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21/09/2010

Jefferies moves into futures

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Jefferies announced on 16 September that it has created a futures unit, and has appointed Patrice Blanc, former CEO of Newedge, as president of the unit.
21/09/2010

Some funds avoiding US government debt

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Wall Street Journal reports that Bill Gross, manager of the Pimco Total Return Fund (USD248bn), has reduced its exposure to US government bonds to 36% as of the end of August, from 63% at the end of June. Jeff Gundlach has reduced the allocation of the DoubleLine Core Fixed Income Fund to 36% as of the end of August, from 52% in July. Lastly, Dodge & Cox is short-selling futures on Treasuries from some of its bond portfolios. The Wall Street Journal adds that funds such as the Templeton Global Bond Fund and the Loomis Sayles Bond Fund, which have generally avoided Treasuries for some time, are finding better “opportunities” outside the United States.
21/09/2010

Alternative strategies stable in August

Alternative strategies made a small gain (+0.02%) in August, clearly outperforming the S&P index, according to the Edhec Institute. Similar to its situation in June, and despite the losses of convertible bonds and a shrinking credit spread (-0.85%), the Convertible Arbitrage strategy took advantage of the plummeting stock market to manage a positive return (+1.25%) for a third consecutive month. Despite the losses on the commodities market but along with regular bonds, the CTA Global strategy managed a significant gain (+3.04%), its best since last November.The poor performances of the stock market naturally impacted the equity-oriented strategies. After some comfortable gains in July, the Equity Market Neutral (-0.57%), Event-Driven (-0.29%) and Long/Short Equity (-0.96%) strategies all inevitably lost ground.Curiously enough, despite its reduced exposure to the stock market, the Equity Market Neutral strategy was not the best performing among them. Conversely, the Fixed-Income Arbitrage strategy managed a significant profit (+0.99%)
21/09/2010

Nomura registers a Sicav fund in Spain

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 17 September, the CNMV issued a registration for the Irish-domiciled Nomura Investment Solutions Plc, whose five sub-funds will be distributed in Spain by Allfunds Bank. The sub-funds are: Nomura Interest Rate Investment Strategy Fund, Nomura Interest Rate Investment Strategy Irisx4 Fund, Nomura AR CS Fund, Nomura Macro CPS Fund, and Nomura Macro Commodity Strategy Fund.
21/09/2010

Riva y García liquidates its fund of hedge funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The CNMV announced on 20 September that on 17 September it received notice of the liquidation of the fund of hedge funds Selección Alternativa from Riva y García Gestión, which had only 100 subscribers and assets of EUR6.35m as of the end of August.
21/09/2010

Jo Orgill (AIMA) joins Samsung Securities

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Asian Investor reports that the general manager of the Hong Kong offices of the International Alternative Management Association (AIMA), Jo Orgill, has left the professional organisation to join Samsung Securities, where she will develop the securities trading activities of the firm.
21/09/2010

Clariden Leu applies for a license in Hong Kong

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Asian Investor reports that Clariden Leu is planning to submit an application for a banking license in Hong Kong, which would allow it to participate in Renminbi markets. Other wealth managers such as Julius Baer have already taken steps in this direction. Two other Swiss banks, Pictet and BSI, have not ruled out making similar efforts. Clariden Leu may also set up a representative office in continental China.
21/09/2010

HSBC sells 80.1% of HSBC Private Equity (Asia)

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } HSBC Holdings announced on 17 September that it has sold an 80.1% stake in the capital of HSBC Private Equity (Asia) to the management of the firm. The management team, whose interests are embodied in the holding company Foci Holdings, will acquire a majority stake for USD18.8m; HSBC will retain only 19.9% of capital. Assets under management at HSBC Private Equity Asia total USD3.5bn. The transaction will be completed in fourth quarter 2010.
21/09/2010

Brussels to extend MiFID to bonds and derivatives

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Les Echos reports that the European Commission is planning to extend the application of the markets in financial instruments directive (MiFID), which currently applies only to equities markets. The rules may soon be extended to “bond markets, and particularly to derivative product markets,” the European commissioner for the internal market and financial services, Michel Barnier, announced in Brussels yesterday. The European Union, which is planning to increase responsibility for actors by “eliminating excessive risk-taking” and increasing investor protections, particularly for SMEs, is also seeking to guarantee fair competition between traditional and alternative platforms.
21/09/2010

Real estate arm of J.P. Morgan in Frankfurt to be led by Michael Ramm

J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets on 17 September announced that in addition to its new team in Paris (see Newsmanagers of 17 September), another team of experienced professionals will be recruited for its Frankfurt offices. The team will be led by Michael Ramm, co-head of acquisitions for the real estate arm of JPMAM.The real estate group has been present in Germany since 2005, and manages a portfolio of about 300,000 square metres.
21/09/2010

DAB launches Deutsche Bank ETF and ETC savings plans with no fees

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } From 20 September, the Munich-based direct bank DAB Bank will be offering a range of savings plans (at least EUR50 per month) linked to ETFs from db x-trackers and ETCs from db ETC, with no transaction fees. The fees will be covered by Deutsche Bank, who will rebate shareholders for fees paid. The renewable cooperation agreement will be initially valid for five years, and is valid for already active savings plans as well as those to be created in the future. The new collaboration brings the number of db x-trackers ETF funds on sale via DAB Bank to 59. The direct bank’s offer also for the first time includes seven db ETC products.
21/09/2010

Cullen goes on European offensive with two value funds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The US mutual funds Cullen North American High Dividend Value Equity Fund and Cullen Global High Dividend Value Equity Fund will be available in the UK and western Europe from 1 October, in a UCITS III-compliant form, domiciled in Dublin. The fund uses a value strategy, and will be available in Euros, pounds Sterling, and US dollars, to institutional, high net worth, and retail clients. Cullen Capital Management has assets of about USD10.5bn.
21/09/2010

Brevan Howard opens an office in São Paulo

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The British hedge fund management firm Brevan Howard (USD32bn in assets), listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), announced on 20 September that it has recruited the former deputy governor of the Bank of Brazil, Mário Mesquita, to head up a research office in São Paulo.
21/09/2010

Nicky Richards joins MLC

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } After leaving her job as group CIO for Fidelity International in London in March (see Newsmanagers of 12 March), Nicky Richards is now returning to Australia, where from 1 January 2011 she will officially become CIO of MLC, the wealth management division of National Australia Bank (NAB). MLC manages about AUD65bn in assets with 30 investment professionals. Richards will take over the position previously held by Susan Gosling, who held the role in addition to that of head of capital markets research, MLC stated on 20 September. In July, MLC recruited Michael Karagianis from UBS as investment strategist, and Stefano Cavaglia (formerly of UBS and PanAgora Asset Management) as alternatives portfolio manager.
21/09/2010

L&G Investments appoints a director

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Legal & General Investments has appointed Frank McGarry as director of sales, fundstraetgy reports. McGarry, who will take up his new position in October, was previously head of intermediated sales at Insight Investment. The firm has ambitions to become one of the top five providers of unit trusts in the United Kingdom.
21/09/2010

Head of international equities at SWIP resigns

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Fundstrategy reports that Colin Beveridge, investment director for international equities at SWIP (Scottish Widows Investment Partnership), has decided to leave the group from the end of September. The resignation follows the departure of his former boss, Ian Vose, who left SWIP in April this year to join Investec Asset Management.
21/09/2010

Société Générale Private Banking Hambros opens an office in Scotland

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Société Générale Private Banking Hambros has announced the opening of a new office in Edinburgh, Scotland. “The new office represents a first step in private banking in this territory, whose capital, Edinburgh, is a major crucible of wealth creation in the United Kingdom, and an ideal location for SGPB Hambros as part of its development of wealth management activities in the region,” a statement from the firm says. Scottish private clients will have access to SGPB Hambros’ expertise in the areas of wealth engineering and fiduciary services, investment solutions (in equities and bond stock picking, investment products, real estate offerings and access to capital markets), as well as a complete range of credit solutions. Mike Smith and Chris Thomson, who joined SGPB Hambros in 2008, will be in charge of the office, which is a part of Société Générale Private Banking’s regionalisation strategy in more mature markets, similar to the one it has recently deployed in France, with the opening of offices this year in Strasbourg and Rennes (see Newsmanagers of 20 May 2010).
21/09/2010

Charter Group creates a hedge fund administration affiliate

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } On 12 September, Charter group created the firm Charter Group Fund Administration Ltd (CGFA) in London, with Brian Taitz. The new entity will focus primarily on offshore funds managed by boutiques, but will also offer reporting service for performance attribution for more traditional funds. Taitz, the managing director of CGFA, previously created and led a fund administration firm in Sydney. The preparation of financial reports and technical aspects of accounting questions will be handled by Donné Sephton, who created DS Consulting in January 2007.
21/09/2010

Barclays Wealth launches profiled funds based on ETFs

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } With its new Global Markets range, Barclays Wealth is launching a range of five profiled OEIC portfolios, actively managed (for weighting), which invest primarily in ETFs, particularly products from iShares (BlackRock), and which are mainly aimed at IFA clients, while the management firm had previously focused primarily on private banking clients. The multi-asset class products will have a higher than average exposure to government bonds. The funds carry a front-end fee of 4%, and a management commission of 1%, of which 0.5% is a trail commission. Minimal subscription is GBP3,000.
21/09/2010

TCF launches four low cost profiled funds with decreasing fees

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } TCF Investment (the brand name of TCF Fund Managers) has announced the launch in mid-October of four Total Clarity funds, profiled products (Defensive Portfolio, Cautious Portfolio, Diversified Balanced Portfolio and Diversified Long-Term Growth Portfolio) whose TER is limited to 0.8%. This TER will be reduced gradually as assets increase, to finish at 0.6% when assets under management are over GBP1.5bn. TCF will pay no commissions to advisers, but will offer them the opportunity to invest in the funds. The products, which will carry no front-end or exit fees, will invest in a variety of low-cost vehicles, largely ETFs available in the UK. They may also invest in shares in institutional funds not available to retail investors, but not in hedge funds. Initially, the Total Clarity Funds will be available on the Axa Elevate, Ascentic, Macquarie, Novia, Standard Life Wrap, Suffolk Life, Transact, SIPP Centre, SIPP Deal and Raymond James platforms.
21/09/2010

New ETFs from iShares

The two new synthetic replication and over-collateralisation ETFs from iShares launched on the London Stock Exchaneg on Monday (see Newsmanagers of 20 September) are the iShares MSCI Russia Capped Swap ETF, which, as its name indicates, replicates the MSCI Russia Capped Index, and the iShares S&P CNX Nifty India Swap ETF, which does the same for the S&P CNX Nifty India index. The products are domiciled in Ireland.The Russia fund charges 0.75%; the India fund, 0.84%.
20/09/2010
Fonds

Source fait coter son premier ETF de hedge funds à Francfort

Depuis le 17 septembre, le segment XTF de la plate-forme électronique Xetra de la Deutsche Börse a accueilli son 703ème ETF avec le BofAML Hedge Fund Factor Euro Source ETF de Source. Ce fonds réplique l’indice de hedge funds ML Factor Model (EUR Adjusted) Index qui reflète la performance d’un portefeuille synthétique composé des valeurs les plus connues et les plus liquides du S&P 500, du Russell 2000, du MSCI EAFE et du MSCI Emerging Markets, avec des positions aussi bien longues que courtes, et une actualisation mensuelle. La composition du portefeuille se fonde sur des algorithmes de Merrill Lynch International pour répliquer le Hedge Fund Research Inc. Weighted Composite Index.Ce fonds est un produit de droit irlandais (IE00B3NY0D27) qui est coté depuis le 4 août sur le London Stock Exchange. Il est assorti d’une commission de gestion de 0,70 %.
Fonds
20/09/2010

LaSalle "équipe" sa société de gestion allemande

Au 1er septembre, Ulrich Nack, qui vient de TMW Property Investment GmbH, a rejoint laSalle Vermögensverwaltung GmbH, également à Munich, comme directeur général. La société prendra le nom de LaSalle Investment Management KAG lorsqu’elle aura reçu l’agrément de la BaFin (lire notre dépêche du 27 août). Il est prévu qu’elle gère des fonds immobiliers institutionnels.
20/09/2010
Fonds

La suisse PKB Privatbank rachète la banque Gesfid

La banque PKB Privatbank, présente à Lugano depuis 1969, a annoncé le 17 septembre qu’elle avait repris la totalité des actions de la banque Gesfid, spécialisée en gestion patrimoniale. Installée à Lugano depuis 25 ans, Gesfid appartenait à l’assureur italien Fondiaria-SAI qui n’avait pas d’autre implantation sur le sol suisse.Selon PKB, «l’achat de Gesfid constitue pour le groupe une excellente occasion de se développer en Suisse.» PKB Privatbank SA dispose de succursales à Bellinzone, Genève et Zurich. La banque spécialisée en gestion de fortune gère plus de 5 milliards de francs suisses et emploie quelque 180 personnes. Les actifs sous gestion de Gestid, qui emploie une soixantaine de personnes, s'élèvent à environ 1,7 milliard de francs.
Fonds
20/09/2010

La fondation Pictet finance un centre de recherche

L’Institut de hautes études internationales et de développement (IHEID), à Genève, va ouvrir à la rentrée 2011 un centre de recherche sur la finance et le développement. Ce centre sera financé par la Fondation Pictet pour le développement, ont indiqué vendredi plusieurs quotidiens suisses.Le nouveau centre a pour ambition d'établir Genève comme haut lieu d’expertise sur les problèmatiques liées à la finance et au développement, notamment en tirant parti de l’environnement local et national.
20/09/2010
Fonds

Collecte nette de 5 milliards d'euros pour les fonds Ucits en juillet

Les fonds au format Ucits ont dans leur ensemble enregistré une collecte nette de 5 milliards d’euros au mois de juillet, à comparer à une décollecte nette de 31 milliards d’euros en juin, selon les dernières statistiques communiquées par l’Association européenne de la gestion d’actifs (Efama).Une évolution liée aux résultats des tests de résistance meilleurs que prévu et aussi à un environnement économique plus favorable dans la zone euro. La collecte nette des fonds Ucits à long terme, c’est-à-dire hors fonds monétaires, s’est ainsi élevée à 16 milliards d’euros alors que le mois de juin s'était soldé par une décollecte de 100 millions d’euros. Les fonds obligataires ont drainé 9 milliards d’euros en net après une décollecte de 3,1 milliards en juin et les fonds actions 4,8 milliards d’euros après une décollecte de 1,7 milliard en juin. En revanche, les fonds monétaires ont encore perdu en juillet 10,8 milliards d’euros en net après 31,2 milliards un mois plus tôt.Les fonds dédiés ont continué de drainer des capitaux, avec une collecte nette de 7,3 milliards d’euros contre 11,6 milliards en juin. Même tendance du côté des fonds immobiliers qui affichent sur le mois une collecte de 1 milliard d’euros après 0,5 milliard en juin.
Fonds
20/09/2010

Elizabeth Corley (AGI Europe) prend la présidence de la FEAM

Dominique Carrel-Billiard, CEO d’Axa Investment Managers, cède à Elizabeth Corley, CEO d’Allianz Global Investors Europe (AGI) la présidence du Forum of European Asset Managers (FEAM). Il demeure vice-président de l’association. Robert Higgingbotham, président et CEO du pôle européen de Fidelity Europe, a été nommé également vice-président du FEAM.
20/09/2010
Fonds

Zone euro : progression de l'encours des OPCVM non monétaires en juillet

En juillet 2010, l’encours des parts émises par les OPCVM non monétaires de la zone euro a progressé de 47 milliards d’euros par rapport au mois précédent, selon les statistiques communiquées par la Banque centrale européenne (BCE). Cette augmentation résulte à parts quasiment égales d’une hausse de la valeur des parts et des émissions nettes.Les souscriptions de parts d’OPCVM non monétaires de la zone euro sont ressorties à 21 milliards d’euros en juillet 2010, tandis que les OPCVM monétaires ont enregistré des rachats à hauteur de 6 milliards d’euros. En ce qui concerne la ventilation par stratégies de placement, le rythme de progression annuel des parts émises par les fonds « obligations » s’est inscrit à 9,6% en juillet 2010. Les souscriptions nettes de parts émises par ces fonds se sont élevées à 10 milliards d’euros en juillet 2010. S’agissant des fonds «actions», le taux de croissance annuel est ressorti à 4% et les souscriptions nettes se sont inscrites à 4 milliards d’euros. Pour les fonds mixtes, le taux de croissance annuel a atteint 7,9% et les souscriptions nettes se sont établies à 6 milliards d’euros.
Fonds
20/09/2010

Nominations chez Newton IM

Newton Investment Management (BNY Mellon Asset Management) a annoncé un renforcement de son équipe de gestion des comptes et de vente des fonds communs de placement.Mark Hammond a ainsi rejoint Newton en qualité de team leader sur l’activité «institutional pooled funds». Par ailleurs, James Blake a été recruté en tant que account manager rattaché à Mark Hammond.Mark Hammond travaillait précédemment chez Fidelity alors que James Blake vient de passer trois années chez Axa Investment Managers.

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