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16/09/2010

Intervention in Japanese Yen market caught hedge funds off guard

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The intervention of the Bank of Japan on Wednesday to weaken the Yen (which fell 3%) was a hard hit for hedge fund specialists in fast-trading who had accumulated profits through betting on rises in the Japanese currency, the Wall Street Journal reports. John Taylor at FX Concepts (USD7.8bn), for example, has stated that several funds from his firm lost about 2% on Wednesday. According to financial industry sources, Aspect Capital and Winton Capital Management, among others, were also affected.
16/09/2010

Feri Family Trust recruits a director from Merck Finck

On 15 September, Feri Finance Group announced that it has recruited Wilfried Hoffmann as director of the activities fo Feri Family Trust (which manages the assets of 250 families) for southern Germany. Hoffmann has spent more than six years as head of Merck Finck Treuhand. Merck Finck & Co was acquired in May by the Indien Hinduja group when the latter bought KBL European Private Bankers.
16/09/2010

IC Immobilien acquires Property One

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } IC Immobilien Holoding (EUR5bn in assets under management) has acquired PropertyOne (EUR2.8bn), financing the acquisition through a capital increase via an injection of capital. The merged entity will become a new firm, IC PropertyOne Asset und Real Estate Management GmbH, with assets of EUR7.8bn, according to a statement to the market dated 15 September. The business will have total staff of about 7,000, and the total area of properties will add up to about 3.7 million square metres, including about 700 properties. Shareholders in PropertyOne will control about 7% of the new entity, including a 4.8% stake for the US private equity investor Cerberus. The objective of IC Immobilien is to reach EUR10bn in assets under management by the end of 2011.
16/09/2010

Jupiter recruits for Munich office

Jupiter is expanding its continental Europe sales team in Munich, Germany, to facilitate the company’s continued sales drive in the German, Swiss and Austrian markets. The office, managed by Martina Guenzl, sales director, Europe, will soon be joined by Daniel Blum, sales manager, Europe, who has worked for Jupiter since September 2005, and a dedicated sales support assistant.The local office has been expanded to address the growing demand for Jupiter’s funds from professional buyers including private banks, fund of funds, family offices and wealth managers, says a press release.
16/09/2010

Banque Sarasin planning to issue its first bonds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } In a statement published on 15 September, Banque Sarasin announced that it is planning to exploit the current favourable prevailing conditions on the Swiss capital market with a mid-term bond issue, in order to “diversify financing strategy.” Banque Sarasin has mandated UBS to manage the issue.
16/09/2010

Banque Sarasin extends product range aimed at high net worth private clients

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Banque Sarasin announced on 15 September that it has added to its range of offerings for high net worth private clients, with the launch of the Private Solutions brand, which provides global wealth management advising and sophisticated solutions for the needs of non-bankable assets such as real estate properties, participations in private companies, intellectual property and lifestyle assets. The range is aimed to respond first and foremost to fundamental neets in relation to non-bankable assets, such as generating liquidity, improving returns, and reducing risk. Bankable assets, i.e. cash, securities, and precious metals, generally represent only a fraction of the total wealth of European high net worth clients. Most of the assets are located outside the world of banking, and are in principle declared in the country of domicile of the owner of the assets at book value. Real estate properties, stakes in private companies, intellectual property and lifestyle assets are a part of this largely unexploited and attractive realm of assets, the bank says in a statement.
16/09/2010

Citi Private Bank appoints a head of managed investments

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Asian Investor reports that Citi Private Bank has recruited Roger Bacon, previously at Union Bancaire Privée, as head of managed investments (MI) and advising for the Asia-Pacific region. In this newly-created position, Bacon will be in charge of sales of MI products, sales, and development of custom portfolios as well as administration of MI products. Bacon will report to Debashish Dutta Gupta, head of investments in the Asia-Pacific region.
16/09/2010

Capital Investments chief pleads guilty

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Nevin Shapiro, the former owner and CEO of Capital Investments USA, has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and money-laundering, over charges that he orchestrated a USD880m Ponzi scheme related to his grocery wholesale business, the Wall Street Journal reports. Shapiro admits that the fraud damaged 50 investors, who lost a total of USD50m to USD100m. A verdict in the case will be delivered on 4 January.
16/09/2010

CIC and Exim Bank invest in infrastructure via private equity

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Agefi reports that Export-Import Bank of China and the Chinese sovereign fund CIC have invested USD300m each in a fund which will finance projects in energy and infrastructure in South-East Asia. The fund will have USD10bn in assets in eight years’ time.
16/09/2010

Frankie Lee leaves Henderson

Frankie Lee has decided to leave Henderson to join another asset manager based in Hong Kong. He has been managing the USD355 million Henderson HF Asia-Pacific Property Equities Fund since 2008. Henderson is currently in the market to hire an equal replacement for Frankie Lee but until it has done so, Patrick Sumner, head of property equities, will be responsible for the management for the USD800 million Asian property equities assets the asset manager manages on behalf of its clients on a segregated and pooled basis, including the Henderson HF Asia-Pacific Property Equities Fund. In addition, to ensure the smooth management and running of the Fund and to assist in finding a replacement Patrick Sumner will move to Singapore in October until such a time as Henderson feel is appropriate following the recruitment of a replacement, says Henderson. Frankie Lee will continue his involvement in the fund until his day of departure on the 1st of December 2010 or until his replacement arrives.
16/09/2010

Pimco reduces exposure to US government bonds

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } For the second consecutive month, Pacific Investment Management Co (Pimco, Allianz group) has reduced its allocation to US government debt, as returns on Treasuries has fallen to historic all-time lows, the Wall Street Journal reports. US public debt in the portfolio of the Pimco Total Return Fund (USD247.9bn), managed by Bill Gross, were down to 36% as of the end of August, compared with 54% in July, and 63% in June, while mortgage-backed securities (MBS) totalled 21%, compared with 18% in July and 16% in June.
16/09/2010

CamGestion plans growth abroad

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } CamGestion, an affiliate of BNP Paribas which changed its name slightly over one year ago, is planning to develop abroad, particularly in Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Benelux. The wealth management specialist of the BNP Paribas Investment Partners group has seen inflows of about EUR500m since the beginning of the year, following EUR2.6bn in inflows in 2009. Assets as of 31 March totalled EUR12.6bn.
16/09/2010

Premier AM offers a multi-asset class strategy

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Premier Asset Management, whose assets under management total about GBP2.5bn, has launched a multi-asset class portfolio, which includes five funds, UK Money Market, Conservative Growth, Multi-Asset Distribution, Multi-Asset Growth and Enterprise Funds, which offer several ways to invest in money markets, equities, fixed income, structured products and real estate.
16/09/2010

Simon Somerville to co-manage Jupiter Global Managed Fund

Jupiter Asset Management has announced that Simon Somerville has been appointed deputy manager of the Jupiter Global Managed Fund. The GBP275m fund covers a broad spectrum of global markets and sectors with individual stocks selected by eight of Jupiter’s regional managers including Cedric de Fonclare, manager of the Jupiter European Special Situations Fund, Derek Pound, co-manager of the Jupiter Primadona Investment Trust, Sebastian Radcliffe, manager of the Jupiter North American Income Fund and Ben Surtees, manager of the Jupiter Asian Fund,. Overall asset allocation is set by John Chatfeild-Roberts, who has lead-managed the fund since November 2001.
16/09/2010

Axa finalises sale of part of its UK life, savings, and retirement activities

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Axa announced on 15 September that it has finalised its sale of the following activities based in the United Kingdom: traditional life insurance and retirement; collective retirement planning and pensions distributed by independent financial advisers; and annuities, all for an overall sale price of GBP2.75bn (about EUR3.3bn). The amount received in cash by the group is EUR1.7bn, the group says in a statement. “The operation is a key element in our strategy to better optimise the allocation of capital within the group, while concentrating on higher growth and profit operations on the British life insurance, savings, and retirement market,” Denis Duverne, the deputy CEO of Axa says in a statement.
16/09/2010

F&C rebrands funds following merger with Thames River

F&C Investments is rebranding its UK retail range to Thames River following the merger of the two companies, writes Money Marketing. The fund manager is going to retain the F&C brand for the UK institutional side and switch to F&C Thames River in the rest of Europe.
16/09/2010

Schroders adds to international equities team

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Sam Catalano, who was head of the equities research team specialised in metals and mining in Europe for Macquarie in London, has joined the global equities team at Schroders, led by Virgini Maisonneuve, head of global and international equities, as a portfolio manager specialised in the global materials sector. Giles Money, a recent university graduate, has also been recruited as a portfolio manager and analyst specialised in climate change. He will report to Simon Webber, co-manager of the Schroder Global Climate Change Fund.
16/09/2010

Chris McGolpin joins Schroders

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Chris McGolpin, associate director of KPMG in the United Kingdom, has joined Schroders as head of client service & business management for institutional activities. The position is newly-created. McGolpin will report directly to Miles O’Connor, head of UK institutional.
15/09/2010

Axa Private Equity s'intéresse à nouveau au secteur des infrastructures

Axa Private Equity, la filiale de capital-investissement de l’assureur français, vient de lancer la levée d’un nouveau véhicule pour son activité «infrastructure» dont l’objectif est de collecter plus de 1 milliard d’euros, en majorité auprès d’investisseurs extérieurs, rapporte la Tribune. Cette somme sera destinée à être investie au capital de sociétés en charge de la gestion d’infrastructures, comme les autoroutes, les hôpitaux ou les réseaux de distribution d’eau potable.
15/09/2010

Credit Suisse AM prend une participation minoritaire dans York Capital

La division Asset Management du Credit Suisse a pris une participation minoritaire dans York Capital Management, une société de gestion alternative basée à New York. York continuera d’agir de manière indépendante à l’avenir, sous la direction du CEO et fondateur Jamie Dinan, de Dan Schwartz, Chief Investment Officer, a indiqué le groupe suisse le 14 septembre dans un communiqué.Aux termes du contrat, Credit Suisse versera un paiement initial de 425 millions de dollars pour la prise de participation minoritaire. Par la suite, des versements dépendants des performances et de l’engagement à long terme du management seront effectués durant les cinq prochaines années. L’acquisition concerne une participation minoritaire dans la société de management et non un investissement dans les fonds de York, précise Credit Suisse. Cette participation constitue un nouveau pas important dans la stratégie de croissance de la division Asset Management et permettra à la banque d’occuper une position dominante dans le secteur des instruments alternatifs globaux, selon le CEO de la division Rob Shafir, cité dans le communiqué. Fondé en 1991, York Capital gère environ 14 milliards de dollars d’actifs.
15/09/2010

Un nouveau conseiller senior pour JP Morgan en Suisse

Selon L’Agefi suisse, Romain Pasche rejoint la banque privée de JP Morgan en Suisse en tant que senior investment advisor. Basé à Zurich, il travaillera en relation avec Kristoffer Jonsson, le responsable des investissements de la banque privée et Andrea Tardy, responsable pays pour la Suisse. Romain Pasche a auparavant dirigé la recherche actions globales chez Vontobel Asset Management, où il a également été responsable du secteur de la santé.
15/09/2010
Fonds

UBS lance un ETF sur le platine physique

Depuis le 10 septembre, la Bourse suisse (SIX) cote en francs suisses et en dollars l’UBS Index Solutions Platinum ETF, un produit de droit helvétique qui investit exclusivement en platine physique sous forme de lingots d’au moins 1 kilo et d’au maximum 6 kilos qui sont stockés dans des coffres de l’UBS en Suisse. La commission de gestion est de 0,50 % pour les parts A et de 0,35 % pour les parts I.Parallèlement UBS Index Solutions a aussi fait admettre à la négociation les parts A et I du CMCI Oil ETF (CHF) SF dont le sous-jacent est le CMCI WTI Crude Oil hedged CHF Total Return. La commission de gestion ressort à 0,45 % pour les parts A et à 0,26 % pour les parts I.
Fonds
15/09/2010
Fonds

Avec cinq fonds Amundi, Francfort cote plus de 700 ETF

La Deutsche Börse a indiqué le 14 septembre avoir admis à la négociation sur le segment XTF de sa plate-forme électronique Xetra cinq ETF de droit français d’Amundi, ce qui porte à 702 le nombre d’ETF cotés à Francfort.Les produits nouvellement traités sont les Amundi ETF ex AAA Govt Bond EuroMTS, CAC 40, S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 et EURO STOXX Small Cap. De la sorte, 63 ETF d’Amundi sont cotés à Francfort.
Fonds
15/09/2010

DBAG affiche un bénéfice net

Pour le troisième trimestre (au 31 juillet), le bénéfice net du capital-investisseur Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) est ressorti à 4 millions d’euros contre 12,1 millions pour la période correspondante de 2008-2009. Toutefois, pour les trois premiers trimestres de l’exercice au 31 octobre, il ressort à 21,7 millions d’euros contre une perte de 0,3 million pour la période correspondante de 2008-2009, a indiqué la société le 14 septembre.La DBAG dispose actuellement de plus de 150 millions d’euros de liquidités ainsi que de 240 millions mobilisables rapidement à partir de son fonds parallèle.Sous réserve que l’environnement ne se détériore pas sensiblement d’ici à fin octobre, le capital-investisseur compte terminer l’exercice avec un rendement des fonds propres supérieur au coût de ces fonds propres.
15/09/2010

Arques va augmenter son capital de moitié

Par un avis boursier, le capital-investisseur Arques Industries a annoncé le 14 septembre son intention d’augmenter son capital de moitié par l'émission en numéraire de près de 13,22 millions d’actions au porteur sur la base de 1,10 euro par titre. En clôture sur Xetra, Arques cotait mardi 1,92 euro (- 5,42 %).

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