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26/03/2010
Fonds

Les nouvelles têtes dans la gestion ont aussi du talent

Dans sa recherche de talents dans l’univers de la gestion de fonds, Citywire a étudié le marché pour retenir de «nouveaux visages» ne figurant pas encore sur ses radars. En se contentant d’observer ce mois les gérants qui interviennent sur un univers d’investissement européen, et qui bien que n'étant pas encore éligible à la notation et au classement de Citywire, n’en affichent pas moins un impressionnant ratio d’information sur un an, et des performances élevées, il ressort qu’ avec des marchés européens affichant en moyenne une performance moyennes, certains «nouveaux» gérants sortent nettement du lot. C’est le cas par exemple de Robrecht Wouters à la tête du fonds JOHCM European Select Values Inst Eur sur un an (58,39 %) avec un ratio d’information de 3,08, devant Rob Raddelaar qui pilote ING (L) Invest European Equity I Cap (45,59 %) avec un ratio d’information de 1,69, Michel Constantis qui gère BGF European Growth Fund A2 Eur (36,57 %) avec un ratio de 1,34, Françoise Labbé à la tête d’Aviva Actions Europe (40,42 %) avec un ratio de 1,34 ou Damien Lanternier qui gère Agressor (56,60 %) avec un ratio de 0,87.
Fonds
26/03/2010

Remboursements nets chez Liontrust

Jeudi, Liontrust Asset Management a indiqué que ses encours se situait au 24 mars à 1,16 milliard de livres, contre 312 millions pour l’institutionnels, 781 millions pour les fonds retail et 67 millions pour les fonds offshore. Au 1er janvier, les actifs sous gestion se situaient à 1,18 milliard de livres, dont 316 millions pour l’institutionnel, 795 millions pour le retail et 69 millions pour les fonds offshore.Sur la période 1er janvier-24 mars, le gestionnaire britannique a subi des remboursements nets de 53 millions de livres, mais l’effet de marché a été positif de 33 millions d’euros.
26/03/2010

Man veut se développer aux Etats-Unis

La société de hedge funds Man Group, basée à Londres, a approché plusieurs gestionnaires de hedge funds des Etats-Unis en vue de se développer Outre-Atlantique, rapporte le Financial Times. L’idée serait de nouer des accords de distribution ou de faire des acquisitions. Parmi les sociétés rencontrées par Peter Clarke, le directeur général de Man Group, figurent SAC Capital Advisors et Millenium Partners, précise le FT.
26/03/2010

QDII fund from China Merchants raises CNY553m

China Merchants announced on Friday that its first QDII fund, the Global Resources Equity Fund, has attracted CNY553m, which is not necessarily a good sign for other fund management firms which have QDI products in the pipeline. The consultant Z-Ben Advisors, however, points out that the China Merchants fund raised CNY553m in only 19 days, while other asset management firms will open subscriptions for a period of 30 days. In addition, E-Fund, which is much larger than China Merchants, opened a fund for 40 days a month ago, and raised a similar amount (CNY593m) for its Asia Ex-Japan Equity fund.
26/03/2010

Metzler Fund Xchange removes Templeton Growth Fund from trading

Franklin Templeton has announced that the fund platform Metzler Fund Xchange is unilaterally delisting the Templeton Growth Fund from 30 June, Das Investment reports, adding that the management firm had anticipated the move. The measure concerns only assets in the fund which are invested directly through the Metzler platform as custodian. Franklin Templeton says in a letter to intermediaries that it will continue to provide free depositary services for clients of the Templeton Growth Fund as well as for Franklin Templeton Investment Funds (FTIF). It adds that there are no plans to “de-register” the Templeton Growth Fund in Germany.
26/03/2010

Tressis advising its first UCITS III compliant FoHF

Tressis is in the process of registering its first UCITS III compliant fund of hedge funds, which it advises and which is offered by Merchant Capital, for sale in Spain, Funds People reports. The Merchant European Equity Fund, which offers daily NAV, will include 20 long positions and 20 short positions (via CFD), applying a market neutral approach to a long/short equities strategy trading in shares of the DJ Eurostoxx 600 index. The objective of the fund, which will be offered in Spain by Tressis and in the rest of Europe by Merchant Capital, will be returns of 12%, with volatility of under 6%.
26/03/2010

Biotech funds top performance tables

Six out of the ten funds on sale in Spain with the best returns since the start of this year are products which invest in biotech firms. The product from Dexia has gained 37%, while the DWS product has gained 26%, and the UBS fund 25%, Cinco Días reports. However, the asset management firms point out that the volatility of these funds may be higher than the average for equities funds.
26/03/2010

DWS to use ETFs for target-date funds

In an SEC filing dated 17 March, DWS Investments (Deutsche Bank) has announced that from May, the equities portion of its target-date funds in the Target range (2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014) will be largely invested in large and liquid ETF funds.
26/03/2010

Financière de Champlain warns against bastardisation of SRI process

At a time of growing demand for socially responsible investment (SRI) products by institutional as well as retail investors, asset management firms are stepping up their efforts to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into their traditional management. Though the development may be welcome news, Financière de Champlain, an asset manager specialised in sustainable management, warns of the dangers of SRI funds becoming too commonplace. “One of the approaches used by asset management compnaies for SRI integration is to use analysis undertaken for their SRI funds to set up ratings of traditional equities portfolios partly composed of the same shares,” the firm explains in a note. This type of analysis is known as “ex post.” Financière de Champlain claims that it “is not, fundamentally, based on a stock-picking process on the basis of extra-financial criteria.” Even though ESG integration practices make extra-financial information available to managers which could allow them to identify new risks, “they do not constrain the manager,” the asset management firm states. “The danger is thus high that this might create some confusion in the minds of retail investors between management firms which are genuinely in the process of converting their product ranges to SRI, and others who see the trend as an opportunity to paint themselves green,” Financière de Champlain concludes.
26/03/2010

Invesco to cut back on sales staff

A spokesperson for Invesco AIM has announced that, following the completion of the firm’s acquisition of retail asset management activities at Morgan Stanley, the combined sales team to be led by John cooper will include 375 people, 60 less than at present, Mutual Fund Wire reports.
26/03/2010

Jenny Bell promoted to COO of Franklin Resources

From 16 March, Jennifer Bell has been appointed executive vice president and COO of Franklin Resources, Franklin Templeton Investments has announced. She will continue to report to Gregory F. Johnson, president and CEO of Franklin Resources. Bell was previously executive vice president of operations and technology. In addition to her current responsibilities, she will now be in charge of HR and compensation.
26/03/2010

SEB AM preparing a “soft” version of its Asset Selection funds

Barely two months after registering its UCITS III absolute performance fund in Spain, the SEB Asset Selection fund managed by Hans-Olov Bernemann, SEB Asset Management is preparing to launch a more defensive version of the product in the very near future, says Daniel Rubio of Capital Strategies, the firm which represents SEB AM in Spain. The new product will aim for average volatility of only 5%, down from the 10% of the original fund, Funds People reports.
26/03/2010

Sovereign funds to increase risk exposure

Sovereign funds, which have accumulated more than USD3.5trn in assets worldwide, now have cash allocations that are not doing anything for them. They are thus planning to make a further increase in their allocation to higher risk investments, but their investments will be for far lower amounts each, and far more diversified. In addition, says Bernard Eschweiler, senior economic advisor for the German independent investment bank Silvia Quandt & Cie AG, the centre of gravity for these investments will move from industrialised countries towards emerging markets, and from financial institutions to infrastructure and alternative energies. According to the study by Eschweiler, sovereign funds in 2008-2009 lost nearly 15% of their assets, while incoming amounts fell due to the recession and the falling price of oil. However, even at a more moderate rate of growth, assets will probably exceed USD6trn in five years.
26/03/2010

Strong rise in profits and assets at Mediolanum

In 2009, Banca Mediolanum has announced net profits of EUR217m, up 66% on the pro forma results for 2008, when net profits including the impact of the Lehman collapse came in at EUR24m. Pre-tax profits are up 56%, to EUR258m. Net subscriptions rose 177% compared with 2008 to total EUR6.94bn, which represents an all-time high. Assets increased 37% last year, to total more than EUR40.39bn. In terms of the Italian market, including the group’s 50% stake in Esperia, net profits increased 55% to EUR224m, and assets increased 38%, to a total of EUR38.53bn as of the end of December. For Banca Mediolanum, net subscriptions rose 122% to EUR5.795bn, while net inflows to managed accounts totalled EUR1.99bn (+1.01%), of which 57% went to equities products. In Spain, 2009 saw losses of EUR0.1m, compared with losses of EUR6.3m the previous year, but Fibanc Mediolanum earned profits of EUR0.5m. In Germany, losses remained similar to those in 2008, at EUR6.8m, while activities retained at Bankhaus August Lenz brought losses of EUR7.6m. In total, foreign banking affiliates of the group as of the end of December had assets of EUR1.86bn, which represents a 13% increase in one year.
26/03/2010

Amundi ETF plans to list 50 funds in Italy

Amundi ETF is planning to list up to 50 products in Italy by the end of 2010, an article from Soldi published on the Italian website Bluerating states. In early March, the firm launched 15 new equities products.
26/03/2010

C-Quadrat to launch ETF funds

In a press statement, the Austrian-German management firm C-Quadrat has announced that it is planning to add a range of ETF funds, entitled iQ Products, to its offerings. The funds will represent a new generation of ETFs which limit the risk of losses. The issuer of the first iQ ETF is Commerzbank. The products of the range will be unveiled in mid-April.
26/03/2010

Morgan Stanley AIP raises USD370m for real estate

Morgan Stanley Investment Management has announced that its unit, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (Morgan Stanley AIP), has raised USD370m for its fund Morgan Stanley AIP Phoenix Global Real Estate Secondaries 2009 LP (Phoenix), which is dedicated to opportunity-driven investments in private equity real estate funds. AIP had set itself an objective of USD250m.
26/03/2010

Guy Wyser-Pratte denounces limited partnership tactics of Lagardère at Poussielgue group

The French-American financier Guy Wyser-Pratte has denounced the law of limited partnership of shareholders which allows Arnaud Lagardère to completely control his group Poussielgue with only a 10% stake in its capital, Les Echos reports. He claims that the partnership has a negative impact on the value of shares. He is seeking a place on the supervisory board of the group, and to reform the group’s statutes.
26/03/2010

Madoff: UBS faces Paris courts

Les Echos reports, citing AFP, that UBS has been summoned before the Paris courts on charges of defrauding 80 investors who lost money they had invested in the Luxembourg-registered fund Luxalpha, which was offered for sale by the bank, and which invested in companies operated by Bernard Madoff. The investors accuse UBS of having presented Luxalpha as a low-risk investment, and of having neglected its responsibilities as a manager and depositary for the product, which funnelled investments to the firm of the frauster Madoff without informing clients. The savings investors, who lost all of their investments in Luxalpha, have “strong grounds to seek reparation for the prejudice they suffered as a result of the deception of which they were victims and of the serious errors committed by UBS,” says the summons, of which a copy was obtained by AFP.
26/03/2010

SEC probes use of derivatives by funds

The Wall Street Journal reports that the SEC has announced that it has launched a review into the use of derivatives by mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other investment companies. The review effectively means that any new or pending exemptive requests under the Investment Company Act submitted by ETF management firms that are seeking to heavily invest in derivatives will be suspended until the results of the study are clear, the SEC says. The regulator is seeking to verify that current market practices using derivatives respect the regulations of the Investment Company Act in relation to leverage and risk distribution. The regulator will also seek to determine what risk control instruments are used by funds which invest in derivatives.
26/03/2010

Morningstar acquires an equities research specialist

Morningstar Australasia, the Australian affiliate of the Morningstar group, on 24 March announced the acquisition of the firm Aegis Equities Research, which produces independent research into equities from more than 200 firms listed on the ASX. The acquisition, for an undisclosed price, will be completed in the next few weeks.
26/03/2010

Cantonal Bank of Geneva seeks to develop in Asia

The Cantonal Bank of Geneva (BCGE), minuscule compared with the giants of Swiss finance, and which, like most other Swiss cantonal banks, has been largely spared from the crisis, and even profited from a wave of capital in search of higher quality, is now planning to develop its international presence, particularly in Asia. The BCGE opened an office in Hong Kong on 1 January of this year, Asian Investor reports. The bank is also planning to open a Dubai office.
26/03/2010

Man hoping to build presence in United States

Man Group, the London-based hedge fund, has approached several US hedge fund managers with an eye to expanding its operations in the country. The aim is to sound out hedge funds for possible distribution agreements or takeovers. Among those Peter Clarke, chief executive of Man Group, has met are SAC Capital Advisors and Millennium Partners.
26/03/2010

Net redemptions from Liontrust

On Thursday, Liontrust Asset Management announced that it had assets as of 24 March of GBP1.16bn, of which GBP312m were for institutional clients, GBP781m in retail funds, and GBP67m in offshore funds. As of 1 January, assets under management totalled GBP1.18bn, of which GBP316m were for institutional clients, GBP795m in retail funds, and GBP69m in offshore funds. In the period from 1 January to 24 March, the UK asset management firm had net outflows of GBP53m, but market effects were positive to the tune of GBP33m.
26/03/2010
Fonds

Metzler Fund XChange dereference le Templeton Growth Fund

Franklin Templeton a annoncé que la plate-forme de fonds Metzler Fund Xchange déréférence unilatéralement le Templeton Growth Fund à compter du 30 juin, rapporte Das Investment, précisant que la société de gestion s’estime mise devant le fait accompli. Cette mesure ne concerne que les actifs du fonds directement conservés par l’intermédiaire de la plate-forme Metzler.Dans un courrier aux intermédiaires, Franklin Templeton précise qu’elle continue de fournir un service gratuit de dépôt pour les clients du Templeton Growth Fund ainsi que pour les fonds Franklin Templeton Investment Funds (FTIF). Elle ajoute qu’il n’est absolument pas prévu de faire «désenregistrer» le Templeton Growth Fund en Allemagne.
Fonds
26/03/2010

C-Quadrat va lancer des ETF

Dans un communiqué de presse, la société de gestion austro-allemande C-Quadrat a annoncé qu’elle compte compléter sa gamme d’un ensemble d’ETF, les iQ Produkte, qui seront une nouvelle génération d’ETF limitant le risque de perte.L'émetteur du premier iQ ETF est la Commerzbank. Les produits de la gamme seront présentés à la mi-avril.
26/03/2010

La German CFA Society ouvre un bureau à Francfort

Jeudi, la German CFA Society, qui compte environ 1.500 adhérents a ouvert son premier bureau en Allemagne, dans le centre de Francfort. Cette antenne est dirigée par Jan Altmann, qui est depuis janvier le directeur général de l’association professionnelle des analystes financiers et des experts de l’investissement.Le nouveau bureau aura pour mission d'élargir la gamme des services aux adhérents, de promouvoir l’adoption de la charte de la CFA Society en Allemagne, de fixer des normes professionnelles et de recruter de nouveaux adhérents.
26/03/2010

Manfred Bauer rejoint MLP

Pour remplacer Gerhard Frieg, qui rejoint le groupe Talanx comme patron des activités retail Allemagne (lire notre dépêche du 23 mars), le prestataire indépendant de services financiers MLP a recruté comme membre du directoire Manfred Bauer, président du directoire de Janitos Versicherung. L’intéressé reprend la responsabilité des achats et de la gestion de produits. Son contrat prend effet au 1er août 2010, pour cinq ans.Manfred Bauer a déjà exercé une activité chez MLP entre 1986 et 2005, et il avait été en dernier lieu président du directoire de MLP Verischerung, qui avait été vendue en 2005 par MLP à Gothaer Konzern et avait pris la raison sociale de Janitos Versicherung.
26/03/2010

La Banque cantonale de Genève veut se développer en Asie

Minuscule par rapport aus géants de la finance suisse, la Banque cantonale de Genève (BCGE), qui comme la plupart des autres banques cantonales suisses, a été largement épargnée par la crise si ce n’est pour profiter de la fuite vers la qualité avec des apports de capitaux sans précédent, veut se développer à l’international, notamment en Asie.La BCGE a ainsi ouvert un bureau à Hong Kong le 1er janvier dernier, selon Asian Investor. La banque envisage également d’ouvrir une antenne à Dubai.
26/03/2010

Morningstar acquiert un spécialiste de la recherche actions

Morningstar Australasia, la filiale australienne du groupe Morningstar, a annoncé le 24 mars l’acquisition de la société Aegis Equities Research, qui produit notamment de la recherche indépendante sur les actions de plus de 200 sociétés cotées sur l’ASX. La transaction, dont le prix n’a pas été divulgué, devrait être bouclée dans les prochaines semaines.

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