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31/01/2012

Mirae Asset launches a new series of ETFs in Hong Kong

The South Korean asset management firm Mirae Asset has launched seven ETF funds in Hong Kong, making it the third-largest provider of products of this type on the market, after db x-trackers and iShares, Asian Investor reports. The new ETF funds replicate Standard & Poor’s indices, offering exposure to seven sectors/themes (international consumer spending and six sectors ex Japan: consumer goods, financial, tech, industrials, energies, and materials).
31/01/2012

Carmignac appoints a director for Frankfurt office

Kai Volkmann (formerly of BlackRock Germany), head of development for Germany and Austria since the beginning of 2012, will become director of the Frankfurt office of Carmignac Gestion (see Newsmanagers of 24 January and 27 October). The offices are located at Junghofstraße 24 in Frankfurt.The German sales team for the French asset management firm has three client relationship representatives. They will report to Davide Fregonese, global director of sales and marketing, who will aim to develop the German and Austrian markets. Staff will be increased over the course of the year. “This local presence will allow us to develop Carmignac Gestion’s relationships with financial distributors and institutional investors, through a regular custom approach,” according to a press release. Eric Helderlé, CEO, says that Germany is one of the three largest markets for Carmignac Gestion, and that the opening of a Frankfurt office represents a new step in the development of long-term strategy. All funds of the range are available to German clients.Carmignac Gestion is present in eleven European countries, and now has two affiliates in Luxembourg and Frankfurt, and two offices in Milan and Madrid.
31/01/2012

Ignis releases AR Government Bond fund in France

As recently announced (Newsmanagers of 25 January), the Luxembourg-registered fund Ignis Absolute Return Government Bond (LU0579398933), a sub-fund of the Ignis Fund Sicav, has been licensed for sale in France. It assets total EUR131m.The objective is to make gains through active interventions on all government bond and currency markets worldwide. From its launch on 31 March to 31 December 2011, the fund has earned 6%, compared with 0.7% for the Eonia.The absolute return UCITS fund is managed by Russ Oxley, director of bond management, and Stuart Thomson, economist in chief.Assets at Ignis in the area of bonds total EUR24.5bn, managed by 12 professionals.The British asset management firm says that the Absolute Return Government Bond Fund is managed “with the ‘ClearCurve’ technique developed internally to translate macroeconomic projections into bets on interest rates,” Ignis AM states. ‘ClearCurve’ helps managers to break down the government bond curve into a series of distinct future rates. “This process allows managers at Ignis to have a far higher quality and level of information than traditional bond managers. They can use this to identify future rate objectives, and in this way to precisely exploit asset valuation anomalies though long/short positions.”
31/01/2012

Apex Capital closes two Asian hedge funds

The New York-based hedge fund management firm Apex Capital has closed two of its strategies, Market Neutral Greater China and North Asia long/short equity, whose cumulative assets recently totalled USD16m, Asian Investor reports.
31/01/2012

Lombard Odier launches a government bond fund with IST

As part of a cooperation agreement with the independent investment platform IST Anlagestiftung, which serves Swiss pension funds, Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) is launching the IST Governo Welt Fundamental, a global government bond fund managed with fundamental weight driven (FWD) principles, Investment Europe reports.LOIM already manages about CHF1.4bn in assets for IST.
31/01/2012

Société Générale Private Banking adds to Swiss management

Société Générale Private Banking has recruited for its management in Switzerland, the firm announced in Geneva on 30 January. An executive board has been created to “support the dynamic of growth and accelerate development in Switzerland and abroad.” The board of four members will be led by Guillaume Lejoindre, CEO of Société Générale Private Banking (Switzerland) since January 2009. The board also includes Alberto Valenzuela, deputy CEO, in charge of banking activities in the Bahamas, Latin America, and serving independent financial advisers; Mathieu Vedrenne, who is appointed as deputy CEO and secretary of the board of directors, and Olivier Aubenas, who is appointed as director of sales. “The objective for this new organisation is to improve the reactiveness of the bank, to strengthen the quality of its services, and to foster synergies with the Société Générale Group,” a statement says. “Société Générale Private Banking (Switzerland) also provides clear illustration of its ability to adapt to the needs of its high net worth clients worldwide in an economic, financial and regulatory environment in a state of rapid mutation,” the firm adds.
31/01/2012

EFG sells SIF to Caceis

Caceis and EFG International on 30 January announced that on 17 January they reached an agreement by which the activities of SIF Swiss Investment Funds S.A. (SIF), the fund administration affiliate of EFG International in Switzerland, will be taken over by CACEIS (Switzerland) S.A., the Swiss affiliate of CACEIS. The terms of the deal, which has yet to receive approval from Finma and clients of SIF, have not been disclosed.SIF is among the largest administrators of funds for third parties in French-speaking Switzerland, and manages Swiss investment funds for its clients. The agreement covers 20 funds, which represent more than CHF800m in assets. EFG International states that it has decided to withdraw from the activities of SIF after a detailed study, in order to refocus on its core profession of private banking.
31/01/2012

Mercer acquires a Norwegian consultant

The consultancy firm Mercer has acquired Pensjon & Finans, a Norwegian consultant specialised in investment advising to pension funds. Following the acquisition, Espen Kløw, CEO of Pensjon & Finans, will become head of Mercer’s activities in Norway.
31/01/2012

British Treasury calls for changes to Fatca law

The British Treasury is putting pressure on the US administration to make changes to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) for limited liability companies, Investment Week reports. Under FATCA legislation, non-American financial establishments from 2012 will be required to sign agreements with the US tax authorities, to disclose all pertinent information about financial accounts of clients identified as US clients. Any institution which refused to sign such an agreement with the US tax authorities would face a 30% withholding of their US revenues. As a subsequent draft of the legislation is awaited from the US administration, British sources say that the passage of the law would cause considerable problems. US authorities are reportedly not opposed to a “country-by-country” solution.
31/01/2012

Le mariage entre le LSE et LCH.Clearnet toujours au programme

L’Agefi rapporte que la Bourse de Londres (LSE) reste en discussion avec LCH.Clearnet et ses actionnaires pour racheter la chambre de compensation franco-britannique. Dans ce mouvement vers la compensation, LCH.Clearnet intéresse notamment pour son service de compensation des dérivés de taux, SwapClear, qui traiterait 50% de ce segment. Encore faut-il convaincre ses actionnaires, précise le quotidien, car elle est détenue à 83% par ses utilisateurs, c’est-à-dire les courtiers et les banques et à 17% par les Bourses, dont Nyse Euronext qui possède 9% du capital.
31/01/2012
Fonds

Lombard Odier lance avec IST un fonds d'obligations souveraines

Dans le cadre d’une coopération avec la plate-forme d’investissement indépendante IST Anlagestiftung, qui dessert les fonds de pension suisses, Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) lance le IST Governo Welt Fundamental, un fonds d’obligations d’Etat du monde entier géré selon le principe des indices à pondération fondamentale (fundamental weight driven ou FWD), rapporte Investment Europe.LOIM gère déjà environ 1,4 milliard de francs suisses d’encours pour IST.
Fonds
31/01/2012

SWIP change d'économiste en chef

Lucy O’Carroll, senior economist chez Lloyds Banking Group, a été recrutée comme chef économiste de Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) en remplacement de Richard Dingwall-Smith, en poste depuis 1998 et qui reste chez SWIP comme senior economic adviser, rapporte Investment Europe.Basée à Edimbourg, la nouvelle arrivante sera subordonnée à Ken Adams, head of global strategy.
31/01/2012

Fidelity vendrait son activité mutual funds en Inde

D’après l’Economic Times cité par Investment Europe, Fidelity Investment serait en négociations avec des repreneurs pour son activité de mutual funds en Inde, qui représente 10 milliards de roupies, sur les 90 milliards d’encours totaux du gestionnaire américain dans le pays. Parmi les candidats figurerait Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
31/01/2012

Réduction d’effectifs en vue chez Aviva Investors

Selon efinancialnews.com, le pôle de gestion d’Aviva prévoit de supprimer la plupart de ses postes dans le trading actions à Londres au profit du fixed income, de l’immobilier et des fonds multi-actifs. Le coût final en termes de postes pourrait se chiffrer à 160.
31/01/2012

L'ex-courtier d'UBS plaide non coupable

Kweku Adoboli, poursuivi pour des transactions non autorisées qui se sont soldées en septembre par une perte de 2,3 milliards de dollars, a plaidé hier non coupable devant la justice britannique. L’ancien trader est en détention depuis septembre et risque jusqu'à dix ans de prison. Il était directeur des fonds indiciels d’UBS à Londres.
31/01/2012

Pep Boys dans l’escarcelle de Gores Group

Après avoir déjà tenté il y a plusieurs années de dénicher un acquéreur, le distributeur américain de pièces automobiles va être racheté par le fonds de private equity pour 791 millions de dollars en numéraire. Fondé en 1921, Pep Boys, qui fait également de la réparation, compte plus de 7.000 centres de services aux Etats-Unis et à Porto Rico.
30/01/2012

L'Esma dévoile ses règles pour les ETF

L’Autorité européenne des marchés (Esma) a publié lundi matin une consultation visant à encadrer davantage les exchange-traded funds (ETF) sous format Ucits, mais aussi d’autres produits Ucits utilisant des techniques de réplication d’indices et de total return swaps. L’Autorité s’est refusé à trancher le débat entre ETF physique et synthétiques et à classer ces derniers dans la catégorie des produits complexes. Elle propose plutôt de créer un label ETF, et d’introduire davantage de transparence vis-à-vis des investisseurs pour des pratiques telles que le prêt de titres. La consultation est ouverte jusqu’au 30 mars, pour une application attendue mi-2012.
La publication de l'Esma sur les ETF. Image: Agefi
30/01/2012

Rendements en baisse pour l'adjudication italienne

Le Trésor italien a adjugé 7,48 milliards d’euros de dette sur des échéances de quatre, cinq et dix ans, avec des rendements au plus bas depuis octobre malgré le déclassement de la note de crédit du pays annoncée vendredi par Fitch. Rome espérait initialement lever entre 5,5 milliards et huit milliards d’euros. Le Trésor a levé 3,574 milliards d’euros à échéance mai 2017, avec un rendement moyen en baisse, à 5,39% contre 6,47% lors de la précédente adjudication de ce type intervenue mi-décembre. Le ratio de couverture ressort à 1,297. Sur l'échéance mars 2022, Rome a adjugé deux milliards d’euros de titres à un rendement de 6,08% (contre 6,98% précédemment). La demande a représenté 1,416 fois l’offre. Le Trésor a également placé des obligations à échéance 2016. Dans la foulée de ces opérations, le rendement des obligations italiennes à dix ans augmentait de 25 points de base, à 6,2%.

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