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24/09/2010

Perella Weinberg ouvre un bureau à Abu Dhabi

Perella Weinberg Partners a annoncé le 22 septembre l’ouverture d’un bureau à Abu Dhabi aux Emirats Arabes Unis. Parallèlement, la firme spécialisée dans le conseil corporate et les services de gestion d’actifs a annoncé le recrutement de Jameel Akhrass et Nabil F. Lahham en qualité d’associés qui vont se concentrer notamment sur le développement des activités de gestion d’actifs et de conseil stratégique au Moyen Orient.Les deux nouveaux associés travaillaient précédemment chez Nomura International sur la région Mena (Moyen Orient, Afrique du Nord).En outre, Hesham Ali, depuis trois ans membre du groupe asset management chez Perella Weinberg Partners, a été nommé responsable du marketing et des relations investisseurs en tant que responsable de la gestion d’actifs au Moyen Orient.
24/09/2010
Fonds

Le fonds Mubadala d’Abou Dhabi dans le rouge au premier semestre

Le fonds d’investissement de l'émirat pétrolier d’Abou Dhabi, Mubadala, a annoncé le 23 septembre des pertes de 4,5 milliards de dirhams, soit près de 1 milliard de dollars, au titre du premier semestre contre des bénéfices de 2,7 milliards de dirhams (550 millions de dollars) pour la même période en 2009. Selon le communiqué, ce résultat est lié pour l’essentiel à la chute des marchés financiers. A la fin du premier semestre, les actifs sous gestion du fonds d’Abou Dhabi s’élevaient à 86,1 milliards de dirhams, soit quelque 23,44 milliards de dollars, contre 48,9 milliards de dirhams (13,3 milliards de dollars) fin 2009.
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24/09/2010

Le Santander achète Meliorbanca Private

Au travers de sa filiale Santander Private Banking, l’espagnol Santander s’est renforcé en Italie par l’acquisition, annoncée le 23 septembre, de 100 % de Meliorbanca Private, la division de banque privée Banca Popolare dell’Emilia Romagna (BPER). Selon Expansión, le montant de la transaction n’a pas été divulgué mais serait voisin de 32 millions d’euros.
24/09/2010
Fonds

Lyxor lance dix ETF à Milan

Lyxor va lancer en Italie une gamme de 10 ETF répliquant chacun un indice sectoriel MSCI Monde, portant ainsi à 101 le nombre de ses ETF cotés sur le segment ETFplus de la Bourse de Milan, rapporte Bluerating.
Fonds
24/09/2010
Fonds

91 % des fonds autrichiens affichent des gains sur un an

D’après les statistiques de l’association autrichienne VÖIG des sociétés de gestion, 1.421 fonds sur un total de 1.562 qui ont plus d’un an d’existance ont affiché une performance sur douze mois à fin août, soit 90,97 % du total. Seuls 141 étaient dans le rouge. En moyenne arithmétique, c’est-à-dire sans tenir compte des encours individuels, la performance moyenne des fonds autrichiens est ressortie à 8,26 %, contre 10,63 % en juillet et 13,85 % en juin.Le gain le plus important sur douze mois a été enregistré, comme les mois précédents, par le Kepler Asset Backed Securities Fund, avec 81,52 % alors que le plus mauvais score a été subi par le DoubleStock de la caisse d'épargne de Haute-Autriche (Sparkasse Oberösterreich KAG).Sur trois ans à fin août, le meilleur ratio de Sharpe a été affiché par le fonds immobilier Real Invest Austria (Bank Austria), avec 2,18, juste devant le EuroHighgrade de Pioneer Investments Austria (2,17) et le Tirolrent de Tirolinvest.
Fonds
24/09/2010

Schroders launches a fifth GAIA fund

Schroders is preparing to launch the Schroder Opus Trading Fund on GAIA (Global Alternative Investor Access), its Luxembourg-based, UCITS III-compliant hedge fund platform. The new fund will bring the number of sub-funds in the Sicav to five, two of which are managed externally.The trading and macro fund, which invests in managed accounts and is managed by Schroders, is in fact already available in a UCITS-compliant form, but it is currently housed on the Credit Suisse platform. It is now being transferred to GAIA. By the end of the year, another fund – long/short credit – will be launched in the Sicav. And next year, three or four more funds will be added. The Sicav currently has assets of over EUR200m, as of 14 September.
24/09/2010

DWS builds a multi-asset class unit

On 23 September, DWS (Deutsche Bank) announced the creation of a team of 24 qualified professionals dedicated to multi-asset class management. The unit will start up with assets of about EUR7bn. The segment has already attracted over EUR10bn in investments in Germany since the beginning of the year, and DWS expects average growth in the mid-term of about 8% p.a. in this area.The team is led by Christian Hille and Udo Rosendahl. The unit includes four teams specialised in equities, bonds, currencies, volatility and commodities, which share a common investment process based on DWS projections for asset classes, regions and markets. In the fund management framework, the new group will have as much power as the equities and bond teams.
24/09/2010

James Lang LaSalle continues redeployment of its German activities

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In addition to the creation of its institutional real estate fund management affiliate LaSalle Vermögensverwaltung in Munich (see Newsmanagers of 27 August and 20 September), Jones Lang LaSalle is reorganizing its German activities, combining real estate advisory services, investor consulting, project & development services and energy & sustainability services into a single unit. The new division will start at the beginning of October with 30 people, led by Ingo Weiß, who was previously head of portfolio management (160 people), in which role he will be replaced by Christina Hoffmann and Tina Reuter. By the end of 2011, the real estate advisory services unit will include 45 employees. Weiß will report directly to Andreas Quint, head of Germany.
24/09/2010

Deka Immobilien sells an office complex in Stockholm

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Swedish pension fund AMF has acquired the City Cronan office complex in Stockhom (42,000 square metres) from the Deka-ImmobilienEuropa fund. The acquisition price, the largest in Sweden in the past three years according to Deka Immobilien, has now been disclosed, but the sale took place at a price higher than the asset’s market value. The German management firm states that it is the twelfth sale this year above market value. In total, these sales have taken place at 13% above the market value of the properties concerned.
24/09/2010

Over EUR4bn in guaranteed funds to mature in Q4

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to statistics from VDOS Stochastics, 65 guaranteed funds with assets of EUR4.06bn will mature in Spain in fourth quarter, Expansión reports. 25 more funds will remain in a sales phase at that time. The largest of the maturing funds is the Foncaixa Garantia Renta Fija 15, with EUR969m. Total assets in guaranteed funds, at EUR49.33bn, represent 32.14% of assets under management in Spanish funds overall. Since the beginning of the year, bond guaranteed funds have posted net subscriptions of EUR3.81bn.
24/09/2010

Lyxor launches 10 ETFs in Milan

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Lyxor will launch a range of 10 ETFs in Italy, each of which will replicate a sector MSCI World index, bringing the number of ETFs listed on the ETFplus segment of the Milan stock exchange to 101, Bluerating reports.
24/09/2010

Schroders recruits a director from Threadneedle

Schroders has appointed Tjeerd Voskamp as senior relationship director in the Global Financial Institutions Group with immediate effect. His role will involve expanding and deepening Schroders’ relationships with financial institutions that have global distribution and he will report to Robert Noach, head of Global Financial Institutions Group. Tjeerd has spent 10 years at Threadneedle Asset Management. He held several senior client facing roles with a particular focus on European distribution in Belgium, Holland and Scandinavia.
24/09/2010

Mirabaud develops institutional activities in Zurich

Mirabaud & Cie, private bankers, active since 2001 in the institutional client sector, is now developing this activity in Zurich, the bank announced in a statement on 23 September. Matthias Schroedter and Thomas Brun have recently joined Mirabaud and taken charge of distribution of funds and mandates to financial intermediaries and institutional clients in German-speaking Switzerland.Schroedter, Mirabaud’s new head of distribution in German-speaking Switzerland to financial intermediaries and banks (wholesale), has over 10 years’ experience in distribution to the institutional sector. He previously worked for Invesco, Banque Sarasin and WMPartners. Brun, in charge of institutional client relationship management for German-speaking Switzerland, has been working for over 20 years in fund and mandate distribution to institutionals. He held key roles at Lombard Odier, Eurofima and Swiss Bank Corp.
24/09/2010

Santander acquires Meliorbanca Private

Via its affiliate Santander Private Banking, the Spanish firm Santander has completed its acquisition, announced on 23 September, of 100% of Meliorbanca Private, the private banking division of Banca Popolare dell’Emilia Romagna (BPER). Expansión reports that the transaction price has not been disclosed, but was about EUR32m.
24/09/2010

Warren Buffett pulling out of Moody's

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Warren Buffett is continuing to sell off his shares in Moody’s, via his investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, La Tribune reports. Early this week, he sold 56,000 shares, while earlier this month he sold 1.35 million shares. Since June 2009, his stake has fallen from 20.4% to 12.3%, in a less promising environment for ratings agencies, the newspaper notes.
24/09/2010

AQR contracts out fund administration to J.P. Morgan

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } AQR Capital Management, which advises the AQR funds, has granted JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services a mandate for fund administration, prime custody and associated services for mutual funds representing assets of over USD2bn, out of total assets of about USD27bn.
24/09/2010

Credit Suisse traders launch their own hedge fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } A team of eight traders will be leaving Credit Suisse in the United States to start up a hedge fund backed by Blackstone Group, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. The departures follow the passage of new regulations in the United States which limit proprietary trading. The team is led by George “Beau” Taylor, p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: «Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } currently Credit Suisse’s global head of commodities-arbitrage trading, and Trevor Woods, head of energy-arbitrage trading. The launch of the new fund is slated for early 2011, and Blackstone will invest USD150m.
24/09/2010

UBS pays out USD18bn in redemptions

Le Temps reports that the US market authority, the SEC, announced on 23 September that UBS had respected the requirements of the authority regarding its Auction Rate Securities (ARS), financial products which were described as safe, but which lost all of their value at the height of the crisis in February 2008. By the terms of the agreement with the SEC, UBS agreed to redeem USD18bn to clients who lost money on these products. This has now been achieved, and “nearly 100% of investors” have now received some compensation, the SEC notes. The agency will therefore not impose a fine on UBS.
24/09/2010

Promotions at BNY Mellon

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The BNY Mellon group has announced promotions in its management team. Thomas (Todd) Gibbons has been appointed chief financial officer of the firm, while Timothy Keaney becomes CEO of BNY Mellon Asset Servicing. Karen Peetz has been promoted to CEO of the Financial Markets and Treasury Services division. Lastly, Brian Rogan becomes vice chairman, and James Palermo, also vice chairman, has been granted new responsibilities as co-CEO of BNY Mellon Asset Servicing.
24/09/2010

US managers consider the market undervalued

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to the most recent quarterly survey from Russell Investments, 57% of US managers estimate that the market is currently undervalued, one of the highest percentages in the history of the survey, and the highest level observed since March 2009. Only 7% of managers consider the market overvalued. However, the study finds that the fact that managers are talking about the undervaluation of the market does not necessarily mean that they expect a rally similar to the one which followed the low point of March 2009. But they do, however, seem to have recovered some optimism, based on the conviction that the economy will regain some of its health, although it is not necessarily at its best yet. Nearly half of managers (49%) estimate that the growth of the economy in the next 12 months will be led by investment spending. Only 9% predict a stagnation of the economy. This is a very low percentage in light of continuing widespread speculation that there will be a double-dip in the economy in the coming months.
24/09/2010

Perella Weinberg opens an office in Abu Dhabi

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Perella Weinberg Partners announced on 22 September that it has opened an office in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. The firm, a specialist in corporate consulting and asset management services, has also announced the recruitment of Jameel Akhrass and Nabil F. Lahham as partners; they will concentrate largely on the development of asset management and strategic advising activities in the Middle East. The two new partners previously worked at Nomura International for the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Hesham Ali, who for 13 years has been a member of the asset management group at Perella Weinberg Partners, has also been appointed head of marketing and investor relations, as head of asset management in the Middle East.
24/09/2010

Fidelity Clearing Canada recruits

The clearing specialist firm Fidelity Clearing Canada has announced recruitments for its management team. Thomas A. White, former director and vice president of global markets and investment banking (GMI) services at Merrill Lynch Canada, has been appointed chief operating officer (COO). Ronald White becomes chief financial officer (CFO), and Bryan Moffitt becomes chief compliance officer (CCO). The three new arrivals will report to William (Bill) J. Henderson, CEO of Fidelity Clearing Canada.
24/09/2010

Nairobi stock exchange to open small caps market

The Kenyan stock exchange is planning to launch a new market dedicated to small caps in the next twelve months. The planned new market which will focus on small businesses is part of an overall development plan for the market, which is seeking to double the number of listed companies in the next two years.The Nairobi stock exchange gained 43% this year, the newspaper adds.
24/09/2010

FSA publishes a guide to preventing insider trading

In the 37th issue of its “Market Watch” publication, released on 23 September and dedicated to the subject of information leaks, the FSA makes 25 recommendations for regulated companies and issuers to prevent insider information which could influence the price of assets or about transactions in preparation from getting out. The text is available at the address http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/newsletters/mw_newsletter37.pdfAmong the recommendations, the regulator states (point 2) that all questions from the media to personnel at a regulated business should immediately be transferred to the media relations team, and that all personnel not belonging to the media relations team should be forbidden from responding directly to any questions from the media, regardless of their seniority.
24/09/2010

91% of Austrian funds post one-year gains

According to statistics from the Austrian VÖIG association of asset management firms, 1,421 funds out of a total of 1,562 which have been in existence for over one year show positive twelve-month performance to the end of August, equivalent to 90.97% of the funds overall. Only 141 funds show losses. By an arithmetical average, without taking into account the size of individual funds, the average performance of Austrian funds comes to 8.26%, compared with 10.63% in July and 13.85% in June.The largest gains of the past twelve months, as in previous months, were for the Kepler Asset Backed Securities Fund, with 81.52%, while the worst performer was the sDoubleStock from the savings bank of Upper Austria (Sparkasse Oberösterreich KAG). Over three years to the end of August, the best Sharpe ratio was for the real estate fund Real Invest Austria (Bank Austria), with 2.18, just ahead of the EuroHighgrade funds from Pioneer Investments Austria (2.17) and the Tirolrent from Tirolinvest (2.11).
24/09/2010

Vanguard launches seven funds replicating Russell indices

As announced (see Newsmanagers of 13 September), Vanguard has extended its range of passive funds, with the launch of seven equities tracker funds with institutional share classes, and ETF shares exposed to value, growth and blend segments of the Russell 1000 large caps index, and the Russell 2000 index of small caps.The ETF shares carry commissions of 0.12%, for the fund based on the Russell 1000, and 0.15% for the funds based on the Russell 1000 Value and Growth indices and on the Russell 2000, and 0.20% for funds based on the Russell 2000 Value and Growth. The Russell 3000 ETF charges 0.15%. Vanguard has also announced plans to launch its first three tracker funds of municipal bonds, with traditional and ETF share classes, which will replicate indices of the S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond series, and which will charge fees of 0.12%, in the next few months.
23/09/2010

Lochiel Crafter nommé reponsable des investissements chez SSgA Asia

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) a annoncé le 21 septembre la nomination de Lochiel Crafter en qualité de responsable des investissements pour la zone Asie-Pacifique. «Cette fonction nouvellement créée illustre l’importance de la zone Asie-Pacifique dans la stratégie croissance de SSgA», souligne la société dans un communiqué.Lochiel Crafter aura la responsabilité des équipes d’investissement à Sydney, Hong Kong, Tokyo et Singapour.Avant de rejoindre SSgA, où il a déjà travaillé dans le passé, Lochiel Crafter était le CEO du fonds de pension australien Australian Reward Investment Alliance (Sydney). Il restera basé à Sydney.

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