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22/12/2009
Fonds

Des modifications pour un fonds de Natixis

Natixis Asset Management a annoncé lundi 21 décembre, par voie de presse, qu'à compter du 29 décembre, le fonds commun de placement Ecureuil Sécuripremière changera de nom et subira quelques modifications en matière de tarification et de mode de fonctionnement. A partir de cette date, le fonds s’appelera Sécuripremière FCP et ses frais de gestion annuels seront ramenés de 0,45 % à 0,30 %. En outre, la méthode de l’engagement de l’actif du fonds sera modifiée. «Il s’agira d’un fonds de type B. La méthode de calcul de l’engagement utilisée sera la méthode probabiliste telles que définie à l’article 411-44-5 du réglement général de l’AMF en lieu et place de la méthode d’approximation linaire», précise l’avis financier de la société de gestion.
Fonds
22/12/2009

Stolen client data returned to Switzerland

The Reuters news agency reports that on 21 December, France agreed to return banking data seized on the computer of a former employee of HSBC bank to Switzerland. Swiss authorities seeking the return of the data had set 26 December as a deadline. The French budget minister stated on Monday that the return of the data would not endanger legal proceedings initiated by the French tax authorities against suspected fraudsters with undeclared bank accounts in Switzerland. So far, about 1,400 French citizens have already reached agreements to normalise their situation, Reuters notes.
22/12/2009

Galleon founder pleads not guilty

Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of Galleon Group, and Danielle Chiesi, a former hedge funds consultant at New Castle Partners, have pleaded not guilty before a US court to charges that they were involved in a USD20.8 insider trading scheme, the Wall Street Journal reports. The pair are facing sentences of over 145 years in prison.
22/12/2009

Ponzi scheme uncovered in Indiana

Timothy S. Durham, an Indiana businessman, is under investigation for running an alleged Ponzi scheme that sold supposedly safe, but high-yielding, notes to elderly investors and used the money to invest in other companies he controls, says the Wall Street Journal. The fraud may involve hundreds of millions of dollars. The probe centers on Fair Finance Co., an investment firm bought by Mr. Durham and a partner in 2002. The company offered interest rates of as much as 9% on two-year notes, adds the WSJ.
22/12/2009

Alliance Trust AM launches a European equity fund

Alliance Trust Asset Management has just launched the Alliance Trust European Equity Fund. The fund is managed by Fiona MacRae, head of European equities. It aims to produce long-term total return from investment in a portfolio of companies in any economic sector in Europe, excluding the United Kingdom. The Fund’s benchmark is the FTSE All World Developed Europe ex-UK Index (Total Return). The Fund is managed with a long term investment horizon. A high conviction stock-picking approach is key to the fund’s long term returns. While Fiona primarily follows a bottom-up investment process, there are times when themes and top-down issues are important and the portfolio will reflect these. The portfolio is concentrated around 25-35 holdings.
22/12/2009

Simon Brazier leaves Schroders

UK equity fund manager Simon Brazier has left Schroders to take a senior management position at another asset management firm with his duties on the Schroder UK Equity fund passing to both Ed Meier and Errol Francis, says Money Marketing. According to Citywire, Simon Brazier is joining Threadneedle, as co-head of UK equities.
22/12/2009

LGIM closes Japanese hedge fund

Legal & General Investment Management is shutting down its Japan equities hedge fund, Japan Alpha, says Investment Week. The fund was launched in 2004 and had been managed by Andrew Nagele. LGIM is the latest in a string of managers to liquidate Japan long/short funds over the past 18 months. Others include Odey Asset Management, Baring Asset Management and Asia Genesis Asset Management, recalls Investment Week.
22/12/2009

Henderson to reopen New Star International Property

Henderson has agreed the final sale needed in order to re-open its New Star International Property fund, which has been suspended since 25 November 2008, says Investment Week. The GBP295.7m fund this month is expected to obtain over 90% of the liquidity necessary to re-open.
22/12/2009

ING IM needs to develop in retail to survive

ING must offload its insurance and asset management arm by 2013. Jan Straatman, Global CIO of ING IM, is alive to the danger that, by stripping ING IM of the distribution benefits of a retail bank network, the asset manager could become overly reliant on its insurance division. “The very big risk of this development could be that we are moving back towards a much more captive asset manager. That in itself will have a negative influence, decreasing competitive pressure and the ability to attract and retain talent,” he says to the Financial Times Fund Management. "(…) We can only survive long term if we can prove we can develop this organisation, that we are not merely the captive asset manager of an insurance organisation. We have to work hard to attract retail assets,” he adds.
22/12/2009

ETF Securities launches an ETF platform with three banks

ETF Securities Ltd has announced the launch of the ETF Exchange (Europe) (ETFX), a «third generation ETF platform». ETF Securities is initially working with BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi, and Rabobank International who are participants on the platform, acting as distribution partners, authorised participants and swap providers, with scope to add additional participants in the future. ETFX offers a total of 21 equity ETFs comprising Europe’s first ETF platform concentrating on resource-equity ETFs and double leveraged (2x) and double short (-2x) ETFs. These ETFs are listed across 5 European exchanges (the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Borse, NYSE-Euronext Amsterdam, the Borsa Italiana and the Irish Stock Exchange) and traded in up to 3 currencies (USD, EUR and GBP).
22/12/2009

Injunction against Deutsche IM

Deutsche Investment Management has been told by a court to stop using three in-house software tools to the extent that they replicate or duplicate the design or functionality of specific tools developed by Invesco Institutional, an arm of Amvescap, in the latest round of a near-three year legal battle with Amvescap, says Financial Times FM. The case stems from March 2007 when 16 Wall Street-based members of Amvescap’s fixed income team defected to Deutsche.
22/12/2009

Another departure from TCW

Ron Redell left his job as the head of TCW’s mutual fund business and joined DoubleLine LLC, the new firm created last week by the TCW’s ex-CIO Jeff Gundlach. More than 40 ex-TCW employees have joined Gundlach in his new venture, MutualFundWire.com recalls.
22/12/2009

Barclays Private Equity to launch a fund in 2010

La Tribune reports that Barclays Private Equity (BPE) will launch its fourth fund in the second half of 2010, with an objective of raising EUR2bn. The launch is an ambitious move, the newspaper says, as the parent firm in London will not lend its traditional support. In fundraising for the past three funds, the Barclays group contributed EUR600m each time.
21/12/2009
Fonds

Appaloosa gagne 7 milliards de dollars en 2009

Appaloosa Management, la société de hedge funds de David Tepper qui gère aujourd’hui 12 milliards de dollars, a gagné environ 7 milliards de dollars depuis le début de l’année, dont 2,5 milliards iront directement dans la poche du gérant, rapporte le Wall Street Journal, citant des personnes proches du dossier. Cela fait partie des plus gros gains jamais réalisés sur une année. Le gérant a parié des milliards de dollars que les Etats-Unis éviteraient une nouvelle Grande Dépression, en s’intéressant notamment aux banques dont personne ne voulait.
Fonds
21/12/2009

Faillites des banques régionales au Etats-Unis : 140 au compteur

Avec la faillite de la banque RockBridge Commercial Bank d’Atlanta (Géorgie, sud-est) annoncée vendredi 18 décembre, 140 banques régionales aux Etats-Unis ont fait faillite depuis le début de l’année, rapporte les Echos. Les actifs de la banque repris par l’agence fédérale américaine de garantie des dépôts bancaires s'élèvent à 291,7 millions de dollars de dépôts.
21/12/2009

Apollo acquiert Cedar Fair pour plus de $ 2 milliards

L’exploitant de parcs d’attraction Cedar Fair va être acheté pour environ 2,4 milliards de dollars, dette comprise, par une filiale d’Apollo Capital Management. Les actionnaires percevront 11,50 dollars par action, ce qui représente une prime de 43 % sur le cours moyen pondéré des 30 séances précédentes et de 28 % sur la clôture du 15 décembre. JP Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays Cap, UBS Investment Bank et KeyBanc Capital Markets ont fourni des financement d’un total de 1,95 milliard de dollars pour permettre l’opération.
21/12/2009

Airvana passe sous le contrôle de quatre capital-investisseurs

Le fabricant d’infrastructures de réseau à haut débit Airvana Inc, qui est coté au Nasdaq, a annoncé vendredi qu’il accepte d'être acheté pour 530 millions de dollars, soit 7,65 dollars par action, par un consortium composé de quatre capital-investisseurs comprenant S.A.C. Private Capital Group, GSO Capital Partners (Blackstone), Sankaty Advisors et ZelnickMedia.Techniquement, Airvana va être absorbée par une société ad hoc, 72 Mobile Holdings. La transaction s’effectue avec une prime de 23 % sur le cours boursier de la veille.
21/12/2009

Aviva Gestión aims to double assets in two years

Funds People reports that José Caturla has announced that the team at Aviva Gestión is aiming for EUR500m in assets under management in Spain within a two-year time frame. As of the end of October, the asset management firm had assets of EUR225m, according to Inverco. The new objective for the firm comes following a reshuffle of the management at Aviva Gestión last year, and a decision to release Aviva products for sale in Spain, beyond portfolio management on behalf of the firm itself, as previously. Aviva funds are now available on the Inversis platforms, and have more recently become available on Allfunds. The product range on offer includes five funds (short-term bonds, bonds, Aviva valor Preferente, Spanish equities, and Euro zone equities), and José Caturla, who is also chief investment officer at Aviva España, says this range is enough for the time being.
21/12/2009

Edrim bets on guided architecture

In an interview with Cinco Días, Guillaume Poli, chairman of the executive board, explains that Edmond de Rothschild Investment Managers (Edrim) has opened an office in Serrano street in Madrid, because, after four years of serving the Spanish market from offices in Paris, clients demanded more direct service. Edrim predicts that Spain will transition from an open architecture to a guided architecture market, and hopes to be one of the 10 to 12 providers relied on by the major networks. Its product range consists of controlled risk and low-volatility products, which are in demand for Spanish clients. Currently, Edrim already has 12 products on offer in Spain, and its objective is to reach 30 products in the short term. Though the range includes a wide variety of products, Edrim is only planning to register those products in Spain which sell best there.
21/12/2009

Apollo joins bidding for Gala Coral

The American private equity firm Apollo has offered GBP250m to the board at Gala Coral for a 50% stake in the firm, which has debt of GBP2.6bn, the Sunday Times reports. Blackstone is already in the running to acquire Gala Coral, which operates 2,000 betting shops, 148 bingo clubs and 227 casinos, as is a group of junior creditors to the group.
21/12/2009

High-level layoffs at Skandia

According to Money Marketing, Skandia Investment Group has laid off Steve Kowal, head of open architecture, and Tom Berger, head of investment research. Two others are reported to have been laid off from the open architecture team. Investment Week reports that COO John Tomlins and CFO Simon Lloyd have also been laid off.
21/12/2009

Jubilee selects BNY Mellon Asset Servicing

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has been selected by Jubilee Financial Products LLP to provide custody and fund administration services for its range of structured investment products.
21/12/2009

Madoff: Luxalpha liquidators on the offensive

At a shareholders meeting of Luxalpha, the Luxembourg Sicav fund with ties to Madoff in which French savings investor clients of the US broker held shares, liquidators announced that they have subpoenaed the depository for the Sicav, UBS Luxembourg, the promoter, UBS AG and other UBS structures with links to the Sicav, the newspaper Les Echos reports. In addition to these UBS entities, the advisor to the manager, Access International Advisors, the auditor, Ernst & Young, all the administrators of the Sicav, and the Luxembourg regulator, the CSSF also received subpoenas.
21/12/2009
Fonds

La QIA monte à 17 % dans Volkswagen

Le fonds souverain Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) a notifié vendredi à Volkswagen qu’il a porté sa participation dans son capital de 17 % contre 7 %, comme cela avait été prévu, en exerçant les options détenues par Porsche. La participation de la QIA dans VW représente environ 3,4 milliards d’euros.Du fait de cette transaction, le flottant de VW en actions ordinaires tombe sous la barre des 10 %, la QIA, Porsche et la Basse-Saxe contrôlant plus de 90 % de ces titres. Dès lors, les actions ordinaires de VW devront être radiées du Dax, mais elles seront très probablement remplacées par les actions préférentielles du constructeur automobile.
Fonds
21/12/2009

BlackRock détient plus de 3 % de Deutsche Telekom

Par un communiqué événementiel, Deutsche Telekom a annoncé vendredi avoir été informée le 15 décembre par BlackRock que ce gestionnaire détenait au 1er décembre (date du bouclage de l’acquisition de BGI) une participation de 3,34 % dans son capital, soit plus de 145,76 millions d’actions.
21/12/2009

Fidelity nomme un nouveau responsable Asie

Fidelity vient de nommer Arne Lindman au poste de president et CEO pour la zone Asie-Pacifique suite au départ en mai dernier de Brett Goodin, qui assumait les mêmes fonctions, selon Asian Investor.Arne Lindman, qui vient de quitter le groupe britannique Prudential, rejoindra Fidelity dans ses nouvelles fonctions le 19 avril prochain. Il était précédemment chief executive des activités d’asset management chez Prudential depuis mai 2008.
21/12/2009

Banque Heritage se développe en Asie

Banque Heritage vient de lancer ses activités de marches de capitaux et d’asset management en Asie à Singapour, selon Asian Heritage. Elles seront dirigées par Alston Beinhorn, nommé regional chief executive de Heritage Asset Management. Alston Beinhorn était précédemment directeur des investissements chez Merrill Lynch à Singapour depuis février 2008.L'équipe de Singapour, qui compte actuellement 19 personnes et que Alston Beinhorn a pour première mission de renforcer, a débuté ses activités en août et a depuis recueilli près de 100 millions de dollars de Singapour (environ 71,3 millions de dollars américains). Heritage Asset Management devrait recruter cinq professionnels senior l’année prochaine, ses principales cibles étant l’Asie du Sud-Est, la Chine, Hong Kong, Taiwan et l’Inde.Heritage Asset Management, une plate-forme d’investissement en architecture ouverte, devrait gérer des actions, du fixed income et des fonds tandis que Heritage Capital Asia se concentrera comme en Europe sur le trading, la vente et l’origination sur les marchés de la dette.

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