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09/10/2009

State Street lance une nouvelle rubrique sur son site Internet

State Street vient de lancer une nouvelle rubrique sur son site Internet qui regroupe les différentes études de sa série Vision publiées depuis 2006 (www.statestreet.com/vision). De la retraite à l’assurance en passant par les fonds souverains et les produits dérivés, tous les thèmes analysés par la série sont regroupés dans cette nouvelle section.
09/10/2009

Pershing ajoute FTI et MFS sur FundVest

Sur les douze derniers mois, Pershing LLC, filiale de BNY Mellon, a ajouté une trentaine de sociétés de gestion, dont Neuberger Bergman, The Hartford Mutal Funds et T. Rowe Price, à la liste des promoteurs de fonds qui peuvent être traités sans frais de transactions sur sa plate-forme FundVest. Actuellement, cette plate-forme de Pershing Advisor Solutions permet de négocier 3.000 mutual funds de plus de 200 sociétés de gestion. Depuis mercredi, FundVest référence Franklin Templeton Investments et MFS Investment Management.
09/10/2009

Bank of America cèderait une créance sur Lehman

Bloomberg croit savoir de sources proches des discussions que Bank of America a mis en vente une demande de remboursement de créances réclamée à Lehman Brothers pour une valeur faciale voisine de 800 millions de dollars, rapporte l’Agefi.
09/10/2009

Zoe Cruz revient avec un hedge fund

Près de deux ans après avoir été l’une des victimes les plus en vue de la crise du crédit, Zoe Cruz projette de lancer une société de hedge funds, selon des personnes proches du dossier citées par le Wall Street Journal. L’ex co-présidente de Morgan Stanley, âgée de 54 ans, a commencé à recruter des collaborateurs pour une société qu’elle prévoit d’appeler Voras Capital Management. Le hedge fund en question devrait investir dans une variété d’actifs décotés et faire des paris macroéconomiques sur les devises et les valeurs mobilières, affirment les sources.
09/10/2009
Fonds

L'encours des ETF s'est fortement accru en septembre

D’après State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), cité par The Wall Street Journal, l’encours des ETF aux Etats-Unis a gonflé de 5,1 % en septembre pour atteindre en fin de mois le record de 695 milliards de dollars, grâce à la performance des fonds d’actions internationales (+12,6 milliards à 162,6 milliards de dollars) et aux souscriptions nettes des produits obligataires.
Fonds
09/10/2009

James Simons quitte Renaissance

James Simon va faire valoir ses droits à la retraite et quitter la société de hedge funds Renaissance Technologies, dont il est directeur général, au début de l’année prochaine, selon le Wall Street Journal. Lors d’une réunion jeudi, il a annoncé la nouvelle à ses employés et nommé ses successeurs. Les actuels co-présidents Peter Brown et Robert Mercer deviennent co-CEO.
09/10/2009

H&A renonce à acheter Constantia

Friedrich Racher, membre du directoire de Constantia Privatbank, a indiqué à Reuters que l’allemand Hauck & Aufhäuser (H&A) a mis fin aux négociations en vue de l’acquisition de la banque autrichienne (lire notre dépêche du 11 septembre) du fait qu’il s’est avéré impossible de procéder à une évaluation convenable des risques durant la période de due diligence, rapporte la Börsen-Zeitung. Il y aurait encore trois candidats repreneurs en lice.
09/10/2009

AIMA calls for fundamental revision of hedge fund directive

Andrew Baker, CEO of the alternative management association (AIMA), says the AIFM hedge fund directive should focus on three key issues: registration and licensing, systematic reporting of pertinent information, and a practical European passport for management firms. Baker made the declaration on Thursday, as the professional association published its position paper on the draft directive and a newsletter for European politicians.
09/10/2009

Hedge fund performance improved in September

According to Hennessee Group, hedge funds earned an average of 3.2% in September, compared with 2.3% for the Dow Jones, but 3.6% for the S&P 500 and 5.6% for the Nasdaq. However, the performance averaged 21% in the first nine months of the year, which is higher than the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal notes. For its part, HedgeFund.net estimates performance in September at 2.7%, and the increase in assets in the same period at 3%, to USD1.948trn at the end of the month, with performance effects explaining the majority of gains. In the first nine months of the year, the aggregate index shows gains of 17%, the best results in 12 years.
09/10/2009

Assets in ETF funds rose strongly in September

According to State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), cited by the Wall Street Journal, assets in US ETFs increased 5.1% in September to total a record USD695bn as of the end of the month, thanks to the good performance of international equities funds (+USD12.6bn, to USD162.6bn), and to net subscriptions to bond products.
09/10/2009

Zoe Cruz returns with a hedge fund

Nearly two years after she became one of the highest-profile casualties of the credit crisis, Zoe Cruz is planning to launch a hedge-fund firm, according to people familiar with the situation cited by the Wall Street Journal. The 54-year-old former Morgan Stanley co-president has begun recruiting employees to join a firm she plans to call Voras Capital Management. The hedge fund is likely to invest in a variety of distressed assets and make macroeconomic bets on currencies and securities, according to these people.
09/10/2009

James Simons to leave Renaissance

James Simons will retire as chief executive of his hedge fund firm, Renaissance Technologies, at the start of next year. In a meeting Thursday, Mr. Simons told employees of his decision and named his successors. Current co-presidents Peter Brown and Robert Mercer will be co-CEOs.
08/10/2009

T. Rowe Price launches its first absolute return bonds strategy

The management firm T. Rowe Price has enlarged its range of bond funds with the launch of a Global Fixed Income Absolute Return strategy, which will be available via the firm’s Luxembourg-domiciled Sicav or a separate account. The T. Rowe Price Funds sicav - Global Fixed Income Absolute Return Fund is in the process of being licensed for sale in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and is awaiting authorisation in other jurisdictions where the sicav is registered. The strategy aims to deliver positive absolute returns in all phases of the market cycle using diversified sources of alpha, prudent management of liquidity, and rigorous control of risks. It will be managed by Ian Kelson, global fixed income portfolio manager. Assets under management in fixed income at T. Rowe Price as of 30 June of this year totalled USD89.6bn.
08/10/2009

UBP launches a UCITS III fund with New Castle

According to Citywire, Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) has joined forces with US long/short equity specialist New Castle Funds to launch a Ucits III market neutral US equity fund. New Castle will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the fund.
08/10/2009

Sauren Fonds-Research increases staff by one quarter

Sauren Fonds-Research AG, an affiliate of the management firm Sauren (EUR1.8bn in assets in 12 funds of funds), has recruited Sascha Schuster from Carlson Fund Management; he previously worked for DWS (Deutsche Bank group). The team at Sauren research is in some sense the think tank for Sauren for fund of fund management (its four members are themselves fund managers ) and for ratings for fund managers. The four members of Sauren Research which Schuster joins consists of the group’s board: Eckhard Sauren, Ansgar Guseck, Matthias Weinbeck and Hermann-Josef Hall.
08/10/2009

GSAM adds to sales team

Hendrik Pfiester on 1 October joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) Germany as executive director, and will report to Michael Gruener, director of distribution. Previously, Pfiester worked at Nomura International in London, at DZ Bank in Frankfurt and New York, and at Union Investment in Frankfurt. Gruener says GSAM’s ambition is to earn a place in the next five years as one of the top five foreign asset management firms in Germany.
08/10/2009

Invesco admits typographical error

One week after the publication of a regulatory filing (see Newsmanagers of 1 October), Invesco has admitted to an embarrassingly misplaced comma: its stake in MAN as of 11 September had not risen to 10.42%, but in fact stood at 1.04%, the Börsen-Zeitung reports.
08/10/2009

Europe: defaults in speculative category rose in Q3

The default rate for European businesses in the speculative category continued to rise in third quarter, to 9.3%, compared with 6.4% at the end of second quarter, and 0.7% in third quarter 2008, according to Moody’s. In the United States, the default rate rose from 11.5% in second quarter to 12.9% in third quarter, while it was 3.2% one year ago. Moody’s reports that the default rate could peak in fourth quarter at 10.9% in Europe and 13.5% in the United States. The default rate is expected to fall back after that to 6% in Europe and 4.4% in the United States by third quarter 2010.
08/10/2009

Russell launches a new range of investment services

Russell Investments has launched a range of services entitled Russell Enhanced Asset Allocation (EAA), which seeks to identify aberrant movements in the market and to find the means to invest in order to participate in these events in order to increase performance while controlling the risk and liquidity components of the investment. To develop its range, Russell has made use of projection models developed internally, which cover 11 geographical regions and 11 asset classes. These models are founded on the postulate that asset classes sometimes offer opportunities which may be leveraged by the investor. Currently, the EAA process aims to identify investment opportunities in 114 comparisons of pairs of asset classes.
08/10/2009

Hedge funds advanced again in September

According to Barclay Hedge Fund, on the basis of results from 664 hedge funds which had already published results for September, hedge funds posted average performance of 3.22% in September,bringing their cumulative gains in the first three quarters to nearly exactly 20%. Only one strategy is in the red, both for September and for the first nine months of the year: equity short bias (though this category includes only three funds), which lost 4.07% last month and have lost 15.45% in January-September. The strongest monthly gain was 7.81% for the 7 distressed securities funds reporting results, which have gained 26.25% over nine months. The 111 emerging markets funds gained 5.38% in September and are up 36.87% in January-September. Handelsblatt remarked on Wednesday that the HFRX index has only gained 11% since the beginning of the year, while the MSCI global index gained 18.3%.
08/10/2009

Pimco leaves group that financed CIT

Pimco has sold its position in a recent emergency loan for CIT, according to people familiar with the matter cited by the Wall Street Journal. The asset manager was one of six members of a steering committee of CIT’s largest bondholders that put in place USD3 billion of financing for the company at the end of July.
08/10/2009

Convergent Wealth Advisors recruits a big name from Schroders

The new CIO of Convergent Wealth Advisors (USD10bn in assets), who joined the firm on Monday, is Ron Albahary. He reports directly to CEO Steve Lockshin. The new chief investment officer ultimately spent barely a year at Schroder Investment Management North America, where he held the newly-created position of head of strategic investment solutions.
08/10/2009

Governance: Axa opts for administrative board structure

AXA announced on 7 October that the group will abandon its structure with a board of directors and a supervisory committee, and will instead adopt a structure with a single administrative board. The changes, proposed yesterday by the supervisory committee, would take effect from 29 April next year, when they would be passed by a general meeting of shareholders. Henri de Castries, the current chairman of the board, would become president and CEO of the insurance group.
08/10/2009

RBS lays off one quarter of French personnel

Nearly two years after the acquisition of a part of the activities of ABN Amro by Royal Bank of Scotland, a social plan will be launched, which will result in the departure of 100 people out of the 400 now employed on teams resulting from the merger in the area of finance and investment banking, les Echos reports. The layoffs will primarily affect support services, says the website of Challenges magazine. Billing, in which more than 100 people are employed in Paris and other parts of France, is an area of strategic reflection for the RBS group.
08/10/2009

BlackRock could help rate insurers

BlackRock could help regulators size up risks in insurers’ investments, says the Wall Street Journal. The money manager is among a handful of firms that have talked with officials from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners lately about possibly taking on a slice of work now done by the major rating firms.
08/10/2009

Banif launches Innova portfolio management service

The private bank from Santander, Banif, is launching a portfolio management service entitled Innova, “focused on the preservation of capital with absolute performance objectives,” Funds People reports. The system will give more flexibility to managers to better adapt the composition of the portfolio of market conditions. This provides more active management; the primary goal is not to capture new clients with this service.
08/10/2009

Optimism of managers at highest levels since December 2007

According to the “fund barometer” survey closed on Sept. 30th and published by Lipper, on the basis of responses from 14 major Spanish asset management firms, the percentage of managers who are overweight in equities (30.77%) is considerably higher than the percentage who are underweight (15.38%), and the difference between the two is now at its highest since December 2007, Cinco Días reports. On average, equities account for 41.07% of portfolios. But the proportion of assets held in cash remains high, at 22.08%, though it is lower than the level of 24.62% observed in the previous survey, in July.
08/10/2009

Evli Bank acquires Finnish asset management activities of Carnegie

Evli Bank signed Wednesday a share purchase agreement by which it will acquire the asset management operations of Carnegie in Finland (Carnegie Kapitalförvaltning Finland Ab). Through the transaction, Carnegie’s whole 15 member asset management team and six funds will transfer to the Finnish bank. The transaction is expected to raise Evli’s net assets under management by over EUR800m to EUR5bn. Evli has at the same time agreed on a long term co-operation agreement on the representation and sales of Carnegie’s international funds in Finland.

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