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21/04/2011

Les reventes de logements rebondissent aux Etats-Unis

Selon les chiffres de la Fédération des agents immobiliers américains (NAR), les reventes de logements aux Etats-Unis ont dépassé les attentes en mars, rebondissant de 3,7% sur un mois après une contraction de 8,9% (révisé de 9,6%) en février. Elles ont atteint 5,1 millions d’unités le mois dernier après 4,92 millions (révisé de 4,88 millions) le mois précédent.
21/04/2011

Nasdaq OMX affiche un profit en hausse de 70%

Le bénéfice de Nasdaq OMX Group, qui a lancé avec ICE une offensive sur Nyse Euronext pour contrer l’offre amicale de Deutsche Börse, a bondi de 70% au premier trimestre porté par l’activité en Europe et sur les dérivés. Nasdaq OMX Group a dégagé 104 millions de dollars de profits au premier trimestre, soit 57 cents par action, contre 61 millions de dollars (28 cents) sur la même période de 2010. La hausse des coûts d’exploitation de 12% a été compensée par une progression de 26% des revenus liés aux transactions. Le chiffre d’affaires a augmenté de 15% à 415 millions de dollars. L’opérateur s’attend à des coûts opérationnels de 895 à 915 millions de dollars cette année. Le PDG, Robert Greifeld, a fait savoir que Nasdaq OMX Group était disposé à se battre pendant encore un an si nécessaire et a précisé qu’une nouvelle offre était envisageable si les états financiers du groupe cible lui étaient dévoilés.
21/04/2011

Nouvelle hausse des taux au Brésil

La Banque centrale du Brésil a relevé mercredi d’un quart de point son taux directeur, à 12%. L'établissement a pris cette décision en tenant compte de l'évaluation des risques d’inflation qui a atteint 5,9% en 2010, bien au-dessus de la prévision officielle de 4,5%, du rythme encore incertain de l’activité domestique et de la complexité de l’environnement international.
21/04/2011

La BoE manque de conviction sur l'inflation

Les minutes du dernier comité de la banque centrale n’ont pas fait évoluer le rapport de force entre partisans d’une remontée des taux ou du statu quo, en raison de données économiques mitigées et de mesures d’anticipations d’inflation stables en mars.
20/04/2011

L'Espagne émet 2,49 milliards à dix ans avec un rendement en hausse

L’Espagne a émis mercredi 2,487 milliards d’euros en titres à dix ans, lors d’une adjudication marquée par une forte demande mais un taux de rendement légèrement supérieur. Le ratio de souscription a atteint 2,1, contre 1,8 auparavant et le taux de rendement 5,472%, contre 5,162% lors de la précédente adjudication, le 17 mars. Des titres à échéance 2024 ont également été émis, pour un montant total de 885 millions d’euros, à un ratio de souscription de 2,3 et un taux de rendement de 5,667%.
20/04/2011

Les Etats-Unis manquent d'un plan crédible pour leur déficit

Les Etats-Unis manquent d’un plan crédible à moyen terme pour réduire leur déficit, déclare le chef économiste du Fonds monétaire international, Olivier Blanchard, dans un entretien publié mercredi dans Le Monde. «Le débat entre les deux partis qui s’est conclu le 8 avril par un plan d'économies de 39 milliards de dollars était insuffisant», dit-il, «Celui-ci leur semble d’autant moins urgent à traiter que les Etats-Unis n’ont aucune difficulté à placer leurs bons du Trésor», poursuit Olivier Blanchard.
20/04/2011

Les anticipations de hausse des taux reportées après la publication des minutes de la BoE

Les investisseurs ont reporté leurs anticipations de relèvement des taux d’intérêt par la Banque d’Angleterre après la publication du compte-rendu de la dernière réunion de la banque centrale. Lors de cette réunion du comité de politique monétaire des 6 et 7 avril, ses membres se sont une nouvelle fois exprimés à six voix contre trois en faveur d’un maintien du taux directeur à 0,5%. Les banquiers centraux soulignent que la perspective d’inflation n’a pas évolué suffisamment pour modifier leur point de vue.
20/04/2011

La Suède relève ses taux d'un quart de point à 1,75%

La banque centrale de Suède a relevé son principal taux directeur de 25 points de base pour le porter à 1,75% dans un contexte de lutte contre l’inflation. Il s’agit de la sixième hausse consécutive de ce taux. L'économie suédoise connaît le meilleur taux de croissance en Europe. La couronne suédoise a légèrement reculé face à l’euro après cette annonce.
20/04/2011

Record historique pour l'or, l'argent à un plus haut de 31 ans

Le prix spot de l’once d’or a franchi pour la première fois la barre des 1.500 dollars et l’argent a atteint un plus haut de 31 ans à 44,34 dollars l’once, sous le double effet de la baisse du dollar et des inquiétudes pesant sur la zone euro. Les cours élevés du pétrole, la crainte de l’inflation et les tensions politiques au Moyen-Orient devraient maintenir le prix de l’or à un haut niveau de façon durable, ont estimé des analystes.
20/04/2011

Les taux portugais à 10 ans au-dessus des 9%

Les taux des obligations portugaises à 10 ans ont dépassé mercredi les 9% pour la première fois depuis la création de la zone euro. A 12h41, les taux à 10 ans montaient à 9,027% contre 8,950% mardi à la clôture.
20/04/2011

Arnaud Massenet appointed CEO of Luma

Arnaud Massenet has been appointed as CEO of Luma Solutions Services Limited, the managed accounts platform from OFI Asset management and Gottex Solutions Services (see Newsmanagers of 18 November 2010). He will coordinate development of the joint venture, “whose objective is to become the main onshore independent platform for managed accounts in Europe,” a statement says. Massenet previously worked at Gottex Fund Management in London, as head of marketing for Europe and the Middle East for the fund of funds segment. Previously, he was director of the equities derivatives department at Lehman Brothers for the European region, and then joined the investment bank, where he created the corporate derivative products department. He began his career at Morgan Stanley.
20/04/2011

Two fund managers from ING IM join Lazard AM

Lazard Asset Management (LAM) has announced that Tycho van Wijk and Tjeert Keijzer will join the firm as portfolio managers/analysts based in LAM’s Frankfurt office, effective May 1. They join LAM from ING Investment Management where they were the lead investment manager and investment manager, respectively, of the ING Global Opportunities Fund. At LAM, the two fund managers will launch and manage an unconstrained global equity strategy, which will be available in separately managed accounts as well as commingled funds. As of December 31, 2010, LAM managed more than USD33 billion in global equity portfolios. Tycho van Wijk and Tjeert Keijzer will also assume portfolio management responsibilities for LAM’s Global Trend portfolios and will work with existing LAM team members, Ulrich Schweiger and Beatrix Eisenblaetter.
20/04/2011

MLP acquires the remainder of Feri

In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Uwe Schroeder-Wildberg, chairman of the managing board at MLP, announced that as of Friday, the German financial services provider has taken all capital of the wealth management firm Feri, in which it had initially acquired a 63% stake, “on its books.” Assets at MLP now total over EUR20bn. For the ratings arm of Feri, Feri EuroRatings Services, the head of MLP says he is open to cooperation.Schroeder-Wildberg says the EUR110m in total spent to acquire Feri were justified by the prospects and stability of the wealth management activity, even though Feri earned operating profits in 2010 of only EUR4m. Feri will continue to operate independently, and may be reinforced with other acquisitions if necessary. MLP still has EUR150m in cash to spend on such an acquisition, even after its acquisition of Feri.
20/04/2011

Banca Civica will have its own fund management firm

Banca Civica, born of the merger of four savings banks (Caja Navarra, Cajason, Caja de Burgos and Caja Canarias), will have its own fund management affiliate, Banca Cívica Gestión de Activos, with initial assets of about EUR3bn, which makes it the 11th largest Spanish management firm. A license for the firm has been obtained from the CNMV. Of the four savings banks, only Caja Navarra had a dedicated management firm, Gesnavarra, while the other three outsourced those activities to Ahorro Corporación, a statement from Banca Civica says.
20/04/2011

Deka Immobilien buys a building in Bristol from SEB AM

The German management firm Deka Immobilien has acquired the office building at 2 Temple Back East in Bristol from an institutional fund of the German management firm SEB Asset Management. The 8,100 square metre property is wholly occupied by the law firm Osborne Clarke, and will be added to the portfolio of the dedicated fund (Individualfonds) Deka-S-PropertyFund No. 2.
20/04/2011

Principal Global Investors acquires a small management firm

Principal Global Investors, a US asset manager with USD232.4bn assets under management, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Finisterre Capital, an emerging markets investor based in London.Founded in 2002, Finisterre Capital has approximately USD1.63 billion in assets under managementprimarily across three funds: Global Opportunity Fund, Sovereign Debt Fund and Credit Fund. The five partners (Frode Foss-Skiftesvik, Paul Crean, Rafaël Biosse Duplan, Xavier Corin-Mick and Yan Swiderski) will retain a significant minority stake in the business and have agreed to put a significant share of their consideration into funds managed by the firm.
20/04/2011

Hargreaves assets up 34% in one year

Assets under administration or management by Hargreaves Lansdown totalled GBP23.6bn as of 31 March 2010, an increase of 6% compared with 31 December 2010. The increase is 34% year on year. The value of properties held via the Vantage platform increased by 6%, from GBP20.9bn as of 31 December 2010 to GBP22.1bn, due to the double effect of net inflows of GBP1.1bn, and positive market effects of GBP100m.
20/04/2011

Reyl & Cie founds a joint venture with Samena Capital

The Swiss management firm Reyl & Cie (CHF4bn) on 19 April announced the creation of a joint venture with the Samena Capital group (USD400m), an investment group specialised in proprietary investments in India, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa (SAMENA). Reyl will control 50% of Samena Asia Managers (SAM), the Hong Kong affiliate of Samena Capital specialised in seed funding for hedge funds in Asia. The joint venture will add its expertise in Reyl regulatory activities in the areas of fund and portfolio management, in order to offer high added value solutions for respective clients and investors from the two companies.The two partners are planning to raise USD200-250m for a hedge fund seed capital fund focused on the SAMENA region. They have already pledged to provide USD25m each to launch the Samena Angel Fund II in October.
20/04/2011

Average returns for hedge funds were 0.12% in March, according to DJ-Credit Suisse

Oliver Schupp, chairman of Credit Suisse Index Co, has announced that the Dow Jones Credit Suisse hedge fund index posted returns of 0.12% in March, following gains of 1.38% in February, bringing total gains for first quarter to 2.21%. Five of the ten major strategies saw losses in March, with the heaviest losses for managed futures (-2.76%) and dedicated short bias (-1.78%). However, emerging markets funds gained 2.12%. For the first three months of the year, only the dedicated short bias strategy is in the red, with losses of 5.88%. The best results are for convertibles arbitrage, with returns of 4.48%.
20/04/2011

Hedge funds have over USD2trn in assets

Total capital invested in the global hedge fund industry exceeded USD2 trillion for the first time in its history, according to data released by Hedge Fund Research. Total industry assets rose to USD2.02 trillion, an increase of USD102 billion in 1Q11, surpassing the previous record of USD1.93 trillion, set in 2Q08. The current asset level reflects an increase of over 50 percent from the financial crisis low of USD1.33 trillion in 1Q09. Investors allocated USD32 billion in net new capital in 1Q, the largest quarterly net inflow since 3Q07. All strategy areas experienced inflows for the quarter. Relative Value Arbitrage and Macro strategies posted the largest investor inflows, with each capturing approximately USD12 billion. Investors allocated new capital to funds of all asset tiers. Though firms with less than USD250 million manage less than 4 percent of total industry capital, these received nearly 7 percent of 1Q inflows. Firms with capital in excess of USD5 billion received just over half of the 1Q inflow, slightly moderating the 63 percent of total industry capital managed by these firms. Fund of funds experienced an inflow of nearly USD4.8 billion, the largest quarterly inflow since 2Q08. Across the industry, nearly 72 percent of all hedge funds experienced capital inflows for the quarter.
20/04/2011

Madoff trustee submits a bill for USD44m

Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee for the activities of Bernard Madoff, on Monday submitted a bill for USD43.8m to a US judge for the Baker Hostetler company and himself, for work completed in the past six months, the Financial Times reports. That brings total legal costs since the discovery of the fraud to USD179.7m. The costs are paid by the Securities Investor Protection Corp.
20/04/2011

Raiffeisen registers two funds in France

The Raiffeisen-Global-Fundamental-Rent fund, managed by the Austrian firm Raiffeisen Capital Management, is now available to French investors. The fund invests in bonds from all countries of the world whose fundamentals are very solid according to a valuation model developed internally at the asset management firm. The investment universe for the fund includes 36 countries, of which 34 are members of the OECD. For each bond issuer in the investment universe, a rating is calculated once per year on the basis of data from the previous calendar year. Admission to the portfolio is allowed for 18 countries with the best ratings, and eight issuers with the best improvement compared with the previous year. Raiffeisen Capital Management also registered the Raiffeisen 334- Total Return I fund in France at the end of March. The Raiffeisen 334- Total Return I is primarily invested in European equities, with a flexible approach to equity risk. Depending on risks perceived by the investment team, between 0% and 100% of the portfolio may be invested in equities, with the remainder invested in short-term securities.

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