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28/09/2010

Credit Suisse has ambitions in French private banking market

Agefi reports that Credit Suisse is predicting 15% growth for its net inflows for private banking activities in France in 2010. The growth objective for inflows group-wide is set at 65 per year.As of the end of June 2010, assets under management by Credit Suisse in France totalled EUR4.5bn, the newspaper notes.
28/09/2010

Lazard AM recruits three former HSBC fund managers

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Denise Simon, Arif Joshi and george Varino, who previously managed the GIF Global Emerging Marekets Bond, GIF New World Income and GIF Global Emerging Markets Local Debt funds at HSBC, are joining Lazard Asset Management, Investment Week reports. They will be based in New York, and will be responsible for creating a range of emerging market bond funds to be sold worldwide. Three research analysts will soon be joining them.
28/09/2010

The Hartford plans to launch ETF funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 22 September, The Hartford submitted a license application to the SEC (form 40-App 1), to create The Hartford Exchange-Traded Fund Trust. The firm plans initially to launch two passive bond ETFs, but other products, including equities products, may follow. The adviser for the funds will be Hartford Investment Financial Services, but the group is also planning to call in sub-advisers from within or outside The Hartford.
28/09/2010

Temenos adds to private banking and wealth management product range

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Temenos Group SA announced on 28 September that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Luxembourg-based software company Odyssey Group SA. The firm offers software solutions for private banking and wealth management, and is in line to post earnings this year of USD75m. The takeover will be largely financed with liquidity and credit totalling USD81m. Temenos will also take on Odyssey’s debt, totalling USD20.3m, which values the Luxemburg firm at USD101.3m.
28/09/2010

Merrill Lynch Bank (Switzerland) appoints an interim CEO

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Merrill Lynch Wealth Management on 27 September announced the appointment with immediate effect of Mario Alini as interim chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch Bank (Switzerland) S.A. Alini will divide his time between Geneva and Zurich. He will report to David Jervis, head of the Wealth Management sector for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. He will also retain his position as chief administration officer (CAO) of MLCM, in which position he reports to Franz Barthel, CAO of the Capital Markets sector of Merrill Lynch in Germany. Alini joined Merrill Lynch in 2007 as CAO for Capital Markets activities in Switzerland, and continues to occupy that position currently.
28/09/2010

Threadneedle focuses on charities and family offices

The asset management firm Threadneedle announced on Monday, 27 September that it has launched a service which will aim to assist charities and family offices in their asset allocation and strategy.At the same time, the fund manager has also announced the arrival of Ian Dalziel, who will take over as head of the new activity, in the newly-created position of Head of Global Private Wealth and Foundations. He will be based in Geneva. Dalziel is a former conservative member of the European parliament, co-founder of the private bank Adam & Company in Edinburgh in 1983, and from 1991 to 2008 was general manager and administrator of the family office Schlumberger-Primat.
28/09/2010

Julius Baer opens a desk dedicated to Russian clients in Singapore

Agefi Switzerland reports that the Julius Baer group is opening an office in Singapore aimed primarily at Russian high net worth clients seeking to seize opportunities to invest in Asia. Julius Baer will be competing with UBS and Credit Suisse in Singapore, as well as BSI, which in March transferred its services for eastern European clients, particularly Russians, from Zurich to Singapore. According to estimates, assets under management in the region for Russian clients may more than double in five years, to USD50bn, according to Roman Scott, CEO of Calamander Capital, based in Singapore.
28/09/2010

France advances in sustainable development

According to the most recent edition of a half-yearly study of sustainable development in OECD countries by Petercam, Sweden continues to lead, while Switzerland has taken a place in the top three for the first time.The study, based on 53 indicators in five categories (democracy, environment, education, economy, health, and distribution of wealth), finds that France has improved its position in the rankings, rising from fifteenth to twelfth place, largely due to improvement in environmental issues. France has one of the best indicators of environmental performance, and does honourably in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, its ecological footprint, and protected land area as a percentage of overall land area. But the debate now raging over pension reforms reveals its true scale in a country in which the ratio of population dependent on retirement as a percentage of the overall population is one of the highest. France ranks between Mexico and Japan, in 32nd place. Sweden remains the leader in terms of sustainable development, and does respectably in all categories. It is followed by Norway, which is top in environmental protection. Switzerland and Denmark tie for third place. With the best result in the areas of health and distribution of wealth, Switzerland has gained three places in the rankings, and now nudges out Finland and the Netherlands.
28/09/2010

Wealth managers cost too much

40 per cent of wealthy investors’ expected portfolio returns are being swallowed up by fees and other charges, according to research by Royal Bank of Scotland cited by the Financial Times Fund Management. European private banks and other wealth managers have maintained their cost base over the past two years, despite plunging investment returns and declining assets under management, eroding returns for their clients.
28/09/2010

New fund administration service launched

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US-based Apex Fund Services on 27 September announced the launch of a fund administration service dedicated to the middle office, entitled Middle Office fund administration service (MOOR). The fund administration specialist says that the new service is the first in the world to offer hedge funds a real-time portfolio management system.
28/09/2010

Cullen Capital Management selects RBC Dexia Investor Services

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } RBC Dexia Investor Services has been selected by Cullen Capital Management, a New York-based management firm, to provide custody, fund administration, cash management and transfer agency services to its new UCITS-compliant fund domiciled in Dublin, specialised in high dividend strategies, Hedge Week reports.
28/09/2010

Eaton Vance closes Global Macro Absolute Return Fund to new subscribers

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 27 September, Eaton Vance Management, an affiliate of Eaton Vance Corp., announced that from 1 October, it is suspending subscriptions to its Global Macro Absolute Return fund, which had USD6.4bn in assets as of the end of August. Current investors and pension fund subscribers may continue to invest in the product. The manager explains that the freeze for new subscriptions is due to the fact that investments in frontier markets are an important element in strategy, which imposes capacity restrictions. Eaton Vance has also announced that its Option Absolute Return Strategy Fund will be launched by Thursday this week.
28/09/2010

Invesco rationalises its product range

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 30 September, Invesco is closing seven funds in its range to subscriptions. The funds will be liquidated by 29 October 2010. The funds are the following: Invesco Alternatives Opportunities FundInvesco FX Alpha Strategy FundInvesco FX Alpha Strategy Fund PlusInvesco International Growth Equity FundInvesco Structured Growth FundInvesco Structured Value FundInvesco Van Kampen Global Bond Fund In addition, the firm has announced that it will be discontinuing the B class of shares in all its funds, which will be converted into A shares.
28/09/2010

Spanish government gives once-over to Sicav taxes

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On Friday, the Spanish cabinet announced that capital reductions by Sicav funds, the preferred means used by Spanish high net worth families to extract liquidity at a tax rate of only 1%, the same as for investment funds, will be taxed as capital gains, at 19% up to EUR6,000, and 21% above that threshold. Cotizalia reports that the move is included in the draft budget for 2010. The finance minister says the change will apply to all Sicav funds, regardless of their country of domicile. In other words, it will not help to move Sicavs to Luxembourg or Malta, as many specialists are recommending.
28/09/2010

Eiris launches a service dedicated to ethical engagement

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The ESG (environmental, social and governance) analysis agency Eiris is taking growing interest in sustainable investment as an occasion to launch a service dedicated to ethical engagement on the part of investors in businesses. The new Eiris Engagement Service was unveiled on 27 September in London. It will be unveiled worldwide on 4 October in San Francisco, at a conference organised by UN PRI. The service set up by Eiris involves all phases of responsible engagement, selection of themes and companies, and the publication of recommendations for businesses, the establishment of contracts, and the organisation of conferences. It also proposes to assist investors in enacting the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, and the new British governance code.
28/09/2010

Stoxx launches an investable volatility index

Stoxx Limited, a global index provider and creator of the leading European equity indices, has announced the launch of the Euro Stoxx 50 Investable Volatility Index. The new index complements the existing VStoxx index by measuring forward implied volatility in a replicable format that can serve as the basis of financial products.
28/09/2010

Manager with ties to Madoff dies

Stanley Chais, a Beverly Hills investment manager facing a civil lawsuit and criminal investigation over his ties to Bernard Madoff, died of natural causes, writes the Financial Times.Aged 84, Chais was one of Madoff’s earliest and largest investors, channelling more than USD900m of clients’ money through conduit “feeder funds” to the Ponzi-scheme operator, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
28/09/2010

IMA launches a call for bids

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The British asset management association (IMA) has launched a call for bids to outsource its fund surveillance, fundstrategy reports. The professional association says that UCITS regulations allow funds to invest more easily in derivative products, which make the verification process more difficult as to how well the funds are in line with the IMA’s sectoral nomenclature. Interested candidates should present themselves by mid-October and submit a bid by 19 November.
28/09/2010

Arca Previdenza absorbs Gestielle Pensione e Previdenza

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Italian pension fund regulator, Covip, on 9 September authorised Arca SGR to take over management of the open-ended pension fund Gestielle Pensione e Previdenza (EUR90m in assets and 4,000 members), which will be absorbed by the open-ended pension fund Arca Previdenza as of 1 January 2011. The merger will make Arca Previdenza the largest open-ended pension fund (FPA) in Italy, with assets of over EUR1bn, and 122,000 members. It is also the leader in terms of the number of collective policies, with over 3,000 agreements with businesses and organisations. Since the beginning of the year, Arca Previdenza also registered over 4,000 new members, 50% more than in the corresponding period of last year.
27/09/2010
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Légère progression des encours des hedge funds asiatiques au premier semestre

Selon AsiaHedge, les actifs des hedge funds asiatiques ne se sont accrus que de 3,9% au premier semestre pour atteindre 137,75 milliards de dollars contre 132,5 milliards à la fin 2009. Une évolution qui confirme les interrogations qui freinent le développement de l’activité de la gestion alternative dans la région dans un environnement économique très fragile.Fait aggravant, les hedge funds asiatiques figurent parmi ceux qui ont enregistré les plus mauvaises performances au premier semestre, avec un recul de 0,17%.
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27/09/2010

"Nous allons relancer le marketing de Convictions Activinflation"

Au risque de se voir contredit dans les prochains mois, Philippe Delienne croit à un possible retour de l'inflation. Le président de Convictions AM se félicite donc de la présence d'un produit adéquat dans sa gamme de fonds flexibles. Une gestion flexible qui met à l'honneur l'allocation d'actifs, principal moteur de surperformance dans l'environnement de marché actuel, selon Philippe Delienne.
27/09/2010

HSBC a choisi son nouveau président

Dans la course à la succession de Stephen Green, l’ancien patron d’HSBC qui a accepté la fonction de ministre du Commerce outre-Manche, le directeur général Michael Geoghegan perd la manche et doit quitter le groupe bancaire en fin d’année, rapporte l’Agefi. C’est le directeur financier Douglas Flint qui a été choisi pour assurer la présidence dès le 3 décembre. Le poste qu’il laisse vacant échoit à Iain Mackay, qui occupait jusqu'à présent le fauteuil de directeur financier de la zone Asie-Pacifique, précise le quotidien. Michael Geoghegan sera remplacé par l’actuel responsable de la banque d’investissement de HSBC, Stuart Gulliver.
27/09/2010
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La fondation de Yale regagne un peu de terrain

Pour les douze mois à fin juin, la fondation (endowment) de l’université de Yale a enregistré une performance de 8,9 % contre une perte de 25 % pour l’année au 30 juin 2009, rapporte The Wall Street Journal. Son encours s’est accru durant cette période de 400 millions de dollars, pour remonter à 16,7 milliards de dollars. Cependant, le résultat au 30 juin 2010 est inférieur aux 13,3 % de la moyenne des performances constatées par Wilshire Associates pour les grandes fondations et les fonds de pension, de même qu’aux 11 % enregistrés par Harvard… tandis que le Dow Jones Industrial Average gagnait 18,9 %.Les pertes de l’année à fin août 2009 sont imputables principalement au private equity.
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27/09/2010

Le fondateur de RiskMetrics sur le point de quitter MSCI

Selon Responsible Investor, le fondateur et ancien chief executive de RiskMetrics, Ethan Berman, serait sur le point de quitter le groupe MSCI qui a récemment racheté RiskMetrics. Ethan Berman devait initialement partir à la fin du quatrième trimestre mais l’intégration rapide des deux sociétés aurait incité Ethan Berman à avancer son départ.
27/09/2010
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C-Quadrat lance son premier ETF

Le 704ème ETF admis vendredi 24 septembre à la négociation sur le segment XTF de la plate-forme électronique Xetra est le premier ETF «intelligent» mis sur le marché par le gestionnaire austro-allemand C-Quadrat (lire nos articles des 26 mars et 16 avril) : le fonds luxembourgeois C-Quadrat IQ European Equity ETF réplique un indice de stratégie, le C-Quadrat European Equity Index, qui est calculé par Stoxx. Cet indice se compose de futures sur l’Euro Stoxx 50 traités sur le marché Eurex et affectés d’un facteur d’exposition fixé chaque matin à 8 heures. Le fonds peut ainsi fonctionner sans levier ou avec un effet de levier de 1,5 ou de 2 maximum. Le facteur d’exposition est calculé en fonction d’un modèle d’indicateurs qui utilise des données passées.CaractéristiquesDénomination : C-QUADRAT IQ European Equity ETFCode Isin : LU0531943461Taux de frais sur encours : 0,70 %
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27/09/2010
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Deux opérations de fusion-absorption chez SPGP

La société de gestion SPGP vient d’annoncer deux opérations de fusion-absorption de fonds qui auront lieu le 1er octobre 2010. La première entraine l’absorption de RP Sélection Europe et RP Sélection Internationale par RP Sélection France. La seconde concerne le fonds RP Sélection Alternext qui est intégré dans RP Sélection Mid Cap.A cette occasion, RP Sélection France passe en catégorie «diversifié» de façon à ce que le portefeuille puisse être couvert en cas de baisse prolongée du marché, précise un communiqué. Néanmoins, le fonds conserve son éligibilité au PEA. Quant au fonds RP Sélection Mid Cap, il est récemment passé en catégorie «diversifié» et est désormais éligible au PEA.Les deux opérations de fusion-absorption concernent des fonds aux concepts semblables, précise-t-on chez SPGP. Les processus de gestion sont identiques - stock-picking intégral portant majoritairement en actions françaises. En outre, les valeurs sont «toutes capitalisations» dans le premier cas et «petites et moyennes valeurs» dans le second.
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