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23/08/2012

Aberdeen se renforce à Paris

Directeur marketing chez Oddo Asset Management de mars 2011 à juin 2012, Richard Pandevant a récemment été recruté par Aberdeen Asset Management comme marketing manager France. L’intéressé a été responsable marketing et spécialiste produits chez Banque d’Orsay entre août 1999 et février 2011. Il reprend dans un premier temps les fonctions de Caroline Espinal-Vincent, actuellement en congé maternité.Paris vient aussi d’embaucher Florent Pettenello, en provenance de Fidelity, comme spécialiste de la distribution institutionnelle. Il sera subordonné à Frédéric Lejeune, Co-Head France - Directeur Général Délégué, Head of Business Development France - Monaco.L’encours de l’antenne française du gestionnaire écossais ressort à quelque 5,8 milliards d’euros, dont 5 milliards pour des clients français (3,4 milliards pour les clients institutionnels via des fonds francais et 1,6 milliard pour la distribution via des fonds luxembourgeois), sachant que les actifs institutionnels sont gérés pour moitié par une équipe locale en France et pour moitié par les équipes centralisées du groupe, principalement à Londres.
23/08/2012

Wragge & Co structure une offre de gestion privée

Le cabinet d’avocats Wragge & Co a annoncé le 22 août la structuration d’une offre d’accompagnement juridique et fiscal dédiée aux professionnels du patrimoine.Cette nouvelle offre rassemble les expertises du cabinet en matière d’immobilier, de produits financiers (toutes classes d’actifs confondues) et de stratégies de haut de bilan. Elle vise à apporter un accompagnement juridique et fiscal sur l’ensemble des problématiques propres aux professionnels du patrimoine (banques privées, sociétés de gestion, CGPI, Family Offices) : cession d’un patrimoine professionnel, montage d’un investissement immobilier, structuration d’un produit financier, ingénierie patrimoniale…
23/08/2012

Baisse sensible du bénéfice d’Eaton Vance

Pour le trimestre au 31 juillet, Eaton Vance Investment Managers a déclaré un bénéfice net de 50,2 millions de dollars contre 52,9 millions pour février-avril et 68,1 millions pour la période correspondante de l’an dernier, ce qui porte le bénéfice net pour les neuf premiers mois de l’exercice au 31 octobre à 150,35 millions de dollars, un montant en baisse de 11 % par rapport aux trois premiers trimestres de 2010-2011.Durant le dernier trimestre sous revue, le gestionnaire américain a subi des remboursements nets de 1,4 milliard de dollars, essentiellement à cause de sorties de 3,8 milliards sur les mandats value grandes capitalisations qui ont surcompensé les souscriptions nettes de 2,4 milliards de dollars enregistrées par les autres stratégies de long terme. Pour février-avril 2012 et pour mai-juillet 2011, Eaton Vance avait bénéficié de rentrées nettes de 0,6 milliard et de 1,9 milliards de dollars respectivement.L’encours au 31 juillet ressortait à 192,9 milliards de dollars contre 197,5 milliards trois mois plus tôt et 199 milliards un an auparavant. La baisse observée au troisième trimestre de l’exercice en cours est imputable aux sorties nettes de 1,4 milliard auxquelles s’est ajouté un effet de marché négatif de 3,1 milliards de dollars.
23/08/2012
Fonds

ECM sort un fonds institutionnel d'obligations d'entreprises

La filiale londonienne de Wells Fargo, ECM, vient de lancer un fonds destiné aux investisseurs institutionnels et focalisé sur les senior secured loans et les senior secured bonds émis par des entreprises européennes, le ECM Senior Secured Fund, un fonds d’investissement spécialisé (FIS ou SIF en anglais) de droit luxembourgeois.L’objectif de rendement est de 600-800 points de base au-dessus de l’euribor. La notation moyenne des lignes en portefeuille se situe entre BB- et B+, sachant que le plancher est fixé à «B».La souscription minimale est fixée à 5 millions d’euros et la commission de gestion ressort à 0,60 %.
Fonds
23/08/2012

S&P attribue une perspective négative à VP Bank

L’agence d'évaluation financière Standard & Poor’s a révisé de «stable» à «négative» la perspective sur la banque privée du Liechtenstein VP Bank.Standard & Poor’s explique dans un communiqué que les performances opérationnelles et la collecte de VP Bank souffrent d’un impact négatif plus fort que prévu du recentrage de ses activités onshore internationales.Standard & Poor’s a toutefois confirmé les notes long terme et court terme de l'établissement (A- et A-2 respectivement).
23/08/2012
Fonds

CF Partners prépare un hedge fund dédié aux matières premières

La société d’investissement londonienne CF Partners, spécialisée dans le domaine des ressources renouvelables, envisage de lancer un hedge fund dédié aux matières premières d’ici à la fin de l’année, rapporte le site Hedgefund.net.CF Partners travaille également au lancement d’un hedge fund dédié à l'énergie dans le courant du quatrième trimestre 2012.
Fonds
23/08/2012
Fonds

Silk Road lance un fonds Birmanie, Mongolie et Mozambique

Silk Road Management, la société de gestion de la banque mongole Silk Road Finance, vient de lancer un fonds centré sur la Birmanie, la Mongolie et le Mozambique appelé Silk Road M3 Fund.Le fonds sera investi sur des entreprises cotées du monde entier ayant des actifs et des activités dans ces trois pays, ainsi que dans des instruments obligataires à haut rendement et des instruments de devises locales.Pour Silk Road, la Birmanie, la Mongolie et le Mozambique (les 3 M en anglais), ont plusieurs points communs. D’abord, ils bénéficient d’importantes ressources naturelles, qui sont largement inexploitées. Ensuite, ce sont tous trois d’anciens pays communistes qui ont de par leur géographie et leur économie des liens étroits avec les pays BRICS (Brésil, Russie, Inde, Chine et Afrique du Sud). Compte tenu de ces éléments, Silk Road estime que «la Mongolie, la Birmanie et le Mozambique figureront parmi les cinq économies qui auront la croissance la plus rapide au cours des dix prochaines années». La société de gestion anticipe une croissance du PIB de 15 % par an pour la Mongolie, et de 12 % et 10 % respectivement pour la Birmanie et le Mozambique.
Fonds
23/08/2012
Fonds

Aberdeen lance un fonds de petites capitalisations

Prenant pour modèle son fonds américain Aberdeen Global Small Cap (52 millions de dollars), le gérant britannique Aberdeen Asset Management a lancé un fonds mondial de petites entreprises géré par son équipe d’Edimbourg et domicilié au Luxembourg, le Aberdeen Global – World Smaller Companies Fund. La commission de gestion sera de 1 % pour les parts institutionnelles et de 1,5 % pour les parts retail.Le portefeuille géré par l'équipe d’actions mondiales Stephen Docherty (14 personnes, 21 milliards de livres d’encours) comportera entre 40 et 60 lignes, des valeurs d’une capitalisation égale ou inférieure à 5 milliards de dollars.Aberdeen gère également deux autres fonds régionaux de petites capitalisations, le UK Smaller Companies (140 millions de livres) et le Global Japanese Smaller Companies (79 millions de livres.
Fonds
23/08/2012

SIG envisage de se renforcer en Asie

Skandia Investment Group, la filiale de gestion d’actifs du britannique Old Mutual, envisage d'élargir sa palette de produits en Asie et de déménager dans le même temps une partie de ses capacités dans la région, rapporte Asian Investor.SIG, qui en train de fusionner avec Old Mutual Asset Managers UK, devrait parallèlement changer très prochainement de raison sociale, indique Jane Fung, managing director pour l’Asie.
23/08/2012
Fonds

Liontrust lancera des parts institutionnelles pour deux fonds

Sous réserve d’un agrément de la FSA, Liontrust compte lancer le 8 octobre des parts institutionnelles de ses fonds CF Liontrust Macro Equity et CF Liontust Macro UK Growth gérés par Stephen Bailey, Jan Luthman et Jamie Clark. La création de ces parts fait suite à une forte demande des gestionnaires discrétionnaires et des CGPI. La commission de gestion annuelle sera de 0,75 %.Par ailleurs, Liontrust a entamé le processus visant à rapatrier comme authorized fund manager les fonds Capita CF Liontrust Macro Equity Income, CF Liontrust Macro UK Growth et CF Liontrust Macro UK High Alpha Funds, ce qui se traduira par la disparition du préfixe CF dans le nom de ces produits. Parallèlement, l’administration de ces trois fonds sera transférée de Capita à IFDS, toujours sous réserve que ces changements soient approuvés par le régulateur.
Fonds
23/08/2012

Le norvégien Delphi veut exporter ses fonds

La société de gestion norvégienne Delphi Fondene a changé le nom de trois fonds actions afin de faciliter leur commercialisation à l’étranger.Ainsi, à compter du 23 août, Delphi Verden devient Delphi Global, Delphi Europa se transforme en Delphi Europe et Delphi Norden adopte le nom de Delphi Nordic. La stratégie d’investissement reste en revanche la même.Un communiqué explique que ces changements rendront les fonds plus lisibles auprès des investisseurs internationaux, sachant que la société a obtenu des agréments de commercialisation pour ces fonds en Finlande et aux Pays-Bas récemment. Jusqu’ici, elle ne s’adressait qu’aux investisseurs de Norvège et de Suède.
23/08/2012

Peregrine: investigation focuses on CEO

The Wall Street Journal reports that US authorities are continuing to focus their investigations on the founder and CEO of Peregrine, Russell Wasendorf Sr., even though he pleaded not guilty last week in a fraud scandal which resulted in the collapse of the firm in July this year.Wasendorf Jr., chairman of Peregrine and son of its founder, has been notified by prosecutors that he is not subject to a criminal investigation, and neither are Brenda Cuypers and Susan O’Meara, CFO and head of compliance, respectively.
23/08/2012

SEC calls off money market fund reforms for the short term

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on 22 August announced that it is calling off plans to introduce rules to increase the security of money market funds, due to a failure to reach agreement internally over the question. “Three Commissioners, constituting a majority of the Commission, have informed me that they will not support a staff proposal to reform the structure of money market funds,” the chairman of the SEC, Mary Shapiro, says in a statement. The proposed measures, which had met with strong resistance from the profession, were intended to make funds more resistant to panic phenomena similar to those which occurred in 2008 during the financial crisis, which led to massive withdrawals of liquidity. While admitting her failure, the SEC chairman insists on the need not to give up on planned money market reforms. “The issue is too important to investors, to our economy and to taxpayers to put our head in the sand and wish it away,” Shapiro says, calling on legislators to this into account in deciding what steps should be taken to address this issue.
23/08/2012

Swiss pension funds post returns of 3.5% in first half

The performance of Swiss pension funds became stronger in first half 2012, the Swiss association of retirement planning associations (ASIP) reported on 22 August. Median returns for the portfolio overall are +3.6% for the first twelve months,and +3.5% for the first half of 2012, despite considerable uncertainty on the markets in this period, according to a semiannual comparison of performance by the consulting firm Towers Watson for ASIP. Unlike in 2011, equities, and not bonds, earned the highest returns in first half 2012. North American equities lead, with gains of 9.7%, followed by foreign equities in general, with 3.2% and 2.1%. However, investments in commodities have lost 4%. “A slowing of economic and financial growth may have somewhat eased due to the equity markets,” the association says. Swiss equities represent an average of about 10% of investments in first half 2012, while foreign equities represent about 21%. As of the end of first half 2012, the proportion of equities in asset allocations were an average of about 30%, while bonds accounted for about 45%.
23/08/2012

Sovereign fund CIC buys into BlackRock fund for a large investment

BlackRock has secured the support of the Chinese sovereign fund China Investment Corporation (CIC) for its China Global Opportunities Fund, whose placement objective is about USD2bn. The Chinese fund is planning to invest up to USD500m, Z-Ben Advisors reports, relaying reports by Bloomberg.The China Global Opportunities Fund is managed by Lin Erfei, former chairman fo activities at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in China. The first wave of inflows is expected to be completed by the end of this year. The fund will invest in shares in Chinese companies which sell products or commodities on their domestic markets.The fund will help BlackRock to strengthen its presence in Asia, where it has previously been rather modestly represented.
23/08/2012

Liontrust to create institutional share classes in two funds

Pending approval from the FSA, Liontrust is planning to release institutional shares in its CF Liontrust Macro Equity and CF Liontrust Macro UK Growth funds, managed by Stephen Bailet, Jan Luthman and Jamie Clark, on 8 October. The creation of the share classes comes in the wake of strong demand on the part of discretionary managers and IFAs. Annual management commission will be 0.75%. Liontrust has also initiated the process to repatriate the Capita CF Liontrust Macro Equity Income, CF Liontrust Macro UK Growth and CF Liontrust Macro UK High Alpha Funds as an authorised fund manager, which will result in the disappearance of the CF prefix from the names of these products. Meanwhile, administration of these three funds will be transferred from Capita to IFDS, pending approval of these changes by the regulator.
23/08/2012

IOSCO launches a consultation on market oversight

The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) on 22 August launched a consultation on the technological challenges to be confronted to achieve effective market surveillance («Technological Challenges to Effective Market Surveillance: Issues and Regulatory Tools»).The consultation document includes proposals to strengthen market surveillance capacities to improve use of collected data by market authorities for surveillance purposes. The consultation will remain open until 10 October.
23/08/2012

RBS targeted in investigation over ties to Iran

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is being targeted in an investigation by the United States Federal Reserve (Fed) and the department of Justice for potential violation of the US regime of sanctions against Iran, several concurrent sources report. The investigation was launched 18 months ago, after the bank voluntarily disclosed information to the US and British authorities. RBS has declined to comment as to whether or not the investigation has a basis in fact, but has announced at a presentation of its results for the half that it was evaluating its practices and procedures related to transactions in US dollars outside the United States. Last Saturday, the New York Times confirmed that the US legal authorities were investigatin Deutsche Bank and other global firms, which are claimed to have transferred billions of US dollars for Iran, Sudan, and other countries subject to sanctions.
23/08/2012

Norwegian firm Delphi plans to export its funds

The Norwegian asset management firm Delphi Fondene has changed the names of three equity funds in order to facilitate their sales abroad. From 23 August, Delphi Verden becomes Delphi Global, Delphi Europa becomes Delphi Europe, and Delphi Norden becomes known as Delphi Nordic. The investment strategies remain unchanged. A press release explains that these changes make the funds more comprehensible to international investors; the firm has recently received sales licenses for these funds in Finland and the Netherlands. It had previously been aimed only at investors in Norway and Sweden.
23/08/2012

ECM launches institutional fund of corporate bonds

The London-based affiliate of Wells Fargo, ECM, has launched a fund aimed at institutional investors, focused on senior secured loans and senior secured bonds, issued by European businesses, entitled ECM Senior Secured Fund, a Specialised Investment Fund (SIF) registered in Luxembourg.The performance objective is 600-800 basis points above Euribor. The average ratings of positions in the portfolio is BB- to B-, while the floor is set at B.Minimal subscription is set at EUR5m, and management commission is 0.60%.
23/08/2012

CF Partners preparing a hedge fund dedicated to commodities

The London-based investment firm CF Partners, specialised in renewable resources, is planning to launch a hedge fund dedicated to commodities by the end of the year, the website Hedgefund.net reports. CF Partners is also working on the launch of a hedge fund dedicated to energy in fourth quarter 2012.
23/08/2012

SIG plans to build presence in Asia

Skandia Investment Group, the asset management affiliate of the British firm Old Mutual, is planning to extend its product range in Asia, and at the same time to move a part of its capacity to the region, Asian Investor reports. SIG, which is in the process of merging with Old Mutual Asset Managers UK, will also be gits name, says Jane Fung, managing director for Asia.
23/08/2012

Julius Baer lays off support staff but supports advisers

In the wake of the acquisition of the international wealth management activities of Merrill Lynch, the Swiss private bank Julius Baer is planning to lay off staff in support functions, in locations including Hong Kong and Singapore, where Merrill Lynch and Julius Baer both have significant numbers of personnel in this area, Handelszeitung reports. However, Julius Baer has set aside an allocaton of over EUR90m to win over good advisers to Merrill Lynch clients. Out of total staff of 2,243, Merrill Lynch has 528 client advisers and 1,715 back office employees.
23/08/2012

Qatar Holding takes over a 22.22% stake in Citic Capital Holdings

The Chinese investment fund management firm Citic Capital Holdings (USD4.4bn in assets) has announced that the sovereign fund Qatar Holding (an affiliate of the Qatar Investment Authority) has acquired a 22.22% stake in its capital, the Wall Street Journal repors.Following a capital increase which allowed for the creation of corresponding shares, Citic Pacific Ld and Citic International Financial Holdings, two affiliates of Citic Group, control 42.78% of Citic Capital, while the sovereign fund China Investment Corp (CIC) has a 31.11% stake.
23/08/2012

Urs Zeltner returns to UBS

Urs Zeltner has been appointed vice chairman of the Wealth Management Europe unit at the UBS group, finews reports, citing an interna memo dated 9 August. Until December 2011, Zeltner had been head of international wealth management activities at UBS for Germany and Austria. He had resigned from his position following a reshuffle of onshore and offshore activities in Europe. His departure nonetheless came as a surprise at UBS, and his return is now equally controversial. Zeltner is the brother of Jürg Zeltner, a board memebr at the group and CEO of UBS Wealth Management. Some claim that Urs Zeltner’s return may be a case of nepotism.
23/08/2012

Rwanda to create a sovereign fund

Rwanda is to officially launch a donation-based sovereign fund on Thursday, in order to offset a decline in international aid, Financial News reports.
23/08/2012

KPMG increases presence in alternative management

In an environment in which asset management firms are having to confront toughening regulations and requirements to lighten their structures and increase transparency, KPMG has recruited five people for its alternative investment unit.The consulting and auditing firm has recruited Ted Carreiro (formerly of State Street Bank & Trust), Angela Yu (previously of the firm’s taxation unit) and Michael T. Richards (who joins from another “Big 4” company) as partners.Laura Thomson (formerly of Bain Capital) joins the firm as managing director, while Phillip W. DeSalvo becomes senior manager, after being responsible for M&A taxation questions at one of KPMG’s competitors.
23/08/2012

Aberdeen strengthens presence in Paris

Richard Pandevant, director of marketing at Oddo Asset Management from March 2011 to June 2012, has recently been recruited by Aberdeen Asset Management as marketing manager for France. Pandevant had been head of marketing and product specialist at Banque d’Orsay between August 1999 ad February 2011.The Paris office of the firm has also recruited Florent Pettenello, from Fidelity, as an institutional distribution specialist. He will report to Frédéric Lejeune, Co-Head France – Deputy CEO, Head of Business Development France – Monaco.Assets at the French offices of the Scottish asset management firm total about EUR5.8bn, of which EUR5bn are for French clients (EUR3.4gn for institutional clients via French funds, and EUR1.6bn for distribution via Luxembourg funds), while half of institutional assets are managed by a local team in France, and half by centralised teams of the group, largely in London.
23/08/2012

Pimco reduces exposure to high yield debt

Market valuations of high yield debt have become so extreme that Pimco has considerably reduced its exposure to this asset class in the past six weeks, the Financial Times reports. The asset management firm has reduced its allocation to high yield in its corporate bond portfolio from 12% to about 8%.

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