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09/03/2010

Henderson recruits a former BGI strategist

Henderson Global Investors has appointed Brigid Jackson as a director of fixed income. In her role, she will be responsible for designing fixed income mandates and overseeing and communicating strategy, performance and risk for institutional clients. She joins the company on 5th May 2010. Brigid Jackson joins Henderson from Blackrock (Barclays Global Investors (BGI)) where was a fixed income strategist since 2007. Prior to this she was a business development director and client director at BGI since 2000. She joined BGI from JP Morgan Investment Management where she spent 3 years working in the institutional business.
09/03/2010

Record UK net inflows in January

For funds domiciled in the United Kingdom, net inflows in the month of January totalled GBP1.8bn, the highest level ever observed, according to statistics from the British asset management association (IMA). In keeping with tradition, this total is slightly lower than the December figure (GBP2.2bn), but 55% above the figure for January 2009. Assets under management totalled GBP470.1bn as of the end of January, slightly down compared with December (GBP480.6bn), but 32% higher than in January 2009 (GBP357.1bn). Examination by asset class reveals that equities represented 30% of net sales (GBP549m), Bonds accounted for 17% of net sales, at GBP317m. The “other” category totalled GBP375m, of which 59% was in “absolute return UK.” Within the equities asset class, investors preferred the Global, Asian and North American regions. Europe and the United Kingdom were the least popular categories, with net outflows of GBP208m from Europe ex UK.
09/03/2010

Two former Liontrust managers create a boutique

Jeremy Lang and William Pattisson are planning their return to the industry with a new boutique called Ardevora Asset Management , following their departure from Liontrust almost a year ago, says Citywire. The duo plans to hire two fund managers to run money alongside them and will run long/short UK and global portfolios with absolute return targets between 7% and 10% a year.
09/03/2010

KKR recruits a director from Citi

Finance Asia reports that the private equity heavyweight Kohlberg Kravis roberts & Co (KKR) has recruited Abhijit Sen as administrative director and financier for its Indian offices. Sen, who will begin in his new position on 1 April, joins from Citi, where he was chief financial officer for South Asia (India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka). He will report to Sanjay Navar, who is head of KKR India, and who also left Citi, in November 2008, to join KKR.
09/03/2010

iShares and db x-trackers to set up shop in Spain soon

Currently, there are only 32 ETFs on sale in Spain, 24 from Lyxor (Société Générale) and 8 from BBVA, while Santander has withdrawn from this sector, Expansión reports. But iShares (BlackRock) and db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank) will soon be making their debut on the Spanish market. They are only waiting for one thing: that the Madrid government approve a royal decree which would allow them to list ETFs with Sicav status. According to experts, the passage of this legislation is imminent.
09/03/2010

Deutsche Bank launches an ETC platform

On Monday, Deutsche Bank announced the launch of its own platform dedicated to Exchange Traded Commodities (ETC), db ETC Index plc, which is an ad-hoc company without its own assets, registered in Jersey, on the Xetra electronic trading platform from Deutsche Börse. The first four products, all of which are registered in Germany and charge fees of 0.45%, are the db ETC Brent Crude Oil Euro Hedged, Industrial Metals Euro Hedged, Short Brent Crude Oil Euro Hedged, and Monthly Short Gold Euro Hedged. Thorsten Michalik, director of db x-trackers (ETF) and db ETC, says that db ETC will be made available throughout Europe by the end of this year, and will include ETC funds replicating the evolution of gold, silver, platinum and palladium. By June, Deutsche Bank is planning to issue more than 30 bonds of this type. The management firm also plans to provide access not only to Euro hedged and US dollar commodity products, but also supports which sue «smart» commodity indices of the “Optimum Yield” range developed by Deutsche Bank, which are already used for ETF funds from db x-trackers carrying the “booster” suffix. New ETC funds Name: db ETC Brent Crude Oil Euro Hedged ISIN: DE000A1AQGX1 Management commission: 0.45% Name: db ETC Industrial Metals Euro Hedged ISIN: DE000A1AQGY9 Management Commission: 0.45% Name: db ETC Monthly Short Brent Crude Oil Euro Hedged ISIN: DE000A1AQGW3 Management commission: 0.45% Name: db ETC Monthly Short Gold Euro Hedged ISIN: DE000A1AQGZ6 Management commission: 0.45%
09/03/2010

Pictet earns EUR13.5bn in 2009

In 2009, Pictet has earned net subscriptions of CHF20bn, or EUR13.5bn. This brings assets under management to CHF251bn (EUR169bn), as of 31 December 2009. With the addition of global custody, assets total CHF388bn (EUR261bn).
09/03/2010

Schroders adds to Frankfurt staff

Following the recruitment of Hakan Türktasar earlier this year (see Newsmanagers of 8 January), Schroders Germany on Monday announced the recruitment of Martin Theis for its client service activity. He will serve as an interface with Luxembourg, to coordinate fund administration, and will report to Joachim Nareike, director of Schroder Investment GmbH for Germany and Austria. Nicol Teixera, who left his position as head of marketing in June 2008 on Paternity leave, has returned as head of the event management service. Thomas Schalow will retain the position of head of marketing.
09/03/2010

BNY Mellon to buy BHF Asset Servicing

Pending regulatory approval, BNY Mellon is acquiring BHF Asset Servicing GmbH for EUR253m from BHF-Bank and Sal. Oppenheim. The transaction would also include the acquisition of the fund administration affiliate of BHF Asset Servicing, Frankfurter Service Kapitalanlage-Gesellschaft mbH (FSKAG). Together, BHF Asset Servicing and FSKAG have total assets under custody of EUR473bn, of which EUR33.1bn are for FSKAG, while the volume of activities at the depository bank totals EUR120bn. BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, which is taking over the two entities, would become the number two in the sector by volume in the German market, and would have 340 employees. The firm would be directed by Michelle Grundmann of BNY Mellon, who is managing director and branch heat Frankfurt/Main, with Jürgen P. Frank and Christopher V. Friedrich, who join the firm from BHF Asset Servicing. The three will report to Nadine Chakar, head of Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing.
09/03/2010

GSAM registers UCITS III version of a hedge fund

With the GS Absolute Return Portfolio, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has registered a UCITS III-compliant version of its GS Fundamental Equity Long Short Strategy fund, a hedge fund launched in August 2004 which has earned annualised returns of 5.3%, compared with 2.3% for the S&P 500, with volatility of 6.8%, compared with 15.5% for the index, Funds People reports. The new product has weekly liquidity (instead of monthly liquidity for the hedge fund), and has leverage of 2.1 times (with the maximum level set at 3 times), and its net exposure to the market is slightly above 20%. The fund’s objective is to outperform the Libor by 200 to 600 basis points, with total volatility between 6% and 12%.
09/03/2010

Challenge of combining outperformance and consistency

An analysis of data from Feri/Lipper covering 1,200 equities funds in the past ten years reveals that only about 380 funds earned positive results, with about half of these also outperforming the MSCI index, Handelsblatt reports. Barely 144 funds earned annual returns higher than 5%; they are most often funds specialised in Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia, or small caps showing high growth. With that said, no fund has succeeded in outperforming the MSCI in all of the past ten years, while 40 managed to do so in nine out of 10 years; these, again, were mostly funds focused on Eastern Europe, Asia or Australia. Among funds specialised in global markets, only eight outperformed the index nine times out of 10.
09/03/2010

Amundi launches its first fund under the Amundi brand name

Amundi Asset Management on 8 March announced the launch of Amundi Tréso 12 month, its first mutual fund created with the Amundi brand name. Due to low returns from money markets, the French fund offers investors a 12-month cash management solution. The product is aimed primarily at institutional and corporate clients. Amundi Tréso 12 Month aims to outperform the Eonia capitalised at 0.60% per year, less the real management fees associated with each share. To provide higher returns than the money markets, the management team actively manages two sources of performance: credit and liquidity premiums offered by private and public bonds, fixed income premiums arising from the returns offered by long-term bonds that generally offer a higher risk premium than short-term bonds. These two sources of added value are most often decorrelated, particularly in times of high market volatility, which helps to provide more resistant performance.
09/03/2010

Sparinvest releases a high yield value ethical fund

The Danish management firm Sparinvest on 28 February received a sales license from the AMF for the Ethical High Yield Value Bonds sub-fund, an ethical management product that brings together exclusion, value management and high yield bonds, says Benoît Schouler, CEO of Sparinvest France. Assets in the Luxembourg fund are already about EUR37m, not due to seed capital but because an institutional investor has transferred assets to the new product from a non-ethical high yield fund, which now has assets of EUR304m. Sparinvest ethical funds have EUR117m, of which about EUR80m are in the Global Value Ethic. The ethical filtering of the portfolio is undertaken by the Swedish agency Ethix SRI Advisers, with whom Sparinvest has been collaborating since May 2008. The management team excludes businesses which do not respect international standards in environmental protection, human rights, labour rights, or corruption (normative approach), on the one hand, and businesses whose activities are related to weapons, tobacco, alcohol, pornography, gaming, or arms (sectoral approach), on the other hand. Characteristics Name: Sparinvest Ethical High Yield Value Bonds ISIN: LU0473784196 Front-end fee: 2% Management commission: 1.25%
09/03/2010

Invesco Perpetual plans to launch Asian equities funds

Fund Strategy reports that Invesco Perpetual is planning to add two new products to its range of Asian equities funds. They include an opportunistic conviction fund and a revenue fund which focuses primarily on rising dividends in Asian markets.
09/03/2010

AIFM directive: non-UCITS funds not necessarily invited to the party

The reporter for the proposed AIFM (Alternative Investment Fund Managers) directive at the European Parliament, Jean-Paul Gauzès, has confirmed, at a conference held by the EIFR (European Institute of Financial Regulation), that after a three-year period, funds from non-EU countries (often “offshore”) may be eligible for a passport to be offered for sale in the European Union. This would give less substance to the term “non-UCITS fund,” which Anglo-American managers, adapted to offshore vehicles, have been pleased to learn, Agefi reports. However, Gauzès pointed out that to make this possible, the countries in question must sign regulatory equivalence agreements with the European countries. If these agreements are not signed, the fund will not be eligible to be bought or sold there, the newspaper reports.
09/03/2010

Mutual funds: Investors did not abandon equities during the crisis

Most investors in mutual funds did not abandon the equities asset class during the period of market depression in 2008-2009, but they didn’t show much enthusiasm for adopting new positions in the following rebound, according to research which has recently been published by Vanguard. In a study entitled “Equity Abandonment in 2008-2009: Lower Among Balanced Fund Investors,” the researchers found that only a very small number of investors in equities (about 1%) completely withdrew from the market during the period of turbulence. Investors in diversified funds generally held their positions. The percentage of investors who abandoned these funds was about 50% lower than for holders of shares in equities funds. In another study entitled “2009: A Return to Risk-Taking,” researchers note that investors’ marked preference for bond funds over equities funds during the rebound on the equities markets stands in total contradiction with the behaviour of investors in previous phases of rebound on equities markets. In 2003, for example, investors withdrew USD265bn from money market funds and placed USD152bn in equities funds, and USD51bn in diversified funds. Nothing similar took place in the 2009 rebound. Investors withdrew about USD500bn from money market funds, and only placed USD9bn in equities funds, but put USD340bn in bond funds. The study also touts the virtues of prudent diversification. An investor, for example, who had a portfolio 100% invested in equities would have lost nearly 25% in the period of market downturn from 2007 until 31 December 2009.
09/03/2010

Oddo AM looking to double net inflows in 2010

Oddo Asset Management had net inflows of EUR600m in 2009, and is planning to double that amount this year, Reuters reports. To achieve that, the firm is betting on Europe. “We are not yet well-known enough internationally. There is work to be done in Europe to promote our expertise,” said Philippe Oddo, managing partner at Oddo & Cie, at a conference on asset management held by Reuters in Paris on 8, 9 and 10 March. Oddo’s assets totalled EUR12bn as of the end of December 2009.
09/03/2010

Trois nouveaux investisseurs pour Turquoise

Le London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) a indiqué le 8 mars avoir vendu 9% de sa participation dans la holding réunissant les activités de Turquoise et Baikal à trois grandes banques internationales.Barclays Bank, J.P. Morgan Cazenove et Nomura ont chacune pris des participations de 3% pour un coût unitaire de 1 million de livres en cash.Ces nouvelles entrées portent à douze le nombre total d’actionnaires dans Turquoise dont le capital reste contrôlé à 51% par LSEG.
09/03/2010

Deux anciens gérants de Liontrust créent leur boutique

Jeremy Lang et William Pattisson, qui ont quitté Liontrust il y a environ un an, prévoient de créer une nouvelle boutique de gestion d’actifs, Ardevora Asset Management, rapporte Citywire. Le duo compte recruter deux gérants et lancer des portefeuilles long/short Royaume-Uni et monde avec des objectifs de rendement absolu de 7 % et 10 % par an.
09/03/2010

Le patron de Skandia IG mise sur les solutions d'investissement

Dans un article du Financial Times Fund Management qui lui est consacré, Nils Bolmstrand, le directeur général de Skandia Investment Group, estime que nous allons vers un monde de solutions d’investissement et que, dans ce contexte, ceux qui survivront seront ceux qui sont tournés vers les clients. Il indique par ailleurs que l’Inde et la Chine sont des marchés intéressants pour le groupe Old Mutual dans son ensemble, maison mère de SIG, même s’ils ne sont pas dans le radar actuellement. Le groupe vend des produits dans une vingtaine de marchés, y compris à Taiwan et Hong Kong.
09/03/2010

Henderson GI recrute une ancienne de BGI

Brigid Jackson rejoindra Henderson Global Investors le 5 mai 2010 en tant que directrice des taux (fixed income). Elle sera chargée de concevoir les mandats taux et de superviser et de communiquer la stratégie, la performance et le risque pour les clients institutionnels. Brigid Jackson vient de Barclays Global Investors (maintenant groupe Blackrock) où elle était stratégiste taux depuis 2007. Auparavant, elle était directrice du développement et responsable clients depuis 2000.
09/03/2010

Pictet collecte 13,5 milliards d'euros en 2009

En 2009, Pictet a enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 20 milliards de francs suisses, soit 13,5 milliards d’euros. Cela porte ses encours sous gestion à 251 milliards de francs (169 milliards d’euros) au 31 décembre 2009. Si l’on y ajoute le global custody, les encours se montent à 388 milliards de francs suisses (261 milliards d’euros).
09/03/2010
Fonds

KKR recrute chez Citi

Selon Finance Asia, le poids lourd du private equity, Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) vient de recruter Abhijit Sen en tant que directeur adminsitratif et financier de son antenne indienne.Abhijit Sen, qui prendre ses fonctions le 1er avril, vient de Citi où il était chief financial officer pour l’Asie du Sud (Inde, Bangladesh et SriLanka). Il est rattaché à Sanjay Navar, qui dirige KKR India, et qui, lui aussi, avait quitté Citi, en novembre 2008, pour rejoindre KKR.
Fonds
09/03/2010
Fonds

db x-trackers lance un ETF sur la Chine

db x-trackers vient de coter sur la Bourse de Singapour un ETF de droit luxembourgeois répliquant le CSI 300, un indice d’actions chinoises, rapporte le Financial Times Fund Management. Le produit est conforme à la directive Ucits III.
Fonds
08/03/2010

Italian insurance policy was invested in Madoff

Bernard Madoff was one of the unit-linked managers for a life insurance policy offered to Italian investors by AIG Life in Dublin, which has been frozen by the company since December 2008, Il Sole - 24 Ore reports. The total sums invested with the US fraudster are estimated at EUR2-3m, from a total portfolio of EUR82m, which was placed in 16 funds on behalf of 16,000 Italian investors. It is likely that toxic assets, in addition to the Madoff investments, were introduced into the portfolio of the funds, which explains the closure of the policy, the Italian newspaper reports.
08/03/2010
Fonds

Traditional Funds arrive en Espagne

Le gestionnaire britannique Thames River Capital a fait enregistrer par la CNMV la sicav irlandaise Traditional Funds Plc, qui comporte treize compartiments, rapporte Funds People. La commercialisation de ces produits sera assurée en Espagne par Allfunds Bank.
Fonds
08/03/2010
Fonds

Legg Mason fait enregistrer trois fonds supplémentaires

La CNMV a enregistré trois nouveaux fonds de Legg Mason. Il s’agit du Legg Mason Western Global Blue Chip de Western Asset Management, du Legg Mason Capital Management Opportunity que gère le Legg Mason Opportunity Trust dirigé par Bill Miller et enfin du Legg Mason Royce Global Smaller, de Royce & Associates.
Fonds
08/03/2010
Fonds

Le volume des arbitrages entre fonds a diminué de moitié

L’association Inverco des sociétés de gestion espagnoles a rapporté vendredi qu’en 2009 le volume des arbitrages, des transferts d’un fonds à l’autre, est tombé à 33,08 milliards d’euros ou 19,57 % de l’encours de fin d’année de 169,03 milliards d’euros, alors qu’il avait représenté 66,23 milliards ou 37,84 % de 175,05 milliards en 2008. Selon Ángel Martínez-Aldama, directeur général d’Inverco, il est «lamentable» que les investisseurs n’aient pas su profiter de la reprise des Bourses après s'être repliés en 2008 sur des positions défensives.De fait, la composition du portefeuille moyen montre que les catégories les plus «frileuses», celles des monétaires, des obligataires et des garantis, ont pesé l’an dernier 78,85 % du total (50,44 % pour l’obligataire et le monétaire, 28,41 % pour les garantis). Par comparaison, les fonds d’actions ne représentaient que 14,09 %, le reliquat de 7,06 % étant affecté aux fonds dits «globaux».
Fonds
08/03/2010

Prisa s'intègre au SPAC Liberty

Dans un avis remis vendredi à la CNMV, Grupo Prisa annonce qu’il achète 100 % du Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) Liberty Acquisition Holdings au moyen d’un échange d’actions qui permet au groupe espagnol de percevoir 660 millions d’euros et ne laisse à la famille Polanco que 30 % des parts contre plus de 70 % jusqu'à présent. Dès lors, Prisa sera coté non seulement en Espagne mais aussi à New York (Amex) sous forme d’ADR.Les actionnaires de Liberty, non identifiés, deviennent ainsi majoritaires chez Prisa, mais ils acceptent de maintenir l’actuelle direction à la tête de l’entreprise espagnole. Prisa annonce parallèlement une augmentation de capital en numéraire avec droit de souscription préférentiel pour ses actionnaires existants. Ce sera une émission d’actions ordinaires pour 150 millions d’euros à 3,08 euros par titre contre 3,518 euros pour la transaction avec Liberty.

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