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03/09/2013

Un ancien de Lyxor rejoint Deutsche Bank

Claus Hein, l’ancien responsable commercial des ETF pour le Royaume-Uni, l’Irlande, les Pays-Bas et les pays nordiques chez Lyxor, rejoint Deutsche Bank, a appris Financial News. Il sera responsable de la distribution synthétique pour le Royaume-Uni. Cela inclura la vente d’ETF.
03/09/2013
Fonds

Ashmore lance un fonds dédié aux actions turques

Le spécialiste des marchés émergents Ashmore a annoncé le 2 septembre le lancement d’une stratégie actions dédiée au marché turc. Ashmore, qui est exposé au marché turc depuis la fin des années 80, a renforcé sa présence dans le pays en 2008 avec l’installation d’une antenne locale. Le fonds ouvert Ashmore SICAV Turkish Equity, domicilié au Luxembourg, sera géré de façon collégiale. Le fonds sera commercialisé en Autriche, en Allemagne, au Luxembourg, en Suisse et au Royaume-Uni, précise Ashmore dans un communiqué.Les actifs sous gestion d’Ashmore s'élevaient à environ 77,4 milliards de dollars à fin juin 2013.
Fonds
03/09/2013

Old Mutual Wealth désigne trois administrateurs indépendants

Old Mutual Wealth Management, la holding de Skandia et Old Mutual Global Investors, a annoncé la nomination de trois administrateurs indépendants non exécutifs, Ashok Gupta, Jane Hanson et Simon Davies.Ashok Gupta détient d’autres mandats non exécutifs chez New Ireland Assurance, AA Insurance Services, JP Morgan JP Morgan European Smaller Companies Investment Trust et eValue FE. Ashok Gupta présidera le comité d’audit d’Old Mutual Wealth.Jane Hanson détient d’autres mandats non exécutifs dont un chez Direct Line Insurance Group, où elle préside le comité des risques. Chez Old Mutual Wealth, elle aura également la présidence du comité des risques.Simon Davies est par ailleurs chairman du JP Morgan Overseas Investment Trust et administrateur non exécutif chez Grainger PLC. Simon Davies, qui a également été chairman et CEO de Threadneedle, présidera le comité des rémunérations de Old Mutual Wealth.
03/09/2013

Citigroup vend peu à peu sa gestion alternative

Citigroup a vendu pour plus de 6 milliards de dollars d’actifs dans le capital investissement et les hedge funds ces derniers mois afin de se conformer aux nouvelles règles limitant les participations des banques dans les placements alternatifs, rapporte le Wall Street Journal. La semaine dernière, le groupe américain a cédé un fonds de private equity de 4,3 milliards de dollars, Citi Venture Capital International, a Rohatyn Group, un fonds de capital investissement. Le 9 août, il a vendu un hedge fund marchés émergents de 1,9 milliard de dollars aux gérants du fonds. Citigroup était autrefois un acteur important des placements alternatifs. En février 2012, le groupe gérait 18,6 milliards de dollars d’actifs de hedge funds et de private equity dans sa filiale Citi Capital Advisors. Mais après les récentes opérations, cette structure n’a plus qu’un fonds, le Metalmark Capital de 2,5 milliards de dollars, que la banque tente de vendre.
03/09/2013

Natixis met la main à la poche pour la recherche dans la finance quantitative

A compter du 1er janvier 2014, la fondation d’entreprise Natixis pour la recherche quantitative, qui a pour but de financer des recherches et des manifestations dans le domaine de la finance quantitative, propose des compléments de financement à la recherche. Ces soutiens financiers à la recherche dans le domaine de la finance quantitative peuvent prendre la forme d’un complément de bourse, achat de moyens informatiques et de données, missions, organisation de conférences, etc.Les demandes doivent parvenir avant le 15 novembre 2013. Le montant maximum attribué est de 5 000 euros.
03/09/2013
Fonds

Carnegie ferme un fonds d’actions suédoises aux nouveaux investisseurs

La société de gestion suédoise Carnegie ferme aux nouvelles souscriptions le fonds Carnegie Sverige Select, un fonds d’actions suédoises sans contrainte. ”Afin de préserver notre liberté, nous devons fermer le fonds avant qu’il ne devienne trop gros”, explique Simon Blecher, gérant du fonds. Lancé le 28 septembre 2007, le fonds pèse aujourd’hui 1,6 milliard de couronnes suédoises, soit 180 millions d’euros. Très concentré, Carnegie Sverige Select détient environ 15 valeurs en portefeuille et un titre peut représenter jusqu'à 30 % du fonds.
Fonds
03/09/2013

Les PME financées par le capital investissement jouent le jeu de l'ESG

Les PME ETI financées par le capital investissement en Europe sont de bons élèves en matière d’intégration des enjeux extra-financiers. C’est ce que révèle l’étude publiée par l’équipe de multigestion Private Equity d’OFI Asset Management en partenariat avec le Magazine des Affaires. À travers cette enquête menée auprès d’une soixantaine de sociétés de gestion de capital investissement et d’une centaine de fonds représentant plus de 300 sociétés européennes, OFI Asset Management a souhaité mesurer l’intégration des critères ESG par les sociétés de gestion et leurs participations. L'étude prend en compte en compte des informations telles que le taux de rotation du personnel, la formation des effectifs, la représentation des femmes au sein des organes de direction, le bilan carbone ou le reporting RSE. Parmi les différents enseignements de l'étude, il apparaît que le capital humain «est un critère essentiel de l’investissement de long terme», souligne OFI AM, qui note que le taux de rotation des effectifs de l’échantillon est bien inférieur à celui moyen des effectifs de l’ensemble des sociétés françaises qui s’élève à 50,2 % sur 2011. Il s’explique avant tout par un fort dynamisme de création d’emplois (8 % en 2012 sur l’échantillon OFI Asset Management), «notamment dans les segments du capital risque et du capital développement», précise l'étude.
03/09/2013

DeAWM recrute un dirigeant pour les fonds immobiliers

Avant la fin septembre, Jörn Stobbe, associé du cabinet d’avocats Clifford Chance et jusqu’en août président de l'émanation en Allemagne de la Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, rejoindra comme membre de la direction générale RREEF Management GmbH, une filiale de Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM). Il aura le rang de managing director et sera responsable des activités gestion d’actifs et transactions pour l’espace germanophone (Allemagne, Suisse, Autriche). Jörn Stobbe est également membre du directoire de l’Initiative Corporate Governance (ICG) du secteur immobilier allemand.Pierre Cherki, global head of alternatives & real assets de DeAWM, a indiqué que Jörn Stobbe sera subordonné à Georg Allendorf. Il a mis en exergue l’expertise du nouvel arrivant dans le domaine des «investissements opportunistes».
03/09/2013

XTB passe sous la coupe de la Deutsche Bank

La Deutsche Bank a annoncé le 2 septembre avoir bouclé la transaction par laquelle, en mai, elle avait acquis les 51 % que Xchanging plc détenait dans leur coentreprise Xchanging Transaction Banking (XTB).Les autorisations nécessaires ayant été obtenues des instances de surveillance et des actionnaires d’Xchanging, le changement de propriétaire est devenu effectif au 1er septembre et XTB sera désormais exploitée sous le nom de DB Investment Services GmbH.Holger Wegmann devient CEO de DB Investment Services tandis que Catrin Röthe, membre de la direction générale de XTB, exercera les fonctions de chief production officer. Quant au poste de COO, il échoit à Thomas Beemelmann.
03/09/2013

Nouveau patron pour la distribution de fonds chez Berenberg

Avec effet au 1er septembre 2013, Gunther Will est devenu directeur de la distribution des fonds offerts au public de Berenberg auprès des gestionnaires de fortune, des fonds de fonds et des CGPI. L’intéressé qui a été pendant quelques mois président du directoire du pool de couriters Argentos Verwaltungs-AG, après avoir été jusqu’au printemps 2012 head of retail sales chez Alceda Fund Management SA et responsable de la distribution des fonds pour l’ensemble du groupe Aquila Capital.Gunther Will sera subordonné à Uwe Schedewsky, head of client management du pôle gestion d’actifs de Berenberg. Les actifs gérés par la plus ancienne banque privée allemande se situent à environ 28 milliards d’euros.
03/09/2013

Citigroup selling off its alternative management bit by bit

Citigroup has sold assets from private equity and hedge funds in the past few months for USD6bn, in order to comply with new laws that limit the stakes that banks may hold in alternative investments, the Wall Street Journal reports. Last week, the US group sold a USD4.3bn private equity fund, Citi Venture Capital International, to Rohatyn Group, a private equity fund. On 9 August, it sold an emerging market hedge fund with USD1.9bn to the managers of the fund. Ciigroup had once been a major player in alternative investment. In February 2012, the group had USD18.6bn in assets under management in hedge funds and private equity at its affilate Citi Capital Advisors. But after the recent operations, the structure has only one fund left, the Metalmark Capital fund, with USD2.5bn in assets, which the bank is seeking to sell.
03/09/2013

Two new directors join the Financial Reporting Council

On 2 September, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the organisation responsible for developing UK corporate governance and stewardship codes and accounting, auditing and actuarial work standards, appointed Marian Williams as codes & standards director, in which position she will assist Melanie McLaren, executive director, codes & standards, and Angus Bogle, director of investor engagement, as deputy to Mridul Hegde, executive director, strategy.Williams had previously been director of the insurance financial services unit at PwC. Bogle, who had been co-head of equity at Fildelity Worldwide Investments from November 2007 to December 2011, will be responsible for creating an enhanced engagement programme for the FRC and “the investor community.” He will also work with the codes & standards team to ensure that governance and reporting meet the expectations of investors.
03/09/2013

Temasek sets up shop in London and New York

One of the Singapore sovereign wealth funds, Temasek, announced before the weekend that it had selected locations for its offices in London and New York, with the objective of being operational before the end of the year, according to a statement.The New York office will be located at 375 Park Avenue, in the business district of Manhattan. The London office will be at 23 King Street, in St James’s, near a highly valued hedge fund area.The offices come in addtion to the SWF’s network of foreign locations, with nine offices in Asia and two in Latin America.
03/09/2013

Legal & General scales up its multi-asset class team

Legal & General Investment Management has announced the appointment of Justin Onuekwusi as a portfolio manager specialised in retail multi-asset class profiled funds, Investment Europe reports. Onuekwusi previously worked at Aviva Investors, where he was lead manager for several profiled multi-asset class funds. At Legal & General, he will be lead manager fo the Legal & General Multi-Index range, launched on 21 August 2013.
03/09/2013

Former Lyxor manager joins Deutsche Bank

Claus Hein, former head of ETF sales for the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands and Scandinavia at Lyxor, will be joining Deutsche Bank, Financial News has learnt. He will be responsible for synthetic distribution in the United Kingdom. This will include ETFs.
03/09/2013

IMA appoints two heads of regulation

Daniel Godfrey, CEO of the Investment Management Association (IMA), on 2 September announced that it has created two seats on its executive board for directors of regulatory affairs. They go to Julie Patterson, currently director fo authorised funds & tax, for “retail & funds,” and to Richard Metcalfe, deputy head of EMEA at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), for the “institutional & capital markets” portion.The IMA will also create an office of the director for risk, compliance and legal affairs, which will be occupied by Guy Sears, currently director, institutional.The recruitment of a COO as an addition to the executive committee is also in progress.
03/09/2013

Fauchier Partners veteran founds own firm

Dan Higgins, former chief investment offier at Fauchier Partners, will this week launch his own asset management boutique, Marylebone Partners, Financial News reports.
03/09/2013

Old Mutual Wealth appoints three independent directors

Old Mutual Wealth Management, the holding company of Skandia and Old Mutual Global Invetors, has announced the appointment of three independent, non-executive directors, Ashok Gupta, Jane Hanson and Simon Davies.Gupta holds other non-executive responsibilities at New Ireland Assurance, AA Insurance Services, JP Morgan JP Morgan European Smaller Companies Investment Trust and eValue FE. Gupta will chair the auditing board at Old Mutual Wealth. Hanson holds other non-executive responsibilities, including one at Direct Line Insurance Group, where she is chair of the risk board. At Old Mutual Wealth, she will also be chair of the risk committee. Davies is also chairman of the JP Morgan Overseas Investment Trust and non-executive director at Grainger PLC. Davies, who was also chairman and CEO of Threadneedle, will chair the remuneration committee at Old Mutual Wealth.
03/09/2013

Carnegie closes Swedish equity fund to new investors

The Swedish asset management firm Carnegie is closing the Carnegie Sverige Select fund, an unconstrained Swedish equity fund, to new investors. “In order to preserve our freedom, we must close the fund before it becomes too large,” explains Simon Blecher, manager of the fund. The fund, launched on 28 September 2007, now has SEK1.6bnin assets, or EUR180m. Carnegie Sverige Select, highly concentrated, has about 15 positions in its portfolio, and one single share can represent about 30% of the fund.
03/09/2013

Azimut completes acquisition of An Ping Investment in Taiwan

Azimut, via its Luxembourg sub-holding company AZ International Holding, has subscribed to a capital increase related to the acquisition of a 51% stake in the capital of An Ping Investment, the holding company which controls all capital in Sinopro Financial Planning Taiwan Limited, Bluerating reports. Sinopro is a Securities Investment Consulting Enterprise which is present in the distribution of asset management products in Taiwan. The total cost of the operation is EUR3bn. The objective for the agreement is to create a joint venture for the distribution of asset management products in Taiwan.
03/09/2013

DeAWM recruits director for real estate funds

By the end of September, Jörn Stobbe, a partner at the law firm Clifford Chance, and until the end of August chairman of the German arm of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, will join RREEF Management GmbH, a real estate fund management affiliate of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM), as a member of general management. He will have the position of managing director, and will be responsible for asset management activities and trading for the German-speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland, Austria). Stobbe is also a member of the board at the Corporate Governance Initiative (ICG) by the German real estate sector.Pierre Cherki, global head of alternatives & real assets at DeAWM, states that Stubbe will report to Georg Allendorf. He highlights the expertise of the new arrival in the area of “opportunity-driven investment.”
03/09/2013

XTB taken over by Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank on 2 September announced that it had completed a transaction by which, in May, it acquired the 51% stake held by its partner, Xchanging plc, in their joint venture, Xchanging Transaction Banking (XTB).As the necessary permission had been obtained from the supervisory authorities and the shareholders in Xchanging the change of ownership took place on 1 September, and XTB will now be known as DB Investment Services GmbH.Holger Wegmann becomes CEO of DB Investment Services, while Catrin Röthe, a member of the executive team at XTB, will serve as chief production officer. The position of COO will go to Thomas Beemelmann.
03/09/2013

New head of fund distribution at Berenberg

With effect from 1 September 2013, Gunther Will has become director of distribution of open-ended funds from Berenberg to wealth managers, funds of funds and IFAs.Will, who for some months was chairman of the board at the brokerage pool Argentos Verwaltungs-AG, served until spring 2012 as head of retail sales at Alceda Fund Management SA, and head of fund distribution for the Aquila Capital group.Will will report to Uwe Schedewsky, head of client management at the asset management business unit of Berenberg. Assets under management by the oldest private bank in Germany total about EUR28bn.
03/09/2013

Deka highlights its institutional management

Currently, institutional assets at Deka, the central asset management firm for the German savings banks, represent EUR85bn, out of a total of EUR177bn. This includes open-ended funds dedicated to institutionals (EUR10bn), institutional funds (Spezialfonds) for EUR62bn, ETFs (EUR4.6bn), and advised assets (EUR8.5bn). The unit will now be placed under the heading “Deka Institutionell” and will allow the firm to offer clients a complete value chain, from strategic analysis to reporting and controlling, without forgetting the selection of appropriate products solutions, and their deployment, says Klaus-Dieter Böhme, director of institutional distribution.Of this total of EUR85bn in institutional assets, about 60% come from businesses and institutions which belong to the galaxy of the savings banks. Deka predicts that net inflows to the institutional unit will total EUR6bn this year.
03/09/2013

J. Safra Sarasin bank recruits for wealth management team

The Banque J. Safra Sarasin on 3 September announced the recruitment of four experienced specialists as additions to its team of wealth managers. Florian Esterer (who joins from MainFirst, after several years at Swisscanto) is the new head of the wealth management team in the area of equities, and is joined by Thomas Zbinden, senior wealth manager (who also joins from Swisscanto), as well as Christoph Lang, wealth manager, who joins from the Cantonal Bank of Zurich. The German Helmut Kotschwar, head of investment strategy and portfolio analysis at SAM Sustainable Asset Management since 2008, has also been recruited to serve in the newly-created position of head of the investment centre. He will be responsible for developing portfolios for all asset management units.
03/09/2013

Aquila loses its CIO to Pimco

The Swiss wealth management firm Aquila has lost its chief investment officer, Jürg Furrer, who had also been a member of the executive board at the group, the specialist information website finews reports.After nine years at Aquila, Furrer will on 1 October join the Swiss office of the US group Pimco. The head of Pimco Switzerland, Christian M. Staub, had recently announced that he wished to strengthen his team with the recruitment of professionals with a lot of knowledge of the Swiss market.
03/09/2013

Ashmore launches fund dedicated to Turkish equities

Ashmore Investment Management, one of the specialist managers of emerging market debt and equity securities, on September 2 announced the launch of the Ashmore SICAV Turkish Equity Fund.The fund is an open-ended vehicle primarily investing predominantly in Turkish equity and equity related instruments issued by corporates and quasi-sovereigns. Ashmore’s globally managed funds have been major investors in Turkish equities since 1987. The asset manager further strengthened its Turkish connections when it launched Ashmore Portföy, Turkey in 2008, one of Ashmore’s first domestic asset management ventures.The SICAV Turkish Equity Fund is an open-ended daily dealing UCITS IV Luxembourg registered fund. The fund will be registered for sale in Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the UK and is available in share class denominations in US Dollars, Euros, UK Sterling and other currencies.Ashmore has assets under management of USD77.4billion as of 30 June 2013.
03/09/2013

JP Morgan soft-closes Asian equity fund

JP Morgan has decided to limit access to an Asian equity fund managed by Pauline Ng, Citywire reports. The fund, the JP Morgan ASEAN Equity, had been subject to access constraints since June. As of the end of July 2013, its assets under management peaked at USD1.2bn, and had then fallen back to USD1.04bn. The fund has earned returns of 49.51% for the three years to the end of July 2013, compared with gains of 36% for the Citywire benchmark index, the MSCI South East Asia TR USD, over the same period.
03/09/2013

DeAWM strengthens cooperation with Nomura AM

From 2 September, the DWS Japan Opportunities fund (DE0008490954) has become known as the Deutsche Nomura Japan Growth. The change is a sign of the deepened coopertion between Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM) and Nomua Asset Management.The fund actually will now be managed by the team at Nomura Asset Management led by Shinsuke Yauchi and Ken Nagano. This will allow the fund to benefit from the local expertise of Nomura AM, one of the largest strategic partners of the German group. Asoka Wöhrmann, co-CIO, says that there is not yet any product of this type in Europe.The team at Nomura Asset Management benefits from the work of more than 20 buy-side analysts, and the fund will be managed with a growth method, with a portfolio of 40 to 60 positions out of a universe of 450 securities.
03/09/2013

Schroders adds to its energy unit

Mark Lacey will join Schroders as a co-fund manager on Schroder ISF Global Energy and Schroder ISF Small Cap Energy. He joins on 9th September from commodities trader Mercuria Global Energy Solutions and brings with him more than 17 years’ of investment experience in the global energy sector.Mark Lacey will work alongside the funds’ existing manager John Coyle ; the investment objective of both funds remains unchanged. He will report to Peter Harrison, Global Head of Equities and will work alongside the Global and International Equities team providing specialist energy analysis and stock recommendations.Ben Wicks, an existing equity analyst within the Global and International Equities team, will assume the role of Global Sector Specialist - Energy.

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