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08/01/2009

Etats-Unis - La SEC rouvre une enquête sur Pequot CM

Selon des proches du dossier, le SEC a rouvert l’enquête de deux ans qu’elle avait close sans suite au sujet d’un éventuel délit d’initié sur des actions Microsoft en 2001 par le gestionnaire alternatif Pequot Capital Management, rapporte The Wall Street Journal. Sur la transaction incriminée, Pequot aurait réalisé un bénéfice de plus de 2 millions de dollars.
07/01/2009

World - According to Altedia 1C, SRI does not penalise performance

In a study of 171 sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) in the two years to 31 October, Altedia Investment Consulting concludes that Best in Class funds earn performance which is relatively in line with market indices and non-SRI funds. Best in Class funds which do not apply exclusionary filters post the best relative performances compared with funds that combine both approaches. The difference amounts to 1.5% over 2 years.Thematic funds earn performance which is in line with or superior to financial market indices: -1% for the category as a whole, with significant disparities. Thematic funds which integrate extra-financial aspects into their financial selection process earn better performance compared with those which invest without taking account of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, particularly when markets are in a falling phase: the difference is 2.8% in one year, says Altedia IC.
07/01/2009

Belgium - Government wants to negotiate with Fortis shareholders

Les Echos relays reports in the De Tijd newspaper that the Belgian government is expected to hold discussions at a meeting of the council of ministers on Tuesday over a possible reimbursement of investors in Fortis, whose shares have plummeted since the breakup of the company and the decision to sell the group’s Luxembourg and Belgian assets to BNP Paribas.
07/01/2009

United States - Millennium appoint independent administrator

Millennium Management, a New York hedge fund with USD11bn in assets, managed by Izzy Englander, has appointed an independent firm to reassure investors in the wake of the Madoff fraud, the Financial Times reports. The administrator is GlobeOp, which will provide valuation and independent controlling of Millennium’s assets.
07/01/2009

United States - Madoff attempted to avoid disaster

Ten days before his arrest, Bernard Madoff obtained USD250m from Carl Shapiro, the billionaire who helped him at the beginning of his career in 1960, the Wall Street Journal reports. On 5 December, Madoff also received USD10m from Martin Rosenman, president of a fuel company in the Bronx. And just before Thanksgiving, Madoff contacted two eminent investors, Langone and Holzmann, to announce to them that he was planning to launch a new USD500m to USD1bn fund very soon.
07/01/2009

China - Beijing government may introduce REITs

Qi Jin, Chinese vice-minister for housing, has announced at a press conference that banking regulators are working on plans to introduce REITs to stimulate the local real estate market, the Financial Times reports.
07/01/2009

France - LFP now offers a full range of credit products

This year, La Française des Placements (LFP) is planning to dedicate high-visibility efforts to developing sales of credit products, an area in which it now offers a full range of funds, from investment grade to high yield, including convertible bonds and money market funds, Pascale Auclair, deputy CEO for management, has announced.
07/01/2009

United Kingdom - Pension funds profit from falling pound

The fall of the pound sterling last year came as a blessing for British pension funds: it enabled them to make up for losses on equities markets, the Financial Times reports. According to State Street, pension funds in the United Kingdom showed average losses of about 13% in 2008, far better than the 30% fall on UK equities markets, and the 40% drops seen in the United States, Japan, and Europe.
07/01/2009

United States - Some ETFs managed to make money despite conditions in 2008

As a general rule, ETFs lost money last year, since they replicate the evolution of the markets. However, in the equities ETF fund class, the ProShares UltraShort S&P 500, which uses short positions and leverage, posted performance of 61%, the Wall Street Journal reports. In bond funds, the iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund and the SPDR Lehman Long Term Treasury ETF gained 34% and 24%, respectively, according to Morningstar.
07/01/2009

Switzerland - Benno Flury joins Nationale Suisse as CIO

Following the resignation of Rodolfo Lindner, the insurance firm National Suisse has recruited Benno Flury to succeed him as chief investment officer (CIO). He will join the firm on 1 April. Currently, Flury is managing director and head of fixed income at Swiss Re, where he is in charge of the European and Asian bond portfolios.
07/01/2009

United States - Two new chiefs at Fidelity

Fidelity Investments announced on Tuesday that two executives have joined its teams. Peter Ciezko, former president and CEO of Evergreen Investments, has been appointed president of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Company, which manages USD272bn in assets and provides investment services through more than 1,000 financial institutions and 44,000 client advisors. Meanwhile, Ed Orazem, former managing director of Global Wealth Management at Citigroup, becomes president of Fidelity Family Office Services, an entity which offers wealth management products and services to 70 family office clients representing assets of more than USD9bn.Ciezko will join Fidelity in January 2009, and will report to Michael K. Clark, president of Fidelity Institutional Products Group. Orazem will join the firm in February, and will report to Charles G. Goldman, president of Institutional Platforms for Fidelity Institutional Products Group.
07/01/2009

Spain - Managers remain cautious of markets

A monthly Lipper survey of the major Spanish managers finds that despite a relative comeback on the equities markets in December, 15.38% of fund managers are underweight in this asset class, compared with 7.69% in December, while the average exposure to cash has increased to 34.05% from 33.09%, Cinco Días reports.
07/01/2009

World - Private equity expected to announce losses

Private equity firms are expected to warn clients in the next few weeks that their investments have depreciated, the Financial Times reports. The newspaper estimates that losses may be in the 20%-30% range.
07/01/2009

United States - Tom Forester: a rising star

The Wall Street Journal reported on the reasons that Tom Forester, who has his own management firm, which manages a small diversified US equities fund with USD60m in assets, was the only manager to post positive returns in 2008 (0.4%), in a category that includes 2,800 funds. Most of the atypical manager’s secret consists in the face that he focuses on potential losses (downside). In addition, he did not hesitate to hold onto a 30% allocation to cash (he is currently 100% in cash), and he has no benchmark, which saved him from having to invest in the financial sector. Over five years, the S&P 500 has lost 19%, while Forester’s fund has earned 11%.
07/01/2009

Canada - RBC AM and PH&N post net subscriptions for December

In December, RBC Asset Management (RBC AM) and Philips, Hager & North (PH&N) posted net subscriptions of CAD680bn, the sum of CAD1.1bn in net subscriptions for money market funds and net redemptions of CAD433m for long-term funds. Asset increased by CAD0.7bn, or 0.8%. At the end of December, RBC AM and PH&N had CAD92bn in assets in investment funds, plus CAD48bn in assets under management in other forms, for retail and institutional investors.
07/01/2009

Europe - Stephan Heitz officially joins Axa IM

Axa Investment Managers Germany announced on Tuesday that Stephan Heitz has begun in his new position as head of Northern Europe at the Axa IM group, as announced last year (see Newsmanagers of 15 July 2008). Heitz will be based in Frankfurt, and will be in charge of the German, Austrian, Swiss, Belgian, Luxembourg, and Netherlands markets. In addition, he will serve as CEO of Axa Investment Managers Deutschland. Heitz was previously CEO of Swiss Life Asset Management (SLAM) in Zurich.
07/01/2009

France - Savings investors prepare assault on UBS

On Thursday, four French law firms representing out-of-pocket savings investors met their correspondents in Luxembourg to define the legal strategy they would adopt against UBS, which was the depositary bank for the Luxalpha American Selection and Luxinvest US Equity funds, which are linked to the Madoff scandal, Les Echos reports.
07/01/2009

World - John D. Rogers becomes president & CEO of CFA Institute

Jeff Diermeier has left his job as president and CEO of the CFA Institute, which he had held since January 2005. His successor, who was elected by the Board of Governors, and who began in his new job immediately, is John D. Rogers. Rogers was president and CEO of Invesco Institutional; he left Invesco, which he joined in 1997, in 2007, to found Jade River Capital Management.
07/01/2009

United States - Bernard Madoff's secret accounts

Les Echos reports that the discovery of USD830m in liquid assets in bank accounts in the name of Bernard Madoff’s company, Bernard Madoff Investment Securities (BMIS), has reopened the question of reimbursement of victims, which has been hanging over the case for a long time.
07/01/2009

Germany - Griffin recruits Jens Mueller

The British management firm Griffin Capital Management on Tuesday announced the recruitment of Jens Mueller as head of sales, in charge of investor relationship management for the German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). He will be responsible in particular for distribution partners and institutional investors for sales of traditional UCITS III-compliant funds and long/short products that invest in western and eastern Europe. Mueller held a similar position from 2006 at the London-based management firm Atlas Capital, after serving as head of marketing & development wholesale Europe at F&C Asset Management.
07/01/2009

Monde - Le private equity va annoncer des pertes

Les sociétés de private equity vont, dans les prochaines semaines, prévenir leurs clients de la dépréciation de leurs investissements, annonce le Financial Times, qui estime que les baisses pourraient tourner autour de 20-30 %.
07/01/2009

Suède - La Deutsche Borse s'intéresse à Neonet

Mardi, les milieux financiers ont confirmé les rumeurs selon lesquelles la Deutsche Börse est en négociations en vue d’acheter le suédois Neonet, agency broker et fournisseur de technologies pour le négoce boursier, rapporte la Börsen-Zeitung.
07/01/2009

France - Les épargnants préparent l'offensive contre UBS

Jeudi, quatre cabinets d’avocats français représentant des épargnants lésés rencontrent leur correspondant luxembourgeois afin de définir la stratégie judiciaire à adopter face à UBS, le dépositaire des sicav Luxalpha American Selection et Luxinvest US Equity liées au scandale Madoff, rapporte Les Echos.
07/01/2009

Monde - Le dollar en pleine forme

Selon La Tribune, l"euro a une nouvelle fois cédé ? 2% le mardi 6 janvier, pour retomber en dessous de 1,3350, jusqu'à 1,3315. Le billet vert profite notamment des spéculations autour du plan de relance Obama alors que la monnaie unique pâtit notamment du conflit autour du gaz russe, explique notamment le quotidien.
07/01/2009

Royaume-Uni - Les fonds de pension profitent de la chute de la livre

La chute de la livre sterling l"année dernière est une bénédiction pour les fonds de pension britanniques : elle a en effet permis d"amortir l"effondrement des marchés actions, rapporte le Financial Times. Ainsi, selon State Street, les fonds de pension au Royaume-Uni affichent en moyenne des pertes d"environ 13 % en 2008, ce qui est bien meilleur que les 30 % de chute des actions britanniques et 40 % aux US, au Japon et en Europe.
07/01/2009

Allemagne - Griffin recrute Jens Mueller

Le britannique Griffin Capital Management a annoncé mardi le recrutement de Jens Mueller comme head of sales chargé du suivi des investisseurs dans les pays germanophones (Allemagne, Autriche, Suisse). Il sera plus particulièrement responsable des partenaires de distribution et des investisseurs institutionnels pour la commercialisation tant de fonds OPCVM III traditionnels que de produits acheteurs-vendeurs investissant en Europe occidentale et orientale. Jens Mueller occupait des fonctions analogues depuis 2006 chez le londonien Atlas Capital après avoir été head of marketing & development wholesale Europe chez F&C Asset Management.
07/01/2009

France - Les prix des bureaux devraient baisser de 10 % à 20 % en 2009

Selon Maurice Gauchot, président pour la France de CB Richard Ellis, cabinet de conseil en immobilier, le marché des bureaux va vivre une année 2009 tendue. «En volume de transactions, on peut espérer au mieux un niveau similaire à 2008, quant aux prix, ils devraient baisser de 10 % ou 15 %, voire jusqu'à 20 %», indique-t-il dans un entretien aux Echos. Côté locatif, les loyers des bureaux devraient selon lui reculer cette année.
07/01/2009

Monde - Selon Altedia IC, l'IRD ne pénalise pas la performance

Au terme d’une étude portant sur 171 fonds d’investissement responsable et durable (IRD) pour les deux ans au 31 octobre, Altedia Investment Consulting constate que les fonds Best in Class réalisent des performances relatives en ligne avec les indices de marché et les fonds non IRD. Les fonds Best in Class ne pratiquant pas l"exclusion enregistrent de meilleures performances relatives que ceux couplant les deux approches. L"écart est de 1.5% sur 2 ans.En ce qui concerne les fonds thématiques, ils réalisent des performances en ligne ou supérieures à celles des indices de marché : -1% pour l"ensemble de la catégorie, avec des disparités importantes. Les fonds thématiques combinant des aspects extra-financiers à leur sélection financière réalisent des meilleures performances relatives que ceux qui investissent sans tenir compte des enjeux environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance (ESG), en particulier en phase de baisse des marchés : 2.8% d"écart sur un an, précise Altedia IC

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