Funds People rapporte que Cygnus Asset Management a choisi l’Espagne pour le lancement de son premier fonds traditionnel. Le Cygnus Value est un fonds long-only qui sera investi sur le même segment que son hedge fund Cygnus Utilities, Infraestructuras & Renovables, spécialiste des services publics (électricité, eau, gaz, pétrole, énergie renouvelables et infrastructures) ainsi que de leurs fournisseurs. La gestion du nouveau fonds coordonné est confiée au même gérant que le fonds alternatif, Juan Cruz, et à son équipe. Ce produit a une liquidité journalière. La souscription minimale est de 1.000 euros.
Après 4,3 milliards de dollars en janvier, 11,4 milliards en février et 817 millions en mars, les 3.393 hedge funds communiquant leurs résultats à BarclayHedge et TrimTabs n’ont plus collecté en avril que 430 millions de dollars en net. La performance moyenne est ressortie à 0,6 % en avril alors que le S&P 500 gagnait 1,8 %. Sur les douze mois à fin avril, les hedge funds ont affiché un gain moyen de 8,1 %, contre une hausse de 14,3 % pour l’indice boursier.Quant aux fonds de hedge funds, ils ont encore supporté des sorties nettes de 4,2 milliards de dollars en avril, ce qui porte le total des remboursements nets pour cette catégorie à 52,2 milliards de dollars sur les douze derniers mois sous revue.Pour mai, les résultats des 1.828 hedge funds ayant communiqué leurs résultats à BarclayHedge au 17 juin font apparaître une performance moyenne de 1,08 %, ce qui porte le total pour les cinq premiers mois de l’année à 5,88 %. La seule stratégie dans le rouge est celle des trois fonds equity short bias, qui ont perdu 4,01 % en mai et 17,14 % pour janvier-mai.
Le fournisseur de données S&P Capital IQ a annoncé le 17 juin le lancement d’un outil d’analyse des risques de portefeuille qui s’applique plus particulièrement à l’analyse en temps réel des portefeuilles multi-classes d’actifs.
Madelon van Leeuwen, responsable de la sélection de fonds chez Rabobank, a indiqué selon Fondsnieuws que 99 % des produits proposés par le groupe respectent les critères-maison d’investissement responsable, contre 66 % il y a deux ans.
Le capital-investisseur britannique Cinven Ltd a annoncé que son cinquième fonds a acheté pour 1,49 milliard d’euros le CeramTec Group allemand auprès de l’américain Rockwood Holdings. Il s’agit du quatrième investissement du fonds, après Pronet, Prezioso et AMCo ; c’est aussi la sixième acquisition de Cinven en Allemagne.CeramTec, un spécialiste des céramiques haute performance, a réalisé en 2012 un chiffre d’affaires de 425 millions d’euros.
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The investment services provider EFG Financial Products has changed its name. It is now known as Leonteq, and the ticker on the SIX Swiss Exchange now becomes LEON, according to a statement released on 17 June. The name change affects all essential areas of the business. The new name aims to foreground “the positioning of the firm as an independent partner for investment product providers, in line with its white labelling strategy.”
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } León Bartolomé and Pablo Gil, two of the four founding partners (in 2002) of the alternative asset management firm BBVA & Partners, are leaving BBVA AM, which in 2011 acquired the remaining 30% of the firm, Funds People reports.Juan Uguet, one of the former partners, but not a founder, of BBVA&Partners, remains at BBVA AM, and manages the sub-funds of the Luxembourg Sicav of the group, Augustus Equity and Augustos Neutral Plus.
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Madelon van Leeuwen, head of fund selection at Rabobank, has told Fondsnieuws that 99% of products on sale by the group meet the house socially responsible investment criteria, compared with 60% two years ago.
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } After USD4.3bn in inflows in January, USD11.4bn in February and USD817m in March, the 3,393 hedge funds that release results to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs had inflows in April of only a net USD430m. The average performance totalled 0.6% in April, while the S&P 500 gained 1.8%. In the twelve months to the end of April, hedge funds gained an average of 8.1% compared with a gain of 14.3% for the stock market index.Funds of hedge funds saw net outflows of USD4.2bn in April, bringing total net redemptions for this category to USD52.2bn in the twelve months under review.In May, results for the 1,828 hedge funds which release results to BarlayHedge as of 17 June showed an average return of 1.08%, bringing the total for the first five months of the year to 5.88%. The only strategy to show losses is the three equity short bias funds which lost 4.01% in May and 17.14% in January-May.
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The British private equity investor Cinven Ltd has announced that its fifth fund has acquired the German CeramTec Group from the US firm Rockwood Holdings for EUR1.49bn. This is the fund’s fourth investment, after Pronet, Prezioso and AMCo; it is also Cinven’s sixth acquisition in Germany. CeramTec, a specialist in high performance ceramics, in 2012 earned revenues of EUR425m.
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to Hedgeweek, citing reports form the Funds Society, TCW Group has announced that it is opening an office in Paris in order to support sales efforts. This office will be supervised by Heinrich Riehl. TCW has USD130.7bn in assets under management as of the end of March. Hedgeweek points out that TCW has a Luxembourg-based platform which offers UCITS funds which replicate the best-performing strategies on sale in the United States.
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has launched a searchable database of more than 700 academic studies on sustainability factors that examine the impact of these factors on investment risk and return. The initiative comes as part of a sustainable development research project launched earlier this year, which also includes the organisation of dedicated conferences. The resulting database of more than 700 documents will continue to grow as more research is conducted on these issues.
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Joseph Carieri, senior client executive at Western Asset Management (Wamco, an affiliate of Legg Mason), has been recruited as head of US institutional distribution & marketing at TCW Group. He will report directly to David Lippman, chairman & CEO.Carieri takes over the duties of Chris Scibelli, managing director of TCW and founding partner of MetWest, an asset management firm acquired three and a half years ago (see Newsmanagers of 7 december 2009). Scibelli is leaving TCW.
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } “ETPedia” is the name of the new guide which ETF Securities (UK) Ltd has unveiled to familiarise retail investors with ETPs, “liquid, inexpensive and transparent” solutions, a statement says.As of the end of April, total assets in ETPs came to USD2.1trn, but these products represent only 15% of the portfolios of European retail investors and financial advisers.However, ETF Securities notes, the recent introduction of Retail Distribution Review (RDR) regulations in the United Kingdom is inciting retail investors to take an increasing interest in ETPs, which they are tending to include in their strategic and tactical asset allocations.
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The richest Europeans and Americans have taken two to three decades to build up their wealth, two to three times more than high net worth individuals in emerging countries. And for a majority of them, their assets come from inheritance or savings, while in the rest of the world, entrepreneurship remains the primary source of wealth, according to the most recent “Wealth Insight” report, released on 17 June by Barclays, based on a survey undertaken in first half of 2,000 individuals with wealth equal to or greater than USD1.5m, in 17 countries.In Switzerland, 54% of those with such wealth, meaning those in the High Net Worth Individual (HNWI) category, took more than 30 years to accumulate their wealth. Although the situation is comparable in Europe (23 years) and the United States (28 years), in Qatar, 52% of those surveyed said that they became rich in less than 10 years, three times faster. In emerging markets in Asia-Pacific and Africa, high net worth individuals took only 12 and 16 years, respectively, to get there.This longer length of time in Switzerland could be due to the fact that 31% of millionaires in the country derive their wealth from profits related to entrepreneurial activity, the report indicates. The main sources of wealth, however, remain inheritance and savings, for 52% of those surveyed. The situation in Switzerland contrasts with the rest of the world, where 40% of the 2,000 HNWIs surveyed are entrepreneurs and owners of businesses, while only 26% of them claim that their wealth is inherited. In the question of how to spend this money, the report finds that high net worth individuals who suffered a sudden change in their conditions have generally been more generous to their beneficiaries. One third of those whose wealth fell substantially during the recent economic crisis mentioned donations as one of the top three uses of their money. This is also the case for 24% of those whose wealth has increased spectacularly, the report states. The motivations for becoming involved in philanthropy vary from one region to another. High net worth persons in Western economies support charitable causes out of a sense of duty and responsibility. That is the case for 69% of them. The same percentage applies to the United Kingdom, although 71% in the United States and 84% in Monaco say the same. Through donations, high net worth individuals seek to thrive personally, especially in China (71%), Latin America (65%) and South Africa (56%).
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Intesa Sanpaolo is planning to transform about 1,000 of its own employees into financial advisers, in the wake of plans at BNP Paribas to launch their own network of financial advisers, Bluerating reports, citing a leak to La Repubblica.
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The new financial advisers’ network for BNL, the Italian bank of the BNP Paribas group, is aiming for assets under management of EUR7bn in three years, Bluerating reports. The new network is counting on 50 full-time advisers at the bank, as well as 50 senior advisers who will be recruited by the end of the year. 25 young financial advisers will also be recruited.
Janus Capital Group, société de gestion internationale (163,8 milliards de dollars sous gestion à fin mars 2013), consolide sa stratégie de développement auprès des investisseurs français via Euroclear France, prestataire de services postmarché de premier plan facilitant les transactions de titres et l’accès aux fonds. En rendant disponibles ses fonds sur cette plateforme, Janus Capital Group renforce ses moyens pour développer ses relations avec les assureurs, les investisseurs institutionnels, les conseillers en gestion de patrimoine et les asset managers en France.
L’Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance a adhéré depuis hier aux « Principles for Responsible Investment » des Nations Unies (UN PRI). Cette annonce est intervenue le jour même où le gouvernement français a dévoilé la création d’une plate-forme dédiée à la responsabilité sociétale des entreprises (RSE).
Le fonds de capital-investissement a proposé quelque 810 millions d’euros pour acquérir la principale activité de Cermaq, le numéro deux norvégien de l'élevage de poissons, venant ainsi compliquer l’affaire de Marine Harvest qui a lancé une OPA hostile sur l’ensemble du groupe. Cermaq est détenu à 43,5% par le gouvernement norvégien.
La société de gestion indépendante créée par l’équipe de l’ancien « Acto Capital » détient désormais 40% du capital de la Compagnie des Vacances, aux côtés de ses dirigeants, Olivier Lachenaud et Luc Dayen, qui en possèdent le solde. La société, spécialisée dans l’hôtellerie de plein air, vend des séjours de vacances sur Internet.
La Commission européenne s’apprête à donner un feu vert sans condition au projet d’acquisition de Nyse Euronext par IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) pour 8,2 milliards de dollars, rapporte Reuters de deux sources proches du dossier. Les services de la concurrence de l’exécutif européen doivent rendre leur décision avant le 24 juin.
Les fonds de capital investissement se sont retirés moins fréquemment de leurs placements européens l’an dernier, l’incertitude économique affectant à la fois les fusions et les introductions en Bourse, selon Ernst & Young. Le cabinet a observé 61 retraits de sociétés européennes dont la valeur d’entreprise représentait plus de 150 millions d’euros au moment du placement contre 85 en 2011.
Des émissions souveraines et corporates, de duration inférieure à 4 ans, offrent un rendement supérieur à 8%, capable d’amortir des périodes de volatilité
Les représentants des Etats de l’Union européenne se sont entendus sur la réforme de l’organisation des marchés financiers. Selon eux, les actions pourraient être traitées sur de nouvelles plates-formes de négociation (OFT) mais ils doivent encore s’entendre avec les eurodéputés.