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04/01/2011

Horst Eich leaves Allianz Global Investors

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Horst Eich, the former CEO of Allianz Global Investors Deutschland from the beginning of 2007 to September 2009 (alongside Thomas Wieseman), a position in which he was replaced by James Dilworth (formerly of Morgan Stanley; see Newsmanagers of 28 September 2009), and who has since then been CEO of Allianz Global Investors Product Solutions, while remaining co-CEO of Allianz Global Investors (AGI), resigned from his positions and left the group at the end of 2010, “in complete understanding with the directors of Allianz.” AGI has global assets of EUR1.425trn, of which EUR400bn are in Europe; in Germany, it manages EUR358bn.
04/01/2011

Yohan Kadri-Caillaux joins Convictions AM

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The French asset management firm Convictions AM on 3 January announced the recruitment of Yohan Kadri-Caillaux as portfolio manager. In his new role, Kadri-Caillaux will be in charge of management of portfolios and mandates in the private management team. Kadri-Caillaux was previously managing partner of the wealth management firm H Capital Portfolio Management (2007-2009).
04/01/2011

New third-party marketing firm created

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } A new third-party marketing (TPM) firm has been founded in Paris. Following the launch of Aloha Finance by BlackRock veterans, it is now the turn of Alain Cuenot to crate his own firm, entitled Dream Team Finance. Cuenot, previously director of external distribution at Finance SA, and previously employed at Convictions AM, Axa, Aviva, JPMorgan Fleming AM, and the Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild, will offer his services to asset management firms and life insurance companies to assist in their commercial development. “In a word, it will be an outsourced sales/marketing team,” a statement says. His first clients will include Finance SA and Lutetia Capital.
04/01/2011

Banking sector in a state to inspire scepticism in investors

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Stoxx600 Banks index, which includes 53 European banking sector shares, lost 11.57% in 2010, Les Echos reports. It has underperformed nearly all the European indices, including the Euro Stoxx50, which lost 5.81% in 2010. Regulatory reforms and exposure to debt from some governments weighed down the sector. In an interview with the newspaper, Marie-Pierre Peillon, director of financial analysis at Groupama AM, says the banking sector “appears really inexpensive compared with its historic multiples. But when you look more closely at the fundamentals, there are still a lot of unknown quantities. Most of all, the sector is not highly transparent. Despite the size of annual reports, information is released in such a way that it is incomprehensible. This sector is likely to inspire investor scepticism.”
04/01/2011

Spanish funds victims of “deposit war”

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Once again in 2010, investment funds were sacrificed by Spanish banks and savings banks, which dedicated their sales efforts to capturing savings, to the detriment even of the management firms owned by them, in a phenomenon known as the “deposit war.”On Monday, Ahorro Corporación (savings banks) and the Inverco association of Spanish asset management firms both announced that assets last year fell 14.7% to EUR145.2bn, according to the former, and EUR138.64bn, according to the latter. This is relatively coherent with the decline of 15.35% to EUR144.54bn announced by VDOS Stochastics as of 24 December (see Newsmanagers of 3 January).Ahorro Corporación states that since 2007, when assets were at their highest level (EUR250bn), assets under management have fallen nearly 42%, while Inverco estimates that the contraction totals EUR115bn since the end of 2006.
04/01/2011

Renta 4 launches a hedge fund to invest in CFDs

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Funds People reports that Renta 4 has launched the hedge fund SwingTrading KA’U Value, managed by KA’U Gestión de Activos, on the Spanish market. The fund charges fees of 1.5%, and a performance commission of 10%.The management team will aim for returns 1,000 basis points higher than the Euribor 12 month, with total volatility of 6% to 9%.The fund, specialised in equities, will invest in CFDs on 5 to 30 underlying shares from the Dax 30, Euro Stoxx 50, and/or Ibex 35 indices. It may also invest part of its assets in investment funds, particularly value style funds.Minimal subscription is set at EUR50,000.
04/01/2011

Number of Spanish funds down by 16% in two years

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In the two years to the end of November, the number of Spanish funds fell to 2,473 from 2,941, a contraction of 15.91%, the CNMV reports.The process slowed down in 2010, however, with a decline of 4.6% in the first eleven months of the year, compared with 11.8% between the end of November 2008 and the end of December 2009.For the most part, rationalisation of product ranges involved mergers of similar products. The largest decline was 50.3% to 251 “global” funds.
04/01/2011

M&G registers a bond fund in Spain

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 30 December, the CNMV granted a sales license for Spain to the British fund M&G European Inflation Linked Corporate Bond Fund (EUR A class, GB00B3VQKJ62; EUR C class, GB00B41DM324), a product focused on European inflation linked bonds. The product will be available from Allfunds Bank.
04/01/2011

J.P. Morgan registers s CQS fund in Spain

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The investment bank arm of J.P. Morgan Chase has registered the absolute return convertible fund JP Morgan Mansart Investment CQS Convertible Alpha, which received a license from the Irish regulator nine months ago (see Newsmanagers of 2 April 2010), with the CNMV. The fund offers daily liquidity and complies with the UCITS III directive, and its assets total about EUR125m.
04/01/2011

Axa to invest EUR1.5bn in real estate debt

Axa Real Estate targets EUR1 bn for its first dedicated real estate debt fund, the Financial Times says. The real estate manager has already raised EUR350m for the vehicle from a number of European insurance companies as well as its parent insurance group. Separately from the fund, the group has additional commitments of more than EUR1.15bn, taking the total war chest to invest in real estate debt to almost EUR1.5bn at present.
04/01/2011

UBS launches a Spanish fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 23 December, BS Gestión launched the Spanish fund Global Value Selection (ES0142338005), a bond product with no benchmark index which was registered with the CNMV on 30 December. The fund may invest up to 100% in investment funds. Management commission is 0.9%, and performance commission is 9%. The fund is advised by GBS Finanzas Investcapital.
04/01/2011

Two funds of hedge funds in restructuring phase at BNP IP

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi reports that, according to several documents relayed by Reuters, BNP Paribas Investment Partners has begun restructuring two funds of hedge funds based in Luxembourg, following “significant” redemption demands. While the “Opportunity” and “Serenity” funds are aimed at a recommended investment horizon of four years, and annual returns of Libor +6% and Libor +3% on a three-year horizon, respectively, as of the end of November they had lost 5.75% and 1.9% since the beginning of 2010. As Le Canard Enchaîné reported last week, BNP Paribas IP has decided to freeze the two funds, in a move which it claims is technical and administrative, and which the firm says has no connection to the redemption demands. The bank says the funds are still in a condition of adequate liquidity. In a message dated 8 December, BNP Paribas IP informed its clients that the two funds concerned are being transferred from Fauchier Partners, an affiliate controlled at 50%, to Harewood Asset Management, a firm which is wholly owned by BNP Paribas. The move is intended to “modify liquidity conditions” for the funds, the message says.
04/01/2011

Catus launches a sustainable development wealth management fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } With the assistance of the Luxembourg firm Axxion, the Nuremberg-based wealth management firm Catus on 22 November added to its Infinus range of profiled funds (Relaxed, Balanced and Dynamic, see Newsmanagers of 4 September 2009), with a sustainable development wealth management product, the Infinus – ecoConsort Fund.The product was granted a sales license for Germany by BaFin in late 2010. It is managed by Manfred Wiegel and Ernst Rudolf. The fund, with no benchmark index, may in case of need increase its exposure to cash to the detriment of equities. A risk budget defines the maximal tolerable loss in advance, though the goal is to generate stable returns over a longer period, and to avoid the usual high fluctuations of sustainable development funds, which may result from overly high specialisation.CharacteristicsName: Infinus – ecoConsort FundISIN code: LU0548331643currency of reference: euroFront-end fee: maximum 5%Management commission: up to 1.90%Minimal subscription: EUR500
04/01/2011

Hansainvest launches a UCITS-compliant precious metals fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Hamburg-based management firm Hansainvest, an affiliate of the insurer Signal-Iduna, on 30 December 2010 launched the German-registered UCITS-compliant fund Hansawerte, which will specialise in precious metals. Its benchmark is composed 50% of the price of gold, 30% of the price of silver, and 10% each those of platinum and palladium.It is an actively managed, US dollar-denominated product which uses ETCs, derivatives and indices, which is aimed primarily at institutional investors, although the minimal subscription is set at EUR50, which makes it also accessible to retail clients. The manager is Nico Baumach.CharacteristicsName: HansawerteISIN code: DE000A0RHG59Front-end fee: 5%Management commission: 0.75%
04/01/2011

Italian asset managers association under fire

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Carlo Gentili, deputy director of Nextam Partners, says there is no place for small independent asset management firms in Assogestioni, the Italian association of asset management professionals, Plus 24 reports. “Assogestioni should be a technical association which helps us with more complex issues. It should provide us with assistance and advice on standardising practices and usage across the sector. All of that is missing,” he says.
04/01/2011

Taxation: repatriated German evaders brought in EUR2bn for the government last year

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } More than 26,000 German taxpayers last year declared assets held offshore in Switzerland or Liechtenstein to the tax authorities, Les Echos reports. As a result, the federal, regional and local governments are estimated to have shared a total of nearly EUR2bn in added tax revenues, the German finance minister says. Proposed legislation will bring in stricter consequences for tax evaders who report their assets in future.
04/01/2011

Argos Soditic lève son sixième fonds LBO

Le groupe de capital investissement vient de réaliser en un seul closing son hard cap de 400 millions d’euros pour son sixième fonds LBO, Euroknights VI. Dans un communiqué, il souligne que 90% des investisseurs du fonds précédent ont souscrit à cette sixième levée. Le fonds est composé d’une trentaine d’investisseurs incluant des fonds de pension (45%), des fonds souverains (20%), des fonds de fonds (20%), des compagnies d’assurance (10%) et des family offices (5%). Alors que les investisseurs sont majoritairement basés en Europe, 25% d’entre eux proviennent des Etats-Unis et plus de 10% des souscriptions émanent d’Asie, d’Australie et du Moyen Orient. Argos Soditic a l’intention de poursuivre une stratégie déjà éprouvée, en investissant dans des entreprises de taille moyenne situées en France, Italie et Suisse avec des prises de participations majoritaires allant de 10 à 50 millions d’euros.
04/01/2011

Le Japon souhaite une réforme profonde de sa fiscalité

Le Premier ministre japonais, Naoto Kan, a annoncé ce matin l’ouverture d’un débat national sur le financement de la sécurité sociale. Naoto Kan souhaite une réforme profonde de la fiscalité, y compris la taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, le système de protection sociale et le financement de la santé étant mis à mal par le vieillissement de la population japonaise.
04/01/2011

Report probable de la taxe immobilière en Chine

Les autorités chinoises pourraient retarder le projet de taxe sur l’immobilier pour des raisons de discordes au sein des différents départements de l’administration, indique le journal Oriental Morning Post qui cite des sources anonymes du ministère des finances. Les premiers tests de la taxe devraient être effectués à Shanghai et Chongqing en mars prochain.
04/01/2011

Joseph Stiglitz fulmine contre la mondialisation

Le prix Nobel d’économie annonce dans un article paru dans le quotidien que «2011 sera une année difficile pour la mondialisation». Dans un plaidoyer pro-keynésien, il déplore les politiques d’austérité mises en place et plaide pour une coordination internationale des politiques de régulation. En outre, il estime que le dynamisme de l’Asie se fait aux dépens de l’emploi dans le reste du monde.
04/01/2011

Immobilier d'entreprise : le tour de vis fiscal

La loi de Finances pour 2011 durcit les règles de sous-capitalisation, ce qui va pénaliser les portefeuilles immobiliers. Selon le montage du financement, les investisseurs immobiliers risquent de ne plus pouvoir déduire fiscalement les intérêts d’emprunt.
04/01/2011

BNP Paribas IP restructure deux fonds

La banque a décidé de transférer deux fonds de hedge funds contre-performants gérés par Fauchier Partners à Harewood AM, une autre filiale du groupe.

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