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18/03/2013

Les encours hors groupe de SLI dépassent les 50 % du total

Pour 2012, indique Standard Life Investments (SLI), les encours hors groupe (83 milliards de livres contre 71,8 milliards fin 2011) ont pour la première fois dépassé 50 % de l’encours total (167,7 milliards de livres contre 154,9 milliards) alors que la proportion se limitait à 9,4 % ou 5,9 milliards de livres en novembre 2008, lors du lancement de SLI.Les souscriptions nettes hors groupe ont porté sur 6,1 milliard de livres contre 4,3 milliards en 2011 (lire Newsmanagers du 8 mars). SLI précise que 44 % des souscriptions hors groupe ont été générées par des partenaires stratégiques comme l’américain John hancock, l’indien HDFC Asset Management, le japonais Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank et la maison-mère, Standard Life.
18/03/2013
Fonds

Un nouveau hedge fund augmente ses encours

Hengistbury Investment Partners, la société de hedge funds créée par l’ancien associé fondateur de TCI Stuart Powers, a fermé son fonds vedette aux nouveaux investisseurs après que ce dernier ait atteint 750 millions de dollars, rapporte le Financial Times. Il s’agit d’une exception notable dans un secteur morose de la gestion alternative. La société aurait dégagé 22 % en 2012 pour les investisseurs.
Fonds
18/03/2013

Anton Commissaris returns to Credit Suisse

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } For the newly-created position of head wholesale clients Switzerland/EMEA in the Asset Management Core Investment division, Credit Suisse has recruited Anton Commissaris, who will be based in Zurich, and will report to Martin Keller, finews.ch reports.Commissaris, who will be responsible for relationships with banks, insurers and partners who distribute Credit Suisse funds, had previously worked at the group, most recently as head, private banking advisory group, before in 2011 being transferred to Aberdeen Asset Management when Credit Suisse sold a part of its asset management activities to the Scottish firm. He had been responsible for business development for Switzerland at Aberdeen.
18/03/2013

UBS reshuffles UHNW client services

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } In an internal memo, UBS has announced that Axel Kilian, of the investment banking unit in London, has since 11 March been appointed as Market Head UNHW Germany, and reports to Christian Henke, head of UHNW Germany International, and Franz Angermann, head of UHNW Germany Domestic, finews.ch reports. Kilian, for his part, reports to Axel Hörger, head WM Germany & Austria, and Eva Lindholm, head UHNW Europe.Michael Frey, desk head Northern Europe & Swiss Clients at UBS Singapore, has been appointed as head UHNW Monaco and head UHNW Central and Eastern Europe & Turkey (CEET) Monaco.For France, Helena Jevans Silva is promoted to head UHNW France International, where she had previously been dead head Portugal in Geneva.For London, the new head global family office United Kingdom will be Susan Ward, who will join from JPMorgan in May.Lastly, Simon Leaver becomes senior relationship manager in the ultra-high net worth private client team. He had previously been in the investment banking unit.
18/03/2013

Edhec to offer free smart indices

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The Edhec Risk Institute will offer 30 smart beta indices on a dedicated internet platform free of charge, undercutting providers of commercial indices, Financial Times Fund Management reports. The indices will be unveiled at a conference held by the institute in London, which opens on 26 March.
18/03/2013

Waddell & Reed sells of 3.4% stake in Volkswagen

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Deutsche Bank on Friday announced that the US asset management firm Waddell & Reed Investment Management has sold off 5.78 million preferential shares in Volkswagen, which had been placed on an accelerated bookbuilding at EUR158 per share, Die Welt reports.Preferential shares in Volkswagen lost 3.1% in trading on Friday, to EUR159.55. The shares sold represented 3.4% of preferential capital in Volkswagen, and the deal totalled EUR914m.The largest shareholders in Volkswagen are the Porsche holding company (50.7%), the German province of Lower Saxony (20%) and the Emirate of Qatar (17%).
18/03/2013

Direxion recruits CFO from US Bancorp Fund Services

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Eric W. Falkeis, who is already a trustee at Direxion Funds, has been appointed as chairman and COO of the hedge fund management firm. He had previously been CFO of US Bancorp Fund Services.
18/03/2013

Highbridge raises a large mezzanine debt fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Highbridge Capital, the hedge fund firm controlled by JPMorgan Asset Management, has raised the largest fund to invest in mezzanine corporate debt since the financial crisis, the Financial Times reports. The Highbridge Mezzanine Partners Fund II was closed with USD5bn in assets. Half of the portfolio will be invested in financing for acquisitions of businesses by private equity firms, and the other half will be invested in direct financing to businesses.
18/03/2013

New hedge fund increases assets

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Hengistbury Investment Partners, the hedge fund firm founded by the former TCI partner Stuart Powers, has soft closed its flagship fund to new investors, with USD750m in assets, the Financial Times reports. This is a notable exception in the otherwise morose alternative management industry. The firm earned 22% for investors in 2012.
18/03/2013

Qatar sovereign fund eyes Marks & Spencer

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The Qatar sovereign fund is planning to launch a GBP8bn bid for the British retail chain Marks & Spencer, the Sunday Times reports. The Qatar fund has approached investment funds and banks to put together a consortium. The Qatar sovereign fund acquired Harrods in 2010, and also holds a 26% stake in the J Sainsbury supermarket chain.
18/03/2013

US and Japanese equities popular in mid-March

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The strong rise of stock markets worldwide in mid-March favoured US and Japanese equity funds and high dividend equities, to the detriment of European and emerging market equities. In the week ending on 13 March, Chinese equity funds posted levels of redemptions not seen for more than five years ,while US equity funds attracted more than USD10bn, and Japanese equity funds attracted nearly USD2bn, according to estimates by EPFR Global.In the area of Japanese equity funds, the rise in inflows is partly due to improved coverage of Japanese funds, the CEO of EPFR Global, Ian Wilson, says. “However, in terms of the flows expressed as a percentage of assets under management, the week under review has been the best on record since third quarter 2011,” he continues. Investors reacted well to the objectives announced by the new Japanese government to boost imports and domestic consumption through a devaluation of the yen and slightly higher inflation.Overall, equity funds posted net inflows of USD14.1bn in the week under review, while bond funds finished the week with a positive bottom line of USD30.3bn. Meanwhile, money market funds posted a net outflow of USD7.1bn.
18/03/2013

SAC Capital to pay USD616m fine

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The hedge fund management firm SAC Capital Advisors has received from the SEC an administrative fine totalling a record USD616m to settle two insider trading cases.In the case concerning shares in Elan and Wyeth, which resulted in a settlement of USD602m, CR Intrinsic, an affiliate of SAC Capital, made gains or avoided losses of USD275m, and would have been exposed to fines of USD1.1bn, if the case had gone to court.In the second case, concerning shares in Dell and Nvidia, Sigma Capital Management, another affiliate of SAC Capital, made illicit gains, or avoided losses totalling USD6.5bn. The administrative fine for the case is USD14m.
18/03/2013

Highbridge lève un gros fonds de dette mezzanine

Highbridge Capital, la société de hedge funds détenue par JPMorgan Asset Management, a levé le plus gros fonds investi dans de la dette mezzanine d’entreprises depuis la crise financière, rapporte le Financial Times. Highbridge Mezzanine Partners Fund II a été bouclé avec 5 milliards de dollars. La moitié du portefeuille sera investie dans le financement de rachats d’entreprises par des sociétés de private equity et l’autre dans le financement direct d’entreprises.
18/03/2013
Fonds

RCM promeut en France son fonds de haut rendement européen

De passage à Paris pour un appel d’offres, Thomas Korhammer, gérant du fonds autrichien d’obligations à haut rendement libellées en euros Raiffeisen-European-HighYield, a indiqué à Newsmanagers que l’encours (495 millions d’euros au 11 mars) a doublé en 2012, où la performance du fond a été de 25 %, et a augmenté encore de 35 % depuis le début de cette année. Ce produit, lancé en mai 1999, a affiché une performance annuelle de 9,9 % sur dix ans, contre 9,2 % pour l’indice de référence, le Merrill Lynch Euro High Yield Constrained Excluding Sub Financials. Le fonds présente donc des caractéristiques méritant que Raiffeisen Capital Management (RCM) s’efforce de le mettre en avant en France avec ses autres expertises.Le portefeuille comprend environ 170 lignes d’obligations, contre 180 dans l’indice, et la duration se situe actuellement autour de 3 ans. «Nous avons un biais de qualité dans notre sélection de titres et d’ailleurs la notation moyenne de nos positions est de BB contre BB- pour le benchmark», explique Thomas Korhammer, qui est autorisé à quelques «extras» en direction de la catégorie investissement, voire même, à doses homéopathiques, des financières subordonnées. Le gérant a aussi la possibilité de se positionner à découvert au moyen de contrats à terme pour couvrir certaines positions, ce qui n’est pas le cas actuellement. De plus, Thomas Korhammer est suffisamment confiant à l’heure actuelle pour avoir réduit sa position en cash à 1 %. Il estime de plus que le taux de défaut pourrait rester aux alentours de 3 %, de sorte que les spreads actuels rétribuent convenablement le risque.
Fonds
18/03/2013

Covéa veut faire des économies et gagner en efficacité

Thierry Derez, le PDG de Covéa a proposé aux conseils d’administration de ses mutuelles MMA, Maaf et GMF une refonte de l’organisation avec la création de nouvelles directions intégrées, rapporte L’Agefi. L’idée est avant tout de maîtriser les coûts, mais aussi de s’adapter aux mutations technologiques du secteur et à la concurrence toujours plus vive des bancassureurs. Le groupe veut trouver de nouveaux champs de mutualisation dans les 5 à 7 ans à venir entre ses trois enseignes, et réduire le coût des projets d’investissement, notamment sur l ‘informatique. Car MMA, Maaf et GMF utilisent encore des systèmes différents.
18/03/2013

Réunica et AG2R La Mondiale vont s'unir

Réunica a décidé vendredi de s’unir à AG2R La Mondiale, rapporte L’Agefi. Selon Jean-Marc Robinet, directeur général de Réunica, le nouvel ensemble totalisera 25 milliards d’euros de cotisations annuelles. D’une part 16 milliards en assurance retraite (8 milliards venus de Réunica et un peu plus de 8 milliards d’AG2R La Mondiale), soit 25% du marché, et d’autre part 9 milliards en assurance de personnes où Réunica pesait seulement 700 millions. L’ensemble aura 4 milliards d’euros de fonds propres en assurances de personnes et comptera 10.000 salariés.Réunica a enfin l’assurance de préserver ses marques et ses institutions de prévoyance. Le nouvel ensemble sera tout de même rebaptisé et devra arrêter sa gouvernance d’ici à 2015, année effective de la fusion. Celle-ci doit d’abord être entérinée à l’intérieur de chaque groupe, précise le quotidien.
18/03/2013

Réunica choisit de se marier avec AG2R La Mondiale

Après avoir étudié les dossiers de candidature pendant six mois, Réunica, le quatrième groupe de protection sociale, a annoncé le 15 mars qu’il avait choisi de se marier avec AG2R La Mondiale, rapporte Les Echos. Le rapprochement ne sera cependant pas effectif avant janvier 2015, celui-ci devant être préalablement soumis aux fédérations Agirc et Arcco, au Centre technique des institutions de prévoyance (CTIP) ainsi qu'à l’autorité de la concurrence. Apicil et Malakoff Médéric, qui avaient également déposé un dossier, n’ont pas été retenus pour ce projet de rapprochement.
18/03/2013

“Flexible management will become an offensive weapon”

At the helm of Dorval Finance, Louis Bert is an adept in flexible management, whose advantages he enumerates. It is good for managing the risk it authorises, which is winning over a growing number of institutional invetors, who already represent 40% of assets under management by the asset management firm. In troubled times, the attraction of flexibility is apparent to the head, but not only that. In the period of sustained rising stock markets which Bert is convinced we have entered, flexibility can be an offensive weapon.
18/03/2013

Pension funds to increase exposure to ETFs

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to a survey by FinEx, which at the end of February launched the first ETF of Russian bonds on the main market in London, 38% of the 144 European pension funds surveyed are planning to increase their investments in ETF shares this year, while 17% say they are planning to increase the allocation by more than 10%, FundsEurope reports. When asked about their predictions for the next three years, 42% of directors surveyed say they would like to increase their exposure to ETFs.
18/03/2013

Agriculture funds said to be the most dangerous in Europe

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to a jury of European ecological and consumer organisations which has organised a competition to find the most dangerous financial products in Europe, funds which “speculate on food” received 71.4% of votes in category 2, while products that damage the environment for the poor and third parties took second place, according to the website dangerous-finance.eu, led by the German Sven Giegold, Green MEP. This includes the category of products such as the tracker fund DB Platinum Agriculture Euro from the Deutsche Bank group, as well as, in second place, the RBS Sands TR Equity Index Certificate, WDS Go Uranium Exploration Index Certificate, and Solit2 Gold & Silver.Funds of this type are potentially damaging to the environment and the poorest populations in the world, since it channels a large volume of capital to the commodity futures market, and may have a negative effect on the price of basic commodities.In category 1, 46.8% of votes went to CDS of public debt as the most dangerous products for consumers and investors, followed by credit cards with very high interest rates, loans in currencies payable at final maturity, and reversible convertible bonds.According to the website, these products could be forbidden by the banking supervisory authorities (EBA), the financial supervisory authority (ESMA) or insurance authorities (EIOPA), which since their creation have been authorised to ban such products. This authorisation has not yet really been used, since a prohibition on naked shorts was achieved with a specific law.
18/03/2013

Fidelity reduces commission on Bolton Chinese fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Fundweb reports that Fidelity Worldwide Investment has reduced the management commission on the Fidelity China Special Situations investment trust, managed by Anthony Bolton, from 1.5% to 1.2%, in order to preserve the competitiveness of the product.
18/03/2013

Third party assets account for over 50% of SLI's AUM

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } In 2012, Standard Life Investments (SLI) indicates, third party assets (GBP83bn, compared with GBP71.8bn at the end of 2011) for the first time exceeded 50% of total assets (GBP167.7bn, compared with GBP154.9bn), while the percentage was limited to 9.4%, or GBP5.9bn in November 2008, when SLI was launched.Net subscriptions from outside the group totalled GBP6.1bn, compared with GBP4.3bn in 2011 (see Newsmanagers of 8 March). SLI states that 44% of third party subscriptions were generated by strategic partners such as the US firm John Hancock, the Indian HDFC Asset Management, the Japanese Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, and the parent company, Standard Life.
18/03/2013

Richard Buxton of Schroders joins Old Mutual

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Richard Buxton, whose departure from Schroders was announced on Friday, has joined Old Mutual Global Investors, as head of UK equities, Investment Week reports. He will report to Julian Ide, CEO of Old Mutual Global Investors, and will head the UK equity teams at the asset management firm. He will also join the management team at the company.
18/03/2013

Invesco plans to extend ETF range in United Kingdom

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Invesco is planning to add to its range of Powershares ETFs in the United Kingdom, with the launch of bond products based on smart indices, Citywire Wealth Manager reports. The group, which already has 15 equity ETFs listed in London, is seeking to launch a high yield ETF. The range will be designed in partnership with Research Affiliates (RAFI).
18/03/2013

Guernsey signs FATCA agreement with UK

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The territory of Guernsey has signed a tax agreement with the British authorities, modelled on the American FATCA law, Investment Europe reports. Meanwhile, Guernsey is expected to join the signatories of FATCA regulations in the near future.
18/03/2013

Jersey soon to roll out AIFM directive

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Jersey will be introducing the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive in April, Investment Europe reports, citing participants at a conference held by Jersey Finance in London. The hedge fund sector in Jersey as of the end of 2012 represented about GBP192bn in assets, or 70% of all fund management activities based on the island.
18/03/2013

Guernsey and United Kingdom sign tax agreement

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Guernsey has signed a tax convention with the United Kingdom on tax liabilities for foreign accounts, inspired by the American FATCA law, Investment Week reports. The agreement will allow “non-dom” UK clients not domiciled in the country for tax purposes to file a special tax delcaration. Meanwhile, Guernsey is preparing to sign an agreement of the same type with the United States. The two agreements have yet to be approved by the Guernsey Parliament.
18/03/2013

Morgan Stanley may acquire the remainder of its joint venture with Citigroup

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Morgan Stanley may acquire the remainder of its joint venture in wealth management with Citigroup as soon as next month, now that the bank has received approval from the Federal Reserve for its plans for its proprietary capital, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing a source familiar with the matter.
18/03/2013

Capital@Work recruits in Netherlands

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Fondsnieuws reports that the asset management firm Capital@Work (EUR4.6bn in assets), an affiliate of the Hamburg-based firm Foyer, has recruited Michael Zandbergen as client relationship manager for the Netherlands. He had most recently been a private banker at Staal Bankiers.

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