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15/03/2011
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Progression de 15% des actifs des hedge funds à Hong Kong

Selon la Securities and Futures Commission de Hong Kong, les actifs des hedge funds se sont accrus de presque 15% l’an dernier à 63,2 milliards de dollars. Cette évolution est due en grande partie à l’arrivée à Hong Kong de fonds de gestion alternative de plus grande taille.Le nombre de fonds est tombé à 538 en septembre 2010 contre 542 un an plus tôt, la proportion des gérants à la tête de stratégies avec des actifs compris entre 101 millions et 500 millions passant de 25,7% en 2009 à 29,5% l’an dernier. Parallèlement, les gérants à la tête de stratégies inférieures à 100 millions de dollars représentaient 57,4% du total en 2010, contre 60,7% l’année précédente. Les proportions des hedge funds gérant entre 501 millions et 1 milliard d’une part, et plus d’un milliard d’autre part sont demeurées stables à respectivement 7,2% et 5,9%. La collecte est dominée par les investisseurs étrangers, notamment américains (36,1% et européens (24,3%).
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15/03/2011

Bon début d'année pour Invesco en Asie

Selon Asian Investor, Invesco a enregistré une collecte nette de 1,5 milliard de dollars environ sur les deux premiers mois de l’année 2011 auprès des investisseurs institutionnels et retail de la zone Asie-Pacifique, contre 2,2 milliards de dollars sur l’ensemble de l’année 2010.Le patron de l’Asie-Pacifique pour Invesco, Andrew Lo, estime qu’il y aura des hauts et des bas en 2011 mais ajoute que la clientèle affiche de meilleures dispositions en raison de l’amélioration des marchés depuis 2009 et de la clarification progressive des modifications de la réglementation en matière de distribution.A fin septembre 2010, les actifs sous gestion d’Invesco dans la zone Asie-Pacifique s’inscrivaient à environ 54,2 milliards de dollars, en progression de 48% par rapport à 2009.
15/03/2011

Repsol vend à Lazard AM 2,9 % d'YPF

Dans un avis à la CNMV, Repsol a annoncé avoir vendu 3,83 % de sa filiale argentine YPF à des fonds d’investissement, dont 2,9 % à Lazard Asset Management, au prix de 42,40 dollars par action. Cette transaction représente au total 639 millions de dollars, ce qui valorise YPF à près de 16,68 milliards de dollars. La participation acquise par Lazard AM correspond à 484 millions de dollars, celle achetée par les autres fonds représente 155 millions de dollars.De plus, le pétrolier espagnol indique avoir ménagé pour 6 mois à Lazard AM une possibilité de cession non transmissible des actions que le gestionnaire a achetées, au même prix de 42,40 dollars par action.
15/03/2011

Les sociétés d'assurance vie japonaises vont devoir liquider leurs actifs à l'étranger

Relevant que les étrangers ont été acheteurs d’actions japonaises depuis deux ans à hauteur de 824 milliards de yens (10 milliards de dollars), une analyse de Crédit Agricole CIB reprise par L’Agefi, note que la récente hausse du yen s’explique par les anticipations de rapatriement des flux par les sociétés d’assurance vie japonaises, qui devront liquider leurs actifs à l'étranger pour assurer leurs paiements au Japon après le tremblement de terre et les tsunamis. D’après la banque, le potentiel est énorme vu que le pays détient près de 6.800 milliards de dollars à l'étranger, à rapporter aux premières estimations des pertes assurées, qui s'élèveraient jusqu'à 35 milliards.
15/03/2011

SPGP réorganise sa gestion

Après l’information parue vendredi 11 mars sur le site Citywire annonçant le départ de Frédéric Motte et Jérôme Archambeaud de la société de gestion SPGP, Xavier Roulet, son président directeur général, a confirmé à Newsmanagers que les deux gérants de Focus Europa, l’un des fonds phares de la gamme, avaient remis leurs démissions le 1er février dernier. La nouvelle dans la presse aura précipité les événements, les deux gérants étant dispensés depuis hier, 14 mars, d’aller au terme de leur préavis «pour ne pas semer le trouble chez les souscripteurs», a précisé Xavier Roulet. Et ce d’autant que des institutionnels et des particuliers sont investis dans le fonds. En pratique, la gestion de Focus Europa, composé de grandes valeurs du vieux Continent, est reprise par Marie-Jeanne Missoffe qui gère déjà un autre fonds européen de la maison, investi dans des petites et moyennes capitalisations. La reprise en mains doit être durable, Xavier Roulet ayant prévenu qu’aucun recrutement n'était prévu pour remplacer les deux gérants démissionnaires.Par ailleurs, selon nos informations, Frédéric Motte et Jérôme Archambeaud ont l’intention de créer leur propre société de gestion et auraient d’ores et déjà déposé un dossier auprès de l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
15/03/2011

Hedge funds made 1.17% in February, according to BarclayHedge

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The composite BarclayHedge index of hedge funds, including results for 1,680 funds which had published results as of 14 March, shows average returns of 1.17% for February, which brings the total since the beginning of the year to 1.63%.Two strategies saw losses last month: emerging markets (246 funds), at 0.94%, and equity short bias (7 funds), with 2.91%. However, equity long bias gained 2.74%, and technologies (24 funds) made 2.07%.In the first two months of the year, technologies and distressed securities (26 funds) posted respective gains of 4.29% and 4.03%. At the other end of the spectrum, equity short bias and emerging markets lost 3.61% and 1.48%, respectively, in January-February.
15/03/2011

HSBC offers administration services for Islamic funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The British HSBC group has launched a range of administration services for Islamic fund managers, in order to strengthen its market share in Sharia-compliant funds, a market worth USD50bn to USD60bn, which has grown only minimally since 2009.HSBC Amanah Services offers administration and accounting, custody, transfer agency and treasury services on 17 markets in the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the Americas.According to the Asian Development Bank, the Islamic finance sector now total about USD1trn, but the Islamic fund market represents only about 5% of this total, according to a 2010 Ernst & Young report entitled “Islamic Funds and Investments.”
15/03/2011

BNP Paribas reopens two funds frozen in November

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The two funds of hedge funds Opportunity and Security, frozen in November 2010, returned to trading on 10 March, Les Echos reports. Harewood AM, an affiliate of BNP Paribas, will now manage the funds. The return to trading, as well as the transfer of the management of the funds to Harewood AM, will officially be announced by BNP Paribas this morning. The announcement will be made at the occasion of the merger of Harewood AM with the Sigma management unit of BNP Paribas Asset Management. According to internal documents obtained by Les Echos, the funds concerned, Serenity and Opportunity, have returned to trading with shorter redemption notices.
15/03/2011

Scandinavian investors boost inflows in Europe

The movement of Nordic investors’ money into mutual funds outpaced most other European markets in January, totalling EUR4.1bn, and really caught the eye while those in most other markets were far more cautious, Lipper FMI wrote in its latest Fund Flash.European inflows hit EUR23.1bn in January (excluding money market funds), rising for the second month in a row. With money market activity included, total industry sales rose from -EUR2.5bn (a net outflow) to EUR13.5bn.Net sales for equity funds dropped to EUR15.2bn in January (EUR20.9bn last month), while redemptions from bond funds improved to -EUR2.1bn (up from -EUR6.6bn).Absolute return funds enjoyed a healthy start to 2011 with asset allocation funds seeing net sales of EUR2.9bn, Lipper underlines. There are likely to be a lot more of these products being launched this year.Franklin Templeton attracted the greatest inflows this month (EUR2.6bn excluding money market funds), ahead of BlackRock (EUR2.4bn) and UBS (EUR1.9bn) in second and third.While Templeton’s success is still dominated by appetite for its bond range, flows into the latter two came primarily into their equity products. Interestingly, when ETF activity is stripped out, UBS was the best-selling equity fund manager this month, Lipper adds.
15/03/2011

Credit Suisse outsources fund of fund administration in Guernsey

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Hedgeweek reports that Credit Suisse is planning to outsource administration of its funds of funds domiciled in Guernsey. The transfer will be completed in the next six months, but Credit Suisse did not disclose the name of the provider, or the amount of assets concerned.
15/03/2011

Deutsche Bank sells its twin towers to DWS

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Deutsche Bank on 14 March announced that it has sold its twin office towers to a closed real estate investment fund from DWS. The German bank has reportedly been planning to sell its headquarters for several months (Newsmanagers of 6 December 2010). The sale price is expected to total about EUR600m, Deutsche Bank says in a statement.From mid-May, the DWS fund will be available exclusively to private investors at Deutsche Bank. The properties will continue to operate as the headquarters of the bank, which would like to remain the long-term tenant. The towers, which were already owned by a closed fund from 1984 to 2007, were bought back by Deutsche Bank for the purposes of renovation, including bringing the building into compliance with the most recent ecological standards, such as German DGNB certification.
15/03/2011

Erika Kessler takes over as director of Swiss Fund Data

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that Erika Kessler on 1 March 2011 took over as director of Swiss Fund Data. She succeeds Herbert M. Stich as head of the joint information platform from the Swiss Funds Association (SFA) and SIX Swiss Exchange.
15/03/2011

Appointment at BNP Paribas (Switzerland)

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BNP Paribas on 14 March announced the appointment of Hans-Jürgen Koch has CEO, in charge of Wealth Management activities, from 1 July. He becomes a member of the general board of directors and the executive board for the International Europe region at BNP Paribas Wealth Management, both of which are led by Pascal Boris, to whom he will report directly.
15/03/2011

Strong increase in profits at Partners Group

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Swiss asset management firm Partners Group has published operating profits up 16% for 2010, at CHF376m, on an EBITDA up 10% to CHF250m. Net profits by IFRS accounting standards were up strongly, by 45%, to EUR297m. Dividends will be increased by CHF5 per share for 2009.As of the end of December, assets at Partners Group totalled EUR21.4bn (see Newsmanagers of 14 January 2011).
15/03/2011

Co-CEO of Brevan Howard moves to Switzerland

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Financial News reports that the co-CEO of Brevan Howard Asset Management, Nagi Kawkabani, is moving to Geneva this week. He will join the Swiss office of the asset management firm, created last year.
15/03/2011

LaSalle IM launches a property derivatives activity

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } LaSalle Investment Management, which has USD40bn in assets under management, will create a property derivatives business for its pension fund clients, IPE.com reports. It will be a joint venture with the brokerage firm BGC Partners.
15/03/2011

Skandia awards a mandate to an F&C manager

Skandia Investment Group (SIG) has handed a GBP21m mandate in its Skandia UK Best Ideas Fund to Peter Lees at F&C Investments. The addition of F&C Investments to the UK Best Ideas line-up sees Peter Lees taking over the mandate from Colin Mclean of SVM Asset Management. The latter will continue to manage a mandate for the UK Strategic Best Ideas fund. The other managers of the fund are: Richard Buxton of Schroders, Richard Packett of BlackRock, Audrey Ryan of Aegon, Jacob de Tusch-Lec of Artemis, and Dan Nickols of OMAM. They all have 18% of the fund, except for Dan Nickols who manages 10%.
15/03/2011

Insynergy launches a fund dedicated to emerging markets equities

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Investment Week reports that the British asset management firm Insynergy is planning to launch an income fund dedicated to emerging markets equities.The new fund, the Insynergy New World Equity Income fund, managed by a team at Kleinwort Benson Investors (KBI) led by Gareth Maher, will include 100 positions, and will aim for returns of 4.5%.The fund will be able to invest in emerging Asia, Latin America, emerging Europe and the North Africa/Middle East region.Last year, about 61% of Asian companies paid dividends, compared with 33% of emerging markets companies. Spike Hughes, CEO of Insynergy, says this means that dividends from emerging markets firms have a much greater chance of increasing than others.
15/03/2011

Funds of hedge funds bite into performance

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Investing in hedge funds via funds of hedge funds reduces annual returns by 3 percentage points, according to a study by the Universities Superannuation Scheme, the second-largest pension fund in the UK, cited by Financial Times Fund Management. GBP100m invested for 10 years in hedge funds would now be worth GBP270m, while the same amount invested in funds of hedge funds would now be worth only GBP197m.
15/03/2011

Repsol sells 2.9% of YPF to Lazard

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In a filing to the CNMV, Repsol announced that it has sold 3.83% of its Argentinian affiliate YPF to investment funds, including 2.9% to Lazard Asset Management, at a price of USD42.40 per share. The transaction represents a total of USD639m, which values YPF at nearly USD16.68bn. The stake acquired by Lazard AM corresponds to USD484m, while the stake bought by other funds represents USD155m.
15/03/2011

LVAM to reorient its multi-management portfolio

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Paul Kim, who arrived on Monday from FundQuest as head of LV= Asset Management (LVAM) multi-management, is planning to integrate the Schroders UK Alpha Plus and Axa Framlington UK Select Opportunities funds into the portfolio, Fund Strategy reports. Kim, who arrived with Richard Timberlake (also from FundQuest), is planning to reallocate about 30% of the portfolio of LVAM in the next three months.
15/03/2011

Kleinwort Benson aquires Close Brothers Offshore Group

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited, an affiliate of RHJ International, has acquired the private banking, fund administration and management activities in Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man of Close Brothers Offshore Group (COG) and the COG service centre in Cape Town, for GBP29.1m, with a potential adjustment depending on assets at the time that the transaction is completed.The deal, announced on 14 March, will bring assets at the Kleinwort Benson private bank to about GBP7bn.COG employs 350 people at these locations, and Kleinwort Benson has 358 employees in the Channel Islands and 271 in the UK.
15/03/2011

Thames River chief sells F&C shares

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Charlie Porter, the head of Thames River Capital, has sold shares in F&C for about GBP1.7m, after investing in several funds from the group, Investment Week reports.
15/03/2011

Azimut acquires 60% of a Turkish investment firm

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Italian asset management firm Azimut has signed an agreement with the Turkish group Yatirim Holding to create a partnership for the management and distribution of investment products in Turkey. The Italian boutique will buy 5% of Global Securities (GS), the financial products distribution firm controlled by the Turkish group, at its IPO. Global Yatirim Holding will retain at least 75% of capital in the firm. Meanwhile, Azimut will, through a capital increase, acquire 60% of Global Asset Management (GAM), the asset management firm owned by the Turkish group. The cost of the two operations, which are still pending approval from the local authorities, totals about EUR6m, with put options. The two partners will invest additional capital in order to develop the two firms. By acquiring a presence in Turkey through this agreement, Azimut continues its international expansion, following the launch of a joint venture in China.
15/03/2011

Hedge fund assets in Hong Kong up by 15%

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong reports that assets in hedge funds increased by nearly 15% last year, to USD63.2bn. This development is largely due to the arrival in Hong Kong of alternative management funds in the largest weight class.The number of funds fell to 538 in September 2010, compared with 542 one year previously, while the proportion of managers in charge of strategies with total assets between USD101m and USD500m rose from 25.7% in 2009 to 29.5% in 2010, compared with 60.7% the previous year. The proportions of hedge funds managing USD501m to USD1bn on the one hand, and over USD1bn on the other, remained stable, at 7.2% and 5.9%, respectively.Inflows were dominated by foreign investors, particularly from the US (36.1%) and Europe (24.3%).
15/03/2011

Good start to the year for Invesco in Asia

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Asian Investor reports that Invesco posted net inflows of about USD1.5trn in the first two months of the year 2011 from institutional and retail investors in the Asia-Pacific region, compared with USD2.3bn in the year 2010 as a whole. The head of Asia-Pacific at Invesco, Andrew Lo, claims that there will be highs and lows in 2011, but adds that clients have optimistic outlooks due to the improvement of the markets since 2009, and the gradual clarification of regulatory changes in the area of distribution. As of the end of September 2010, assets under management at Invesco in the Asia-Pacific region totalled about USD54.2bn, up 48% compared with 2009.
15/03/2011

ABC Arbitrage preparing three new funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } ABC Arbitrage announced net profits for the part of the group in 2010 of EUR29bn, compared with EUR30.4m, a good result in light of the decline both of volatility on markets, and volumes, the chairman of the board, Dominique Ceolin, has announced. The performance is partly due to an increase to 37%, compared with a traditional level of 85-90%, of the proportion of trades with exogenous risks as a proportion of total operations.Asset management on behalf of third parties (GCT) earned returns of EUR1.2m last year, compared with less than EUR0.2m in 2009. The ABCA Opportunities fund (mergers and acquisitions), launched in 2007, which was put in hibernation during the crisis, generated returns of 5.02% on one year, and its assets represent EUR32m, of which EUR18m are seed capital. Its capacity is estimated at EUR150m. The ABCA Reversion fund (statistical arbitrage), launched in May 2010, turned in performance of 16.54% over 8 months (in a market down 3%), and its assets total EUR30m, of which EUR14m are seed capital. Capacity is estimated at EUR300m.Ceolin has announced that ABC Arbitrage is planning to develop its third-party asset management with the launch of three new funds. The fist two will probably be Irish statistical arbitrage products, one focused on equities, and the other on currencies. The last fund, which may be a French-registered fund, would be a multi-strategies product which would cover all the expertise in the existing range.
15/03/2011

Legg Mason seeking opportunities for external growth

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Mark Fetting, chairman and CEO of Legg Mason, estimates that the asset management firm he heads has recovered, and is now in good shape to seek acquisitions in Europe, with the objective of eventually achieving a 50/50 distribution of assets between the United States and other countries, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. However, Fetting says, potential acquisitions should be of a smaller size, so as not to transform the group, and Legg Mason is not giving up on organic growth.Potential acquisitions are expected to concern managers focused on international equities. Legg Mason is also planning to build a presence in international real estate, commodities, and private equity.
15/03/2011

Two executives of Lazard Frères Gestion appointed as partners at Lazard

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Two members of the team at Lazard Frères Gestion have been appointed as partners at Lazard, a statement says.They are Jean-Jacques de Gournay, head of relationships with institutional investors, distributors and independent financial advisers (IFAs), who has been a managing partner at Lazard Frères Gestion since 2007, and Matthieu Grouès, head of collective and institutional asset management at Lazard Frères Gestion since 2009.They join the current partners François-Marc Durand, head of asset management activities in France, and François de Saint-Pierre, head of private management activities in France.

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