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25/02/2011

db x-trackers list 12 more ETFs in Spain

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In addition to the 21 ETFs it already has listed on the Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank) has registered ten more ETFs with the CNMV, which replicate sectoral sub-indices of the MSCI World (consumer staples, consumer discretionary, information technology, industrials, health care, energy, materials, utilities, financial and telecommunication services).Two additions to the list of products newly added to trading in Spain are the db x-trackers MSCI Emerging Markets short Daily Index ETF and the db x-trackers FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate ETF.
25/02/2011

ING IM to release four more funds in Spain

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Although the Emerging Markets Corporate Debt sub-fund of the ING (L) Renta Fund has not yet received a license from the CNMV for sale in Spain, two other sub-funds, the FX Alpha (absolute return, currencies) and Europe High Yield (bonds) now have the necessary authorisation, Funds People reports. ING Investment Management is also preparing to release the Commodity Enhanced fund, a sub-fund of ING (L) Invest, in Spain.
25/02/2011

Spanish funds show net subscriptions in February

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to estimates by VDOS Stochastics, relayed by Funds People, assets in Spanish funds are reported to have increased by EUR1.29bn, or 0.9%, between 1 and 18 February, to a total of nearly EUR145.59bn. This comes in addition to positive market effects of nearly EUR1.11bn, and net subscriptions of EUR186m, the first net subscriptions since 2009.
25/02/2011

DWS Access raises EUR70m for closed fund Marmarapark

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } DWS Access has collected about EUR70m in assets from retail clients of Deutsche Bank for the closed fund DWS Access Marmarapark, which will finance half of a EUR200m investment by the ECE group in the construction of the Marmarapark shopping centre (100,000 square metres) in Istanbul. Leverage for DWS Access will by 40%. The remaining 50% of the capital will be provided by the Hamburg-based developer ECE and the Otto family. DWS Access states that before work has even begun, one third of the space has already been leased. Completion is slated for autumn 2012.
25/02/2011

London would like to see women hold 25% of seats on boards at top FTSE companies

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Les Echos reports that a report commissioned by the British government recommends that the 100 companies of the FTSE index should have women occupying one quarter of the seats on their boards of directors by 2015. Quotas may be introduced if management fails to respect certain objectives. Currently, only five businesses of the FTSE 100, including Pearson, Burberry and Imperial Tobacco, have women as CEOs. Only one out of eight directors at FTSE 100 companies is a woman.
25/02/2011

Natixis AM sets new management priorities

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The new organization for management at Natixis AM, unveiled in September 2010, has declared its ambitions for 2011 and beyond. The director of fixed income management, Ibrahim Kobar, says that he would like to develop the credit unit in the next few years, one of the five areas of the new fixed income management architecture, alongside money market management, euro bond management, international bond management, and insurance management. With assets under management of EUR6-7bn, the credit unit is still far behind euro bonds (about EUR20bn in assets), money markets (EUR55bn), and the historic insurance management unit (EUR150-170bn). The development of the credit unit, whose staff was increased last year, and now includes 12 analysts, includes development of new products, such as a high yield fund, launched in November 2010, and a credit arbitrage product. In terms of equities, the director of the unit, Emmanuel Bourdeix, says that he is seeking to develop the sattelite portion of the new tripartite architecture (core, thematic and insurance). Out of assets of about EUR80bn, the core portion represents about 45%, while the insurance portion also accounts for about 45%, and the satellite portion only 10%. The idea is to have a much stronger presence internationally, particularly in emerging markets. With this in mind, two Europe equities analysts have decided to develop an expertise in Asia and Latin America, and Bourdeix is planning to recruit specialists to round out the team.
25/02/2011

Strong growth in profits at KKR in 2010

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US group KKR earned net profits last year of USD2.1bn, up 9.5% compared with the previous year. A key result in this good result was the fact that KKR’s investment portfolio increased 33% in value over the year. Assets under management increased by 16.8% last year to USD31bn as of 31 December 2010, compared with USD52.2bn one year earlier.
25/02/2011

T. Rowe Price appoints a director of distribution

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } T. Rowe Price has announced the appointment of Scott B. David as director of distribution. He will be responsible for commercial relations with third-party distributors (including financial advisers) in the United States. He will begin in this position on 2 May this year. David was most recently president of Fidelity Institutional Retirement Services.
25/02/2011

Strong growth in profits at KKR in 2010

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US group KKR earned net profits last year of USD2.1bn, up 9.5% compared with the previous year. A key result in this good result was the fact that KKR’s investment portfolio increased 33% in value over the year. Assets under management increased by 16.8% last year to USD31bn as of 31 December 2010, compared with USD52.2bn one year earlier.
25/02/2011

Fund managers capture savings for the first time in 15 months

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Expansión reports on the basis of statistics from VDOS that fund managers in February managed to bring in the first net subscriptions in 15 months, totalling EUR186m, bringing them out of the slump that set in with the “deposits war” between financial institutions.Management firms took the occasion to beef up distribution of guaranteed funds with dominant exposure to bonds, which offer total annual returns of 2% to 4% over 3-4 years.The fund management firm which profited most from the situation was Invercaixa (La Caixa), which attracted EUR839m for Foncaixa Estabilidad, after previously capturing EUR1bn in 2010 for the Foncaixa Bienvenida.The other two asset management firms with the largest inflows in February are Bestinver (Acciona) and Mutuactivos (Mutua Madrileña).
25/02/2011

Assets under management hold stable at RBS

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Assets under management at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) increased last year by 5%, to GBP30.7bn, largely due to an improvement in market conditions. The British group has reported a net loss for the part of the group down by two thirds in 2010, to GBP1.125bn, compared with GBP3.6bn in 2009.
25/02/2011

BlackRock forms a partnership in British real estate

Workspace Group is to launch a GBP100m joint venture with BlackRock to buy high-yielding property in areas of the market ignored by many real estate investors, the Financial Times writes. Workspace buys then turns former industrial and office buildings into modern premises dedicated to small-to-medium-sized businesses.
25/02/2011

Strong growth in inflows in 2010 for St James's Place

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Net inflows for the British St James’s Place last year totalle GBP3bn, up 30% compared with the previous year, the management firm has announced in a statement. Assets under management increased 26% to GBP27bn. The firm, which reported pre-tax profits of GBP84.2m, up 69% compared with 2009, is proposing a dividend of 6 pence, up 33% from the previous year.
25/02/2011

Barclays Wealth launches China Optimiser fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Barclays Wealth has opened subscriptions until 8 April for its new China Optimiser fund, which is designed on the same principle as the Emerging Markets Optimiser fund.The fund charges 3% for a six-year period, and at maturity guarantees the subscriber the initial capital invested, plus 65% of the performance of the benchmark index, the FTSE Xinhua 25.The exposure of the fund (limited to 150%) is adjusted daily as a function of volatility: when volatility is low, exposure is high, and vice versa. The counterparty is Barclays Bank.Minimal subscription is set at GBP5,100.
25/02/2011

Henderson registers Credit Alpha Fund in Switzerland

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Six weeks after receiving a sales license for Germany from BaFin (see Newsmanagers of 11 January), Henderson Global Investors has received permission to sell its British-registered, UCITS-compliant Henderson Credit Alpha Fund in Switzerland. The product is managed in London by Stephen Thariyan, and aims to achieve returns 500 basis points higher than the Libor 3-month.
25/02/2011

Net profits up 4% at Banque Cantonale Vaudoise

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The BCV group (Banque Cantonale Vaudoise) has reported net profits for 2010 of CHF313.2m, up 4% compared with the previous year. Assets under management as of the end of 2010 totalled CHF75.8bn, up 1%, largely due to forex rates. Net inflows totalle CHF758m. Inflows from private clients and SMBs totalled CHF1.3bn, but inflows form major businesses and institutionals wree down by CHF500m. The 4% increase in net profits “is all the more remarkable as it takes into account a payment of CHF34m to the Federal Contributions Administration (AFC) to settle litigation against the bank. Excluding the cost of this operation, net profits would have increased by 13%,” BCV comments. The board of directors of the BCV group will propose at the next general shareholders’ meeting to pay an ordinary dividend of CHF22 (up from CHF21), and to distribute CHF10 per share (unchanged) from the legal reserve of incoming capital. This payment will allow the group to pay CHF275m out to shareholders.
25/02/2011

Fidelity reports an increase in average assets in 401(k) plans

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Fidelity Investments has announced that average assets in 401(k) retirement plans in the United States have set a new record. As of the end of 2010, they come to USD71,500, a level not seen in 10 years. For plans which have been in existence for more than 10 years, average assets have increased to USD183,100 as of the end of 2010, compared with USD59,100 at the end of 2000.
25/02/2011

ICG reprend la participation d’AXA PE dans Gerflor

La société d’investissement Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) a signé un accord avec AXA Private Equity en vue d’acquérir l’intégralité de sa participation dans le spécialiste mondial des revêtements de sol, avec l’appui de l'équipe dirigeante. Les autres actionnaires minoritaires (notamment Barclays Private Equity et NiXEN Partners) cèderont aussi leur participation dans l’entreprise.
25/02/2011

ICE veut prévenir une extrême volatilité sur le sucre

Dans le but de prévenir une volatilité excessive des contrats à terme sur le sucre, l’opérateur américain ICE Futures a indiqué qu’il annulerait à compter du 1er mars les ordres s’établissant «en dehors d’une fourchette de prix acceptable». L’erreur humaine est fréquemment à l’origine des pics de volatilité, et le blâme ne devrait pas être uniquement porté sur le trading assisté par ordinateur, estime le consultant Jonathan Kingsman.
25/02/2011

La Consob attentive aux rémunérations

Le régulateur boursier italien entend selon le quotidien britannique mettre en œuvre des règles plus strictes concernant la communication des sociétés cotées en termes de rémunération des dirigeants et de politique de succession. Les entreprises seraient contraintes de détailler de façon distincte les différents types de versements accordés aux plus hauts dirigeants.
25/02/2011

Le prix du pétrole est à un seuil critique

Les violences en Libye hier ont porté le cours du Brent et du brut à un record respectif de 119,8 et 103,4 dollars. Aux yeux du marché, un baril durablement élevé pèserait sur la consommation dans les pays développés et exacerberait les pressions salariales chez les émergents.
25/02/2011

Bain et GIC à l’affût en Inde

La société de private equity Bain Capital et la fonds souverain singapourien Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) seraient proches d’acquérir 30% du capital de l’indien Hero Investment, qui détient 17% de Hero Honda Motors, pour 39 milliards de roupies, l’équivalent de 620 millions d’euros.
24/02/2011

Brisbane choisit J.P. Morgan TSS

Le Brisbane City Council a choisi J.P. Morgan Treasury & Securities Services (TSS) pour fournir des services d’administration et de conservation pour City Super, le fonds de retraite des employés et ex salariés du conseil municipal . Le montant du mandat est de 1,5 milliard de dollars.
24/02/2011

Neptune IM fait enregistrer des fonds à Singapour

Neptune Investment Management a annoncé avoir obtenu l’autorisation de la part de la Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) pour distribuer sept de ses fonds à Singapour : Neptune Global Equity Fund, Neptune Emerging Markets Fund, Neptune US Opportunities Fund, Neptune Russia & Greater Russia Fund, Neptune China Fund, Neptune Latin America Fund et Neptune Asia Pacific Opportunities Fund. Ainsi, les intermédiaires professionnels et les banquiers privés pourront accéder à ces produits via les compagnies d’assurances vie et les plates-formes enregistrées localement.
24/02/2011

Goldman Sachs Asset Management envisage de relancer son activité en Inde

Après une parenthèse de deux ans, Goldman Sachs AM envisage de renforcer ses effectifs en Inde et de proposer de nouveaux produits dans le courant de l’année, rapporte Asian Investor.GSAM (India) dispose actuellement d’une équipe de huit personnes à Bombay couvrant la recherche, la déontologie et l’administration. GSAM avait obtenu sa licence d’exploitation sur le marché indien en septembre 2008 et avait par la suite constitué une équipe d’une vingtaine de personnes, réduite dès le mois de février 2009. Malgré la baisse des encours sous gestion observée au cours des douze derniers mois, le patron des activités en Inde, Prashant Khemka, que le marché indien offre un potentiel considérable.
24/02/2011

Ceros Holding prend le contrôle Pozitif Menkul Degerler

Le prestataire suisse de services financiers Ceros Holding AG, de Lucerne, aquiert avec effet au 22 février 2011 la majorité de la société de courtage turque Pozitif Menkul Degerler AS, d’Istanbul, auprès de Bank Pozitif AS.Pozitif Menkul Degerler offre des services de valeurs mobilières comme le courtage, la gestion d’actifs et la recherche, précise Fonds Professionell.
24/02/2011
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Le BBVA applique une décote de 20 % sur le portefeuille du fonds Propriedad

Près de deux ans après avoir fermé le fonds immobilier BBVA Propriedad, le BBVA entame la procédure de liquidation de ce véhicule qui s’effectuera de manière progressive pour ne pas plomber la valeur des immeubles en portefeuille et pour éviter plus généralement de peser sur le marché, rapporte Cotizalia. A cette fin, le BBVA a fixé la valeur du portefeuille à 1,4 milliard d’euros, ce qui correspond à une moins-value de 20 % par rapport au montant versé par la banque au fonds pour compenser la sortie des porteurs en octobre 2008.
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