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14/08/2012

Banco Madrid acquiert Nordkapp

Pour un montant non divulgué, la filiale espagnole de l’andorran BPA, Banco Madrid, a acheté à Banco Valencia la société de gestion et de courtage Nordkapp dont l’encours total est de 650 millions d’euros, rapporte Funds People. Cela porte l’encours total de BPA en Espagne à environ 2 milliards d’euros, dont 108 millions d’euros pour les fonds d’investissement de Banco Madrid. Banco Valencia a été renflouée par la Banque d’Espagne fin 2011.
14/08/2012

Saltus Fund Management rachète Montague Capital

La société de gestion britannique Saltus Fund Management, spécialisée dans les partenariats avec les conseillers financiers indépendants, vient d’acquérir le gestionnaire discrétionnaire Montague Capital, rapporte Money Marketing.Saltus proposera dans un premier temps des services de gestion dans le cadre d’un accord intérimaire durant lequel les clients de Montague seront invités à rejoindre Saltus.
14/08/2012

Fidelity informatise intégralement l'ouverture de compte

Avec le nouveau service d’identification verify-U, Fidelity Worldwide Investments offre à présent aux investisseurs en Allemagne la possibilité d’ouvrir un compte sans avoir à se déplacer dans un bureau de poste pour faire vérifier leurs données personnelles. Le verify-U développé par la société cybits permet en effet au client potentiel de s’enregistrer en ligne sur fidelity-direkt.de en fournissant son numéro de portable, son adresse électronique, certaines données de sa carte d’identité et, le cas échéant, ses coordonnées bancaires. Fidelity affirme être le premier gestionnaire à offrir un tel service en Allemagne.Les comptes de la clientèle allemande de Fidelity sont conservés auprès de FFB (FIL Fondsbank), acheté par Fidelity en octobre 2009. La FFB propose la tenue de compte pour environ 8.000 fonds de quelque 200 gestionnaires, en plus de ceux de Fidelity.
14/08/2012
Fonds

Global X lance un ETF de préférentielles

Le 17 juillet, le new-yorkais Global X Funds ((1,2 milliard de dollars d’encours au 15 juin) a lancé le Global X SuperIncome Preferred ETF (acronyme : SPFF), un ETF qui réplique l'évolution des cinquante actions préférentielles les plus rémunératrices d’Amérique du Nord (Etats-Unis et Canada) telle que retracée par l’indice the S&P Enhanced Yield North American Preferred Stock Index. Ce produit est chargé à 0,58 %.
Fonds
14/08/2012

Les encours de Franklin et Legg Mason ont augmenté en juillet

En juillet, les actifs gérés par Franklin Resources (Franklin Templeton Investments) et Legg Mason se sont accrus de 15,6 milliards de dollars.L’essentiel de cette hausse, soit 11,6 milliards de dollars est à mettre au compte de Franklin Templeton, dont l’encours au 31 juillet ressortait à 718,7 milliards, avec notamment une augmentation de 2,7 milliards de dollars pour les actions, à 281,3 milliards et un gonflement de 6,4 milliards, à 325,9 milliards pour l’obligataire. A fin décembre, le total des fonds Franklin Templeton se situait à 670,3 milliards de dollars.Les actifs de Legg Mason à fin juillet ressortaient à 635,8 milliards de dollars contre 631,8 milliards fin juin, grâce à une hausse de 4,3 milliards, à 364,9 milliards pour l’obligataire. Sur les sept premiers mois de l’année, l’encours de Legg Mason s’est accru de 8,8 milliards de dollars.
14/08/2012

UniCredit lance son family office

UniCredit vient de créer une boutique en interne pour suivre de près les clients les plus fortunés, notamment les familles d’entrepreneurs, rapporte Il Sole – 24 Ore. La structure s’appelle Cordusio sim advisory & family office.
14/08/2012

Ethenea recrute l'ancien patron de Carmignac Allemagne

John Korter, qui a quitté la direction du marché allemand pour Carmignac Gestion en fin d’année dernière (lire Newsmanagers des 26 et 27 octobre 2011), a rejoint l'équipe d’Ethenea Independent Investors SA (3 milliards d’euros d’encours) comme responsable du marché allemand, rapportent les médias allemands. Il est subordonné à Luca Pesarini, le fondateur de la société luxembourgeoise.Parallèlement, la succursale allemande d’Ethenea a déménagé, quittant Kaufering en Bavière pour Francfort.
14/08/2012

Credit Suisse opens an office in Osaka

Credit Suisse Group on 13 August announced that it is opening a new office in Osaka, in addition to its existing offices in Tokyo and Nagoya.With the step, Credit Suisse marks its desire to develop its private banking activities in Japan, where it recently completed the acquisition of the private banking unit of HSBC.
14/08/2012

Ethenea recruits former head of Carmignac Germany

John Korter, who left his position as head of the German market for Carmignac Gestion at the end of last year (see Newsmanagers of 26 and 27 October 2011), has joined the team at Ethenea Independent Investors SA (EUR3bn in assets) as head of the German market. He will report to Luca Pesarini, founder of the Luxembourg firm.Meanwhile, the German branch of Ethenea has moved from Kaufering in Bavaria to Frankfurt.
14/08/2012

Fidelity fully automates account opening

With the new verify-U service, Fidelity Worldwide Investments is now offering investors in Germany a way to open an account without having to go to a post office to verify their personal information. The verify-U system developed by the cybits company allows potential clients to sign up online at fidelity-direkt.de, providing a mobile phone number, an email address, some information from their identity card, and where applicable, bank account information. Fidelity claims it is the first asset management firm to offer such a service in Germany.Accounts of German clients of Fidelity are held at FFB (FIL Fondsbank), which was acquired by Fidelity in October 2009. FFB provides account maintenance for about 8,000 funds from about 200 asset managers, in addition to those from Fidelity.
14/08/2012

HFR launches three new indices

The alternative management data provider HFR has announced the launch of three new HFRX indices, bringing the number of indices in the family to 76.The HFRX Emerging Markets Composite Index includes hedge fund strategies with a geographical exposure to one or more emerging markets, or a combination of asset classes with specific biases on the international macroeconomy or political or market trends.The HFRX Fixed Income – Credit Index includes strategies which offer exposure to credit via a series of credit sub-strategies.The HFRX MLP Index includes partnership strategies in some sectors primarily connected with transport, mining and storage of certain commodities and natural resources, including oil, gas and coal.
14/08/2012

UCITS hedge funds up 0.84% in July

The Ucits Alternative Index (UAI) Global from Swiss-based Alix Capital has posted growth of 0.84% in July, bringing its performance since the beginning of the year to 0.50%, according to statistics from the firm.Nine of the eleven strategies in the index have posted gains, including the UAI CTA Index, up 2.67% for the month, but only 0.60% since the beginning of the year, due to losses in June.In the first seven months of the year, the best-performing strategy was fixed income, with a gain of 2.67%, while the worst result was for the market neutral strategy, which was down 1.41%.Alix Capital has also announced that assets under management in UCITS hedge funds had risen EUR4bn to EUR133bn.
14/08/2012

Bond funds continue to do well

Bond funds continue to dominate sales activity in Europe with inflows of EUR14.2bn in June bringing their 2012 total to EUR88.4bn, nearly three times the EUR31.2bn achieved over the same period in 2011, according to Lipper. It is the interest in bonds that accounts for much of the success of the groups enjoying the greatest inflows so far in 2012: PIMCO heads the list (EUR12.8bn), followed by AXA (EUR8.9bn) and M&G (EUR6.6bn).In total, the European funds industry suffered redemptions of -EUR17.8bn in June, although over the year-to-date netsales stand at EUR89.6bn (compared to EUR74bn for the first half of 2011).Net sales of EUR5.3bn for European long-term funds (excluding money market funds) in June took inflows over the first half of the year to EUR73.4bn. This is well down on the same period last year (EUR96.5bn) largely as a result of equity funds suffering three successive months of outflows, bringing the total for this asset class this year to -EUR15bn.
14/08/2012

ETF Securities and Reyl register funds in Spain

The CNMV has issued sales licenses for 11 funds from the British asset management firm ETF Securities, all of them sub-funds of the ETFX Fund Company Sicav, Funds People reports. The products are seven themed ETFs (ETFX DAXglobal Gold Mining Fund, ETFX DAXglobal Shipping Fund, ETFX DAXglobal Alternative Energy Fund, ETFX S-Net ITG Global Agri Business Fund, ETFX DAXglobal Coal Mining Fund, ETFX WNA Global Nuclear Energy Fund and ETFX Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Fund), one commodity fund (ETFX DJ-UBS All Commodities 3 Month Forward Fund), one US equity fund (ETFX Russell 2000 US Small Cap Fund) and two leveraged products (ETFX DAX® 2x Long Fund y ETFX DAX® 2x Short Fund).Meanwhile, the Swiss firm Reyl Asset Management has registered the Luxembourg Sicav Reyl (Lux) Tactical Allocations fund, mnaged by Stéphane Decrauzat. The CNMV had previously granted approval two years ago to the Luxembourg Sicav Reyl (Lux) Global Funds, which has six sub-funds.
14/08/2012

Santander AM outsources multi-management to Santander AM UK

Funds People reports that the Spanish firm Santander Asset Management has transferred the management of the funds of funds Banif Cartera Emergente, Santander Selección RV Norteamericana, Santander Selección RV Japón and Santander Selección RV Asia to the multi-management team from its British affiliate Santander AM UK. The London-based multi-management team, led by Tom Caddick, has five members and now manages EUR8.6bn.The objective is to gradually transfer the management of all funds of funds of the group to Santander AM UK. Selection of eligible funds will continue to be provided by the team led by José María Martínez-Sanjuán in Spain. Currently, the list includes 125 funds and 43 asset managers, and the objective is to increase this to 170. On average, asset management firms with which Santander AM works in multi-management have assets of EUR200bn.
14/08/2012

Banco Madrid acquires Nordkapp

The Spanish affiliate of the Andorran BPA group, Banco Madrid, has acquired the asset management and brokerage firm Nordkapp, whose assets total EUR650m, for an undisclosed amount, from Banco Valencia, Funds People reports. The acquisition brings total assets for BPA in Spain to about EUR2bn, of which EUR108bn are for investment funds from Banco Madrid.Banco Valencia was bailed out by the Bank of Spain in late 2011.
14/08/2012

Lippo IM launches a real estate index

The Hong Kong asset management firm Lippo Investment Management on 13 August released an index which tracks real estate assets in China and Hong Kong on the basis of a fundamental indexing methodology.The Lippo Select Hong Kong & Mainland Property Index has the potential to outperform existing real estate indices, insofar as stock-picking is based on a series of fundamental factors, such as evolution of dividends, growth in earnings, growth in investment spending, and debt to owners’ equity ratios.
14/08/2012

Assets in Spanish funds down by EUR1.18bn in July

According to estimates by Ahorro Corporación, assets under management by Spanish funds as of the end of July totalled EUR125.92bn, EUR1.18bn less than at the end of June. This is the lowest level since the beginning of 1997, Cinco Días reports. Net redemptions totalled EUR1.11bn last month.Since the beginning of 2012, assets in funds have fallen by EUR6.23bn, or 5%.
14/08/2012

Boom in corporate bond issues in July

In the United States, issues of investment-grade rated investment bonds totalled a record USD75bn, the Wall Street Journal reports. For the year as a whole, these issues may total about USD1trn, according to estimates from Thomson Reuters. The average interest rate on bonds offered last month was 3.2%, an all-time low level. Over the past 30 years, the interest rates on corporate bonds have averaged 7.2%. If rates rise again, the prices of these bonds will fall, and investors run the risk of finding themselves with no returns. Many asset managers nonetheless predict that such an increase in interest rates will not come for several years.
14/08/2012

Hedge Fund Association opens a chapter in Shanghai

After recently creating a chapter in China under the leadership of Adam Steinberg, the Hedge Fund Association (HFA) has formed a local chapter in Shanghai, headed by Yiming Di, who is principal at China-focused consulting firm Schmittzehe and Partners, after working for the global capital markets division of ABN Amro in Singapore. The new HFA office, whose creation was announced on 13 August, will aim to work with hedge fund managers in the world’s largest city by population to defend their interests and make alternative management better known to the local population.
14/08/2012

Henderson merges and closes two funds

Henderson Global Investors is entering the last phase in a rationalisation of its product range, Money Marketing reports. The Gartmore Long Term Balanced fund will be merged into the Henderson Diversified Growth fund. The Henderson Income Trust will be merged into the Henderson UK Equity Income. Lastly, the Henderson Japan Absolute return will be closed.
14/08/2012

BNY Mellon continues development in Asia

The head of asset management activities at BNY Mellon for Asia-Pacific, Alan Harden, has told Asian Investor that he may recruit up to four senior heads by the end of the year. Harden explains that BNY Mellon has so far completed only 25% of its development plan in the region. BNY Mellon would like to recruit more portfolio managers specialised in equities and bonds. The team of managers, which currently includes 15 people, may double in the next twelve months.
14/08/2012

France and Germany continue to borrow at negative interest rates

Bond issues on 13 August continued to illustrate the existence of “two Europes” where debt is concerned, Les Echos reports. On the one hand, Italy had to pay a high price to raise money. On the other hand, several countries are taking advantage of their high-quality signature to issue bonds at negative interest rates. France and Germany continued to do so yesterday. This phenomenon has significant negative consequences for investments in money market Sicav funds. Managers have published columns in the press to warn their clients that returns on their funds may become negative.
14/08/2012

UniCredit launches its family office

UniCredit has created an internal boutique to more closely assist the most high net worth clients, including the families of entrepreneurs, Il Sole – 24 Ore reports. The structure will be known as Cordusio sim advisory & family office.
14/08/2012

Saltus Fund Management acquires Montague Capital

The British asset management firm Saltus Fund Management, a specialist in partnership with independent financial advisers, has aquired the discretionary asset management firm Montague Capital, Money Marketing reports. Saltus will initially offer management services under an interim agreement, during which Montague clients will be invited to join Saltus.
14/08/2012

Global X launches an ETF of preferred shares

On 17 July, the New York-based Global X Funds (USD1.2bn in assets as of 15 June) launched the Global X SuperIncome Preferred ETF (acronym: APFF), an ETF which replicates the evolution of the 50 highest-paying preferential shares in North America (United States and Canada), as measured by the S&P Enhanced Yield North American Preferred Stock Index. The product charges 0.58%.
14/08/2012

DekaBank becomes a direct member of LCH

The German firm DekaBank, the central asset management firm for the German savings banks, on 13 August announced that it has become a direct member of the London Clearing House, which provides it with direct access to a central clearing house for derivative transactions. The service is also open free of charge to the German savings banks. With this initiative, DekaBank comes into compliance with the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), both for its own investment funds and for over-the-counter (OTC) transactions, and for the transactions of the German savings banks, which have become the shareholders of reference in the firm following the exit from its capital of the Landesbanken.
14/08/2012

Net subscriptions: Vanguard and Pimco lead the pack

In July, US long-term mutual funds posted net subscriptions of USD26.43bn, compared with USD10.8bn in June, and their net inflows in the first seven months of the year have topped USD180.34bn, of which USD64.73bn were for Vanguard, and USD28.25bn for Pimco (excluding money markets and funds of funds).Morningstar, which published the statistics on 13 August, says that money market funds may have taken in USD30.63bn in July, but they underwent net outflows of USD131.53bn in January-July.In terms of net subscriptions to long-term funds, third place goes to JPMorgan, with USD15.16bn in the first seven months of the year, followed by DoubleLine (USD14.4bn) and T. Rowe Price (USD13.06bn).
14/08/2012

New chief investment officer at UMR

UMR has promoted Philippe Rey to the position of chief investment officer, following the departure of Vincent Ribuot for OFI, IPE.com reports. Rey had previously been vice-CIO, and joined UMR in 2006.

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