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02/04/2013

Acatis Invest gets a sales representative in Paris

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Acatis Investment has announced the recruitment in mid-March of Marie Ballorain for the position of director of development for France and Belgum. The German asset management firm did not yet have an official representative office, but it is planning to open one this autumn. Ballorain had previously been senior relationship manager at Sparinvest in Paris, from 2006 to 2013.Acatis Investment had EUR1.75bn in assets under management as of the end of February 2013. The range on sale in France includes four products: Acatis Aktien Global Funds UI, an international equity fund with EUR290m in assets, Acatis Gané Value Event Fonds, a mixed balanced fund combining value and event-driven management (EUR467m in assets), Acatis IfK Value Renten UI, an international value bond fund (EUR187m in assets) and Acatis Aktien Deutschland ELM, a fund of German value equities, with EUR83m in assets.
02/04/2013

ERAFP awards management mandates for multi-asset funds of funds

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The French public pension fund Etablissement de retraite additionnelle de la fonction publique (ERAFP) has awarded one active and two stand-by management mandates for multi-asset funds of funds as part of a policy to extend its investment universe, in line with the five values of the SRI charter. In July 2012, ERAFP launched a restricted request for proposals, for management of a multi-asset SRI fund of funds. Following the selection process, the ERAFP has decided to award the active mandate to Amundi. The additional managers are BNP Paribas Asset Management and Neuflize OBC Investissements. Following a fundamental approach, unconstrained by a benchmark, the management firm will construct its portfolio in line with a rigorous asset allocation and fund selection process, which will include respect for the SRI framework of ERAFP. The mandated firm will seek to maximise returns while limiting losses on the portfolio over a one-year period, through management of the risk budget. The sums invested for a one-year period may be on the order of EUR150m, and may rise to about EUR300m in three years’ time, the ERAFP says in a statement. The initial duration of the contract is four years, with a means for ERAFP to reduce the length of the contract for two successive periods of two years each.
02/04/2013

Dexia AM reshuffles its emerging market debt team

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Dexia Asset Management has announced two internal promotions in its emerging market debt team, following the departure of the head of the unit, Luc d’Hooge, for Vontobel, Citywire Global reports. Leen Clijsters, who has been at Dexia for 30 years, becomes head of two funds previously overseen by d’Hooge (Dexia Bonds Emerging Markets and Dexia Bonds Emerging Debt Local Currencies). At the same time, Isabelle Rome becomes head of the emerging market debt team. She had previously been co-head of the credit team.
02/04/2013

Fidelity Contrafund reduces exposure to Apple

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } As of the end of February, the Fidelity Contrafund (USD92bn, or EUR71.76bn) had reduced its exposure to Apple to 10.43 million shares (which corresponds to USD4.6bn), from 11.56 million shares as of the end of December, Expansión reports. The Apple position, the largest for the fund, now equates to 5.2% of assets, down from 8.2%, making it smaller than its stake in Google, which represents 5.8% of assets under management.
02/04/2013

Invesco AM finishes 2012 with inflows in France

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } At a press conference held by Invesco AM on Thursday, 28 March in Paris, Nicolas Bouët, deputy CEO, announced that the asset management firm had posted gross subscriptions in France of USD1.6bn in 2012, and about USD700m in net subscriptions. By comparison, gross inflows as of the beginning of December totalled about USD1.2bn, of which more than half were net inflows. At the end of last year, global assets totalled EUR3.5bn, while as of the end of May 2012, they stood at EUR2bn. Since the beginning of this year, “the trend remains the same, just a little bit short,” the director says.
02/04/2013

Considerable increase in assets at Swiss Life Banque Privée

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } At a press conference about investment strategy, Swiss Life Banque Privée (SLBP) has revealed a few figures about its activities in France. The structure, founded in 2007, has EUR1.6bn in assets, resulting from the acquisition of Wargny from Fideuram, and then of Arpège, which as of the end of December had assets under management of EUR3.2bn, including EUR248m in net inflows in 2012, says Tanguy Polet, CEO.The portfolio is 15-20% ventilated to open-ended funds, and 25% to structured products, primarily fixed income, while the remainder is in mandates, primarily for equities. SLBP serves both as a private bank for clients with over EUR250,000 in financial savings, and as an expertise-sharing resource for products and services of the insurance company’s network. In addition, the firm has entered the depositary business for funds and general assets of the insurer, and has about EUR20bn under custody. The structure, which has 111 employees in Paris, has also recently created a “transverse” private banking/insurance management. The company covers four business units: financial management, wealth management, corporate finance and real estate.
02/04/2013

HSBC GAM France appoints a successor to Laurent Tignard

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } According to information obtained by Newsmanagers, HSBC Global Asset Management (France) is preparing to announce the arrival of a successor to Laurent Tignard as CEO of the asset management firm. He is Matteo Pardi, an insider who for the past six years has been responsible for retail clients in continental Europe, and who joined HSBC in 2001.Tignard joins the Edmond de Rothschild group as global head of the asset management operation, where he will work with Christophe de Backer, its CEO, with whom he collaborated at HSBC.
02/04/2013

Spanish funds attract EUR3.7bn in assets in January-March

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } According to statistics from the Inverco association of Spanish asset management firms, Spanish securities funds in first quarter posted net subscriptions of EUR3.72bn, (including EUR1.05bn in March), the highest level since 2006, which has brought total assets back up to EUR128.257bn, EUR1.5bn, or 1.2% higher than as of the end of February.This confirms previous estimates by VDOS (see Newsmanagers of 28 March), according to which Spanish funds in first quarter overall took in more assets than they lost in all of 2012: overall, assets increased over the three-month period by EUR5.935bn, EUR526m more than their decline for the whole of last year.This return of funds to investors’ good graces is certainly related to a Bank of Spain regulation to limit on returns on bank deposits to 1.75% for one year, 2.25% over two years, and 2.75% for longer periods.
02/04/2013

Dexia AM registers Global Opportunities fund in Spain

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The CNMV has issued a sales license for Spain to the UCITS-compliant hedge fund Dexia Global Opportunities, launched slightly over two years ago (see Newsmanagers of 11 March 2011), in Spain, Funds People reports. The objective is to outperform the capitalised Eonia over a recommended investment duration of three years, regardless of market conditions.
02/04/2013

SAC Capital: SEC investigation moves higher up the ranks

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } On Friday, before sunrise, FBI agents arrested hedge fund manager Michael Steinberg, one of the closest collaborators of Steven A. Cohen, founder and head of SAC Capital Management. He is being charged with five criminal counts of securities fraud, including insider trading of shares in Dell and Nvidia, when he was employed by Sigma Capital Management (an affiliate of SAC Capital).Steinberg is also named in a civil suit filed by the SEC. He has been released on bail of USD3m.
02/04/2013

Assénagon lance un fonds d'obligations d'entreprises

Le nouveau fonds du munichois Assénagon Asset M anagement (qui gère les portefeuilles des ETDF de Source), Assenagon Credit Selectionn est un produit coordonné institutionnel de droit luxembourgeois, le Assénago Credit Selection, un fonds d’obligations d’entreprises qui vise à générer des recettes d’intérêts de 3,5 points de pourcentage supérieurs à l’Euribor 3 mois, tout en shuntang les risque de taux et de change.Le nouveau produit est géré par Michael Hünseler, directeur général d’Assénagon depuis le 1er août 2012 (c’est un ancien de la Bayrische HypoVereinsbank, du groupe UniCredit, et de Deka) et le fonds démarre avec un encours de plus de 100 millions d’euros.Le portefeuille est principalement investi en obligations d’entreprises et en CDS. Afin d'éviter les risques de concentration, le fonds n’utilise aucun indice de référence et se focalise sur des émetteurs notés au moins B- (Fitch et S&P) ou B3 (Moody’s). Actuellement, le fonds est alloué principalement à des lignes industrielles européennes.CaractéristiquesDénomination Assénagon Credit SelectionCode Isin : LU0890803710Droit d’entrée : 2,5 % maximu pour les parts P (particuliers)Commission de gestion:0,70 % (parts I institutionnelles)1,20 % (parts P)Commission de performance : 15 % de la surperformance par rapport au taux butoir (Euribor 3 mois) + 350 points de base par an.
02/04/2013

New head for Southern Europe at Fidelity

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Paolo Federici, country manager for Italy at Fidelity, has been appointed as head for Southern Europe and Latin America at the US asset management firm, Bluerating reports. He will be responsible for Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Israel and South America, in addition to Italy. Last year, assets under management by Fidelity in Italy increased by about USD3bn.
02/04/2013

BVI wishes to channel ESMA index transparency initiative

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } In an interview with the Börsen-Zeitung, Rudolf Siebel, a member of the board at the German BVI association of asset management firms, wishes that recommendations of the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) for index transparency should be frozen in the absence of regulations and centralised oversight of indices.These would actually mean that fund management firms would be required to ensure themselves that the purveyors of indices satisfy transparency standards, which would be far too costly, or impossible, when the index provider itself refuses to disclose confidential information.In the worst case, says Siebel, asset management firms would have to withdraw products from the market. They would thus fall victim to distortions of competition, as ESMA is explicitly targeting only funds, but certificates would not be affected. Additionally, the BVI would like to see asset management firms able to access information for free related to indices, when these are among the legally required items as part of reporting.
02/04/2013

Luxembourg funds: EUR62.1bn AUM increase in February

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } As of 28 February, net assets under management by collective investment organisms (OPCs) and specialised investment funds (SIFs) in Luxembourg totalled EUR2.46807trn, which represents an increase of EUR62.14bn compared with the end of January (ER2.40593trn), EUR29.32bn of which are attributable to net subscriptions, and EUR32.89bn to market appreciation, according to figures from the Financial Sector Supervision Commission (CSSF).The number of OPCs and SIFs products under consideration is 3,849, compared with 3,840 the previous month, while 2,472 entities have adopted a multiple sub-fund structure, with a total of 12,141 sub-funds. With the addition of 1,377 traditionally structured entities, a total of 13,518 entities are active on the financial market.In the month under review, 25 OPCs and SIFs entities were added to the official list, while 16 were removed.
02/04/2013

Amin Snehal leaves Theleme Partners

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } One of the largest new hedge funds created since the 2008 crisis, Theleme Partners, has lost its second in command. Amin Snehal, former head of US research at TCI, has decided to leave the firm to found his own investment firm, FTfm reports. Theleme Partners was founded by Snehal and the Frenchman Patrick Degorce, a former partner at TCI, following their departure from the activist firm led by Chris Hohn in 2009. Theleme Partners last year earned returns of 20%, compared with an average of less than 7% for hedge funds overall.
02/04/2013

Credit Suisse sells off JO Hambro

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } The financial holding company Utilico, whose headquarters are located in Bermuda, has acquired the British firm JO Hambro (CHF5.5bn in assets) from Credit Suisse, finews.ch reports, relaying information in Citywire.JO Hambro Investment Management was acquired by the Swiss group in 2000. It has 100 employees, including 20 portfolio managers.
02/04/2013

iShares opens in Belgium

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } A total of 31 iShares ETFs have been registered in Belgium. They give investors in the country access to equity and bond products (government, corporate, inflation-linked), emerging market funds, and vehicles focused on commodities.The products which are now available include the iShares Euro Stoxx 503 ETF, the iShares MSCI World4 ETF and the iShares Barclays Captial Global inflation-linked bond fund. Investors also gain access to the Belgian government bond market through the iShares Belgium Treasury Bond ETF.iShares in Belgium is led by Charles Symons.
02/04/2013

Renaissance AM acquired by Kazimir Partners

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Russian asset management firm Renaissance Asset managers, which has USD3bn in assets under management, has been acquired by its counterpart and competitor Kazimir Partners, with USD400-500m under management, at a price which has not been disclosed.The structure born of the merger of the two emerging market specialists (with a hedge fund bias in the case of Kazimir) will be independent, and owned by its management and employees, including a stake of about 25% for the management of RAM.Previously, Renaissance AM had been nearly 90% controlled by Renaissance Group, while the remainder was in the hands of management. Its acquisition by a smaller firm may be surprising, but Adrian Harris, head of distribution and investor relationships at RAM, explains to Newsmanagers that Kazimir, a firm based in Moscow, had accumulated a lot of cash through its success in recent years, and now has about USD100m in capital, which may be invested in funds. The Renaissance group, the major shareholder in RAM, meanwhile, has had trouble recently, and had already sold its investment bank in November last year.The attraction for Renaissance, therefore, is to become an independent firm, and to receive additional capital for its funds. For its part, Kazimir will make use of the Luxembourg Sicav launched by Renaissance in 2010, with 10 sub-funds, for a European deploymentA new product range will be organised, and Russian equity and bond funds from the two firms will, logically, be expected to merge. Lastly, Renaissance AM will change names in second half, Harris says.
02/04/2013

New head for Asia appointed at Martin Currie IM

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Martin Currie Investment Management has appointed Andrew Graham as head for Asia, following the previously announced departure of Jason McCay. McCay will be leaving his position during summer 2013, to “take a significant career break,” after 15 years at Martin Currie. Graham is co-manager with McCay of Martin Currie’s two Asian strategies. McCay will be replaced at the helm of the two funds by chief investment officer Paul Danes.
02/04/2013

Eaton Vance breaks new ground with EMTFs

Eaton Vance announced that it has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeking exemptive relief to permit the offering of exchange-traded managed funds (ETMFs), a proposed new type of open-end fund designed to bring the cost and tax efficiencies and shareholder protections of the exchange-traded fund (ETF) structure to active investment strategies, while maintaining the confidentiality of current portfolio trading information.The promoter seeks to launch a family of ETMFs that mirror existing Eaton Vance mutual funds and to license the underlying technology to other fund groups through its subsidiary Navigate Fund Solutions. Navigate FS and Eaton Vance expect ETMFs to reliably generate 50 basis points or more of improved annual returns versus similar mutual funds across a range of strategies, reflecting lower operating expenses and reduced flow-related trading costs in the ETMF structure.ETMFs would trade on an exchange at prices directly linked to the fund’s next-determined daily net asset value (NAV). Because ETMFs would provide market makers with opportunities to earn reliable arbitrage profits without intraday hedging of their inventory positions, they can be expected to trade at consistently tight spreads to NAV in the absence of full holdings disclosure. By removing the requirement for daily portfolio transparency, ETMFs can enable investors to access a broad range of active strategies through a vehicle that provides the investor benefits of an exchange-traded fund.
02/04/2013

Natixis GAM launches a multi-strategy fund

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Natixis Global Asset Management has launched the Aurora Horizons Fund, a dynamic asset allocation fund investing in multiple alternative strategies, Hedgeweek reports. The fund, managed by Aurora Investment Management, is a diversification tool for use within a traditional long-only portfolio investing in equities and bonds.
02/04/2013

Hausse de 7 % de l'encours de Steyler Bank

Plus ancienne banque solidaire d’Allemagne (1964), Steyler Bank a annoncé avoir enregistré une hausse de 7 % de son encours en 2012, à 397,4 millions d’euros.Son premier fonds offert au public, Steyler Fair und Nachhaltig - Aktien, a été lancé à l’automne 2012 et affiche un encours de 13,3 millions d’euros. La gestion en est assurée par la banque privée hambourgeoise M.M. Warburg.
02/04/2013

Augmentation de l'encours administré par comdirect

A fin décembre, l’encours administré par comdirect bank (groupe Commerzbank) s'était accru à 27,91 milliards d’euros contre 24,90 milliards un an plus tôt pour la branche B2C (comdirect) et à 20,95 milliards contre 16,69 milliards pour la branche B2N (ebase).Néanmoins, le bénéfice d’exploitation de 2012 a diminué de 14,6 % sur 2011, à 92,3 millions d’euros tandis que le bénéfice net plongeait de 34,4 % à 73,36 millions d’euros. Le chiffre d’affaires a baissé à 329 millions d’euros contre 340,2 millions, du fait d’un ralentissement de l’activité de trading des clients, qui a provoqué une baisse des recettes de l’excédent sur les commissions à 166,4 millions d’euros contre 182,6 millions.comdirect compte servir un dividende de 44 cents par actions contre 56 cents au titre de 2011.
02/04/2013
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iShares se lance en Belgique

Au total 31 ETF d’iShares viennent d'être enregistrés en Belgique. Ils donnent aux investisseurs de ce pays l’accès à des produits actions et obligataires (Etat, entreprises, indexés sur l’inflation), des fonds marchés émergents et des véhicules axés sur les matières premières.Parmi les produits désormais disponibles, notons l’ETF iShares Euro Stoxx 503, l’ETF iShares MSCI World4 et l’ETF obligataire iShares Barclays Capital Global, lié à l’inflation. Les investisseurs peuvent aussi accéder au marché belge des bons d’Etat grâce à l’ETF iShares Barclays Belgium Treasury Bond.iShares est dirigé en Belgique par Charles Symons.
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02/04/2013

Le Nasdaq rachète la plate-forme spécialisée eSpeed

La plateforme boursière Nasdaq OMX a annoncé le 1er avril le rachat à BGC Partners de sa concurrente eSpeed, spécialisée dans le courtage de bons du Trésor, pour 750 millions de dollars en numéraire plus des émissions d’actions.Le rachat d’eSpeed donne au Nasdaq «un point d’entrée solide sur le marché obligataire électronique des bons du Trésor, l’un des marchés les plus importants et liquides du monde», indique le Nasdaq dans un communiqué. La transaction «devrait être positive pour les résultats du groupe d’ici douze mois après sa finalisation, hors coûts de transaction, et devrait générer des rendements sur investissement significatifs», ajoute-t-il.
02/04/2013

Le patron de SAC Capital s'achète un Picasso pour 155 millions de dollars

Deux semaines après que SAC Capital a réglé à la SEC 616 millions de dollars pour deux affaires de délits d’initiés, le milliardaire Steven Cohen, le patron de la société de gestion, vient de s’offrir un tableau de Picasso pour 155 millions de dollars, rapporte Forbes. L’oeuvre a été rachetée au milliardaire Steve Wynn.
02/04/2013
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Natixis GAM lance un fonds multistratégie

Natixis Global Asset Management vient de lancer le Aurora Horizons Fund, un mutual fund d’allocation dynamique investi dans des stratégies alternatives multiples, rapporte Hedgeweek.Le fonds, géré par Aurora Investment Management, se présente comme un outil de diversification au sein portefeuille long only traditionnel investi en actions et en obligations.
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02/04/2013
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Sentinel nomme de nouveaux gérants pour ses fonds

Sentinel a promu de nouveaux cadres au poste de gérants de fonds. Jason Doiron devient gérant principal du Sentinel Conservative Strategies Fund. Il travaillait au sein de l'équipe de gestion du fonds depuis 2009. Jason Wulff sera le nouveau gérant principal de Sentinel Growth Leaders Fund en collaboration avec Hilary Roper.
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02/04/2013
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Eaton Vance innove dans l'univers des ETF

Désireux d’importer le coût, l’efficacité fiscale et la protection de l’actionnaire tout en préservant la confidentialité sur le négoce propres aux ETF dans des stratégies d’investissement actif, Eaton Vance vient de solliciter de la SEC, le 28 mars, une dispense pour pouvoir lancer des exchange-traded managed funds (ETMF).Ces ETMF seraient traités sur une Bourse à des cours directement liés à la valeur liquidative journalière suivante (next-determined NAV). Dans la mesure où ces EMTF permettent d’offrir aux teneurs de marché des bénéfices sur l’arbitrage sans obligation de couvrir leurs positions de stock, on peut escompter que ces nouveaux produits se traiteront à des spreads considérablement plus serrés par rapport à la valeur liquidative, puisqu’il ne sera pas exigé de dévoiler en totalité toutes les lignes en portefeuille.Dans ce contexte, Eaton Vance envisage de lancer une gamme d’ETMF qui répliqueront des mutual funds existants de sa gamme. Le groupe commercialisera également des licences à d’autres sociétés de gestion au travers de sa filiale Navigate Fund solutions et utilisera également les ressources commerciales Nasdaq Stock Market et de BNY Mellon pour distribuer ces produits.Navigate FS et Eaton Vance comptent que les ETMF généreront une performance d’au moins 50 points de base par rapport aux mutual funds similaires, grâce à des frais d’exploitation inférieurs et à des coûts de transactions inférieurs liés aux flux. «D’autre part», précise Stephen W. Clarke, president de Navigate Fund Solutions, «les remboursements en numéraire permettront aux EMTF d’atteindre des niveaux d’efficience fiscale similaires à ceux des ETF».
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02/04/2013
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Dexia AM fait enregistrer le Global Opportunities en Espagne

La CNMV a délivré un agrément de commercialisation en Espagne au fonds alternatif coordonné Dexia Global Opportunities lancé voici un peu plus de deux ans (lire Newsmanagers du 11 mars 2011), rapporte Funds People. L’objectif est de surperformer l’Eonia capitalisé sur un horizon d’investissement recommandé de trois ans, quelles que soient les conditions de marché.
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