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21/07/2010

Rainer Schröder entre comme associé chez Kommalpha

L’agence de conseil et de notation de fonds Kommalpha a annoncé mardi que Rainer Schröder a rejoint l’entreprise en tant qu’associé. Selon le communiqué, ses spécialités sont la distribution de fonds offferts au public et de Spezialfonds auprès d’investisseurs institutionnels et de distributeurs spécialisés ainsi que le développement de produits pour les investisseurs institutionnels et les particuliers.L’impétrant a été en dernier lieu membre de la direction générale et head of institutional sales pour l’Allemagne chez WestLB Mellon Asset Management KAG après avoir été head of distribution Germany & Austria chez Threadneedle Investments pendant deux ans. Il avait auparavant passé plus de dix ans chez Invesco Asset Management, en dernier lieu comme head of sales Middle Europe.
21/07/2010

Fidelity recrute une grosse pointure chez DWS

Fidelity International Allemagne a annoncé mardi avoir recruté Andreas Feiden, le patron de DWS Direkt (groupe Deutsche Bank), comme membre de sa direction générale de la société de gestion de droit allemand (KAG) FIL Investment Management GmbH chargé de la clientèle «retail». Il prend simultanément la direction de la distribution directe. L’intéressé, qui reprend ainsi les fonctions abandonnées par Alexander Judkings en mai, rejoindra Fidelity avant la fin de l’année. Il sera subordonné à Christian Wrede, directeur général de Fidelity International pour l’Allemagne et managing director pour l’Europe centrale. Le recrutement d’Andreas Feiden est le signe que Fidelity Allemagne, qui se veut un opérateur multi-canaux, a décidé de s’attaquer directement à la clientèle de particuliers, sans négliger pour autant les investisseurs institutionnels, les CGPI, les banques commerciales, les caisses d'épargne, les assureurs, les gestionnaires de fortune et les family offices.
21/07/2010
Fonds

ETFlab fait coter deux nouveaux produits actions à Francfort

Le gestionnaire d’ETF du groupe Deka, ETFlab, a fait admettre mardi à la négociation sur le segment XTF de la plate-forme électronique Xetra de la Deutsche Börse deux nouveaux ETF actions de droit allemand assortis chacun d’une commission de gestion de 0,65 %.Il s’agit du ETFlab MSCI China (DE000ETFL326) et du ETFlab MSCI Emerging Markets (DE000ETFL342), qui portent à 682 le nombre d’ETF cotés à Francfort.
Fonds
21/07/2010

Rainer Schröder joins Kommalpha as a partner

The fund advising and ratings agency Kommalpha on Tuesday announced that Rainer Schröder has joined the firm as a partner. The statement says that his specialties are distribution of open-ended funds and Spezialfonds to institutional investors and specialised distributors, as well as development of products for institutional and retail investors. Schröder was most recently a board member and head of institutional sales for Germany at WestLB Mellon Asset Management KAG, after serving as head of distribution Germany & Austria at Threadneedle Investments for two years. He previously spent more than ten years at Invesco Asset Management, most recently as head of sales Middle Europe.
21/07/2010

Fidelity recruits a top name from DWS

Fidelity International Germany on Tuesday announced that it has recruited Andreas Feiden, head of DWS Direkt (Deutsche Bank group), as a member of the general board at the German-registered management firm (KAG) FIL Investment Management GmbH, in charge of retail clients. He will also simultaneously take over as director of direct distribution. Feiden, who takes over the position vacated by Alexander Judkings in May, will join Fidelity by the end of the year. He will report to Christian Wrede, CEO of Fidelity International for Germany and managing director for Central Europe. The recruitment of Feiden is a sign that Fidelity Germany, which aims to be a multi-channel operator, has decided to directly attack the retail market, without neglecting institutional clients, IFAs, commercial banks, savings banks, insurers, wealth managers, or family offices.
21/07/2010

Feri extends fund ratings to British market

Since 30 June, the German firm Feri EuroRating Services has extended its coverage to 2,858 British funds, of which 958 receive top ratings of A or B. The ratings come as additions to the firm’s ratings of German, Austrian, Swiss, Italian, Swedish and French funds. Investors may access all British fund ratings on the platform http://www.feri-fund-rating.com/. It is also possible to download ratings reports, watch lists and fact sheets. In addition to these free services, Feri also offers a complete range of research and selection services for institutional investors in the UK.
21/07/2010

Barings recruits a manager for Chinese equities team

Baring Asset Management has announced the recruitment of Jim Chen as investment manager in its Hong Kong Chinese equities team. He will report to Agnes Deng. Chen was previously the manager of two Greater China funds at Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management (Hong Kong).
21/07/2010

Sustainable management reshuffle at RCM

Due to the growing important of sustainable development research, Bozena Jankowka has been appointed as global head of sustainability research at RCM (Allianz Global Investors group). The day-to-day management of the Allianz RCM Global EcoTrends fund (EUR300m in assets) has now been transferred, effective from 1 July, to Vipin Ahuja, who had been part of the management team since November 2009, and who has 14 years of experience in clean technologies, most recently at Credit Suisse Asset Management, where he managed the Future Energy and Global Energy funds, while also co-managing the Global Resources fund.
21/07/2010

N+1 creates a real estate investment platform in London

The Spanish investment bank and asset management firm N+1 has launched Trinova Real Estate in London, a platform which aims to manage investments in the London real estate market, Cotizalia reports. Trinova has not yet launched any funds, but it has already obtained two mandates to identify investments in the British capital. N+1 controls 60% of Trinova, while the remaining 40% are in the hands of four managers recruited to carry out the project: Linus Forsberg, Edmund Costello, Frans Heijbel and Alastair Mellon. The CEO is Luis Iglesias, head of the real estate unit at N+1.
21/07/2010

Profits up at Julius Baer

Pre-tax profits at Julius Baer in first half rose 14% to CHF323m, while net profits were up 8% to CHF261m. The cost-income ratio has remained stable at 63.4%, compared with 63.3%. As of 30 June, assets totalled CHF166bn, which represents an increase of 8%, or CHF12bn, compared with the end of December, partly due to the acquisition of ING Bank (Switzerland), but also due to net subscriptions of CHF3.3bn, and despite negative currency effects.
21/07/2010

Hedge funds lost 0.96% in June

Hedge funds have posted a loss of 0.96% in June, bringing performance in the first six months of the year to 0.13%, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund index calculated by BarclayHedge. Five strategies finished April in the red: Equity Long Bias is down 2.95%, health and biotech is down 2.62%, the technologies index has lost 2.22%, long/short equity is down 1.78%, and the Pacific Rim is down 1.52%.
21/07/2010

Fitch loses two clients on the same day

A few minutes apart, Fitch Ratings announced on Tuesday that it will be withdrawing its asset manager ratings of M2 and M3 for Pioneer Investments (UniCredit group) and the Italian independent management firm Arca SGR, respectively. The two managers will no longer be rated by Fitch. Olivier Fines, an analyst at the ratings agency in Paris, explains that there was no analytical or corporate connection with the situation at the two companies, which will no longer provide Fitch with access to information, and no longer wish to publish ratings. In Dublin, Pioneer Investments has announced that it has decided not to renew its contract with Fitch Ratings, which led the agency to withdraw its rating. The manager explains that the client due diligence process has become increasingly complex, as clients prefer to make their own analysis of asset management firms. With the independent ratings of product quality from Morningstar, Pioneer estimates that there is no longer any commercial reason to continue its collaboration with Fitch. For its part, Arca SGR (EUR19.7bn in assets, 650,000 clients) has confirmed that it has not renewed its contract for the current year to deliver ratings of investment activities, while as in previous years, the Milan-based management firm has applied for GIPS-IPPS certification. Arca SGR states that since 1999 it has been in compliance with GIPS standards.
21/07/2010

BNY Mellon adds to derivatives team

BNY Mellon has appointed Patrick Tadie to the newly-created position of head of the Derivatives360SM range, a product which aims to help investors to execute and manage their derivative trades. He was previously vice president of Global Structured Credit Group at BNY Mellon Corporate Trust.
21/07/2010

Assets under management down from first to second quarter 2010 at State Street

At a presentation of results for second quarter 2010, State Street has announced assets under management of USD1.782trn, up 14.5% compared with the same period of the previous year (USD1.557trn). However, between first and second quarter 2010, assets under management have fallen 7.6%, from USD1.929trn at the beginning of the year.
21/07/2010

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announces two appointments

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has announced two appointments to its wealth management teams. Douglas J. Ketterer has been appointed as head of Private Wealth Management in the United States. James J. Tracy, for his part, becomes Chief Operating Officer and head of sales and development for Wealth Management activities, also in the United States.
21/07/2010

Aviva Investors to launch its first mutual fund in the United States

Mark Cernicky, product development manager at Aviva Investors, says Aviva USA will release the MAP 2015 Fund on 30 August 2010. This first mutual fund from Aviva in the United States was launched in the second week of May, Mutual Fund Wire reports. Distribution will be provided by SEI Investments. The institutional portion of the asset allocation fund carries a management commission of 76 basis points. The fund will deliver returns to investors in November 2015.
21/07/2010

Partners Group wins a mandate from Korea Investment Corporation

The sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has awarded a mandate to Switzerland-based Partners Group, for an undisclosed amount, to set up a series of investment strategies for private real estate markets which offer significant profit outlooks after the recent market turbulence.
21/07/2010

Tiger Management may reopen to outside investors

The Wall Street Journal reports that Julian Robertson has added to the management firm Tiger Management with the recruitment of his son Alex as a managing partner, and John L. Townsend III (ex Goldman Sachs) as COO. The recruitments are related to a plan to create a fund of seed funds, which would be open to outside investors. Currently, Tiger Managemenmt, which has been closed to external subscriptions since 2000, holds stakes in 40 hedge funds which it helped to start up, and which manage a total of USD22bn for Tiger and other clients. Assets total between USD35m and USD4bn.
21/07/2010

Profits at Goldman Sachs collapse

Largely due to the UK bonus tax, (USD600m), and a USD550m payment of a fine to the SEC to settle a legal procedure, profits at Goldman Sachs in second quarter fell to USD613m, from USD3.456bnin first quarter, and USD3.435bn in the corresponding period of last year. Revenues from asset management increased to USD976m from USD946m in January-March and USD922m in second quarter 2009. Goldman Sachs states that as of 30 June, AUM totalled USD802bn, which represents a contraction of USD38bn compared with the end of March, of which USD24bn were net outflows, and USD14bn in losses due to falling markets, particularly equities markets. As of 30 June 2009, assets under management totalled USD819bn.
21/07/2010

Assets under management at BNY Mellon totalled USD1.047trn as of the end of June

For second quarter, BNY Mellon has announced net profits for ongoing activities of USD668m, compared with USD601m for January-March, and USD267m for the corresponding period of last year, with the increase in profits attributed to “solid growth” in revenues from securities servicing and continued net long term subscriptions for the asset management and wealth management units. The volume of assets under custody and administration represented USD21.8trn as of 30 June, a decline of 2% since 31 March, due to falling markets and a 6% increase in April-June 2009 due to rising markets and net subscriptions. Assets under management as of the end of June totalled USD1.047trn, which is equivalent to a 5% decline from first quarter, due to market effects. However, a 13% increase year over year is primarily due to the acquisition of Insight Investment Management in fourth quarter 2009.
21/07/2010

BNY Mellon hopes to double number of clients in Germany

In an interview with the Börsen-Zeitung, Timothy Keaney, Chairman Europa, Chief Global Client Management Officer and Co-Chief Executive Officer de BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, says that the BNY Mellon group is planning to bring the number of clients for all its sectors of activity in Germany up to 350-400, from 200 presently. He sees major potential for collateral management services and alternative assets. This growth will be sustained by the acqusition of BHF Servicing for EUR250m, which will be completed by 1 August. No clients of BHF Asset Servicing have left as a result of the acquisition. At the close of the transaction, BNY Mellon will have EUR473bn under custody or administration in Germany.
21/07/2010

ETFlab lists two new equities products in Frankfurt

The ETF management firm from the Deka group, ETFlab, on Tuesday added two new German-registered equities ETFs to trading on the XTF segment of the Xetra electronic platform from Deutsche Börse, each of which carries a management commission of 0.65%. The funds are the ETFlab MSCI China (DE000ETFL326) and the ETFlab MSCI Emerging Markets (DE000ETFL342), which bring the total number of ETFs listed in Frankfurt to 682.
20/07/2010
Fonds

SSgA arrête des programmes de prêts de titres

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) annonce qu’elle va arrêter le prêt de titres par un certain nombre de ses fonds obligataires irlandais conformes à la directive OPCVM III ; il s’agit des fonds SSgA World Broad Investment Grade Index; World Government Bond Index; EMU Government Bond Index; UK Government Bond Index; US Corporate Bond Index; US Government Bond Index; Euro Corporate Bond Index; Euro Broad Investment Grade Bond Index et EMU Government Long Bond II. D’après Asian Investors, ces fonds représentaient en juin moins de 1 % des actifs sous gestion de SSgA.
Fonds
20/07/2010
Fonds

Huit stratégies de hedge funds sur 13 dans le rouge en juin

Selon l’Edhec, sept stratégies de hedge funds sur douze, plus les fonds de hedge funds, ont accusé des pertes en juin, les deux plus sinistrées étant le long/short equity (- 1,69 %) et les distressed securities (- 1,01 %). En revanche, les fonds spécialistes des ventes à découvert ont affiché une performance de 4,05 %.Sur le premier semestre, quatre stratégies, plus les fonds de hedge funds (- 1,3 %) ont subi des pertes, la plus importante étant accusée par le long/short equity tandis que les distressed securities et l’arbitrage obligataire signaient des gains respectifs de 4,5 % et 4,4 %.Depuis le début de 2001, les deux stratégies les plus rentables ont été les marchés émergents (11,8 % par an) et les distressed securities (11 %), la moins performante étant la vente à découvert (2,1 %).
Fonds
20/07/2010

Wegelin vise la clientele institutionnelle en Asie

La banquet privée suisse Wegelin gère 25 milliards de dollars dans le monde et emploie autour de 700 personnes. Mais en Asie, ses activités sont encore relativement restreintes, indique Asian Investor. C’est pour cette raison que Wegelin compte intensifier ses efforts en direction de la clientele institutionnelle et très fortunée en Asie. La banque prévoit ainsi le lancement d’une stratégie commodity trading advisor (CTA) avant la fin de l’année.
20/07/2010

Nouvelle offre de gestion conseillée chez April Patrimoine

April Patrimoine a annoncé l’intégration d’une option «gestion conseillée» à son contrat d’assurance-vie Arborescence Opportunités. Cette offre donne aux partenaires de l'établissement la possibilité d’accompagner la construction et la gestion en ligne du portefeuille de leurs clients via des propositions personnalisées d’arbitrages de sociétés de gestion de renom (DNCA, SEEDS Finance…).Concrètement, le partenaire choisit avec son client un conseil délivré par une société de gestion, qui proposera régulièrement par mail et/ou SMS (au minimum 4 fois par an et en fonction des opportunités de marché) une nouvelle allocation d’actifs parmi un univers de 100 fonds et le fonds en euro (Axéria vie). Le client dispose alors de toute latitude pour valider ou amender chaque nouvelle proposition d’allocation d’actifs avec son conseiller en se connectant sur son espace personnel via le site APRIL Patrimoine.
20/07/2010

Le capital développement se met aux fourneaux

La société de capital développement dédiée aux entreprises moyennes ou petites, NAXICAP Partners, a annoncé lundi 19 juillet être entrée au capital des brasseries lyonnaises Le Nord, Le Sud, L’Est et L’Ouest en s’associant à ses fondateurs, Paul Bocuse et Jean Fleury.
20/07/2010

La justice blanchit Jean-Pierre Mustier

Au terme de l’enquête préliminaire pour délit d’initié concernant le titre Société Générale, le Parquet de Paris a décidé de mettre hors de cause Jean-Pierre Mustier, ancien patron de la banque de financement et d’investissement de l'établissement bancaire, rapporte Les Echos. Cette décision n’est pas susceptible d’appel. Le Parquet a constaté que l’infraction n'était caractérisée dans aucun de ses éléments. L’enquête préliminaire avait été ouverte suite à la transmission du dossier par l’AMF. En juin, après deux ans de procédure, la commission des sanctions de l’AMF avait infligé à Jean-Pierre Mustier une amende de 100.000 euros pour manquement d’initié. La décision du Parquet devrait peser dans la défense de l’intéressé qui a deux mois pour faire appel de la décision de l’AMF à compter de sa notification, note le quotidien.
20/07/2010

Première acquisition pour CBRE en France

La société de gestion de fonds d’investissement immobilier CB Richard Ellis Investors a annoncé lundi 19 juillet l’acquisition par son fonds Pan European Core (PEC) d’une plateforme logistique pour un montant de 15,2 millions d’euros auprès de Sophia GE (filiale de GE Real Estate). Il s’agit de la première acquisition du Fonds PEC en France et sa seconde acquisition en Europe.

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