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03/02/2011

Philippe Setbon est nommé CIO de Generali

Philippe Setbon a été nommé directeur des investissements (chief investment officer) du groupe d’assurances italien Generali. L’intéressé a été responsable des investissements de Generali Investments France avant d’être nommé directeur général (chief investment officer) de la structure. Aujourd’hui, outre ce rôle, il occupe également des fonctions importantes au sein de Generali Investments Sicav (Luxembourg), Generali Investments Deutschland et Generali Investments Italia Sgr. Il est aussi membre du conseil d’administration du chinois Guotai AMC depuis 2010. Philippe Setbon sera «assistant general manager» sous la direction du general manager et directeur financier Raffaele Agrusti.
03/02/2011
Fonds

M&G commercialise en Espagne son European Inflation Linked Corporate Bond fund

La filiale espagnole du britannique M&G Investments a annoncé la commercialisation en Espagne du fonds d’obligations d’entreprises indexées sur l’inflation European Inflation Linked Corporate Bond fund (GB00B3VQKJ6) qui vise à surperformer l’indice des prix à la consommation harmonisé européen (IPCH).Ce produit a été lancé au Royaume-Uni le 16 septembre (lire notre article du 13 décembre).
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03/02/2011

Nouvelle diminution de l'encours géré par le BBVA

Pour 2010, le BBVA déclare un bénéfice net de presque 4,61 milliards d’euros contre 5,02 milliards l’année précédente, mais une amélioration de son coefficient d’exploitation à 42,9 % contre 44,6 % et une hausse de son ratio de fonds propres core capital de 9,6 % contre 6,2 % un an plus tôt.Le bénéfice de son pôle banque de gros et gestion d’actifs s’est accru de 11,4 % en 2010 à 950 millions d’euros.En revanche, les actifs sous gestion sont tombés à 40,52 milliards d’euros contre 49,97 milliards.Pour les fonds d’investissement, l’encours au 31 décembre a reculé à 23,71 milliards, soit 7,3 % de moins que fin septembre, contre 32,8 milliards douze mois plus tôt (lire notre article du 28 janvier 2010), ce qui s’explique à la fois par l’arrivée à échéance de nombreux produits garantis et par la préférence des investisseurs pour les dépôts bancaires. Au demeurant, BBVA Asset Management a restitué en 2010 à Santander AM sa première place des gestionnaires de fonds en Espagne.En ce qui concerne les fonds de pension, l’encours est ressorti fin décembre à 16,81 milliards d’euros, soit 1,2 % de moins que fin septembre, et contre 17,17 milliards fin 2009, mais le BBVA conserve dans ce domaine son premier rang des opérateurs espagnols.
03/02/2011

Démarrage d'Equilibria, la première société de hedge funds de droit espagnol

Issue de la transformation de la sicav Tacomago Investment II, Equilibria est la première entité en Espagne à obtenir de la CNMV son agrément de «société d’investissement libre» (SIL), rapporte Funds People. Il s’agit d’une société indépendante avec un objectif de performance absolue fondé sur une stratégie d’analyse macroéconomique, réglementaire et sectorielle.Equilibria vise sur 3 à 5 ans une performance réelle de 2 % après déduction de l’inflation et de tous les frais. Tacomago a généré une performance réelle de 25,33 % sur la période 1999-fin décembre 2010.Le président exécutif est Carlos Arenillas Lorente, qui a notamment été vice-président de la CNMVEquilibria a confié le contrôle du risque, la conformité et l’administration à Santander Asset Management tandis que Santander Investments est le dépositaire.
03/02/2011

Felipe González lance un fonds de private equity

Expansión rapporte que l’ancien premier ministre socialiste espagnol Felipe González, vient de créer un capital-investisseur, Tagua Capital, qui est censé investir 120-150 millions d’euros d’un premier fonds en Espagne et en Amérique.Il s’est associé pour ce faire à 14 dirigeants d’entreprise et entrepreneurs, dont Amparo Moraleda et Joaquín Moya-Angeler, anciens vice-présidents d’IBM pour l’Espagne et le Portugal, Emilio Ontiveros, président d’Analistas Financieros Internacionales (AFI) ou Ignacio López Gandásegui, président d’Aernova et ancien CEO de Gamesa.Tagua Capital va se focaliser sur les sciences de la santé et de la vie (téléassistance, biotechnologies), les énergies propres (biomasse et biocombustibles) et les technologies de l’information et de la communication.
03/02/2011

Unibail-Rodamco promeut Maël Aoustin CIO pour l'Espagne

Entré en 2004 au département investissements d’Unibail-Rodamco au siège de Paris, Maël Aoustin, un ancien de la grande école HEC, a été nommé directeur des investissements pour l’Espagne, pays où il était depuis 2007 responsable de la gestion de divers actifs en tant que senior operating manager, puis directeur des gérances et head of Shopping Centre Management.
03/02/2011
Fonds

Les sicav se sont soustraites à la chute du marché espagnol en 2010

Selon les calculs d’Expansión, les sicav, véhicule préféré des grandes fortunes espagnols, ont su en moyenne échapper à la baisse de 17,4 % de l’Ibex et aux turbulences sur la dette espagnole. Elles ont en effet réduit leur exposition à l’Espagne et affiché en moyenne une performance de 6,65 % l’an dernier, soit plus de 200 millions d’euros de gains au total.La plus performante des grandes sicav est Soixa, qui est animée par la famille Hernández Callejas (les propriétaires d’Ebro Foods), avec un gain de 21,77 %. La famille Del Pino figure également en tête avec ses différentes sicav, dont Allocation (+ 11,73 %) et Keeper Inversiones (+ 18,05 %), sachant que les 6 sicav de la famille des propriétaires de Ferrovial sont gérées par Pactio Gestión. La plus forte perte de l’an dernier a été supportée avec 15,98 % par Laxmi, une des sicav de Ram Bhavnani, dont l’exposition à l’Espagne a été augmentée au dernier trimestre.
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03/02/2011
Fonds

Le fonds souverain chinois CIC à l'assaut du marché japonais

Un mystérieux fonds, basé en Australie, baptisé «SSBT OD 05 Omnibus China Treaty Fund», mais probablement lié au China Investment Corp., a acquis en quelques mois 2,1% d’Hitachi, 1,6% de Sony ou encore 1,7% de MUFG, rapporte Les Echos. Le fonds détiendrait ainsi pour plus de 1.800 milliards de yen (16milliards d’euros) d’actions des plus importantes entreprises nippones.
Fonds
03/02/2011

La gestion d’actifs soutient les résultats de Nomura

Le groupe japonais de services financiers Nomura Holdings a annoncé le 2 février une augmentation de 31% de son bénéfice net au troisième trimestre 2010/11 au 31 décembre à 13,4 milliards de yen (122 millions d’euros) grâce à la bonne tenue de ses activités de gestion d’actifs.Les actifs gérés ont progressé à 24.100 milliards de yen, grâce à l’augmentation des fonds recueillis dans nos sociétés de placement, souligne le groupe dans un communiqué.
03/02/2011

Equilibria, the first Spanish-registered hedge fund company, starts operations

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Equilibria, born from a conversion of the Tacomago Investment II Sicav, has become the first Spanish entity to obtain a license from the CNMV as a “free investment company” (SIL), Funds People reports. The independent firm aims for absolute returns on the basis of a macroeconomic, regulatory and sectoral analysis strategy.Equilibria aims for absolute returns over 3 to 5 years of 2%, after the deduction of inflation and all fees. Tacomago has generated absolute returns of 25.33% for the period from 1999 to the end of December 2010.The executive chairman of the firm is Carlos Arenillas Lorente, who has also served as vice-president of the CNMV.Equilibria has outsourced risk monitoring, compliance and administration to Santander Asset Management, while Santander Investments acts as depository.
03/02/2011

Assets under management at BBVA down again

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } For 2010, BBVA has announced net profits of nearly EUR4.61bn, compared with EUR5.02bn the previous year, but an improvement in its cost/income ratio to 42.9%, from 44.6%, and an increase in its core capital ratio to 9.6%, from 6.2% one year previously.Profits for its wholesale banking and asset management unit increased 11.4% in 2010 to EUR950m.However, assets under management are down to EUR40.52bn, from EUR49.97bn. For investment funds, assets as of 31 December totalled EUR23.71bn, 7.3% less than at the end of September, compared with EUR32.8bn twelve months earlier (see Newsmanagers of 28 January 2010), which is due both to the arrival at maturity of several guaranteed products and a preference on the part of investors for savings accounts. In 2010, BBVA Asset Management also gave back its place as the largest fund manager in Spain to Santander AM.For pension funds, assets as of the end of December totalled EUR16.81bn, 1.2% less than at the end of September, compared with EUR17.17bn at the end of 2009, but in this area, BBVA retains its position as the top Spanish provider.
03/02/2011

Man Group creates a systematic strategies group

Man Group has announced the creation of the Man Systematic Strategies (MSS) group. Drawing on the combined expertise of GLG, AHL and Man’s Multi-Manager business, the new group will be responsible for developing and managing systematic strategies driven by cutting edge technology. The new team is planning a number of products for this year including Man GLG Europe Plus Source ETF and the recently launched Man TailProtect fund.MSS is headed by Sandy Rattray, formerly responsible for systematic strategies at GLG, with Stefan Scholz as COO and head of research.
03/02/2011

Good results in 2010 for asset management at Lazard

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Lazard on 2 February announced that its 2010 fiscal year ended with net profits of USD281.1m, after a loss of about USD130m in 2009, with revenues up 24% to USD1.9bn.Assets under management as of 31 December totalled USD155.3bn, up 20% in one year. They increased 8% in fourth quarter alone. Net inflows totalled USD9.3bn for the year as a whole, of which USD3.2bn wer ein fourth quarter.In fourth quarter, management commissions increased 33% to USD203.1m. They are up 47% over one year, to USD715.9m.
03/02/2011

Director quits at Acropole

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Marc Auchabie last week quit Acropole Asset Management, where he was head of distribution and partnerships. The reports, relayed by H24, were confirmed by the asset management firm specialised in convertible bond management, which adds that the firm is in the process of recruiting a replacement as head of distribution.
03/02/2011

SAC head reassures investors

Steve Cohen, head of the USD12bn SAC Capital hedge fund, has assured his investors that they will suffer “no financial impact” as a result of the federal investigation into insider trading on Wall Street, the Financial Times writes.The hedge fund has been subpoenaed as part of the investigation. Neither SAC nor any of its employees have been accused of wrongdoing.
03/02/2011

Jim O'Neill introduces MIST, a concept to follow BRIC

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Jim O’Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs who coined the successful formula BRIC for Brazil, Russia, India and China, says investors would do well to have four other promising countries on their radar, which may be starting out from a weaker position than the BRIC countries, but who could overtake them. These are what he calls the MIST countries, Cotizalia reports.The new acronym stands for Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey, which now account for about 1% of global GDP and all of which are members of the G20.
03/02/2011

M&G releases European Inflation Linked Corporate Bond fund in Spain

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Spanish affiliate of the British management firm M&G Investments has announced the release in Spain of the European Inflation Linked Corporate Bond fund (GB00B3VQKJ6), which aims to outperform the European harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP).The product was released in the United Kingdom on 16 September (see Newsmanagers of 13 December).
03/02/2011

Deka invests in Reutlingen

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Deka Immobilien has acquired the office and retail complex RTW 1 / RTW 3, at the centre of Reutlingen, which has 3,000 square metres in area, completed in autumn 2010, from ZGV Grundstücks- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, for about EUR19m. The property will be added to the portfolio of an institutional real estate fund.
03/02/2011

Assets in Riester funds up by half in 2010

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As of the end of December, assets invested in shares in investment funds from Riester subsidized retirement savings plans totalled EUR7.4bn, compared with EUR4.9bn one year previously.The number of policies has increased by only 0.2 million, to 2.8 million; the increase in assets observed by the German BVI association of asset management firms is largely due to the performance of equity markets.
03/02/2011

HSBC suspends activities of its MENA fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In a notice to the Spanish CNMV dated 2 February, the Spanish branch of HSBC Global Asset Management (France) announced the suspension of calculation of net asset value, subscriptions and redemptions for the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) sub-fund of the HSBC Global Investment Funds, due to events in Egypt and the closure of the country’s main stock market.
03/02/2011

Deutsche Bank and Traxis launch a UCITS fund

Deutsche Bank and Traxis Partners have launched a UCITS compliant version of the Traxis Global Equity Macro fund. The UCITS fund, called DB Platinum Traxis Global Equity Macro, was launched on Deutsche Bank’s DB Platinum platform on 1 February 2011. The fund will be managed by Traxis in accordance with the strategy managed by Barton Biggs in a similar way to the Traxis Global Equity Macro fund, modified where needed to comply with UCITS regulations. The fund’s investment process is discretionary in nature and leverages the global insight and experience Barton Biggs has developed over 40 years of investment management. Traxis was formed in June 2003 by Barton Biggs, former chairman and chief investment officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Madhav Dhar and Cyril Moullé-Berteaux. Traxis currently manages more than USD 1bn.
03/02/2011

Two lawsuits filed against BNY Mellon

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } BNY Mellon has been named in two different lawsuits, filed by South Carolina and Virginia, which accuse the bank of poor management of investment and false reporting, the Financial Times reports. The State of South Carolina is seeking about USD200m in damages and interest.
03/02/2011

Swiss Life AM releases a solid income fund

On 2 February, Eric Bourguignon, deputy CEO of Swiss Life Asset Management (France), announced with Gilles Frisch, senior portfolio manager, that the firm is releasing the French-registered FCP fund SLF(F) Rendement, which was launched on 15 December 2010, and which had assets as of the end of January of EUR25.91m, from the private bank of the group and funds of funds, to institutional and retail investors.The concept for the new product is simple: due to the risks which are now weighing down government bonds, and concerns about the evolution of equities, although these appear to be attractively priced, Swiss Life AM has created a product which aims at annual returns 300 basis points higher than the Euribor 3-month capitalised for a period of 4 years, after the deduction of management fees.The fund, which will have 100 positions (currently 60), has three allocations: corporate bonds, with a maximum of 40% high yield, 10 to 15 points of which are for hybrid corporates (rated from A to BBB), up to 40% (currently 25%) for subordinated bank debt (tier 1 and tier 2), and at most 25% for equities in companies which pay high dividends, and or strategies related to equities (particularly volatility arbitrage).CharacteristicsName: Swiss Life Funds (F) RendementISIN codes:Retail:FR0010962910 P capitalisation sharesFR0010967539 P distribution sharesInstitutional:FR0010967794 I capitalisation sharesFR0010967802 I distribution sharesBenchmark index: Euribor 3 month + 3%Front-end fee: 1% maximumManagement fee: 0.6%Performance commission: 20% of performance exceeding the benchmarkMinimal initial subscription:EUR10,000 (P shares)EUR100,000 (I shares)
03/02/2011

Brandes launches an emerging markets equities fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } «Value» asset manager Brandes Investment Partners (USD47.8bn as of the end of 2010) on 1 February announced that it is launching a mutual fund, Emerging Markets Equity Fund, which will invest, as its name indicates, in emerging markets.The product, focused exclusively on valuations, is aimed at investors with a long-term horizon, with the objective of not overpaying for growth potential in emerging markets.In addition, the seven-member management team is authorised to overweight particularly promising countries or sectors, or to abstain from investing in countries or sectors which lack a convincing outlook.Management fees are 1.12% for I-class shares, and 1.37% for S class shares.
03/02/2011

Team of Mizuho traders launches a hedge fund

Curtis Adams, the head of Mizuho’s London proprietary trading team, has left the bank with a team of traders to launch a hedge fund, Ovington Capital Management, according to the Financial Times. The start up began trading with circa USD55m under management, including a seed investment from a Luxembourg-based fund run by Sweden’s SEB bank.
03/02/2011

Henderson rationalises multi-manager range

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 2 February, Henderson Global Investors announced plans to merge five funds from its multi-manager range, pending approval from the FSA and shareholders. The announcement led to the departure of managers Mark Harris and Craig Heron, who joined Henderson with its acquisition of New Star in 2009. The mergers are slated to be completed by mid-May.The funds managed by the two outgoing managers (Henderson Multi-Manager Tactical and Balanced) have been taken over by Bill McQuaker, who becomes head of multi-manager, and remains deputy head of equities. The funds will become known as Henderson Multi-manager Active and Managed, respectively. In addition, McQuaker is taking over management of the Henderson Cautious Portfolio Unit Trust, which was previously managed by Heron. The fund will become known as Henderson Multi-Manager Income & Growth from 25 February.The three regional multi-manager funds (American, Asia and European Portfolios) will be absorbed into funds which are not multi-managed: Henderson North American Enhanced Equity (managed by Robert Villiers), Asia Pacific Capital Growth (Anderw Beal), and European Growth (Richard Pease).
03/02/2011

Asset management drives results at Nomura

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Japanese financial services group Nomura Holdings on 2 February announced a 31% increase in its net profits in the third quarter of its 2010/2011 fiscal year to JPY13.4bn (EUR122m), due to the good performance of its asset management activities.“Assets under management increased to JPY24.1trn, due to an increase in funds received at our investment management firms,” the group says in a statement.
03/02/2011

ING IM Italy has a new head of marketing

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Gerardo Galvano has been appointed marketing & communication manager at ING IM Italia. He was previously head of marketing and communication at Banca Intermobiliare. Galvano will report directly to managing director Fabrizio Meo. He will be in charge of defining the marketing and communication strategies for the asset management firm in Italy.
03/02/2011

Philippe Setbon appointed as CIO of Generali

Philippe Setbon has been appointed to the post of chief investment officer of Generali. He will hold the rank of assistant general manager and will report to the general manager and CFO, Raffaele Agrusti.Philippe Setbon, 45, joined the Generali Group in 2004. He was chief investment officer at Generali Investments France, where he was subsequently appointed chief executive officer. Today, Setbon is CEO of Generali Investments and holds senior posts in Generali Investments Sicav (Luxembourg), Generali Investments Deutschland and Generali Investments Italia Sgr. He has also been a member of the board of directors of China’s Guotai AMC since 2010.
03/02/2011

Marco Sebastian Arteaga joins Zurich Germany

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Marco Sebastian Arteaga, a German-born US citizen, and CEO for Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the brokerage and consulting firm Aon Jauch & Hübener Consulting, was on 1 February 2011 appointed CEO for the corporate retirement planning (bAV) of the German arm of the Zurich group.The position is newly created, and Arteaga will be in charge of developing corporate retirement savings schemes and distribution activities. Zurich’s objective is to reach major brokers, intermediaries specialised in corporate retirement savings, and multinational groups. Before joining Aon Jauch & Hübener, Arteaga was chairman of the executive board at Mercer.

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