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15/10/2013

Man Group recruits former BlueCrest CEO

Man Group has hired Neil Mason, who was CEO of BlueCrest, as senior managing director and lead portfolio manager of the Man GLG multi-strategy portfolios, reporting to Luke Ellis, president of Man Group.Mason joins Man from Harvard Management Company, where he was chief risk officer. Prior to this, he was CIO at FRM Capital Advisors. Before joining FCA, Neil was CEO of BlueCrest.As part of the move, David Kingsley, portfolio manager on the multi-strategy portfolios, will report to Neil Mason and continue in his current role.
15/10/2013

Legal & General plans to launch ETFs

Legal & General is planning to enter the ETF sector, Financial News reports. Nick Hodges, head of index-based fund distribution at Legal & General Investment Management, has confirmed the initiative, stating that developments on the retail market encouraged the eventuality. According to investment bankers, Legal & Genral is reported to have made an offer for the ETF activity of Credit Suisse, which was ultimately won by BlackRock.
15/10/2013

Sarasin Partners recruits former Newton CIO

The London-based asset management firm Sarasin & Parners, which manages slightly over GBP13bn, has recruited Phil Collins as a manager in its multi-asset class portfolio team, whose assets total about GBP5.2bn, FundWeb reports. Collins previously worked at Newton Investment Management as chief investment officer (CIO) in the private client and charity department. He was also responsible for the management of the Newton Phoenix range.
15/10/2013

Canada's CIBC launches an ETF information centre

Pro-InvestisseursCIBC Inc. has announced improvements to its direct trading platform for independent clients, with a new ETF information centre launched and the addition of research and reporting tools from Morningstar and Thomson Reuters. The new information centre is a single complete outlet for ETFs, which includes significant educational resources and access to comments by Morningstar analysts on the ETFs.
15/10/2013

BlackRock cuts back its equity trading team in London

BlackRock has placed five members of its London equities trading team under observation as part of an attempt to integrate its trading desk with its internal risk system, entitled Aladdin, Financial Times fund management reports. The five traders in question have not yet left BlackRock, but may do so after a consultation period.
15/10/2013

Korea's Mirae to boost assets in Europe

Rahul Chadha, chief investment officer at Mirae, hopes that a forthcoming marketing push in Europe will help the Korean asset management firm to increase its USD1bn in international assets to the level of USD5bn managed outside Hong Kong. As part of its international growth plans, Mirae is planning to recruit staff in order to target investors in the Middle East, and is hoping to increase the number of employees based in London, in order to “sell more strongly in Europe,” says Chadha. The CIO also thinks that there are “massive opportunities” to sell the Luxembourg Sicav with 13 sub-funds throughout Asia, particularly in private banking and wealth management in Hong Kong and Singapore.
15/10/2013

Swiss Life Asset Managers posts over EUR2bn in inflows in first half

Swiss Life Asset Managers, launched in November 2012 to unite all expertise of the Swiss Life group in asset management for third parties, has postd inflows of CHF2.528trn, or EUR2.054trn, largely from expertise acquired and reinforced since the launch of the real estate, fixed incoe, money market and diversified fund ranges. In France, Swiss Life AM has posted inflows of over EUR700m to money market funds, at a time when this market segment shows strong outflows. “This historic expertise in the area of money market management and the performance of funds has allowed for 16 new institutional clients to be conquered and made loyal on the French market since the beginning of the year,” Swiss Life says in a statement. Swiss Life Asset Managers, which in May oversaw the opening of a representative office in French-speaking Switzerland, in Geneva, dedicated exclusively to distribution, is next year planning to scale up its presence in Germany, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia.
15/10/2013

Coface considers emerging market business risks

Coface says it is optimistic about corporate risks in the United States, but concerned about the risks in emerging markets such as Brazil and Thailand. In its most recent evaluations of these countries, Coface placed the A3 rating for Brazil under watch with negative implications. “The slowdown in consumption is making the industries and commerce which depend on it more fragile: household electrical appliances, automotive, electronics. Rising interst rates and inflated prices for imported components and machines, due to a depreciation of the real, are aggravated by taxes and production costs which remain high. Businesses then hesitate to accelerate their investments. In this context, payment incidents at Brazilian businesses recorded by Coface remain at a high level, near their peak in 2009,” Coface explains in a statement. The A3 evaluation for Thailand has also been placed under negative watch due to household debt levels. The A2 rating for the United States, however, has been placed on positive watch, despite the budgetary paralysis. “The government shutdown may have been a surprise but it should not have a significant effect on pending activities if it does not extend into the long term. However, uncertainty related to the US public debt ceiling remain high, and the risk of a failure to raise it cannot be ruled out. In this case, private demand may be significantly affected. However, our primary scenario at this stage is that this impasse will be avoided at the last minute, so that private consumer spending and investment remain robust, despite potential budget cuts,” Coface comments.
15/10/2013

Financière de l’Echiquier opens an office in Milan

Financière de l’Echiquier will on 15 January open an office in Milan, according to information from Bluerating. The new office will include Paolo Francesco Sarno, head of institutional sales, and Alessio Tonato, head of retail sales. Financière de l’Echiquier has been present in Italy since 2006 via registration of its funds.
15/10/2013

Copernico to sell M&G funds

M&G Investments has signed a distribution agreement with the Italian securities intermediation company Copernico, Bluerating reports. Copernico will distribute funds from M&G.
15/10/2013

Deka sells properties in the United States and invests in Madrid

Frankfurt-based Deka Immobilien GmbH has announced that it has sold two commercial properties located in San Francisco to the US real estate group Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. for EUR117m. The properties had since 1999 been in the portfolio of the open-ended real estate fund Deka-ImmobilienEuropa. The transaction comes as part of Deka’s strategy to reduce the proportion of non-European assets in the portfolios of the fund, while profiting from the positive evolution of the markets to earn capital gains.Meanwhile, for its WestInvest TargetSelect Shopping fund, reserved for institutional investors, Deka Immobilien has acquired the Adolfo Dominguez shop (2,500 square metres) in Madrid from a real estate firm for EUR18m. The transaction corresponds to an “anticyclical opportunity” to add a well-located property to the portfolio.
15/10/2013

Hedge funds avoid AIFM

Hedge funds are avoiding the new European framework contained in the Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive, which aims to improve the protection of investors in hedge funds, due to the costs and compliance problems these involve, Financial Times fund management reports. Only 11 asset management firms have signed up for the new regime in the United Kingdom, a country which represents 74% of assets in European hedge funds, since it came into effect in July. Luxembourg and Ireland each have three asset management firms registered under the new framework.
15/10/2013

AIFM: France and Germany have higher requirements for private investments

Investors in France and Germany will have less choice than in other countries for private investments due to additional rules imposed by local regulators, according to a study by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) in partnership with the firm Ernst & Young. According to the study, 17 countries are planning to authorise private investment, but on the basis of highy varied regimes, while France and Germany impose additional terms, which will have the effect of limiting the range on offer to investors compared with other countries. The study emphasizes that the French market appears highly restrictive in this area, while other countries, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, and Luxembourg, only require alternative investors to respect minimal terms included in the AIFM directive. A study by Deutsche Bank of 44 European and American hedge fund managers finds that hedge funds are adopting a wait-and-see attitude to complying with the AIFM directive, with 82% of European managers planning to delay registration until 2014. More than 40% of managers surveyed indicate that they have recruited more than one full-time employee to prepare and manage new regulatory requirements.
15/10/2013

Pioneer releases Dynamic Credit fund in Spain

Funds People reports that Pioneer Investments has registered A, C and I share classes (accumulation, in US dollars) in the Dynamic Credit sub-fund of its Sicav Pioneer Funds, a product managed by Michael Temple, head of US credit, and Andrew Feltus, US and global high yield manager, with the CNMV for sale in Spain.The product is a clone of a US-registered fund which may invest in all fixed income segments. The objective is to capture 75% to 80% of increases on the high yield market, and to undergo declines less than half those of the market. The fund aims for outperformance 200 basis points over Libor in US dollars.
15/10/2013

Meesman offers a tax-optimised equity ETF

With the Meesman Indexfonds Aandelen Wereldwijd, an ETF with fees of 0.5%, Meesman Index Investments on 1 October in the Netherlands launched a feeder product of an institutional index-based fund from Northern Trust, which invests in physical replication of equities of the MSCI World index.Since the new ETF is registered in the Netherlands, it can claim reimbursement of the withholding tax on dividends from foreign companies through agreements signed by the Netherlands, in order to avoid double taxation, which brings it additional returns of 0.4% to 0.5% per year.
15/10/2013

Barings to launch a European small cap fund

Barings asset management will launch a European small cap fund for manager Nicholas Williams and his co-manager, Colin Riddles, Citywire Global reports. The Baring European Opportunities Fund, domiciled in Dublin, will be released in the next few weeks.
15/10/2013

Neuberger Berman preparing a UCITS-compliant fund of hedge funds

In the face of rising demand on the part of discretionary fund managers, Neuberger Berman is planning to launch a UCITS-compliant version of its fund of hedge funds Neuberger Berman Absolute Return Multi-Strategy fund (ARMS), Investment Week reports. It will be an event-driven fund (long/short, event-driven, relative value credit), whose performance objective is 500 basis points over cash.It will be the second absolute return fund from the US asset mangaement firm to also be offered in the United Kingdom, after the Neuberger Berman Global Bond Absolute Return fund, which aims for returns 400 basis points over cash.
15/10/2013

US regulators debate supervision of the asset management industry

The fact that the Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a consultation to see if asset management firms pose a risk to the financial system is raising the eyebrows of other regulators, and may provoke a turf war for control of the industry, the Financial Times reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. The move follows the publication of a report by the Financial Research Office into asset management firms. If they are considered to present a systemic risk, their supervision would be transferred from the SEC to the Federal Reserve. This potential turf war could favour the asset management industry, which does not wish to be viewed as presenting a systemic risk.
15/10/2013

New head of multi-management at Federal Finance

Hervé Fournial will become the new head of multi-management at Federal Finance, Newsmanagers has learned. He will succeed Sylvain Serrandour, who will take charge of the development of an analysis team at the Brest-based asset management firm, including credit analysis and socially responsible investment. Fournial had previously been a manager in the multi-management team, which represents about EUR1bn in assets under management. His position will be replaced in order to maintain personnel at the same level. These movements come as part of a reshuffle of management teams and an overhaul of the product range, Stéphane Müller, chairman of the board at Federal Finance, tells Newsmanagers. The reshuffle of the product range, begun this summer, will result in a reduction in the number of funds from 40 to 27. “We want to have a more legible and concentrated product range for retail investors,” Müller explains. The rationalisation will initially concern equity and diversified funds, in early 2014, and then bond funds, at the end of first half. Some funds will disappear, as a result of low asset levels and outmoded themes, while others will be merged. Among the funds which will disappear are Federal Planète Bleue, for example. In terms of teams, Müller promises that no staff cuts are planned. Considerations are also taking in the institutional strategy, but the firm will provide more information about this at a later date.
15/10/2013

Steve Cohen obliged to sell paintings

In the past few months, with an increase in legal costs to defend himself against accusations against him, the billionaire Steve Cohen has had to part with part of his private art collectoin, Bluerating reports. Via Sotheby’s, he is selling two Andy Warhol paintings and a canvas by Gerhard Richter. One of the Warhol paintings depicts Elizabeth Taylor, and is estimated at USD20m to USD30m. The artworks were shown last week in Qatar.
15/10/2013

L'AFG fait de la promotion de l'ISR une priorité

L’Association Française de la Gestion financière (AFG) a souligné, dans un communiqué publié à l’occasion de la semaine de l’ISR, l’importance de la promotion de l’investissement socialement responsable (ISR), notamment auprès des particuliers. L’AFG a rappelé les initiatives prises au cours des derniers mois : mise à jour du Code de Transparence pour les fonds ISR ouverts au grand public commun à l’AFG et au FIR (Forum pour l’Investissement Responsable) février 2013, précision en juillet de la définition de l’ISR afin de faciliter la compréhension par les épargnants de ce mode d’investissement, et enfin la création d’un label ISR «unique et enrichi». Cette «forte implication de l’AFG dans l’ISR se situe dans le cadre plus global de son action de promotion de l’épargne longue» et de «la qualité des actifs, leviers du bon financement del’économie et d’une protection efficace des intérêts des épargnants», souligne l’AFG.
15/10/2013

Dominique Lamiot appointed as chairman of ERAFP

By a decree of the French president published in the official journal on 2 October 2013, Mr. Dominique Lamiot is appointed for a term of three years as chairman of the Etablissement de Retraite additionnelle de la Fonction publique (ERAFP). He succeeds Jean-François Rocchi, who in June this year announced his decision to quit the board on 1 July 2013. Rocchi was elected to the presidency on 8 November 2011. Since 1 July, the position had been occupied in the interim by Philippe Soubirous, vice-chairman of the board. Lamiot, an unrivalled civil administrator, is a graduate of ENA (1987), and since 2008 had served as secretary general at Bercy. Lamiot was appointed in April 2008 as secretary general of the economic and finance ministries. On 6 May 2010, he was confirmed in his position following the creation of an enlarged office of the secretary general, combining the functions previously served by three offices (SG, DPAEP and Sircom).
15/10/2013

L’immobilier résidentiel reste morose

Malgré des taux de crédits à l’habitat qui restent, à 3% fin septembre, inférieurs de 67 points de base à ceux du deuxième trimestre 2012, le nombre d’opérations devrait chuter de près de 5% à 330.000 fin 2013 dans le logement neuf en France et de 9% dans le logement ancien, avec 709.000 transactions, selon les chiffres révélés aujourd’hui par le Crédit Foncier. La baisse des prix reste modérée à -1,9% pour les appartements à Paris. Des chiffres néanmoins biaisés, le Crédit Foncier constatant que pour enclencher une vente de biens de qualité, les vendeurs doivent consentir des décotes de 5% à 10%.
15/10/2013

Le directeur financier de Nyse Euronext démissionnera après la fusion avec ICE

Nyse Euronext a indiqué que son directeur financier, Michael Geltzeiler, quittera ses fonctions une fois approuvée la fusion avec IntercontinentalExchange (ICE). John Halvey, directeur juridique et secrétaire général de Nyse Euronext, ainsi que Philippe Duranton, le directeur des ressources humaines, quitteront également la plateforme.
15/10/2013

Léger recul des prix à la consommation en France en septembre

Les prix à la consommation ont baissé de 0,2% en septembre, sous l’effet du recul des prix de certains services à la fin de l'été et de ceux des produits frais, selon les statistiques publiées mardi par l’Insee. En août, les prix avaient augmenté de 0,5%. Sur un an, les prix à la consommation ont augmenté de 0,9% en septembre, soit le même niveau qu’en août.
15/10/2013

L'inflation reste stable au Royaume-Uni

L’inflation au Royaume-Uni est restée inchangée en septembre, à 2,7% sur un an, mais la hausse des prix à la production a ralenti, suggérant un reflux des tensions inflationnistes. Les économistes interrogés par Reuters prévoyaient en moyenne un léger ralentissement de la hausse des prix, à 2,6% en rythme annuel.
15/10/2013

L'Euribor perd encore un contributeur

La banque autrichienne Erste Bank a cessé de contribuer au panel de l’Euribor et de l’Eurepo depuis le 11 octobre, a indiqué l’Euribor-EBF, chargé d’administrer les indices interbancaires. L’Euribor connaît une vague de défection de la part de banques contributrices en raison du risque judiciaire attaché aux enquêtes sur la manipulation éventuelle des benchmarks.
15/10/2013

Swiss Life AM collecte 2 milliards en six mois

Lancée en novembre 2012 afin de rassembler toutes les expertises du groupe Swiss Life en matière de gestion d’actifs pour compte de tiers, Swiss Life Asset Managers a collecté l'équivalent de 2 milliards d’euros au premier semestre 2013, selon un communiqué. Contre toute attente, la filiale a notamment collecté 700 millions d’euros sur le monétaire en France. L’objectif est toujours d’atteindre 30 milliards d’actifs sous gestion fin 2015.
15/10/2013

Les réserves de change chinoises font un bond

Les réserves de change de la Chine ont atteint 3.660 milliards de dollars en septembre, a annoncé la banque centrale, contre 3.500 milliards en juin. Elles ont ainsi largement dépassé le consensus des économistes. Pour Tim Condon, patron de la recherche d’ING en Asie, cette hausse suggère que la Chine a bénéficié d’un effet report cet été alors que la plupart des émergents d’Asie connaissaient des flux sortants.

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