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27/03/2009

Royaume-Uni - 3i s?attend à de nouvelles dépréciations

Michael Queen, le nouveau directeur général de 3i, a prévenu qu"il était à prévoir de nouvelles dépréciations sur le portefeuille du groupe de private equity au dernier trimestre, rapporte le Financial Times. La société s"est fixé comme objectif de réduire sa dette nette de 1 milliard de livres sur les 12 à 15 prochains mois.
27/03/2009

France - GDF-Suez : les dirigeants renoncent à leurs stock-options

Selon Les Echos, le PDG du groupe, Gérard Mestrallet, et le vice-président, Jean-François Cirelli, ont décidé hier de renoncer à leurs stock-options. Les deux dirigeants ont visiblement décidé de calmer le jeu, compte tenu du climat politique et de l'émotion en interne.
27/03/2009

Ecureuil/banque Populaire : nouvelle plainte contre F. Pérol

Selon Le Monde, l’association Contribuables associés, à Paris, a porté plainte contre François Pérol, ancien conseiller à l’Elysée pour #prise illégale d’intérêt#. Le 18 mars, l’association Anticor avait déjà engagé une première action juridique, également pour #prise illégale d’intérêt#, rappelle le site internet du quotidien du soir.
27/03/2009

HSBC vole au secours de ses fonds monétaires

HSBC a apporté son soutien financier à plusieurs de ses fonds monétaires, rapporte Ignites Europe dans son édition du 26 mars. La banque a pris #la décision commerciale# d"injecter 687 millions de dollars dans un certain nombre de ses fonds monétaires en octobre 2008.
27/03/2009

Les patrons de GLG réduisent leurs rémunérations à 1 dollar

Les trois principaux dirigeants de GLG Partners ont réduit leurs salaires, rapporte le Financial Times. Noam Gottesmann, Pierre Lagrange et Manny Roman ont accepté de recevoir un salaire de 1 dollar à partir d"avril et jusqu"à la fin de l"année. Ils ne perçoivent aucun bonus.
27/03/2009

Contraction du résultat de Man Group

A quelques jours de la fin de l’exercice (31 mars), Man Group a annoncé que son bénéfice avant impôt et charges exceptionnelles devrait être de 1,2 milliard de dollars contre 2,1 milliards mais que le board a l’intention de maintenir le dividende final à 24,8 cents par action, ce qui porte le total pour l’exercice à un montant inchangé de 44 cents par action. Les encours se sont contractés à 47,7 milliards de dollars contre 53,3 milliards fin décembre et 74,6 milliards un an auparavant. A fin mars, les actifs gérés pour le compte de particuliers se situent à 28,4 milliards de dollars, l’encours institutionnel représentant 19,3 milliards. Pour les onze premiers mois de l’exercice, la performance des fonds AHL a été de 14,4 % tandis que les fonds RMF accusaient une perte de 13,1 % ; l’indice HFR des fonds de hedge funds a pour sa part chuté durant le même temps de 17,5 %, souligne le gestionnaire. L’effet de performance a amputé l’encours de 6,1 milliards de dollars, tandis que l’effet de change a été négatif de 6,5 milliards. Les souscriptions nettes des particuliers, avec 2 milliards de dollars, n’ont pas suffi à compenser les remboursements nets de 4,2 milliards aux investisseurs institutionnels.
27/03/2009

United Kingdom - Man Group launches a hedge fund platform

Man Group has announced that it is launching an open architecture hedge fund platform which will be available to retail and institutional investors via managed accounts. The new service will use the infrastructure of the firm’s affiliate RMF, the expertise of its affiliate Glenwood in manager selection, and the expertise of Man Group in the area of managed accounts. It will be possible to invest via the integrated platform in hedge funds via funds of funds or custom subscriptions.John Rowsell, CIO of Glenwood, will be the managing director of the platform, while Herbert Item, CIO of RMF, will become CIO. Both will continue to report directly to Peter Clarke, CEO of Man Group.
27/03/2009

World - Institutional investors not giving up on hedge funds

The fifth State Street survey of hedge fund investments by institutional investors (whose total assets represent more than USD1trn) finds that the turbulence on the financial markets has not led to major changes in the allocation of institutional assets. In addition, although the survey finds a slight reduction in total allocation to hedge funds, the majority of managers surveyed said they intend to increase or maintain their current allocations in the segment in the next twelve months.The result of the survey show a slight decline in total allocations to hedge funds, as the proportion of institutionals which allocated more than 5% of their portfolios to hedge funds totalled 68% in 2007 and 51% last year. However, most institutionals were planning to increase (49%) or maintain (31%) their allocations to hedge funds this year. Capital used to finance these new positions in hedge funds will come 80% from allocations to equities, unlike in 2007, when 39% were planning to take the money for these investments from allocations to bonds.
27/03/2009

United Kingdom - Man Group results contract

A few days before the end of its fiscal year (31 March), Man Group has announced that its profits before taxes and one-time charges will total USD1.2bn, compared with USD2.1bn the previous year, but that the board is planning to maintain the final dividend at 24.8 cents per share, bringing the total for the year to an unchanged 44 cents per share. Assets contracted to USD47.7bn, from USD53.3bn at the end of December, and USD74.6bn one year previously. At the end of March, assets managed for retail investors totalled USD28.4bn, while institutional assets totalled USD19.3bn.In the first eleven months of the year, the performance of AHL funds totalled 14.4%, while RMF funds lost 13.1%; the HFR index of funds of hedge funds, for its part, fell in the same period by 17.5%, the management firm points out. Performance effects wiped out USD6.1bn, while negative currency effects took another USD6.5bn.Net subscriptions from retail investors, at USD2bn, were not sufficient to compensate for net redemptions of USD4.2bn to institutional investors.
27/03/2009

Luxembourg - JPMAM launches five bond funds

JPMorgan Asset Management is launching the Luxembourg funds Global Government Short Duration Bond, Euro Government Short Duration Bond, Global Government Bond, European Corporate Bond, and Global Corporate Bond. Investment Week reports that the three government bond funds will be managed by David Tan, head of international rates, and that the two products focused on corporate bonds will be managed by Lisa Coleman, global head of corporates. The two managers were recruited by Schroders last year.
27/03/2009

Spain - Banco Madrid contracted to manage a Sicav fund from Rham Bhavani

The Indian-Spanish billionaire Rham Bhavani has decided to reassign the managemetn of one of his Sicav funds, Inversiones Casa Kishoo, which had assets of EUR3m at the end of 2008 and which was previously managed by Fiban Gestión, to Banco Madrid Gestión de Activos, Funds People reports. Banif (Santander group) manages two other Sicav funds for Bhavani (Laxmi and Bombay Investment Office, EUR93m and EUR16m), while one other fund is mandated to Bankinter (Kalyani, EUR25m).
27/03/2009

Spain - Fund outflows continue in March

According to initial estimates by VDOS Stochastics as of 20 March, total assets in securities funds on sale in Spain total EUR169.76bn, which would represent a decline of barely 0.65%. Funds People reports that for the most part, the decline in assets under management is imputable to net redemptions of EUR1.1bn, EUR200m less than in February.
27/03/2009

Germany - H&A invests in Cazenove Germany

According to reports in the Börsen-Zeitung, the private bank Hauck & Aufhäuser (H&A) will buy a stake in the German affiliate of Cazenove, to add abilities in investment banking to its wealth management services for retail and enterprise clients.
27/03/2009

United States - Fund managers interested in toxic assets

BlackRock, Pimco (Allianz) and Legg Mason are some of the fund managers planning to participate in the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility or TALF program with the launch of closed-end funds, the Wall Street Journal reports. T. Rowe Price Group, Fidelity Investments and Franklin Resources are also studying the possibility. BlackRock in January already launched a product which may serve as a template, the BlackRock Fixed Income Value Opportunities Fund or Fivo, reserved for high net worth investors (at least USD1.5m), with a minimal subscription of USD25,000. Distressed debt closed funds launched during the credit crisis by Pimco and BlackRock were not successful: The Pimco Income Opportunity and the BlackRock Fixed Income Value Opportunities funds, launched in November 2007 and January 2008, respectively, have both lost 40%, and attracted only USD205m and USD75m in investments.
27/03/2009

United States - Times are tough for hedge fund managers

According to Alpha magazine, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, eight hedge fund managers lost a total of USD6.2bn of their personal wealth last year, while they made USD3bn in 2007. Among the managers in question are big names like T. Boone Pickens (BP Capital Management), who lost USD450m, Carl Icahn (Icahn Enterprises, USD400m), Kenneth Griffin (Citadel Investment Group, USD2bn), Edward Lampert (ESL Partners, USD1bn), and Steven Cohen (SAC Capital Advisors, USD750m). The other three are Jeffrey Gendell (USD625m), Stephen Mande (Lone Pine Capital, USD550m), and David Tepper (Appaloosa Management, USD425m).
27/03/2009

United Kingdom - Man Group makes changes to improve transparency

To respond to investors’ concerns about risk management and transparency in the light of the Madoff scandal, Man Group is bringing together its three lines of fund of funds into a single activity. The integration of RMF, Glenwood and MGS (see article elsewhere) will create a fund of hedge fund platform with USD20bn in assets.Peter Clarke, CEO of Man Group, says the firm, which had USD360m of exposure to Madoff, is still studying its legal options.
27/03/2009

France - GI Forum: Each institutional has its own SRI

In matters of socially responsible investment (SRI), the French association of institutional investors (AF2i) doesn’t want to be prescriptive. ?Our association brings together very different investors, who exist in diverse professional environments. We do not want to create a charter which would come in addition to the ones which already exist,? explains Jean-Claude Guimiot, a board member at AF2i, and also deputy CEO of Agrica Epargne, at a conference organised for the GI Forum.However, the AF2i would like to draw its members’ attention to the need for them to practice responsible investment. But it leaves them some latitude. ?I estimate that there are as many visions of SRI as there are people,? says Guimiot, in an interview with Newsmanagers. ?So there is no single method for all institutional investors,? he continues. Guimiot argues that management firms will need to get used to SRI criteria being set by institutionals.
27/03/2009

Germany - Heavy redemptions in February

After net subscriptions of EUR16bn in January, German funds in February suffered net redemptions of EUR6bn, of which EUR4.4bn came from open-ended funds, the BVI association of asset management firms reports. Among open-ended funds, products specialised in equities saw net outflows of EUR2.89bn, of which EUR1.7bn came from ETFs, while bond funds saw net redemptions of EUR1.93bn. However, hybrid products (especially convertible bonds) attracted EUR1.03bn, and hedge funds received EUR304m.
26/03/2009

United Kingdom - RAB wants to modify pay scales for managers

RAB Capital is planning to tie the pay of its hedge fund managers more closely to performance, the Financial Times reports. The alternative management firm has seen pre-tax losses of GBP13.9m in 2008, compared with net profits of GBP51.1m in 2007.
26/03/2009

United States - BofA integrates Premier into Merrill Lynch Wealth Management

Bank of America Corp (BofA) has decided to integrate its affiliate Premier Banking, which targets mass affluent clients (USD0.1m-USD3m), into Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, which will result in hundreds of layoffs, the Wall Street Journal reports. The operation will not affect US Trust, the BofA affiliate serving ultra high net worth clients.
26/03/2009

United Kingdom - Private equity exits slow

The value of exits in private equity in the first three months of the year has fallen to less than GBP250m for the first time since 1992, the Financial Times reports, citing a study by the Centre for Management Buy-Out Research (CMBOR) at Nottingham University. Since the beginning of the year, there have been only 51 exits.
26/03/2009

Spain - Groupama AM granted CNMV licenses for two new funds

Funds People reports that Groupama Asset Management is continuing to register funds in Spain, and that in the past few days, it has received licenses from the CNVM for two conservative profile funds, entitled Groupama Monétaire Etat and Groupama Etat Euro CT. The benchmarks for the funds are the Eonia and EuroMTS.
26/03/2009

World - Four hedge fund managers mat more than USD1bn in 2008

It’s not crisis time for everybody. While nearly 30% of all hedge funds disappeared in 2008, and assets have melted away like snow in the sun, some major hedge fund managers can celebrate. According to the annual rankings by Alpha Magazine, the 25 best-paid hedge fund managers last year made USD11.6bn, their third best year out of the five years rankings have been published. This total represents an average of USD464m per manager. Out of the top 5 big winners in the rankings, first place goes to James Simmons (Renaissance Technologies Corp.), who got paid USD2.5bn last year, followed by John Paulson (Paulson & Co., USD2bn), John Arnold (Centaurus Energy, USD1.5bn), George Soros (Soros Fund Management, USD1.1bn), and Raymond Dalio (Bridgewater Associates, USD780m).
26/03/2009

United States - Five pension funds sue BofA

Five pension funds - the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, the Dutch Stichting Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn and the Swedish Fjarde AP-Fonden - are seeking class-action status for a planned lawsuit against Bank of America Corp (BofA), the Wall Street Journal reports. The funds argue that BofA made false declarations in the time preceding its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, and that it did not provide concrete information to shareholders. The pension funds claim to have lost USD274m on their investments in BofA shares between 21 July 2008 and 20 January 2009. On Monday, CalPERS and CalSTRS also filed suits.
26/03/2009

Europe - Distributors seek to prevent fund mergers

Distributors are attempting to obstruct the phenomenon of fund mergers in Europe, as they wish to maintain a large and diversified range of products, Ignites Europe observes on 24 March. Alain Papiasse, head of the asset management and services unit at BNP Paribas, remarks: ?we dream of having a large umbrella fund with only a few sub-funds, and everyone would buy the same things. But it’s distributors and marketing people who decide what the client wants, and we have to adapt to that.?
26/03/2009

France - ETFS launches complete range of equities ETFs

On Wednesday, ETF Securities (more than USD10m in assets) has announced the launch in France of the full range of ETFs on its equities platforms, under the single order book (SOB) system. The thirteen products include 11 thematic ETFs and two ETS based on the Russell 1000 and Russell 2000 indexes. The products have already been listed on Euronext Amsterdam since September 2008. They comply with UCITS III and come as additions to a range of 131 ETC (exchange traded commodities) funds already available. Assets currently total about USD45m.The funds include the global ETFs ETFS WNA Global Nuclear Energy, Janney Global Water, S-Net ITG Global Agri Business, Daxglobal Alternative Energy, Russell Global Coal, Russell Global Gold (Miners), Russel Global Steel Large Cap and Russell Global Shipping Large Cap, and three European sectoral funds, the ETFS Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Basic Resources, Oil & Gas and Utilities.At a presentation of its product range, Euronext confirmed that its affiliate SecFinex is planning to launch a securities lending operation with a settlement platform for ETFs, which could be completed by third quarter.

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