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05/11/2010

Appointments at iShares Schweiz

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi Switzerland reports that Christian Gast has been appointed director of iShares Switzerland from 1 November 2010. iShares offers exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from BlackRock and is hoping to strengthen its presence on the Swiss market. Previously, Gast was executive director at UBS Global Asset Management. Andreas Zingg also joined iShares on 1 November, taking over as head of sales for German-speaking Switzerland. He also previously worked at UBS Global Asset Management. “We will invest in the Swiss market and strengthen our team in the next few months,” says David Gardner, head of sales for iShares in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
05/11/2010

Inflows of EUR500m for M&G year to date

“We have posted net subscriptions of about EUR50m per month since the beginning of the year,” says Brice Anger, head of development for M&G Investments in France. In other world, the British asset management firm has attracted about EUR500m YTD in France, and assets are now over EUR1.2bn, compared with EUR1bn at the beginning of September (see Newsmanagers of 7 September). Inflows went 50/50 to fixed income products and equities. For bonds, flexible funds and global bonds saw most of the inflows, while for equities, subscriptions went largely to the Global Basics and American Fund.Aled Smith, head of global equities and manager of the American Fund (an OEIC fund of US equities with EUR2bn, and about EUR300m in net subscriptions YTD), says that the 65-position portfolio earns 95% of its performance through stock-picking, and aims to minimise draw-down. Currently, the fund is underweight on financials, and overweight on tech stocks, where the management team is beginning to look for smaller caps. Allocation is weighted according to risk “so that investors can sleep easy.”
05/11/2010

Pierre Simonet joins PIM Gestion France

Pierre Simonet on 1 October joined the portfolio management firm PIM Gestion France, with assets of over EUR500m, as CEO and director.Béatrice Philippe remains chairwoman of the board of directors at the French firm, and CEO of its sister company Philippe Investment Management, based in New York.Simonet was a member of the French regulator CMF from 1998 to 2002. He also served as director and CEO of CPR Asset Management.
05/11/2010

Michel Dumoulin retires

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Michel Dumoulin on Friday retired from Martin Maurel Gestion Institutionelle. His funds will be taken over by Valérie Oelhoffen, formerly of Covéa Finance, who joined the institutional asset management firm of the Martin Maurel group one month ago. There she joined Brigitte Pascaud, who co-managed some funds with Dumoulin, including the MMGI Euromix Actions fund. The management team also includes Nathalie Bourdoncle.
05/11/2010

Systematic Alpha plans to release funds in Asia

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The New York-based commodities trading firm Systematic Alpha has appointed Solomon Josue as its sales representative for Asia, Hedgeweek reports. Josue is the founder and president of Asia Pacific Advisors, an alternative investment advising firm focused on the Asia-Pacific region. Assets under management at Systematic Alpha total USD640m.
05/11/2010

Clariden Leu sets up shop in Abu Dhabi

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Clariden Leu, an affiliate of Credit Suisse Group, on 4 November announced in a statement that it has opened a representative office in Abu Dhabi. The office, which opened on Wednesday, is a sign of the bank’s ambition to strengthen its strategic presence in the Middle East. The bank is also present in Dubai and Cairo. “Our presence in Abu Dhabi will help us in the future to respond more quickly and individually to the wishes of our Middle Eastern clients,” says the CEO of Clariden Leu, Hans Nützi.
05/11/2010

Norwegian GPFG fund controls over 3% of Gamesa

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 2 November, the Norwegian central bank (Norges Bank) notified the CNMV that it controls 3.152% of Gamesa Corp Technologica SA. The investment is on behalf of the Government Pension Fund – Global (GPFG), formerly known as the Oil Fund. The acquisition represents about EUR40m at current prices.The other major shareholders are Iberdrola, which as of 3 November held 16.137%, and BlackRock, with about 8.3% of the total, of which 4.93 percentage points were acquired on 3 November.
05/11/2010

Allianz Global Investors leads for net subscriptions

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Of EUR16.54bn in net subscriptions in January-September to securities funds monitored by the German BVI association of management firms, the Allianz Global Investors group is well out in front, with inflows of EUR12.71bn, thanks to EUR13.88bn in inflows to Pimco Europe. The DWS/DB Advisors/DB group (Deutsche Bank), for its part, attracted EUR1.67bn, solely due to EUR3.57bn for its ETF affiliate db x-trackers. Among other ETF specialists, BlackRock, with its iShares funds, attracted EUR800.5m, and ComStage attracted EUR565.1m, However, ETFlab (Deka) saw net outflows of EUR390.2m. For the other two major generalist firms, Deka (savings banks) saw net redemptions of EUR4.48bn, and Union Investment (co-operative banks) saw ent outflows of EUR2.19bn.
05/11/2010

Assets under management up at Man Group

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Assets under management at Man Group, which in October completed its acquisition of GLG Partners, but which does not include GLG funds in the following figures, as of 30 September totalled USD40.5bn, compared with USD38.5bn as of 30 June.As of 14 October, assets under management at GLG Partners totalled USD25bn, compared with USD22.7bn as of 30 June, of which USD12bn were invested in alternative strategies, and USD13bn in long only strategies.Assets under management at the two entities, MAN and GLG Partners, as of the end of October are estimated by Man to total about USD67bn.Pre-tax profits for Man in the six months to 30 September total USD227bn. The board has announced an interim dividend of 9.5 cents per share, and is maintaining its objective of a dividend of at least 22 cents per share for the period as a whole.
05/11/2010

Ignis AM appoints a chief strategy officer

Ignis Asset Management has appointed Laura Brown as Chief Strategy Officer. She joined Ignis on 1 November and will be responsible for overseeing the company’s planning processes and key projects. Laura Brown joins from McKinsey & Company, where she was a management consultant working with asset managers and other financial services groups. She previously worked for Watson Wyatt as an actuary and pension fund consultant. Laura Brown will lead a team as part of her new role and will report to Tim Roberts, Ignis’ chief operating officer.
05/11/2010

Oakley Capital acquires BDO Investment Management

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Fundstrategy reports that Oakley Capital Private Equity has acquired a majority stake of 84.4% in BDO Investment Management, for an undisclosed amount. An offer for the remaining 15.6% will be made by the British affiliate of BDO, BDO LLP.BDO Investment Management provides wealth management services to private and business clients.
05/11/2010

Strong increase in subscriptions in January-September

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In the first nine months of this year, net subscriptions for the German asset management sector totalled EUR61.8bn (of which EUR21.3bn were in third quarter), compared with EUR29.26bn for the corresponding period of last year. Assets totalled a record EUR1.80848trn as of 30 September, compared with EUR1.729471trn one month previously, and EUR1.66401trn one year previously.The German BVI association of asset management firms states that of this total as of the end of September, open-ended funds accounted for EUR689.37bn, institutional funds EUR799.12bn, and mandates EUR319.38bn.Of EUR18.92bn in net subscriptions to open-ended funds since the beginning of the year, EUR4.6bn went to passive funds, while the 10 funds which had the largest inflows were active funds, led by the Premium Management Stabilität A EUR (EUR1.86bn) and the Templeton Global Bond Fund (EUR1.23bn). Money market funds, for their part, saw YTD net outflows of EUR10.5bn, putting them at EUR48.4bn in assets as of the end of September.
05/11/2010

Union Investment and Lyxor top Feri rankings for third quarter

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Only two asset management firms of those with more than 25 funds rated by Feri in Germany in third quarter had 50% or more of their products rated A or B. They are Union Investment (co-operative banks), with 57.1% (48/84), and LBB-Invest, with 50% (13/26). Following them in the rankings are Erste Asset Management (48%), Threadneedle (47.6%), LGT Group (46.2%), and BlackRock (45%). Then come Universal-Investment (43.9%), JP Morgan (42.9%), DWS Investment (41.7%, but out of 103 funds), and then Franklin Templeton and State Street (40% each).Among the managers with 8 to 24 products rated, Lyxor Asset Management (Société Générale) comes top with 87.5% of its products rated A or B, followed by DJE (78.6%), Vitruvius (77.8%), and Carmignac (75%, 6 funds out of 8).
05/11/2010

March Gestión releases an emerging markets equities fund

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 24 September, March Gestión de Fondos created the Spanish-registered fund March New Emerging World, which uses the MSCI Emerging Markets index as its benchmark; the product was registered by the CNMV on 29 October.The portfolio may be up to 70% invested in other funds. It will be at least 75% exposed to emerging markets equities, and up to 20% in equities in businesses in OECD countries which earn 5% to 50% of their profits from emerging markets. The fund may also invest up to 20% in commodities via indices or derivatives.Management of the product will be undertaken by Santiago Montero Ruíz, head of multi-management.CharacteristicsName: March New Emerging WorldISIN code: ES0160933000Management commission: 1.9%
05/11/2010

Schroders registers three GAIA funds in Spain

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Schroder has announced that it has registered its emerging markets long/short fund Schroder GAIA Sloane Robinson Emerging Markets (see Newsmanagers of 24 September) with the CNMV for sale in Spain. In addition, the British management firm has registered two other funds from its GAIA (Global Alternative Investor Access) platform: the Schroder GAIA Opus Multi Strategy (multi-strategy) and Schroder GAIA QEP Global Absolute (market neutral global bonds). The Schroder GAIA Egerton European Equity had already been registered in Spain for several months (see Newsmanagers of 11 February).
05/11/2010

Jyske Invest liquidates four funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Jyske Invest International announced on 4 November that it will be liquidating four funds on 3 December. The products affected are the Jyske Invest Telecom Equities, IT Equities, BioTech/HealthCare Equities and British Equities.
05/11/2010

Retour en piste d’AMP avec Axa

Le gestionnaire d’actifs australien a repris ses discussions avec Axa quant à une éventuelle nouvelle offre sur la filiale asiatique de l’assureur français, Axa Asia Pacific, a annoncé vendredi la société cible, selon Reuters.
05/11/2010

Booz Allen fixe les conditions de son IPO

La société de conseil, détenue majoritairement par Carlyle, prévoit de céder 14 millions de titres à un prix unitaire compris entre 17 et 19 dollars. En milieu de fourchette, l’offre devrait permettre à Booz Allen de lever quelque 252 millions de dollars.
05/11/2010

BoA et BlackRock toujours partenaires

«Vous pouvez investir dans BlackRock et nous continuerons à être un partenaire stratégique pour un très long moment», a déclaré le directeur général de Bank of American, Brian Moynihan, au lendemain de l’annonce d’une cession de 34,5 millions de titres. Ce placement secondaire réduira la participation de BoA dans BlackRock de 33,9% à 12,6%.
05/11/2010

NYSE Euronext finalise une migration

L’opérateur boursier transatlantique a indiqué avoir achevé la migration de ses marchés cash et dérivés européens vers le centre de données de Basildon, au Royaume-Uni. Une opération similaire se poursuit aux Etats-Unis, avec le centre de Mahwah (New Jersey).
05/11/2010

FDR refinance la tour CB 21 pour 270 millions d'euros

Troisième refinancement pour la tour CB 21 située à la Défense. Bayern LB, DG Hyp, Berlin Hyp et LBB viennent d’arranger un financement à hauteur de 270 millions d’euros pour ce bâtiment loué aux deux tiers à Suez Environnement. En juillet 2009, FDR avait refinancé CB 21 pour 290 millions d’euros sur 5,5 années auprès de banques différentes.
05/11/2010

Man Group fait mieux que prévu

Le gestionnaire alternatif coté a dégagé au titre de son premier semestre, clos fin septembre, 227 millions de dollars de bénéfices avant impôts, 5,8% de mieux que ses prévisions de pré-clôture. Les actifs sous gestion ont grimpé à 40,5 milliards de dollars à fin septembre, contre 38,5 milliards trois mois plus tôt. Ces résultats ne prennent pas en compte GLG Partners, intégré depuis le 14 octobre.
05/11/2010

La baisse des impôts en Allemagne est toujours au menu

Le ministre allemand des finances, Rainer Brüderle, cité par le journal, souhaite toujours réduire le niveau des impôts d’ici 2013, même si la réduction du déficit budgétaire reste la priorité actuelle. Même si le but à court terme est de simplifier le système d’imposition, le potentiel de baisse des impôts dépendra in fine de l’ampleur de l’activité.
05/11/2010

Christine Lagarde craint de nouvelles pressions sur l’euro

La ministre de l’économie et des finances a estimé que la décision de la Fed de lancer un nouveau round d’assouplissement quantitatif de 600 milliards de dollars devrait mettre une pression supplémentaire sur la valeur de l’euro, selon le quotidien qui évoque un entretien. «L’euro supporte le poids de cette décision» a estimé Christine Lagarde.

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