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08/11/2010

Oppenheimer adds to bond unit

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US management firm Oppenheimer has announced the recruitment of Mark Anderson as managing director in the fixed income sales & trading department. Anderson previously worked at Stone & Youngberg and Merrill Lynch. Oppenheimer has also recruited Neil Snoep as director and banking strategist. In his new role, he will be in charge of strategic and tactical recommendations, quantitative analysis and active/passive management. He previously worked at Sandler O’Neill Partners, JP Morgan and Lehman Brothers.
08/11/2010

Setbacks for Clarium Capital

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Since the beginning of the year, according to Bloomberg reports cited by Cotizalia, Clarium Capital Management, the hedge fund firm founded by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, has seen losses of 17.1%. His fund Clarium LP (USD347m) lost 1% in October, while hedge funds earned an average of 1.1%. Since 2008, when they peaked at USD7bn, assets at Clarium CM, a global macro specialist, have consistently been on the decline, and most recently stood at USD742m.
08/11/2010

Redemption freeze extended for DEGI Europa and Global Business

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Aberdeen Immobilien KAG announced on 5 November that its suspension of redemptions from the real estate funds DEGI International (open-ended, EUR17bn) and Global Business (institutional, EUR0.3bn) have been extended for a further 12 months, until 16 and 11 November 2011, respectively. In both cases, the available liquidity is not enought to meet expected or announced redemptions. The asset manager says that it will be “intensively” pursuing negotiations to sell properties in order to get the necessary liquidity to open the funds to redemptions again, but that improvement in the real estate market is still too fragile to permit sales before next year. The objective is to sell at adequate prices. The asset management firm was also recently obliged to announce a liquidation of the DEGI Europa fund over three years (see Newsmanagers of 25 October) due to inability to sell enough properties to keep up with redemption demands for the EUR1.3bn fund. Aberdeen Immobilien says that the occupancy rate for properties in the portfolio is 97% for the DEGI International and 93% for the DEGI Global Business, which is a sign of the good quality of the portfolio.
08/11/2010

Profits up at Renta 4

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In a notification to the CNMV, Renta 4 has announced that its net profits for the first nine months of the year increased 9.1% compared with the corresponding period of last year, to EUR5.1m, on earnings up 9.8% to EUR45.3m. The increase in assets observed in the past few months has continued, putting assets under management or administration as of 30 September at over EUR5.09bn, due to net subscriptions of EUR293m since the beginning of the year.
08/11/2010

LVAM recruits a director from SVM

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As of 1 November, LV= Asset Management (LVAM) has recruited Liz Adnitt as investment sales director. She had spent four years at SVN Asset Management, where she was in charge of discretionary and intermediated clients for the London and South-East England regions. She will concentrate on discretionary clients in the London region, and will report to Matthew Wright, head of sales. The recruitment follows those of Ben Rumary, investment sales manager for London and South-East England, and Roland Bagnall as sales support executive, in October.
08/11/2010

First physical gold ETF launched in Hong Kong

Hedgeweek has attended the launch of the Value Gold ETF at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. This is the world’s first physical ETF where the underlying gold bullion is held in Hong Kong and not in places like Zurich. It is the second ETF to be launched by Sensible Asset Management Hong Kong, a joint venture between Value Partners Group and Ping An.
08/11/2010

Martin Currie gives UK investors access to its new Latin America fund

Martin Currie gives UK investors access to its new Latin America fund. The Martin Currie Latin America Fund is managed by Jeff Casson, who has 10 years’ investment experience. From January 2006 until May 2010, Jeff was lead manager of the Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (Swip) Latin American Oeic. The new high-conviction fund holds between 35 and 55 best ideas, is unconstrained at country and sector level, and employs a multi-cap, growth-oriented, bottom-up strategy. Its investment focus is on Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Argentina. Its benchmark is the MSCI Latin America 10/40 index. The minimum investment is GBP1,000 for the retail ‘A’ share class and GBP1,000,000 for the institutional ‘B’ share class. The annual management charge is 1.5% for the ‘A’ share class and 1% for the ‘B’ share class. The initial charge is 5%.
08/11/2010

GlobalX launches two Uranium ETFs

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 4 November, Global X Management Company listed the Global X Gold Explorers ETF, which charges fees of 0.65%, on the NYSE-Arca platform, under the acronym GLDX. The fund replicated the Solactive Global Gold Explorers index, developed and calculated by the German management firm Structured Solutions, based in Frankfurt, in cooperation with Commodity Capital, in Zurich. The fund was created on 11 March 2010. The portfolio includes 30 positions on shares in gold mining companies whose projects are not yet at the production stage, but in the feasibility study stage with financing not yet complete. Currently, the index consists 70.3% of Canadian firms, 17.83% of US equities, 9.6% Australian and 2.27% Hong Kong shares. On 5 November, Global X also added to trading on the NYSE-Arca platform the first ETF of producers, refiners, prospectors and makers of equipment for the Uranium sector, the Global X Uranium ETF (acronym URA), which carries a management commission of 0.69%. The benchmark is the Solactive Global Uranium fund, which includes shares in 23 firms (compared with 20 as of the end of June), 50.45% Canadian, 31.26% Australian, and 13.55% American. The fund was created on 11 March 2010. The two new ETFs are distributed by SEI Investments Distribution.
08/11/2010

Christian Bito and Vladmir Danesi launch EBT action euro vol 20

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 5 November, CBT Gestion (see Newsmanagers of 29 September) opened subscriptions for its first product, the FCP CBT action euro vol 20, a UCITS-compliant fund of funds which uses an active version of minimisation of variance (minvar) techniques. As Christian Bito, former managing partner at Rothschild & Cie Gestion, who manages the new products with Vladimiar Danesi, former director of multi-management at Rothschild & Cie Gestion, explains, the objective is to control the volatility of investments and seek performance in “corrugated iron” markets. The fund aims to beat the performance of the Eurostoxx 50 index over rolling 5-year periods. The principle developed by CBT Gestion is to set a risk budget and then to manage investments in order to control it. Risk, either measured by volatility or by value at risk (VaR), has virtually doubled. An investment in European PEA equities now has an average volatility of 24%, compared with 12% in 2006. For the FCP, CBT Gestion is offering shares for institutional investors with EUR100,000, and an R share which is eligible for PEA investment at EUR100; the latter shares are also on sale from Sélection R, Swiss Life and soon, AXA-Thema.
08/11/2010

State Street wins a mandate in Canada

State Street Corporation has been appointed by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario (WSIB) to provide a full range of investment services for its Pension Fund, Loss of Retirement Income Fund and Insurance Fund totaling CAD$15 billion in assets.The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board administers Ontario’s no-fault workplace insurance plan for workers and employers and oversees the province’s workplace safety education and training system. State Street will provide custody, accounting, securities lending and investment analytics services across the three funds.
08/11/2010

Doughty Hanson lorgne Vue Entertainment

La société d’investissement Doughty Hanson devrait racheter la troisième chaîne de cinéma britannique pour un montant de 450 millions de livres (520 millions d’euros), selon le quotidien. Les fondateurs de Vue Entertainment détiennent 51% du capital, le reste étant détenu par les sociétés d’investissement Coller Capital et Och-Ziff.
08/11/2010

E.ON songe à céder son réseau britannique

Le groupe allemand serait en discussions avancées en vue de vendre son réseau britannique d’électricité pour 3,5 milliards de livres (4 milliards d’euros). Un consortium regroupant le fonds souverain d’Abou Dhabi, la banque australienne Macquarie ainsi que le Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board serait sur les rangs.
08/11/2010

La dette irlandaise sous tension

La hausse de l'écart de taux à 10 ans entre l’Irlande et l’Allemagne au-delà des 450 pb peut amener LCH.Clearnet à relever ses marges sur la dette irlandaise.
05/11/2010

Nouvelle baisse, inattendue, des ventes au détail dans la zone euro

Contre toute attente, les ventes au détail se sont contractées pour le deuxième mois consécutif en septembre dans la zone euro. Eurostat a annoncé vendredi que les ventes avaient reculé de 0,2% d’un mois sur l’autre et qu’elles ressortaient en progression de 1,1% sur un an. L’Allemagne a souffert de la plus nette contraction de ses ventes au détail, avec une baisse de 2,3% par rapport à août.
05/11/2010

Bruxelles esquisse une nouvelle réforme des agences de notation

La Commission européenne a publié vendredi midi une consultation sur les mesures futures à adopter à l’égard des agences de notation de crédit, alors qu’un nouveau cadre réglementaire doit déjà entrer en vigueur en Europe le 7 décembre prochain. Bruxelles propose notamment que les agences publient gratuitement l’intégralité de leur recherche sur la dette souveraine, et informent au moins trois jours à l’avance (contre 12 heures en temps normal) un Etat de tout changement de notation. La Commission veut aussi «désintoxiquer» la législation financière et les gestionnaires d’actifs, dont les mandats de gestion pourraient inclure une clause leur permettant de dévier des seuils de notation qu’ils s’imposent pour leurs investissements. Bruxelles envisage enfin d’introduire dans sa réglementation une clause sur la responsabilité civile des agences.
05/11/2010

Stagnation de l'économie espagnole

L'économie espagnole n’a pas progressé au troisième trimestre par rapport au trimestre précédent selon un bulletin mensuel publié vendredi par la Banque d’Espagne. La stagnation de l'économie espagnole est transitoire a estimé la banque centrale. La banque centrale prévoit en outre une croissance de 0,2% au troisième trimestre en rythme annuel.
05/11/2010
Fonds

Très bon troisième trimestre pour le fonds souverain norvégien

Le fonds pétrolier norvégien, le deuxième plus gros fonds souverain au monde, a dégagé un rendement de 7,2% au troisième trimestre et vu sa valeur atteindre 2.908 milliards de couronnes, soit environ 356 milliards d’euros, a annoncé le 4 novembre la Banque de Norvège."Les résultats meilleurs qu’attendu d’un certain nombre d’entreprises et le reflux des craintes d’un ralentissement économique en Europe ont contribué à la hausse du marché des actions"s, a expliqué Yngve Slyngstad, directeur général de la Direction des investissements de la Banque de Norvège. Le portefeuille actions a progressé de près de 10%. Au cours du trimestre écoulé, le fonds a aussi récolté 49 milliards de couronnes supplémentaires grâce au versement par l’Etat de ses revenus pétroliers. En revanche, les effets de change l’ont amputé de 132 milliards, l’appréciation de la couronne norvégienne réduisant mécaniquement la valeur d’investissements réalisés dans des devises étrangères. La Banque de Norvège a aussi annoncé avoir fait ses premiers pas dans l’immobilier en investissant dans Regent Street à Londres, avec la reprise de 25% du portefeuille d’actifs immobiliers détenus par le Crown Estate (Domaine de la Couronne) pour un montant de 448 millions de livres. Le fonds recevra pendant 150 ans une part des loyers des boutiques et bureaux localisés dans cette rue. A terme, 5% de la valeur du fonds doivent être placés dans l’immobilier, à l'étranger pour ne pas perturber le marché norvégien. Le fonds était jusqu'à présent investi à hauteur de 60% en actions et de 40% en obligations.
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