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13/05/2009

ETF assets up 6% in January-April

Compared with the end of March, when they totalled USD135.6bn, assets in European ETF funds have increased by USD15.8bn, to a total of USD151.4bn, iShares reports. This represents a 6% increase since the beginning of the year, while the MSCI Europe index in US dollars has lost 4.7%. The total as of the end of April comes to 701 ETFs, compared with 672 as of the end of March, while the increase in the number of products in the first four months of the year totals 66 funds, or 10.9%. The number of providers has risen from 29 in March to 32 in April, and the number of listings has risen from 1,702 to 1,826. However, the number of stock markets on which these products are listed has remained unchanged at 21. The three leaders in the European market remain the same as in March: iShares (Barclays Global Investors) with 158 ETFs, USD58.9bn in assets under management, and 38.9% market share, followed by Lyxor Asset Management (116 products, USD33.3bn in assets and 22% market share), and db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank) with 101 Etfs, USD25.2bn, and 16.7% of the market as of the end of April. The top three actors control 77.6% of the market, compared with 78.5% at the end of March.
13/05/2009

Treasury selects managers for PPIP fund

The Department of the Treasury will this Wednesday notify several asset management companies chosen from the 104 candidates who applied that they will be in the first wave of participants in the Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP). The managers selected will certainly include BlackRock and Pimco (Allianz group), the Wall Street Journal reports. These asset management firms will have up to three months to raise at least USD500m to buy up legacy securities which are weighing down the portfolios of banks.
13/05/2009

AEW Europe buys a logistical portfolio from ProLogis

AEW Europe announced on Tuesday that its core-plus fund Curzon Capital Partners II has spent EUR119.5m on the acquisition of a portfolio of seven logistical properties measuring a total of 229,000 square meters and located throughout Germany and the Netherlands from ProLogis. The net initial yield on the investment comes to over 8%.
13/05/2009

UIRE acquires a logistical centre from Goodman

For its institutional real estate fund Immo-Invest: Europa, Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE, German co-operative banks) has acquired a logistical centre measuring 102,020 square metres in Bad Hersfeld. Ownership of the property, leased for 10 years to Amazon, will be transferred in September. The vendor is Goodman Bad Hersfeld Logistics (Lux) S.a.r.l. The price of the acquisition, for which Savills served as the intermediary agent, has not been disclosed.
13/05/2009

Brandes calls on MSIG to pay added dividend

Brandes Investment Partners, which owns 9.46% of Mitsui Sumitomo Life Insurance Group, is putting pressure on the Japanese group to pay an additional dividend to its shareholders, at a cost of up to USD55.8m. A letter has been sent to the board of the company, the Financial Times reports.
13/05/2009

Turner IP launches a fund invested in six house strategies

Turner Investment Partners has announced the launch of the Turner Spectrum Fund, which includes both retail and institutional share classes. The product is a no-load mutual fund, which will invest in six market neutral long/short equities strategies managed by Turner itself: Turner Market Neutral, Turner Long/Short Equity, Turner Select Opportunities, Turner Global Medical Sciences, Turner Global Financial Services and Turner Global Consumer. This is the first time that the asset management firm has offered a mutual fund which allows subscribers access to alternative strategies. Minimal subscription will be USD100,000 for institutional shares and USD2,500 for retail shares, with an expense ratio what will initially be capped to 1.95% and 2.20%, respectively. Turner IP will charge no performance commission on the Spectrum fund.
13/05/2009

Goldman Sachs has potential conflict of interest in Whitehall funds

In a market environment in which commercial real estate prices have plunged, external investors in the Whitehall real estate fund from Goldman Sachs are beginning to consider conflicts of interest, the Wall Street Journal reports. They point out that Goldman Sachs, which is both an investor in, lender to, and manager of the fund (and which thus earns the management commissions) is in a position to profit from the situation to the detriment of outside investors. In 18 years, Goldman Sachs has raised USD31bn for the various Whitehall funds, external investors providing two third or more of this total. These ?opportunity funds? are high-leverage vehicles financed by Goldman Sachs, its employees, and outside subscribers.Currently, problems are emerging in relation to capital losses on Nevada casinos, a hotel chain (Equity Inns), and 36 properties acquired from DEGI in Germany.
13/05/2009

Santander updates portfolio of Fondo Superselección

Santander Asset Management has updated the composition of the portfolio of its Fondo Superselección, whose performance is tied to a basket of funds selected according to Lipper criteria, Cinco Días reports. The asset management firm has added two value-style US equities funds, Eaton Vance Emerald US Value M2 USD and JPM US Value A Dist USD. It will also invest in two European equities funds, Carmignac Portfolio Grande Europe and Oyster European Opportunities.
13/05/2009

Capitalia Familiar licensed as a financial advisory firm (EAFI)

Capitalia Familiar has become one of the first companies to be registered by the Spanish market regulator (CNMV) as a financial advisory company (?Empresa de Asesoramiento Financiero,? or EAFI), Funds people reports. For advisory firms with this format, clients retain their assets at their usual financial institutions, while the EAFI provides them with analysis and consolidated assistance with the management of their assets. Capitalia Familiar is directed by Félix González, previously CEO of private wealth management at Renta4.
13/05/2009

Les fonds de pension rappelés à l?ordre par la banque centrale

Selon Les Echos, la Banque centrale des Pays-Bas, qui avait sommé les fonds de pension néerlandais éreintés par la chute des marchés actions, de lui soumettre des mesures de remise à flot, vient d’exiger que des dizaines d’entre eux revoient leur copie.
13/05/2009

Les fonds de pension rappelés à l?ordre par la banque centrale

Selon Les Echos, la Banque centrale des Pays-Bas, qui avait sommé les fonds de pension néerlandais éreintés par la chute des marchés actions, de lui soumettre des mesures de remise à flot, vient d’exiger que des dizaines d’entre eux revoient leur copie.
13/05/2009

Partage du profit : le Medef mise sur l?épargne salariale

Selon Les Echos, le directeur général de l’Insee, Jean-Philippe Cotis, remet aujourd’hui à Nicolas Sarkozy son rapport sur le partage de la valeur ajoutée, sur celui des profits et sur les écarts de rémunération. Le Medef veut développer l"intéressement et la participation alors que les syndicats insistent sur les salaires. Les partenaires sociaux devraient commencer à débattre du sujet le 27 mai.
13/05/2009

CalPERS adopts a policy of increased transparency for ?placement agents?

Rob Feckner, chairman of the board at CalPERS, has announced that the California pension fund (USD177bn in assets) has adopted a new policy which requires external managers to disclose details of commissions they pay to placement agents and other information about their dealings with these entities in order to obtain mandates from CalPERS. The agencies will also be required to be registered with the SEC and Finra as broker-dealers: if they are not, CalPERS will refuse to award the mandates to the asset management firm.These new rules come in the wake of the recent ?pay-to-play? scandal, in which a ranking politician in New York used his influence at the city pension fund to direct mandates to certain asset management firms who paid him for the favour.
13/05/2009

BBVA signs partnership agreements with CITIC group

BBVA on Tuesday signed two partnership agreements with the Chinese CITIC group to create joint ventures in which the Spanish bank will control 35% of an entity that will lend money to finance purchases of automobiles in China, and 20% of a private bank to be founded with China Citic Bank (CNCB) as partner. BBVA points out that China is a market in which 320,000 households have financial savings of over EUR1m. The agreements are a materialization of the ?Framework Agreement on Further Strengthening Strategic Cooperation in Core Business Areas? signed in Madrid in January by the two groups.In private banking, BBVA will participate in the management of the existing specialised division of CITIC, which will serve as the embryo of the future joint venture. BBVA will bring to bear its expertise in private banking in several countries, in investment policy, risk management, and technology.
13/05/2009

Capital increase at BNY Mellon

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) has announced a capital increase through an issue of USD1bn in ordinary shares. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will jointly oversee the books for the operation. They will have a greenshoe option of 15%.Pending the approval of the regulators, the bank has proposed officially notifying the Department of the Treasury that it is buying back the last preferential shares in the firm issued to the government as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).BNY Mellon had previously announced that, on the basis of stress tests, it did not need to raise further capital.
13/05/2009

UBS : Olencoff will stick to his guns in lawsuit

L’Agefi Suisse reports that the American-Russian businessman Igor Olenicoff is refusing to drop his lawquit against UBS. On Monday he appeared before a court in Santa Ana, California, to testify that he is a victim of the tax avoidance system operated by the largest wiss bank, and is demanding USD500m in damages and interest. The Californian promoter, caught by the Californian tax authorities, pleaded guilty to tax fraud and agreed to pay a heavy fine.
13/05/2009

ETF assets up in April

As of the end of April, worldwide assets in ETF funds (1,678 funds from 90 providers, listed 3,009 times on 43 stock markets in total) totalled USD706.87bn, according to iShares, compared with USD633.55bn as of the end of March. Year to date, assets under management have fallen 0.5% while the MSCI World index in US dollars was down 3%, and the number of ETF funds increased by 109. 756 new ETFs are currently in the process of being launched. The largest provider of exchange-traded funds continues to be iShares, with 381 ETFs and USD336.17bn in assets, which represents a market share of 47.6%, compared with 46.8% at the end of March. The rankings remain the same as the previous month: State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) ranks second, with 104 products and USD110.14bn, or a market share of 15.6%, compared with 16.3% one month earlier. Vanguard is in third place, with 39 ETFs, USD51.04bn, and 7.2% of the market.
13/05/2009

Pictet Funds to launch an agriculture fund at the end of the month

The Luxembourg-based management firm Pictet Funds has announced that on 29 May it will launch the PF (LUX) - Agriculture fund, to be managed by Gertjan van der Geer, senior investment manager. The product, which was issued a sales license for Luxembourg on 5 September 2008, is a sub-fund of the Pictet Funds Sicav and will invest in listed agricultural firms that play a dominant role in feeding the planet. To avoid speculation on the price of soft commodities, the fund will not invest in agricultural commodities themselves; in addition, the manager will be prudent about investments in GMOs (companies which earn more than 10% of their revenues from these products will be excluded from the portfolio). Pictet has also retained the Ethos foundation to enter into constructive and regular dialogue with a selection of businesses.The new sub-fund will be sold in several European countries, including France. The P share class in Euros carries a maximal front-end fee of 5%, and a management commission of 1.6%.
13/05/2009

Defined-benefit fund deficits down in April

According to statistics from the Pension Protection Fund (PPF 7800 Index), the cumulative deficit for the approximately 7,400 defined-benefit pension funds in Great Britain at the end of April totalled GBP188.5bn, comapred with GBP242bn one month previously. At the end of April 2008, the bottom line was positive, at GBP27.1bn. The deficit for funds overall is estimated to have fallen to GBP204.8bn, compared with GBP253.1bn as of the end of March and GBP55.9bn one year previously.The PPF states that total surplus in funds which have more than sufficient coverage increased to GBP16.4bn as of the end of April, from GBP11.1bn one month previously. It stood at GBP83bn as of 30 April 2008.
13/05/2009

Financial savings of households fell by asn average of EUR4,000 in 2008

According to an annual study by the Bundesbank, the financial savings of German households fell last year by an average of approximately EUR4,000 compared with 2007, to EUR111,000. The savings rate has risen consistently since 2000 (when it was 9.2%), except in 2006; the rate last year stood at 11.5%. The average for 2000-2008 comes to 10.3%. The central bank also points out that in the first three quarters of 2008, German households invested a net total of EUR22.6bn in shares in investment funds, while they withdrew EUR17bn in fourth quarter. In January-September, savings deposited at banks represented EUR28.5bn, but the total for fourth quarter alone came to EUR70.4bn.Investment funds as of 31 December 2008 represented about 11.3% of the financial savings of households, compared with 12% one year previously.Losses on equities markets totalled EUR260bn last year, but, like savings accounts and insurance, investments in this areas increased in the same period by EUR120bn. Losses therefore add up to EUR140bn, which compares with only EUR35bn when the Internet stock market bubble burst.In total, the financial savings of households at the end of December totalled EUR4.41trn, compared with EUR4.55trn twelve months previously.
13/05/2009

Closing des transactions entre Fortis holding, l'Etat belge, Fortis Banque et BNP Paribas

Mercredi matin, Fortis holding a annoncé que le 12 mai «Fortis holding, l"État belge agissant via la Société Fédérale de Participations et d"Investissement S.A. (SFPI), Fortis Banque et BNP Paribas ont clôturé les transactions annoncées par Fortis holding le 7 mars 2009. Cette clôture fait suite au vote en faveur des transactions lors des Assemblées générales des Actionnaires de Fortis SA/NV et de Fortis N.V., les 28 et 29 avril 2009.» Les principaux éléments de ces transactions, du point de vue de Fortis holding sont la vente de 25 % plus un action de Fortis Insurance Belgium à Fortis Banque, l’acquisition d"une partie du portefeuille de crédits structurés de Fortis Banque par Royal Park Investments, un prêt d’un milliard d’euros apporté par Fortis Banque à Fortis holding, une option d"achat accordée par la SFPI relative aux actions BNP Paribas et un mécanisme de paiement d"intérêts fondé sur la valeur de la Relative Performance Note (RPN).
13/05/2009

KBC serait à nouveau en difficulté

Selon L"Echo, qui cite le Tijd, de nouvelles rumeurs portant sur un troisième plan d’aide financier concernant la banque KBC circulent sur le marché. Ce coup de pouce ferait suite à de nouvelles dépréciations sur son portefeuille de CDO, pour un montant d’un milliard d’euros.
13/05/2009

Petercam recrute chez ABN Amro

Peter de Keyze, qui est actuellement chief investment advisor chez ABN Amro Belgique rejoindra au plus tard le 1er septembre la société de gestion d’actifs Petercam en tant que chief economist. L’impétrant vient compléter la structure de Petercam en matière de politique d"investissement chargée d"élaborer la stratégie au sein et entre les différentes classes d"actifs pour la gestion institutionnelle et privée. Plus spécifiquement, son rôle sera d"échafauder le cadre macro-économique ainsi que d"aider à identifier les meilleures thématiques d"investissement pour l’avenir. L'équipe d’analystes macroéconomiques de Petercam est dirigée par Xavier van Campenhout, associé de Petercam, qui est responsable de la stratégie et de la banque privée en Suisse. Outre Peter de Keyzer, elle comprend aussi Filip Verstreken et Stijn De Cock.
13/05/2009
Fonds

Pictet Funds lancera un fonds agriculture en fin de mois

Le luxembourgeois Pictet Funds annonce qu’il lancera le 29 mai le fonds PF (LUX) - Agriculture géré par Gertjan van der Geer, senior investment manager. Ce produit, qui a obtenu un agrément de commercialisation au Luxembourg le 5 septembre 2008, est un compartiment de la Sicav Pictet Funds qui sera investi dans des sociétés agricoles cotées qui jouent un rôle prépondérant dans l’approvisionnement alimentaire de la planète. Pour éviter les spéculations sur les prix des produits agroalimentaires, le fonds n’investira pas en matières premières agricoles ; de plus le gérant sera prudent concernant les OGM (les sociétés qui réalisent plus de 10 % sur ces produits sont exclues du portefeuille). De plus, Pictet a chargé la fondation Ethos d’entrer en dialogue constructif et régulier avec une sélection d’entreprises. Ce nouveau compartiment devrait être distribué dans plusieurs pays européens, dont la France. La classe de parts P en euros est assortie d’un droit d’entrée maximal de 5 % et d’une commission de gestion de 1,6 %.
Fonds
13/05/2009

Nouvelle offre " haut de gamme " de BNP Paribas

Avec l"Asie en ligne de mire compte tenu de ses perspectives de croissance à long terme et de son important potentiel d"épargne, BNP Paribas vient de lancer à Singapour BNP Paribas Personal Investors . Ce département crée au sein de l"activité BNP Paribas Wealth Management a pour objectif de conseiller une clientèle aisée - disposant d"au moins 125 000 euros ? et de lui offrir des solutions de placements. Dans le détail, les épargnants ont accès à une large palette de produits (dépôts, devises, actions, obligations, OPCVM, produits structurés, etc). Deux équipes spécialisées, dédiées respectivement à la clientèle asiatique et à la clientèle européenne implantée en Asie seront mises à contribution, les clients de la banque pouvant souscrire les placements en question à Singapour ou en Europe.
13/05/2009
Fonds

Hausse de l'encours des ETF en avril

A fin avril, l’encours mondial des ETF (1.678 fonds de 90 émetteurs cotés 3.009 fois sur 43 Bourses au total) ressortait selon iShares à 706,87 milliards de dollars contre 633,55 milliards à fin mars. Depuis le début de l’année, les actifs sous gestion ont diminué de 0,5 % alors que l’indice MSCI monde en dollars baissait de 3 %, et le nombre d’ETF s’est accru de 109 unités. D’autre part, 756 ETF sont en projet. Le plus important fournisseur de fonds indiciels cotés reste iShares avec 381 ETF et 336,17 milliards de dollars d’encours, ce qui représente une part de marché de 47,6 % contre 46,8 % à fin mars ; le classement reste le même que le mois précédent : State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) arrive en deuxième position avec 104 produits et 110,14 milliards de dollars, soit une part de marché de 15,6 % contre 16,3 % un mois plus tôt. Enfin, Vanguard se classe troisième avec 39 ETF, 51,04 milliards de dollars et 7,2 % de part de marché.
Fonds
13/05/2009

UBS : Olenicoff maintient sa plainte

Selon L"Agefi suisse, l"homme d"affaires américano-russe Igor Olenicoff refuse de retirer sa plainte contre l"UBS. Il s"est présenté lundi devant le tribunal de Santa Ana en Californie comme une victime du système de fraude fiscale mis en place par le numéro un bancaire helvétique et réclame jusqu"à 500 millions de dollars de dommages et intérêts. Tombé dans les filets du fisc américain, le promoteur californien avait auparavant plaidé coupable de fraude fiscale et accepté de payer une lourde amende.
13/05/2009

Friedrich von Metzler investit ? 1,3 milliard dans LeasePlan

Le banquier Friedrich von Metzler, qui dirige la banque privée allemande Metzler, a consacré 1,3 milliard d’euros de sa cassette personnelle à l’acquisition des 50 % du néerlandais LeasePLan que détenaient ensemble le saoudien Olayan et le fonds souverain d’Abou Dhabi Mubadala Development Company, rapporte le Handelsblatt. La participation dans le gestionnaire de flottes de véhicules en leasing sera portée par une société néerlandaise ad hoc, Fleet Investments. Une option de vente lui est ménagée au cas où les risques économiques de l’investissement viendraient à s’accroître. L’autre partenaire détenant 50 % est Volkswagen, qui avait acheté LeasePlan à ABN Amro en 2004 avec les deux investisseurs arabes pour 2 milliards d’euros.

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