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02/06/2009

0.30% fees for new ComStage ETF

With the ComStage ETF Commerzbank Commodity EW Index TR, the XTF segment of the Xetra electronic platform from Deutsche Börse has admitted its 451st product to trading (see Newsmanagers of 29 May).The Luxembourg-registered product replicates the Commerzbank Commodity EW Index TR index, which includes 16 equally weighted liquid commodities (at 6.25% each); these include industrial metals, precious metals, soft commodities, and energy. Management commission is set at 0.30%.
02/06/2009

Putnam opens an Amsterdam office

Putnam Investments has opened a sales office in Amsterdam, a few months after closing its office in Italy, Financial News reports on 28 May.
02/06/2009

Banca Fideuram reportedly up for sale

Il Messaggero reports that Intesa Sanpaolo is planning to sell Banca Fideuram, its private banking and financial advising unit. Santander and BNP Paribas are rumoured to be interested in the acquisition, the Italian newspaper adds.
02/06/2009

GLG appoints Andrew Thatcher and Richard Philips to head British activities

Money Marketing reports that GLG Partners has announced the appointment of Andrew Thatcher and Richard Philips as heads of its UK activities. Thatcher becomes head of hedge fund distribution in the UK while Philips has been director of SGAM UK’s retail activities, recently acquired by the Société Générale group, since 1998.
02/06/2009

Hermes creates a lobbying group for hedge fund transparency

Hermes (GBP30bn), which manages the BT pension fund, has formed an action group to put pressure on hedge funds to share more information about the composition of their portfolios, and to push for higher liquidity in these funds and for commissions which only reward managers when they produce good performance, the Sunday Times reports. Hermes has also placed GBP900m with Hermes BPK Partners, led by Matteo Dante Perruccio, to invest in hedge funds.
02/06/2009

Castle Alternative Invest plans offering on LSE

Following a decision by a general shareholders’ meeting on 19 May, the Swiss fund of hedge fund management firm Castle Alternative Invest (located in Pfäffikon, Schwyz canton) has published a prospectus for a secondary public offering on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on 5 June 2009, of ordinary shares in the firm, which are already traded in Swiss francs and US dollars on the Swiss stock exchange (SIX). The shares will be traded in dollars; the objective of the share offering is to attract new investors and to bring the share price out of its current slump (they were trading at a markdown of 30.57% as of 15 May). Assets, which are invested in 35 hedge funds, totalled USD546m as of 15 May. The sponsor for the offering will be BRS Hoare Govett.The portfolio, composed as of 31 March of long/short equity funds (11.6%), event-driven (16%), relative value (19.3%), and CTA/macro (36.5%), is managed by LGT Swiss Life Non Traditional Advisors AG, a Liechtenstein firm controlled 56.3% by the Fondation LGT Group, and 43.7% by Swiss Life. The manager is advised by LGT Capital Partners Ltd, the alternative management affiliate of the Fondation LGT Group.As of 31 March, the fund shows annual performance over 5 years of 2.56%, compared with losses of 4.91% for the MSCI World in US dollars, with volatility of 6.28%, compared with 14.27% for the index. In the period from 1 January 1997 to 31 March 2009, annual net performance totals 6.6%, compared with 0.3% for the MSCI World.
02/06/2009

Henderson to play super-nanny

Das Investment reports that Henderson New Star has confirmed suggestions in Citywire and Money Marketing that it is planning to place Richard Pease, the star manager of the New Star European Growth fund, to manage the new Henderson European Special Situations Fund, which will be launched at the end of Summer. The product will invest in solid companies, largely midcaps, which are undervalued because they are experiencing temporary liquidity problems, or because they may be takeover targets.
02/06/2009

Guillaume Detrait joins Welton

The vice president of strategy and analytics at HSBC in California, Guillaume Detrait, is joining Welton Investment Corporation as managing director and chief risk officer. He will be based at Welton’s headquarters in Carmel, California, and will report directly to the CEO, Patrick Welton. Detrait has degrees from ESC Reims and other institutions.
02/06/2009

Ofi AM is now fully owned by Macif and Matmut

According to Agefi, mutual insurer Macif and Matmut, which are in the process of merging with Maif, have taken over the 40% interest of Ofi Asset Management which was held up to now by Ofi employees. The two insurers now hold 100% of the asset manager’s capital.Ofi has about EUR17bn under management.
02/06/2009

Reshuffle in asset management at Barclays

Barclays will concentrate its pan-European analysis for bond and money market funds in Madrid, while Paris will focus on European equities, Expansión reports. The British bank has EUR20bn in assets under management in Spain, France, and Portugal. Each country will continue to manage its own funds, but the pan-European centres will provide investment ideas for managers. The reshuffle will give the Spanish affiliate (EUR4.5bn in assets) more weight within the European structure. It will have a team of 6 people, equivalent to 12% of total personnel, and a local asset management affiliate. This will include the recruitment of a commercial director and an analyst specialised on rate curves. A position for a head of credit and corporate bonds will be filled through an internal transfer.
02/06/2009

Threadneedle closes acquisition of World Express from StanChart

On Monday, Threadneedle announced that it had successfully completed the acqusition of World Express Funds, announced nearly four months ago (see Newsmanagers of 4 February). The vendor of the Luxembourg Sicav platform is Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart), which itself acquired the platform as part of its acquisition of the activities of American Express Bank.Assets in the Sicav as of 30 April totalled USD2.38bn. At the time the deal was announced, it was stated that as of the end of December, assets under management in World Express funds totalled USD2.7bn as of the end of December.Threadneedle views the operation as an opportunity to strengthen its presence in European and Asian markets, while StanChart says that it does not have any activities of this type, but that the World Express funds could quickly provide synergies and other benefits for a fund management firm. Threadneedle also becomes a strategic partner and preferred provider of services to StanChart funds.
02/06/2009

Caja España launches a guaranteed fund based on gold

Caja España Fondos has launched a guaranteed fund to allow investors to profit from the rising price of gold, entitled Fondespaña Oro Garantizado. The NAV of the fund is guaranteed between 25 June, the end of the sales period, and 20 December 2013. The product offers a maximal participation of 70% in appreciation on the London Gold Market Fixing Limited PM Fix Price / USD Index, Funds People reports. Returns will be limited to 12.543%.If, during the life of the product, any of the daily measurements of the price of gold is more than 70% above the price on 25 June, Caja España guarantees a return of 108% of the initial NAV of the investment, rather than the complement which would otherwise be paid out to the investor.
02/06/2009

Henderson GI launches a London office property fund

Henderson Global Investors is launching the Henderson Central London Office Fund II, a closed absolute return fund with a 7-year horizon, “constructed to take advantage of the cycle in the central London office real estate market and emerging opportunities in this market,” the fund management firm says in a statement.The fund, which is not licensed by the French market regulator, Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), is aimed at British and international institutional investors. It aims for an annual ROI of 12%.Henderson is seeking to raise up to GBP200m for a first closing at the end of 2009, and is planning to eventually raise up to GBP500m.The Henderson Central London Office Fund II will be managed by Clive Castle and Nick Deacon.
02/06/2009

Funds merged at Griffin

Griffin Capital Management has decided to merge its European Hedge fund, which was not open to retail investors, with the Griffin European Opportunities. The two funds suffered heavily from the financial crisis, and now represent a total of no more than EUR50m, Das Investment reports. The fund merger follows the resignation of Harald Wengust, who was director of western European fund management activities. The new European Opportunities fund will be managed by Markus Resny, who was previously the manager of the hedge fund.
02/06/2009

European Commission to revise UCITS directive

Les Echos reports that the European commissioner for the single market, Charlie McCreevy, announced at the end of last week that he would be opening a consultation at the end of June to clarify and enlarge the obligations depository banks are subject to. Should assets disappear due to a case of fraud, the depository in charge of custody of the assets may not claim to be exempt from the responsibility to reimburse the assets, except if it can be demonstrated that the causes of the loss are external. In other words, the depository must demonstrate that it has made all necessary verifications upstream, particularly when the assets are outsourced to another depository. The objective of the legislative changes is to codify the lessons of the Madoff affair.
02/06/2009

Hedge fund managers throwing in the towel

Expansión reports that ten asset management firms, 19% of all firms with authorization to launch hedge funds in Spain, have called off their plans. Among the firms which have done so are Ibercaja, Fortis, Caixa Catalunya, Credit Suisse and M&B Capital Advisers Gestión. Meanwhile, at least seven other asset management firms have begun procedures to liquidate their Spanish hedge funds, including BBVA, Santander, UBS, Bankinter, and Nmás1. As of the end of April, assets in Spanish hedge funds were down 30% on one year, to slightly over EUR1bn.Meanwhile, the CNMV has announced that more than half of hedge funds were not in compliance with regulations which require them to have at least 25 subscribers. They have one year to comply.
02/06/2009

Fund assets up slightly in May

As of 31 May, assets under management in securities funds on sale in Spain totalled nearly EUR162.11bn, EUR32m or 0.02% more than at the end of April, the Inverco association of asset management firms reports. This is the second consecutive increase in assets, after 23 consecutive months of decline.However, the sector has nonetheless undergone net redemptions of nearly EUR1.19bn, three times more than the initial estimates for April. Inverco points out that in the first five months of the year, net redemptions fell by nearly EUR7.18bn, compared with EUR22.89bn in the corresponding period of 2008.None of the 12 largest asset management firms as measured by AUM volumes has posted net subscriptions in May. The heaviest outflows were at Santander Gestión de Activos, with EUR310m, and Gesmadrid, with EUR227.92m.
02/06/2009

Preference share issues draw assets away from funds

According to Ahorro Corporación, an avalanche of preferential share issued in May led to the heaviest net redemptions of the year for Spanish funds, totalling EUR2.3bn, Expansión reports. With these new outflows, subscribers withdrew more than EUR8bn in the first five months of 2009, 5% of total assets in the sector, neutralizing the effects of the rising stock market, which has attracted new investors and increased assets under management.
29/05/2009
Fonds

Temasek a généré une performance annuelle de 15 % en 6 ans

Selon le ministre des Finances singapourien Tharman Shanmugaratnam, le fonds souverain Temasek Holdings a généré de puis mars 2003 des recettes de presque 28 milliards d’euros, rapporte le Handelsblatt. Cela correspond à une perfomance moyenne annuelle de plus de 15 %, même si le fonds a perdu plus de 3 milliards de dollars sur la revente de sa participation dans Bank of America au premier trimestre 2009.
Fonds
29/05/2009
Fonds

Les fonds de pension ouverts continuent de collecter

Au premier trimestre de cette année, les fonds de pension ouverts pour la prévoyance complémentaire en Italie ont enregistré des souscriptions nettes de 272 millions d’euros, en légère baisse par rapport aux 342 millions du trimestre précédent, selon les dernières statistiques d’Assogestioni (association italienne des professionnels de la gestion). C’est le résultat de 364 millions d’euros d’adhésions, moins 92 millions d’euros de versements et de remboursements. Cela porte les encours nets de ces fonds à 4,8 milliards d’euros.Sur le trimestre, le nombre de souscripteurs a augmenté à 853.762 personnes contre 847.895 précédemment. Entre janvier et mars, les préférences des souscripteurs se sont déplacées des compartiments actions pour s’orienter vers les diversifiés et les diversifiés obligataires.
Fonds
29/05/2009

Douze sociétés de gestion détiennent chacune plus de 1 % dans des firmes cotées

Julio Segura, président de la CNMV, a indiqué mardi lors de la présentation du rapport annuel, que des fonds d’investissement détiennent des participations significatives dans trente sociétés espagnoles cotées, mais une seule d’entre elles figure dans l’Ibex 35, rapporte Funds People. Douze gestionnaires affichent des participations égales ou supérieures à 1 % dans ces sociétés, pour la plupart des petites et moyennes capitalisations.Bestinver Gestión (groupe Acciona) est le leader avec 19 participations, dont la plus grosse du secteur (10,2 %) dans Miquel y Costas. Huit autres sociétés de gestion ne détiennent qu’une seule participation. Santander Asset Management en possède trois, Espirito Santo Gestión, deux, et Popular Gestión deux également. Mais le niveau maximal de ces participations se limite au total à respectivement 1,5 %, 2 % et 1,2 %.
29/05/2009

11,5 % des fonds pratiquent une commission de performance

Selon le rapport annuel 2008 de la CNMV, 338 fonds facturaient l’an dernier une commission de performance sur un total de 2.943 fonds commercialisés en Espagne, ce qui correspond à 11,5 % du total. Sur ces fonds, presque tous (335) appliquaient en fait un système de commission mixte avec un prélèvement sur l’encours et une partie dépendant directement de la performance. Seuls trois fonds facturaient uniquement en fonction de la performance.Funds People souligne que les coûts de distribution, la rémunération des réseaux, absorbent environ 70 % de la commission de gestion. Cette dernière a diminué en moyenne l’an dernier à 0,92 % contre 1,02 % en 2007. Si l’on ajoute à cela que les encours ont chuté d’environ 30 %, les recettes de commissions ont accusé une contraction de quelque 35 %.

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