim Küssner, who is already CEO of the firm for Germany, Austria and Benelux, has also been appointed as regional head for Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean at Schroders Investment Management. The former head of Black Rock for Germany, Austria and Luxembourg (until early 2007) will now be in charge of Bulgaria, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The Meditarranean region includes Greece, Malta, Turkey, and Israel. For these two regions, Küssner will have a dedicated team of four people based in London. Schroders funds are already registered in Hungary and Poland, where the UK asset management firm also offers products hedged for currency risks in Polish Zloty (PLN).
24/02/2010

RAB Capital holds auction of hedge fund shares

The hedge fund firm RAB Capital, based in London, will auction off subscribers’ shares in its Special Situaions fund, which experienced heavy losses in 2008, and only partly recovered in 2009. According to a document obtained by the Financial Times, the auction will be organised by Credit Suisse in the Netherlands, starting on 8 March, and will be open to all investors in the fund, most of whom are locked in until 2011. External investors may make bids, probably at a discount, to buy shares from current clients who wish to exit from the fund.
24/02/2010

HSBC to launch emerging markets ETFs

HSBC Global Asset Management is planning to launch an ETF focused on China, and another based on the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) by the end of April. The BRIC fund will probably replicate the S&P BRIC 40 index, Investment Week reports. By 30 June, the manager is planning to launch an ETF focused on Japan, which will use the MSCI Japan as its benchmark.
24/02/2010

Odey closes an Asia fund

According to Citywire, London-based boutique Odey Asset Management has closed its last remaining Asia-focused fund after it did not raised enough money. The fund was launched at the start of 2008 but at its peak still only managed to garner EUR9 million.
24/02/2010

DWS to release two more funds

Pieter Furnée, director of sales for the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, has announced that DWS is planning to release the Diversified Fixed Income Strategy and Global Thematic sub-funds of the Luxembourg Sicav DWS Invest to retail investors in the United Kingdom. The former fund, managed by Mark Dowding, is an absolute return bond fund, while the latter fund, managed by Oliver Kratz, is a global thematic equities fund, as its name indicates. Fundstrategy and Money Marketing report that the German management firm will create a retail share class for each of the two funds, and will apply for permission to release the Diversified Fixed Income Strategy.
24/02/2010

DWS compte commercialiser deux fonds supplémentaires

Pieter Furnér, directeur des ventes pour le Royaume-Uni, les Pays-Bas et les pays nordiques, a indiqué que DWS compte commercialiser au Royaume-Uni les compartiment Diversified Fixed Income Strategy et Global Thematic de sa sicav luxembourgeoise DWS Invest. Money Marketing rapporte que le gestionnaire allemand va également créer une part «retail» et demander le statut de distributeur pour le premier de ces deux fonds.
24/02/2010

Amundi porte à 573 le nombre d'ETF cotés à Francfort

La Deutsche Börse a annoncé mardi avoir admis à la négociation sur le segment XTF de sa plate-forme électronique Xetra 16 ETF d’actions et un ETF monétaire d’Amundi ETF (sur l’EuroMTS Eonia), ce qui porte à 573 le nombre d’ETF cotés à Francfort. Tous sont des produits de droit français.Parmi ces ETF, six répliquent des indices qui n'étaient pas encore traités sous cette forme à Francfort (MSCI, China H, MSCI Germany, MSCI World ex EMU, MSCI World ex Europe, Leveraged MSCI Europe et MSCI Leveraged US).
24/02/2010

L’Indice de confiance State Street en baisse en février

L’indice global de la confiance des investisseurs, le «State Street Investor Confidence Index®", calculé par State Street Global Markets pour le mois de février 2010, s'établit à 103,9, en baisse de 0,7 point par rapport au niveau corrigé de 104,6 en janvier. C’est en Amérique du Nord que les investisseurs se sont montrés le plus optimistes. L’indice de confiance régional y a affiché une hausse de 3,3 points, passant de 108 à 111,3 points. En Europe, la confiance était également en légère augmentation, avec une hausse de 2,1 points à 101,1. En revanche, les investisseurs institutionnels en Asie se sont montrés plus hésitants, le niveau de confiance passant de 98,1 points en janvier à 97,0. «Ce mois-ci, les investisseurs institutionnels continuent de peser différents facteurs en concurrence dans leurs décisions d’allocation d’actifs à haut risque», commente le professeur Ken Froot (Harvard), l’un des deux concepteurs de l’indice. «Les événements en Europe ont monopolisé leur attention, alimentés par les préoccupations croissantes concernant la solvabilité à long terme des économies périphériques. Bien que la toute récente augmentation du taux d’escompte par la Réserve fédérale américaine soit intervenue après la période considérée pour l’indice de ce mois, les investisseurs institutionnels semblent avoir anticipé ce changement, et ce qu’il signifie pour les perspectives d’investissement relatives en Europe», ajoute-t-il.
24/02/2010

Standard Life Investments releases funds in Netherlands

Standard Life Investments has announced that it will be making its Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV fund range available to Dutch investors with immediate effect after receiving public distribution status from the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AGM). This will give investors in The Netherlands access to the fund manager’s European Corporate Bond Fund SICAV, European Smaller Companies Fund SICAV and other funds across the SICAV range.
24/02/2010

Santander makes gains on sale of BME shares

In a notice to the CNMV, Santander on Monday announced the sale of a 2.5% stake in Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME, see Newsmanagers of 23 February), at a price of EUR20 per share, which earned approximate capital gains for the firm of EUR30.4m. The Santander group retains a 2.5% stake in BME, and will continue to be represented on the board of directors of the stock market operator.
24/02/2010

Plans for Fideuram IPO are on

The board of directors and supervisory board of Intesa Sanpaolo, which met on Tuesday, presided over by chairmen Enrico Salza and Giovanni Bazoli, voted in favour of proceeding with the planned IPO of the asset management affiliate Banca Fideuram at its current size.
24/02/2010

Paul Reilly becomes CEO of Raymond James

The board of Raymond James Financial has confirmed Paul Reilly as CEO. Reilly, who has been president since May 2009, will take up his new role on 1 May 2010, replacing Tom James, who is currently chairman & CEO.
24/02/2010

New CEO at First Eagle

The British executive Bridget A. Macaskill, previously president and COO, has been appointed president and CEO of First Eagle Investment Management, formerly known as Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Advisers (USD39bn in assets). She replaces John Arnhold, who will retain his position as chairman and becomes CIO. Before joining First Eagle, Macaskill was CEO of Oppenheimer Funds.
24/02/2010

BNY Mellon AM appoints a single head of relations with broker/dealers

John F. Herlihy, who had previously been managing director, global client management, at BNY Mellon since 2005, has been appointed to the newly-created position of managing director, broker/dealer relations at BNY Mellon Asset Management. In his new role, he will be in charge of relations of all asset management boutiques of the group with broker/dealers. He will report to Scott E. Wennerholm, COO of BNY Mellon AM.
24/02/2010

Citigroup in talks to sell hedge fund activity

SkyBridge Capital, a New York alternative-asset manager led by two alumni of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., is in advanced talks to buy Citi’s fund-of-funds business, the Wall Street Journal says. The business has about USD4 billion in assets.
24/02/2010

MSIM recruits two big names in asset management

Morgan Stanley has announced the appointment of two industry veterans to expand the leadership team within its Investment Management business. Jeffrey L. Shames, the former chairman and CEO of MFS Investment Management, will join the firm as a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM). Additionally, Edmond N. Moriarty III, who previously served as a senior vice president at Merrill Lynch & Co., will join the firm as Chief Operating Officer of MSIM. In addition to their new responsibilities in Investment Management, Mr. Shames and Mr. Moriarty will also act as senior advisor and chief operating officer, respectively, of Morgan Stanley’s Global Research division. Jeffrey L. Shames and Edmond N. Moriarty will report to Gregory J. Fleming, president of MSIM. Morgan Stanley Investment Management, together with its investment advisory affiliates, has approximately USD283 billion in assets under management or supervision as of December 31, 2009.
24/02/2010

Fidelity China Special Situations fund to charge a performance commission

Fidelity has announced that the new investment trust Fidelity China Special Situations PLC, for which Anthony Bolton is planning to raise GBP630m, will charge a performance commission of 15% on gains exceeding a hurdle rate of 200 basis points above the MSCI China, Investment Week reports. The performance commission will be limited to 1.5% of the net asset value (NAV) of the fund per year, while all potential outperformance above this threshold will be carried over. If the fund does not reach the hurdle rate in a given year, this underperformance must be offset before performance commissions may be charged again in subsequent years.
24/02/2010

Standish recruits a former Gartmore big wheel

Simon Surtees, who has left Gartmore Investment management, where he was head of credit and a senior fund manager until July 2009, in January joined Standish Mellon Asset Management (USD63bn in assets), as fixed income product specialist. He is based in London, where he is part of the international wholesale sales team at BNY Mellon Asset management, led by Paul Freeney.
23/02/2010

Deutsche Bank et Sal. Oppenheim vont fusionner leurs activités de gestion de fortune

Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management va réunir ses activités de gestion de fortune en Autriche avec celle de Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie dans une même structure. Dirigée par Bernhard Ramsauer, qui sera subordonné à Marco Bizzozero, CEO de Deutsche Bank Suisse, la filiale aura le statut de banque et agira sous la marque Deutsche Bank. C’est aussi à partir de cette structure que seront gérées les activités de gestion de fortune dans les pays d’Europe centrale et Orientale du groupe. L’activité de gestion d’actifs de Sal. Oppenheim opérera pour sa part toujours sous le nom de sa marque d’origine.
23/02/2010

Le Santander réduit sa participation dans BME

Lundi, Santander Investment Bolsa, a notifié à la CNMV avoir placé sur le marché avec l’aide de Credit Suisse près de 2,1 millions d’actions de Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), ce qui représente approximativement 2,5 % du capital de l’entreprise de marché. La transaction s’est effectuée à un prix moyen de 20 euros par action. BME a clôturé à 20,76 euros. Fin 2008, la participation du Santander dans BME se situait à 5,08 %.
23/02/2010
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Le fonds de pension de Hochtief s'allège

La Börsen-Zeitung rapporte que le fonds de pension de Hochtief a l’intention de se séparer de sa participation d’environ 3 % dans le groupe de construction. Le directoire de Hochtief a donné son accord à la cession de ces 2,1 millions d’actions.
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