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21/11/2011
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Fidelity lance un fonds obligataire émergent indexé sur l'inflation

Fidelity Worldwide Investments a lancé le 16 novembre un fonds obligataire indexé sur l’inflation dédié aux marchés émergents, rapporte Investment Week.Le nouveau fonds, géré par Andrew Weir, investira dans la dette souveraine en monnaie locale en Amérique latine, au Moyen Orient, en Europe de l’Est et en Asie afin de tirer parti des pressions inflationnistes à long terme dans les marchés émergents. L’indice de référence est le Barclays Emerging Market Tradable Inflation Linked Index. Le fonds s’adresse à une clientèle d’investisseurs qualifiés. L’investissement minimum pour les parts «Y» est de 1 million de dollars.
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21/11/2011
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iShares lance un ETF sur les préférentielles à l'international

BlackRock a annoncé que sa division iShares a lancé sur la plate-forme NYSE Arca le premier ETF permettant aux investisseurs d’accéder aux marchés des actions préférentielles des pays développés hors Etats-Unis. Il s’agit du iShares S&P International Preferred Stock Index Fund (acronyme : IPFF), qui est le reflet de son pendant américain, le iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index Fund (PFF) qui a déjà drainé 7,2 milliards de dollars d’encours.Le nouveau produit s’adresse aux investisseurs qui recherchent du rendement régulier en dehors du marché américain. Il réplique le S&P International Preferred Stock Index, un indice capi-pondéré «rebalancée» chaque trimestre. Les pondérations les plus fortes sont attribuées actuellement aux titres canadiens, britanniques et néo-zélandais. L’indice affiche un fort biais en faveur des financières.
Fonds
21/11/2011

Gregory McGreevey prend les rênes de l'obligataire chez Invesco

Invesco a annoncé le 17 novembre le recrutement de Gregory McGreevey en qualité de responsable d’Invesco Fixed Income (IFI) à compter du 28 novembre. Dans ses nouvelles fonctions, Gregory McGreevey aura la responsabilité opérationnelle des activités de fixed income. Il sera basé à Atlanta et dépendra directement de Karen Dunn Kelley, senior managing director. Gregory McGreevey travaillait précédemment en qualité de president chez Hartfort Investment Management Company et executive vice president et chief investment officer de The Hartford Financial Services Group. IFI emploie plus de 150 professionnels de l’investissement dans le monde qui géraient à fin septembre plus de 200 milliards de dollars.
21/11/2011

Warren Buffett invite des analystes

Lors de la prochaine assemblée générale de Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett va accueillir pour la première fois des analystes, rapporte le Wall Street Journal. Trois analystes ont été conviés le 5 mai. @font-face { font-family: «Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: «Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Cette ouverture pourrait être le signe que Warren Buffett considère que sa société est quelque peu délaissée par les investisseurs.
21/11/2011

Changement à la tête de la gestion d'actifs chez Bankia

Selon Expansión relayée par Funds People, Bankia a nommé Isabel Bastit, l’une des directrices territoriales de Caja Madrid, à la tête de son pole gestion d’actifs, Bankia Fondos en remplacement de Luis Gabarda, qui devient patron de Bankia Bolsa. L’intéressée est subordonnée à à Fernando Sobrini, qui dirige la banque du particulier.Bankia Fondos est le résultat de la fusion de Gesmadrid, Bancja fondos et Ges Laetana) et affichait fin octobre une encours de 6,34 milliards d’euros, ce qui en fait la quatrième société de gestion espagnole, derrière -dans l’ordre- Santander AM, BBVA AM et Invercaixa.Le pôle banque privée de Bankia Banca Privada dispose de son côté d’une société de gestion, Bankia Banca Privada Gestión, dont l’encours se situe à 1,31 milliard d’euros répartis dans 189 sicav.
21/11/2011
Fonds

Banif lance des fonds de pension profilés

Convaincue des avantages qu’offrent les fonds d’investissement, Banif Banco Privada vient de lancer cinq fonds de pension profilés en unités de compte, des produits dont la gestion est déléguée à Santander Asset Management .Chacun de ces réceptacles de plans d'épargne retraite investira son portefeuille dans 10 à 20 fonds différents, rapporte Funds People.Les profils retenus sont Conservador (80-100 % d’obligations), Moderado (60-100 %), Enquilibrado (40-100 %), Dinámico (10-50 %) et Agressivo (0-60 %). Tous ces produits sont assortis d’une commission de performance de 9 % qui vient s’ajouter à des commissions de gestion échelonnées entre 1,10 % pour le premier et 1,35 % pour les trois derniers, le Moderado affichant 1,20 % de frais de gestion.
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21/11/2011
Fonds

Gabelli lance un fonds coordonné d'arbitrage de fusions

Gamco Investors (31,3 milliards de dollars d’encours fin septembre) a annoncé que sa filiale Gabelli Funds lance un second compartiment coordonné de la sicav luxembourgeoise Gamco International, le Gamco Merger Arbitrage, indique Hedge Week. Ce produit géré par Mario Gabelli et Ralph Rocco sera initialement disponible pour les investisseurs retail en Suisse, en Allemagne et en Italie. Il permet aux investisseurs d’accéder à la stratégie d’arbitrage de fusions de Gamco.
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21/11/2011
Fonds

La Commerzbank fait coter 16 ETC et ETN à Francfort

Depuis le 17 novembre, la Deutsche Börse a admis à la négociation sur sa plate-forme électronique Xetra huit ETC et huit ETN supplémentaires de la Commerzbank.Les ETC sur le pétrole brut qualité Brent et le gaz naturel sont disponibles en bull et en bear, simples ou avec un effet de levier de 2. Ils portent le nombre d’ETC cotés à Francfort à 210 unités, pour un volume de transactions mensuel moyen de 900 millions d’euros.En ce qui concerne les ETN, ils répliquent l'évolution des futures sur l’indice HangSeng et HangSeng China Enterprises, également en long et short ainsi qu’en simple ou avec un effet de levier de 2. Francfort cote ainsi désormais 83 ETN et le volume de transactions sur ce segment se situe en moyenne à 100 millions d’euros par jour.
Fonds
21/11/2011

L‘hémorragie continue chez Groupama

L’assureur Groupama vient d’enregistrer plusieurs défections importantes, rapporte Les Echos. La dernière en date, annoncée vendredi aux représentants du personnel, est celle d’Isabelle Calvez, la directrice des ressources humaines. Helman le Pas de Sécheval, le directeur général de la caisse régionale Groupama Centre-Atlantique, et Frédérique Granado, la directrice de la communication, vont également s’en aller dans les prochaines semaines. Par ailleurs, Michel Baylet, l’un des barons du groupe mutualiste, a démissionné de son poste de vice-président de Groupama SA, selon le quotidien.C’est dans ce contexte que la nouvelle équipe de direction poursuit la revue des actifs que Groupama pourrait éventuellement être contraint de céder. Generali France et Covéa seraient candidats à un rachat de GAN Assurances, selon «Le Journal du dimanche» d’hier, qui mentionne également un intérêt d’AXA et d’Allianz France. Faute d’avoir reçu vendredi réponses sur la situation financière de l’assureur, l’intersyndicale (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CGT) a, de son côté, confirmé la procédure de droit d’alerte.
21/11/2011
Fonds

Hugau Gestion commercialise un "high yield prudent"

Hugau Gestion a lancé le 20 mai High Yield Recovery, un fonds obligataire qu’elle a encore peu activement commercialisé et médiatisé.Il s’agit d’un FCP obligataire coordonné de droit français de 20-25 lignes, des valeurs de sociétés dont l’activité permet de dégager des cash flows récurrents pour faire face à leur dette. Le fonds est un «high yield prudent» qui investit dans des obligations «5B», à la frontière entre la catégorie investissement et du haut rendement (BB-/BBB-), un univers dont la volatilité est de 3,3 % contre 9,1 % pour le high yield.Le fonds, qui n’affiche pour l’instant que 13,1 millions d’euros d’encours (dont 20 % provenant de particuliers) répond aux besoins d’investisseurs qui cherchent un complément de rémunération à un placement obligataire court/moyen terme euro, en essayant de capter la surperformance engendrée par des émetteurs ne souhaitant pas de notation (comme Lagardère), des émetteurs non-investment grade avec profil de catégorie investissement (Pernod), des risques de dégradation déjà anticipés par le marché (Lafarge) ou des aberrations de marché de la zone euro (flux vendeurs sur les corporates PIIGS).L'équipe de gestion essaiera de tirer parti des ventes «réglementaires» d’obligations par des investisseurs contraints de se séparer de titres dès l’annonce d’une dégradation. Elle sera aussi acheteuse lorsque des émetteurs sont passés en haut rendement suite à une opération de croissance externe considérée comme créatrice de valeur mais financée par dette ou, enfin, lorsque les émetteurs sont sur le point d'être promus en «qualité investissement».Caractéristiques Dénomination : Hugau High Yield Recovery Code Isin : FR0011033984Frais de gestion : 1 %
Fonds
21/11/2011

Asian institutionals short ETFs

Sovereign funds and other institutional investors are increasingly turning to short positions on ETFs, Asian Investor reports. This trend is likely to continue in the next few months. Short-selling ETFs is common in the United States, where USD34.9bn in ETF assets were on loan as of the end of September, compared with only USD923m in Asia, and USD15.7bn Europe, according to the financial data provider Data Explorers. ETF providers are in favour of short-selling of their products, since it provides liquidity and increases interest in ETF vehicles. However, hedge funds have not yet embraced this trend in Asia, Asian Investor notes.
21/11/2011

UBS sued by Luxalpha trustees again

On 15 November, at a general shareholders meeting for the Luxembourg Sicav fund Luxalpha, which channelled money to the fraudster Bernard Madoff, trustees announced that it is filing a second lawsuit against UBS, Ernst & Young and Access, Les Echos reports.
21/11/2011

“We will focus on bonds and institutional investors”

Although in 2011, J.P. Morgan Asset Management is expected to succeed in retaining a level of 83% of its 2006 revenues, of which 61% currently come trom equities, it is necessary to adapt to the new market situation and to investor expectations. To this end, JP Morgan AM is planning to scale up its efforts in asset classes which are currently sustaining investor interest in Europe, particularly on the part of institutional investors. These investors are a clearly-identified target for the asset management firm, Jamie Broderick tells Newsmanagers.
21/11/2011

Emerging market debt: Pictet keeps an eye on retail flows

Despite USD500m in net outflows in ten days in September, total assets in the emerging market debt strategies from Pictet Asset Management currently total USD18bn, compared with USD17bn as of the end of September. This total includes, in addition to mandates, five UCITS-compliant, Luxembourg-registered funds with a total of EUR11.18bn, in euros and strong local currencies.The Swiss asset management firm is keeping a close eye on subscriptions. After a period of soft closing, which resulted in a temporary limitation to EUR1m per day in net inflows per client, Pictet has slightly relaxed its vigilance, due to outflows in September. Monitoring is concentrated mostly on the Pictet-Emerging Local Currency Debt fund, which already has EUR6.654bn in assets (as of 14 November).Similarly, the funds managers (14 people in Singapore and London) would like to see an increase in the proportion of institutional assets in the products, as these clients are more “sticky” (loyal), up to 50% from 35% currently, says Eugene Choi, product specialist, in Paris.Choi says the objective is to generate outperformance of 1 to 3 percentage points over a period of 5 years. Management relies on top-down and bottom-up approaches, and Pictet has teams managing currencies and rates separately. Choi also tells Newsmanagers that, despite the significant scale of assets in emerging market debt, Pictet does not yet need to invest in illiquid products such as structured notes.
21/11/2011

Wegelin working on a new bond strategy

The Swiss bank Wegelin, a specialist in quant strategies, is preparing a new investment approach in bonds, in close collaboration with the Ecole polytechnique fédérale in Zurich. The concept is to develop a new strategy on sovereign debt, based on an index which measures the quality of the debt. “In government bonds, the traditional index is not very intelligent, insofar as it gives priority to the quantity of debt. The higher the amount of debt, the higher its weighting. We will rather take into account the quality of the debt,” explains Magne Y. Orgland, managing partner at the Swiss bank. In addition to the quality of the debt, Orgland also insists on the importance of variable liquidity. Based on these two essential factors, a range may be created in the first month of 2012. Assets under management at the bank total about CHF25bn, olf which two thirds are in private banking, and one third from institutional clients. Since the beginning of the year, inflows have been near zero, Orgland says. This development is linked to a desire on the part of the bank no longer to sers US clients, due to the FACTA regulations. That process is underway, and means that the firm will need to replace CHF500m in assets. In France, the bank has gained some notoriety for its double product range: on the one hand, its flagship strategy Active Indexing, available in France since November 2010, and on the other the Global Diversification strategy, launched in mid-June 2011, which is based on an equally-weighted risk allocation. Assets under management in the Global Diversification fund total slightly over EUR200m, while assets in the Active Indexing strategy total about EUR1.5bn.
21/11/2011

BVK awards a "discovery" mandate to UBS Real Estate

The Bavarian pension fund for self-employed persons Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK, EUR50bn in assets) on 16 November awarded the Munich-based UBS Real Estate Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbh an initial mandate of EUR500m for a real estate fund of funds. The fund will invest in core portfolio funds, as well as in niche products, with the objective of avoiding overlap with other real estate investments by BVK as much as possible.In order to do that, the management firm will explore new segments, such as hotels, parking facilities, properties under construction, and major shopping centres. It may also move into risk classes such as “value add” and “opportunistic.”BVK has stipulated that UBS RE much also invest in funds which themselves invest in BRIC coutnries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), where BVK does not yet have any holdings. Daniel Just, vice-chairman of the managing board and chief investment officer at BVK, says that the mandate comes as an addition to direct real estate investments (which currently total EUR3.2bn), and investments in institutional real estate funds (EUR2.7bn).
21/11/2011

Changes at the top in asset management at Bankia

Expansión relays reports in Funds People that Bankia has appointed Isabel Bastit, one of the regional heads at Caja Madrid, to head of its asset management unit, Bankia Fondos, replacing Luis Gabarda, who becomes head of Bankia Bolsa. Bastit will report to Fernando Sobrini, head of the retail bank. Bankia Fondos was born of the merger of Gesmadrid, Bancja Fondos and Ges Laetana, and has assets under management as of the end of October of EUR6.34bn, making it the fourth-largest Spanish asset management firm, after, in order, Santander, AM, BBVA AM, and Invercaixa. The private banking unit of Bankia Banca Privada has an asset management firm of its own, Bankia Banca Privada Gestión, which has assets of EUR1.31bn in 189 Sicav funds.
21/11/2011

Five years in prison for a hedge fund manager

Joseph “Skip” Skowron III, former hedge fund manager at FrontPoint Partners, was sentenced on 18 November to five years in prison, the Wall Street Journal reports.Skowron confessed to using insider information in 2008 about the results of clinical trials of Hepatitis C medication from Human Genome Sciences, which was supplied to him by a French doctor, Yves Benhamou. The insider information allowed the manager to avoid USD30m in trading losses.
21/11/2011

MF Global: two pension funds sue seven banks

The IBEW Local 90 Pension Fund and the Plumbers & Pipefitters’ Local #562 Pension fund have sued seven banks which the two US pension funds accuse of having misled them about MF Global’s USD6.3bn exposure to European government debt, the Telegraph reports. The defendants are RBS, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup and Jefferies.
21/11/2011

Blackstone acquires a large distressed real estate portfolio

One of the real estate funds from Morgan Stanley has opted to sell Blackstone a portfolio of 16 office properties (3 million square feet), rather than pay off debts of USD820m which were set to mature next month, the Wall Street Journal reports. The properties were added to the portfolios of Morgan Stanley upon the acquisition of the Glenborough Realty Trust in 2006.Blackstone already holds about USD225m in junior debt from Glenborough, which it acquired over a year in small instalments from banks and insurers. That now allows it to take control of the properties, and not to take on the USD600m in debt.Blackstone manages USD41bn in real estate assets, and has already raised USD4.6bn for a global real estate fund, for which it is aiming for total volume of USD10bn.
21/11/2011

Gregory McGreevey takes over as head of bonds at Invesco

Invesco on 17 November announced the recruitment of Gregory McGreevey as head of Invesco Fixed Income (IFI), effective from 28 November. In his new role, McGreevey will have operational responsibility for fixed income activities. He will be based in Atlanta, and will report directly to Karen Dunn Kelley, senior managing director. McGreevey has previously worked as chairman of Hartford Investment Management Company, and executive vice president and chief investment officer at The Hartford Financial Services Group. IFI employs more than 150 investment professionals worldwide, who as of the end of September, managed over USD200bn in assets.
21/11/2011

Banif offers profiled pension funds

Banif Banco Privada, convinced of the advantages that investment funds offer, has launched five unit-linked profiled pension funds, which will be managed by Santander Asset Management. Each retirement savings receptacle product will invest its portfolio in 10 to 20 different funds, Funds People reports. The profiles selected are Conservador (80-100% bonds), Moderado (60-100%), Equilibrado (40-100%), Dinámico (10-50%), and Agressivo (0-60%). All of these products carry a performance commission of 9%, in addition to management commissions ranging from 1.10% for the first product to 1.35% for the last three, while the Moderado fund charges management fees of 1.20%.
21/11/2011

Hedge fund strategies rebound in October

Hedge fund strategies recovered in October, according to monthly statistics from the Edhec-Risk Institute. Event-driven and long/short equity strategies posted gains of 2.97% and 4.30%, respectively, their best results of recent years. Returns have not entirely offset losses in September, nor since the beginning of the year, as event-driven shows losses of 2.8%, and long/short equity shows losses of 3.8%. Despite its limited exposure, the market neutral strategy has earned gains of 1.58%, which offset losses in September. Since the beginning of this year, the strategy has gained 0.8%. Good results for emerging markets strategies and distressed securities have also brought returns of 3.91% and 2.98%. Funds of funds earned returns of 1.22% in October, but since the beginning of the year, they show losses of 4.2%.
21/11/2011

iShares launches an ETF of international preferential equities

BlackRock has announced that its iShares division has launched the first ETF which allows investors access to preferential equities from developed countries outside the United States on the NYSE Arca platform. The fund is the iShares S&P International Preferred Stock Index Fund (acronym: IPFF), which is the international version of its US sibling, the iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index Fund (PFF), which has already attracted USD7.2bn in assets.The new product is aimed at investors seeking regular returns outside the US market. It replicates the S&P International Preferred Stock Index, a cap-weighted index, which is “rebalanced” every quarter. The heaviest exposures are currently to Canadian, British and New Zealand equities. The index has a strong bias in favour of the financial sector.
21/11/2011

Fidelity launches an emerging markets inflation-linked bond fund

Fidelity Worldwide on 16 November launched an inflation-linked bond fund dedicated to emerging markets, Investment Week reports. The new fund, managed by Andrew Weir, will invest in government debt in local currencies in Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia, in order to benefit from long-term inflationary movements in emerging markets. The benchmark index is the Barclays Emerging Market Tradable Inflation Linked Index. The fund is aimed at qualified investor clients. The minimal investment for “Y” class shares is USD1m.
21/11/2011

Hugau Gestion releases a prudent high yield product

Although Monéterme remains the top fund from the asset management firm, with EUR600m in assets and EUR200m in net inflows since the beginning of the year, Hugau Gestion has ambitions for its Obli 1-3 fund, even though it has seen outflows of about EUR100m, to EUR200m, and for tis High Yield Recovery fund, launched on 20 May, but still not actively promoted or marketed.The new product is an UCITS-compliant, French-registered FCP fund, with 20-25 positions, in companies whose activities bring recurring cash flows to pay off debts. The fund is a prudent high yield fund, which invests in “5B” bonds, on the line between investment grade and high yield (BB-/BBB-), a universe where volatility is 3.3%, compared with 9.1% for high yield.The fund, which so far has only EUR13.1m in assets (of which 20% come from retail investors), meets the needs of investors who are seeking additional income beyond a short/mid term euro bond investment, by trying to capture outperformance from issuers who choose not to be rated (such as Lagardère), non investment-grade issuers with investment grade profiles (Pernod), default risks which have already been anticipated by the market (Lafarge), and aberrations in the euro zone (short flows on PIIGS corporates).The management team will make an effort to benefit from regulatory sales of bonds by investors who are required to unload assets when downgrades are announced. It will also buy when issuers are moved to high yield following external growth deals which are estimated to create value, but which are financed through debt, and when issuers are about to be promoted to investment grade.CharacteristicsName: Hugau High Yield RecoveryISIN code: FR0011033984Management fees: 1%
21/11/2011

Warren Buffett invites analysts

Warren Buffet is going to welcome analysts for the first time at Berkshire Hathaway’s next annual meeting, according to the Wall Street Journal. Three research analysts have been invited on May 5. It might be a sign he views his company as overlooked by investors.
21/11/2011

Hedge funds circle over MF Global

The Wall Street Journal reports that the hedge fund management firm Centerbridge Partners (USD10bn in assets) acquired bank debts from MF Global for USD15m, just after its collapse. David Tepper, who manages about USD14bn at Appaloosa Management, has also invested nearly USD50m in equities, bonds and bank debts from MF Global. The hedge fund management firm Elliott Management is on the creditors’ boardat MF Glboal, and is reported to hold a significant amount of MF Global debts. Other hedge funds also say they have bought MF Global shares, which were trading at USD0.13 per share on Friday, compared with USD8.00 six months ago. These are very high risk bets, and that is why hedge funds are engaging less than 1% of their portfolios. But it could be a very good deal for them, if at least part of the missing USD600m are found.
21/11/2011

Axa IM preparing an international strategic bond fund

The British press reports that the local arm of Axa IM has announced plans to place an international strategic bond fund which will be launched in 2012 to Nick Hayes, formerly of New Star and Henderson, who since June 2010 has been manager of the Axa Sterling Strategic Bond Fund. Hayes will be assisted by Chris Iggo, CIO for bonds.
21/11/2011

JO Hambro plans to launch a long/short fund

The British asset management firm JP Hambro is planning to launch a long/short fund, but has no plans to move into the fixed income sector, or absolute returns, Money Marketing reports. “We are going to launch a long/short fund. That’s a strategy that falls within our area of expertise, and which could represent a way to diversify our offerings. We have launched four new funds in the past twelve months, and launching new products next year is unlikely. We remain an equity management firm, and we are not going to get involved in fixed income,” says Gavin Rochussen, CEO of JP Hambro.

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