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02/11/2012

Daniel Godfrey deviendra président de l’IMA dans un mois

Richard Saunders quittera l’Investment Management Association (IMA) à la fin de cette année, mais il aura été remplacé dès le 1er décembre comme CEO par Daniel Godfrey. L’impétrant vient de passer près de trois ans au Phoenix Group et a été notamment pendant onze ans directeur général de l’Association of Investment Companies (AIC).Le board de l’IMA a tenu a remercier Richard Saunders pour l’excellent travail qu’il a accompli durant la décennie écoulée.
02/11/2012

SWIP recrute son head of wholesale chez Mirae

Francis Ghiloni, director of distribution & client management de Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) a annoncé le recrutement, sous ses ordres, de Martyn Gilbey comme head of wholesale, qui rejoindra le 12 novembre.L’intéressé était managing director à Londres chez Mirae Asset management après avoir été chief marketing officer à Hong-Kong.
02/11/2012
Fonds

TT International lance un fonds global macro

Le groupe basé à Londres TT International a conclu un partenariat avec la Deutsche Bank pour le lancement d’un fonds global macro sur la plate-forme alternative de la banque allemande, rapporte Citywire.Ce fonds au format Ucits, DB Platinum TT International, sera géré par le fondateur du groupe britannique, Tim Tacchi. Le fonds comprend une poche investie pour l’essentiel dans des actions européennes, avec une allocation global macro d’obligations et de devises. Les actifs sous gestion de TT International s'élèvent à plus de 9 milliards de dollars dans des stratégies macro, long/short equity et long-only equity.
Fonds
02/11/2012

Progression de 15% sur neuf mois des actifs sous gestion de St James's Place

St James’s Place a fait état pour les neuf premiers mois de l’année d’une progression de 15% sur neuf mois de ses actifs sous gestion à 32,8 milliards de livres à fin septembre, selon le rapport intérimaire publié le 31 octobre.La collecte nette des neuf premiers mois de l’année s’est élevée à 2,26 milliards de livres.
02/11/2012

Collecte de 3,2 milliards de livres sur neuf mois pour Standard Life Investments

.Les actifs sous gestion de l’activité dédiée aux clients extérieurs au groupe de Standard Life Investments s’inscrivaient à fin septembre à 78,8 milliards de livres contre 71,8 milliards de livres au début de l’année, selon le rapport intérimaire publié le 31 octobre.La collecte nette s’est élevée à 3,2 milliards de livres sur les neuf premiers mois de l’année, l’effet marché représentant un montant de 3,8 milliards de livres.Au Royaume-Uni, les fonds basés sur le risque de la série My Folio totalisaient 1,9 milliard de livres à fin septembre, avec une collecte nette de 0,8 milliard de livres. Les actifs sous gestion des seuls fonds ouverts britanniques s’inscrivaient à 13 milliards de livres, grâce à une collecte nette de 1,5 milliard de livres.A noter aussi que les actifs sous gestion des fonds de rendement absolu ont dépassé la barre des 19 milliards de livres. Les actifs sous administration s'établissaient à fin septembre à 211,9 milliards de livres,contre 198,4 milliards à fin décembre 2011.
02/11/2012
Fonds

Peu de gérants actifs restent parmi les meilleurs

Les investisseurs qui sélectionnent un gérant de fonds actif parce qu’il a un bon historique ont plus de chances de choisir un perdant qu’un gagnant, montre une étude de Vanguard citée par le Financial Times Fund Management. Vanguard a classé 384 fonds actions britanniques de gestion active en cinq quintiles en fonction de leurs rendements ajustés au risque sur cinq ans à fin décembre 2006 et a ensuite suivi leurs performances sur les cinq années suivantes. Seulement 15,6 % sont restés dans le premier quintile sur les deux périodes de cinq ans se terminant en 2006 et 2011. Mais 23,4 % ont chuté du premier au dernier. Et 23,4 % ont été soit liquidés soit fusionnés en raison de faibles performances.
Fonds
02/11/2012

Fin de parcours pour la banque saoudienne Faisal à Genève

Etendard de la finance islamique à Genève, Faisal Private Bank se transforme à partir du 1er novembre en un «multi-family office», selon des sources proches de ses actionnaires saoudiens cités par Le Temps. La banque qui gère près de 700 millions de dollars pour le compte de sa clientèle moyen-orientale, deviendra un simple bureau dédié à ses plus riches déposants. Si le nom de la dynastie Faisal devrait lui rester attaché, aucune décision n’a encore été prise quant à la trentaine d’employés, précise le quotidien.
02/11/2012

Gottex nomme un responsable marketing pour l'Asie/Pacifique

Gottex Fund Management a nommé Marc Fisher au poste de directeur marketing pour la région Asie/Pacifique. Cette nomination intervient après l’acquisition, cette année, de Penjin Asset Management, un gestionnaire alternatif de fortune déjà bien établi sur ces marchés, a indiqué Gottex le 1er novembre dans un communiqué. Marc Fisher sera basé à Hongkong et il collaborera étroitement avec le CEO Asie Max Gottschalk et le CIO Ronnie Wu. Auparavant, Marc Fisher a travaillé chez FRM comme responsable pour l’Asie et le Pacifique (à l’exclusion du Japon et de la Corée) et membre du comité de direction.
02/11/2012

Nomination chez Altin

La société suisse de gestion alternative Altin, cotée en Bourse à Londres et en Suisse, a annoncé le 31 octobre la nomination de José Galeano comme principal chargé de relations avec les investisseurs (Head Investor Relations Manager). Marc T. Clapasson le secondera dans cette tâche.Les fonctions assumées jusqu’à présent par José Galeano auprès de la société de gestion en tant qu’expert en gestion alternative seront reprises par Michaël Malquarti.Les deux nominations sont effectives à compter du 1er novembre 2012.
02/11/2012

L’Asie a besoin de sociétés de gestion plus indépendantes

Les sociétés de gestion en Asie ne sont pas suffisamment indépendantes, analyse le Financial Times. Elles font en général partie de grands groupes et leur objectif premier est de soutenir ces derniers. Cela explique pourquoi les sociétés de gestion asiatiques n’ont pas percé à l’échelle internationale.
02/11/2012
Fonds

Union acquiert un centre commercial à Lodz

Pour son fonds immobilier offert au public UniImmo: Deutschland, l’allemand Union Investment a investi 390 millions d’euros dans le centre commercial et de loisirs Manufaktura de Lodz (112.500 mètres carrés) en Pologne. Ce complexe implanté dans une ancienne usine de textile est entièrement loué.Les vendeurs sont les français Foncière Euris et Rallye ainsi que le développeur Apsys, qui demeure chargé de la gestion du centre.
Fonds
02/11/2012

Forte collecte pour AMG

Pour le troisième trimestre 2012, Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) a enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 10,9 milliards de dollars, ce qui porte le total des neuf premiers mois à plus de 25 milliards de dollars. A fin septembre, l’encours se situait à 416 milliards de dollarsLe bénéfice net de juillet-septembre est ressorti à 54,9 millions de dollars contre 40,1 millions pour le troisième trimestre de 2011, tandis que pour janvier-septembre il a diminué à 98,9 millions de dollars contre 124,6 millions.
02/11/2012
Fonds

Lyxor abandonne le MSCI pour deux ETF

Lyxor Asset Management a abandonné le MSCI pour deux de ses fonds au profit du FTSE : le Lyxor ETF MSCI World Real Estate – D EUR et le Lyxor ETF MSCI World Real Estate – D USD, qui deviennent respectivement Lyxor ETF FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Developed et Lyxor ETF FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Developed. Ces informations, publiées dans Financial News, ont été confirmées par un porte-parole de Lyxor.Deux autres ETF de cette gamme immobilière ont déjà changé d’indice pour passer au FTSE, plus représentatif du marché de l’immobilier, selon le porte-parole. Il ne s’agit pas, d’après lui, d’un basculement vers des indices « low cost » comme cela vient de se produire pour Vanguard. Le porte-parole ajoute qu’il s’agit d’un « non-événement », la gamme des quatre fonds ne pesant pas plus de 50 millions d’euros.
Fonds
02/11/2012

Fidelity se renforce à Vienne

Andreas Lessmann, qui était directeur de la distribution pour l’Autriche, le Benelux et la Suisse alémanique chez Tiberius Asset Management après avoir été de 2002 à 2010 executive director institutional asset management et head of mutual funds Austria chez Sal.Oppenheim, devenue Deutsche Bank Autriche, rejoint Fidelity Worldwide Investment à Vienne. Il sera sales director, chargé du suivi de la clientèle institutionnelle et des banques en Autriche, sous la direction d’Adam Lessing, head of Austria & Eastern Europe.
02/11/2012

Lyxor drops MSCI for two ETFs

Lyxor Asset Management has dropped MSCI for two of its funds, in favour of FTSE: the Lyxor ETF MSCI World Real Estae – D EUR and Lyxor ETF MSCI World Real Estate – D USD, which become the Lyxor ETF FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Developed and Lyxor ETF FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Developed, respectively. The reports, published in Financial News, have been confirmed by a Lyxor spokesperson. Two other ETFs in the real estate range have already changed index to FTSE, the most representative in the real estate market, the spokesperson says. This is not a move to “low cost” indices as at Vanguard, the spokesman says. The spokesman adds that this is a “non-event,” as the range of four funds has only EUR50m in assets.
02/11/2012

Gottex appoints a head of marketing for Asia/Pacific

Gottex Fund Management has appointed Marc Fisher to the position of director of Marketing for the Asia/Paicific regon. The appointment comes after the acquisition of Penjin Asset Management, an alternative wealth management firm which is already well-established on these markets, earlier this year, Gottex says in a statement on 1 November. Fisher will be based in Hong Kong, and will work closely with CEO for Asia Max Gottschalk and CIO Ronnie Wu. Fisher previously worked at FRM as head for Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan and Korea) and a member of the board of directors.
02/11/2012

Appointment at Altin

The Swiss alternative asset management firm Altin, which is listed on the London and Swiss stock exchanges, on 31 October announced the appointment of José Galeano as Head Investor Relations Manager. Marc T. Clapasson will assist him in this role. The responsibilities previously held by Galeano at his asset management firm as an alternative management expert will be assumed by Michaël Malquarti. The two appointments are effective from 1 November 2012.
02/11/2012

Two more investigations into Barclays in the United States

The British bank Barclays on 31 October announced that it is being investigated as part of two more regulatory enquiries in the United States, which may complicate restoring its reputation after a series of scandals, including the Libor scandal this summer in particular, which have tarnished its reputation. The bank has stated that it is co-operationg with the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) and the securities and exchange commission (SEC) in an investigation into a potential infraction of the corruption of foreign heads law, as part of a case which is already under investigation in the United Kingdom. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the British Serious Fraud Office (SFO) are investigating the financial conditions of fundraising at Barclays from Middle Eastern investors, who allowed the bank to avoid seeking government aid in 2008, at the height of the financial crisis. Barclays on Wednesday announced another investigation, this time into its energy brokerage activity in the Western United States between late 2006 and 2008. The group says that it plans to “vigorously” defend itself in this case. “We have a lot to do to restore trust,” CEO Antony Jenkins, who was appointed in late August to succeed Bob Diamond following the Libor manipulation scandal, admits. The scandal broke in late June, when Barclays revealed that it would pay GBP290m to settle an investigation by British and American regulators into manipulations of the British Libor and European Euribor inter-bank lending rates between 2005 and 2009.
02/11/2012

Edoma hedge fund to close

Pierre-Henri Flamand, former head of Goldman Sachs’ European proprietary trading desk, has had to announce the liquidation of Edoma Partners, the London-based hedge fund he launched only two years ago. According to Agefi, the process may take three to four months. The event-driven hedge fund was no longer popular with investors, who multiple sources say withdrew as much as USD1bn in assets this year. Its assets under management are now estimated at USD850m.
02/11/2012

TT International launches a global macro fund

The London-based group TT International has signed a partnership with Deutsche Bank to launch a global macro fund on its German banking alternative platform, Citywire reports. The UCITS-compliant fund, DB Platinum TT International, will be managed by the founder of the British group, Tim Tacchi. The fund includes an allocation largely invested in European equities, with an allocation to bond and currency global macro. Assets under management at TT International total over USD9bn in macro, long/short equity and long-only equity strategies.
02/11/2012

Assets under management at St James's Place up 15% in nine months

St James’s Place hs reported a 15% increase in its assets under management in nine months, to GBP32.8bn as of the end of September, according to an interim report published on 31 October. Net inflows in the first nine months of the year totalled GBP2.26bn.
02/11/2012

Few asset management firms stay among the best

Investors who select an active fund manager because he has a good track record will be more likely to pick a loser than a winner, a Vanguard study cited by Financial Times Fund Management has found. Vanguard ranked 384 actively-managed British equity funds into five quintiles according to their risk-adjusted returns over five years to the end of 2006, and then monitored their performance over the following five years. Only 15.6% remained in the top quintile over both five-year periods, ending in 2006 and in 2011. But 23.4% fell from the first to the last. And 23.4% were either liquidated or merged due to poor performance.
02/11/2012

Strong inflows for AMG

In third quarter 2012, Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) has posted net subscriptions of USD10.9bn, bringing the total in the first nine months of the year to over USD25bn. As of the end of September, assets totalled USD416bn. Net profits in July-September totalled USD54.9m, compared with USD40.1m in third quarter 2011, while in January-September, they were down to USD98.9m from USD124.6m.
02/11/2012

Fidelity recruits in Vienna

Andreas Lessmann, who had been director of distribution for Austria, Benelux and German-speaking Switzerland at Tiberius Asset Management, after serving as institutional executive director asset management and head of mutual funds Austria at Sal. Oppenheim, which became Deutsche Bank Austria, is joining Fidelity Worldwide Investment in Vienna. He will be sales director, responsible for relationship management for institutional and banking clients in Austria, and will report to Adam Lessing, head of Austria & Eastern Europe.
02/11/2012

Natixis GAM opens in Hong Kong

The French asset management firm Natixis Global Asset Management opened an office in Hong Kong on 31 October, under the leadership of Michael Chang, managing director of NGAM Hong Kong Limited, who will report to John Hailer, Asia CEO, based in Boston. Chang had been based in Taipei, where he had been country head for Taiwan. He will be replaced in that position. The implantation includes a network in Beijing, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo, with over 50 people. Asia-Pacific assets at the group total USD22.7bn (as of the end of March, +66% in two years), out of a total of USD711bn, or EUR560bn, as of 30 June. The Hong Kong office will be responsible for operations and sales, but management will continue to be undertaken by specialist affiliates of Natixis AM and GAM, including Absolute Asia, AEW (USD45.5bn), Harris Associates, Loomis Sayles, Hansberger Global Investors (USD7.4bn) and Ossiam.
02/11/2012

CNMV approves acquisition of Nordkapp by Banco Madrid

The CNMV has granted Banco Madrid (an affiliate of the Andorran BPA) permission to acquire Nordkapp from Banco Valencia, as announced in early August, Funds People reports (see Newsmanagers of 3 August). This will bring an increase in assets of EUR2bn for Banco Madrid. Nordkapp controls a brokerage firm and an asset management firm, and operate a network of branches in Valencia, Pamplona and Madrid, with about 40 employees. Banco Madrid is planning to merge its affiliate Banco Madrid Gestión de Activos with Nordkapp Gestión.
02/11/2012

Asia needs more independent asset management firms

Asset management firms in Asia are not independent enough, the Financial Times claims. They generally are owned by large groups, and their first objective is to support these groups. That explains why Asian asset management firms have not been impressive in international markets.
02/11/2012

Dividend taxation: BVI satisfied

The German BVI association of asset management firms on 31 October declared itself satisfied that the German federal government is planning to put foreign shareholders on an even footing with regard to taxation of dividends paid to shareholders who hold a stake in the capital. The German government has largely followed the recommendations of the BVI, to refund the withholding tax on capital gains which is paid by foreign companies in Germany even in cases where the tax would not be payable outside Germany. The German government has actually transposed a verdict of the European Court of Justice, without penalising German companies. One year ago, the Court found that foreign companies were disadvantaged against their German competitors when they held less than 10% in a German publicly-traded company. Foreign companies with a stake in a German company were subject to a 15% tax on their capital gains as German dividends, which German companies were not. German companies remained exempt to company tax on dividends. That prevented multiple taxation, since the company paying the dividend had already paid company tax. This also works to the advantage of equity funds which hold stakes in capital. They remain attractive for these businesses, which also does not work to the disadvantage of corporate retirement savings.
02/11/2012

Month of October looking very bad for quant hedge funds

Quantitative hedge funds are facing their worse performance since the beginning of the financial crisis this October, as managers made losing bets on many asset classes, including bonds, currencies, and commodities, the news agency Reuters reports. As of 25 October, CTA funds were down 5.6%, which is the heaviest loss since August 2007, according to the CTA Trend sub-index from Newedge.
02/11/2012

Ireland prepares for AIFM directive

The Irish central bank on 31 October launched a consultation on the introduction of significant improvements to its non-UCITS regime under the AIFM directive, the Irish fund investment association (IFIA) has announced. The directive will bring in substantial changes for the non-UCITS fund sector, the professional association notes. The current “Qualifying Investor Fund” (QIF) regime will be replaced with a new “Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Fund” (QIAIF) regime, and a regime dedicated to retail investors will be created at this time. All annexed non-UCITS documents published by the central bank will be replaced with a single booklet covering all aspects of the regulations.

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