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15/07/2011

Métropole Gestion se cherche un responsable de la distribution retail

Bruno Zaraya, responsable de la distribution Retail de Métropole Gestion ne fera plus partie de la société une fois ses congés achevés, ce qui confirme l’information parue sur le site H24 Finance.Bruno Zaraya, qui est resté un an chez Métropole Gestion après avoir été directeur commercial chez Sal. Oppenheim depuis décembre 2008 et auparavant, responsable partenariats et grands comptes France chez Edmond Rothschild Asset Management (2003-2008), quitte l’entreprise pour mener un projet entrepreneurial. De son côté, la société dirigée par François Marie Wojcik est en cours de recrutement pour le remplacer.
15/07/2011

State Street GA renforce son équipe de trésorerie

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) a annoncé, mercredi 13 juillet, le renforcement de son équipe de trésorerie avec les nominations de Kevin Thomson et Adam Sadiq. Tous deux accèdent au poste de directeur régional des ventes pour l’Europe, le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique (EMEA). Basés à Londres, placés sous la direction de Jennifer Hole, responsable de l’activité de trésorerie EMEA de SSgA, ils sont responsables de la distribution des produits de liquidité à travers l’ensemble de la région EMEA. Auparavant, Kevin Thompson était responsable du business développement chez ICD, un fournisseur de portails web, où il avait pour mission de développer les activités hors Amérique du Nord. Quant à Adam Sadiq, il exerçait ses fonctions de responsable du développement des activités de trésorerie et des produits de taux à court terme chez Western Asset Management Company.
15/07/2011
Fonds

Overlord France Finance lance deux fonds

La société de gestion de portefeuille Overlord France Finance agréée par l’Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) le 3 décembre 2010, a annoncé, le 13 juillet 2011, le lancement de deux fonds : Overlord Premium et Overlord Flex PEA. Overlord Premium est un fonds qui a la possibilité de se diversifier en utilisant tous les vecteurs d’investissements possibles (actions, obligations, futures, options, Forex, matières premières, etc.) et ce quelle qu’en soit l’origine géographique. Quant à Overlord Flex PEA, il s’agit d’un FCP diversifié majoritairement exposé aux marchés actions de la Communauté européenne, via des titres en direct, des OPCVM/ETF « trackers » et des instruments dérivés. L’actif du fonds est composé en permanence à hauteur de 75 % minimum de titres éligibles au PEA. La stratégie est basée sur un processus de sélection de titres. Overlord prévoit également une couverture des positions pour limiter les impacts baissiers à travers d’ETF « trackers » éligibles au PEA et des instruments à terme. Ces fonds sont, tous deux, conformes à la nouvelle réglementation européenne des OPCVM (UCITS 4) et disposent du DICI (Document d’Informations Clé pour l’Investisseur). Caratéristiques :Overlord Premium Code Isin : FR0011035120Frais d’entrée : 4 % Frais de gestion : 3,4 % Commission de performance : 20 % au delà de l’indice composite 50 % DJ Eurostoxx (hors dividendes) + 50 % eonia capitaliséOverlord Flex PEA Code Isin : FR0011052851Frais d’entrée : 3,5 % Frais de gestion : 2,4 % Commission de performance : 20 % au delà de l’indice composite 70 % SPF 120 (hors dividendes) 15 % DJ Eurostoxx (hors dividendes) + 15 % eonia capitalisé Le Document d’Information Clé pour l’Investisseur (DICI) d’Overlord Premium et Overlord Flex PEA sont à disposition sur demande.
Fonds
15/07/2011

Lazard Frères Gestion recrute un banquier privé senior

Lazard Frères Gestion a annoncé, mardi 13 juillet, le renforcement de son équipe de banquiers privés avec l’arrivée de Rémi Chleq, en qualité de banquier privé senior. Le nouveau promu vient renforcer l'équipe de développement de la gestion privée dirigée par Sophie de Nadaillac, associée-gérant de Lazard Frères Gestion.Âgé de 40 ans, Rémi Chleq était responsable d’une équipe de banquiers privés de 5 personnes depuis mars 2007 pour la banque Credit Suisse.
15/07/2011

Dexia porte plainte contre Deutsche Bank

Dexia a porté plainte mercredi 13 juillet contre Deutsche Bank pour récupérer des pertes liées à 1 milliard de dollars de titres américains adossés à des prêts hypothécaires (« subprimes »), rapporte Les Echos. L'établissement franco-belge accuse Deutsche Bank de ne pas lui avoir fourni des informations correctes lorsqu’elle lui a vendu ces produits. Selon Dexia, « l’action en justice vise à récupérer les pertes sur les titres d’une valeur de plus de 1 milliard de dollars, adossés à des prêts hypothécaires que la banque a achetés à Deutsche Bank ».De son côté, précise le quotidien, la banque allemande estime la plainte «injustifiée».
15/07/2011

Allianz GI crée la fonction de responsable des retraites pour l’Europe

Allianz Global Investors a annoncé, mercredi 13 juillet, la nomination, à compter du 1er juillet, d’Andreas Hilka en tant que managing director, responsable des retraites pour l’Europe. L’intéressé occupe un poste nouvellement créé, qui lui permet d’assurer le développement et la mise en oeuvre d’une stratégie centrée sur les solutions et plans de retraite en Europe. Il rapportera à Elizabeth Corley, CEO d’Allianz Global Investors pour la région Europe.Agé de 43 ans, Andreas Hilka travaillait auparavant au sein du groupe Credit Suisse à Francfort en qualité de responsable des solutions multi-asset pour l’Autriche, l’Allemagne, le Luxembourg et la Pologne, et de responsable Europe/Moyen Orient/Afrique des solutions pour la retraite.
15/07/2011

Les actionnaires de Deutsche Börse favorables à la fusion avec Nyse Euronext

Après l’accord de la majorité des actionnaires de NYSE Euronext obtenu jeudi dernier, ce sont les actionnaires de Deutsche Börse qui ont apporté plus de 80% de leurs actions pour la fusion avec NYSE Euronext, dépassant ainsi le seuil requis de 75% du capital, au terme d’une offre arrivée à échéance mercredi minuit.La fusion doit encore obtenir l’approbation des autorités de la concurrence car le nouvel ensemble se retrouvera en position quasi monopolistique sur certains segments d’activité comme le marché des dérivés en Europe.
15/07/2011
Fonds

La gamme de fonds indiciels de Pictet passe de 8 à 14 produits

Au 13 juillet, Pictet Asset Management a lancé six fonds indiciels «géographiques» de droit luxembourgeois (partie 1) chacun comportant six classes de parts et avec deux méthodes antidilution (soit spread, soit swing). Auparavant, le gestionnaire helvétique avait déjà huit fonds dans cette famille ; l'équipe gère 32 milliards de dollars dans ces fonds et sous forme de mandats (à fin mai) Il existe des parts institutionnelles (souscription minimale : 1 million de dollars) et des parts retail.Les nouveaux produits Pictet LatAm Index, BRIC Index, Brazil index, Russia Index, India Index et China Index, répliquent au plus près, en physique, les indices MSCI des pays ou zones correspondants. Les TFE des différentes classes de parts sont échelonnés entre 0,45 % et 1,05 %.
Fonds
15/07/2011

Aviva Investors ouvre un bureau à Zurich

Fabio Ferra et Karsten-Dirk Steffens, business development directors, vont diriger de Zurich la nouvelle représentation d’Aviva Investors dans la Confédération. Le premier était senior sales director, le second head of client service chez Axa Investment Managers pour la Suisse. Ils sont subordonnés à Gabriele Miodini head of financial institutions, Europe. Leur mission est de développer un réseau de distribution en Suisse.
15/07/2011
Fonds

Chequers Capital lève 850 millions pour son dernier fonds

Chequers Capital, ex-filiale de Charterhouse, vient de boucler son fonds XVI en trois mois, note L’Agefi. Le nouveau véhicule, qui investira comme le précédent dans des opérations de rachats à effet de levier pour des entreprises françaises dont la valeur n’excède pas 300 millions, a réuni 850 millions d’euros. Depuis 1993, la société revendique un taux de rendement interne (TRI) brut annuel de 40% environ.
Fonds
15/07/2011

Barclays Cap launches a fund based on European volatility

Citywire reports that Barclays Capital is launching a UCITS-compliant Luxembourg fund, which replicates the Vstoxx 50 Mid Term Futures index, entitled Barclays Euro Mid Term Volatility fund, which charges a replication fee of 0.89%, a management commission of 0.2%, and set fees of 0.2%. Replication maintains a continuously rolling position in Vstoxx futures, targeting a five-month forward exposure.
15/07/2011

Aberdeen launches its third Asian real estate fund of funds

Singapore-based Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd (Aberdeen Asia) announced on 12 July, as expected, that it is launching its third closed fund of funds specialised in Asian real estate and aimed at institutional investors (see Newsmanagers of 30 March 2011).The objective is to create a portfolio of best-in-class funds in the region, focused both on mature markets such as Japan, Australia and Singapore, and on emerging markets such as China and India. Funds selected will run the entire risk spectrum from core portfolio investments to opportunistic strategies. The fund is expected to rely on credit for a total of 50% to 60%. The performance objective is about 13-17% per year. The new product will be managed by five people in Singapore, led by Puay Ju Kang, head of property for Asia-Pacific.
15/07/2011

Major proxy voting and engagement mandate for Robeco

The London Pension Fund Authority (LPFA, EUR4.6bn) has selected the Dutch asset management firm Robeco (EUR150bn in assets) for an initial period of two years in charge of a proxy voting and engagement mandate for its international equities portfolio of about EUR1.1bn. It is the first mandate of its type for Robeco in the United Kingdom.
15/07/2011

CalPERS launches a vehicle to boost start-up private equity managers

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is launching a RFP until 25 July for a new investment vehicle which will focus on emerging US managers for its private equity programme. The fund of funds will be expected to generate high risk-adjusted returns for the CalPERS Alternative Investment Management (AIM) Program.The managers selected may receive a 7-10 year contract to invest in CalPERS’ name in venture capital, capital development and leveraged buyouts.
15/07/2011

ETF asset growth slowing

According to a study by Deutsche Bank, in the next three years, average growth of 25% is to be expected for ETF assets in Europe in the next three years. But the debt crisis has clearly slowed growth in first half 2011, when the increase slowed to 5%, the Börsen-Zeitung notes, in a phenomenon similar to the one observed in 2008 in the wake of the sub-prime debt crisis. Net subscriptions represented about EUR14bn. As of the end of June, Europe had 1,483 ETFs, with assets of EUR241bn.
15/07/2011

Allianz GI creates a position for Managing Director, Head of Retirement for Europe

Allianz Global Investors announced on Tuesday, 13 July that it has appointed Andreas Hilka as Managing Director, Head of Retirement for Europe from 1 July. Hilka occupies a newly-created position, which will make him responsible for the development and deployment of a strategy centred on retirement plans and solutions in Europe. He will report to Elizabeth Corley, CEO of Allianz Global Investors for the European region.Hilka, 43, previously worked at the Credit Suisse group in Frankfurt as Head of Multi-Asset Solutions for Austria, Germany, Luxembourg and Poland, and as Head of retirement solutions for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
15/07/2011

Pictet index-based fund range grows from 8 to 14 products

On 13 July, Pictet Asset Management launched six Luxembourg-registered geographical index-based funds (part 1), each of which has six share classes with two anti-dilution solutions (spread or swing). Previously, the Swiss management firm had eight funds in the family: the team manages USD32bn in funds and in the form of mandates (as of the end of May). There are institutional shares (minimal subscription: USD1m), and retail shares. The new products, Pictet LatAm Index, BRIC Index, Brazil index, Russia Index, India Index and China Index, physically replicate the MSCI indices for the corresponding countries or regions as closely as possible. The TERs for the various share classes vary from 0.45% to 1.05%.
15/07/2011

Aviva Investors opens a branch in Zurich

Fabio Ferra and Karsten-Dirk Steffens, business development directors, will be heads of the new Aviva Investors representative office in Switzerland. Steffen had been senior sales director, while the latter was head of client service at Axa Investment Managers for Switzerland. They will report to Gabriele Miodini, head of financial institutions for Europe. Their mission will be to develop a distribution network in Switzerland.
15/07/2011

Julius Baer launches a green portfolio analysis service

Swiss-based asset management firm Julius Baer on 13 July announced that it has launched a service which allows investors to reduce to completely neutralise CO2 emissions from their equities portfolios, entitled “green portfolio services,” which has been developed in cooperation with the Zurich-based firm South Pole Carbon.On the basis of an individualised portfolio analysis, investors will be able to reduce carbon emissions related to their investments by taking one or several measures to this end.Pollutant emissions reduction projects by South Pole Carbon have been developed in compliance with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and are also recognised by specialist NGOs such as the Swiss-based Gold Standard. These projects focus on sources of renewable energies, reforestation, and prevention of methane emissions.
15/07/2011

ESMA publishes a consultation document on AIFM directive

The European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) on Thursday, 14 July published a consultation document (ESMA/2011/209) laying out its detailed proposals for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). The move comes in response to a request for assistance from the European Commission to the European authority which preceded the ESMA, the CESR, in December 2010.The ESMA will submit a final recommendation to the Commission on 16 November 2011. Participants will have two months to submit responses to the ESMA. In the light of responses received by 13 September, the ESMA will finalise its proposals and submit them to the Commission by the deadline stated above.
15/07/2011

NYSE Euronext sees a decline in ETF transactions year on year

As announced in late June (see Newsmanagers of 28/06/2011), HSBC ETFs has launched three ETFs on NYSE-Euronext in Paris: HSBC MSCI EM Latin America, HSBC MSCI Canada, and HSBC South Africa.As of the end of last month, NYSE Euronext listed 565 ETFs from 17 issuers 656 times. This year, there have been 115 new listings, of which 26 are cross listings. Activity represents an average of 8,575 daily trades, a 7.4% decline compared with June 2010, but a 7.07% increase compared with the month of May, when there were an average of 8,009 transactions (see Newsmanagers of 09/06/2011). That represents a total of EUR409.8m, up 2.5% compared with June 2010.These ETFs as a whole cover more than 360 indices, composed of a wide range of assets (equities, bonds, commodities, etc), and represent global assets of EUR142.5bn, up 22.1% since June 2010 (EUR116.7bn).
15/07/2011

ETF assets expected to double in United States by 2015

By the end of 2015, assets under management in United States ETFs are expected to double, to USD2trn, largely due to the emergence of products focused on new asset classes and new indices, with new methods for using ETFs as portfolio construction tools.These are the findings of a study by BNY Mellon Asset Servicing and Strategic Insight, entitled “ETFs 2.0: The Next Wave of Growth and Opportunity in the U.S. ETF Market,” which finds that the proportion of ETF funds replicating traditional indices will fall, while non-traditional and alternative funds will account for a larger slice of the pie. Loren Fox, senior research analyst at Strategic Insight, says the varieties of non-traditional ETFs that will be likely to increase their market share will be those based on commodities strategies, inverse funds, leveraged funds, actively-managed ETFs, and ETFs that are similar to hedge funds.
15/07/2011

Profits and assets down at SEB in April-June

For second quarter, SEB on 14 July declared a net profit of SEK3.37bn, compared with SEK2.62bn in January-March, and SEK2bn in April-June 2010. In first half, profits total SEK5.99bn, compared with SEK2.69bn.For wealth management, operating profits totalled SEK309m in April-June, compared with SEK405m in first quarter, and SEK380m in the corresponding period of last year. The cost/income ratio has deteriorated to 71%, compared with 65% and 66%, respectively.Assets as of the end of June totalled SEK1.298trn, of which 42% are in the form of investment funds, compared with SEK1.303trn as of the end of March, and SEK1.258trn one year previously.Net subscriptions in second quarter totalled SEK7bn for institutional clients, and SEK5.5bn for private banking, compared with SEK9.5bn and SEK5.1bn in January-March. In second quarter 2010, subscriptions totalled SEK5.8bn and SEK3bnm, respectively.
15/07/2011

China fund from Anthony Bolton pays price for two investments

Anthony Bolton has announced that his Fidelity China Special Situations Fund has seen losses due to the fact that two Chinese firms listed in the United States (including China Integrated Companies) in which he had invested have been charged with fraud, Money Marketing reports. The manager says that with his team, he will now dedicate more time to due diligence, having underestimated the risks related to investments in China. Several positions have been liquidated at a loss, including those corresponding to the two companies incriminated in the fraud.
15/07/2011

Invesco PowerShares also plans to launch a Chinese yuan bond ETF

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that a third contender is in the running to become the first to launch an ETF dedicated to bonds denominated in Chinese yuans: Invesco PowerShares, which has submitted an application to the SEC for a license for the PowerShares Asia Pacific Bond Portfolio, a few days after Wisdom Tree made a similar application. Exchange Traded Spreads submitted a similar application in May for the ETS Offshore RMB Bond Fund.
15/07/2011

Overlord France Finance launches two funds

The portfolio management firm Overlord France Finance, which received a license from the French financial regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) on 3 December 2010, announced on 13 July 2010 that it is launching two funds: Overlord Premium and Overlord Flex PEA.Overlord Premium is a fund which aims to diversify its investments through the use of all possible investment vectors (equities, bonds, futures, options, forex, commodities, etc.), regardless of its geographical origin. The Overlord Flex PEA is a diversified FCP which is mostly exposed to equities markets of the European Community, either via direct investment in shares, “tracker” ETFs or mutual funds, or derivative instruments. Assets in the fund always include at least 75% shares eligible for PEA investment. The strategy is based on a stock-picking process. Overlord also plans to hedge positions in order to limit the impact of falling markets, via tracker ETFs eligible for PEA and horizon products.Both funds comply with the new UCITS IV European directive, and have Key Investor Information Documents (KIID).Characteristics:Overlord Premium ISIN code: FR0011035120Front-end fee: 4% Management fee: 3.4% Performance commission: 20% on performance exceeding a composite index, composed 50% of the Eurostoxx (excluding dividends) and 50% of the capitalised eoniaOverlord Flex PEA ISIN code: FR0011052851Front-end fee: 3.5% Management fee: 2.4% Performance commission: 20% on performance exceeding a composite index composed 70% of the SPF 120 (excluding dividends), 15% of the DJ Eurostoxx (excluding dividends), and 15% of the capitalised eonia The Key Investor Information Documents (KIID) for Overlord Premium and Overlord Flex PEA are available on request.
15/07/2011

Van Eck innovates with an ETF of municipal income bonds

The New York-based asset management firm Van Eck Global has launched Market Vectors CEF Municipal Income ETF (NYSE Arca: XMPT), which it claims is the first ETF to focus on municipal income bonds. It replicates the S-Network Municipal Bond Closed-End Fund Index (CEFMX), which had 88 components as of 30 June. The product charges net fees of 1.43%, and will pay a monthly dividend which is exempt from federal tax.
15/07/2011

IndexIQ launches an ETF of emerging markets midcaps

The US asset management firm IndexIQ on 13 July announced the launch on the NYSE-Arca platform of what it says is the first ETF dedicated to emerging markets midcaps, the IQ Emerging Markets Mid Cap ETF (EMER), which replicates the IQ Emerging Markets Mid Cap Index (IQMDEMG). The total expense ratio is set at 0.75%.
15/07/2011

Grandson of Commandant Cousteau dedicated an ETF

The active ETF management firm AdvisorShares (USD360m) has announced the launch of AdvisorShares Global Echo ETF, a multi-management ETF launched in cooperation with the Global Echo foundation, a charity with 501(c) status, one of whose founders is Jacques Cousteau, one of the grandsons of Commandant Cousteau. A part of the commission will be paid to Global Echo. So far, the amount of that commission is not given on the AdvisorShares website.
15/07/2011

MEAG acquires a stake in Amprion

German power supplier RWE has sold a 74.9% stake in Amprion GmbH to a consortium of institutional investors and electricity distributors, including MEAG, the asset manager for Munich Re and Ergo (EUR202bn). The sale price has not been disclosed. MEAG, which is diversifying its portfolio, stated on 14 July that the consortium has entrusted management of the participation to a fund launched and managed by Commerz Real. For its part, RWE will retain the remaining 25.1% stake in Amprion, a firm which operates high tension electricity transport networks.

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