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02/03/2011

Doughty Hanson acquires two shopping centres in Spain

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The private equity investor Doughty Hanson & Co real Estate has acquired the shopping centres El Rosal (51,000 square metres) in the province of León, and Plaza Eboli (31,000 square metres) in the province of Madrid, fron Sonae Sierra, for EUR120m, Cotizalia reports.
02/03/2011

Neuberger Berman appoints a managing director

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US management firm Neuberger Berman has announced the arrival of David Kupperman as managing director of NB Alternatives Investment Management, the fund of hedge fund activity of the group. He was previously a partner and member of the investment committee at Alternative Investment Management, a fund of hedge funds.
02/03/2011

NewAlpha Asset Management makes a recruitment

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } NewAlpha, an affiliate of the OFI group which provides institutional investors with access to new managers via incubation funds, announced on Tuesday, 1 March that Fabien Dersy has joined the firm as head of sourcing, selection and relationship management for incubated managers. Dersy will be a senior analyst in charge of incubation projects. Dersy was previously head of the range of volatility arbitrage funds at Dexia Asset Management.
02/03/2011

Acropole AM to add to alternative management unit

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Acropole Asset Management, a French asset management boutique dedicated to convertible bonds, is planning to develop its alternative management activities, one of its three units, alongside traditional convertibles and credit management. So far, these activities are focused on long/short (with the Acropole LS Convexité fund) and convertibles arbitrage (with the Acropole Convertibles Arbitrage). “We are going to add a third area: volatility,” Jacques Joakimides, the CEO of the firm said. To do this, the asset manager will be recruiting for its teams. Acropole AM, with slightly over EUR700m in assets under management and 17 employees, is also in the process of recruiting a head for external distribution, to replace Marc Auchabie.
02/03/2011

CalPERS appoints a chief risk officer

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The California pension fund CalPERS on 1 March announced that it has appointed Larry Jensen to the newly-created position of chief risk officer. The position is intended to improve the risk management programme at the pension fund, CalPERS says in a statement. Jensen was previously director of the new Office of Enterprise Risk Management at the pension fund from 1 October, and was in charge of a risk evaluation mission.
02/03/2011

Strong increase in profits at Fortress

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As of 31 December, assets at Fortress Investment Group totalled USD44.6bn, 42% higher than one year previously, and its pre-tax distributable earnings for the year 2010 totalled USD372m, compared with USD172m. GAAP net income, excluding principals agreement compensation came to USD170m, compared with USD43m in 2009, while GAAP net loss attributable to Class A shareholders increased to USD285m from USD255m.Fortress states that it has raised new third-party capital totalling USD5.3bn, of which USD2.6bn were included in the books as of the end of December. The remaining USD2.7bn are commitments which have not yet been called in.Lastly, the asset management firm states that of this freshly-raised USD5.3bn, USD3.1bn will go to credit private equity funds, USD447m to credit hedge funds, and USD1.7bn to liquid hedge funds.
02/03/2011

Management firms in better health than in 2007

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Asset management firms are completing their recovery. In fourth quarter 2010, operating margins in the asset management industry improved in the United States, according to a study by the New York consulting firm kasina, cited by Mutual Fund Wire. They now stand at 31.4%, compared with 27.5% in fourth quarter 2009. Net margins for 17 management firms analysed are also up, at 23.4%, compared with 21.2% one year previously. These figures signify that asset managers are now in better shape than they were in 2007 and 2008, kasina states. Among the best performers in terms of margins, Franklin Templeton and BlackRock had the best satisfactory figures among the major players. Among the smaller firms, Pzena Investment Management and Calamos Investments came out on top.
02/03/2011

Ed Rosengarten joins Eden Group

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The former head of equities at M&G. Ed Rosengarden, has joined Eden Group as head of asset management, Investment Week reports. In his new role, Rosengarten will be in charge of developing the client base and creating new products.
02/03/2011

State Street extends its cooperation with Britain's PPF

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } State Street on 28 February announced that it has been reappointed for a five-year mandate by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), from 1 January 2011. The mandate, on assets of GBP5bn, has covered the provision of custody and administration services since 2005. In 2008, the mandate was extended to include risk analysis and independent valuation of OTC derivatives. The PPF has added securities lending services within the renewed mandate.
02/03/2011

IFAs see potential for fund sales

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } A survey conducted in January by YouGov Psychonomics AG on behalf of Frankfurter Fondsbank (FFB, EUR16.6bn in assets under administration), an affiliate of Fidelity, covering 1,199 independent financial advisers (IFAs), finds that 66% of professionals see the most potential for sales of traditional investment funds to their clients until the end of this year. Other products are considerably less popular with IFAs: 47% favour Riester retirement savings products, 42% vote for current accounts, 30% for unit-linked life insurance, 28% for ETFs, and 22% for savings accounts. In terms of asset classes, IFAs clearly prefer equities, and recommend Asian equities (70%), followed by European equities (65%), while African equities are more popular even than American shares, at 27% and 18%.
02/03/2011

quirin bank turns a profit in 2010

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In its fourth fiscal year in 2010, quirin bank, founded by Karl Matthäus Schmidt, has posted its first profits, of EUR0.5m, compared with losses of EUR7.4m in 2009, and EUR12.9m in 2008. The first bank to operate exclusively on a fee basis now has 7,500 clients, and in 2010 posted net inflows of EUR553m. Assets as of the end of December totalled over EUR2bn, compared with about EUR1.6bn twelve months earlier.The number of employees at the bank was down to 227 at the end of 2010, from 236 at the end of 2009.The owners’ equity ratio stands at 10.3%, compared with 10.9%.
02/03/2011

comdirect offers a bounty on incoming transfers from rival banks

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Investors who transfer shares in investment funds from another bank or management firm to comdirect bank by 31 March will receive a 1% bonus on the amount transferred, up to a limit of EUR250. The bonus will not be applied to transfers from Commerzbank or ebase.The Commerzbank affiliate also announced on 1 March that clients opening a new share account will receive free account maintenance for three years. The offer will be extended if the shareholder makes at least two orders per quarter, uses the free comdirect current account, or makes payments to a securities savings plan.comdirect will also charge only 50% of the commission on orders for all German stock markets, excluding Eurex, and for all off-market transactions.Lastly, clients who buy or transfer fund shares totalling at least EUR5,000 in the three months after opening an account will receive a EUR50 bonus.
02/03/2011

VZ Holdings expands in Germany

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The financial services provider VZ Holding has opened a branch office in Düsseldorf, the firm announced on 1 March in a statement. The success of the VZ branches in Munich, Frankfurt and Nuremberg show that geographical proximity to the client is a major advantage in exploiting the potential of the market, the firm says. The new branch will be led by Michael Huber, director of VZ Frankfurt, and Oz Güven, a partner at VZ Munich.
02/03/2011

Europa Feldberg adds to its management team

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Frankfurt-based real estate fund management firm EuropaFeldberg, a 50/50 joint venture of Europa Capital and Feldberg Capital (EUR7bn in assets), on 1 March announced the recruitment of Stephan Schaal as investment director. He will be in charge firstly of the launch of the Core-Büroimmobilienfonds, which will be specialised in western Europe, soon to be launched by EuropaFeldberg. The management team now has five members.Schaal joins from Curzon/AEW, where he was director in London, after working at Henderson Global from 2005 to 2007.
02/03/2011

Deka invests in Bergheim

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The real estate fund management firm Deka Immobilien (German savings banks) on 1 March announced that it has acquired the TK Maxx logistical centre in Bergheim from an institutional investor for about EUR20m. The property, with 30,000 square metres of area near Cologne and the Dutch border, is primarily used by the discount retailer TK Maxx as a distribution and transloading centre. It will be added to the portfolio of an institutional real estate fund.
02/03/2011

Ole Søeberg joins Skagen Funds

Ole Søeberg is joining Skagen Funds as a portfolio manager to further strengthen the global and Norwegian equity fund SkagenVekst. He will be responsible for analysing existing and potential investments alongside a team comprising 9 fund managers. Søeberg has extensive experience in both global and Danish capital markets. He joins Skagen from his position as managing director of the insurance company Tryg where he was responsible for investor relations since 2006. For the past four years Søeberg has been a member of the board of directors of Skagen AS. He has stepped down from the Board to assume his new position. Ole Søeberg will take up his new role at Skagen in the first half of 2011.
02/03/2011

Only one third of absolute return funds outperform the risk-free rate over three years

In 2010, 71% of absolute return funds with a sales license for Germany posted a positive result, averaging 1.96%; over three years, 61.3% of funds did so, with an average of 0.53% (compared with an average loss of 0.31% for the 36 months to the end of June 2010).In addition, according to a study by the Frankfurt asset management firm Lupus alpha on the basis of Lipper data, there was a significant distorsion in results. In 2010, the best performance was 35.99%, while the largest loss was 23.97%.On one year and three years, the proportion of absolute return funds with a positive Sharpe ratio, and thus higher gains than the risk-free rate, were two thirds and one third, respectively.As of the end of December, there were 327 absolute return funds in Geramny, compared with 266 three years earlier. Total assets as of this date toalled EUR58.4bn, putting them above the pre-crisis level (EUR58.3bn at the end of 2007) for the first time.
02/03/2011

Sparinvest takes over asset management activities of Atrium Partners

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Danish asset management firm Sparinvest announced on 1 March that it has acquired Atrium Asset Management, the portfolio management affiliate of Atrium Partners, for an undisclosed amount. The firm manages two European small caps funds with total assets of EUR55m, entitled Atrium Value Partners SICAV - European Small Cap (domiciled in Luxembourg) and Atrium Value Partners – Europa Small Cap (domiciled in Denmark).The two managers of Atrium Asset Management, Karsten Løngaard and Lisbeth Søgaard Nielsen, will join the value equities team at Sparinvest, led by Jens Moestrup Rasmussen, which currently manages EUR3.4bn.
02/03/2011

A label for ethical funds at last?

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to L’Echo, the Belgian Socialist senator Philippe Mahoux has tabled a bill which would promote socially responsible investment (SRI). The ethical character of funds of this type has previously been subject to internal control by issuers. The bill would give the CBFA authority to issue a label, the newspaper states. Currently, 197 funds are billed as socially responsible investment products, according to statistics from the Belgian Asset Management Association. Their assets under management have quadrupled since 2004, to EUR7.66bn (according to statistics as of second quarter 2010).
02/03/2011

Ed Rosengarten rejoint Eden Group

L’ancien responsable actions de M&G, Ed Rosengarten, a rejoint Eden Group en qualité de responsable de la gestion d’actifs, rapporte Investment Week. Dans ses nouvelles fonctions, Ed Rosengarten sera chargé de développer la clientèle et de créer de nouveaux produits.
02/03/2011

State Street prolonge sa coopération avec le britannique PPF

State Street a annoncé le 28 février qu’il avait été renommé pour un nouveau mandat de cinq ans par le Pension Protection Fund (PPF) à compter du 1er janvier 2011.Le mandat, qui concerne un encours de 5 milliards de livres, porte depuis 2005 sur la fourniture de services de conservation et d’administration. Il a été renforcé en 2008 avec l’analyse des risques et la valorisation indépendante des dérivés OTC. Le PPF a ajouté dans le cadre du nouveau mandat les services de prêts de titres.
02/03/2011
Fonds

Ignis AM lance un fonds obligations gouvernementales rendement absolu

Ignis Asset Management va lancer fin mars le fonds Ignis Absolute Return Government Bond. Ce nouveau produit, une sicav Ucits III luxembourgeoise domiciliée à Luxembourg, iblera un rendement net de 2 % à 3 % par an au dessus du cash2 par le biais d’une gestion active d’un portefeuille d’obligations gouvernementales mondiales et de devises. Le fonds sera géré par Russ Oxley, responsable des taux, et Stuart Thomson, chef économiste. Il s’agit du premier fonds de l’équipe taux d’Ignis qui sera disponible aux particuliers. Cette équipe gère plus de 28 milliards de livres pour le compte d’investisseurs institutionnels. Ignis Absolute Return Government Bond sera investi principalement dans des obligations gouvernementales, mais prendra aussi des positions longues et courtes sur des instruments monétaires et des dérivés. L’exposition aux devises étrangères sera limitée à 25 %. Ce fonds sera également commercialisé en Europe continentale auprès des investisseurs professionnels.
Fonds
02/03/2011

Antoine Le Lann nommé analyste senior chez Cedrus Partners

Cedrus Partners a annoncé le 1er mars la nomination d’Antoine Le Lann en qualité d’analyste senior au sein de l'équipe de recherche.Antoine Le Lann a travaillé précédemment chez Interselection, Sycomore AM et Banque d’Orsay.
02/03/2011
Fonds

Carlyle va lancer un fonds Afrique

Carlyle prévoit de lancer un fonds de 750 millions de dollars pour investir en Afrique, indique le Financial Times, citant des personnes proches de la société de private equity. Le produit, qui verra bientôt le jour, sera supervisé par une équipe de trois personnes avec une présence à Johannesburg, au Zimbabwe et au Nigeria.
Fonds
02/03/2011
Fonds

L'écart en 2010 entre le meilleur et le moins bon fonds de performance absolue atteint près de soixante points de pourcentage

Pour 2010, 71 des fonds de performance absolue bénéficiant d’un agrément de commercialisation en Allemagne ont affiché un résultat positif qui a été en moyenne de 1,96 % ; sur trois ans, la proportion est de 61,3 %, avec un gain moyen de 0,35 % (contre une perte moyenne de 0,31 % pour les 36 mois à fin juin 2010).De plus, fait ressortir une étude de la société de gestion francfortoise Lupus alpha sur la base de données Lipper, la dispersion des résultats a été importante. Pour 2010, la meilleure performance a été de 35,99 % pendant que la perte la plus forte est ressortie à 23,97 %.Sur un an et sur trois ans, la proportion de fonds de performance absolue affichant un ratio de Sharpe positif, donc des gains supérieurs au taux sans risque, a été respectivement des deux tiers et d’un tiers.A fin décembre, on dénombrait en Allemagne 327 fonds de performance absolue contre 266 trois ans plus tôt. Et l’encours total était remonté à cette date à 58,4 milliards d’euros, dépassant pour la première fois le niveau d’avant la crise (58,3 milliards fin 2007).
Fonds
02/03/2011

VZ Holding se renforce en Allemagne

Le prestataire de services financiers VZ Holding ouvre une succursale à Düsseldorf, a-t-il indiqué le 1er mars dans un communiqué. Le succès des succursales de VZ à Munich, Francfort et Nuremberg montre que la proximité géographique de la clientèle est un grand atout pour exploiter le potentiel du marché, souligne la société. La nouvelle succursale sera dirigée par Michael Huber, directeur de VZ Francfort, et Oz Güven, collaborateur de VZ Munich.
02/03/2011

Deka investit à Bergheim

Le gestionnaire de fonds immobiliers Deka Immobilien (caisses d'épargne allemandes) indique le 1er mars avoir acheté à un investisseur institutionnel le centre logistique TK Maxx de Bergheim pour environ 20 millions d’euros. Cet actif de 30.000 mètres carrés situé près de Cologne et de la frontière néerlandaise, est occupé principalement par le discompteur TK Maxx comme centre de distribution et de rupture de charge. Il sera affecté à un fonds immobilier institutionnel.
02/03/2011

quirin bank est devenue bénéficiaire en 2010

Pour son quatrième exercice, 2010, la quirin bank créée par Karl Matthäus Schmidt affiche son premier bénéfice, avec 0,5 million d’euros contre des pertes de 7,4 millions pour 2009 et de 12,9 millions pour 2008. La première banque à fonctionner uniquement sur honoraires affiche à présent 7.500 clients et a enregistré en 2010 des rentrées nettes de 553 millions d’euros. L’encours à fin décembre dépassait les 2 milliards d’euros contre environ 1,6 milliard douze mois auparavant.Le nombre de collaborateurs a diminué à 227 à la fin de 2010 contre 236 fin 2009.Le quotient de fonds propres se situe à 10,3 % contre 10,9 %.

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