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29/03/2011

Moody’s revoit à la hausse les perspectives des gestionnaires américains

Moody’s a revu à la hausse les perspectives des sociétés de gestion américaines, de négatives à stables, compte tenu de l’amélioration des résultats et de la solidité des bilans, rapporte Financial Times Fund Management. Le fait que la situation soit plus claire sur la réglementation a aussi aidé. Les perspectives étaient négatives depuis avril 2008.
29/03/2011
Fonds

La gestion responsable contribue à la performance, selon Morningstar

Il existe une forte corrélation entre la bonne gestion du capital et la performance, selon l'étude 2011 de Morningstar sur la gestion des fonds(http://global.morningstar.com/2011StewardshipGrades ). Le «Morningstar Stewardship Grade» peut servir d’indicateur avancé pour les investisseurs soucieux de savoir si un gérant va s’occuper de façon responsable de ses capitaux et s’il va donner la priorité aux actionnaires des fonds, estime Laura Pavlenko, l’un des auteurs de l'étude Morningstar. Morningstar ajoute qu’il ne s’agit pas ici d’imposer cette notation somme seul outil de référence mais bien de souligner son utilité en tant qu’instrument d’aide à la décision.L'étude relève notamment que les fonds les mieux notés (en l’occurence «A» et «B») sont ceux qui ont le plus de chances de survie à long terme. Ces fonds sont également ceux qui produiront les meilleurs couples rendement/risque.
Fonds
29/03/2011
Fonds

Les hedge funds suiveurs de tendance souffrent

Les hedge funds «suiveurs de tendances» basés sur des algorithmes informatiques complexes ont été fortement touchés par la volatilité des marchés asiatiques dans le sillage du tremblement de terre au Japon, rapporte le Financial Times. Graham Capital aux Etats-Unis a ainsi vu son fonds phare de 4 milliards de dollars perdre environ 300 millions d’euros sur les deux premières semaines du mois. A Londres, Winton Capital, qui gère environ 17 milliards de dollars, a vu son fonds vedette chuter de 3,6 % en un demi mois. AHL, géré par Man Group, a perdu 4 % ce mois ci.
Fonds
29/03/2011

Two Danish pension funds acquire 50% of an offshore wind farm

The Danish pension funds PensionDanmark and PKA have joined forces to acquire 50% of an offshore wind farm (30% from the former and 20% from PKA), from the public company DONG Energy A/S, for a total of about DEK6bn, or about EUR804.6m, Responsible Investor reports. The two funds, with assets under management of about EUR30bn, have signed a 15-year contract with DONG for the activity and maintenance of the farm, which will provide about 4% of Denmark’s annual power needs.
29/03/2011
Fonds

Un hedge fund de Singapour lance une stratégie quantitative au format Ucits III

Le hedge fund basé à Singapour Quant Asset Management (QAM) vient de lancer un fonds coordonné, le Quant Global Equities Fund, qui met en œuvre une stratégie quantitative de stock picking, rapporte Asian Investor. Ce fonds, d’une capacité de plus de 1 milliard de dollars, serait la première stratégie quantitative au format Ucits III proposée par une firme asiatique. Le nouveau produit est calqué sur le QAM Global Equities Fun, dont les actifs sous gestion s'élèvent à 125 millions de dollars et qui affiche un rendement annualisé de 19,25% depuis son lancement en avril 2004 jusqu'à décembre 2010.
Fonds
29/03/2011

Le Japon envisage une hausse d’impôts

Le premier ministre japonais, Naoto Kan, a déclaré au Parlement qu’il n’écartait aucune option pour financer le coût du tremblement de terre et du tsunami ayant ravagé le pays, tout en limitant l’impact sur la dette qui pèse déjà près de 200% du PIB. Une hausse des impôts est envisagée, ainsi que le retrait du plan de baisse de l’impôt sur les sociétés, même si Naoto Kan précise que pour le moment, rien n’est décidé.
29/03/2011

La SEC a imposé des dépréciations à Berkshire Hathaway

La société d’investissement de Warren Buffett a passé au dernier trimestre près d’un milliard de dollars de dépréciations sur la valeur de trois titres qu’elle détient, dont Sanofi-Aventis. Cette décision fait suite à des demandes présentées par la Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), qui contestait les écritures déclarées par le fonds sur ces titres.
29/03/2011

UFG-LFP lance un fonds de fonds immobilier paneuropéen

Le groupe de gestion d’actifs a choisi de lancer UFG European Fund of Funds, le premier fonds de fonds immobilier non coté, à destination des institutionnels français. Fonds fermé, à l’issue d’une période de commercialisation de 12 mois, avec une durée de vie comprise entre 7 et 10 ans, le fonds a été structuré en Sicav contractuelle de droit français. Le capital de départ s’élève à 23 millions d’euros et le fonds vise un objectif de distribution annuelle supérieure à 4%.
29/03/2011

Warburg Pincus s’offre Rural Metro

Le fonds de private equity rachète la société de services d’ambulance et de protection incendie pour 438 millions de dollars en numéraire. Les actionnaires de Rural Metro recevront 17,25 dollars par titre, ce qui représente une prime de 37% par rapport au cours de clôture de vendredi. Les sociétés telles que Rural Metro devraient bénéficier des restrictions budgétaires qui contraignent les municipalités américaines à externaliser leurs services d’urgence à des prestataires privés.
29/03/2011

La BCE reprend ses rachats d’obligations

Après trois semaines de pause, la Banque centrale européenne a annoncé avoir racheté pour 432 millions d’euros d’obligations publiques de pays de la zone euro la semaine dernière. Le montant total des titres rachetés par la BCE depuis le lancement de ce programme au printemps dernier atteint 76,5 milliards d’euros.
28/03/2011

La Russie pourrait investir dans les titres du FESF en 2011

La Russie pourrait placer cette année une partie de ses 500 milliards de dollars de réserves en bons du Fonds européen de stabilité financière (FESF), si la liquidité de ces titres s’avère suffisante, a annoncé à Reuters un dirigeant de la banque centrale russe. «Si nous constatons une liquidité suffisante, nous envisagerons (ces titres) comme un possible outil d’investissement», a déclaré Sergueï Chvetsov, vice-président de la Banque centrale de Russie.
28/03/2011

Le Qatar prévoit une croissance de 15,7% de son PIB réel en 2011

Le Qatar devrait voir son économie croître de 15,7% cette année, avant un ralentissement à 7,1% en 2012. Le premier exportateur mondial de gaz naturel liquéfié (GNL), membre de l’Organisation des pays exportateurs de pétrole (Opep), prévoit également un surplus fiscal s'élevant à 12,1% de son produit intérieur brut (PIB) en 2011 et une dette extérieure atteignant 62,3% de son PIB.
28/03/2011

Lehman bankruptcy: huge settlement in Hong Kong

Agefi Switzerland reports that banks in Hong Kong which sold financial products with ties to Lehman Brothers have agreed to reimburse tens of thousands of investors. The banks will buy back a large proportion of shares known as mini-bonds, which were guaranteed by the US business bank and sold to about 40,000 investors, before their value collapsed as the business went bankrupt. The total value of the shares, before the Lehman bankruptcy, was HKD15.7bn (EUR1.43bn). The agreement will allow “all clients to get back a substantial portion of their investments,” the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced on 27 March. The KHMA claims that savings investors will receive 85% to 96.5% of their investments, compared with only 60% to 70% under a previous agreement.
28/03/2011

Former Morgan Stanley manager sues Och-Ziff

A former employee at Och-Ziff in Singapore, Zain Fancy, has filed lawsuits against the New Yokr hedge fund entity Och-Ziff, Bloomberg reports. Fancy claims that Och-Ziff Singapore owes him USD7.9m in salary and equities. Fancy joined Och-Ziff to create an affiliate specialised in real estate, Och-Ziff Real Estate Singapore Pte, but was then fired for failing to declare his involvement in a US Justice department and Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into suspected corruption at Morgan Stanley, where he was head of real estate and banking activities in Asia.
28/03/2011

Philippe Jabre made a USD300m blunder

Philippe Jabre bought Japanese equities just after the earthquake, but lost his cool, and resold them the following week, just before the market rebounded. The mistake cost the Swiss manager of the hedge fund Jabre Capital Partners (USD6bn in assets) USD300m, although the rally on US equity markets has helped some of his funds, the Wall Street Journal reports.The hedge fund JabCap Global, the firm’s largest fund, with USD1.5bn in assets, has lost 7% in March, and 3% since the beginning of the year.However, although Jabre Capital has lost 6 months of returns, there have been no outflows.
28/03/2011

Andreas Römer takes over as head of emerging markets unit at DWS

DWS Investments on Friday evening confirmed to Newsmanagers that Andreas Römer, who for a time had been head of the Paris office of the group, before management was centralised in Frankfurt, will on 1 April become director of the emerging markets equities team, and will retain responsibility for emerging market debt management.The move comes following the resignation of Thomas Gerhardt, who was head of the emerging markets equities team, and supervised the management of the DWS Top 50 Asean and Asia, DWS BRIC Plus, Emerging Markets Asia and Emerging Markets Typ O funds, with assets of about USD5bn in total. The DWS Top 50 Asia fund will now be managed by Andreas Wsendelken, and the BRIC fund will be taken over by Robert Kalin.
28/03/2011

Pimco recruits two managers specialised in bank loans

Pimco has announced the recruitment of Elizabeth MacLean and Jason Duko. The two former employees of Lord Abbet will join the asset management firm in early April and will be appointed as managers specialised in bank loans, and as executive vice president and senior vice president, respectively.
28/03/2011

BNY Mellon announces 2011 product range

During a recent visit to Paris by Alexander Gorra, director of the Brazilian platform BNY Mellon Arx (USD7.1bn as of the end of December), the former Paris office of BNY Mellon Asset Management has launched a promotion of an Irish-registered fund focused on Latin American infrastructure, the BNY Mellon Latin America Infrastructure fund (see Newsmanagers of 29 November 2010 and 11 January 2011), with assets of about USD22m, on the French market. The diversified product will be made available to institutionals as well as multi-managers and distributors.The Irish fund has a portfolio of about 35 positions, selected with a bottom-up approach, and, due to the nature of the sector, top-down analysis. In the selection of stocks, Alex Gerra will consider operators and providers of equipment equally, but clearly has a preference for Brazilian stocks, which account for 70% of the portfolio. Other countries present in the portfolio include Mexico, Chile and Peru.The other core areas of development for 2011 in France are continued sales efforts for the local currency emerging market debt fund BNY Mellon Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund (from the affiliate Standish); the Global Real Return fund from Newton (see Newsmanagers of 24 March 2010), and absolute return strategies from the boutique Insight.
28/03/2011

Fidelity Capital Markets appoints a president

Fidelity Capital Markets, an affiliate of Fidelity Investments which offers trading and settlement services to retail and institutional investors, has appointed a new president, Brian B. Conroy. Conroy was previously head of global equity trading at Fidelity Management & Research Company.
28/03/2011

Hedge funds interested in AIG subprime bonds

The Wall Street Journal and CNBC have published a list of names of candidates to acquire subprime bonds from AIG, totalling about USD30bn in assets held by the Fed in the ad-hoc vehicle Maiden II, Les Echos reports. Several major hedge funds would like to bid on the bonds backed by sub-prime real estate mortgages from AIG, which were acquired by the Federal Reserve (Fed) at the height of the crisis in order to protect the US insurer from bankruptcy. According to the financial news network CNBC, citing sources familiar with the matter, hedge funds interested in the bonds include the hedge fund of the billionaire John Paulson, DoubleLine Capital, Avenue Capital Group and Oaktree Capital Management.
28/03/2011

First closing for a Japan fund from Longreach

The private equity investor Longreach Group will announce this Monday that after nine months, it has completed the first round of fundraising at USD125m for its second Japan fund, which is aiming to eventually reach USD750m in assets, the Wall Street Journal reports. Interestingly, some of the investment commitments were made after the earthquake.
28/03/2011

Petercam turns one of its equities funds deeper green

Since the beginning of this year, Petercam has toughened the sustainable development approach of its European equities fund Petercam Equities Europe Sustainable, the former Petercam Equities Europe Ethical fund, in order to satisfy demand from numerous institutional investors and multi-managers.The Belgian-registered product (EUR79.5m) is distributed in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The management team, led by Lieven Op de Beeck, applies the selection process already used for bonds in the Petercam L Bonds Government Sustainable fund (see Newsmanagers of 8 July 2009) to equities. In other words, the fund is no longer based solely on the grid provided by Ethibel (Vigeo), but instead its managers use a more critical approach, reprocessing data from the sustainable development universe, within a time-frame of one month to liquidate the positions which are to be excluded. To achieve this, the Belgian management firm uses a matrix developed by Stijn Decock, who uses a best-in-class selection from rankings provided by Vigeo, with a detailed report for each share. Petercam also receives alerts in case of serious or controversial incidents.
28/03/2011

Appointment at Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong

Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong (Daiwa Securities Group) has announced the appointment of Joost Lobler as head of sales for Asia (ex Japan) for its Global Asset Services activities. Lobler previously worked at Butterfield Fulcrum as head of sales for Europe and Asia.

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