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11/01/2011

SEC charges hedge fund

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed civil charges against the co-founder of hedge fund Trivium Capital Management and three others persons, accusing them of trading on inside information regarding Google and other companies as part of its investigation into Galleon Group, the Financial Times writes.The US regulator alleged that Trivium, its co-founder Robert Feinblatt and analyst Jeffrey Yokuty made USD15m in profits by trading ahead of Google and Polycom’s earnings reports and before private equity takeovers of Hilton and Kronos were announced.
11/01/2011

Guaranteed funds attracted a net total of EUR2.1bn in 2010

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Despite average losses of 0.9%, according to Ahorro Corporación, Spanish guaranteed funds, with EUR2.1bn, were the only category aside from equities funds (EUR500m), to post net subscriptions in 2010, Cinco Días reports. And of the 124 new funds launched in Spain last year, 61 were guaranteed products.Assets in guaranteed funds increased by EUR1.6bn to total EUR48.5bn as of the end of the year. Meanwhile, assets managed by bond funds fell over the year as a whole by EUR27.5bn (of which EUR20.9bn were net outflows), to a total of EUR52.6bn as of 31 December.
11/01/2011

Fidelity renews its contract with BP America

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Fidelity Investments has announced that it has renewed its contract with BP America, an affiliate of the BP group, for a 5-year term. Under the contract, the management firm will continue to provide services to the corporate retirement savings plan for the business for a total of 95,000 employees.
11/01/2011

Morgan Stanley spins off proprietary trading unit

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }Morgan Stanley has announced that it has reached an agreement with the employees of its in-house quantitative proprietary trading unit Process Driven Trading (PDT), whereby PDT employees will acquire certain assets from Morgan Stanley and launch an independent advisory firm at the end of 2012. Morgan Stanley will have the option to acquire a preferred stake in the new entity, to be known as PDT Advisors. It is expected the full PDT team, which comprises approximately 60 employees globally, will join the independent firm.During the two-year transition period, PDT will remain a part of Morgan Stanley and continue to manage Firm capital as it has historically. PDT will also build out its infrastructure and its third-party investment business during this period.
11/01/2011

Blake Grossman leaves BlackRock

In an internal memo signed by CEO Larry Fink which has been confirmed by sources familiar with the matter, BlackRock has announced the departure of Blake Grossman, who had been vice-chairman for slightly over a year, since the acquisition by BlackRock of Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which Grossman had led. The acquisition of BGI for USD15.2bn was concluded in December 2009 (see Newsmanagers of 2 December 2009).Grossman is not expected to be replaced as BlackRock vice president. However, on 10 January, Grossman’s name was still on the list of members of the global executive committee.p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }
11/01/2011

Morningstar parts with Tao Huang

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Tao Huang, COO for Morningstar since 1990, will be leaving the company at the end of January. He is also leaving his position as head of IT, corporate sales and the affiliate Logical Information Machines (LIM), acquired in 2009.Morningstar says that Huang will not be replaced as COO. Responsibility for IT will be taken over by Jow Mansueto, chairman and CEO, while corporate sales will be overseen by Scott Cooley, CFO, and LIM will be moved into the data division of Morningstar, led by Elizabeth Kircher.
11/01/2011

Harbinger analyst to launch his own firm

Lawrence M. Clark Jr left Harbinger Capital Partners where he was a senior analyst and a partner to launch his own hedge fund, The Wall Street Journal writes. This departure comes as Harbinger in recent years has evolved from a diversified hedge-fund firm to one which looks more like a private-equity firm. Assets have declined from about USD26 billion in 2008 to USD6.4 billion in November.
11/01/2011

SG Private Banking interested in wealth management in North America

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi reports that Société Générale Private Banking is planning to open a long-term location in the United States. The bank is finalising plans for a brokerage and banking services platform based in New York, and aimed at US domestic high net worth clients. “Pending approval from the necessary authorities, we are hoping to begin our activities in the next few months,” says Daniel Truchi, director of the platform, cited by the newspaper. The platform will be complementary with the activities of Rockefeller Financial Services, a management firm dedicated to family offices based in New York and in which the bank has controlled a 37% stake since 2008.
11/01/2011

Funds avoid crisis-stricken countries in Euro zone

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Johannes Müller, a bond expert at DWS (Deutsche Bank), says that the fund management firm of the Deutsche Bank group has long had a rule against investment in Portuguese bonds, and that it now prefers short-term bonds issued by Greece to Portuguese government bonds, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. Union Investment (German co-operative banks), for its part, states that it has taken the occasion of low yields and high prices to reduce its exposure to Portuguese mid- and long-term bonds.At Pimco, Andrew Balls, head of portfolio management for Europe, says that the firm is concerned for the wider Euro zone, beyond the next six to twelve months, because some states may have difficulty in adhering to their multiple-year long austerity programmes. If one or more Euro zone countries is late in its repayments, it could trigger a banking crisis for all of Europe.Schroders says that it is extremely pudent: the British asset management firm is overweight in bunds, underweight in French government debt, and has no exposure to government bonds from peripheral countries of the Euro zone, according to David Scammel, a manager of British and European bond funds.
11/01/2011

Bordier & Cie granted a banking license in Singapore

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Swiss private bank Bordier & Cie has opened an affiliate in Singapore, Le Temps reports. It will be led by Evrad Bordier, a partner since 1 January, who will be based in Singapore. The location on Monday received its merchant banking license from the regulatory authority, the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Personnel will be increased to 20 people by the end of the year. Bordier & Cie, whose assets under management total about CHF9.5bn, is planning to have CHF1bn in assets under management at the affiliate by the end of its first year of operations. To achieve this goal, the bank will offer clients of Bordier International Bank & Trust (BIBT), an entity domiciled in the Turk and Caicos Islands, a British territory in the Caribbean, specialised in offshore private management, the opportunity to transfer their assets, which total nearly CHF500m.
11/01/2011

Del Monte Foods s’en tient à KKR

Au terme d’une période de «go-shop», le groupe agroalimentaire a indiqué n’avoir reçu aucune offre de rachat supérieure à celle de 4 milliards de dollars (hors dette) formulée par KKR en novembre. Del Monte s’attend à ce que l’opération soit finalisée d’ici la fin mars.
11/01/2011

Le Japon au chevet de l’Europe

Le Premier ministre japonais, Yoshihiko Noda, a annoncé ce matin que le gouvernement prévoyait d’acheter de la dette émise par le Fonds de stabilité européen. Il a également indiqué que le Japon comptait se servir d’une partie de ses réserves de change en euros pour réaliser ces opérations.
11/01/2011

Lawrence Clark se lance en solitaire

Lawrence Clark a selon le quotidien américain quitté Harbinger Capital pour créer son propre fonds alternatif. Une nouvelle aventure parmi tant d’autres de nouveaux entrepreneurs tentés par la création de hedge funds. Lawrence Clark espère bien voir naître effectivement son fonds, dont le nom n’a pas été choisi, dans un délai de six mois.
11/01/2011

Deuxième cession de titres China Pacific Insurance pour Carlyle

La société d’investissement aurait vendu, selon le quotidien qui cite des personnes proches du dossier, une deuxième salve de 415,5 millions d’actions dans la société d’assurance chinoise à 33,45 dollars de Hong Kong par titre, soit un montant total de 1,79 milliard de dollars. Fairholme Capital Management ferait en outre parti des acheteurs de ces parts.
11/01/2011

SG Private Banking cible les Etats-Unis

La Société Générale lancera prochainement à New York une plate-forme de gestion privée pour la clientèle domestique, en s’appuyant sur sa BFI.
11/01/2011

Le sentiment change autour de la BoE

Au vu de l’accroissement des pressions inflationnistes outre-Manche, après, notamment, la hausse mardi de la TVA à 20%, BNP Paribas et SG CIB, qui ne voyaient pas la Banque d’Angleterre durcir sa politique de taux en 2011, croient désormais à ce scénario dès le troisième trimestre.
11/01/2011

Bats songerait à s'introduire en bourse

Selon des sources proches du dossier relayées par le « Wall Street Journal », la société aurait déjà trouvé plusieurs souscripteurs pour une IPO
10/01/2011

Viveris Reim boucle deux acquisitions

Le gestionnaire immobilier français a racheté pour 82 millions d’euros un immeuble de 4.200 m2 situé près de la Bourse de Paris et un ensemble de 9.800 m2 composé de deux immeubles à Suresnes. Créé en 2007, Viveris Reim gérait 2,2 milliards d’euros d’encours à fin 2010.
10/01/2011

La BCE rachète de la dette portugaise

Selon des traders, la Banque centrale européenne est intervenue lundi sur les marchés pour racheter des emprunts d’Etat portugais à 5 ans et 10 ans. Vers 13 heures, les rendements portugais sur ces deux maturités se détendaient d’ailleurs respectivement de 12 points de base et 5 pb, à 5,99% et 7,01%. La flambée des coûts de financement du souverain, qui devrait encore se vérifier mercredi lors de deux adjudications prévues sur des lignes à 4 et 9 ans, rend cependant probable un recours du Portugal à l’aide européenne. La Commission européenne a nié lundi discuter d’une aide d’urgence au pays, un discours déjà entendu en novembre dans le cas de l’Irlande avec le résultat que l’on connaît.
10/01/2011

L'Espagne relance la titrisation des déficits d'électricité

L’Espagne a lancé l'émission d’obligations garanties par les créances que détiennent plusieurs groupes espagnols d'énergie sur l’Etat. Les obligations, à 3 ans, pourraient être placées à un rendement de 80 points de base au-dessus des emprunts d’Etat espagnols et sont émises par une structure ad hoc, le Fade. BBVA, BNP Paribas, CA CIB, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs et Santander dirigent l’opération, prévue à l’origine fin novembre mais repoussée en raison de la crise irlandaise. Elle permettra à Iberdrola ou encore Endesa de monétiser leurs créances sur l’Etat, qui s’est engagé à couvrir le manque à gagner entre leurs coûts de production et les tarifs réglementés de l'électricité.
10/01/2011

Rebond de la production industrielle française

La production industrielle française a augmenté de 2,3% en novembre par rapport à octobre, mois durant lequel elle avait décliné en raison des grèves contre la réforme des retraites et dans les raffineries de pétrole. Sur trois mois par rapport aux trois mois précédents, la hausse est de 0,6%. La production industrielle reste néanmoins 9,5 points en-dessous de son niveau d’octobre 2008.

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