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10/06/2011

Benfica Stars Fund expecting EUR5m windfall

Real Madrid is in talks with S.L. Benfica to transfer the Portuguese player Fábio Coentrão from the BBVA Liga for the 2011-2012 season. If the two firms reach agreement about the EUR25m price tag, the Benfica Stars Fund will receive EUR5m, although the player was valued as of the end of May at only EUR2.27m, Funds People reports. The Benfica Stars Fund is a Portuguese special investment fund which holds the rights to 16 Portuguese footballers. The three most valuable are Oscar René Cardozo (EUR2.8m), Airton Ribeiro Santo, and Alan Kardec Junior (EUR2.43m each).
10/06/2011

Hedge funds in the red for May

Hedge funds posted their first losses in nine months in May. The HFRI composidte index was down 1.28% in May, its heaviest losses since May 2010, with losses for macro strategies (-2.54%) and commodities only partially compensated for by gains for relative value arbitrage strategies. The Dow Jones Credit Suisse index lost 1.71% in May, while the Hennessee index lost 0.50%. Since the beginning of the year, the Hennessee index has gained 3.20%, while the Dow Jones Credit Suisse index has gained only 0.47%. The HFRI index of funds of funds, for its part, was down 1.46% in May.
10/06/2011

Sovereign funds lower their ambitions

n 2010, sovereign funds, which aim to increase earnings on their country’s wealth, made more modest direct investments, and increasingly turned to emerging markets, at a time when the European and United States economies were areas of concern, Les Echos reports. With USD52bn in assets as of the end of 2010, direct investments in sovereign funds were 50% less than in 2007 or 2008. “They have continued to diversify their investments in several sectors. However, three activities – financial services, natural resources and associated industries – represented 80% of total investments, and more than half of total transactions by number,” a report by the Monitor says. Four funds in particular stand out (Qatar, China’s CIC, Singapore’s Temasek and Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala), as responsible for more than two thirds of these investments.
10/06/2011

DAA launches a fund dedicated to polished diamonds

The Zurich-based firm Diamond Asset Advisors (DAA) is launching the closed fund Diamond Asset Fund I, aimed at institutional investors seeking to participate in rising polished diamond prices expected in the next few years. The product is being launched in cooperation with Harry Winston Diamond Corp., Fondsprofessionell reports.Assets will be invested in a diversified portfolio of polished diamonds, of which some very high quality exemplars will come from the reserves of the jeweller Harry Winston, who will be responsible for the safety of the stones and for insurance by Lloyds.In order to avoid conflicts of interest, the two partners have signed a mutual exclusivity contract for all white diamonds between one half carat and six carats. The manager of the fund will be allowed to allocate funds to acquire bigger white diamonds, or coloured diamonds of a larger size, if necessary.The agreement also stipulates that in normal conditions, diamonds resold by the jeweller will be replaced in the fund by stones of the same value. The stock will be controlled at regular intervals by KPMG.
10/06/2011

Chinese social security fund announces four RFPs

On 8 June, the Chinese social security fund (NCSSF, CNY856.7bn as of the end of 2010) announced four RFPs for 8 July at the latest, for mandates in new asset classes, Z-Ben Advisors reports. They will extend to emerging markets bonds, multi-asset class allocation, active international equities management in the area of resources, and active management of international shares in realty firms.Previously, the NCSSF had limited itself to awarding mandates for equities from developed markets, emerging markets and regional markets, and money market products.Candidate managers will be required to have at least six years of experience and at least USD5bn in assets. In addition, they are required not to have been subject to disciplinary actions on the part of regulators in the past three years. The NCSSF also stipulates that as of the end of May 2011, candidates will have to have a track record of at least three years for a similar product.Z-Ben Advisors reports that these conditions tend to suggest that candidates will be primarily specialised foreign asset management firms, as offshore affiliates of most Chinese groups will have a hard time meeting all the requirements.
10/06/2011

Fraud at UBS in Geneva confirmed

UBS on 9 May confirmed that two cases of fraud committed by wealth managers at the firm’s Geneva affiliate had been discovered. Agefi Switzerland reports. The fraud was discovered as a result of internal controls, a UBS spokesperson says. “Fraud was detected by routine internal controls in Geneva this spring,” Jean-Raphaël Fontannaz, a spokesperson for the bank, told ATS, confirming reports in the German weekly newspaper HandelsZeitung. “The cases have been referred to the criminal courts, and measures have been taken against the personnel concerned, ranging up to immediate dismissal,” the UBS spokesperson added. “Clients who lost money as a result of the fraud will be reimbursed on the basis of the findings and verifications now underway,” he added.
10/06/2011

Petercam adds to sales staff in Europe

Plans to recruit for sales teams for the institutional management portions of the Belgian Petercam group are gaining momentum (see Newsmanagers of 17 November 2010). A marketing vell with two members (soon to be three) is being created in Brussels, to serve the Belgian and European markets.Petercam is also planning to hire a salesperson for Spain, where the asset management firm already offers nearly all of its funds on the Allfunds and Inversis platforms. The recruit will report to Tomás Murillo, who had previously been solely responsible for the market, in additon to the Belgian market, from a base in Brussels.For the Italian market, a recruitment is also planned to support Ives Hup, sales director, who is based in Brussels, and who has already been reinforced by the recruitment of Thierry Minet for the French market, who has thus far also been the only one serving Italian clients.Petercam will also soon finalise the recruitment of two people for institutional business in Switzerland, and eventually, the management firm may be able to set up a modest presence in Luxembourg, and later, Scandinavia. Meanwhile, Bernard Jans will continue to oversee sales in Germany, from Brussels (see Newsmanagers of 26 November 2010).
10/06/2011

Two promotions at State Street Global Advisors

Bill Street, co-head of Active Fixed Income at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), based in London, has been appointed at global head of Fixed Income Alpha Strategies. He will report to Kevin Anderson, global CIO for Fixed Income & Currency, and will be in charge of all portfolio managers, analysts and stategists in the area of active bond management. He will also be in charge of recruiting a global head of Fixed Income Research. Brian Kinney has been promoted to the position of global head fo Fixed Income Beta Solutions, and will also report to Anderson. He was most recently head of the Government Solutions group at SSgA, a position which he will retain alongside his new responsibilities.
10/06/2011

Russell Investments muscle sa force de vente sur les ETF

Russell Investments vient de recruter deux «development managers», Theresa Brennan et Tom Jenkins, pour renforcer son équipe de vente sur les ETF, rapporte Mutual Fund Wire. Cette annonce fait suite au lancement récent par Russell de ses premiers ETF (NewsManagers du 24 mai et du 3 juin).Theresa Brennan travaillait précédemment chez Fidelity Investments, tandis que Tom Jenkins arrive de chez MSCI.
10/06/2011

New head of institutional clients at CCR AM

CCR Asset Management on Thursday, 9 June announced that it has recruited Edouard Legrez as head of institutional clients. Legrez, 38, has international experience, and has served as a sales person for institutional investors at AX AIM, Schroder Investment Management and ABM Amro, successively, a statement says.
10/06/2011

Pilar Vila joins Schroders Iberia

Pilar Vila, head of marketing and sales for Valiance Advisors in London, will be replacing Mencía Barreiros Juste as head of marketing and communication for Spain and Portugal at Schroders. She will report to Carla Bergareche, CEO for the two countries. Barreiros Juste recently joined the BBVA group as director of marketing for wholesale banking and asset management (see Newsmangers of 18 April).
10/06/2011

Pension pooling on the right track to become reality

Thomas Richter, who will become chairman of the German BVI association of asset management firms on 1 July, says that there is beginning to be some movement on the pension pooling issue, and that a bill to allow multinational groups to centralise their management of retirement savings plans from their foreign affiliates in Germany may be finished by the end of the year, the Börsen-Zeitung reports. Initially, professionals had hoped that the bill would be made one of the measures to be transposed into German law among with the UCITS IV directive.
10/06/2011

Skagen Funds doubles staff in UK

The Norwegian asset management firm Skagen Funds has recruited Tim Gordon (formerly of Liontrust) for recruitment of new retail clients in London, and Nich Henderson (formerly of Financial Dynamics) for development of customer relationship, marketing and communication, Das Investment reports.
10/06/2011

Neptune IM increases assets

Since the beginning of the year, Neptune Investment Management has posted an increase in its assets of GBP5bn, to GBP7.7bn. This increase is largely due to net inflows, says Paul Boughton, in charge of European development for the UK asset management boutique specialised in equities.Most inflows came from British retail clients, who form the core of Neptune’s activities (about 55% of assets, compared with 20% for institutionals, and the remainder for funds of funds).But international assets are not being overlooked. Continental Europe now represents about GBP1bn in assets. In Europe, Boughton says that France and Switzerland are the most successful markets, both of them served from London, with two sales staff.
10/06/2011

VZ Vermögenszentrum launches an online investment formula based on ETFs

The Zurich-based firm VZ VermögensZentrum, the wealth management unit of VZ, which has been listed on the Swiss stock exchange since 2007, on 9 May in Zurich unveiled an online solutions which is virtually unprecendented in Switzerland, L’Agefi suisse reports. The new financial platform is dedicated to methodical savings or investments, based on strategies defined online by the user and realised in a standardised or individualised manner, largely via exchange-traded funds. VZ says that it has chosen the best products from among more than 700 ETFs currently available in Switzerland. With the new portal as an addition to its existing platform, VZ is competing with asset allocation funds from banks. Fees come to a total expense ratio of 0.55% for the “VZ invest with ETF” service, while they total 1.1% to 1.7% for funds on offer from banks.
10/06/2011

Ubi to sell its hedge funds

According to reports in Il Sole – 24 Ore, the Italian bank Ubi Banca is preparing to sell its hedge funds operation to the asset management firm Tages Group, which has been freshly founded by Panfilo Tarantelli, formerly of Schroders and Citigroup. The funds are reported to represent total assets of EUR300m. Tages is aiming to become a centre for hedge funds.
10/06/2011

Metropole Gestion to open an office in Milan

François Carlotti, head of development at Metropole Gestion, told Bluerating that the French asset managers plans to open an office in Milan in the next few months. The company, which has EUR2.6bn in AUM, already holds a sales license for three funds in Italy : Metropole Sélection, Metropole Euro and Metropole Avenir Europe.
10/06/2011

Amundi ETF adds to product range available on LSE

Amundi ETF on Thursday, 9 June announced that it has launched a further 17 equities Etfs on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), bringing the total number of products to 33.The new range includes: 2 ETFs based on key UK indices (FTSE 100® et FTSE 250®) : Amundi ETF FTSE 100 and Amundi ETF FTSE 250 1 regional ETF based on the MSCI Europe ex UK index, entitled Amundi ETF MSCI Europe EX UK, which offers exposure to about 15 European countries outside the UK 2 style ETFs, with the FTSE Dividend+® and Euro Stoxx® Small as benchmarks: Amundi ETF FTSE UK Dividend Plus, which allows investors to replicate the performance of UK equities with the highest dividends as faithfully as possible, and the Amundi ETF Euro Stoxx Small Cap, which offers exposure to 100 small caps listed in the euro zone; 11 European sectoral ETFs, replicating MSCI Global Sectors indices (including “Europe Materials,” “Europe Energy,” and others); 1 new ETF, based on green technologies, the Amundi ETF Green Tech Living Planet, which will aim to replicate the performance of the Living Planet Green Tech Europe index, an index defined by Living Planet Management Company S.A. (an affiliate of WWF International) and SRI (socially responsible investment) teams at CA Chevreux, as faithfully as possible. The ETF offers exposure to equities from European companies which generate at least 20% of their consolidated earnings from activities related to green technologies (energy efficiency, water management, renewable energies, waste management, etc), a statement says.
10/06/2011

LGIM lance un fonds indiciel "vert"

Legal & General Investment Management a annoncé le lancement du Global Environmental Enterprises Fund, un produit de gestion passive censé tirer profit de la transition vers un monde où les émissions de gaz carbonique seront réduites. Pour ce faire, LGIM s’est associé au gestionnaire indépendant spécialiste de l’environnement Osmosis Investment Management, dont l’indice Osmosis Climate Solutions (OCS) servira de base à la constitution du portefeuille. Cet indice couvre une centaine de sociétés «pure play» du monde entier qui doivent bénéficier des mesures destinées à contrer la pénurie d'énergie, des pressions qui s’exercent sur les ressources naturelles et de la réduction des émissions polluantes.Le portefeuille sera pondéré davantage par secteur que par capitalisation boursière. La commission de gestion est fixée à 1,25 % et LGIM reversera 0,40 % aux conseillers qui commercialiseront le produit. Aucune rétrocession néanmoins ne sera consentie pour les parts institutionnelles.
10/06/2011

Growing number of large funds underperforming the markets

According to the most recent estimates from Chelsea Financial Services, assets invested in underperforming funds now total nearly GBP26bn up 41% compared with the most recent survey, conducted at the end of 2010, FundWeb reports. Chelsea has identified 13 funds which are underperforming their benchmarks and which have assets of GBP500m, compared with only 4 founds previously. The largest underperforming fund is the Halifax UK Growth Fund (GBP41.6bn), followed by the Prudential UK Growth (GBP2.4bn) and the Legal and General European Index Fund (GBP1.9bn). The number of underperforming funds has increased from 86 to 94, while the number of new additions is 58.
10/06/2011

Carmignac annual report nearly as readable as “Bild” magazine

A joint study by Communication Lab and the University of Hohenheim, covering annual reports from 25 prestigious management firms (including Sarasin, Carmignac Gestion, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Axa IM, Allianz Global Investors, BNP Paribas AM, Goldman Sachs) has found that in general, the readability of the reports is extremely limited, with an average of 3.7 points out of 20, compared with 16/20 for the tabloid newspaper Bild, Das Investment reports.The reports have overly long pivotal sentences, too many abstract ideas, and too many foreign words. Carmignac Gestion stands head and shoulders above its rivals, with an overall rating of 12.17/20.
10/06/2011

Pilar Vila rejoint Schroders Ibérie

Responsable du marketing et des ventes de Valiance Advisors à Londres, Pilar Vila va remplacer chez Schroders Mencía Barreiros Juste comme responsable du marketing et de la communication pour l’Espagne et le Portugal. Elle est subordonnée à Carla Bergareche, directrice générale pour ces deux pays. Mencía Barreiros Juste a pour sa part rejoint le groupe BBVA comme directrice du marketing pour le wholesale banking et la gestion d’actifs (lire notre article du 18 avril).
10/06/2011
Fonds

Warburg-Henderson lance un nouveau fonds investi sur l'immobilier autrichien

Le hambourgeois Warburg-Henderson KAG für Immobilien a annoncé le lancement du fonds immobilier institutionnel «Warburg - Henderson Österreich Fonds Nr. 2" qui s’adresse à une clientèle allemande et autrichienne et dont le volume est plafonné à 300 millions d’euros, sachant que la souscription minimale est fixée à 5 millions d’euros. La commercialisation, en réalité, a commencé depuis environ un an et plusieurs investisseurs institutionnels des deux pays ont déjà souscrit.Il est prévu que le portefeuille comprenne entre 10 et 15 actifs «core-plus» (bureaux et commerces) situés en Autriche et qu’il génère un taux de rendement interne de 7 % par an net de frais sur une période de dix ans.Le fonds précédent, «Warburg - Henderson Österreich Fonds Nr. 1", affiche encore (il est en phase de désinvestissement) un encours de 230 millions d’euros pour onze actifs. Depuis son lancement, en décembre 2002, il a généré un taux de rendement interne de plus de 6 % et distribué 5,5 % par an.
Fonds
10/06/2011
Fonds

Débuts discrets pour le fonds de Klaus Kaldemorgen

La Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung remarque que DWS a lancé bien discrètement le fonds «total return» Concept Kaldemorgen qui était pourtant attendu depuis longtemps. Avec ce produit, cependant, la filiale de la Deutsche Bank veut prendre pied dans le domaine des fonds patrimoniaux, car le Carmignac Patrimoine a éveillé par ses succès bien des convoitises. Pour la première année, Klaus Kaldemorgen vise 500 millions d’euros d’encours.Le fonds a en fait été lancé en mai, «un mois difficile» selon le gérant. D’ailleurs, il n’est investi actuellement qu'à 30 % en actions, alors qu’en période normale la proportion devrait plutôt être de 70 %.
Fonds
10/06/2011

Metropole Gestion va ouvrir un bureau à Milan

Dans un entretien à Bluerating, François Carlotti, en charge du développement de Metropole Gestion, annonce l’ouverture d’un bureau à Milan dans quelques mois. La société, qui gère 2,6 milliards d’euros, a fait enregistrer trois fonds dans la Péninsule : Metropole Sélection, Metropole Euro et Metropole Avenir Europe.
10/06/2011

Ubi va vendre ses hedge funds

Selon les informations d’Il Sole – 24 Ore, la banque italienne Ubi Banca s’apprête à vendre son activité de hedge funds à la société de gestion Tages Group nouvellement créée par Panfilo Tarantelli, un ancien de Schroders et de Citigroup. Cela représenterait un encours total de 300 millions d’euros. Tages a comme objectif de devenir un centre pour les fonds alternatifs.
10/06/2011

L'ERAFP a lancé un appel d'offres pour un mandat immobilier

Selon L’Agefi, l’Etablissement de retraite additionnelle de la fonction publique (ERAFP) a lancé un appel d’offres restreint pour l’attribution d’un mandat de gestion d’actifs immobiliers dans le but de diversifier ses actifs. D’un montant de 40 millions d’euros maximum, sur une durée comprise entre 5 et 8 ans, il devra respecter la charte ISR de l'établissement et sera concentré sur l’acquisition et la gestion d’un immeuble de bureaux à Paris.
10/06/2011
Fonds

Le FSI doit faire ses preuves dans une logique de long terme

La Commission des finances du Sénat présidée par Jean Arthuis a adopté mercredi 8 juin le rapport sur le Fonds stratégique d’investissement (FSI) du sénateur Jean-Pierre Fourcade, rapporte L’Agefi. En matière de recommandations, le rapport suggère que le Fonds affirme sa singularité et fasse ses preuves dans une logique de long terme. Le FSI, ont insisté Jean Arthuis et Jean-Pierre Fourcade, a déjà engagé 3,8 milliards d’euros de liquidités sur les 6 alloués à sa création et, au rythme actuel, sa capacité d’action posera question dès 2013. Les deux sénateurs ont aussi dénoncé la proposition de tirer une ligne de 1,5 milliard auprès des Fonds d'épargne de la CDC, par emprunt donc, alors même que l’Etat actionnaire s’est montré très gourmand sur la dernière distribution de dividendes. 60% du résultat net auraient pu en effet être réinvestis dans le fonds, ajoute le quotidien.
Fonds
10/06/2011

Un nouveau responsable de la clientèle institutionnelle arrive chez CCR AM

CCR Asset Management a annoncé, jeudi 9 juin, le recrutement d’Edouard Legrez en tant que responsable clientèle institutionnelle. Agé de 38 ans, après une expérience à l’international, Edouard Legrez a occupé le poste de commercial investisseurs institutionnels, successivement chez AXA IM, Schroder Investment Management et ABN Amro, précise un communiqué.
10/06/2011
Fonds

Wegelin lance la stratégie Global Diversification sur le marché français

Après le lancement de la gamme Active Indexing en novembre 2010, Wegelin & Co propose désormais sa stratégie Global Diversification aux investisseurs français. « Nous avons obtenu fin avril l’agrément AMF pour le Global Diversification, compartiment de notre sicav luxembourgeoise Wegelin (Lux) Funds. Il existait en effet une forte demande de la part des clients institutionnels français pour des produits incluant une exposition prédéfinie aux différentes sources de risque », a annoncé Pierre-Yves Cahart, responsable de la clientèle institutionnelle française de la banque privée suisse, en marge de la conférence institutionnelle organisée ce jeudi à Lausanne. L’objectif du compartiment géré par Fabian Dori et pesant 104 millions d’euros, est de stabiliser le rendement d’un portefeuille en procédant à une allocation d’actifs équipondérée selon le risque. L’exposition aux classes d’actifs se fait grâce à l’utilisation de futures. Les pondérations optimales sont calculées sur une base quotidienne, de telle sorte que chaque classe d’actifs «contribue à part égale au risque global du portefeuille», précise Pierre-Yves Cahart.Caractéristiques Code ISIN : classe A EUR (investisseurs privés) LU0466442398/classe IX EUR (investisseurs institutionnels) LU 466442398Frais de gestion : 0,80 % Commission de souscription : classe A : jusqu’à 5 %/classe IX : N/AFrais de performance : 20 %Investissement initial : classe A : 1.500 euros/classe IX : 5 millions d’euros
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