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09/01/2012

Nouvelle "charrette" chez Putnam Investments

Le gestionnaire américain Putnam Investments, filiale de Power Corporation of Canada, annonce qu'à cause de la volatilité des marchés, il va licencier 78 salariés dans la région de Boston, soit 4,4 % de son effectif de 1.767 personnes. D’après The Boston Globe, il s’agit de la quatrième vague de suppressions d’emplois depuis que Robert (Bob) Reynolds est devenu CEO en juillet 2008. Depuis cette date, la société a recruté 500 personnes et en a licencié 489.Les nouveaux licenciements vont affecter principalement les opérations et ne concerneront pas les professionnels de l’investissement.A fin décembre, l’encours de Putnam avait diminué à 117 milliards de dollars contre 121 milliards un an plus tôt.
09/01/2012

Van Eck recrute une analyste spécialisée sur l'or

Van Eck renforce son équipe d’investissement. La société de gestion américaine vient de recruter Imaru Casanova au poste d’analyste senior spécialisée sur l’or. Elle intègre l'équipe responsable notamment des fonds International Investors Gold Fund, Global Hard Assets Fund et Van Eck VIP Global Hard Assets Fund. Au total, ces trois mutual funds pèsent 6,6 milliards de dollars. L'équipe dédiée aux actifs réels compte désormais 12 personnes. Imaru Casanova rejoint Van Eck en provenance de McNicoll Lewis & Vlak, où elle était analyste senior sur la recherche actions, spécialisée sur le secteur minier.
09/01/2012
Fonds

Iridian Asset Management ferme un hedge fund

Iridian Asset Management vient de fermer son plus important hedge fund, le Iridian Opportunity Fund, suite à une baisse des encours et des performances décevantes et 2010 et 2011, année où le fonds a perdu 8,90 % entre janvier et octobre, rapporte Absolute Return Alpha. Le hedge fund (global equity) avait été lancé en 2005 par des anciens d’Arnold and S. Bleichroeder Advisors.
Fonds
09/01/2012

Rémunérations variables des dirigeants et dividende en baisse chez BNP Paribas

Le président de BNP Paribas, Baudoin Prot, a indiqué le 6 janvier sur BFM que les résultats de BNP Paribas devraient enregistrer une baisse significative malgré un quatrième trimestre bénéficiaire. «Le quatrième trimestre verra évidemment un résultat bénéficiaire», a déclaré Baudoin Prot qui a toutefois ajouté que sur l’ensemble de l’exercice, les résultats seraient «en baisse sensible» par rapport à 2010.Le dividende devrait lui aussi diminuer, ainsi que les rémunérations variables des dirigeants et des opérateurs de marché de BNP Paribas.
09/01/2012

Axa IM perd une pointure

Thibault de Vitry a quitté Axa Investment Managers (Axa IM) le 31 décembre dernier selon nos informations, confirmées par la suite par la société de gestion. L’intéressé occupait depuis 2007 la fonction de Global Head of Investment Solutions et était, de fait, responsable de l’asset liability management et des activités multi-asset investment et AXA funds of hedge funds de la société. De sources concordantes, Axa IM serait en passe de recruter le remplaçant de Thibault de Vitry dans une autre société de gestion. En attendant son arrivée, un comité de transition aurait été mis en place. Ayant rejoint Axa IM en 1998, Thibault de Vitry a tour à tour occupé les fonctions de managing director of quantitative and structured investments, global head of operations d’AXA IM, global head of insurance investment and COO of securities investment management, et enfin global head of insurance investment d’AXA IM.
09/01/2012
Fonds

LGIM se lance dans les ETF

Legal & General Investment Management doit dévoiler ce lundi le lancement de son premier ETF, en partenariat avec Source, selon les informations du Financial Times Fund Management. Le nouveau produit sera un ETF matières premières. Il répliquera un indice composite de quatre indices matières premières de Barclays Capital, Citi, JPMorgan et UBS.
Fonds
09/01/2012

Outre-Manche, l'emploi financier est en berne

Selon L’Agefi, plus de 21.000 banquiers seniors auraient perdu leur emploi l’an dernier à Londres, soit un sur sept dans cette catégorie de profil, selon une étude du cabinet Imas citée par le Sunday Times. La CBI (Confederation of British Industry) estime de son côté que, depuis la chute de Lehman Brothers en 2008, l’emploi du secteur financier a baissé de 9,6% ou 101.000 postes, note le quotidien.
09/01/2012
Fonds

Stenham lance un fonds Global Macro

La société de gestion britannique Stehnham Asset Managhement vient de lancer un fonds de hedge funds global macro, le Stenham Helix. Il sera géré de la même manière que le Stenham Trading, son fonds phare, mais présentera une liquidité plus importante. Ainsi, le nouveau produit offrira une liquidité mensuelle assortie d’un préavis de 35 jours pour toute sortie. Stenham Helix sera investi sur 15 gérants ayant un objectif de rendement de 5-6 % au dessus du Libor et une faible volatilité. Le fonds a été lancé avec 36 millions de dollars et sera disponible avec des classes de parts en dollars, livres et euros. Le ticket d’entrée est de 25.000 dollars et le fonds ne présente pas de période de lock up. Stenham affiche un encours de 2,7 milliards de dollars, dont plus de 1,1 milliard de dollars investi dans des hedge funds global macro.
Fonds
09/01/2012
Fonds

L'écart se creuse entre les David et les Goliath du private equity

Selon les données préliminaires du cabinet Preqin, citées par La Tribune, les sociétés de capital-investissement ont récolté 262,6 milliards de dollars (206 milliards d’euros) seulement en 2011 auprès des investisseurs institutionnels, soit une baisse de 4 % par rapport à 2010. Les fonds de capital-investissement mettent actuellement en moyenne 16,5 mois à lever un fonds, contre moins d’un an lors de la période faste des années 2006 et 2007, rappelle la Tribune. Le quotidien souligne toutefois que le géant américain Blackstone, lui, serait sur le point de finaliser le «closing» d’un méga-fonds de 16 milliards de dollars, d’après l’agence Reuters.
Fonds
09/01/2012

Les sociétés de gestion se tournent vers les produits à plus forte marge

Les sociétés de gestion cherchent de plus en plus à lancer des fonds multi classes d’actifs à rendement absolu et des stratégies d’investissements sous contrainte de passif (LDI), les marges sur les produits traditionnels étant sous pression, montre une étude de Cerulli Associates citée par le Financial Times. La société d’études observe aussi que les sociétés de gestion cherchent à doper leurs ventes via les produits blancs, notamment en Asie où elles peuvent imposer les frais qu’elles veulent.
09/01/2012
Fonds

CVC Capital Partners et Resource America créent une nouvelle entité

La société de capital investissement CVC Capital Partners et Resource America viennent de signer un accord pour regrouper les sociétés CVC Cordatus Group et Apidos Capital Management pour constituer la société CVC Credit Partners.Dirigée par Marc Boughton, managing partner, CVC Credit Partners sera responsable de 7,5 milliards de dollars d’actifs distribués dans une bonne vingtaine de véhicules aux Etats-Unis et en Europe. Resource America, dont le CEO devient président de la nouvelle entité, dans laquelle la société aura une participation de 33%.
Fonds
09/01/2012

GlobeOp en discussions avec des capital-investisseurs

La firme de services dédiés aux hedge funds GlobeOp Financial Services est en discussions avec les sociétés de capital investissement Advent International et TPG sur l’opportunité d’une offre de rachat, rapporte l’agence Reuters.GlobeOp, dont les actifs sous administration s'élèvent à 173 milliards de dollars, est conseillé dans cette démarche par Evercore Partners. Les discussions sont encore au stage préliminaire, a précisé GlobeOp.
09/01/2012

Axxion crée une filiale de valorisation

Spécialiste de l’administration de fonds (Master KAG) à la marque du distributeur, le luxembourgeois Axxion a annoncé le 6 janvier la création d’une filiale spécialisée qui internalisera aussi la valorisation des fonds, navAXX SA. Cette formule permettra de personnaliser les offres.La nouvelle filiale a commencé au début de l’année par le calcul de la valeur liquidative de 70 fonds et Axxion prévoit que ce nombre atteindra d’ici à la fin du premier semestre la totalité des 150 fonds qu’elle administre actuellement.Le partenaire informatique de navAXX est Diamos AG.
09/01/2012

Lombard Odier recrute encore un directeur chez ING IM

Pranay Gupta, qui était directeur des investissements (CIO) d’ING Investement Management Asia Pacific, a été recruté par Lombard Odier (160 milliards de dollars d’encours) comme CIO pour l’Asie et global head of investment solutions. Il sera basé à Hong-Kong et subordonné à Vincent Duhamel, head of Asia.Chez ING IM, Pranay Gupta était responsable de l’investissement d’actifs d’un volume de 85 milliards de dollars. Il faisait également partie de la global investment leadership team qui assurait la supervision du placement des 484 milliards de dollars d’encours du gestionnaire.Avant de rejoindre ING IM, Pranay Gupta a aussi été directeur-adjoint des investissements de Pearl Group et membre senior de l'équipe de direction d’ABP Investments.C’est le second recrutement d’importance de Lombard Odier Investment Management (LOIM) chez ING IM. En effet, il y a moins d’un mois, LOIM annonçait le recrutement de Jan Straatman comme directeur des investissements (CIO), le poste qu’il occupait auparavant chez ING IM. De plus, il avait été CEO et CIO de Pearl Group entre 2006 et 2008 (lire Newsmanagers du 13 décembre 2011)...
09/01/2012

LGIM enters ETF market

Legal & General Investment Management is expected to announce the launch of its first ETF this Monday, in partnership with Source, according to reports in Financial Times Fund Management. The new product will be a commodity ETF. It will track a composite of four commodity indices from Barclays Capital, Citi, JPMorgan and UBS.
09/01/2012

Stenham launches a global macro fund

Stenham Asset Management has launched a new Global Macro fund of hedge funds – Stenham Helix. The investment manager has been invested in Global Macro hedge funds since the 1980s and its flagship macro fund of hedge funds, Stenham Trading, has achieved an annualised return of +9.07% since inception compared to the HFRX Macro Index which has posted a return of 6.51% and the MSCI World Equity Index which was 4.13% over the same period.The Stenham Helix fund aims to invest in similar types of macro managers but to assemble a portfolio where the liquidity provided by the underlying managers allows Stenham to offer monthly liquidity with 35 days’ notice. The fund will consist of a concentrated portfolio of around 15 managers with a target return of Libor +5% to 6% and low volatility. The minimum investment is US$ 25,000 with no lock up period. The Stenham Helix fund has launched with USD 36 million and is available in USD, GBP and EUR share classes.Stenham has over USD 1.1 billion invested in Global Macro hedge funds and has USD 2.7 billion invested in hedge fund strategies overall.
09/01/2012

Funds will benefit slightly from tax increases

An increase in taxation on savings in Spain will make investments in the form of shares in investment funds more competitive, since the subscriber will deal with the tax office only when selling off the investment. In addition, the investor will remain able to modify the investment profile without paying taxes, as trades between funds retain a tax exemption, Cinco Días reports.These advantages will prove more important if the higher taxes on savings are truly limited to two years, as announced.Cinco Días reports that the investment fund sector has suffered considerably due to the crisis, with assets now back to their 1996 levels.
09/01/2012

Van Eck recruits a gold analyst

Van Eck is adding to its investment team. The US asset management firm has recruited Imaro Casanova as a senior analyst specialised in gold. She joins the team responsible for the International Investors Gold Fund, Global Hard Assets Fund and Van Eck VP Global Hard Assets Fund, among others. In total, the three mutual funds have USD6.6bn in assets.The team dedicated to hard assets now includes 12 people. Casanova joined Van Eck from McNicoll Lewis & Vlak, where she had been a senior analyst in equities research, specialised in the mining sector.
09/01/2012

Management bonuses and dividends down at BNP Paribas

The chairman of BNP Paribas, Baudoin Prot, on 6 January announced on BFM that results at BNP Paribas would be down significantly despite a profitable fourth quarter. “Fourth quarter will clearly bring a profitable result,” said Prot, but added that for the fiscal year as a whole, results would be “noticeably down” compared with 2010. Dividends are also expected to be reduced, as will bonuses for management and market operators at BNP Paribas.
09/01/2012

More layoffs at Putnam

The US asset management firm Putnam Investments, an affiliate of Power Corporation of Canada, has announced that due to market volatility, it will be laying off 78 employees in the Boston region, equivalent to 4.4% of its 1,767 employees. The Boston Globe reports that this is the fourth wave of layoffs since Robert “Bob” Reynolds became CEO in July 2008. Since then, the firm has recruited 500 people and laid off 489.The new layoffs will primarily affect operations and not investment professionals.As of the end of December, assets at Putnam were down to USD117bn, compared with USD121bn one year earlier.
09/01/2012

Axa IM loses a big name

According to information obtained by Newsmanagers, Thibault de Vitry quit Axa Investment Managers (Axa IM) on 31 December. The asset management firm confirmed to Newsmanagers that de Vitry, who had since 2007 served as Global Head of Investment Solutions, and had been head of asset liability management and multi-asset investment activities as well as AXA funds of hedge funds, had left the firm. Other sources report that the firm is seeking a replacement for de Vitry to be recruited from another asset management firm. Until his replacement arrives, a transitional committee has been established. Before joining Axa IM in 1998, de Vitry held a series of positions as managing director of quantitative and structured investments, global head of operations at AXA IM, global head of insurance investment, COO of securities investment management, and finally global head of insurance investment at AXA IM.
09/01/2012

Union Investment sells a property to TF1

The German investment firm Union Investment Real Estate has sold the office property Aile Sud (7,315 square metres) in Boulogne-Billancourt, for an undisclosed sum, to TF1. UIRE bought the property in 1999 for the open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Europa. The asset management firm states that the property, which is leased directly to TF1, has generated significant returns for the fund during those twelve years.Karl-Joseph Hermanns-Engel, a member of the board of directors at UIRE, says that the transaction is a sign of the firm’s continued active asset management policy in France, where the objective is now to sell properties acquired in the first investment phase between 1999 and 2004, which no longer are in line with current strategy.In 2011, UIRE resold French properties with gains for a net of about EUR450m. The proceeds of these sales will be reinvested in Paris and in French regional markets in the next 12 to 15 months.
09/01/2012

Swiss Life reshuffles staff in Paris

Jean-Pierre Grimaud, chief investment officer at Swiss Life France, in charge of the administrative and financial department, the securities investment department and the real estate department at Swiss Life France, and also chairman of Swiss Life Asset Management (France) since 2007, as well as Swiss Life Immobilier and of the supervisory board at Viveris Reim, on 1 December became director of a new special unit dedicated to third-party asset management (TPAM). The structure, which will report to the management of the Swiss Life group, will aim “to assist Swiss Life in its ambitions in Switzerland, France, Germany and Luxembourg,” the group says in a statement.Thierry Van Rossum, chief operating officer (COO) at Swiss Life France since 2008, succeeds Grimaud as chief investment officer (CIO). Van Rossum had previously been chief financial officer (CFO) at Swiss Life Belgium from 2002 to 2008.Cécile Mérine succeeds Van Rossum as chief operating officer, and will retain her responsibilities as director of marketing and product development, a position she has held since 2008 at Swiss Life France, where she began in 2002.
09/01/2012

Black Diamond Capital Management appoints a managing director

The alternative asset management firm Black Diamond Capital Management (BDCM), with assets under management totalling over USD10bn, has appointed Kenneth Rubin as senior managing director and hedge fund portfolio manager. Rubin will be responsible for the hedge fund platform, alongside Stephen Deckoff, a partner at BDCM.
09/01/2012

Source lists an ETF in Frankfurt

On 6 January, Source announced that the Nomura Voltage Mid-Term Source ETF has been admitted to trading on the XTF segment of the German Xetra electronic trading platform (Deutsche Bank). The fund is an Irish, German-registered product (DE000A1JQQZ6), and the listing comes in addition to the version of the product already available in US dollars on the London market (VOLTLN). It allows investors to invest in euros and provides them simple and rapid access to an instrument exposed to volatility.The ETF, which charges fees of 0.30%, replicates the Nomura Voltage Strategy Mid-term 30-day USD TR index. It applies a tactical approach to volatility, which allows investors to profit from volatility peaks, while reducing the costs associated with permanent long positions on volatility. Assets in the fund, launched in April 2011, total over USD165m.
09/01/2012

Axa launches a EUR2.5bn real estate fund

Axa has raised a fund which will invest up to EUR2.5bn in the development of offices and shopping centres in continental Europe, in order to profit from a gap left open by the withdrawal of banks and other credit providers from the real estate market, the Financial Times reports. The fund has raised EUR585.5m, largely from pension funds and insurers.
09/01/2012

European MPs hostile to complex products

Members of the European parliament are highly reticent about complex financial products. More than half of them (57%) would like to forbid complex or manifestly risks financial products, according to a survey by Cicero Consulting and ComRes of a sample of 100 European MPs about the regulatory and gestation framework for the asset management sector. A majority of MPs estimate that financial establishments which hold savings should be subject to much stricter regulations. One of the few sources of disagreement between MPs is about the impact of reforms on the flow of capital to offshore financial centres. 36% of respondents say that tighter regulations would reduce the flow, while 37% think the opposite.
09/01/2012

Heavy decline in activity for ETFs on Euronext in December

A slowdown in ETF trading continued in December on the European markets of NYSE Euronext, which posted an average of 7,734 on-book trades per day and a volume of EUR268.7m per day, compared with 10,965 trades and EUR405.8m the previous month. For the year as a whole, transaction volumes have fallen 43.2%. December was the month last year when activities were at their lowest.Block trading of shares in December declined to EUR930.5m, from EUR974.9m in November, but rose compared with a total of EUR47.5m in December 2010.The average spread in December averaged 36.6 basis points, compared with 40 in November. It had been 36.3% in October, 38.83% in September, and 28.5% in August.The number of new funds launched increased for 2011 as a whole to 157 (of which 129 were primary listing and 28 were secondary listings), from 133 in 2010 (111 and 22, respectively).NYSE Euronext states that the four major underlying indices for ETFs traded on European markets last year were the CAC40 (28%), Euro Stoxx 50 (24%), the CAC40 Leverage (13%), and the Dax (6%).
09/01/2012

Iridian Asset Management closes a hedge fund

Iridian Asset Management has closed its largest hedge fund, the Iridian Opportunity fund, following a decline in assets and disappointing returns in 2010 and 2011. The fund lost 8,90% between January and October of last year, Absolute Return Alpha reports. The global equity hedge fund was launched in 2005 by former managers from Arnold and S. Bleichroeder Advisors.

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