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10/12/2009
Fonds

Schroders : Hardeep Dogra seconde Clive Dennis

Schroders a annoncé que Hardeep Dogra, associé chez Goldman Sachs International à Londres et responsable du secteur fixed income, devises et matières premières, rejoint Clive Dennis comme co-gérant du fonds mondial devises lancé en juin, le compartiment Global Managed Currency de la sicav luxembourgeoise Schroder ISF (lire notre article du 9 juin). D’autre part, le gestionnaire britannique indique que deux nouvelles classes de parts «euro-hedged» sont disponibles pour les investisseurs allemands et autrichiens.La souscription minimale est fixée à 1.000 euros et la commission de gestion à 1 %, le droit d’entrée se situant à 5 % maximum.
Fonds
10/12/2009

Omega Capital va augmenter la liquidité de ses fonds

Alberto Ruiz, directeur d’Omega Gestión de Inversiones, filiale espagnole d’Omega Capital, a annoncé qu'à compter de début 2010 le fonds Cerrado passera d’une liquidité annuelle à une liquidité mensuelle. Les fonds Fractal et Turaco passeront d’une fenêtre de liquidité trimestrielle à une ouverture mensuelle, rapport Funds People. Pour Alberto Ruiz, Omega va s’efforcer d'éviter dans toute la mesure du possible d’investir dans des fonds qui pratiquent les «side-pockets», parce que ce genre de disposition est souvent abusif. En revanche, il comprend parfaitement que les gestionnaires instaurent des «gates» pour protéger les investisseurs.Omega Gestión de Inversiones a obtenu en octobre 2006 un agrément de la CNMV pour gérer des hedge funds de droit espagnol. Elle en a lancé deux, dont le Laredo Inversión Libre, dont la performance sur un an se situe à 8,20% et l’Alphaville, qui a été mis sur le marché en octobre.
10/12/2009

Sail Advisors ouvre un bureau à New York

Le fonds de hedge funds Sail Advisors, base à Hong Kong, a decidé d’ouvrir un bureau aux Etats-Unis, plus précisément à New York, indique Asian Investor. L'équipe sur place, composée de Jeff Tomlinson, Chris Solarz et Shaunak Amin, sera chargée d’analyser les hedge funds basés dans la grande pomme. L’activité sera lancée en janvier 2010. A partir de mars 2010, Mike Tomlinson rejoindra ses collègues à New York. Tous sont d’anciens membres de l'équipe de fonds de hedge funds d’ING.
10/12/2009

T. Rowe Price veut lancer des ETF actifs

Selon Mutual Fund Wire, T. Rowe Price a déposé vendredi auprès de la SEC une demande d’exemption pour pouvoir émettre des ETF actifs sur des actions américaines et étrangères ainsi que sur l’obligataire.
10/12/2009
Fonds

Pimco aura bientôt le plus gros fonds du monde

D’après Morningstar, le Total Return Fund de Pimco (Allianz Global Investors) pourrait battre avant la fin du mois le record historique de 202,3 milliards de dollars d’encours (137 milliards d’euros) établi en 2007 par le Growth Fund of America, rapporte la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, relayant Bloomberg.Durant les onze premiers mois de l’année, les fonds obligataires ont enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 297 milliards de dollars contre 12 milliards pour les fonds d’actions. A fin novembre l’encours du Total Return Fund, géré par Bill Gross, se situait à 199 milliards de dollars contre 153 milliards pour le Growth Fund of America.
Fonds
10/12/2009

Les ex-employés de Madoff ont du mal à se recaser

Un an après l’éclatement du scandale Madoff, le Wall Street Journal constate qu’il est difficile pour les anciens employés de l’homme d’affaires, à commencer par ses fils Mark et Andrew, de retrouver un emploi. Eleanor Squillari, l’assistance de Bernard Madoff pendant des années, tente une reconversion dans la coiffure, jugeant qu’elle ne retrouvera jamais un emploi dans la finance.
10/12/2009

Hennessy Advisors accuse une perte

Pour l’exercice au 30 septembre, Hennessy Advisors Inc. déclare une perte nette de 195.349 dollars contre un bénéfice net de plus de 1,61 millions pour les douze mois à fin septembre 2008, sur un chiffre d’affaires de 5,81 millions contre 10,27 millions.Bien que l’encours ait augmenté de 5,4 % à 923,4 millions de dollars fin septembre contre 876 millions douze mois plus tôt, la baisse des actifs sous gestion a pesé sur les résultats, parce que cet encours a plongé à 475 millions de dollars en mars.Le gestionnaire indique avoir acquis durant l’exercice écoulé quatre «mutual funds» dont les actifs représentaient 232 millions de dollars. Il a par ailleurs lancé les mutual funds Hennessy Select Series, des produits à gestion active faisant appel à des sub-advisors confirmés et «hautement qualifiés».
10/12/2009

Former Henderson CEO to take over as head of Pioneer

Following the departure of Dario Frigerio as director of Pioneer Investments, the appointments committee at UniCredit, the parent company of the management firm, has “voted in favour of the appointment of Roger Yates as the new head of asset management activities for the group,” Il Sole - 24 Ore reports. The British Yates, 52, was CEO of Henderson group for ten years, from 1999 to 2008.
10/12/2009

Russell Investments launches OpenWorld in Italy

Russell Investments has launched OpenWorld in Italy. The Irish-registered Sicav provides access for all clients, including retail investors, to specialised managers often available only to institutionals. In detail, the sub-funds available are: OpenWorld Global Climate Change (managed by Impax AM), OpenWorld Global Listed Infrastructure (RARE Infrastructure Limited), and OpenWorld Global Opportunistic Listed Property (CB Richard Ellis Global Real Estate Securities).
10/12/2009

Catella Real Estate adds members to board

From 1 January 2010, Jürgen Werner and Henrik Fillibeck will become members of the managing board at the German asset management firm Catella Real Estate AG KAG. Werner will be in charge of portfolio management, while Fillibeck will be in charge of risk valuation for financial and investment projects, middle office, and service activities. Catella is adding to its board to cope with a planned development of its real estate investment management activities in Europe in the next few years. In September, Catella acquired a state in the Italian management firm Castello SGR.
10/12/2009

Yves Robert-Charrue becomes director of Investment Solutions group at Julius Baer

The board of directors at the Banque Julius Baer on Wednesday appointed two new executve board members, effective from 1 January. Giovanni Flury will succeed Bernard Keller as market director for the Ticino region of Switzerland and Italy, while Yves-Robert Charrue will become director of the Investment Solutions group at the bank. He succeeds Boris F.J. Collardi, CEO of the Julius Baer group, who reorganized this “major activity” at Bank Julius Baer and directed it through the year 2009. Robert-Charrue joined Julius Baer early in 2009 as director of management for funds and products, in charge of management for the full range of investment funds worldwide. He “acquired solid experience at Credit Suisse” before joining the firm, the press release says.
10/12/2009

Brain drain from Allianz Capital Partners

According to reports in Handelsblatt, two general directors of Allianz Capital Partners (ACP), Matts Lundgren and Stefan Sanne, are about to leave the firm, following the departures of the CIO, Boris Bernstein, and the head of the private equity fund of funds activity (Allianz Private Equity Partners, APEP), Jonny Maxwell. The brain drain is said to be due to the fact that Allianz this summer called off plans to spin off its private equity affiliate. The founder of ACP, Thomas Pütter, moved to London in late July, and is provisionally serving only as head of the investment committee. However, officially, Allianz is continuing to project growth at ACP, and is even aiming to double assets to EUR15bn in five years.
10/12/2009

BlackRock reveals size of German empire

Following disclosures yesterday of its stakes in Allianz SE, SAP, RWE, Adidas and K+S (see report in yesterday’s Newsmanagers), BlackRock’s stakes in several other German companies were announced in market statements from these businesses on Wednesday. The management firm, which has recently acquired Barclays Global Investors (BGI) as of 1 December owned 5.45% of Lufthansa, 5.40% of BASF, 10.07% of GEA Group, 4.80% of E.On, 4.58% of Munich Re, 7.01% of MTU Aero Engines, 4.55% of MAN, and 3.90% of Daimler.
10/12/2009

Merchant Capital to launch a dedicated UCITS platform for hedge fund managers

Merchant Capital is planning to launch a UCITS III fund structure which will provide an appropriate and effective vehicle for hedge fund managers to manage their own UCITS III funds, Hedge Week reports. It will take three to six months to construct and launch the fund product on the market. For funds which use the Merchant Capital platform, the delay will vary from four to six weeks, with a significant reduction in costs as a result. Hedge fund managers will not have to pay a front-end fee, and will also benefit from reduced administrative and legal costs.
10/12/2009

Hedge fund assets top USD2trn

According to statistics by HedgeFund.net, published on Tuesday, 8 December, assets in hedge funds increased by 3.39% in November to over USD2trn, a level not seen since November 2008. The increase in assets is due to performance effects and to new inflows. Returns on assets are responsible for an increase of USD40.5bn in assets, while investors allocated USD26.3trn to funds of this type. The HedgeFund.net study also found that November was the 7th consecutive month in which hedge funds posted net subscriptions. In this period, USD119.91bn were allocated to hedge funds. Lastly, the performance of hedge funds was positive in November, led by strategies focused on base materials and emerging markets. Long/short equity strategies, for their part, underperformed the S&P 500 index by more than 450 basis points.
10/12/2009

HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index gains 1.75% in November

Hedge funds are looking set to celebrate their best year of the decade, Hedge Week reports. In November, according to data from Hedge Fund Research, the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index gained 1.75%, putting its performance at 18.8% since the beginning of the year. The Macro strategy earned the strongest performance (+2.54%), compared with gains of 0.73% for relative value strategies, the weakest result in November.
10/12/2009

Schroders: Hardeep Dogra to assist Clive Dennis

Schroders has announced that Hardeep Dogra, a partner at Goldman Sachs International in London and head of the fixed income, currencies and commodities sectors, will join Clive Dennis has co-manager of the Global Managed Currency global currencies fund, launched in June. The product is a sub-fund of the Luxembourg Sicav Schroder ISF (see newsmanagers of 9 June). The British manager has also announced that two new classes of Euro-hedged shares will be available to German and Austrian investors. Minimal subscription is set at EUR1,000, and management commission is 1%, while the front-end fee is a maximum of 5%.
10/12/2009

Blue Rice launches an absolute returns strategy

The former head of the sovereign investment fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), Guan Ong, has launched a new product in Singapore, Asian Investor reports. His firm, Blue Rice Investment Management (BRIM), offers an absolute returns product, the Brim Asian Credit Fund. He hopes that the fund will manage USD40bn to USD50bn in assets by early 2010. Its capacity will be approximately USD1bn. The fund will focus primarily on Asian corporate bonds denominated in US dollars and other international currencies. Guan says that he is deliberately avoiding local currencies in order not to run currency risks in addition to credit risks. He prefers the investment paper category and avoids special situations. His prime broker is Credit Suisse, while administration services are handled by Deutsche Bank. The fund, which may use leverage of up to a factor of 2, is aiming for returns of 10% to 15% in 2010.
10/12/2009

Omega Capital to increase liquidity frequency for its funds

Alberto Ruiz, director of Omega Gestión de Inversiones, the Spanish affiliate of Omega Capital, has announced that from early 2010, the Cerrado fund will change from annual liquidity to monthly liquidity. The Fractal and Turaco funds will move from a quarterly liquidity window to a monthly opening, Funds People reports. Ruiz says Omega will seek to avoid if at all possible any investments in funds which use side pockets, as this type of activity is often destructive. However, he understands perfectly that fund managers may use gates to protect investors. Omega Gestión de Inversiones was issued a license in October 2006 by the CNMV to manage Spanish hedge funds. It launched two products, including the Laredo Inversión Libre, whose performance on one year totals 8.20%, and Alphaville, which was released on the market in October.
10/12/2009

Franklin Mutual Series replaces two departing managers

Peter Langeman, president and CEO of Mutual Series Group, will take over the management of the Franklin Mutual Global Discovery Fund with immediate effect, replacing Anne Gudefin and Charles Lahr, who left the firm on 4 December to join Pimco (Allianz). His co-manager will be Philippe Brugère-Trélat, who manages the Franklin Mutual European Fund. The departure of Gudefin will also affect the Franklin Mutual Beacon Fund, which will now be co-managed by Steve Segal and Deborah Turner.
09/12/2009

China and Ireland sign tax agreements with Virgin Islands

Money Marketing reports that the government of the British Virgin islands has signed tax information exchange agreements (TIEA) with China and Ireland, bringing the number of agreements signed by the territory to 17, five more than the minimum required by the OECD for a country or territory to be removed from its list of “uncooperative jurisdictions.”
09/12/2009

Activist hedge fund moves in on TNT

The US activist hedge fund Jana Partners and fund manager Alberta Investment Management Company have taken a 5 per cent stake in TNT, in a move that is being seen as a possible prelude to the sale of the group, says the Financial Times. The move marks the return to hedge fund activism in Europe. On Friday, BlackRock, the US asset management group revealed it had a 5 per cent stake in TNT.
09/12/2009

Madoff victims reclaim more than expected

For some victims of the Madoff fraud, the financial damage likely will not be as bad as originally feared, the Wall Street Journal predicts. Irving Picard, the trustee in charge of unwinding the scheme, has recovered USD1.5bn in assets to compensate about USD19.4bn in losses. He has also filed lawsuits to obtain USD15bn from some Madoff clients who made money at the expense of others. Investors may also tax deduct all of their Madoff losses.
09/12/2009

AIG: limits on management pay to be lifted

Les Echos reports that the “pay czar” Ken Feinberg may as soon as next week raise the limit of USD500,000 set on annual pay to some management personnel at the insurer AIG, which was bailed out at a cost to taxpayers of USD182bn. Five other employees threatened to quit their jobs last week if their pay was cut too far. In October, Feinberg cut salaries for the top 13 managers at the insurer by 91%, and increased the proportion of their salary paid in shares.
09/12/2009

TCW bond management team implodes

The Los Angeles Times reports that the dismissal on Friday of CIO Jeff Gundlach, following a power struggle, was followed on Monday by the departure of three managing directors of TCW, including Joel Damiani, Vincent Florillo and Joseph Galligan. The three resignations were preceded on Sunday by those of Philip Barach and Louis Lucido, Mutual Fund Wire reports. It would appear that in total, 15 of the 65 members of the bond team at TCW have left the company since Gundlach’s dismissal. In addition, on Monday, the TCW Total Return Bond Fund suffered redemption demands totalling about USD1bn, out of total assets of USD12bn.

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