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15/01/2013

JPMAM change de patron et recrute en Suisse

J. P. Morgan Asset Managent(JPMAM) a nommé Philipp Pfenninger, jusqu’à présent responsable de la distribution auprès des banques, comme country head pour la Suisse en remplacement de Roland Vogel, qui a quitté l’entreprise, selon finews.ch.Par ailleurs, JPMAM a recruté chez Bank Vontobel un «investment consultant», Marc Schumacher, qui rejoint l’équipe de suivi de la clientèle banques cantonales et régionales.Enfin, précise le site d’information, Claudia Nägeli (ex RBS) a rejoint JPMAM en octobre 2012 comme senior sales executive global liquidity. Elle est plus particulièrement chargée du suivi de la clientèle entreprises et institutionnelle.
15/01/2013

GAM prend 30 % d’une société de gestion américaine

La société de gestion suisse GAM va acquérir environ 30% de QFS Asset Management, une structure basée aux Etats-Unis et spécialisée dans les stratégies en devises, instruments à revenu fixe et global macro.Parallèlement à cet accord capitalistique, GAM va assumer la responsabilité de la distribution et du marketing au niveau mondial des stratégies - actuelles et futures - gérées par QFS.Une fois l’accord définitivement scellé, GAM prévoit de lancer, dans les prochains mois, un produit UCITS basé sur la stratégie-phare en devises de QFS visant des instruments extrêmement liquides. Depuis son lancement en mars 1993, elle a généré des rendements nets de 10,75% par an (au 31 décembre 2012).GAM gère 48 milliards de dollars tandis que QFS affiche un encours de plus d’un milliard de dollars.
15/01/2013

Forte croissance pour Bantleon en 2012

Au 31 décembre, l’encours du gestionnaire obligataire allemand Bantleon affichait un gonflement de 50,3 % sur un an, à 7,94 milliards d’euros ; sans compter l’effet de marché, la hausse a encore été de 45,8 %.Les souscriptions nettes ont doublé à 2,42 milliards d’euros en 2012, contre 1,2 milliard l’année précédente, dont 410 millions provenant de particuliers. Les rentrées nettes avaient porté sur 846 millions en 2010 et 1,2 milliard en 2009.Sur le total, les actifs des fonds offerts au public se situaient à 3,88 milliards en fin d’année dernière pendant que l’encours des fonds institutionnels représentait 4,06 milliards ; les souscriptions nettes ont porté sur 1,48 milliard d’euros pour les fonds offerts au public et sur 940 millions pour les «Spezialfonds».Jörg Bantleon, président du conseil d’administration, a précisé que la stratégie patrimoniale Bantleon Opportunities a collecté à elle seule 2,18 milliards d’euros l’an dernier, dont 1,16 milliard pour les deux fonds offerts au public Bantleon Opportunities S et L (dont l’encours atteignait fin décembre 1,9 milliard) tandis que 940 millions d’euros allaient à des fonds institutionnels utilisant la même approche.
15/01/2013

Ashcourt Rowan recrute un ancien de Generali

David Palmer, de Generali, a rejoint Ashcourt Rowan en tant que directeur de la branche gestion d’actifs de la société de gestion de fortune, rapporte Investment Week. Il sera placé sous la responsabilité du CEO Jonathan Polin (un ancien d’Ignis AM). David Palmer avait fondé la division gestion de portefeuilles de Generali.
15/01/2013

Henderson renforce son équipe multi-actifs

Paul O’Connor va rejoindre Henderson à la fin du mois en qualité de director au sein de l'équipe multi-actifs de la société, rapporte Investment Week.Paul O’Connor travaillait précédemment chez Mercer en tant qu’associé et responsable de de l’allocation d’actifs pour le pôle Investment Management de Mercer en Europe, au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique (EMOA). Dans ses nouvelles fonctions, il sera notamment responsable de la gestion d’une stratégie institutionnelle «Diversified Growth».
15/01/2013
Fonds

Citi va fournir des services supplémentaires à Franklin Templeton

A Hong-Kong, Citi a annoncé le 8 janvier que Franklin Templeton Investments (Asia) Limited l’a sélectionné pour fournir des services de fiducie, de conservation et d’agent de transfert au Templeton China Opportunities Fund, le premier unit trust QFII d’actions chinoises A de Franklin Templeton.Ce contrat élargit le mandat de services qui lie Citi aux fonds MPF de Franlin Templeton, a précisé David Russell, regional head, Asia Pacific, securities & fund services de Citi.
Fonds
15/01/2013

Inversis renforce son équipe de sélectionneurs de fonds

L’espagnol Inversis Banco vient de renforcer son équipe de sélectionneurs de fonds après le départ de Carlos Fernández, l’ancien responsable de la recherche sur les fonds, rapporte Citywire Global. Juan Hernando lui succède. Il travaille chez Inversis depuis 4 ans, jusqu’ici en tant que gérant et analyste de fonds. La société espagnole a aussi recruté Carlos Moreno Espinosa chez Allianz Popular, en tant qu’analyste de fonds.
15/01/2013
Fonds

Forte collecte pour les fonds suédois en 2012

Les fonds commercialisés en Suède ont enregistré en 2012 des souscriptions nettes de 74,5 milliards de couronnes suédoises (8,6 milliards d’euros), selon les statistiques de l’association suédoise des fonds d’investissement Fondbolagens förening. Cela est bien supérieur aux 16 milliards de couronnes (1,8 milliard d’euros alors) engrangés en 2011.La collecte a été portée par les fonds diversifiés (34,6 milliards de couronnes) et les fonds actions (30,8 milliards de couronnes), tandis que les fonds obligataires avaient aussi le vent en poupe (20,8 milliards de couronnes).En revanche, les fonds monétaires ont vu sortir 5,3 milliards de couronnes, tandis que les hedge funds accusaient des rachats nets de 6,2 milliards de couronnes.Fin 2012, les encours des fonds suédois ressortaient à 2.049 milliards de couronnes, soit 237 milliards d’euros environ, dont 53 % environ dans des fonds actions. Cela représente une hausse de 230 milliards de couronnes sur un an.
Fonds
15/01/2013
Fonds

L’OPCI Swiss Life Dynapierre cède un immeuble de logements

Viveris REIM a annoncé lundi 14 janvier avoir finalisé fin 2012 la vente d’un actif d’habitation à Charenton le Pont, dans le Val de Marne (94) pour le compte de l’OPCI grand public, Swiss Life Dynapierre. Après l’acquisition d’un immeuble de bureaux situé à Paris en juin 2012 et avec cette deuxième cession d’un actif d’habitation, Swiss Life Dynapierre vise un repositionnement vers l’immobilier tertiaire, indique un communiqué.
Fonds
15/01/2013

BNP Paribas Immobilier nomme une chargée de développement

BNP Paribas Immobilier Promotion Immobilier d’Entreprise annonce l’arrivée de Carole de Matharel au poste de directrice générale adjointe en charge du développement. Elle sera sera rattachée à Bruno Pinard, directeur général, en charge de l’activité de Promotion en Immobilier d’Entreprise. L’intéressée était auparavant directrice des acquisitions de Nexity REIM.
15/01/2013
Fonds

Fidelity valorisera quotidiennement ses fonds monétaires

Suivant les exemples de Goldman Sachs Asset Management, de BlackRock et de JPMorgan Asset Management, Fidelity Investments a annoncé dimanche qu’il va publier quotidiennement en j+1, à partir du 16 janvier, la valeur liquidative des parts des fonds monétaires qu’il gère (430 milliards de dollars d’encours). Cela n’impacte en rien le principe de la valeur liquidative constante à 1 dollar qui continue de s’appliquer à toutes les opérations des investisseurs sur les parts des fonds, a précisé Nancy Prior, president of money markets.
Fonds
15/01/2013
Fonds

Global X lance un ETF sur les "junior MLP"

Le 27 novembre, Global X avait sollicité l’agrément de la SEC pour le Global X Junior MLP ETF, dont l’acronyme sur NYSE Arca sera MLPJ, et dont la commission de gestion et donc le taux de frais sur encour seront de 0,75 %. Ce produit, focalisé sur les master limited partnerships ou MLP de 200 millions-2,5 milliards de dollars, répliquera le Solactive Junior MLP Index du francfortois Structured Solutions AG.Selon Index Universe, ce fonds sera admis à la négociation ce 15 janvier.
Fonds
15/01/2013
Fonds

Consultinvest AM lance trois fonds de fonds

Consultinvest Asset Management, la société née de la joint venture entre les groupes Consultinvest et Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna, a lancé trois fonds de fonds flexibles, rapporte Bluerating. Il s’agit de : Consultinvest Multimanager Low Volatility, Consultinvest Multimanager Medium Volatility et Consultinvest Multimanager Opportunities.
Fonds
15/01/2013

UBS GAM lance une soixantaine d’ETF à Milan

UBS Global Asset Management vient d’annoncer le lancement à la Bourse de Milan de 61 ETF répliquant 41 indices actions, obligataires et alternatifs, rapporte Bluerating. Il s’agit de la plus importante cotation simultanée d’ETF dans l’histoire de la Bourse italienne.
15/01/2013

Gottex liquidates its absolute return fund

On 11 January, Gottex Fund Management sent a letter to shareholders in the Gottex Absolute Return fund, stating that a lack of sufficient assets has required it to close the absolute return fund, Funds Europe reports. Assets under management had fallen to EUR4.11m as of 2 January, from EUR12.6m as of the end of June. The last net asset value from the single sub-fund of the Gottex Luxembourg-registered Sicav will be calculated on 15 February.
15/01/2013

UCITS funds post inflows of EUR36bn in November

UCITS registered net inflows of EUR 36 billion in November compared to EUR 41 billion recorded in October, according to the latest European Fund and Asset Management Association’s investment sales and asset data. Long-term UCITS (excluding money market funds) net sales rose in November to EUR 36 billion, from EUR 34 billion in October. Net sales of equity funds amounted to EUR 13 billion, up from EUR 3 billion the previous month, while net inflows into bond funds amounted to EUR 19 billion, compared to EUR 25 billion in October. Balanced funds registered a reduction in net sales month on month of EUR 3 billion versus EUR 5 billion.“Net inflows into bond funds remained the largest contributor to total net sales of UCITS in November. The substantial volume of net sales of equity funds was largely due to the transfer of some insurance company assets into UCITS,” said Bernard Delbecque, director of Economics and Research at EFAMA.Net sales of money market funds broke even in November after recording net inflows of EUR 6 billion in October.Net sales of non-UCITS totalled EUR 8 billion, down from EUR 13 billion in October. Special funds (funds reserved to institutional investors) reduced sharply in November to EUR 3 billion, compared to EUR 10 billion in the previous month.Finally, total net assets of UCITS increased 1.1% in November to EUR 6,316 billion, whilst non-UCITS net assets increased 0.9% to stand at EUR 2,502 billion.
15/01/2013

Santander AM opens branch office in Frankfurt

Santander Asset Management has received a license from BaFin, and in the next few weeks will open a branch office in Frankfurt, to be led by Stefan Jochum (most recently a member of the executive board at Staedel Hanseatic), with 11 employees.The Spanish group on 14 January announced that it already has EUR600m in assets under management for German institutional investors. Santander Asset Management Germany will start up with EUR100m in six open-ended funds (three equity products, three profiled funds) which have been on sale since 2012.Santander already has a network in Germany of 170 branches, and has over 1 million clients in the country.
15/01/2013

German real estate funds invested EUR4.3bn in 2012

Last year, German open-ended real estate funds which are not in liquidation invested EUR4.3bn, in 37 deals, including EUR1.1bn in Germany, EUR725m in Eastern Europe (almost entirely in Poland), EUR740m in the United Kingdom, EUR625m in France, and EUR400m in the United States.According to the Berlin-based rating agency Scope, the largest investments were made by the UniImmo: Deutschland fund from Union Investment (EUR1.3bn), the Deka-ImmobilienEuropa fund (EUR750m), the WestInvest InterSelect fund (also from Deka) and the UniImmo: Europa (EUR500m each).In terms of net subscriptions, Union Investment Real Estate has posted inflows of EUR1.9bn in January-October, putting it ahead of Deka (about EUR1bn) and RREEF (Deutsche Bank) with EUR618m). However, Commerz Real Investment has undergone net redemptions, with outflows of EUR566m from the hausInvest fund.
15/01/2013

Portigon chief economist joins Meriten

Holger Fahrinkrug, who had been chief economist at Portigon, formerly WestLB, will in February join Meriten Investment Management, formerly WestLB-Mellon Asset management (EUR23.6bn in assets), a joint venture in which BNY Mellon recently bought up the remaining stake held by Portigon.At his new firm, Fahrinkrug will again serve as chief economist, and will report to Werner Taiber, CEO. He succeeds Holger Sandte, who has left the firm.
15/01/2013

UIRE recruits an international head

The Hamburg-based asset management firm Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE) has recruited Martin Brühl, who resigned in August from his position as director of Cushman & Wakefield for Germany, as head of his international department, the Immobilien Zeitung reports. He will begin in the newly-created position on 1 May 2013, and will be responsble for the United Kingdom, the Americas and Asia.The appointment comes as part of a reorganisation of investment management at UIRE, which includes three other departments (Europe, shopping centres and hotels). The investment management unit is led by Frank Billand, one of the MDs.
15/01/2013

New CEO for Generali Investments Germany

Shortly after Heinz-Peter Clodius retired as MD of Generali Investments Deutschland KAG on 31 December, the German asset management firm Generali Investments Germany has appointed Ulrich Kauffmann as MD, alongside chairman Heinz Gawlak, Fonds Professionell reports.The new recruit had previously served as CEO of UBS Global Asset Management in Frankfurt. He will take over two roles from Clodius, in administration and operational management.Gawlak will take over Clodius’ other two roles, as director of both marketing and sales.
15/01/2013

Two analysts join Carmignac Gestion

Carmignac Gestion further strengthens its fixed income expertise with the hiring of Pierre Verlé as credit analyst, bringing the fixed income team headed by Rose Ouahba to 6 fully dedicated members. He will take up this role on January 21 and will work under the responsibility of Keith Ney, head of credit. Verlé will be involved in the management of Carmignac’s four fixed income funds Carmignac Global Bond and Carmignac Sécurité, Carmignac Capital Plus and Carmignac Court Terme as well as the fixed income portfolio of flexible funds Carmignac Patrimoine and Carmignac Emerging Patrimoine. Before joining Carmignac Gestion, Pierre Verlé, 33, was co-manager of the distressed debt fund at Butler Investment Managers in London and an analyst covering special situations principal investments at Morgan Stanley. He focused on high yield bonds, bank loans and successfully negotiated numerous debt reorganizations. The asset management firm has also announced the arrival on 4 February of Edward Cole on the emerging market equity team as an analyst responsible for the markets of Eastern Europe the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He will report to Simon Pickard, and will contribute to the management of the Carmignac Emergentes and Carmignac Emerging Discovery funds, as well as the flexible fund Carmignac Emerging Patrimoine, where he will contribute to the development of a theme for improving living conditions in emerging countries. Cole, 37, was co-manager of emerging market funds for six years, first at Ashmore Group, and then and Finisterre Capital. He previously served as an equity strategist for six year, in charge of the EMEA region at JP Morgan Securities.
15/01/2013

CalPERS earns returns of 13.3% for the year to the end of December

The Californian pension fund CalPERS has earned returns of 13.3% for the twelve months to 31 December 2012, according to a statement released on 14 January. For the first six months of the 2012-2013 fiscal year, to the end of December 2012, CalPERS has posted returns of 7.1%, the statement says. The pension fund has recently announced that its performance in the 2011-2012 fiscal year to the end of June was only 0.1%. Results for the twelve months to the end of December were driven by international equities, which gained 17.2%, and real estate, which posted returns of 12.8%. All other asset classes show gains, including private equity (12.2%) and bonds (7.6%). CalPERS has also announced that it has unanimously re-elected Rob Feckner as chairman of its board of directors, and George Diehr as its vice-chairman.
15/01/2013

Charles Vaquier leaves UMR

At the end of March, IPE reports, Charles Vaquier will be leaving his position as CEO of UMR (EUR10.2bn) to become a part-time managing partner at an actuarial consulting firm in Paris. According to Vaquier, the board of directors is seeking an external successor, and may be prepared to recruit an interim CEO until his “final” successor arrives.
15/01/2013

JP Morgan launches a multi-asset class post-market platform

JP Morgan has launched an electronic multi-asset class platform which is able to unite post-market reporting and reporting on settlement and clearance operations on a single platform, Asian Investor reports. The new platform, JP Morgan Markets, allows banks and asset management firms to manage data on OTC transactions in a standard format, which may be sent directly to depositaries.
15/01/2013

Wegelin: two managing partners file lawsuits against Christophe Darbellay

Konrad Hummler and Otto Bruderer, who heads of the former Wegelin bank, are suing Christophe Darbellay. The chairman of the Christian Dmocratic party (PDC) called them “traitors” for announcing that Wegelin’s fraudulent practices in the United States represented the norm among Swiss banks. Darbellay still maintains his position. “The statements of Mr. Hummler and Mr. Bruderer constitute a defamation of the Swiss financial market before the entire world. As a Swiss sitizen and politician and a representative of the Swiss economic centre, I feel that such an attitude is treason,” the member of Swiss parliament says, cited by Béatrice Wertli.
15/01/2013

New QFII and RQFII quotas for 14 asset managers

The Chinese State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has issued new quotas for a total of USD1.4bn to eight asset managers which have been licensed as Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII), including USD500m for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), and CNY18bn for holders of RQFII licenses (Hong Kong yuan-denominated funds), Asian Investor reports. As of 31 December, SAFE had awarded QFII quotas totalling USD37.4b to 169 asset management firms, and CNY67bn to 24 RQFII managers.The other five recipients of QFII quotas are Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, BOC Group Life Assurance Company (USD200m each), KB Asset Management (USD100m), the Church Pension Fund, and Duke University (USD50m each).For RQFII quotas, SAFE has increased by CNY5.8bn the quotas for China Asset Management and E Fund, and CSOP for a further CNY5bn, while ICBC Credit Suisse, China International Fund Management and GF Fund Management have received their first quotas for CNY800m each.
15/01/2013

Aberdeen AM recruits from Schroders

Aberdeen Asset Management has recruited Dimme Lucassen, a manager specialised in real estate, who for ten years had worked in the real estate unit at Schroders, where he had been manager of a real estate fund of funds, Citywire reports. In his new role, Lucassen will concentrate on a euro zone fund of funds, previously managed by Karin Koks, who has recently been appointed as head of international markets at Aberdeen AM.
15/01/2013

Inversis hires for its fund selection team

The Spanish Inversis Banco has added to its team of fund-pickers, following the departure of Carlos Fernández, former head of fund research, Citywire global reports. Juan Hernando will replace him. He has been working at Inversis for 4 years, previously as a manager and fund analyst. The Spanish firm has also recruited Carlos Moreno Espinoza from Allianz Popular, as a fund analyst.
15/01/2013

Kutxa the only firm in the top 10 to post net subscriptions in 2012

Among the top ten Spanish asset management firms by assets, only the Basque Kutxabank posted net inflows last year, with a total of EUR53.66m. The strongest net subscriptions last year were for Aviva Gestión (EUR392.96m), March (EUR269.46m) and Caja Laboral Gestión (EUR206.32m), according to statistics from VDOS Stochastics.However, the top three firms in terms of assets under management posted net redemptions in 2012. Santander Asset Management saw net outflows of EUR3.8376bn, BBVA Asset Management had net redemptions of EUR1.586m, and the champion for net subscriptions in previous years, Invercaixa, has seen outflows of EUR1.2784trn. Ahorro Corporación Gestión, for its part, has posted net redemptions of EUR1.4256bn.In the top 10 by assets in Spanish-registered funds, only two companies managed to increase their AUM. They were Allianz Gestión (+EUR56.6m) and Kutxa Gestión (+EUR30m). But Santander Asset Management has seen a decline in its assets year on year of EUR3.0634bn, to EUR21.1745bn, while assets at BBVA AM were down by EUR727.12m, to EUR19.1392bn. Assets at InverCaixa, for their part, were down by EUR425.6m to EUR17.1741bn.Overall, assets in Spanish-registered funds were down 4.49% in the twelve months to the end of December, at EUR126.83912bn, while net redemptions totalled EUR11.86847bn for the year 2012 as a whole.

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