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17/08/2009
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Souscriptions nettes pour les fonds allemands

Depuis le début de 2009, les fonds allemands ont enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 16,5 milliards d’euros, rapporte Citywire, citant Portfolio International et les statistiques du BVI.Allianz a été la société de gestion la plus performante, avec des souscriptions nettes de 1,6 milliard d’euros.
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17/08/2009

Importante levée de fonds pour China Merchants Bank

Dans un communiqué adressé à la Bourse de Shanghai, China Merchants Bank a indiqué vendredi espérer recueillir jusqu'à 18 milliards de yuans (1,8 milliard d’euros) grâce à une émission de droits de souscription à Shanghai et Hong Kong, précise les Echos. La sixième banque chinoise prévoit d’offrir à ses actionnaires pour 3,8 milliards de nouvelles actions.
17/08/2009

Record assets in ETFs

At the end of July, the 1,768 ETF funds worldwide monitored by Barclays Global Investors had total assets of USD862bn, the highest levels ever observed. The previous record was set in April 2008, when funds had assets of USD805bn. Since the beginning of the year, assets have increased by 21.2%, a larger increase than the MSCI World index in US dollars (+13.5%). The number of ETF funds, for its part, has gained 11.1% since January, as 240 new ETFs have been created, while 74 were closed. This growth is set to continue, according to BGI, as 780 more new ETFs are currently in the works. The market is shared by 94 providers, but iShares, which is now owned by BlackRock, continues to be the largest purveyor of ETFs, both in terms of the number of products on offer (391 ETFs) and assets (USD414.4bn). The firm controls nearly half of the market (48.1%). State Street Global is far behind, with 15.2% of the market, followed by Vanguard (7.8%). In Europe, assets in ETF funds set a record in July, with USD183bn, beating the previous record set in May 2009 by 8.4%. As of the end of the month, 753 ETFs were on sale, 12.8% more than at the beginning of the year. iShares also dominates the European market, with a market share of 39.6%. Its main competitors are Lyxor, with 20.5%, and db x-trackers, with 16.3%.
17/08/2009

Offshore islands removed from 'grey list'

According to Les Echos, which cites an announcement by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Friday, the British Virgin islands and the Cayman Islands have been removed from a “grey list” of tax havens, after signing twelve international tax information sharing conventions.
17/08/2009

US Natural Gas ETF runs up against CFTC regulations

The US Natural Gas Fund ETF is looking for a way around rules put in place by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which limit the size of permitted positions on natural gas, the Wall Street Journal reports. The fund is planning to turn to offshore energy markets. The ETF weighs in at USD4.5bn, and is positions now represent 30% of all natural gas futures in circulation, which is causing concerns about its influence on natural gas prices.
17/08/2009

Vontobel returns to profitable territory

Vontobel Group has returned to profitability in first half, with net profits of CHF62.4m, compared with losses of CHF1.2m the previous half. This is nonetheless lower than the profits of CHF114.7m earned one year earlier. The Swiss firm has posted net subscriptions of CHF0.8bn in first half, of which CHF0.6bn comes from private clients, and CHF0.2bn from institutional investors. In total, assets under management have increased by 4% in the six-month period under review to CHF65bn. But for the one-year period, they are lower than the CHF74bn posted in June 2008.
17/08/2009

Large banks will have to pay

According to a declaration by a spokesperson for the US Treasury, reported in La Tribune, the financial product consumer protection agency now in the process of being created will be paid for by taxes on banks with assets of over USD10bn.
17/08/2009

Madoff's mistress comes forward

Bloomberg reports that Sheryl Weinstein, a 60-year-old accountant who publicly accused Bernard Madoff of stealing the savings of her family, has written a book which will go on sale on 25 August. In the work, entitled “Madoff’s Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me,” Weinstein reveals that she had an extramarital affair with the man, whom she met 21 years ago, when he was CFO of Hadassah, an American Zionist women’s organisation. “She is entitled to free speech,” says Ira Sorkin, Madoff’s lawyer. For his part, Peter Chavkin, Ruth Madoff’s lawyer, had no comment.
17/08/2009

UBS to name 5,000 US clients

“UBS may reveal the identity of 4,500 to 5,000 of its US clients with secret accounts in Switzerland, under an agreement reached last week between the US government and the bank,” L’Agefi reports, citing the Swiss weekend press. The weekly newsmagazine NZZ am Sonntag states that the agreement in question, which is to be signed this week, will be modelled on a previous agreement reached in 1996.
17/08/2009

Pequot veteran joins Blackstone

Byron Wien has joined the alternative investment firm Blackstone, as vice president of Blackstone Advisory Services. He was previously chief investment strategist at the hedge fund firm Pequot Capital, which is currently facing a legal challenge by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
17/08/2009

Pimco recommends active management of TIPS

Pimco (Allianz group) has found that, although index-based management is a great way to manage equities, the same is not true of Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS), the Wall Street Journal reports. For these assets, passive management may result in missed opportunities and hidden costs. The Pimco study comes as the iShares Barclays TIPS ETF is proving highly successful, with nearly USD5.6bn in inflows in 2009, the WSJ reports.
17/08/2009

BNP Paribas bucks trend for French asset managers

“Of the French financial firms that have already published their results for first half, BNP Paribas is the only one in positive territory in asset management,” L’Agefi notes. Not counting Fortis, its assets have increased by 9.2% since the end of 2008, to EUR249bn. However, Axa and Société Générale are still experiencing decreasing asset volumes, the newspaper reports.
17/08/2009

Tables are turned on Carl Icahn

For years, Carl Icahn has made a habit of investing in companies, and then outspokenly and publicly criticizing their directors, for not doing enough to boost the share price. But now, the businessman is himself the object of similar criticisms on the part of investors, the Wall Street Journal reports. A hedge fund, R2 Investments, claims that Icahn, as director and majority shareholder in XO Holdings, has made choices which are not in shareholders’ best interests by refusing three offers to buy the distressed telecommunications firm, which would have boosted the share price.
17/08/2009

Net subscriptions for German funds

Since the beginning of 2009, German funds have posted net subscriptions of EUR16.5bn, Citywire reports, citing Portfolio International and statistics from the BVI. Allianz topped the rankings, with net subscriptions of EUR1.6bn.
17/08/2009

Few women in private equity

Women represent only 10% of the 747 investment professionals at Europe’s 10 largest private equity firms, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing Prequin. 3i Group, Permira, and Axa Private Equity had the highest numbers of female staff.
17/08/2009

Recovery will likely remain fragile, according to Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley expects GDP growth in the euro area to stay close to the zero line in 3Q, after a number of countries, notably Germany and France, posted a surprising rise in 2Q GDP, and the euro area recorded a decline of 0.1% ahead of forecast. Aggressive destocking in 2Q and strong car sales could potentially create more positive surprises. Looking further ahead, however, the US bank thinks that recovery will likely remain fragile. “Consumer spending will likely weaken once subsidized car buying loses steam and deteriorating labour market conditions will likely dent income and confidence”.In the euro area, Morgan Stanley still looks for a marked contraction in 2009. “At -4.0%, on our revised estimates, the contraction in GDP is a tad smaller than the -4.4%Y we were showing before”, says the bank. Its full-year forecast for 2010 improves only marginally from 0.5%Y to 0.6%Y.
17/08/2009

Bonuses remain high despite crisis

According to a study by New Bridge Street, cited by the Financial Times, one fifth of the FTSE 100 companies paid out 90% of maximum possible bonuses to their top directors in 2008, even as nearly 90% of these companies suffered share price falls.
14/08/2009

Des délais accordés par la Fed à CIT

La banque centrale américaine a donné 15 jours au groupe de services financiers CIT, au bord du dépôt de bilan, afin de faire la preuve de sa viabilité, rapporte la Tribune. Il lui a également accordé 60 jours pour fournir un plan de gestion du risque acceptable et 75 jours pour présenter un plan stratégique à plus long terme.
14/08/2009

Le patron de Blackstone, le mieux payé en 2008

Le quotidien belge L’Echo qui cite une étude de la Corporate Library, un organisme représentant les droits des actionnaires aux Etats-Unis, rapporte que Stephen Schwarzman, le PDG du fonds d’investissements Blackstone, a été le patron le mieux payé aux Etats-Unis en 2008 avec quelque 702 millions de dollars de rémunérations. L’essentiel de cette somme a été obtenu via l’entrée en Bourse du fonds en juin 2007.
14/08/2009
Fonds

Davide Erro revient avec un nouveau hedge fund

Davide Erro, qui avait fermé son hedge fund Gandhara Capital en début d’année, prévoit de lancer un nouveau fonds, rapporte le Wall Street Journal, citant des proches du dossier. Il rejoint ainsi la horde de gérants qui tentent de faire leur « comeback » après avoir accusé des pertes l’année dernière, commente le journal, qui s’interroge de fait sur la façon dont ces personnes vont traiter les investisseurs qui ont perdu de l’argent lors de leurs précédentes aventures.
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14/08/2009

Man Group vend le reste de MF Global

La société de hedge funds Man Group a annoncé jeudi soir avoir passé un accord pour vendre les 18,4 % qu’il lui restaient dans MF Global, un courtier en produits dérivés, rapporte le Financial Times. Nomura lui versera dans un premier temps 112 millions de dollars, et davantage si le cours de l’action de MF Global s’apprécie dans les 3 à 4 prochaines années.
14/08/2009

Merrill Lynch accélère ses recrutements de conseillers financiers

Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, qui appartient désormais à Bank of America, propose à ses nouvelles recrues des rémunérations bien plus élevées que celles qu’il avait offertes lors de la hausse des marchés de 2006-2007, rapporte le Financial Times. L’objectif est de remplacer les nombreux conseillers financiers qui ont quitté l’entité l’année passée.
14/08/2009

UBS veut bien payer les frais de procédure

Selon le quotidien suisse Le Temps, UBS accepte de prendre en charge les coûts de la procédure engagée avec le fisc américain, qui vient d’aboutir à un accord entre la Suisse et les Etats-Unis. Selon Christoph Meier, porte-parole chez UBS, il reste à la Confédération à en faire la demande et à calculer les sommes en question. Un journal suisse, le Blick, estimait jeudi ces frais à 50 millions de francs.
14/08/2009

Vontobel renoue avec les bénéfices

Vontobel Group a renoué avec la rentabilité au premier semestre, avec un bénéfice net de 62,4 millions de francs au premier semestre, contre une perte de 1,2 million au semestre précédent. Cela reste néanmoins inférieur au bénéfice de 114,7 millions enregistré un an plus tôt. L'établissement suisse a enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 0,8 milliard de francs suisses au premier semestre, dont 0,6 milliard de la part de clients privés et 0,2 milliard de la part d’institutionnels. Au total, les encours sous gestion ont augmenté de 4 % sur les six mois à 65 milliards de francs suisses. Mais sur un an ils reculent par rapport à 74 milliards d’euros de juin 2008.
14/08/2009

Nomination chez Fortis

Fortis vient d’annoncer la nomination de Bruno Colmant, le patron d’Euronext Bruxelles, à la fonction de deputy chief executive officer, à compter du 1er septembre prochain. Sous la responsabilité de Bart De Smet, Chief Executive Officer, il dirigera les entités Finance et Legal et assurera la gestion de l’héritage de l’ex-Fortis.
14/08/2009

Fusion entre deux banques russes

Selon les Echos, la fusion entre les banques russes MDM et Ursa vient ainsi d'être finalisée représentant plus de 520 milliards de roubles d’actifs (11 milliards d’euros environ). Complémentaires, elles ne sont plus devancées que par Alfa, la principale banque privée russe. Parmi les actionnaires minoritaires, figure la Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement (BERD) qui détient 5,2 % du capital. Premier signe de transparence, précise le quotidien, «les directeurs indépendants et investisseurs étrangers devraient composer la majorité du conseil d’administration de la nouvelle banque».L’objectif du président de la nouvelle entité, Oleg Viougine, consiste à augmenter de 25 % les prêts aux entreprises et aux particuliers d’ici à la fin de l’année.Cette fusion est une nouvelle étape de la consolidation d’un marché composé de plus de 1.200 banques.
14/08/2009
Fonds

Skandia attribue un deuxième mandat à Cazenove

Skandia Investment Group a accordé un deuxième mandat à Cazenove pour son fonds UK Strategic Best Ideas, rapporte Investment Week. Plus précisément, le mandat a été confié à Neil Pegrum, qui gère des actions britanniques et des hedge funds.
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