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12/10/2011

First German micro-finance fund launched

Due to a modification to German investment legislation, the fund promoter Invest in Visions may now launch the first German micro-finance fund, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports.The asset target is EUR100m, and minimal subscription is set at EUR100. Management commission will be 1.4%, and a commission of 20% will be charged on performance exceeding 4% per year, with high watermark.
12/10/2011

Mirabaud licensed as investment company

Mirabaud France has been granted a license from the authorities in France as an investment business with permission to undertake portfolio management activities, reception and transmission of orders, and investment advising, activities which had previously been exercised by Mirabaud Gestion, which will be disappearing in favour of Mirabaud France. The move will allow the firm to offer clients a way to entrust management of their accounts and custody for their assets to Mirabaud. Mirabaud opened its affiliate in Paris in 2003. Now, with 30 employees, including nine client managers and a dedicated team of wealth engineers, Mirabaud France manages assets of nearly EUR1bn.
12/10/2011

S&P downgrades 10 Spanish banks; Fitch downgrades six

The ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) on 11 October announced that it is downgrading the ratings for six Spanish banks, including the Standander and BBVA groups. The ratings agency says it is pessimistic in the light of the “slowdown of the Spanish economy” and a “bear real estate market.” Fitch, for its part, has lowered its ratings for six banks. At S&P, the long-term ratings for Santander and BBVA are lowered from AA to AA-, with a negative outlook. The annoucement comes a few days after two Spanish sovereign debt issues were downgraded by Fitch Ratings. “The correction of imbalances in Spain will continue to negatively affect the financial profiles of Spanish banks in the next 15 to 18 months,” Standard & Poor’s estimates.
12/10/2011

Julius Baer under investigation by US Justice department

Two former advisors at the Julius Baer bank are under investigation by the US Department of Justice. The New York prosecutor has made accusations, obtained by the news agency AWP, that the two ex-bankers assisted US taxpayers to dodge taxes. The Zurich bank has told AWP that it intends to cooperate with the US authorities. The two advisors are alleged to have helped US taxpayers and others to conceal USD600m in offshore accounts, which allowed them to avoid taxes, according to the US prosecutor.
12/10/2011

Uram recruits two specialists

The Geneva-based asset management firm Uram, a specialist in commodities and energies, has recruited two people. They are Robert Galuba, who has spent 10 years as a manager and financial analyst at Lombard Odier, Bordier and HSBC, and Pierre Martin, who joins from Deutsche Bank, where he managed natural resource funds. The recruitments come at a time when Uram has recently lost one of its co-founders, Patrick Pittaway, Citywire reports. He co-founded the firm in 2007 with Dominique Casaï.
12/10/2011

Gottex appoints a new head of marketing for Asia Pacific

Gottex Fund Management has appointed Steven Lee Hyungwk as Marketing Director for the Asia Pacific region, Agefi Switzerland reports. Hyungwk previously worked at Wellington Management, where since 2001 he had been a member of the Marketing team. Hyungwk will be based in Hong Kong, and will play an active role in the development of activities in the Asia Pacific region, with priority given to institutional clients.
12/10/2011

Returns of over 11% for Chinese sovereign fund in 2010

According to the news agency Chine Nouvelle, the China Investment Company (CIC), the sovereign fund of the Chinese government, on Tuesday announced that it earned returns of 11.7% on its portfolio of international investments in 2010. This rate has remained unchanged compared with the 2009 results. Since its inception in 2007, the average return rate for the fund is 6.4%.
12/10/2011

Man launches a long/short fund of hedge funds

Man, the listed hedge fund provider, announced on October 10 the launch of Man Long Short Fund, a new long/short equity fund of hedge funds with scheduled monthly liquidity in a Registered Investment Company format. Man Investments (USA) LLC serves as the fund’s investment adviser and is part of Man’s Multi-Manager Business which has approximately USD12.7 billion in funds under management globally as of September 30, 2011.Man Long Short Fund, available only to the high net worth clients of the top-tier broker dealers and advisers with an investment minimum of USD50,000, provides a way to access up to 30 leading long/short equity managers.The fund seeks to capture 60% to 70% of the potential upside return of equities but more importantly only to participate in 30% to 40% of the downside.
12/10/2011

AXA IM asks Deloitte to audit its SRI funds

Axa Investment Managers has asked Deloitte to check the compliance of six socially responsible investment funds with its Responsible Investment Principles. The products concerned are the AXA Euro Valeurs Responsables, Label Europe Actions, AXA WF Framlington Human Cap, Label Euro Obligations, AXA Trésor Court Terme, AXA Ethical Distribution Fund. “For several years, we have formalised the principles which govern our RI philosophy. Now, in the absence of formal standards in this area, we wanted a single entity to verify and validate the compliance of investment processes and the management of our RI funds with the principles on the basis of which our clients place their trust in us. The detailed work undertaken by Deloitte on six of our RI funds brings the transparency which our clients expect, and with this contributes to the credibility of our funds,” explains Pascale Sagnier, head of research for the responsible investment department at AXA IM. Deloitte experts analysed the principles used to manage the composition of portfolios and procedures and mechanisms related to the investment process. In a second phase, consultants verified the composition of the portfolio and the transactions undertaken over the past year, fund by fund.
12/10/2011

BBVA may sell financial products in South Korea

The Spanish firm BBVA (which controls the country’s second-largest asset management firm, BBVA AM), on Tuesday signed a preliminary agreement with the Korean firm Woori Finance Holdings, for a strategic partnership, Expansión reports, citing internal sources at BBVA.The alliance will allow the Spanish group to sell its financial products covering “non-Asian” markets in South Korea. Woori expects that the agreement will give it access to international and Latin American markets, where BBVA has a vast network.
12/10/2011

Spanish investors still in a bad mood

According to the confidence index calculated by JPMorgan Asset Management, which stood at -2.17 for third quarter, Spanish investors remained pessimistic in July-September for the ninth consecutive quarter. The fall of -2.17 for the index (compared with -1.18 in April-June) is the worst result since March 2009, Funds People reports.This negative attitude is largely motivated by the economic situation, with 92% of investors estimating that the crisis will not end for two years at least. The deterioration of the index is largely due to an increase in the number of people predicting that the markets will fall in the next six months, while investors predicting that the markets will rise are at an all-time low.
12/10/2011

Asset management firms are recruiting

According to a survey by Financial News, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Ignis Asset Management, Russell Investments and Investec Asset Management are all recruiting staff. Other firms say they are not enclined to reduce staff but rather to hire at present.
12/10/2011
Gestion d'actifs

Le Parlement Européen a sélectionné un partenaire pour la constitution et le financement d'une société immobilière

Constitution et financement d’une société immobilière au profit de la construction et de la remise à niveau du complexe immobilier Konrad Adenauer situé à Luxembourg. L’attributaire du marché devra constituer cette société immobilière et lui fournir les fonds nécessaires pour financer la construction en collaboration avec la Banque européenne d’investissement. Le budget des travaux est de l’ordre de 300 000 000 EUR hors TVA (1re phase) et de 120 000 000 EUR hors TVA (2e phase), soit un coût total à financer avec intérêt intercalaire estimé à 345 000 000 EUR (1re phase) et à 126 000 000 EUR (2e phase). Le partenaire retenu par le Parlement Européen à l’issue de l’appel d’offres est le suivant: BGL BNP Paribas 50, boulevard J.F. Kennedy 2951 Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG Pour lire l’avis complet: cliquez ici
Gestion d'actifs
12/10/2011
Gestion d'actifs

Crédit Agricole SA doit se renforcer dans l'immobilier

Crédit Agricole SA (Casa), entité cotée du groupe Crédit Agricole, doit se renforcer dans l’immobilier afin d’accroître sa puissance et ainsi consolider le groupe dans son ensemble, a déclaré mardi 12 octobre 2011, le secrétaire général de la Fédération nationale de la banque verte. «Vis-à-vis de Casa, nous pensons qu’il faut conforter encore notre tête de réseau, accroître sa puissance et son effet d’entraînement», a souligné Philippe Brassac, dans un entretien au quotidien économique Les Echos. «La Fédération et les caisses régionales ne peuvent pas être fortes si l’ensemble du groupe ne l’est pas», a-t-il relevé. «Cette consolidation devrait ainsi passer par un renforcement de Casa dans l’activité immobilière», a estimé le secrétaire général de la FNCA, l’instance politique représentant les sociétaires du groupe mutualiste. «A l’image de ce que nous avons fait avec les métiers de l’assurance, nous voulons intégrer les métiers de l’immobilier dans Casa dans toute leur palette», a-t-il précisé. Crédit Agricole SA, coté depuis fin 2001, détient 25% du capital des caisses régionales ainsi que les filiales du groupe en banque de détail (LCL en France, Emporiki en Grèce, Cariparma FriuAdria en Italie, ...), en métiers financiers spécialisés (gestion d’actifs, assurances, banque privée, crédit à la consommation, crédit-bail, affacturage) ainsi que la banque de financement et d’investissement, selon le site internet du groupe.
Gestion d'actifs
12/10/2011

BlackRock en quête de compétences

Le gérant ne prévoit pas d’acquisition d’envergure mais préfère cibler des compétences particulières, indique à L’Agefi James Charrington, PDG pour la zone EMEA.
12/10/2011

James Murdoch poussé vers la sortie

Un actionnaire important de BSkyB aurait appelé à la démission de James Murdoch de ses fonctions de président du fait du scandale des écoutes téléphoniques. Peter Langerman, PDG de Mutual Series, une équipe d’investissement de Franklin Templeton Investments, a indiqué au quotidien que «si nous reconnaissons l’apport de Mr. Murdoch, nous estimons qu’aujourd’hui un président indépendant serait souhaitable».
12/10/2011

Les fonds de pension britanniques à la dérive

Le quotidien, citant une étude du Pension Protection Fund, indique que le déficit cumulé des fonds de pension des sociétés britanniques a bondi sur le seul mois de septembre de 117,5 à 196,4 milliards de livres, l’équivalent de 224 milliards d’euros. Cela sur fond de repli des marchés actions. Il s’agit du deuxième déficit le plus élevé jamais enregistré après les 208,6 milliards concédés en mars 2009.
12/10/2011

L'Opep anticipe un ralentissement de la demande de pétrole

L’organisation des pays exportateurs de pétrole (Opep) a abaissé hier de 180.000 barils par jour pour 2011, soit la capacité d’une raffinerie de taille moyenne, sa prévision de croissance mondiale de la demande de pétrole, et ce pour le quatrième mois consécutif. L’Opep a notamment mis en cause le ralentissement économique dans les pays développés.
12/10/2011

Emergence d’un nouveau fonds sino-russe

Le fonds souverain chinois CIC s’est engagé à apporter un milliard de dollars à un nouveau fond sino-russe. Son homologue Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) contribuera à la même hauteur et compte trouver 2 milliards d’euros supplémentaires auprès d’autres investisseurs chinois. Ce fonds sera principalement géré par RDIF et réalisera au moins 70% de ses investissements en Russie, au Kazakhstan et au Bélarus.
12/10/2011

Démission du ministre égyptien des Finances

Le ministre égyptien des Finances, Hazem el Beblaoui, nommé par le Conseil suprême des forces armées à la suite de manifestations en juillet, a remis sa démission. Il négociait avec les pays arabes du Golfe une aide financière pour soutenir le budget de l’Etat égyptien, qui a considérablement augmenté en conséquence des troubles politiques du début de l’année.

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