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05/12/2011

Former Olympia chairman resurfaces at UniCredit

Laurent Dupeyron, former chairman of Olympia Capital Management, has been appointed as global head of wholesale and institutional equity derivatives distribution at UniCredit, effective immediately. He will report to TJ Lim, global head of markets at the Italian bank.Dupeyron left Olympia following its acquisition by Richmond Park Capital in April 2011. He joined the hedge fund firm in September 2008.
05/12/2011

New co-head of investment management at Goldman Sachs

According to an internal memo, Edward C. Frost, who has 16 years of seniority at Goldman Sachs, has decided to resign from his position as co-head of investment management, in order to take on educational, artistic and philanthropic projects, the Wall Street Journal reports, adding that he will be replaced by Eric S. Lane, COO of the investment management division.
05/12/2011

Marc Tournier and Tocqueville Finance fined for price manipulations

The Sanctions Commission of the French financial market regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), confirmed on its website on Friday, 2 December that on 28 October this year the Tocqueville Finance company, and its CEO, Marc Tournier, were fined. In addition to a reprimand for both parties, the firm will pay a fine of EUR150,000, while Tournier will pay EUR250,000. “The Sanctions Commission has found that the parties were guilty of price manipulation in the acquisition of 9,637 shares in X [the price manipulation the regulator is referring to relates to shares in the car rental firm ADA] on 26 June 2009, even though, since the beginning of the year, the average daily trading volume was 85 shares, and following the action, representing 99.99% of all trades on the share, the share price for the firm had risen 41.25%,” a statement from the AMF says. The Sanctions Committee adds in its statement that the severity of the professional and pecuniary sanctions also reflects “the seriousness of the offence of price manipulation for a company and an individual who practice as providers of investment services, and who have already been sanctioned in these capacities on two previous occasions, in 2003 and 2004.” During the AMF investigation, Tocqueville Finance and Tournier denied accusations of price manipulations and pointed to the limited size of the publicly-traded capitalisation of the firm at the time the trades were undertaken. The verdict may be appealed under article R. 621-44 of the monetary and financial code.
05/12/2011

Madoff: Trustee may appeal J.P. Morgan verdict

Irving Picard, the trustee appointed by the courts to recover funds for victims of Bernard Madoff, has been granted clearance to appeal the verdict in a legal action against J.P. Morgan Chase, with nearly USD20bn at stake, the Wall Street Journal reports. In November, US Federal judge Colleen McMahon found that Picard did not have a standing against J.P. Morgan Chase.
05/12/2011

Heavy outflows from Spanish funds in November

Ahorro Corporación has announced that November was the worst month of the year for the Spanish fund management sector, with net outflows of EUR1.25bn, while the Inverco association of asset management firms estimates the net redemptions at EUR850m (see Newsmanagers of 2 December). These are the heaviest outflows since the EUR5.5bn outflow observed in November 2010.Funds People reports that Ahorro Corporación estimates total assets at EUR130.33bn as of the end of November, 3.2% less than at the end of October, and 10.3% less than as of 31 December 2010. In eleven months, assets in Spanish funds contracted by EUR15bn.
05/12/2011

Natixis Global Associates recruits in Spain

Alberto Martínez, a portfolio manager at Banco Popular, has been recruited for the team at Natixis Global Asasociates in Spain, Funds People reports. He will report to Christian Rouquerol, director of sales to the Iberian peninsula. The team is led by Sophie del Campo.
05/12/2011

East Capital enters Spanish market

The Swedish asset management firm East Capital has registered two sub-funds of its Luxembourg Sicav for sale in Spain, the Russian and Eastern European Funds, Funds People reports. The firm’s representative in Spain will be MCH Investment Strategies, led by Tasio del Castaño and Alejandro Sárrate.
05/12/2011

Russell revises Japan indices

The indices of the Russell/Nomura family, which cover 98% of the Japanese equity market, have added 14 new companies in their traditional annual review, Nomura Securities and Russell Investments have announced in a joint statement. The Russell/Nomura Total Market Index now includes 1,400 companies, in increase of 16 year on year. 50 companies have been removed from the index, and 66 companies have been added, 14 of them for the first time. The total capitalisation of the index has increased slightly, from JPY170.5trn to JPY173trn as of 14 October.A list of companies included in the index can be found at the following address: http://qr.nomuraholdings.com/en/frcnri/index.html.
05/12/2011

ABP calls off plans to tie benefits to inflation in 2012

The Netherlands civil servants’ pension fund ABP (about EUR240bn in assets) on 1 December announced that it will not be indexing 2012 benefits against the consumer price index.If the financial situation at the fund does not improve by 31 December, several further measures are also under consideration, such as tripling the temporary additional contribution of 1 percentage point (tijdelijke herstelopslag) in order to balance the books, or a reduction in benefits which would not come into force until 2013.ABP is aiming for a coverage rage of 104.5% by the beginning of 2014, compared with 94% as of the end of October 2011.
05/12/2011

BBVA launches a guaranteed fund with quarterly coupons

BBVA Asset Management is now offering the BBVA Plan Rentas 2014 N, a guaranteed bond fund which will pay eight quarterly coupons out to subscribers during the guarantee period (maturing on 3 March 2014), Funds People reports.The asset management firm guarantees 10)% of initial capital at maturity, in addition to the payment of the eight quarterly coupons of a gross EUR75.90 for every EUR10,000 invested. The quarterly payments will proceed via obligatory redemption of shares.The annual returns for the fund are 2.592%. Minimal subscription is set at EUR600, and the management commission is 0.40% until 2 February 2012, and 1.65% from 3 February 2012.
05/12/2011

Axa retains 49% stake in Bharti Axa IM

Bank of India has announced that it will be acquiring a 51% stake in Bharti Axa Investment Managers Pvt, an asset management firm owned by Bharti Enterprises and the French Axa group, Agefi reports. Bharti Enterprises is selling all of its 25% stake in the joint venture to the bank, while Axa is selling 26%, and retaining the remaining 49% of Barti Axa Investment Managers Pvt.
05/12/2011

Natixis Global Associates launches a US equity fund

With the Harris Associates Concentrated US Value Fund, Natixis Global Associates, a fund distribution affiliate of Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM), has launched a sub-fund of its Luxembourg Sicav Natixis International Funds (Lux) I, which will have a concentrated portfolio of 20 positions, on US large and midcap equities, Hedge Week reports.The product, available in the United Kingdom, is managed at the US firm Harris Associates (an affiliate of NGAM), by Robert Levy, CIO, and the portfolio managers Mike Mangan and Edward Loeb. They use a private equity-inspired approach to identify shares which are trading below their intrinsic value.
05/12/2011

Alternative management firm Castle Creek sets up shop in London

The alternative asset management firm Castle Creek Arbitrage, based in Chicago, has opened an office in London, Financial News reports. The registration document submitted to the British Financial Services Authority (FSA) has announced that the British entity, CC Arb Global, has three employees in London. The firm claims that the European market currently offers opportunities, particularly in bonds. Assets under management at Castle Creek total about USD800m.
05/12/2011

Recruitment at M&G

M&G Investments on 2 December announced the appointment of James Tomlins as manager for its high yield bond fund, the European High Yield Bond Fund (GBP77m in assets), assisted by Stefan Isaacs. Tomlins, who joined M&G in June this year, has also been appointed as co-manager of the Hihg Yield Corporate Bond Fund (GBP1.1bn), alongside Isaacs, who will remain as manager of the fund. The changes took effect from 1 December.
05/12/2011

AFME publishes new recommendations for high yield

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has published new recommendations for information to be published about transactions in the high yield sector. Following consultations with buy-side and sell-side participants, the professional association has revised its 2008 recommendations for high yield debt issuers. The AFME has also responded to concerns on the part of investors, by creating a permanent discussion forum, the “High Yield Investor Issues Committee.”
05/12/2011

Investors remain on the defensive

As of the end of November, investors were keeping their distance from a potential recovery on equity markets, and had not increased their exposure to euro zone debt, according to weekly statistics from EPFR Global. Equity funds continued to see significant redemptions. Since the beginning of the year, equity funds have seen an outflow of USD186.6bn, their worst results since 2008. At the same time, ETFs have posted inflows of USD79.8bn. However, outflows from European equity funds have totalled only USD9.1bn in eleven months, compared with USD22.8bn in the same period last year. International and European bond funds, for their part, have posted their worst week in three years, except for US bond funds.
05/12/2011

LGT opens an office in Beijing

The Liechtenstein-based private management and banking establishment LGT Group will open an office in Beijing, in order to develop its activities in the alternative management sector, Asian Investor reports. The project will initially aim to offer research to companies operating in continental China in the private equity and venture capital sectors.
05/12/2011

Ethos Foundation recruiting an executive for SRI

The Ethos foundation, a specialist in SRI, with 122 Swiss pension funds as members, on 2 December published a job listing, announcing that it is seeking a head environmental & social sustainability for its Geneva offices, a position that is being held for the interim by director Dominique Biedermann since it was created.The position has already been held by one person who remains at Ethos, and who will now fully concentrate on business development. The change was rendered necessary by the growth of Ethos’ activities and growth in the volume of work to address member requests, Biedermann tells Newsmanagers.
05/12/2011

Nous voulons nous renforcer dans le domaine de la multigestion alternative et des marchés émergents

La collecte de Rothschild & Cie Gestion, sa gestion de conviction, l'élargissement futur de son champ de compétences et ses développements en Europe. Jean-Louis Laurens revient pour Newsmanagers sur l'actualité au sens large du terme de sa maison, y compris sur les nouveaux fonds qui vont venir étoffer sa gamme. Il en profite également pour fustiger le mauvais procès que l'on fait aux marchés et aux banques...
05/12/2011
Fonds

Les investisseurs restent sur la défensive

Fin novembre, les investisseurs sont restés à l’écart de la reprise du marché actions et n’ont pas non plus accru leur exposition à la dette de la zone euro, selon les statistiques hebdomadaires d’EPFR Global. Les fonds d’actions ont encore subi des rachats significatifs. Depuis le début de l’année, les fonds d’actions accusent une décollecte de 188,6 milliards de dollars, leur plus mauvais résultat depuis 2008. Dans le même temps, les ETF enregistrent une collecte de 79,8 milliards de dollars.A noter toutefois que la décollecte sur les fonds d’actions européennes s’élève à seulement 9,1 milliards de dollars sur onze mois contre 22,8 milliards de dollars l’an dernier sur la même période.Les fonds obligataires internationaux et européens ont de leur côté enregistré leur plus mauvaise semaine depuis trois ans, à l’exception toutefois des fonds d’obligations américaines.
Fonds
05/12/2011

Tocqueville Finance sanctionnée par l’AMF

La Commission des sanctions de l’Autorité des marchés financiers a prononcé un blâme et une sanction pécuniaire de 150.000 euros à l’encontre de la société de gestion Tocqueville Finance, ainsi qu’un blâme et une sanction pécuniaire de 250.000 euros à l’encontre du directeur général délégué de cette société, Marc Tournier. L’AMF leur reproche une manipulation de cours en juin 2009.
05/12/2011

La CFTC attaquée sur la régulation

L’Association de l’industrie des valeurs mobilières et des marchés financiers (SIFMA) et l’Association internationale des swaps et des dérivés (ISDA) ont porté plainte contre le régulateur américain du marché des contrats à terme, la Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), contestant l’introduction de nouvelles règles destinées à freiner la spéculation sur les matières premières.
05/12/2011

CVC négocie avec Orange Suisse

Le fonds de capital-investissement négocie avec Providence Equity Partners pour tenter de fusionner son entreprise télécoms suisse Sunrise avec Orange Suisse. CVC a entamé des discussions en vue d’un possible rapprochement si Providence remporte l’enchère pour les activités de téléphonie mobile de France Télécom en Suisse.
05/12/2011

Zone euro, le dénouement

Les Bourses ont bouclé leur semaine la plus brillante en trois ans dans l’espoir d’une réponse décisive à la crise de la zone euro. Mais pour que le rendez-vous de vendredi soit un succès, bien des étapes devront d’ici là être franchies. Le première est la plus critique : Nicolas Sarkozy et Angela Merkel se retrouvent aujourd’hui pour arrêter les propositions qu’ils ont promises à leurs partenaires. Or leurs approches du rôle qui doit rester dévolu à la souveraineté des Etats diffèrent. Pour l’Allemagne, la Cour de Justice européenne doit avoir le pouvoir de condamner les Etats infidèles à leurs engagements et les sanctions être automatiques. Sur ces points, Paris rechigne. Et quand Berlin veut investir la Commission de pouvoirs importants, Paris insiste sur celui du Conseil européen. Lundi, l’actualité sera aussi italienne, puisque Mario Monti dévoilera son programme de redressement. Enfin jeudi, la BCE entrera en scène. Une baisse des taux est plausible mais Mario Draghi devra surtout préciser sa pensée sur les armes que la BCE tient en réserve pour soutenir les politiques si ceux-ci prennent les engagements budgétaires forts qu’il appelle de ses vœux. Vendredi enfin aura lieu le grand rendez-vous. Unité de lieu, Bruxelles, unité de temps, une journée, unité d’action, le sort de la zone euro : les trois règles du théâtre classique seront réunies. A l’Europe de trouver les réponses pour que le dénouement ne soit pas une tragédie.

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