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05/03/2012

Newton parts with its CIO for private clients

Philip Collins, chief investment officer for private clients and charities, has left Newton Investment Management (BNY Mellon group). His position has been discontinued following the promotion of Simon Pryke to the position of CIO, FundWeb reports.Collins, who had been manager of the Newton Phoenix fund, will be replaced by his co-manager Paul Flood, who will be succeeded by Ben Ward.
05/03/2012

Henderson GI looks to develop in real estate debt

Henderson Global Investors has hired John Feeney as head of real estate debt in its secured credit team. He will work closely with Henderson’s property business as well as the fixed income team to drive business growth in real estate debt as traditional lenders retreat from the market. Feeney most recently headed Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Asia real estate Special Assets Group with responsibility for the region’s legacy debt book.
05/03/2012

No shadow banking by credit hedge funds, AIMA says

In a 25-page report entitled “The Role of Credit Hedge Funds in the Financial System: Asset Managers, Not Shadow Banks,” the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) challenges the association by the G20 of credit hedge funds with entities related to “shadow banking,” on three main grounds.Firstly, they don’t operate in the shadows, but will soon be subject to strict regulations everywhere in the world. Secondly, these funds are not banks, and do not make any maturity transformation. Lastly, they are aimed at “sophisticated” institutional investors.In addition to these points, the hedge funds represent only a relatively modest volume compared with banks, use only limited amounts of leverage, and do not have implicit or explicit guarantees from taxpayers.According to the Association, credit or credit-related hedge funds represent one third of the global hedge fund sector, and they use a vast range of investment strategies, ranging from fundamental credit analysis and arbitrage to trading of complex derivatives.
05/03/2012

Good start to the year for Dutch hedge funds

In January, the Finles/IEX Hollandse Hedge Fund Index (HHFI) of Netherlands-based hedge funds outperformed the Deutsche Bank (+1.76%) and Lyxor (+1.30%) indices, with gains of 3.42%. The index includes 29 products; at the end of January, it stood at 105.46.The three best-performing funds in the HHFI were the gold long/short fund Gold & Discovery Fonds, with gains of 17.71%, the Bloemendaal (long/short equity) fund with +11.47%, and the statistical arbitrage fund HiQ Market Neutral (+10.15%).
05/03/2012

DWS launches guaranteed bond fund

The CNMV on 2 March issued a registration for the passively-managed fund DWS Bonos 2016, which at maturity (on 20 September 2016) offers returns of 4% per year for A-class shares (retail) and 4.45 for B-class shares (institutional) subscribed to before 28 March 2012. The management of the fund, launched on 20 February by DWS Investments (Spain), SGIIC, SA is outsourced to the German firm DWS Investment GmbH.Until 28 March 2012, the portfolio will be invested in cash, repos of Spanish public debt, savings accounts, private bonds, and liquid public and private money market instruments of the OECD region (rated at least A-), with an average maturity of less than 3 months. The fund will then be 95% invested in corporate bonds (of which up to 33% is to be invested in securities rated below BBB-), and the remainder in public debt rated at least A-. There will be no currency risk, and the fund will not invest either in other funds, or in securitisations.CharacteristicsName: DWS Bonos 2016, FIISIN codes:ES0127098004 (A class shares)ES0127098012 (B class shares)Minimal subscriptionA class shares: EUR10B class shares: EUR600,000Management commissionsA class shares: 0.2% until 28 March 2012, then 1.2%B class shares: 0.2% until 28 March 2012, then 0.8%Early withdrawal penalty2% from 29 March 2012 to 19 September 2016
05/03/2012

Liberbank releases a telecoms guaranteed fund

The firm born of the merger of Cajastur, Caja de Extremadura and Caja Cantabria, Liberbank, has launched the guaranteed fund Liberbank Telecommunicaciones 3X7, which offers returns of 0.93% per year (3% until maturity in July 2015), plus a participation in the evolution of the share prices of Telefónica, France Télécom and Deutsche Telekom, Expansión reports. Returns on these shares will be 7% per year if the average share price for the three firms remains higher than the initial value.Management commission is set at 0.75% until the end of the sale period on 24 April.
05/03/2012

Lyxor lists three more ETFs in Madrid

On 2 March, the CNMV registered three more ETFs from Lyxor Asset Management (Société Générale group). They are the Lyxor ETF Russell 1000 Growth, Russell 1000 Value, and Russell 2000.
05/03/2012

Deputy head of external distribution leaves Carmignac Gestion

Nicolas Demoro, who had for more than five years worked at Carmignac Gestion, serving independent financial advisers, firstly as regional director for south-eastern France, and then as deputy director of external distritbution, has left the firm to open a new entrepreneurial venture dedicated to wealth management.
05/03/2012

Avenir Finance IM: Two managers take over from Guillaume Nicoulaud

Following the departure of Guillaume Nicoulaud, manager of the quantitative fund Opéra US, the asset management firm Avenir Finance Investment Managers (AIFM) has placed the management of the fund in the hands of Guillaume Garchery and Emmanuel Faik, managers at AFIM since September 2009 and July 2011, respectively.Gerchery, a former quantitative trader in the statistical arbitrage team at Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking from 2006 to 2009, where he was in charge of development and application of low-frequency strategies on European equities, joined Avenir Finance Investment Managers in order to implement quantitative equity and global macro strategies in particular. He worked on the development of equity strategies based on risk premiums, which were implemented with US Opéra.Faik, previously in the Investment division at the European Central Bank, which manages the currency reserves for the European system and the implementation of the Securities Markets Programme for bond markets, contributed to publications from that institution on the subject of unconventional monetary policy.
05/03/2012

Carmignac practices exclusion for its funds

Edouard Carmignac, founder of the eponymous asset management firm, has been excluding weapons manufacturers and tobacco producers from his funds for 20 years, Financial Times Fund Management reveals. Eric le Coz, deputy CEO, says in the FT weekly supplement that the exclusion is not an explicit policy of the fund, but that a study is underway to “formalise the process.” The move comes at a time when regulations will require French asset management firms to disclose how they take environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into account.
05/03/2012

State Street offers two new equity ETFs

The SPDR ETF range from State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) on 28 February grew with the admission to trading on NYSE Arca of two new equity products.One of these, the SPDR MSCI ACWI IMI ETF, whose acronym is ACIM, replicates the MSCI All Country Investable Market index; it charges 0.25%.The other, the SPDR AM 50 ETF (EMFT), tracks the MSCI EM 50 emerging markets index, which covers the 50 largest shares of the MSCI Emerging Markets index. Its total expense ratio is 0.50%.
05/03/2012

Invesco RE and Hannover Leasing liquidate a US fund

The property located at 33 Maiden Lane in New York has been sold for USD207.5m to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by an institutional real estate fund from Invesco Real Estate and Hannover Leasing, which earned capital gains on the sale of 56%.As the fund had already sold the property at 10 Exchange Plance in New Jersey for USD285m, the fund will be liquidated. The two properties were acquired in 2002 for USD330m. Over the life of the fund, the performance in US dollars was 12.5% per year.
05/03/2012

Institutionals admire example of Canadian pension funds

Canadian public pension funds appear as precursors in the eyes of institutional investors, who are seeking to imitate them, The Economist reports. It’s not the size of the funds which interests investors – they manage over USD640bn in assets – so much as their investment strategy. Unlike many pension funds, Canadian institutions manage their portfolios internally and invest directly. They invest more than other funds in buyout operations, infrastructure and real estate. The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) would like to have 90% of its assets managed internally by the end of 2012. Canadian pension funds often make small solo transactions, but they undertake larger operations as co-sponsors with major private equity firms. This strategy allows thm to make substantial savings, particularly in private equity, where the famous standard commission level is 2/20 (2% of assets and 20% of profits). This approach has manifestly paid off. In the past ten years, the Ontario teachers’ pension fund, a pioneer in this area, has earned the best returns of the 330 largest public and private pension funds in the world.
05/03/2012

Market effects account for most of increase in assets for Luxembourg funds

Global assets in Luxembourg based funds totalled EUR2.15708trn as of the end of January, an increase of 2.89% in one month, the CSSF reports. The Luxmebourg regulator says the positive variation in the month of January of EUR60.659bn was the result of market effects totalling EUR55.407bn (+2.64%), and inflows of EUR5.162bn (+0.25%). There were 3,837 collective investment organisms (OPC) and specialised investment funds (FIS), compared with 3,845 the previous month. 2,421 entities have adopted a multiple sub-fund structure, which represents 11,857 sub-funds. With the addition of the 1,416 entities with traditional structures, a total of 13,273 entities are active on the financial market, a statement says. As of 31 January 2012, over a sliding 12-month period, net asset volumes fell by 1.23%.
05/03/2012

Franklin launches a fund of global convertibles

Franklin Templeton on 24 February launched a fund of global convertible bonds, which will be managed by Alan Muschott, Money Marketing reports. The fund will be registered in Luxembourg, and will use the same strategy as a fund domiciled in the United States launched in 1987.
05/03/2012
Gestion d'actifs

La Caisse de Retraite des Sénateurs de Belgique a sélectionné les mandataires de son appel d'offres Specialty Managers

La Caisse de retraite des sénateurs de Belgique a sélectionné, fin février, six gérants pour son appel d’offres Specialty managers, avec l’aide de la société de conseil Econopolis Strategy. Les mandats de gestion discrétionnaires étaient répartis sur plusieurs thèmes d’investissement spécialisés: Le lot 1 portait sur une poche d’actifs ISR énergie. Il a été attribué à KBC AM. Le lot 2 concernait une poche agri-food. Son gérant sera Petercam. Le lot 3, real assets, n’a pas été adjugé. Le lot 4 sur les actions européennes large cap a été attribué à Edmond de Rothschild AM et Capital at Work (Banque Delen) Le lot 5, actions à haut dividendes a été attribué à Axa IM et KBC AM Chaque lot du mandat est compris entre 5 et 10 millions d’euros. Il s’agit uniquement de poches actions. La Caisse de retraite des sénateurs de Belgique gère un portefeuille d’actifs de 180 millions d’euros. Seuls 40 % de ces encours sont externalisés. Pour lire l’avis complet: cliquez ici
Gestion d'actifs
05/03/2012

LVMH entend grandir en Inde

L Capital, le fonds d’investissement du groupe LVMH, tiendrait la corde pour le rachat de l’indien Lilliput Kidswear. KKR, Mahindra & Mahindra et IVF (India Value Fund) auraient toutefois également signé des accords de confidentialité afin de négocier la transaction, selon le quotidien. Les discussions avec L Capital en seraient à un stade avancé et pourraient se conclure d’ici quelques semaines.
05/03/2012

Les technologiques chinoises émettent à haut rendement

Le 21st Century Business Herald indique de source anonyme que le régulateur chinois des marchés, la CSRC, a autorisé les petites et moyennes entreprises du pays au sein des secteurs technologique et agricole à émettre des obligations à haut rendement négociables sur les Bourses de Shanghai et de Shenzhen.
05/03/2012

L'Italie refait son retard sur l'Espagne

Les rendements italiens sont revenus au niveau de ceux de l’Espagne, au moment où cette dernière relève à 5,8% du PIB sa prévision de déficit budgétaire pour 2012.
05/03/2012

Un trader vedette de JPMorgan lance son propre fonds

Mike Stewart, responsable mondial du négoce pour compte propre de la banque américaine depuis un an, devrait lancer à Londres au cours du deuxième trimestre 2012 selon le quotidien son propre hedge fund, dénommé Whard Stewart. Il s’agirait de l’un des plus importants lancements de fonds alternatifs outre-Manche cette année. L’ancienne équipe du dirigeant en charge des marchés émergents devrait le rejoindre.
05/03/2012

Un fonds s’invite au capital de Latécoère

Selon Le Figaro, le fonds de gestion alternative Alura Partners a franchi le seuil de 2% du capital de l’équipementier aéronautique. Le groupe a finalisé en décembre dernier sa restructuration financière avec ses créanciers bancaires et entend prendre part à la consolidation du secteur «dans un horizon de 2-3 ans».

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