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27/02/2012

Barclays Corporate recrute un directeur

Barclays Corporate a recruté Richard Garritt au poste de director responsable des relations avec la clientèle des fonds et les gestionnaires d’actifs, rapporte Hedgeweek. Son équipe est basée à New York.
27/02/2012

Hausse des souscriptions nettes de Catella

Le groupe financier nordique Catella a enregistré en 2011 des souscriptions nettes de 794 millions de couronnes suédoises contre 273 millions en 2010. Le bénéfice avant impôts est ressorti à 21 millions, en légère baisse par rapport aux 25 millions de 2010.En gestion d’actifs, Catella rappelle avoir créé une filiale de gestion de fortune en Suède dans le courant de l’année dernière. En parallèle, une revue des activités suédoises de fonds a été mise sur les rails afin de renouveler l’offre de fonds et les méthodes de travail. En Allemagne, plusieurs fonds immobiliers ont été lancés. Enfin, Catella a acquis une participation minoritaire dans Informed Portfolio Management.
27/02/2012

Nikko AM recrute chez Fidelity

Joyce Koh vient de rejoindre Nikko Asset Management Asia en qualité de responsable du marketing pour la zone Asie du Sud-Est, rapporte Investment Europe.Joyce Koh travaillait précédemment chez Fidelity à Singapour où elle s’occupait déjà du marketing.
27/02/2012
Fonds

Blackstone lève 10 milliards de dollars

Pour son septième fonds immobilier, Blackstone Group a levé plus de 10 milliards de dollars en moins d’un an, rapporte The Wall Street Journal. Le capital-investisseur compte drainer 2 milliards de dollars supplémentaires d’ici à la fin de 2012.
Fonds
27/02/2012

Bellevue Group dans le rouge vif en 2011

Bellevue Group a fait état pour l’exercice 2011 d’une perte de 64,7 millions de francs suisses après un bénéfice de 1,52 million de francs en 2010, selon un communiqué publié le 27 février. Le pôle gestion d’actifs, Bellevue Asset Management, a terminé l’année sur une perte nette de 31,5 millions de francs.Les actifs sous gestion du groupe s’élevaient fin décembre à 3,2 milliards de francs contre 4,1 milliards de francs un an plus tôt. La décollecte nette a atteint 330 millions de francs.Le groupe annonce par ailleurs la nomination à compter du 1er mars 2012 de Urs Baumann au poste de CEO de Bellevue Group en remplacement de Martin Bisang, également co-fondateur de la société.
27/02/2012
Fonds

La CNMV enregistre des fonds de Banca Civica et de Banif

Le 17 février, en plus des produits obligataires garantis de Unnim et de Bankia (voir Newsmanagers des 23 et 24, la CNMV a donné son agrément au fonds obligataire à échéance Banca Civica Renta Fija 2014, qui offre un rendement annuel de 3,26 % au 3 octobre 2014, et au fonds diversifié Banif Inversión Global de Santander Asset Management.CaractéristiquesDénomination: Banca Civica Renta Fija 2014, FICode Isin : ES0115712012Commission de gestion : 0,8 % (parts A)0,6 % (parts B)Dénomination : Banif Inversion Global, FICode isin : ES011403306Commission de gestion 1,49 %Commission de performance : 9 %
Fonds
27/02/2012
Fonds

Jörgen Hartmann quitte la gestion d’un fonds

Jörgen Hartmann abandonne la gestion du fonds DWS Europe Convergence Bonds, dont il était gérant principal, révèle Citywire. Le produit a été confié à Xueming Song, qui travaille chez DWS depuis 15 ans. Jörgen Hartmann reste chez DWS mais se concentrera sur les fonds institutionnels et les mandats, précise le site Internet.
Fonds
27/02/2012
Fonds

Temps difficile pour le Morgan Stanley P2 Value

Le fonds immobilier offert au public Morgan Stanley P2 Value* de l’allemand Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investment GmbH a vendu, encore à perte selon le Financial Times Deutschland, l’immeuble de bureaux Trianon de Francfort (qui abrite le siège du gestionnaire central des caisses d'épargne, la Dekabank).Cela signifie en d’autres termes que la valeur liquidative de la part va encore être diminuée alors qu’elle l’a de nouveau été, de 41 cents (à 21,98 euros) le 16 février suite à la révision à la baisse de l’estimation de trois actifs logistiques en Espagne (La Granada 1, II et III) et de l’immeuble de bureaux Flight Forum (11.500 mètres carrés) à Eindhoven.Le fonds* affiche encore un encours de 648,1 millions d’euros (23 février). Le 26 octobre 2010, le gestionnaire a décidé de liquider ce produit d’ici au 30 septembre 2013. En octobre 2010, le fonds pesait encore 852 millions et la valeur liquidative de la part se situait à 27,54 euros.(*) DE000A0F6G89
Fonds
27/02/2012

"Je suis convaincu que les indices dits intelligents sont appelés à se développer"

En première ligne lors du débat sur les ETF et leurs modes de réplication, le président de Lyxor AM Alain Dubois se félicite des recommandations de l'Esma (1) publiées par la suite qui ont conduit à ramener le calme. Le dirigeant revient en détail sur les propositions concernant les ETF, sur les points positifs et sur ce qui pourrait encore être amélioré. Il s'exprime aussi sur la santé de sa maison et sur ses développements en matière de produits. Avec une conviction : le bel avenir des indices dits intelligents...
27/02/2012

RiverNorth to close an income fund

The asset management firm RiverNorth, based in Chicago, is planning to close the RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Income Fund, whose assets have far outstripped USD800m, with USD887m as of 24 February, on 30 March. The fund reached its limit in the space of 14 months. “This is a remarkable result, particularly in the current market environment,” the chief investment officer at RiverNorth, Patrick Galley, says in a statement.
27/02/2012

MSIM closes a mortgage fund with USD450m

The Morgan Stanley Opportunistic Mortgage Income Fund LP, specialised in mortgage-backed securities, has reached its USD450m investment capacity, and has been closed to new investors. The fund from Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) will be managed by the group of bond managers at MSIM. Sheila Huang, head of the mortgage team at the US asset management firm, says that the strategy combines exclusive analysis of mortgage-backsed securities with a hedging strategy covering the entire portfolio.
27/02/2012

Pimco to launch an ETF based on its flagship fund

Pimco will on Thursday launch an actively-managed ETF based on its flagship Total Return Fund, the Financial Times reports. The new product, which will publish its positions on a daily basis, will also provide bond managers an insight into the thinking of Bill Gross, who has been manager of the USD250bn fund since 1987.
27/02/2012

Jörgen Hartmann quits management of a fund

Jörgen Hartmann will no longer manage the DWS Europe Convergence Bonds fund, on which he had been principal manager, Citywire reports. The product has been entrusted to Xueming Song, who has been working at DWS for 15 years. Hartmann will remain at DWS, but will concentrate on institutional funds and mandates, the website reports.
27/02/2012

Rough ride for Morgan Stanley P2 Value

The open-ended real estate fund Morgan Stanley P2 Value (DE000A0F6G89) from the German asset management firm Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investment GmbH has sold the Trianon office property in Frankfurt (home to the headquarters of the central asset management firm for the German savings banks, DekaBank), for a loss, Financial Times Deutschland reports.This means, in other words, that the net asset value of shares in the fund will be further reduced, on the heels of another recent reduction of 41 cents (to EUR21.68) as of 16 February, following a downward revision to the estimated value of three logistical properties in Spain (La Granada I, II and III), and the Flight Forum office property (11,500 square metres) in Eindhoven. The fund still has assets of EUR648.1m as of 23 February. On 26 October 2010, the asset management firm decided to liquidate the product by 30 September 2013, the fund still had assets of EUR852m, and the net asset value per share was EUR27.54.
27/02/2012

BlackRock increases dividends and buys back shares

The board of directors at BlackRock has approved a 9% increase in the quarterly dividend on ordinary shares to USD1.50 per share, payable on 23 March, to shareholders registered on 7 March.Meanwhile, the board of directors has voted to extend its share buyback program, approved in July 2010, to a maximum of 5 million ordinary shares. The program still had 3.6 million shares in remaining capacity as of 31 December 2011.
27/02/2012

One financial adviser in five uses alternative management

Nearly 80% of financial advisers in the United States use alternative strategies, according to a study by Cogent Research, Financial Advisor reports. The study finds that managers at major brokerage firms are the largest users of alternative products (84%), followed by independent broker-dealers (78%) and advisers employed at banks (75%). Advisers dedicate an average of 11% of their assets under management to alternative asset classes. About 45% of participants in the study say they are “light” users of alternative products (between 1% and 5% of assets under management), but 15% describe themselves as “heavy” users of alternative vehicles, with an allocation of at least 15% to these products.
27/02/2012

Mutual funds losing momentum

A growing number of retail investors are leaving traditional mutual funds behind in favour of other products such as ETFs, according to the 2012 Investor Brandscape(R) annual study by Cogent Research, covering a sample of 4,000 high net worth investors. This development favours market consolidation. The study finds that only 71% of investors with at least USD100,000 to invest have mutual funds in their portfolios, compared with USD75% in 2010. The percentage of assets investors have placed in mutual funds now comes to only 26% of total assets invested as of the end of 2011, compared with 33% in 2010. A corollary of this development is that the number of fund providers contacted by investors came out to 1.56 compared with 1.9 previously. The study finds that only four fund providers, Schwab/Laudus Funds, JP Morgan Funds, ING Funds and Fidelity Adsvisor Funds, have managed to increase their market penetration and to improve their ratio of primary clients.
27/02/2012

Net subscriptions up at Catella

The Scandianvian financial services group Catella has recorded net inflows in 2011 of SEK794m, compared with SEK273m in 2010. Pre-tax profits totalled SEK21m, down slightly compared with SEK25m in 2010. In asset management, Catella states that it founded a wealth management affiliate in Sweden last year. Meanwhile, a review of Swedish fund activities was launched, in order to renovate the fund product range and working methods. In Germany, several real estate funds have been launched. Catella has also acquired a minority stake in Informed Portfolio Management.
27/02/2012

Nikko AM recruits a head from Fidelity

Joyce Koh has joined Nikko Asset Management Asia as head of marketing for the South-East Asia region, Investment Europe reports. Koh had previously worked at Fidelity in Singapore, where she worked in marketing.
27/02/2012

Vanguard running a win-win business model

The Vanguard group finished the year 2011 with good momentum. It finished the fiscal year in top form in terms of inflows to two long-term mutual funds, and as a leader in inflows to ETF funds, according to Cerulli Associates. The Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund and Total Stock Market Index Fund earned respective net inflows of USD14.4bn and USD14.32bn, putting them ahead of the Templeton Global Bond Fund and the CoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund. The Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund has also posted inflows of USD8.2bn, for inflows about USD3bn higher than for the iShares MSCI EAFE Index ETF. The secret of Vanguard’s success is its unique model, managing ETFs and mutual funds and a good part of its bond assets internally. Actively-managed equity strategies are managed by external sub-advisers, including Wellington Management. Vanguard’s distribution capacities, its strong brand and its status as a low-cost provider have also contributed to the success of the group in 2011. Assets under management as of the end of December 2011 totalled about USD1.5trn, of which 62.6% are passively-managed assets, and 37.4% were actively managed. Assets under passive management attracted more than USD88bn in inflows in 2011.
27/02/2012

Morgan Stanley to provide clearing for OTC derivatives from BlackRock

Morgan Stanley, which is already the clearing broker for the first effective transactions issued by BlackRock, has been selected by the asset management firm as one of its primary clearing brokers for transactions on over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. The Dodd-Frank law required businesses like BlackRock to clear their derivatives for many of their funds within 12 to 18 months, and complying with the legislation in advance gives the firm a competitive advantage.Morgan Stanley and BlackRock say they have cooperated with the various professionals and regulators to develop a market structure which takes into account the interests of all market operators.Morgan Stanley already offers OTC derivative clearing services for credit default swaps at ICE Clear Credit and CME Group, and for interest rate swaps at LCH SwapClear and CME Group.
27/02/2012

Barclays Corporate recruits a director

Barclays Corporate has recruited Richard Garritt as director in charge of relations with fund clients and asset managers, Hedgeweek reports. His team is based in New York.
27/02/2012

Aberdeen renames its alternative management unit

Aberdeen Asset Management has changed the name of its Alternative Investment Strategies business to Aberdeen Solutions.The new name «better reflects the component strategies within the business, but also importantly emphasises the Group’s capability in combining these investment tools into meeting client needs whether expressed as relative, absolute or real return, or a liability driven outcome», according to a press release. Within Aberdeen Solutions, the Group currently manages around EUR30 billion (out of a total of EUR208bn) in a range of pooled fund and segregated mandates falling within the following strategies - multi-asset, multi-manager, passive, fund of hedge funds, fund of private equity funds and pan-alternatives - to a variety of benchmarks and objectives.
27/02/2012

CNMV registers Banca Civica and Banif funds

On 17 February, in addition to guaranteed products from Unnim and Bankia (see Newsmanagers of 23 and 24 February), the CNMV also issued licenses to the maturity bond fund Banca Civica Renta Fija 2014, which offers annual returns of 3.26% on 3 October 2014, and to the diversified fund Banif Inversión Global from Santander Asset Management.CharacteristicsName: Banca Civica Renta Fija 2014, FIISIN code: ES0115712012Management commission: 0.8% (A share class)0.6% (B share class)Name: Banif Inversion Global, FIISIN code: ES011403306Management commission: 1.49%Performance commission: 9%
27/02/2012

Heavy losses for Bellevue Group in 2011

Bellevue Group has reported a loss of CHF64.7m for the 2011 fiscal year, after profits of CHF1.52m in 2010, according to a statement published on 27 February. The asset management unit, Bellevue Asset Management, finished the year with a net loss of CHF31.5m.Assets under management at the group as of the end of December totalled CHF3.2bn, compared with CHF4.1bn one year earlier. Net outflows totalled CHF330m.The group has also announced the appointment of Urs Baumann as CEO of Bellevue Group, effective from 1 March, replacing Martin Bisang, also a co-founder of the firm.
27/02/2012

Regulator suspends activities of a “Japanese Madoff”

On Friday, the Japanese regulator ordered the asset management firm AIJ Investment Advisors Co., which had lost most of the JPY183bn (USD2.3bn) in pension assets entrusted to it, to cease its operations, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since 2009, the Rating & Investment Information Inc agency had been issuing warnings about “unnaturally stable returns” at AIJ in a falling market.
27/02/2012

Japan to investigate asset management firms

The Japanese financial regulatory will investigate the 263 asset management firms in the country, after one of them, AIJ Investment Advisors, revealed that it had lost JPY200bn (about USD2.5bn) in assets entrusted to it. The asset management firm admitted that it could not explain to investors what had happened to their money. The regulator has ordered AIJ, which managed the pension assets of over 100 businesses, to cease its activities for a month, while the country’s surveillance commission continued its investigation of the structure.
27/02/2012

Luxalpha: UBS on the hot seat again

The second examining chamber of the Paris court of appeals has asked Renaud Van Ruymbecke, the investigating judge in charge of the criminal case related to the Madoff affair, ro concentrate on the roles and responsibilities of UBS, the asset management firm and depository bank for Luxalpha, the Luxembourg-registered Sicav which channelled assets from most of the French victims of the pyramid scheme orchestrated by the fraudster Bernard Madoff, Les Echos reports. The order, issued a week ago at the initiative of the prosecutor’s office and some civil parties who had appealed verdicts by the investigating judge, who had declined to enforce legal requests, asks clear questions about the penal responsibility of UBS for the Sicav fund. The examining chamber is seeking to determine “whether UBS had the means to anticipate fraudulent behaviour by Mr. Madoff and BMIS [his brokerage firm – ed].” The financial regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), will be consulted by the investigating judge.
27/02/2012

“I am convinced that 'intelligent' indices will develop”

Alain Dubois, chairman of Lyxor AM, in the frontlines on the debate over ETFs and their modes of replication, gives a detailed analysis of the proposals of the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) for ETF regulations, and discusses what could still be improved. Dubois also talks about the good health of his own asset management firm and about product developments. He is focused on a single conviction: a bright future awaits intelligent indices.

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