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11/04/2012

Promotion pour Iratxe Oria chez Banco Madrid Gestión

Directrice du pôle gestion et investissement de Banco Madrid Gestión de Activos (1 milliard d’euros d’encours), Iratxe Oria a été promue directrice générale de la société en remplacement de Rafael Valera, qui a été nommé directeur général adjoint de la banque, rapporte Funds People.
11/04/2012
Fonds

NYSE Euronext cote un fonds de BNP Paribas de droit néerlandais

Depuis le 10 avril, le fonds obligataire haut rendement émergent de droit néerlandais BNP Paribas Fund III NV a été admis à la négociation sur Euronext Fund Services (EFS) de NYSE Euronext. C’est le 186ème fonds d’investissement coté sur cette plate-forme.CaractéristiquesDénomination: BNP EM HIEF (Unh)Code Isin: NL0010060604Indice de référence: S&P Global Emerging Markets High Income Equity (Euro)TFE: 1,6 %
Fonds
11/04/2012

Armin Gudat rejoint Aquila Capital

Après les 14 dernières années passées chez AxaRosenberg à Londres comme responsable du suivi de la clientèle institutionnelle en Allemagne, en Europe continentale et au Moyen-Orient, Armin Gudat a rejoint au 1er avril le hambourgeois Aquila Capital Institutioonal comme gérant de fonds senior dans l'équipe quantitative. Comme l’indique Roman Rosslenbroich, fondateur et CEO d’Aquila Capital, le nouvel arrivant doit contribuer au pilotage et au développement des stratégies d’investissement quantitatif.
11/04/2012

Nomination de la présidente de la DFCG Ile-de-France

La DFCG–Association nationale de Directeurs Financiers et de Contrôle de Gestion a élu, à compter du 1er avril 2012, Sophie Macieira-Coelho, au poste de présidente de la DFCG Ile-de-France. Elle remplace à ce poste Clotilde Bouchet, précise un communiqué.
11/04/2012

Swell AM débute son activité avec 93 millions d'euros

Dédiée à la gestion d’allocation tactique, Swell Asset Management dont Newsmanagers annonçait la création le 11 janvier 2012 a fait part du lancement effectif de son activité le 27 mars dernier avec le transfert du FCP Swell Soft GTAA Fund (anciennement LFP Allocation 3). Ce fonds dont l’encours s'élève à 93 millions d’euros était géré depuis sa création en 2005, par Olivier Ramé et Jean-Philippe Collin, les deux fondateurs de Swell AM, alors responsable des gestions alternatives et gérant à La Française des Placements. L’AMF a également délivré un agrément pour la création de Swell Classic GTAA Fund, un second fonds également au format UCITS IV qui opère la même stratégie d’investissement mais dans un registre plus agressif.Swell Asset Management a obtenu son agrément de société de gestion de portefeuille auprès de l’AMF le 1er mars 2012. Olivier Ramé et Jean-Philippe Collin possèdent chacun 37,5 % du capital de la société, La Française AM détenant les 25 % restants. Outre le lien capitalistique, La Française AM met à la disposition de la jeune société de gestion une infrastructure opérationnelle (informatique, middle office, bureaux…).
11/04/2012
Fonds

Bain Capital envisage de lever entre 6 et 8 milliards de dollars

Selon L’Agefi, la société d’investissement Bain Capital envisage de lever entre 6 et 8 milliards de dollars pour un nouveau fonds d’investissement mondial. Compte tenu de l’environnement difficile pour les sociétés de capital-investissement, Bain songerait à modifier sa structure de tarifs afin d’attirer davantage d’investisseurs.
Fonds
11/04/2012

Newedge nomme son responsable marketing

Le courtier Newedge vient d’annoncer la nomination de Peter Ward au poste de Global Head of Marketing Communications basé dans ses bureaux de New York. Le nouvel arrivant sera responsable des activités marketing de Newedge au niveau mondial. Il rapportera directement à Kevin Russell, Global Head, Brand & Communications. Peter Ward était auparavant un consultant indépendant dans le domaine du marketing et de la communication. Il a également passé six ans chez Greenwich Capital Markets et Royal Bank of Scotland.
11/04/2012
Fonds

Carlyle fixe les objectifs financiers de son IPO

La société de capital-investissement américaine Carlyle rechercherait un niveau de valorisation compris entre 7,5 et 8 milliards de dollars lors de sa prochaine introduction en Bourse, rapporte L’Agefi qui cite Bloomberg. Carlyle envisagerait en outre de mettre sur le marché un flottant de 10%.
Fonds
11/04/2012

S&P Capital IQ recrute une ancienne de Nomura

S&P Capital IQ renforce son équipe de recherche, indique Mutual Fund Wire. La société vient de recruter Barbara Reguero au poste de managing director de son équipe «cross-asset-class research». L’intéressé était auparavant global chief administrative officer de la division de recherche fixed-income de Nomura Securities International.
11/04/2012
Fonds

Le FSI et Alstom pourraient prendre un ticket dans Translohr

Le Fonds stratégique d’investissement (FSI) et le groupe Alstom, spécialiste des infrastructures d'énergie et de transport, étudient le rachat conjoint de 85% de Translohr, marque du groupe Lohr spécialisée dans la fabrication et la commercialisation de tramways sur pneus. L’opération se ferait pour un montant d’environ 60 millions d’euros.
Fonds
11/04/2012

BNY Mellon promeut Chong Jin Leow

Head of Asia-Pacific chez BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, Chong Jin Leow a également été nommé country executive et general manager pour Singapour. Il continuera ainsi d'être subordonné à Tim Keaney, vice chairman de BNY Mellon et CEO de BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, mais sera aussi subordonné à Steve Lackey, chairman of Asia-Pacific.Dans ses nouvelles fonctions de patron de Singapour, Chong Jin Leow succède à Jai Arya, qui a été pour sa part promu head du global sovereign institutions group de BNY Mellon. Jai Arya sera chargé de coordonner les services du groupe aux fonds souverains, aux fonds de pension souverains, aux banques centrales et autorités monétaires ainsi qu’aux entités appartenant à des Etats.
11/04/2012

CVC attend 2 milliards de dollars de sa participation dans la F1

Le capital investisseur britannique CVC Capital Partners compte tirer 2 milliards de dollars de la vente d’une participation de 20 % dans l’organisateur des compétitions automobiles de Formule 1 lors de l’introduction en Bourse de ce dernier, rapporte Cotiazalia. D’après Bloomberg, l’introduction se ferait à Singapour, comme celle du club de football Manchester United.
11/04/2012

Authority publishes a recommendation on sale of loans sensitive to currency risks

The college of the French prudential control authority (ACP) on 6 April announced that it has passed a recommendation to improve information and transparency in communications to retail lending clients about foreign currency risks. Credit establishments and intermediaries for banking operations are offering retail clients loans in currencies that carry forex risks, and promoting them on the grounds of the lower interest rates they charge than loans in euros, and limited variation of the exchange rate. An analysis of sales practices for loans of this type found that currency risks may be misunderstood by borrowers.As a result, the ACP is recommending that credit establishments and intermediaries in banking operations follow a code of best practices for advisers in contact with clients, advertising, explanations provided to the client before the loan is signed, and annual information to the borrower.
11/04/2012

SEC begins going through hedge fund data

The US regulator, the SEC, has begun processing data from the major hedge fund firms in the country, provided to the regulator by a deadline of 30 March under Dodd-Frank legislation, the Wall Street Journal reports. The objective is to identify firms whose behaviour may pose potential risks ot investors. About 1,400 new companies, including Moore Capital Management and Tiger Global Management, have provided new information on funds, investors, brokers, and other areas, the WSJ reports.
11/04/2012

CalPERS selected by SEC

The California pension fund CalPERS on 10 April announced that it has been selected by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to become a member of the investor advising commission, newly created under Dodd-Frank legislation.Jow Dear, chief investment officer of CalPERS, will chair the 21-member commission, which will advise the SEC on regulatory questions and pricing issues, and which may also undertake initiatives to improve invetor protection and market confidence.
11/04/2012

Job openings at Swiss banks scarcer

In the Swiss financial sector, the number of job openings as of the end of March was 20.5% lower than its level twelve months previously, with a 35.2% decline for banks and a 4% decline at insurers, finews reports.On the websites of 1,400 banks, insurers and other Swiss financial sector businesses (auditors, IT, consultants, etc.), as of 31 March there were 3,430 jobs announced, compared with 4,312 as of the end of March 2011, according to the Finews-JobDirectory-Index, published in cooperation with the website JobDirectory.ch. Of this total, job openings at banks totalled 1,144, compared with 1,765 one year preivously.However, finews states that there has been some stability since the beginning of the year at the two major banks (UBS and Credit Suisse), but that the decline is more pronounced at cantonal and private banks.
11/04/2012

Deutsche Börse puts carbon footprint information online

In partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Deutsche Börse has placed climate change information concerning about 1,800 publicly-traded businesses online, free of charge, since the end of last week. The information makes it possible to compare the businesses in terms of their contribution to environmental protection and their transparency in terms of CO2 emissions.The data are available at http://www.boerse-frankfurt.com/.
11/04/2012

Assets at insurers and pension funds up in fourth quarter

Total financial assets of euro zone insurance companies and pension funds in fourth quarter 2011 increased to EUR6.980trn from EUR6.919trn the previous quarter, according to statistics from the European Central Bank (ECB). In the same period, mandated insurance reserves, the major measure of liabilities for insurance companies and pension funds, have increased, from EUR6.113trn to EUR6.131trn. This increase is due in nearly equal proportions to positive transactions and valuation effects. In relation to ventilation of assets on the aggregate balance sheets of insurance companies and pension funds in the euro zone, assets in securities other than equities as of the end of December 2011 represented 39% of total financial assets in the sector. Shares in mutual funds represented the second largest exposure, with 23% of total financial assets. Lastly, equities and other participations represented 12% of the total.
11/04/2012

NYSE Euronext lists BNPP fund

Since 10 April, the Netherlands-registered emerging markets high yield bond fund BNP Paribas Fund III NV has been admitted to trading on Euronext Fund Services (EFS) from NYSE Euronext. It becomes the 186th investment fund to be listed on that platform.CharacteristicsName: BNP EM HIEF 5Unh)ISIN code: NL0010060604Benchmark: S&P Global Emerging Markets High Income Equity (Euro)TER : 1.6%
11/04/2012

SLI recruits a big name from Union

According to reports in Citywire, Felix Freund, star manager at Union Investment (German co-operative banks), has been recruited as director of credit for Europe at Standard Life Investments (SLI).Investment Week reports, meanwhile, that SLI has recruited Mark Kedar as sterling credit investment director. Kedar had previously been fixed income investment manager at Kames.
11/04/2012

BNP Paribas IP names a new EMD CIO

BNP Paribas Investment Partners has appointed Guy Williams, CIO FFTW, as head of BNPP IP’s Global Emerging Fixed Income team after the departure at BlackRock of Sergio Trigo Paz with a six person team. He will assume responsibility for the management of its worldwide EMD strategies managed out of London.BNPP IP also says that «its priority is now to rapidly strengthen its emerging market fixed income resources with the required investment talent, a process that has already begun». BNP Paribas IP manages over EUR 4.5 billion of emerging market fixed income (EMD) assets.
11/04/2012

Indices: EDHEC critical of inadequate proposals by ESMA

Although it welcomes the fact that the new ESMA consultation document issued in January 2012 extends its range to a more horizontal approach covering all UCITS-compliant funds, rather than focusing solely on UCITS-compliant ETF funds in a more vertical manner, the EDHEC-Risk Institute expresses regrets in its response to the consultation document that the text does not go further in several key areas.Specialists at EDHEC express regrets that the European regulator did not see fit to propose a definition of passive management which could be associated with an acceptable tracking error level. Meanwhile, they are critical of the fact that the ESMA proposal, although it recommends making information on the performance of indices available for free, does not require that all information on indices be published for free, particularly the composition history of the indices. Furthermore, EDHEC would like to see the quality of governance of indices and a way to audit the decisions of index committees receive more attention from the regulator.
11/04/2012

Hennessee: hedge funds gained 0.59% in March

Last month, the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index posted returns of 0.59%, following gains of 1.68% in February and 2.25% in January, meaning that for first quarter, the average returns come out to 4.59%.Only three strategies saw losses in March: macro (-0.29%), short biased (-1.02%), and emerging markets (-1.28%). In January-March, only short bias shows losses (of 10.81%).
11/04/2012

Aberdeen Development Capital closes down

The investment firm Aberdeen Development Capital is proposing to discontinue the activities of the company following a redemption of preferential shares to shareholders.Aberdeen Development has scheduled a general shareholders’ meeting for 30 April, in order to fulfil the firm’s final obligations. Shares in the company will be suspended from trading on the London Stock Exchange from 30 April.
11/04/2012

Huatai Secs obtains permissions for a private equity fund

The Chinese securities regulatory commission (CSRC) has granted approval to a request from Huatia Securities to launch a private equity fund. The fund, Huatai Zijin (Jiangsu) Private Equity Investment Fund, will be managed by Huatai Ruitong Investment Management Company.Huatai is the second brokerage firm to have received such a license, after CICC, which launched its private equity fund in April 2011, with assets of CNY1.5bn, Z-Ben Advisors reports.
11/04/2012

Santander Am recruits a CEO from RBS

Lázaro de Lázaro, who had been head of financial institutions and insurance companies at Royal Bank of Scotland serving the Iberian peninsula, has joined Santander Asset Management (EUR35.5m in assets) as CEO, Funds People reports. He replaces Dolores Ybarra, who had served in the position since last October alongside her responsibilities as global CIO.
11/04/2012

Banco Madrid Gestión de Activos

The head of the management and investment unit at Banco Madrid Gestión de Activos (EUR1bn in assets), Iratxe Oria, has been promoted to the position of CEO of the firm, replacing Rafael Valera, who has been appointed deputy CEO of the bank, Funds People reports.
11/04/2012

Regulatory approval for Chinese “A” equities ETF

The Chinese regulator, the CSRC, has announced that it is opening a new CNY50bn allocation for “renminbi qualified foreign institutional investors (RQFII)», who will have no investment restrictions, and will be able to invest their assets wholly in ETFs of equities listed in continental China (A-class shares), Z-Ben Advisors reports.For the first wave, investments by RQII funds in A-class shares had been limited to 20% of assets.

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