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10/09/2009

Luisa Gómez Bravo devient patronne de BBVA AM

Après le départ de Rosa Alegriá «pour entamer une nouvelle étape de sa vie professionnelle hors du groupe», le BBVA a nommé Eugenio Yurrita a la tête de sa filiale assurances, BBVA Seguros, rapporte Cinco Días. Comme ce dernier était le patron de la filiale de gestion d’actifs, BBVA Asset Management, le groupe a désigné l’une de ses lieutenantes, Luisa Gómez Bravo pour prendre le poste de présidente des différentes sociétés de gestion de fonds et de fonds de pension de BBVA Espagne.
09/09/2009
Fonds

Jefferies souhaite lancer des ETF

Selon les informations de Mutual Fund Wire, Jefferies Asset Management, filiale de Jefferies Group, a sollicité de la SEC l’autorisation de commercialiser un ETF répliquant un indice d’actions américain, le Initial Equity Fund et un indice obligataire, l’Initial Fixed Income Fund.
Fonds
09/09/2009

Julius Baer entame le placement de titres Artio Global Investors

Le suisse Julius Baer Holding a annoncé mercredi que sa filiale américaine Artio Global Investors Inc. (maison-mère d’Artio Global Management LLC) vient de lancer la commercialisation de 23,4 millions d’actions ordinaires de classe A en vue de l’introduction en Bourse, l’option de surallocation (greenshoe) portant sur 3,51 millions de titres.Le produit de ce placement sera destiné au rachat de 21 millions d’actions ordinaires de classe C correspondant à 50 % de la participation détenue par Julius Baer Holding ainsi qu'à celui de deux fois 1,2 million d’actions ordinaires détenues respectivement par Richard Pell et Rudolph-Riad Younes.Les nouveaux titres seront cotés sur le New York Stock Exchange (symbole ART).
09/09/2009

Gold back at peak values of March 2008

Les Echos reports that the price of gold on 8 September passed the psychologically significant barrier of USD1,000 per ounce, peaking at USD1,007.70 early in the trading day, and then falling back but still above the USD1,000 mark. This is the third time that the price of gold has topped USD1,000 since 13 March 2008, when it passed this threshold for the first time in its history. Some of the most reputable experts remain doubtful that gold will be able to remain above this limit for sustained periods of time.
09/09/2009
Fonds

OAM lance deux fonds de devises

Overlay Asset anagement (OAM, groupe BNP Paribas Investment Partners) a annoncé le lancement du SingleHedge Currency Options Fund et du SingleHedge Multi-Strategy Currency Fund, des produits de droit irlandais destinés à la clientèle institutionnels et classés dans la catégorie «currency alpha».Le premier vise une performance tirée de la gestion de positions actives sur la volatilité des devises, en plus de paris directionnels sur les taux de change spot. Ce produit est géré par Xavier lefevre, «head of portfolio management and trading».Le Multi-Strategy Currency Fund est pour sa part un fonds nourricier combinant l’exposition à trois programmes gérés par OAM, le Developed Markets Diversified Program, le Emerging Markets Currency Program et la stratégie devises mentionnée plus haut. Les placements dans les stratégies sous-jacentes sont mises en place grâce à des classes de parts non chargées.
Fonds
09/09/2009

Le low cost s'installe aussi dans la finance

Avec l’arrivée de Quote MTF en Hongrie, les bourses seraient-elles entrées dans l'ère du low-cost ? s’interroge la Tribune. Cette plate-forme alternative n'échappe pas à la directive Marchés d’instruments financiers mais profite d’un marché du travail aux conditions plus intéressantes.Pas question de se couper de la communauté financière pour autant, précise le quotidien. Quote MTF a fait le choix de placer son outil informatique à Londres. Mais pour mieux attirer les intervenants, la plate-forme casse un peu plus les prix.
09/09/2009
Fonds

Les fonds de pension asiatiques dépassent les européens

Selon le palmarès annuel de Watson Wyatt, l’encours des 300 plus grands fonds mondiaux a diminué en 2008 de 1,5 billion de dollars pour revenir à 10,4 billions, dont 4,7 billions pour les nord-américains, 3 billions pour les asiatiques et 2,5 billions pour les européens, rapporte The Wall Street Journal. Certains fonds européens ont été particulièrement éprouvés, comme le néerlandais ABP, dont l’encours a baissé à 243 milliards de dollars contre 315 milliards, ou le fonds norvégien, qui a maigri de 32 milliards de dollars. Dans ce dernier cas, les moins-values ont été beaucoup plus fortes, mais les recettes fiscales ont compensé une partie de la baisse.
Fonds
09/09/2009

Vontobel AM choisit RBC Dexia pour l'administration de ses fonds

RBC Dexia Investor Services a été sélectionnée par Vontobel Asset Management, filiale du suisse Bank Vontobel, comme prestataire de services de banque dépositaire, d’administration de fonds, de services aux actionnaires (agent de transfert) et de tenue de dossiers pour ses fonds de droit suisse.
09/09/2009

Nouveaux afflux de fonds pour Crédit Agricole Suisse

Dans un entretien à L’Agefi suisse, le président exécutif de Crédit Agricole Suisse, Christophe Gancel, indique qu’au premier semestre, «les activités de marché ont été exceptionnelles et la banque privée a mieux résisté que ce que nous avions attendu. Nous avons pu repasser la barre des 50 milliards de francs sous gestion». Interrogé sur l’incidence des débats sur le secret bancaire, il souligne que «pour des raisons historiques, notre fonds de commerce de banque privée est très orienté sur l’Asie, l’Europe de l’Est, l’Amérique latine et le Moyen-Orient, qui ne sont pas des zones concernées par la problématique fiscale. Nos projets de développement n’ont pas été remis en cause. Cela fait plusieurs années que nous nous renforçons dans les régions émergentes, avec comme priorité numéro une l’Asie et ensuite le Moyen-Orient».
09/09/2009

Genève subit d’importants retraits dans l’alternatif

Selon L’Agefi suisse, des chiffres d’Eurekahedge indiquent que près de deux milliards de dollars sont sortis des fonds de hedge funds au mois de juillet, soit une multiplication par quatre des sorties nettes d’actifs entre juin et juillet et 14% des fonds gérés par les spécialistes genevois de la sélection de gérants alternatifs. Genève paie tout d’abord le prix de son positionnement : les fonds de fonds suisses ont été plus touchés que leurs concurrents étrangers car leur exposition à la clientèle privée directe ou indirecte via des banques ou gérants indépendants est plus importante, explique le quotidien. Par ailleurs, la concurrence supposée des «single managers», dont les performances à nouveau positives attireraient les actifs sortis des fonds de hedge funds, est plutôt une chance pour l’industrie de la sélection de gérants alternatifs car ce regain d’intérêt se traduira par une importante demande de sélection des meilleurs gérants.
09/09/2009
Fonds

Creusement du déficit des fonds de pension à prestations définies

Le Pension Protection Fund (PPF) a estimé que le déficit cumulé des 7.400 fonds de pension à prestations définies (DB) est ressorti fin août à 173,2 milliards de livres contre 158,1 milliards un mois plus tôt et 133,9 milliards un an auparavant. De fait, le déficit des 6.304 fonds dans le rouge a gonflé à 194,6 milliards contre 179 milliards un mois plus tôt et 92,7 milliards fin août 2008 tandis que l’excédent total des fonds en excédent s’est accru à 21,4 milliards de livres contre 20,9 milliards un mois plus tôt, tout en plongeant par rapport aux 53,4 milliards enregistrés un an auparavant.
Fonds
09/09/2009
Fonds

Garrat lance un fonds spécialiste du residential britannique

Selon Money Marketing, Garratt Property Group lance un fonds immobilier de droit luxembourgeois destiné aux investisseurs désireux de profiter d’une reprise du marché britannique de l’immobilier résidentiel. Le gestionnaire propose ce produit aux investisseurs institutionnels et avertis, de sorte que la souscription minimale est fixée à 20 000 livres. Garratt vise un encours de 50-100 millions de livres et une performance totale de 70-100 % sur cinq ans.
Fonds
09/09/2009
Fonds

Invesco Real Estate investit 75 millions d’euros pour le iii-BVK Europa-Immobilien-Spezialfonds

Invesco Real Estate annonce avoir investi 75 millions d’euros dans deux immeubles, en France et au Royaume-Uni pour le compte de iii-BVK Europa-Immobilien-Spezialfonds, un fonds institutionnel allemand que la société de gestion gère depuis 2000 pour la Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK). Il s’agit d’un bureaux à Edimbourg, acquis pour la somme d’environ 65 millions d’euros, et un projet d’extension d’une plate-forme logistique existante à Orléans, acheté 10,5 millions d’euros.
Fonds
09/09/2009

Vontobel AM selects RBC Dexia for fund administration

RBC Dexia Investor Services has been selected by Vontobel Asset Management, an affiliate of the Swiss firm Bank Vontobel, to provide depository banking, fund administration, transfer agency, and record-keeping services for its Swiss-registered funds.
09/09/2009

Deka brings SRI awareness to a fund aimed at charities

Since July, the management team in charge of the diversified fund Deka-Stiftungen Balance, led by Thorsten Rühl, has been working in cooperation with the agency imug, to determine a universe of ethically correct shares, from which the asset management firm for the German savings banks will then construct the portfolio of the product, aimed primarily at small and mid-sized charities, but which is also available to pension funds, to savings banks for investments on their own behalf, and to religious organisations. Initially, the investment universe will be limited by exclusionary criteria such as sales of services or products related to abortion or the production of land mines. Selection then takes into account a variety of characteristics, such as the attitude of target firms to human rights, corruption, and animal testing of cosmetics. imug does not limit its analysis to equities and corporate bonds. With the assistance of the British agency EIRIS, it also ranges covered bonds (Pfandbriefe), as well as government bonds. The allows for SRI analysis of the complete portfolio. The fund was launched on 28 April 2003.
09/09/2009

Invesco Real Estate invests EUR75m for iii-BVK Europa-Immobilien-Spezialfonds

Invesco Real Estate has announced that it has invested EUR75m in two buildings, in France and the United Kingdom, on behalf of the iii-BVK Europa-Immobilien-Spezialfonds, a German-registered institutional fund which the management firm has managed since 2000 for the Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK). The properties include a building in Edinburgh, purchased for about EUR65m, and a extension to an existing logistical platform in Orléans, currently under construction, acquired for EUR10.5m.
09/09/2009

Jefferies plans to launch ETFs

According to reports in Mutual Fund Wire, Jefferies Asset Management, an affiliate of Jefferies Group, has applied to the SEC for permission to release an ETF replicating a US equities index, the Initial Equity Fund, and a bond index, the Initial Fixed Income Fund.
09/09/2009

CCR AM launches an SRI fund

CCR Asset Management, born of the merger of the asset management affiliates of the CCR Group with UBS Global Asset Management France (SA) on 30 June 2009, to create a wholly-owned affiliate of the UBS group, on 1 July transformed its Centrale Actions Europe fund into a sustainable development fund entitled CCR Actions Engagement Durable. The new fund invests in all market cap sizes within the Euro zone. Value-style financial management is coupled with an engagement policy which involves active dialogue with firms to move them towards governance practices which are more respectful of ESG (environmental, social and governance) issues, explains Axylia, the advisor to CCR AM in the creation of the product. The investment process also involves the exclusion of certain practices and sectors, and the inclusion in the investment management process of ESG dimensions.
09/09/2009

EasyETF launches an ETF replicating the iTraxx Europe Main index on Euronext Paris

Following the EasyETF iTraxx® Europe HiVol and EasyETF iTraxx® Crossover funds, launched in 2008, EasyETF is now offering a third tracker of European credit derivatives markets: EasyETF iTraxx® Europe Main. The fund is a Luxembourg-registered FCP, which charges a management commission of 0.15%. The benchmark index includes 125 equally weighted credit derivatives of investment grade European businesses, whose ratings are above BBB- (Standard & Poor’s) or Baa3 (Moody’s). the market-maker for the EasyETF iTraxx Europe Main is BNP Paribas.
09/09/2009

Net subscriptions in August

As of the end of August, assets in securities funds on sale in Portugal represented nearly EUR15.56bn, 4.4% more than one year earlier; the increase comes to 8.5% for the first eight months of the year (EUR14.34bn as of the end of December). However, the APFIPP association says, this total is still 19.4% below levels at the end of August 2008 (EUR19.29bn). The sector registered net subscriptions of EUR512m in August, which brings the total since the beginning of the year to EUR8.7685bn. On one year, funds have seen net outflows of EUR2.43bn. The three largest asset management firms by asset volumes are Caixagest, with EUR3.63bn, Esaf, with EUR3.18bn, and Santander Asset Management, with EUR2.88bn. The affiliate of the Spanish group is also the firm which has posted the largest increase in its assets under management since the beginning of the year, with growth of 25.2%, thanks to net subscriptions of EUR521.4m, putting it ahead of Esaf (+15% and EUR244.5m). Barclays Wealth Managers Portugal, which has EUR461.6m in assets, has posted a 65.1% increase in eight months, and net subscriptions of EUR158m (of which EUR45.2m were in August).
09/09/2009

SLI recommends very wide diversification of portfolios

In the most recent edition of its publication “Global Perspective,” Standard Life Investments (SLI) estimates that investors would do well to diversify their portfolios further at this time, though equities have recently proven to bring in better returns than government bonds and cash. SLI experts estimate that wider diversification of portfolios to combine equities, commercial real estate, and government bonds, is likely to generate the best returns for investors in the decade to come. The difference in performance between asset classes is expected to decrease, reflecting the observation that the structural declines in inflation and interest rates, which were the determining elements in returns in the 1980s and 1990s, are now coming to an end. Now, outlooks for global economic growth and therefore of cash flows at businesses will be likely to remain less robust than they have been historically, which will influence the performance of equities. However, following a period of volatile and weak returns, equities will be likely to be the best-performing asset class in the coming decade, which will provide investors with good inflation-adjusted returns, says Richard Batty, global investment strategist at SLI.
09/09/2009

Bankinter offer aims to win over clients from competitors

Until 15 January 2010, Bankinter is offering subscribers to funds from other asset management firms a 1% supplement to the total amounts they transfer to funds it offers, Funds People reports. The offer is valid for transfers of at least EUR3,000, and is limited to a total supplement of EUR1,000 per client. In addition, participating investors must agree to keep their money in Bankinter funds until at least 15 January 2012.
09/09/2009

Asian pension funds overtake European counterparts

According to the annual rankings from Watson Wyatt, assets in the world’s 300 largest funds in 2008 fell by USD1.5trn to a total of USD10.4trn, of which USD4.7trn is in North America, USD3trn in Asia, and USD2.5trn in Europe, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some European funds saw particularly severe contractions, such as the Netherlands fund ABP, whose assets fell to USD243bn from USD315bn, or the Norwegian state pension fund, which lost USD32bn. In the case of the latter fund, capital losses were significantly higher, but tax revenues compensated for part of the losses.
09/09/2009

OAM launches two currency funds

Overlay Asset Management (OAM, BNP Paribas Investment Partners group) has announced the launch of the SingleHedge Currency Options Fund and the SingleHedge Multi-Strategy Currency Fund, Irish-registered products aimed at institutional clients in the currency alpha category. The former of these funds aims for positive returns from active positions on currency volatility and on directional bets on spot rates. The product is managed by Xavier Lefevre, head of portfolio management and trading. The Multi-Strategy Currency Fund is a feeder fund which combines exposure to three programs managed by OAM: the Developed Markets diversified Program, the Emerging Markets Currency Program, and the aforementioned currencies strategy. Investments in the underlying strategies are made in share classes that carry no fees.
09/09/2009

Investors choosing high-risk assets

L’Echo reports that investors have regained confidence in outlooks for the markets. “Investors feel that the global economic recovery, driven by stimulus measures, will last, and are betting on assets considered higher-risk, such as equities,” says Chris Lafakis, on the Moody’s research site, Economy.com. Analysts at Credit Suisse are recommending that investors prefer equities to bonds and money markets, and are predicting 12% gains for European equities by mid-2010, the newspaper adds.
09/09/2009

Julius Baer announces placement of shares in Artio Global Investors

The Swiss asset management firm Julius Baer Holding announced on Wednesday that its US affiliate Artio Global Investors Inc. (parent company of Artio Global Management LLC) has placed 23.4 million ordinary class A shares on sale ahead of a listing on the stock exchange, with a greenshoe option totalling 3.51 million shares. The proceeds of the placement will be used to buy 21 million ordinary class C shares, corresponding to 50% of the stake held by Julius Baer Holding, and the two lots of 1.2 million ordinary shares held by Richard Pell and Rudolph-Riad Younes, respectively. The new shares will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ART).
09/09/2009

PAI Partners may scale back size of a fund

Investors in PAI Partners will meet on Wednesday to discuss the fate of the private equity firm, as a battle for control rages. Some large investors told the FT that they would push for a reduction of 30-50% reduction in its new EUR5.4bn fund, raised last year.
09/09/2009

Strong growth for asset management affiliates of Banque Postale

In first half 2009, the asset management affiliates of La Banque Postale performed very well. The Banque Postale benefited from the “sustained development” of its affiliates, the group says in a statement. Net inflows to La Banque Postale Asset Management in the half show net inflows of EUR4.24bn. As of 30 June 2009, La Banque Postale Asset Management managed EUR118.1bn, compared with EUR109bn as of 31 December 2008, an increase of 8.35%. This puts it in sixth place among management firms on the French market. According to statistics from Europerformance, the OPCVM market share for La Banque Postale was up to 4.23% as of the end of June 2009, from 3.93% at the end of 2008. La Banque Postale states that, following a record year in terms of net inflows to OPCVM funds in 2008, with more than EUR6.5bn, activities serving institutional investors have been particularly dynamic in first half. Net inflows have exceeded EUR4.6bn, compared with EUR1.5bn in first half 2008.

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