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08/09/2010

Laurent Gueunier prend la tête de la division finance structurée d’AXA IM

AXA IM a annoncé, mardi 7 septembre, la nomination de Laurent Gueunier à compter du 15 octobre 2010, à la tête d’AXA Structured Finance, l’expertise de financement structuré d’AXA Investment Managers. L’intéressé intègrera à cette date le comité exécutif d’AXA IM et sera rattaché à Dominique Carrel-Billiard, directeur général de la société.Laurent Gueunier remplace Pierre-Emmanuel Juillard qui, après 10 ans passés au sein d’AXA IM, a choisi de poursuivre sa carrière en Asie, en tant que partner chez Goldman Sachs en Asie, hors du métier de la gestion d’actifs.
08/09/2010

A Plus Finance recrute un directeur immobilier

A Plus Finance a annoncé le 7 septembre le recrutement de Christophe Peyre en qualité de directeur immobilier. Il sera en charge de la gestion des fonds d’investissement immobilier. A Plus Finance développe depuis plusieurs mois une activité de gestion immobilière pour le compte d’institutionnels à travers la constitution et la gestion d’OPCI (Organismes de Placement Collectif Immobilier) à destination des institutionnels. A Plus Finance, à la tête de plus de 275 millions d’euros d’actifs, a reçu l’agrément de l’AMF pour la gestion d’un premier OPCI et se trouve maintenant en période de levée de fonds.Christophe Peyre a notamment passé onze années au sein du groupe Nexity. Il a ensuite siégé aux comités exécutifs de VVF Belambra et du groupe MdB Exclusive Hôtels Resorts.
08/09/2010

Valérie de Launay rejoint Malakoff Médéric

Valérie de Launay a rejoint le Groupe Malakoff Médéric en tant que directrice des ressources humaines groupe et du développement durable. Forte de son expérience de la direction des ressources humaines acquise notamment chez General Electric Capital, chez EGIISAVIA, puis au groupe Mornay, elle conduira la transformation RH du groupe Malakoff Médéric. Elle a pour mission de définir et de mettre en oeuvre, avec le management de l’entreprise, la stratégie, les projets et les dispositifs nécessaires au développement des ressources humaines et de la responsabilité sociétale et environnementale (RSE) du groupe, dans le cadre de ses orientations stratégiques. Valérie de Launay est membre du comité de direction du groupe. Elle succède à Yann Charron, qui a été nommé directeur des opérations du groupe.
08/09/2010

Un nouvel acteur de l'arbitrage M&A arrive en France

CIAM, société de gestion alternative indépendante et spécialisée, a lancé hier son fonds Charity & Investment Merger Arbitrage entièrement dédié à l’arbitrage sur des opérations fusions-acquisitions déjà annoncées en Europe et en Amérique du Nord, rapporte l’Agefi. L'équipe vise un montant de 750 millions d’euros et un rendement annuel de 10-15% en investissant sur des sociétés cotées de plus de 500 millions de capitalisation.
07/09/2010

Création de valeur: les sociétés occidentales absentes du Top 10

Selon Les Echos, le Top 10 des entreprises créatrices de valeur, classées par le BCG (Boston Consulting Group), ne comprend aucune entreprise européenne ou américaine. Du jamais vu depuis la création de cette étude en 1999. La première française, Hermès, n’apparaît qu’à la 198ème place. Les dix premières sont asiatiques, dont cinq chinoises.
07/09/2010

Modest gains for HFRX index in August

Hedge funds posted modest gains in the month of August, as the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index posted a gain of 0.17% for the month, bringing its performance since the start of the year to 0.18%. The best strategy of the month was macro, with gains of 1.45%, reducing its losses since the beginning of the year to 1.53%. Event-driven strategies advanced 0.43% for the month, putting their performance in the first eight months of the year at -0.27%.
07/09/2010

Ampega Gerling launches a diversified fund using ETFs and ETCs

Ampega Gerling in 1 September launched the Lacore All Assets AMI fund, a diversified fund which is aimed primarily at institutional investors, and which is managed by Kohlhase & Stöwer Asset Management. The product will invest primarily in indices and commodities via ETFs and ETCs. For institutional-class shares (at least EUR100,000), Ampega Gerling will charge no front-end or exit fees. Characteristics Name: Lacore All Assets AMI ISIN: DE000A0YAYC4 Front-end fee: 3% (currently 0%) Management commission: maximum 1.4% (currently 0.80%)
07/09/2010

Gérald Mathieu joins Barclays Wealth

Wealthbriefing reports that Barclays Wealth has appointed Gérald Mathieu, a former UBS senior manager, as head of the front office in Monaco at Barclays Wealth International Private Bank. In the newly-created position, Mathieu will act as director and head of day-to-day operation oversight, including the management of private bankers. In his previous position, Mathieu worked in Paris at UBS Wealth Management France, as branch manager and managing director.
07/09/2010

Equities management Asia ex Japan unit at Edram sets up shop in Hong Kong

Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management announced on Monday, 6 September that it has installed its Asia ex Japan equities management team in Hong Kong. The arrival strengthens the firm’s presence in Asia. Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has already been presence in the Asian markets since 1993, and in China for 12 years, a statement says. Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management Hong Kong, an affiliate of the management firm Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, was licensed in February 2008 by the Securities and Futures Commission to manage Chinese equities funds and to distribute the full range of its investment supports. In April 2006, La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild also received a Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) license, allowing it to become the first private bank to invest in A and G class shares in Shanghai and Shenzhen. With 15 personnel, Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management Hong Kong has EUR1.3bn in assets under management. Asian management is directed by Yi Tang.
07/09/2010

Citi adds to private banking division

Fernando López, head of private banking at Citigroup for the Iberian peninsula, recruited two people this summer, Cotizalia reports. They are Javier Asterloa, head of investor relations at Metrovacesa, and José Toribio, who previously worked in the private bank at Merrill Lynch in Madrid. With the recruitments, Citi has doubled the size of its private banking team, which previously consisted of Miguel Forteza and Federico Limpenny.
07/09/2010

Two former Sal. Oppenheim heads join Métropole Gestion

According to information obtained by Newsmanagers, François Carlotti and Bruno Zaraya, who were previously chairman of the board and head of development at Sal. Oppenheim France, respectively, have joined Métropole Gestion.
07/09/2010

Major growth in sustainable investment in German-speaking countries

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, assets in sustainable investments last year grew by 67% to a total of EUR38bn as of the end of December, of which EUR13bn (+68%) were in Germany, EUR2bn (+165%) in Austria, and EUR23bn (+63%) in Switzerland, according to the annual report of the Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen e.V. (FNG). However, the market share for sustainable investment now represents only 0.8% in Germany and 1.5% in Austria. In Switzerland, sustainable investments represent 3.5% of the total. Claudia Tober, a member of the board at FNG, says that in Germany and Austria, retail investors have gained ground on institutional investors, who nonetheless account for 84% of the market in Austria.
07/09/2010

Morgan Stanley P2 Value to reopen to redemptions

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investment GmbH is preparing to reopen redemptions from the open-ended real estate fund P2 Value. As the redemption freeze will end before the expiration of two years, the fund will not need to be liquidated, Handelsblatt reports. Walter Klug, one of the MDs of the asset management firm, estimates that after the revision of estimates for all properties in the portfolio, the fund may reopen with assets of EUR820-EUR870m, compared with EUR1.7bn as of the end of October 2008, when the redemption freeze was declared.
07/09/2010

DFH acquires Fürstenhof building in Frankfurt from Union

DFH Deutsche Fonds Honding has bought the Fürstenhof office and retail building (18,450 square metres), in the banking district of Frankfurt, for EUR126m from the open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Deutschland, from Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE, German co-operative banks). The sale price of the property, leased in its near entirety to Commerzbank, corresponds to the most recent expert valuation, but is lower than the EUR129m paid by UIRE to Eurocastle Investment Limited in July 2008. Frank Billand, a member of the executive board at UIRE, says that the proceeds of the sale will be very quickly reinvested. Since the beginning of the year, UIRE has already dedicated EUR440m to the acquisition of office and retail properties in Germany.
07/09/2010

Egamo signs up to PRI

Egamo, the asset management firm created by MGEN, has signed up to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI),
07/09/2010

Invesco adds to product range in Italy

Invesco is adding to its product range in Italy with 11 new sub-funds and 10 coupon distribution solutions, Bluerating reports. Six of the new sub-funds belong to the Morgan Stanley range acquired by Invesco.
07/09/2010

Wall Street Journal dubious of European bank stress tests

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday raised doubts about the results of stress tests undertaken of banks in the European Union, claiming that some risks the banks run had been underestimated. The tests “underestimated the amounts of potentially risky public debt held by some establishments, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis,” the New York newspaper writes, one and a half months after the publication of the results. The newspaper names the British bank Barclays and the French Crédit Agricole as among those for which it found a divergence of quarterly results and other financial documents on one hand, and results submitted for the stress tests on the other. “Crédit Agricole did not count the public debt held by its insurance affiliate,” the newspaper explains. The banks concerned have responded that they scrupulously followed the guidelines provided by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS).
07/09/2010

South Africa sets up a code for responsible investment

Responsible Investor reports that a working group chaired by John Oliphant, chief investment officer of the pension fund for South African government employees, which manages about EUR75.4bn, has unveiled a responsible investment code for institutional investors. The eight-page document aims to articulate the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) and to ensure that environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are treated to an “apply or explain” approach. The document is open to consultation until the end of October.
07/09/2010

ComStage lists two ETFs in Lisbon

NYSE Euronext has announced that it has admitted the ComStage ETF PSI 20 and ComStage ETF PSI 20 Leverage funds, both Luxembourg-registered funds from the ComStage affiliate of Commerzbank, to trading on Euronext Lisbon. Management commissions are set at 0.50% and 0.60%, respectively. With these two products, NYSE Euronext has 535 listings of 487 different funds based on over 300 indices. Since the beginning of the year, 48 new ETF funds have been admitted to trading on the European markets of NYSE Euronext.
07/09/2010

Only 27% of Portuguese funds show gains for the past 36 months

According to statistics from the APFIPP association of management firms, only 27% of the 211 Portuguese funds have posted positive results for the three years to the end of August. Four out of ten show average annual losses of over 5%. Diario Económico states that the best performance in the period under review belonged to the BPI Brasil fund (over 10% per year). Eight funds have posted annual gains of over 8%.
07/09/2010

Bank savings accounts have “stolen” EUR80bn from funds since 2007

Since the onset of the financial crisis, savings investors have lost confidence in investment funds. As of the end of July, the amount placed by retail clients in funds had fallen to EUR122.08bn (the lowest level since 1997, when statistics began), down from a total of EUR200bn in 2007, according to statistics from the Bank of Spain, Cinco Días reports. In the same period, bank savings deposits held by Spanish households rose from EUR329.54bn as of the end of July 2007 to EUR425.65bn three years later. This means that about EUR78bn moved from funds to savings accounts in the space of three years. The same phenomenon may be observed for non-financial sector businesses, whose portfolios in investment fund shares declined in the same period from EUR26.44bn to less than half that (EUR10.55bn), while bank savings deposits have increased to EUR111.4bn from EUR90bn.
07/09/2010

Bryan Chen leaves Edram Hong Kong

The head of marketing for Asia at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management (EDRAM), Bryan Chen, left his job in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Asian Investor reports. Chen may join a sovereign fund or a private equity firm, a source cited by Asian Investor says.
07/09/2010

MSCI unveils new ESG indices

The index provider MSCI will this Tuesday unveil a new range of ESG Indexes which will include specifically environmental indices under the new brand name MSCI ESG Research, following the firm’s acquisition of RiskMetrics Group (RMG) in March of this year, Responsible Investor reports. The supplementary product range will include two environmental indices: a Global Environmenal Index which covers companies which earn more than 50% of their revenues from environmental technologies, and a MSCI Global Climate Index of the 100 largest firms considered to be top-ranking companies in the environmental segment.
07/09/2010

Stoxx launches sub-indices of Euro Stoxx 50

Stoxx Limited has announced the launch of the Euro Stoxx 50 Subindex France, Euro Stoxx 50 Subindex Italy and Euro Stoxx 50 Subindex Spain. The new country indices are subsets of the flagship Euro Stoxx 50 Index, representing all French, Italian and Spanish companies from the Euro Stoxx 50 Index, respectively.
07/09/2010

Fund assets up in July

According to statistics from the Investment Management Association, assets in funds domiciled in the United Kingdom as of the end of July totalled GBP509.2bn, 4% higher than at the end of June (EUR488.2bn). As of 31 July 2009, it totalled GBP412.1bn. Retail net subscriptions totalled GBP2.2bn, compared with GBP2.1bn in June, and GBP2.3bn in the corresponding month of last year. Net inflows have thus been over GBP2bn in for the past 13 and 16 months. The strongest retail net subscriptions were for bond funds, at GBP928m, compared with GBP579m in June, while equities funds attracted GBP857m, the highest amount since November 2009. Funds domiciled abroad as of the end of July had assets of GBP23.4bn, compared with GBP22.4bn one month earlier, and GBP19.2bn as of 31 July 2009. The total as of the end of July 2010 is the highest since statistics began in July 2006. For these funds, retail net subscriptions in July totalled GBP385.4m, compared with GBP147.8m in June and GBP300.2m in the corresponding month of last year.
07/09/2010

iShares launches an ETF of Euro-denominated high yield bonds

On 3 September, iShares (BlackRock) launched the UCITS-compliant ETF iShares Markit iBoxx Euro High Yield (acronym IHYG), which physically replicates the Markit iBoxx Euro Liquid High Yield index, which includes 100 of the most liquid high yield bonds denominated in Euros, with issue volumes of at least EUR250m. So far, the product is licensed for sale only in the United Kingdom. It has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 6 September. Characteristics Name: iShares Markit iBoxx Euro High Yield ISIN: IE00B66F4759 Total expense ratio: 0.5%
07/09/2010

M&G launches a retail inflation-linked corporate bond fund

According to M&G Investments, the M&G UK Inflation Linked Corporate Bond Fund, which will be launched on 16 September in the United Kingdom, will be the first fund of inflation-linked corporate bonds to be offered on the British retail market. The fund will be jointly managed by Jim Leavies, head of the retail fixed income team at M&G, and Ben Lord, fund manager. The new product will invest in inflation-linked corporate bonds issued by British large caps, FRN, and a range of assets which will include government bonds and derivatives whose performance evolves in a manner similar to that of inflation-linked bonds. M&G is aiming for returns similar to the increase in the consumer price index (CPI) over the mid- to long-term. Front-end fees are set at 3%, and management commission for A-type shares in pounds Sterling will total 1%. Minimal initial subscription will total GBP500, or GBP10 per month for savings plans.
07/09/2010

Threadneedle launches an absolute return fund

The range of absolute return funds from Threadneedle (GBP1.9bn in assets as of the end of June) has been enlarged with the addition of the UK Absolute Alpha Fund, which is managed by Mark Westwood and Chris Kinder, who have previous experience in long/short management. It is a UCITS-compliant fund, which will replicate the formula already used for Cayman Islands-domiciled funds in a UCITS III-compliant environment, in a manner similar to the Threadneedle Enhanced Commodities Fund (TECF) and the Threadneedle (Lux) American Absolute Alpha Fund (see Newsmanagers of 1 July and 25 June, respectively).

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