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05/09/2013

Hermes REIM acquires Metro outlets in France

As part of a sale & lease-back operation for an amount “in the low hundreds of millions,” Hermes Real Estate Investment Limited (HREIML) has acquired a 75% stake in a portfolio of 43 Metro Cash & Carry France shops.The transaction, announced on 4 September, aims to diversify the international portfolio of HREIML.The 43 locations represent about half of the Metro network in France.
05/09/2013

Neuflize OBC Investissements merges FI and convertible teams

Neuflize OBC Investissements will merge its fixed income and convertibles teams into a single department, according to information confirmed to Citywire by the French asset management firm. Xavier Chapon, head of fixed income at the firm, will lead the new 10-member team with EUR11bn in assets under management.
05/09/2013

DeAWM recruits former manager from BofA Merrill Lynch

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM) has recruited Matt Montana as managing director, in a newly-created position as head of equity trading for the Americas region. Montana will be based in New York, and will report directly to Joshua Friedberg, head of trading, Americas. He will be responsible for all equity trading in the Americas. He previously worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he spent 25 years.
05/09/2013

Lyxor to launch AIFM hedge fund platform

Lyxor, a well-known specialist in managed accounts, is currently working on launching a new AIFM hedge fund platform which institutional investors will be eligible for. The first funds are expected to be available by the end of the year, probably in December, says Nathanaël Benzaken, deputy head of alternative management at Lyxor Asset Management. The initiative is a response to a desire on the part of Lyxor to offer a third option, between UCITS-compliant hedge funds and totally offshore vehicles, between highly regulated products on the one hand, and offshore hedge funds with very little oversight on the other. ‘This is a third option which will allow us to take advantage of the new AIFM directive. Institutional investors have previously not had any choice other than ot invest in offshore vehicles. The regulatory environment now offers them another solution. Alternative investment funds (FIA) from our point of view appear to be the solutoin which best meets the requirements both of regulators and of risk-takers. This is clearly a range aimed primarily at institutional clients. However, I am persuaded that the AIFM brand can and will become a standard label, possibly outside Europe, like the UCITS brand, since it now allows for invetsmnt in all alternative management strategies, including the least liquid strategies, without as restrictive an investment limit as the one imposed on UCITS funds, all in an onshore environment, under the supervision of regulators.” The initiative may also allow for the interest of institutional investors in alternative management to be rekindled, due to the more favourable environment, insofar as “we are returning to more fundamental markets,” Benzaken adds.
05/09/2013

Hayman Capital acquires 5.2% stake in JC Penney

Two hedge fund managers have unveiled significant staes in the JC Penney group, after a sale by Pershing Square Capital Management, a fund by Bill Ackman, of all of its shares in the US retail chain, Reuters reports.Hayman Capital Management has reported a 5.2% stake in the capital of JC Penney, while Glenview Capital Management has increased its stake to 9.1% from less than 4% previously, according to documents submitted to the Securities & Exchange Comimssion.Ackman sold his stake to Citigroup, which then offered it to other investors.
05/09/2013

“Godfather” of ETFs leaves KCG

Reginald Browne, who is known as the “godfather of ETFs,” is leaving KCG, the firm created when Knight Capital was acquired by Getco, the Financial Times reports. His colleagues, Eric Lichtenstein and Darren Taube, are also leaving. A dispute concerning a contract is reported to be the reason for the departures.Browne is known for helping to create some of the most original ETFs, including the PowerShares Senior Loan ETF.
05/09/2013

Lyxor promotes Frank Frecentese

Frank Frecentese, recruited slightly over three months ago as deputy head of hedge fund research at the New York office of Lyxor Asset Management (see Newsmanagers of 27 May), has been promoted to the position of global head of hedge fund research. He succeeds Dennis Heskel, who will be retiring next month.Frecentese will report directly to Lionel Erdely and Nicolas Gaussel, who are CIOs at Lyxor.
05/09/2013

Credit Suisse LAB hedge fund index down 1.01% in August

The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta (LAB) index has posted a decline of 1.01% in the month of August, according to the most recent available statistics. All strategies of the index finished the month with losses, including declines of 1.54% for the Event Driven strategy, and 1.05% for the Long/Short strategy.
05/09/2013

David Barron joins Miton

After leaving JPMorgan Asset Management in January (see Newsmanagers of 23 January), David Barron has been recruited as director of investment trusts & product strategy by Miton, Fundweb reports. Barron will work with Ian Chimes, head of sales & marketing.
05/09/2013

Standard Life Investments and Legal & General IM may sue RBS

Standard Life Investments and Legal & General Investment Management are planning to sue Royal Bank of Scotland over a capital increase of GBP12bn carried out in 2008, the Financial Times reports. The two asset management firms have asked the law firm Quinn Emanuel to study whether the bank misled shareholders about its financial health in the prospectus for the deal, according to sources familiar with the matter.
05/09/2013

Bill Gross bond fund suffers due to Fed monetary policy

The change announced by the Fed to its monetary policy is weighing on the Pimco Total Return Fund, the largest bond fund in the world, managed by Bill Gross, Agefi reports. The fund posted USD7.7bn in net redemptions in August, according to Morningstar statistics. Assets have fallen to USD251bn, a decline of USD41bn since the end of April.
05/09/2013

Switzerland wants to strengthen its financial centre

The Swiss Federal Council (government) on 4 September resolved to create a panel of experienced experts to analyse both the framework conditions and future prospects for the financial centre and to formulate recommendations on the subject. The group of experts will be led by Aymo Brunetti.The group of experts will be composed of representatives of the Confederation, the private sector, and scientific circles. Without giving in to prevailing pressure, on the basis of current policy on financial markets, the committee will examine both framework conditions and future prospects for the financial market, and then submit proposals. Its activity will continue until the end of 2014.The group of experts will not only consider the current challenges the financial market is facing nationally, but also the opportunities the country is facing internationally. To achieve that, it will take into account the interests of the entire economy. It will focus its work on the following points:-strengthening the Swiss financial market by improving national framework conditions. This reinforcement will allow for structural changes in the financial sector and the real economy to be better confronted;-maintenance or improvement of access to foreign markets, in order to preserve and promote, on the Swiss economic marketplace, the creation of value by international activities.
05/09/2013

Excessive inflows can damage the performance of bond funds

According to a study carried out by Diaman Scf for the Italian weekly newsmagazine Plus 24 of over 2,100 European bond funds in 2012, the top 50 funds in terms of assets, equivalent to 3% of products analysed, received EUR226m, or 80% of total net inflows. In addition, 35% went to only four funds. In 2012, funds which had the largest inflows also received the best returns. But in 2013, performance tended to deteriorate. The good reputation of large funds has helped to make them grow to excessive size, which makes the task harder for the manager, who needs to find new investments for incoming capital. In addition, decisions taken by a large fund have an impact on the market, which penalises them.
05/09/2013
Fonds

L’excès de souscriptions peut nuire à la performance des fonds obligataires

Selon une étude menée par Diaman Scf pour l’hebdomadaire italien Plus 24 sur plus de 2.100 fonds obligataires européens en 2012, les 50 premiers fonds en termes d’encours, soit 3 % des produits analysés, ont recueilli 226 milliards d’euros, soit 80 % de la collecte nette totale. Et plus de 35 % sont allés sur quatre fonds.En 2012, les fonds ayant collecté le plus ont aussi obtenu les meilleurs rendements. Mais en 2013, la performance a tendance à se détériorer. La bonne réputation des gros fonds contribue à les faire grandir de manière excessive, ce qui rend la tâche du gérant plus difficile car il doit trouver de nouveaux investissements pour les capitaux qui entrent. De plus, les décisions prises par un gros fonds ont un impact sur le marché, ce qui les pénalise.
Fonds
05/09/2013

BlackRock décroche un mandat aux Pays-Bas

Stichting Pensioenfonds Wolters Kluwer Nederland, le fonds de pension de Wolters Kluwer, a décidé de confier la gestion de quelque 90 % de son encours de 850 millions d’euros à BlackRock, rapporte FondsNieuws. Le gestionnaire américain fournira du conseil en stratégie sur l’ensemble du portefeuile et établira avec son client un plan d’investissement annuel. De plus, Blackrock sera responsable de la gestion du risque au jour le jour.Wolters Kluwer travaillait déjà avec BlackRock depuis 1996, pour les investissements indiciels.
05/09/2013
Fonds

L'indice Credit Suisse LAB des hedge funds en recul de 1,01% en août

L’indice Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta (“LAB”) a enregistré une baisse de 1,01% au mois d’août, selon les dernières estimations disponibles.Toutes les stratégies de l’indice ont terminé le mois dans le rouge, avec notamment des baisses de 1,54% pour la stratégie Event Driven et de 1,05% pour la stratégie Long/Short.
Fonds
05/09/2013
Fonds

La liquidité de deux fonds Chine d'AGI devient hebomadaire

Grâce à une récente modification des dispositions applicables aux produits des Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) qui permet aux fonds dans échéance fixe d’importer et d’exporter des sommes de Chine une fois par semaine au lieu d’une fois par mois, Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH a pu annoncer une modification dans le régime de liquidité de deux de ses fonds de droit luxembourgeois en dollars.La liquidité des parts IT (LU0411151904) et AT (LU0411150922) du Allianz China A-Shares et celle des parts IT (LU0752527142) et PT (LU0837709459) du Allianz renminbi Fixed Income Onshore devient ainsi hebdomadaire (le mercredi), alors qu’elle était mensuelle auparavant.
Fonds
05/09/2013

Axa Wealth recruits from Henderson

Kate Randall-Coles, FATCA project manager at Henderson Global Investors (HGI), has joined Axa Wealth as head of fund group relations, fundweb reports. Randall-Coles replaces Graham Bentley, who had served in the position in the interim since June.
05/09/2013

Very good profits for Hargreaves Lansdown

The British platform Hargreaves Lansdown has reported 38% growtin in it assets under administration as of 30 June 2013, to GBP36.4bn, according to provisional statistics released on 4 September.The number of clients has increased by 76,000 to 507,000. Pre-tax profits at the group are also up 28% to GBP195.2bn.
05/09/2013

Etienne Rougier and Eric Vynckier join AllianceBernstein

The European insurance unit of the asset management firm ACM Bernstein was reinforced in August with the arrival of Etienne Rougier, COO & head of strategy at Architas Multi-Manager, who becomes COO Insurance EMEA, and Eric Vyncker, investment director for equity and bond allocations for insurance clients at SWIP, as senior portfolio manager.Both will be based in London, and will report directly to Tim Ryan, chairman and CEO of Alliance Bernstein Limited.
05/09/2013

Liquidity of two China funds from AGI becomes weekly

Due to a recent modification to the terms applicable to products from Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII), which allows for target date funds to import and export funds from China once per week instead of once per month, Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH has announced a modification to the liquidity rules for two of its US dollar-denominated, Luxembourg-registered funds. The liquidity for IT (LU0411151904) and AT (LU0411150922) shares in the Allianz China A-Shares, and T (LU0752527142) and PT (LU0837709459) shares in the Allianz renminbi Fixed Income Onshore fund thus become weekly (on Wednesdays), whereas they had previously been monthly.
05/09/2013

Adepa AM launches US equity fund

The Luxembourg boutique Adepa Asset Management has announced the launch of a concentrated fund dedicated to US equities, including long-term growth equities, Citywire reports. The DIP-US Equities Fund will invest in 20 to 40 securities of the S&P 500 index, without a size limitation. The fund may potentially invest up to 10% of its assets in ETFs or other investment vehicles. DIP is a Luxembourg-registered umbrella fund with multiple sub-funds, administered by Adepa and managed by the Spanish fund management firm A&G Fondos SGIIC SA (EFG International Group).
05/09/2013

Nouveau patron pour les marchés émergents chez Loomis Sayles

Peter Marber a été nommé head of emerging markets investments de Loomis Sayles (filiale américaine de Natixis Global Asset Management), où il sera responsable aussi bien des investissements en actions que de ceux en obligations, sous l’autorité de Jae Park, le CIO.L’intéressé vient de HSBC Global Asset Management où il a exercé plusieurs fonctions au sein du groupe marchés émergents, comme chief business strategist, global head of emerging markets debt et gérant de portefeuille. Il avait été associé-fondateur, gérant de portefeuille senior et chief investment strategist de The Atlantic Advisors, société achetée par HSBC en 2005.L'équipe dirigée par Peter Marber comprend trois gérants de portefeuille (David Rolley, Eddy Sternberg et Peter Frick) ainsi qu’Elisabeth Colleran comme emerging markets senior credit strategist. Elle est soutenue par plus d’une douzaine de spécialistes des marchés émergents. Récemment, précise un communiqué, Loomis Sayles a recruté quatre analystes marchés émergents : Bianca Taylor (EM senior sovereign analyste), Celeste Tay (Asia soverign analyst), Li Ping Yeo (Asia senior credit analyst) et Nada Oulidi (EM senior bank analyst).Au 30 juin, l’encours marchés émergents de Loomis Sayles se situait à plus de 12 milliards de dollars.
05/09/2013

Neuflize OBC Investissements fusionne ses équipes taux et convertibles

Neuflize OBC Investissements va fusionner ses pôles taux et obligations convertibles dans un seul département, selon une information de Citywire confirmée par la société de gestion française.Xavier Chapon, responsable de l’obligataire au sein de la société, dirigera la nouvelle équipe composée de 10 personnes et gérant 11 milliards d’euros d’encours.
05/09/2013

H2O AM proche des trois milliards d'encours grace à l'Asie

La société de gestion H2O AM s’apprête à dresser un premier bilan de son activité après trois ans d’existence. Selon nos informations, l’encours approcherait les 3 milliards d’euros, principalement dû à un effet collecte dont les trois quarts seraient issus d’investisseurs asiatiques et australiens. Si tel est le cas, il s’agirait d’une nette progression. A titre de comparaison, H2O AM revendiquait 1,9 milliard d’euros d’actifs sous gestion au 31 mars 2012 avec des flux venant d’Australasie représentant un tiers de la collecte...Ce tropisme asiatique s’expliquerait par la plus grande maturité des investisseurs asiatiques (fonds de pension, fonds de réserve), plus enclins à comprendre le rapport rendement/risque et le principe de la performance sur le long terme cher à la société de gestion. Dans ce cadre, toujours selon nos informations, Bruno Crastes co-fondateur et dirigeant de la société s’apprêterait à débaptiser un de ses fonds H2O Patrimoine. Non en raison de ses performances mais parce que le concept «Patrimoine» aurait vécu, car lié à la phase de baisse des taux. Le fonds devrait s’appeler H2O Multistratégies.
05/09/2013

Lyxor promeut Frank Frecentese

Recruté il y a un peu plus de trois mois comme responsable adjoint de la recherche sur les hedge funds au bureau de New York (lire Newsmanagers du 27 mai), Frank Frecentese a été promu par Lyxor Asset Management au poste de global head of hedge fund research. Il succédera ainsi à Dennis Heskel, qui prendra sa retraite le mois prochain.Frank Frecentese sera directement subordonné à Lionel Erdely et Nicolas Gaussel, qui sont CIO de Lyxor.
05/09/2013

Le « parrain » des ETF quitte KCG

Reginald Browne, surnommé le « parrain des ETF », quitte KCG, la société créée avec l’acquisition de Knight Capital par Getco, rapporte le Financial Times. Ses collègues Eric Lichtenstein et Darren Taube partent également. Une dispute concernant un contrat serait à l’origine de ces départs. Reginald Browne est connu pour avoir aidé à créer certains des ETF les plus originaux, dont le PowerShares Senior Loan ETF.
05/09/2013
Fonds

Charterhouse à la peine dans l'Hexagone

Le fonds britannique Charterhouse a visiblement renoncé à vendre Elior et Nocibé, indique L’Agefi. Pour Elior, le groupe de restauration collective s’oriente vers une cotation, tandis que pour Nocibé, l’enseigne de parfumerie va rester pour l’instant dans le giron du fonds. Charterhouse a finalement rejeté l’offre de reprise d’Advent. Cet été déjà, les 500 millions d’euros proposés par Advent avaient été jugés insuffisants, tout comme l’offre de LBO France.
Fonds
05/09/2013

Hayman Capital prend une participation de 5,2% au capital de JC Penney

Deux gérants de hedge funds ont dévoilé des participations significatives au capital du groupe JC Penney après la cession par Pershing Square Capital Management, le fonds de Bill Ackman, de l’ensemble de ses parts dans le distributeur américain, rapporte Reuters.Hayman Capital Management a fait état d’une participation de 5,2% au capital de JC Penney tandis que Glenview Capital Management a porté sa participation à 9,1% contre moins de 4% précédemment, selon des documents remis à la Securities & Exchange Commission.Bill Ackman avait cédé sa participation à Citigroup qui l’a proposée par la suite à d’autres investisseurs.

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