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26/01/2009

Spain - Gonzalo Lardiés joins Interdin Gestión

Funds People announces that Gonzalo Lardiés star manager at the Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild, after an equally celebrated career at Metagestión, on 1 February will be joining Interdin Gestión, which is 70% owned by the Banca Privada de Andorra, and which on this date will become known as BPA AM. At that time, the fund managed by Lardiés, the BPERE Fondo Ibérico Acciones, will be renamed as the BPA Fondo Ibérico Acciones. BPERE was already involved in the management of the Interdin product under an outsourcing contract.
26/01/2009

Germany - On ten years, savings plans invested in equities funds have lost an average of 9.7%

The German BVI association of management firms announced on Friday that savings plans in the form of shares in open-ended real estate funds in the ten years to the end of December posted an average performance of 2.8% per year, as did bond funds in Euros, while global bond funds posted gains of 0.7%, and diversified funds invested in Germany produced minimal gains of 0.1%.Due to a collapse in asset levels between 2000 and 2003 more than to the current financial crisis, German equities funds posted an aveage loss of 9.7%, compared with 8.1% for global equities funds and 8% for European equities funds. Geman equities funds only generated performance higher than that of all other categories over 30 years, with an average of 6.4%, putting them just ahead of German diversified funds, with 6.2%.
26/01/2009

United States - Van Eck launches an Indonesian equities ETF

Van Eck Global (USD8.2bn in assets at the end of December, of which USD4.5bn are in ETFs of the Markets Vector range) has announced the launch on the NYSE Arca platform of what it claims is the first US ETF to be based on the Indonesian market as its underlying. The Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF (acronym: IDX) will be based on the Market Vectors Indonesia Index (acronym: MVINDO), from Germany’s 4asset-management, calculated by S&P. Fees for the fund total 0.71%.As of 31 December, the benchmark index included shares in 25 companies, of which 30.1% were financials, 15.7%, energy sector, and 12.7% telecommunications. The three largest positions as of this date were Bank Central Asia (8.8%), Telekommunikasi Indonesia (7.5%), and Bank Rakyat Indonesia (7.0%).
26/01/2009

France - Madoff: Management firms call for European summit

Ignites Europe reports that Al.ain Leclair, chairman of the French wealth management association (AFG), on Wednesday met with Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the new chairman of the French financial regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), to ask him to convene a summit of European regulators to put pressure on UBS and HSBC to reimburse investors who have fallen victim to the Madoff fraud. Colette Neuville was also present at the meeting.
26/01/2009

World - Alternative managers will need to revise their fee models

La Tribune reports that falling markets are having an impact on the structure of commissions in alternative management. A study by Bfinance, covering 28 managers of hedge funds and funds of hedge funds in 10 countries, finds a falling trend in management fees. ?Fixed commissions for funds of hedge funds may fall by 17%, and would come out between 90 and 100 basis points,? says Muriel Nahmais, director of research at Bfinance. ?At the same time, performance commissions at hedge funds would fall 25% to a level of about 10%-15%.?
26/01/2009

Germany - KanAm extends redemption freeze for its two real estate funds

On Friday morning, KanAm Grund announced that it will be extending the redemption freeze on its two open-ended real estate funds, grundinvest and US-grundinvest, for nine months. The Munich-based management firm states that it is planning to reopen the two funds to redemptions before the end of October.DEGI (Aberdeen Property Investors) has chosen to reopen its real estate fund DEGI International to redemptions from 30 January 2009, ending a freeze which had been in place since the end of October 2008. The product has since registered net subscriptions of EUR65m from retail investors. The liquidity reserves at the fund will measure about 25% at the time of its reopening. The occupancy rate for properties in the fund’s portfolio is 98%. However, DEGI (EUR6bn in assets) is extending the freeze on redemptions for its other open-ended real estate fund, DEGI Europa, for a further nine months, as this fund has not managed to amass a sufficient level of liquidities.KanAm and DEGI initially suspended redemptions from the funds at the end of October, along with ten other management firms. In the past week, it has been announced that redemptions are also frozen for a further nine months from the CS Euroreal, TMW Pramerica Weltfonds, Mrogan Stanley P2 Value, Axa Immoselect and SEB ImmoInvest funds.Legally, the management firms would be allowed to extend these freezes on redemptions once more, for a further twelve months. At the end of this period, they would have to liquidate the fund and reimburse investors.
26/01/2009

Switzerland - Funds post net subscriptions despite crisis

Although their assets last year fell to CHF248.71bn from CHF282.96bn at the end of 2007, Swiss-registered funds posted net subscriptions of CHF26.62bn, while Luxembourg-registered funds saw net redemptions of CHF46.76bn, AGEFI Switzerland reports. Otto Kober, head of research in Switzerland for Lipper, says that so far, there have been very few redemptions of shares in equities funds (CHF3.52bn in 2008).
26/01/2009

Switzerland - Subscriptions cancel out negative market impact for Partners Group

At the end of December, assets at the alternative management firm Partners Group came out at CHF24.4bn, the same level as one year previously. In the event, net subscriptions of CHF6.2bn balanced out the negative impact of the rising Swiss Franc against the Euro and the US dollar (CHF1.1bn in the month of December alone), and negative market effects. Assets under management as of 31 December were about CHF1bn lower than the projections announced by the alternative management firm in November 2008.Of total assets as of the end of last year, assets in private equity represented CHF19.2bn, compared with CHF16.7bn twelve months earlier, while real estate totalled CHF0.5bn, compared with CHF0.3bn. Meanwhile, the private infrastructure allocation represented CHF0.3bn, while CHF1.8bn were allocated to absolute performance strategies, publicly traded alternative products, and the wealth management division.For the end of 2009, Partners Group projects assets of CHF26-29bn.
26/01/2009

Germany - Salus Alpha releases Directional Markets fund

The Austrian alternative management firm Salus Alpha on Friday received authorisation to release its Directional Markets hedge fund to retail investors in Germany. The fund was previously available only in the form of a managed account, with a minimal subscription of EUR10m. The fund replicates the DMX index, which posted performance as of the end of 2008 of 59.27%, which, according to Fondsprofessionell, represents a 99.64% outperformance of the Dax, and 97.76% outperformance of the S&P 500.
26/01/2009

United States - Brian Moynihan takes over as president at BofA

Following the resignation of John Thain, Brian Moynihan was appointed on Friday as president of global banking and global wealth and investment management at Bank of America. Moynihan will retain his position as general counsel for the bank, until a replacement can be found for him in that position. He was previously president of global wealth and investment management at Bank of America, before it was acquired last year by Merrill Lynch.Meanwhile, Bank of America has announced that Tom Montag will remain as director of the global markets unit, but that he will now report directly to Ken Lewis, chairman and CEO. He is also appointed as a member of the management executive team, which determines the group’s strategy.
26/01/2009

Switzerland - Regulator may permit side pockets under certain conditions

On Friday, the Swiss federal financial market surveillance authority (FINMA) announced, with many precautions, that side pockets may be approved, under certain circumstances, for Swiss funds of hedge funds (FoHF). The creation of side pockets may not be undertaken without the prior approval of FINMA, and must be in the interests of all investors. The rights of investors must also be preserved at the creation of the side pockets, the regulator emphasizes.
26/01/2009

Luxembourg - CSSF publishes a list of funds exposed to Madoff

In a statement dated 23 January, the Luxembourg financial sector surveillance commission (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, or CSSF) provided a list of 17 collective investment organisms (OPC) registered in Luxembourg (and for each one of these funds, where applicable, the sub-funds affected), which have been directly or indirectly affected by the fraud case related to Bernard L. Madoff. The funds on the list have decided to suspend either calculations of their net asset value, redemptions, subscriptions, or conversions of their shares/equities. The OPCs have a total exposure of EUR1.7bn to the fraud. They include the Herald (Lux), for the US Absolute Return Fund sub-fund; the Luxembourg Investment Fund, for the US Equity Plus sub-fund; the Luxalpha Sicav, for the Balanced Sub-fund, Growth Sub-fund and X-tra Alternative Investments Sub-fund; the Carat (Lux) Sicav, for the Global One sub-fund; the LRI Invest Alpha Stable Euro; the BG Umbrella Fund for the BG Global Classic, BG Global Dynamic, BG Global Challenge, BG Global Balance, BG Global Discovery and BG Stable Value sub-funds; the MARS Fund for the One © sub-fund; and Pareturn for the Best Selection sub-fund.
26/01/2009

Germany - Local hedge funds perform better than international average

According to Absolut report, German single hedge funds posted an average performance in December of 2.65%, compared with 2.69% in November. The Einzelfonds-DH X index (1,045.51 at the end of December) finished 2008 with losses of only 0.95% while losses for the Euro-denominated versions of the Credit Suisse/Tremont Blue Chip Hedge Fund and HFRX Global Hedge Fund were 26.8% and 23.77%, respectively.The German fund of hedge fund index (Dachfonds-DH X, 925.14 as of the end of December), for its part, is down 1.06% in December, compared with 2.25% in the previous month. For the year, the index has lost 12.19%, while the HFRI Fund of Funds Composite Index was down only 0.9% for December, but lost 20.68% for the year.
26/01/2009

Spain - Downgraded rating of Spanish sovereign debt will prevent funds from investing in bonos

S&P has downgraded Spain as a borrower to AA+ from AAA, which will not only increase the price of borrowing for the country, but will mean that many investors will no longer have the statutory right to buy bonos, while some will even be forced to sell the bonds they already have in their portfolios, Expansión reports. The manager of the Pictet Funds (LUX) Sovereign Liquidity has decided to no longer invest in Spanish government bonds, while the manager of the Dexia Money Market Euro AAA will liquidate its position in these assets. The Dexia Bonds Euro Government will not sell off its bonos, but it will adopt an underweight position on them. The DWS Dinero Gobierno AAA will continue to invest in bonos, as the other two ratings agencies, Fitch and Moody’s, have not lowered their ratings of Spain.
26/01/2009

Austria - Corporate pension funds lost an average of 13.1% last year

The Austrian association of pension funds (FVPK) on Friday estimated that its 19 member entities showed average losses fo 13.1% in 2008, while their performance over five years stands at 2.62% per year, compared with 6.8% for the five years to the end of 2007. The 19 pension funds managed EUR11.5bn in assets as of the end of December, compared with EUR13.1bn twelve months previously.
26/01/2009

World - 70% of hedge funds lost money in 2008

BarclayHedge reports that hedge funds lot an average of 24.4% last year, and 70% of them finished the year in the red, Sol Waksman, chairman and founder of BarclayHedge, told HedgeWeek. Funds of funds lost an average of only 21.69%, but 85% of them had negative performance.The only strategy to have made money for last year as a whole was equity short bias, with 41.09% performance, and gains of 20.83% as equity markets fell in September and October.
26/01/2009

France - Schelcher Prince lance un fonds obligataire à échéance

Schelcher Prince Gestion, société de gestion spécialisée sur les taux, lance à son tour un fonds obligataire à échéance, dénommé Schelcher Prince Horizon 2012. Ce FCP sera investi dans des obligations d"entreprises ou convertibles de type taux, dans la zone euro, dont l"échéance ne pourra excéder le 31 mars 2012. Pour 80 % minimum, il s"agira d"obligations notées investment grade.L"intérêt du fonds est de «profiter des spreads actuels qui offrent des rendements très élevés avec des signatures de bonne qualité», explique Bruno Promonet, directeur général délégué de Schelcher Prince. Il a comme objectif de surperformer d"au moins 3 % à l"échéance le BTAN 3,75 janvier 2012. «Une valeur liquidative supérieure à 120 % peut être attendue à l"échéance dans des conditions identiques à celles de la situation actuelle», indique Bruno Promonet.
26/01/2009

Allemagne - Sur dix ans, les plans d'épargne en fonds d'actions perdent en moyenne 9,7 %

L’association allemande BVI des sociétés de gestion a indiqué vendredi que les plans d'épargne sous forme de parts de fonds immobiliers offerts au public ont affiché sur les dix ans à fin décembre une performance moyenne de 2,8 % par an, comme les fonds obligataires en euros, alors que les fonds d’obligations-monde enregistraient un gain de 0,7 % et les fonds diversifiés Allemagne produisaient une minime avance de 0,1 %.A cause de l’effondrement des cours entre 2000 et 2003, puis de la crise financière actuelle, les fonds d’actions allemandes ont accusé pour leur part une perte moyenne de 9,7 %, contre 8,1 % pour les fonds d’actions monde et 8 % pour ceux d’actions européennes. Les fonds d’actions allemandes n’ont généré de performance supérieure à celle de toutes les autres catégories que sur 30 ans, avec 6,4 % de moyenne, juste devant les diversifiés Allemagne avec 6,2 %.
26/01/2009

Autriche - Les caisses de retraite d'entreprise ont perdu 13,1 % en moyenne l'an dernier

L’association autrichienne des caisses de retraite (FVPK) a estimé vendredi que ses 19 adhérentes ont accusé en moyenne une perte de 13,1 % en 2008, la performance sur cinq ans se situant à 2,62 % par an, contre 6,8 % pour les cinq ans à fin 2007. Les dix-neuf caisses géraient au 31 décembre quelque 11,5 milliards d’euros d’encours contre 13,1 milliards douze mois auparavant.
26/01/2009

UE - LBO : l'Europe KO

Selon La Tribune, en Europe, «le marché du LBO (rachat par effet de levier) est en chute libre», notamment en Grande-Bretagne (-93 % entre les troisième et quatrième trimestres 2008), indiquent les données de Candover Capital. En revanche, en Chine, «l’activité des fonds de LBO a bondi de presque 50 % l"an dernier», rapporte le quotidien.
26/01/2009

Allemagne - Salus Alpha commercialise son fonds Directional Markets

Le gestionnaire alternatif autrichien Salus Alpha est autorisé depuis vendredi à commercialiser auprès du grand public en Allemagne son hedge fund Directional Markets, qui n'était disponible que sous forme de compte géré avec une souscription minimale de 10 millions d’euros. Le fonds réplique l’indice DMX qui a affiché pour 2008 une performance de 59,27 %, ce qui représente selon Fondsprofessionell une surperformance de 99,64 % par rapport au Dax et de 97,76 % par rapport au S&P 500.
26/01/2009

Etats-Unis - Van Eck lance un ETF sur les valeurs indonésiennes

Van Eck Global (8,2 milliards de dollars d’encours fin décembre, dont 4,5 milliards pour les ETF de la marque Markets Vector) a annoncé le lancement sur la plate-forme NYSE Arca de ce qu’il indique être le premier ETF américain utilisant le marché indonésien comme sous-jacent. Le Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF (acronyme : IDX) s’attachera à répliquer le Market Vectors Indonesia Index (acronyme : MVINDO) de l’allemand 4asset-management calculé par S&P. Le taux de frais est de 0,71 %.Au 31 décembre, l’indice de référence comprenait des actions de 25 sociétés, dont 30,1 % de financières, 15,7 % de valeurs de l'énergie et 12,7 % du secteur des télécommunications. Les trois principales lignes étaient à cette date Bank Central Asia (8.8%), Telekomunikasi Indonesia (7.5%) et Bank Rakyat Indonesia (7.0%).
26/01/2009

Europe - La Deutsche Bank lance un fonds matières premières market neutral

Le DB Platinum Commodity Harvest Fund, qui a obtenu un agrément de commercialisation au Luxembourg, en Allemagne, en Italie, en Suisse, en Autriche et en Espagne, est selon la Deutsche Bank, son promoteur, le premier fonds de matières premières market neutral conforme à la directive OPCVM III, rapporte HedgeWeek. Ce fonds de performance absolue réplique l'évolution du Deutsche Bank Platinum Commodity Harvest Index lancé en 2007.La stratégie est appliquée à 21 matières premières offrant une bonne liquidité dans les compartiments de l'énergie, des métaux et de l’agriculture avec une position longue et une position courte sur chacune des matières premières sous-jacentes, l’objectif étant d’acheter des contrats bon marché et de vendre des contrats à prix élevés.
26/01/2009

Italie - Milan attaque quatre banques en justice

La municipalité de Milan assigne en justice la Deutsche Bank, UBS, JP Morgan Chase et Dexia pour lui avoir vendu 1,7 milliard d’euros de dérivés en couverture d’un emprunt en 2005, rapporte le Handelsblatt. Les banques auraient perçu 96 millions d’euros de commissions sur cette opération qui se traduit pour la ville par une perte de 300 millions d’euros en mark to market à fin juin 2008.
26/01/2009

Monde - Gestion : pas d?impact significatif des "rating triggers"

Les clauses de modification des notes («rating triggers») n"ont pas d"impact important pour les émetteurs, selon l"étude annuelle réalisée par Moody"s auprès des sociétés de gestion clientes. Même si les révisions à la baisse qui peuvent exercer une pression non négligeable sur la liquidité d"une société restent préoccupantes, «la majorité des clauses de déclenchement dans le secteur de la gestion d"actifs n"ont pas de conséquences financières immédiates significatives», indique Moody"s.
26/01/2009

Suisse - Malgré la crise, les fonds enregistrent des souscriptions nettes

Si leur encours a diminué l’an dernier à 248,71 milliards de francs suisses contre 282,96 milliards fin 2007, les fonds de droit suisse ont affiché des souscriptions nettes de 26,62 milliards de francs alors que ceux de droits luxembourgeois supportaient des rachats nets de 46,76 milliards de francs, rapporte l’Agefi Suisse. Otto Kober, responsable de la recherche en Suisse de Lipper, indique que, jusqu'à présent, il y a eu très peu de rachat de parts de fonds en actions (3,52 milliards de francs en 2008).
26/01/2009

UE - Gestion : les recommandations du think tank

Jean-Baptiste de Franssu, directeur général (DG) de Invesco Europe et à l"initiative d"un think tank européen sur la gestion d"actifs. Pour promouvoir l"épargne de long terme, le think tank nomme neuf recommandations : créer et financer une fondation éducative à destination des épargnants, définir une charte de bonne conduite pour les distributeurs de produits et services financiers, renforcer le lien avec le client final par une meilleure diffusion de l"information , améliorer la communication sur les objectifs de l"industrie de la gestion d"actifs, développer des produits d"épargne à long terme labellisés, réduire les coûts de gestion des fonds, initier des actions pour établir un cadre paneuropéen de l"épargne retraite, évoluer vers une approche réglementaire unifiée et promouvoir rapidement et de manière effective la transposition en droit national de la directive UCITS 4.
26/01/2009

France - Les taux de la plupart des livrets vont baisser

La Tribune rappelle que le taux du livret A va baisser de 4 % à 2,50 %, tout comme ceux des livrets réglementés au 1er février. Celui du plan d'épargne logement, le PEL, a été préservé. Sa rémunération sera maintenue à 2,50 % (hors prime d'État), a dévoilé samedi Le Parisien.

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