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19/10/2009

USS pulls out of Cintra

In reaction to the imminent absorption into Cintra into its parent company, Ferrovial, the British pension fund Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has liquidated its stake of about 25 (about EUR95m) in the infrastructure firm, Cinco Días reports. With the Australian funds CP2 and Magellan, as well as the New Jersey Division of Investment, USS made the decision to divest as it considered the group too exposed to the construction sector, and because it was not pleased that the terms of the deal had been disclosed to the press. USS, which also holds stakes in the capital of BBVA and Telefónica, ultimately preferred to withdraw its investment.
19/10/2009

Hans-Peter Schupp fund launched in Austria

Veteran German deep value manager Hans-Peter Schupp has now launched his flagship fund Fidecum SICAV - Contrarian Value Euroland in Austria, says Citywire. The fund was originally registered in Germany and Luxembourg.
19/10/2009

National Express: Cosmen family and CVC call off takeover

On Friday, the Cosmen family and the private equity investor CVC Partners have announced in a market statement that they have withdrawn their GBP765m bid to take over National Express. The Cosmen family owns 18.5% of the British firm.
19/10/2009

New Star real estate fund attracting subscribers once again

New Star’s flagship retail property vehicle (now owned by Henderson Global Investors) has begun to look for new investments for the first time since 2007, marking the return of retail investors to the commercial real estate sector. At its peak, the fund was larger than GBP2bn, and this has been reduced to just GBP650m through the combination of asset falls and selling of its units. But the fund is now taking in between GBP20,000 to GBP50,000 every day on an overall net basis, giving it cash to invest again.
19/10/2009

HSBC launches a fund of funds

The Chinese-British HSBC group is about to launch the Ucits AvantEdge fund of funds, which will be available to retail and institutional investors seeking absolute return investment opportunities, Hedge Week reports. The launch is planned for late November, and the fund of funds will include only blue chip stocks with a solid track record and robust infrastructure.
19/10/2009

Middle Eastern investors have become more cautious

Since the onset of the financial crisis, the major families and sovereign funds of the Middle East have cut back their investments and required more attractive terms from private equity funds. David Rubenstein, CEO of Carlyle group, has told the Financial Times that the time when big investors received the same treatment as other subscribers is passing. Emirates Industrance Company is planning to gradually reduce its exposure to private equity funds, while Omar Lodhi, director of investor relations at the private equity firm Abraaj Capital, estimates that it is still possible to raise capital locally, but that funds in the process of being created will probably not achieve initial targets of USD4bn, both because the target assets are less expensive and because investors have become more cautious.
19/10/2009

UBS 'gives away' identities of US clients to tax authorities

UBS has issued a warning to those of its US clients in danger of figuring in a list of 4,450 cases which the bank will be required to hand over to the US tax authorities, in a registered letter which is clearly marked with the name of the sender. As the US postal service is a government entity, the IRS will have no difficulty in obtaining the names of these parties without waiting for official disclosure, the weekly newsmagazine Sonntag reports. The lawyer for several of these clients, Andreas Rüd, estimates that UBS acted deliberately, and is planning to file suit against the Swiss bank.
19/10/2009

US consumer lending eats into Bank of America profits

Bank of America (BoA) has posted a net loss of USD1bn for third quarter, Agefi reports, compared with profits of USD1.18bn one year previously. The results come despite the fact that net banking profits increased by 32%, to USD26bn, as a result of the integration of Merrill Lynch and Countrywide. The degradation of BoA’s retail lending and credit card activities are primarily responsible for this counterperformance, although the bank is a leader in these markets in the United States.
19/10/2009

Asset management bonuses down

Bonuses at asset management firms are likely to be reduced by up to 35%, due to falling assets, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing a study by Russell Reynolds Associates.
19/10/2009

DundeeWealth launches first products on US market

One of Canada’s largest independent wealth-management firms, DundeeWealth, is launching its first mutual funds in the U.S. The six new funds are: Dynamic Infrastructure Fund, Dynamic Gold & Precious Metals Fund, Dynamic U.S. Growth Fund, Dynamic Discovery Fund, Dynamic Contrarian Advantage Fund and Dynamic Energy Income Fund.
19/10/2009

One hedge fund in five distorts information disclosed to investors

More than 20% of hedge funds tent to distort important information supplied to investors about funds and their performance, according to Hedge Week, citing a study by Stephen Brown, professor of finance at NYU Stern. 28% of the sample of funds in the study (444 hedge funds and their due diligence reports) offer incorrect or unverifiable reports to their assets under management and returns, while 9% claimed not to face any legal or regulatory difficulties, at times when they were actually facing problems of this kind. Only 6% of the sample admitted to difficulties of this kind. “This study clearly shows that some funds are very reticent in their relations with their own clients and potential investors. This information deficit, this lack of transparency right across the industry, represents a real problem,”says Brown.
19/10/2009

Madoff: HSBC sued as depository

La Tribune reports that HSBC is being sued in its role as depository for the Irish-registered fund Thema International, which was affected by the Madoff scandal. About 50 suits have been filed in Ireland in the wake of losses at the fund.
19/10/2009

British government to claim a share of bank profits

Agefi reports, citing the Sunday Telegraph, that the British government is planning a “tax raid” on the profits of British banks, all of which have profited directly or indirectly from the support lent by the government to the financial sector. The profits to be announced by banks are reported to have provoked “black anger” on the part of the authorities. Finance minister Alistair Darling is reported to be planning to include the plans in his draft budget, which will be announced to Parliament in six weeks, and would bring the UK government several hundred million pounds. The Labour government is also seeking to modify the system of taxation for banks, which currently allows them to spread out compensation for their losses over several fiscal years.
19/10/2009

Financial adviser morale improves marginally

The BSI index of the morale of independent financial advisers (IFAs) regarding outlook for sales of shares in retail funds has improved in third quarter by 2.4 points compared with April-June, to 98.4, according to Robeco Germany. Since first quarter 2009, the index has been calculated by TNS Sofres on a quarterly basis, although it was previously published monthly. The sample includes 350 IFAs at commercial banks, savings banks and co-operative banks. The percentage of advisors who are satisfied with the situation has risen to 23%, compared with 21%, which remains well below 50%, and more than was normal as of fourth quarter 2008. In addition, in terms of professionals’ predictions, only 415 expect to see sales increase in the next six months, compared with 45% the previous quarter.
19/10/2009

US government bonds continue to attract investors

While the US economy is showing signs of recovery but remains weak, Agefi notes, foreign investors acquired USD28.6bn in long shares in the month of August, according to the US treasury. For the third month in a row, foreign investors have increased their investments in US bonds. The pace of increase has, however, slowed, in a context of recovering investor appetite for risk. Net acquisitions of these bonds have gone from USD100.5bn in June to USD23.9bn in August. Japan, the UK, Hong Kong and Russia have increased their exposures to US government bonds. China has slightly reduced its position, the newspaper states.
19/10/2009

Norwegian pension fund goes into green investment

The Norwegian government pension fund, with more than EUR280bn (NOK2.385trn) in assets under management, is planning one of the largest injections of capital ever into green investment, in a NOK20bn program which will invest in businesses which are attentive to their environment for a five-year period. The fund will also address climate change issues with Sir Nicholas Stern, the author of a report on the costs of global warming. The Norwegian finance minister has confirmed that the investments are planned for 2010, with an allocation of over NOK4bn, or nearly EUR500m, to be invested next year according to environmental criteria.
16/10/2009
Fonds

Dexia fait enregistrer deux fonds supplémentaires

Le Dexia Long Short Credit et le Dexia Long Short Double Alpha, deux fonds OPCVM III de performance absolue visant une volatilité inférieure à 5 %, ont été enregistrés par Dexia Asset Management pour la commercialisation en Espagne.
Fonds
16/10/2009

La consolidation de l'industrie des fonds s'est poursuivie au troisième trimestre

Au troisième trimestre, la consolidation de l’industrie des fonds s’est poursuivie, avec une nouvelle contraction du nombre de fonds domiciliés en Europe, le nombre de clôtures dépassant le nombre de lancements pour la première fois depuis le début de la crise. Sur l’univers de 38.238 fonds couverts par Morningstar au 1er janvier 2009, quelque 2.968 ont fermé, alors que 1.560 nouveaux fonds ont été lancés. Au rythme actuel de contraction, ce sont 3.957 fonds qui devraient être fermés d’ici à la fin de l’année, le nombre de lancements s’inscrivant à 2.080. Ce qui correspond à un solde net de clôtures de 1.877, soit environ 5% de l’univers des fonds domiciliés en Europe.Morningstar souligne que les marchés émergents ont une fois de plus dégagé des rendements exceptionnels. Les actions turques ont ainsi conclu sur un rendement trimestriel de 28,5%, contre 26,3% en moyenne pour la Russie et 25,7% pour la Pologne.Du côté de l’Europe développée, les actions autrichiennes affichent un rendement de 24,5%, contre 22,7% pour la Belgique et 22,3% pour les Pays-Bas. Les actions suisses, la catégorie affichant la plus mauvaise performance au deuxième trimestre, a réalisé au troisième trimestre un rendement de 17,4%, plus en ligne avec l’ensemble des performances du trimestre. Au Royaume-Uni, la dépréciation de la livre a tiré vers le bas les performances des actions britanniques. Les petites capitalisations britanniques ont tout de même dégagé un rendement de 14,6% sur le trimestre, les catégories Large Cap marquant un gain de 12,5%.
16/10/2009
Fonds

Les fonds européens sont trop petits

La crise financière a mis en évidence les faiblesses structurelles du marché des fonds d’investissement en Europe, constate Achim Küssner, directeur de Schroders pour l’Allemagne, cité par la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Aux Etats-Unis, on recense en effet 8.000 fonds dont l’encours moyen se situe à 850 millions d’euros alors qu’il existe en Europe 26.000 fonds avec un volume moyen de seulement 117 millions d’euros, ce qui pèse sur la rentabilité.
Fonds
16/10/2009
Fonds

Monétaire : ING IM préfère la qualité à l'alpha

Noblesse oblige : Wim Veraar, responsable de la gestion monétaire, a souligné lors d’une présentation à Paris jeudi que ING Investment Management est tenu de soumettre le portefeuille de son fonds ING Liquid Euro (2,9 milliards d’euros fin septembre, dont 800 millions collectés en France depuis le début de l’année) chaque semaine à S&P et chaque mois à Moody’s, afin de préserver la notation AAA du produit. Cela induit une dose importante de rigueur dans le choix de titres, l'équipe de gestion optant dans le doute pour du papier légèrement moins rémunérateur mais moins risqué. Cela ne l’empêche pas pour autant d'épuiser actuellement son contingent de 10 % en billets de trésorerie.Actuellement, l'échéance moyenne pondérée des titres en portefeuille, qui sont à 74 % notés A1+ (le plancher est réglementairement fixé à 50 %), se situe à 39 jours pour un maximum autorisé de 60 jours : elle a été réduite à mesure que la courbe des taux s’aplatissait et que les spreads se contractaient, du fait de la politique de refinancement menée par la BCE.Wim Veraar explique ces efforts en soulignant que «ce fonds n’est pas un produit d’alpha, mais un produit de qualité», de sorte que l'équipe de gestion n’a pas de dilection pour les titrisations (ABS, MBS et autres ABCP), et qu’elle ne pratique pas le prêt des titres en portefeuille. Ce souci de qualité n’a pas empêché le fonds de produire sur les neuf premiers mois de l’année une performance de 1,28 %, soit exactement le double de celle de l’Eonia TR (0,64 %).
Fonds
16/10/2009
Fonds

Les investisseurs japonais retrouvent de l’appétit pour les fonds

Entre avril et septembre, les souscriptions nettes aux fonds des investisseurs japonais ont bondi de 27 % à 2.159 milliards de yen, selon les données de l’association japonaise des investment trusts citée par le Financial Times. Les fonds les plus populaires auprès des Japonais sont centrés sur les actions émergentes, les obligations gouvernementales et l’immobilier étranger.
Fonds
16/10/2009

Lloyds discute de la cession de ses activités de gestion d'actifs avec Rathbone Brothers

La banque britannique Lloyds Banking Group et le groupe spécialisé dans la gestion de patrimoine Rathbone Brothers ont annoncé jeudi qu’elles discutaient d’un rachat par la seconde à la première du service de gestion de portefeuille de Bank of Scotland, filiale de Lloyds Banking Group.Les deux banques ont indiqué dans des communiqués séparés à la Bourse de Londres que leurs discussions portaient sur «l’acquisition possible de certains actifs relatifs aux activités de gestion d’investissement de la clientèle privée à l’intérieur de la division Gestion de fortune et International de Lloyds Banking Group», principalement ce service de gestion de portefeuille.

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