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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

France - Cholet Dupont AM recruits Philippe Lesueur

Cholet Dupont AM has announced the recruitment, at the end of 2008, of Philippe Lesueur, equities manager, a graduate of EDHEC and CFAF. He was previously at PIM Gestion. At Cholet Dupont AM, Lesueur currently manages the French equities fund CD France Expertise and the European equities fund CD Europe Expertise.
26/01/2009

EU - Fitch affirms KBC AM's rating

Fitch Ratings on Friday affirmed KBC Asset Management’s M2 asset manager rating for its investment management activities in Brussels and Luxembourg. The agency points out mainly the stability of its investment management staff following a CEO change in July 2008. The rating also recognises the controlled evolution of the company into the institutional business and its overseas growth, particularly in Asia.
26/01/2009

EU - LBO: Europe is kaput

La Tribune reports that in Europe, ?the LBO (leveraged buyout) market is in free-fall,? particularly in Great Britain (-93% between third and fourth quarters of 2008), according to statistics from Candover Capital. However, in China, ?LBO funds’ activities leapt by nearly 50% last year,? the newspaper reports.
26/01/2009

Switzerland - Credit Suisse buys back Lehman products from clients

Walter Berchtold, head of private banking activities, has told the NZZ am Sonntag that Credit Suisse has bought up nearly CHF100m worth of financial products from Lehman Brothers from approximately 2,000 clients. Only 11 clients declined the buyback offer, which was limited to guaranteed-capital Lehman products sold by Credit Suisse to clients who had invested more than half of their capital and less than CHF500,000 in the funds.
26/01/2009

France - Crédit Agricole and SG confirm merger of asset management activities

After a week of flying rumours, Crédit Agricole S.A. and Société Générale confirmed on Monday morning that they have signed a preliminary agreement to merge their asset management activities.The merger will affect 100% of activities of the Crédit Agricole Asset Management group, including CPR AM and Casam, and the Europan and Asian asset manaagement activities of Société Générale, as well as 20% of TCW, the asset management affiliate in the United States (which is aiming for an IPO in five years). SGAM AI< which will be merged with Lyxor, is excluded from the perimeter of the agreement.The new French actor in asset management will be 70% owned by Crédit Agricole S.A and 30% by Société Générale, and as of 30 September 2008, represents EUR638bn in assets under management, of which EUR460bn come from CAAM and EUR178bn from Société Générale Asset Management. The entity will claim ?fourth place in Europe and ninth place worldwide? by asset volume, a statement adds. It generates more than EUR1.8bn in banking proceeds, and EUR0.9bn in gross operating results.In terms of governance, the new group will be led by Yves Perrier as CEO; Perrier is currently president and CEO of CAAM. Société Générale will have one third of the seats on the board of directors of the new ensemble. Crédit Agricole will appoint the chairman of the board of directors, while Société Générale will appoint the vice-chairman. A press conference will be held in Paris on Monday morning to announce the agreement.
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.
23/01/2009

Le rapprochement Sgam-Caam confirmé

Selon des sources internes, la négociation en vue d’un rapprochement des entités de gestion d ‘actifs des groupes Société Générale et Crédit agricole SA a été bouclée. Le partage de la filiale commune se fera a raison de 30 % pour le premier, 70 % pour le second. L’accord ne concerne que la gestion traditionnelle. Alors que les équipes de Société Générale oeuvraient à leur réorganisation en groupes de travail depuis la nomination de Jean-Pierre Mustier, celui-ci a donc mené des discussions avec la Banque verte afin de créer une usine qui servira désormais trois réseaux : les caisses du Crédit Agricole, LCL et Société Générale. La Banque verte a déjà l’expérience de ce genre de processus pour l’avoir mis en œuvre après le rachat du Crédit Lyonnais. Le montage s’apparente ainsi à celui qui a présidé à la naissance de Newedge il y a un an, avec le rapprochement, cette fois à 50/50, des activités de courtage de Calyon Financial (Crédit Agricole) et Fimat (Société Générale). A l’évidence, Sgam AI (gestion alternative) devrait être intégrée à Lyxor (rattachée à la banque de financement et d’investissement).
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23/01/2009

Espagne - Le Santander louait le timing impeccable de Madoff

Quelques semaines avant l"arrestation de Bernard Madoff, les gérants d"Optimal, l"entité de gestion alternative du Santander, déclaraient dans une étude aux investisseurs institutionnels qu"ils étaient impressionnés par le market timing impeccable de l"Américain, rapporte le Financial Times. La révélation du contenu de l"étude soulève des doutes sur l"efficacité de la gestion des risques et des due diligences de Santander.
23/01/2009

Etats-Unis - Bank of America fait le ménage

Selon La Tribune, John Thain, l’ancien PDG de Merrill Lynch, va être licencié par Bank of America. Merrill Lynch a perdu 15,3 milliards de dollars au quatrième trimestre et Bank of America 1,79 milliard de dollars, soit sa première perte trimestrielle depuis 1991.
23/01/2009

Etats-Unis - Fortune rembourse ses investisseurs

The Wall Street Journal rapporte qu’après avoir renégocié son financement avec les banques, Fortress Investment Group remboursera en fin de mois 2,2 milliards de dollars aux investisseurs qui avaient demandé à sortir 3,1 milliards de dollars en fin d’année dernière du hedge fund Drawbridge Global Macro, en perte de 20 %. Le reliquat de 27 % sera remboursé sur les dix-huit prochains mois.
23/01/2009

Allemagne - ING IM recrute une dirigeante de MLP Bank

Matthias Schellenberg, qui a été promu récemment head of business development Europe (lire notre dépêche du 27 octobre 2008) d’ING Investment Management Europe, a annoncé que le groupe a recruté Susanne Hellmann pour le remplacer comme directeur de la filiale allemande, avec effet immédiat. L’intéressée était en dernier lieu responsable de la gestion de fortune et du négoce de valeurs mobilières chez MLP Bank.
23/01/2009

Allemagne - L'Axa Immoselect et le SEB ImmoInvest restent fermés aux rachats

Jeudi soir, AXA Investment Managers Deutschland a annoncé que le gel des remboursements mis en place le 28 octobre 2008 pour le fonds immobilier offert au public Axa Immoselect demeurera en vigueur pour neuf mois au-delà de la date initialement prévue du 28 janvier 2009.Le fonds #continue d'être géré de manière active pour augmenter le ratio de liquidités#, ce qui signifie qu’il y aura de nouvelles cessions d’actifs, les dirigeants d’Axa IM Allemagne ayant décidé de ne pas recourir à des financements externes.Une heure plus tard, SEB Asset Management faisait également part d’un maintien pour neuf mois supplémentaires de l’arrêt des rachats de son propre fonds immobilier SEB ImmoInvest, tout en précisant qu’elle compte mettre fin au gel des remboursements dès le deuxième trimestre 2009. Les souscriptions nettes depuis l’arrêt des sorties le 29 octobre ont porté sur 90 millions et le fonds affiche pour l’ensemble de 2008 une performance de 5 %.L’Axa Immoselect et le SEB ImmoInvest sont ainsi les quatrième et cinquième fonds immobilier à proroger le gel des rachats, après le CS Euroreal, le TMW Pramerica Weltfonds et le Morgan Stanley P2 Value.

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