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19/02/2010

Les régions plus diversifiantes que les secteurs

Le graphique ci-contre montre l’évolution de l’indicateur de gain à la diversification calculé à partir de la corrélation moyenne entre des indices sectoriels globaux d’une part, et des indices régionaux d’autre part. Nous avons considéré une classification en dix secteurs (santé, industrie, télécoms, etc.) et huit zones géographiques (Etats-Unis, UEM, Asie, etc.). Cet indicateur permet de comparer les gains potentiels de diversification qui résultent d’une stratégie de diversification sectorielle et d’une stratégie de diversification régionale dans un portefeuille d’actions internationales.
18/02/2010

Crédit Agricole: fin du pacte d’actionnaires avec Generali

Selon Les Echos, l’assureur italien Generali et le Crédit Agricole ont annoncé hier soir le débouclage du pacte d’actionnaires qui les liaient depuis bientôt un an, au tour de table du deuxième groupe bancaire italien Intesa Sanpaolo. L’opération sera effective le 19 mars, à la prochaine réunion du conseil de gestion d’Intesa, l’instance qui doit convoquer l’assemblée générale des actionnaires appelée à renouveler le conseil de surveillance de la banque milanaise.
18/02/2010

Andrew Musters rejoint le comité exécutif de SAM

Le global head of private equity chez SAM et Robeco, Andrew Musters, a été nommé membre du comité exécutif de SAM sustainable Asset Management, filiale de Robeco. Cette nomination fait suite à l’intégration complète des activités de private equity dans le domaine des technologies propres (clean tech) chez SAM, ce qui s’est traduit par un déménagement de l'équipe de Rotterdam à Zurich en juillet 2009 (lire notre dépêche du 4 juin 2009).SAM insiste sur le fait qu’Andrews Musters jouit d’une excellente réputation auprès de la clientèle institutionnelle dans le domaine du développement et du lancement de fonds de fonds de private equity dans le secteur du «clean tech».
18/02/2010

Bons résultats pour l’administrateur de fonds Gérifonds

Retour à la croissance pour Gérifonds, le spécialiste de l’administration de fonds du groupe BCV. Selon L’Agefi suisse, le nombre de fonds administrés par Gérifonds a crû de 91 à 103. Celui des fonds dirigés a augmenté encore plus fortement, de 64 à 79. Dans les deux catégories, les avoirs sous gestion ont également été en hausse, notamment grâce à de nouveaux investissements nets totalisant 1,7 milliard de francs pour la première et 0,9 milliard pour la seconde. Pour les fonds sous direction, cet apport a même été plus important que la hausse des marchés. Leurs encours sous gestion à 7,7 milliards (fonds sous administration: 16,8 milliards) ont ainsi atteint un nouveau record depuis la fondation de cette maison spécialisée en 1970.
18/02/2010

Le fondateur de TCW quitte le conseil d'administration de la Société Générale

Le milliardaire américain Robert Day, soupçonné de délit d’initié, a démissionné et quitté ses fonctions au conseil d’administration de la Société Générale, selon Reuters qui a ainsi confirmé une information des Echos. Robert Day, qui a fondé puis vendu TCW, une société de gestion d’actifs, à la Société générale, est visé par une «class action» aux Etats-Unis sur un présumé délit d’initié lié à l’affaire Kerviel. Il est également visé par une enquête de l’Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF).
18/02/2010

State Street sélectionné par iShares

Le plus gros fournisseur d’ETF au monde, iShares, a sélectionné State Street en tant que conservateur et administrateur de fonds pour un montant record de 370 milliards de dollars, soit quelque 269 milliards d’euros, selon efinancialnews.Le mandat avait été précédemment confié à Bank of Ireland Securities Services. State Street prendra le relais en juin prochain.
18/02/2010

DWS rationalise sa gamme

Désormais, DWS Investments ne commercialise plus en Autriche de fonds de droit local. Les six derniers qui subsistaient au 31 décembre 2009 ont été soit transférés à d’autres gérants, soit liquidés.Le gestionnaire de fonds offerts au public de la Deutsche Bank a déjà entamé depuis assez longtemps une concentration de son offre de produits sur la sicav luxembourgeoise DWS Invest. Les fonds de droit français et italien, notamment, y avaient déjà été transférés.DWS juge que la gestion en local coûte finalement trop cher et que la centralisation à Francfort de l’essentiel de la gestion est une formule à la fois moins onéreuse et plus efficace.
18/02/2010

La Deutsche Börse va se séparer de 80 cadres supérieurs

Gregor Pottmeyer, directeur financier, a indiqué mercredi que la Deutsche Börse a l’intention de se séparer à l’amiable de 80 cadres supérieurs sur 400, rapporte la Börsen-Zeitung. Cela vise les strates immédiatement sous le directoire, donc les managing directors, heads of department et senior experts.Selon le concept élaboré par McKinsey, cela doit permettre d’accélérer la prise de décisions et donc de mettre plus rapidement sur le marché de nouveaux produits et services.Les dégraissages ne s’arrêteront pas en si bon chemin puisque Gregor Pottmeyer a chiffré le coût des autres mesures d'économies pour 2010 à 50 millions d’euros, dont 30 % pour des départs dans les échelons inférieurs à celui des cadres supérieurs.
18/02/2010
Fonds

Les remboursements du Axa Immoselect restent gelés

Axa Investment Managers Deutschland a annoncé qu’elle proroge de neuf mois le gel de trois mois sur les remboursements de son fonds immobilier offert au public Axa Immoselect (2,84 milliards d’euros). Ils étaient suspendus pour trois mois jusqu’au 17 février 2010 (lire notre article du 20 novembre 2009).Achim Gräfen, gérant du fonds et directeur général d’Axa Investments Managers Deutschland, a précisé que cette décision est imputable à l’insuffisance de liquidités pour faire face aux demandes de remboursement escomptées.L’Immoselect avait déjà été fermé aux remboursements du 28 octobre 2008 au 28 août 2009 (lire nos articles du 30 décembre 2008 et du 28 août 2009).
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18/02/2010
Fonds

Intelectia lance un fonds de cat-bonds

Le gestionnaire alternatif espagnol Intelectia Capital va lancer Intelectia Blue, un compartiment de la sicav luxembourgeoise Newcits d’Adepa AM qui sera spécialisé dans les emprunts-catastrophe (cat-bonds) et visera une performance de 15-20 % avec une volatilité de 5-8 %, rapporte Citywire. Ce fonds conforme à la directive OPCVM III pourra aussi «shorter».
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18/02/2010

Carmen Ortiz lègue Popular Gestión à Miguel Colombás

Nommée directeur des relations avec les investisseurs et les actionnaires du Banco Popular, Carmen Ortiz quitte le poste de directeur général de Popular Gestión (6,7 milliards d’euros, 64 fonds). Elle est remplacée par Miguel Colombás, qui était jusqu’ici directeur général adjoint et CIO de la société de gestion.
18/02/2010

Korean sovereign fund wants to move into alternative management

The Korean sovereign fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), which manages about USd30bn in assets, is planning to extend its investments into alternative management, Asian Investor reports. The Korean minister of Finance and Strategy, who has already contributed USD13bn to the fund, may this year make a further commitment of USD5bn. The new assets in the fund would be invested in alternative asset classes, including private equity, real estate, hedge funds, and commodities. The largest allocations would be for private equity. Exposure to alternative management could eventually be in the range of 15% to 20%.
18/02/2010

EGA launches its fifth ETF

Emerging Global Shares Trust (EGA) on Wednesday announced the launch of the China Infrastructure Index ETF (which is traded under the acronym CHXX on NYSE), which the asset management firm says is the first product of its type dedicated to the Chinese infrastructure sector. The portfolio is invested in the 30 largest publicly-traded firms in the country, and the fund aims to replicate the evolution of the INDXX China Infrastructure index. Fees total a net 0.85%. As of 1 February, the five most highly represented sub-sectors were real estate development management (22.73%), metals and mining companies (15.22%), construction and engineering (14.93%), electrical equipment (11.70%), and construction materials (9.37%). The fund is managed by Alps Advisors, and sub-advised by EGA. The portfolio manager is Richard Kang, CIO of EGA. This is the fifth ETF from EGA, following the Emerging Markets Metals & Mining (EMT), Emerging Markets Energy Fund EEO), Emerging Markets Financials (EFN) and Emerging Markets Titans Composite (EEG) funds. EGA is planning to launch at least five more emerging markets ETFs by the end of this year, of which two will be focused on infrastructure in Brazil and India, and three will invest in midcaps (Brazil, China, and India).
18/02/2010

Axa Immoselect redemptions to remain frozen

Axa Investment Managers Deutschland has announced that it will be extending for nine months the freeze on redemptions from its open-ended real estate fund Axa Immoselect (EUR2.84bn). Redemptions were initially suspended for three months, to 17 February 2010 (see Newsmanagers 20 November 2009). Achim Gräfen, manager of the fund and CEO of Axa Investment Managers Deutschland, says that the decision is due to a lack of adequate liquidity to meet redemption demands already received. The Immoselect fund has already been closed to redemptions from 28 October 2008 to 28 August 2009 (see Newsmanagers of 30 December 2008 and 28 August 2009).
18/02/2010

BNP Paribas opens its Vol Edge fund to British investors

BNP Paribas has decided to open its Vol Edge fund to British investors. The fund, launched in 2007, is managed by the BNP Paribas affiliate Harewood Asset Management, Investment Week reports. The FCP fund offers coverage against volatility on equities markets, and protection against problems with correlation of other asset classes in falling markets. Harewood is targeting multi-management and high net worth private investors.
18/02/2010

ETFS Physical Palladium GH sets records for asset volume

ETF Securities (ETFS) announced on Wednesday that on 11 February, total assets in its physical Palladium ETC fund (under the acronym PHPT) has set an all-time record of 1.1 million ounces. This is four times the previous record set in the commodities boom in July 2008.
18/02/2010

Hedge fund compass out of whack

The major providers of hedge fund indices in January showed diverging trends, which is due to the differing components of their various indices. According to Credit Suisse/Tremont, hedge funds in January earned average returns of 0.17%, with peaks at 2.02% for FI arb and event-driven (1.42%), while emerging markets and long/short equity lost 0.76% and 1.50%. BarclayHedge, meanwhile, estimates that hedge funds overall lost 0.29%, with the top returns for equity short bias, with gains of 3.8%, followed by distressed securities (+2.64%), and as at Credit Suisse/Tremont, FI arb, which earned 1.89%. The emerging markets sub-index shows losses of 1.19%, while equity long bias is down 1.68%, and technologies are down 2.74%.
18/02/2010

Asset management revenues at Axa down 25%

Revenues from asset management at Axa were down nearly 25% last year to EUR3.07bn, largely due to a lower level of assets under management (-18%), and an unfavourable evolution of the product mix (which contained a lesser proportion of equities). Assets under management were up EUR29bn compared with 31 December 2008, at EUR845bn. Net inflows were EUR71bn lower, largely due to the institutional client segment, due to the more limited performance of AllianceBernstein investments in 2008, and of some management expertise at AXA IM in 2009. However, positive developments on the markets resulted in gains of EUR108bn due to financial recovery. Assets under management as of 31 December last year totalled EUR346bn, compared with EUR33`1bn one year earlier at AllianceBernstein and EUR499bn, compared with EUR485bn at Axa IM. Assets invested by AXA totalled EUR590bn, of which EUR403bn were general assets invested in a diversified portfolio composed largely of bonds (81%), real estate (5%), cash (5%) and publicly traded equities (4%). Net results for the part of the group in 2009 totalled EUR3.6bn, compared with EUR0.9bn in 2008, on revenues down 3% at EUR90.1bn.
18/02/2010

Net outflows from asset management in 2009 at Société Générale

The asset management arm of Société Générale saw net outflows of EUR18.3bn in 2009 (of which EUR11.4bn in Q4 ’09), “due to the combined effects of falling financial markets and workforce reorganizations at the end of the year,” the bank said in a statement on Thursday morning presenting its annual results. After market effects are taken into account (+EUR25.2bn, of which +EUR5.9bn were in Q4 ’09), along with currency effects (-EUR2.3bn, with +EUR1.3bn in Q4 ’09), and the impact of sales (-EUR5.9bn, including SGAM UK, for –EUR4.7bn), assets under management in the professional area remained stable compared with the end of 2008, at EUR268.8bn as of the end of 2009. These assets included EUR170bn transferred to Amundi, the joint venture founded with Crédit Agricole, in which Société Générale controls 25%; EUR13bn transferred to Lyxor Asset Management in first quarter 2010, and EUR70bn managed by TCW, the US asset management affiliate of the bank. For the year, earnings for the professional area totalled EUR765m, a strong increase (+84.9%, +80.0% in ongoing figures) compared with 2008 revenues, which included large write-downs and losses related to the crisis. Gross operating profits returned above the break-even point (+EUR4m) after losses in 2008 (-EUR367m). Net profits for the part of the group totalled EUR1m.
18/02/2010

DWS rationalises its product range

DWS Investments will no longer offer its locally-registered funds in Austria. The last six funds on sale as of 31 December 2009 have either been transferred to other management firms, or liquidated. The open-ended fund management firm from Deutsche Bank has long had a significant concentration of its product range in the Luxembourg Sicav DWS Invest. French and Italian-registered funds, among others, have already been transferred to this Sicav. DWS is of the opinion that local management is ultimately too costly, and that centralisation of most of its management in Frankfurt is a less onerous and more practical alternative.
18/02/2010

Many star managers were interested in Citigroup at the end of 2009

Paulson & Co., the hedge fund management firm led by the billionaire John Paulson, in fourth quarter increased its stake in Citigroup, Bloomberg reports. At the same time, it sold shares in Bank of America Corp. In detail, Paulson bought 506.7 million shares in Citigroup in New York at the end of December, while his stake in Bank of America was reduced by 159.8 million shares to a total of 151 million shares. Paulson, who manages about USD32bn in assets in New York, began building up his stake in Citigroup in third quarter 2009. David Tepper, head of one of the best-performing hedge funds of last year, and the billionaire George Soros, are among the shareholders who increased their stakes in Citigroup in fourth quarter, Bloomberg reports.
18/02/2010

A new custody mandate for BNY Mellon

The two Dutch pension funds, Bedrijfstakpensioenfonds voor de Suikerverwerkende Industrie and Stichting Bedrijfspensioenfonds voor de Suikerwerk- & Chocoladeverwerkende Industrie (Bpf Koek & Snoep) have announced that they have awarded BNY Mellon Asset Servicing a custody mandate on assets of EUR1bn. BNY Mellon will also provide other services, including accounting, performance measurement, and reporting.
18/02/2010

Carmen Ortiz leaves Popular Gestión in the hands of Miguel Colombás

Carmen Ortiz, who has been appointed director of investor and shareholder relations and Banco Popular, is leaving his position as CEO of Popular Gestión (EUR6.7bn in assets, 64 funds). He will be replaced by Miguel Colombás, who was previously deputy CEO and CIO of the asset management firm.
18/02/2010

Hedge funds did not torpedo Santander and BBVA

According to documents obtained by the CNMV, hedge funds did not short shares in Santander and BBVA during the recent market tensions, despite the increased risk associated with Spanish government debt, Cinco Días reports. Short positions on these banks either held stable or were reduced: for example, they represent only 2.69% of capital in Banco Popular, compared with 7.29% at the height of the crisis in March 2009. Securities lending does not appear to reveal high levels of speculation either. For Santander, shares lent decreased between 5 January and 17 February to 767 million shares (9% of capital), from 1.8 billion. For BBVA, the volume of securities lent in the same period remained at a level equivalent to about 17% of capital.
18/02/2010

Chinese sovereign fund invests in private equity

China Investment Corp, China’s sovereign wealth fund, has agreed to invest USD1.5bn in the private equity secondary market with Lexington Partners, Goldman Sachs and Pantheon Ventures. The firms have each agreed to manage USD500m for CIC through special accounts, which are to be kept separate from their main funds, according to people familiar with the agreements.
18/02/2010

Andrew Musters joins executive board at SAM

The global head of private equity at SAM and Robeco, Andrew Musters, has been appointed as a member of the executive board at SAM Sustainable Asset Management, an affiliate of Robeco. The appointment follows the complete integration of private equity activities into the area of clean tech at SAM, which resulted in a transfer of all personnel in the Rotterdam office to Zurich in July 2009 (see Newsmanagers of 4 June 2009). SAM says Musters has an excellent reputation among institutional clients for the development and launch of private equity funds of funds in the clean tech sector.
18/02/2010

Barclays in bid for independent managers' business

Agefi Switzerland reports that Barclays Wealth is cosying up to Swiss intermediaries. It has teamed up with Barclays Capital to offer an integrated solution aimed at trusts, family offices, and especially independent management firms. The British bank now offers custom structured products for its intermediary clients. The move is part of a larger desire on the part of the group to offer a service for every situation: “We will help businesses to create wealth, but we also want to offer them wealth management solutions, for example,” explains Clive Britton, director for Switzerland at Barclays Wealth Intermediaries in Geneva, who claims this may allow the bank to stand out from its competitors.
18/02/2010

TCW founder quits board of Société Générale

The American billionaire Robert Day, who is suspected of insider trading, has resigned and will be leaving his position on the board of directors of Société Générale, Reuters reports, confirming earlier reports in Les Echos. Day, who founded and then sold TCW, an asset management firm, to Société Générale, is named in a class action suit in the United States accusing him of insider trading related to the Kerviel scandal. He is also under investigation by the French financial authority, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF).
18/02/2010

Soros doubles investment in a gold ETF

The fund which manages the assets of the billionaire George Soros more than doubled its position on the SPDR Gold Trust, a physical gold ETF fund, in fourth quarter 2009. Bloomberg reports that Soros Fund Management acquired 3.728 million shares for USD421m. As of 31 December, the investment, the fund’s largest position, was valued at USd663m. The Chinese sovereign fund China Investment Fund has also acquired 1.45 million shares, for a total of USD155.6m. Assets in the SPDR Gold Trust have increased by 2.2% since the beginning of the year, following a 24% increase in 2009. As of yesterday, the fund’s holdings in gold totalled 1,109.42 metric tons. The institutional investor Paulson & Co held the largest position in the fund as of 31 December last year, with 31 million shares, representing an 8.65% stake in the fund.

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