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07/09/2010

ComStage lists two ETFs in Lisbon

NYSE Euronext has announced that it has admitted the ComStage ETF PSI 20 and ComStage ETF PSI 20 Leverage funds, both Luxembourg-registered funds from the ComStage affiliate of Commerzbank, to trading on Euronext Lisbon. Management commissions are set at 0.50% and 0.60%, respectively. With these two products, NYSE Euronext has 535 listings of 487 different funds based on over 300 indices. Since the beginning of the year, 48 new ETF funds have been admitted to trading on the European markets of NYSE Euronext.
07/09/2010

Only 27% of Portuguese funds show gains for the past 36 months

According to statistics from the APFIPP association of management firms, only 27% of the 211 Portuguese funds have posted positive results for the three years to the end of August. Four out of ten show average annual losses of over 5%. Diario Económico states that the best performance in the period under review belonged to the BPI Brasil fund (over 10% per year). Eight funds have posted annual gains of over 8%.
07/09/2010

Bryan Chen leaves Edram Hong Kong

The head of marketing for Asia at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management (EDRAM), Bryan Chen, left his job in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Asian Investor reports. Chen may join a sovereign fund or a private equity firm, a source cited by Asian Investor says.
07/09/2010

Gérald Mathieu joins Barclays Wealth

Wealthbriefing reports that Barclays Wealth has appointed Gérald Mathieu, a former UBS senior manager, as head of the front office in Monaco at Barclays Wealth International Private Bank. In the newly-created position, Mathieu will act as director and head of day-to-day operation oversight, including the management of private bankers. In his previous position, Mathieu worked in Paris at UBS Wealth Management France, as branch manager and managing director.
07/09/2010

Major growth in sustainable investment in German-speaking countries

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, assets in sustainable investments last year grew by 67% to a total of EUR38bn as of the end of December, of which EUR13bn (+68%) were in Germany, EUR2bn (+165%) in Austria, and EUR23bn (+63%) in Switzerland, according to the annual report of the Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen e.V. (FNG). However, the market share for sustainable investment now represents only 0.8% in Germany and 1.5% in Austria. In Switzerland, sustainable investments represent 3.5% of the total. Claudia Tober, a member of the board at FNG, says that in Germany and Austria, retail investors have gained ground on institutional investors, who nonetheless account for 84% of the market in Austria.
07/09/2010

Morgan Stanley P2 Value to reopen to redemptions

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investment GmbH is preparing to reopen redemptions from the open-ended real estate fund P2 Value. As the redemption freeze will end before the expiration of two years, the fund will not need to be liquidated, Handelsblatt reports. Walter Klug, one of the MDs of the asset management firm, estimates that after the revision of estimates for all properties in the portfolio, the fund may reopen with assets of EUR820-EUR870m, compared with EUR1.7bn as of the end of October 2008, when the redemption freeze was declared.
07/09/2010

DFH acquires Fürstenhof building in Frankfurt from Union

DFH Deutsche Fonds Honding has bought the Fürstenhof office and retail building (18,450 square metres), in the banking district of Frankfurt, for EUR126m from the open-ended real estate fund UniImmo: Deutschland, from Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE, German co-operative banks). The sale price of the property, leased in its near entirety to Commerzbank, corresponds to the most recent expert valuation, but is lower than the EUR129m paid by UIRE to Eurocastle Investment Limited in July 2008. Frank Billand, a member of the executive board at UIRE, says that the proceeds of the sale will be very quickly reinvested. Since the beginning of the year, UIRE has already dedicated EUR440m to the acquisition of office and retail properties in Germany.
07/09/2010

Wall Street Journal dubious of European bank stress tests

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday raised doubts about the results of stress tests undertaken of banks in the European Union, claiming that some risks the banks run had been underestimated. The tests “underestimated the amounts of potentially risky public debt held by some establishments, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis,” the New York newspaper writes, one and a half months after the publication of the results. The newspaper names the British bank Barclays and the French Crédit Agricole as among those for which it found a divergence of quarterly results and other financial documents on one hand, and results submitted for the stress tests on the other. “Crédit Agricole did not count the public debt held by its insurance affiliate,” the newspaper explains. The banks concerned have responded that they scrupulously followed the guidelines provided by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS).
07/09/2010

Egamo signs up to PRI

Egamo, the asset management firm created by MGEN, has signed up to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI),
07/09/2010

Two former Sal. Oppenheim heads join Métropole Gestion

According to information obtained by Newsmanagers, François Carlotti and Bruno Zaraya, who were previously chairman of the board and head of development at Sal. Oppenheim France, respectively, have joined Métropole Gestion.
07/09/2010

Invesco adds to product range in Italy

Invesco is adding to its product range in Italy with 11 new sub-funds and 10 coupon distribution solutions, Bluerating reports. Six of the new sub-funds belong to the Morgan Stanley range acquired by Invesco.
07/09/2010

Gartmore hands out shares to top management

The Telegraph reports that Gartmore has granted 3.5% of capital in the firm to a group of top management personnel, with the objective of encouraging them to remain at the firm. At share prices as of the close of trading on Friday, the operation represented about GBP13.5m. The newspaper reports that the board at Gartmore is planning to extend the operation to other staff. The remunerations committee is said to have considered the question. Gartmore has also held meetings with its clients to reassure them about the direction of activities at Gartmore, whose shares have lost more than 40% of their value since their IPO last December. An advertising campaign will also be launched later this autumn.
07/09/2010

GLG adds to emerging markets team

GLG Partners has hired Mark Diab for its emerging markets team. He joins from Amwal, a Qatari investment bank, where he was a managing director responsible for its equity asset management division.
07/09/2010

Stenham acquires Montier Partners

The British management firm Stenham Asset Management announced on 6 September that it has made a significant addition to its firepower with the acquisition of Montier Partners, a provider of discretionary investment solutions. The operation was completed on 1 September. Dominique Montier, founder of Montier Partners, and Jeremy Alun-Jones, CIO of Montier Partners, will join the investment committee at Stenham, which will now include nine investment professionals. The remainder of the team at Montier joining Stenham includes two senior analysts and four professionals specialised in client services and development. Assets under management at Montier Partners total over USD400m, bringing total assets under management at Stenham to USD3.5bn.
07/09/2010

Henderson adds to credit team

Henderson Global Investors has recruited Andrew Griffiths to the position of analyst for its credit team. He will report to Stephen Thariyan, director of credit at HGI. Griffiths previously served as senior credit analyst at Insight Investment.
07/09/2010

Two trusts turn backs on Gartmore

The board of one of Gartmore’s investment trusts, Gartmore Growth Opportunities, has taken steps towards severing ties with the group after one of its fund managers, Gervais Williams, quit, writes the Financial Times. Gartmore Irish Growth is also considering issuing a notice of termination to the fund manager. Both trusts account for a total of more than GBP100m of assets, adds the newspaper.
07/09/2010

Threadneedle launches an absolute return fund

The range of absolute return funds from Threadneedle (GBP1.9bn in assets as of the end of June) has been enlarged with the addition of the UK Absolute Alpha Fund, which is managed by Mark Westwood and Chris Kinder, who have previous experience in long/short management. It is a UCITS-compliant fund, which will replicate the formula already used for Cayman Islands-domiciled funds in a UCITS III-compliant environment, in a manner similar to the Threadneedle Enhanced Commodities Fund (TECF) and the Threadneedle (Lux) American Absolute Alpha Fund (see Newsmanagers of 1 July and 25 June, respectively).
07/09/2010

M&G launches a retail inflation-linked corporate bond fund

According to M&G Investments, the M&G UK Inflation Linked Corporate Bond Fund, which will be launched on 16 September in the United Kingdom, will be the first fund of inflation-linked corporate bonds to be offered on the British retail market. The fund will be jointly managed by Jim Leavies, head of the retail fixed income team at M&G, and Ben Lord, fund manager. The new product will invest in inflation-linked corporate bonds issued by British large caps, FRN, and a range of assets which will include government bonds and derivatives whose performance evolves in a manner similar to that of inflation-linked bonds. M&G is aiming for returns similar to the increase in the consumer price index (CPI) over the mid- to long-term. Front-end fees are set at 3%, and management commission for A-type shares in pounds Sterling will total 1%. Minimal initial subscription will total GBP500, or GBP10 per month for savings plans.
07/09/2010

Henderson launches a hedge fund focusing on soft commodity markets

Henderson Global Investors (HGI) has announced the launch of the Henderson Agricultural Fund, a hedge fund domiciled offshore, on 1 September. The fund is co-managed by Attunga Capital Pty Ltd., a firm based in Australia, in which Henderson Group, the parent company of HGI, holds a minority share. The Henderson Agricultural Fund will be released to institutional investors. It will focus on relative value alternative strategies, and will exploit price anomalies between futures and options on derivative and soft commodity markets. The fund will also invest directly in agricultural commodities.
07/09/2010

Ampega Gerling launches a diversified fund using ETFs and ETCs

Ampega Gerling in 1 September launched the Lacore All Assets AMI fund, a diversified fund which is aimed primarily at institutional investors, and which is managed by Kohlhase & Stöwer Asset Management. The product will invest primarily in indices and commodities via ETFs and ETCs. For institutional-class shares (at least EUR100,000), Ampega Gerling will charge no front-end or exit fees. Characteristics Name: Lacore All Assets AMI ISIN: DE000A0YAYC4 Front-end fee: 3% (currently 0%) Management commission: maximum 1.4% (currently 0.80%)
07/09/2010

Modest gains for HFRX index in August

Hedge funds posted modest gains in the month of August, as the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index posted a gain of 0.17% for the month, bringing its performance since the start of the year to 0.18%. The best strategy of the month was macro, with gains of 1.45%, reducing its losses since the beginning of the year to 1.53%. Event-driven strategies advanced 0.43% for the month, putting their performance in the first eight months of the year at -0.27%.
07/09/2010

South Africa sets up a code for responsible investment

Responsible Investor reports that a working group chaired by John Oliphant, chief investment officer of the pension fund for South African government employees, which manages about EUR75.4bn, has unveiled a responsible investment code for institutional investors. The eight-page document aims to articulate the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) and to ensure that environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are treated to an “apply or explain” approach. The document is open to consultation until the end of October.
06/09/2010
Fonds

Les sauvetages de fonds monétaires devraient se faire plus rares

Selon les calculs de Moody’s, rapportés par le Financial Times, pendant la crise financière de 2007-2009, 62 fonds monétaires ont été renfloués par leurs promoteurs pour un coût total d’au moins 12,1 milliards de dollars. Même avant la crise, les sauvetages de ce type n’étaient pas inhabituels. Mais, pour Moody’s, les sociétés gérant des fonds monétaires pourraient bien désormais ne plus avoir les moyens de voler au secours des investisseurs.
Fonds
06/09/2010
Fonds

Credit Suisse prépare des ETF de troisième génération

Dan Draper, patron mondial des ETF chez Credit Suisse, annonce la commercialisation prochaine en Allemagne d’ETF de troisième génération, qui allieront les avantages de la réplication synthétique à la transparence de la réplication physique, rapporte la Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.La banque ne peut certes éliminer le risque de défaut de la contrepartie d’un swap, mais elle entend rendre le montage plus compréhensible pour les investisseurs particuliers.La composition du panier d’actions sous-jacent sera publiée quotidiennement sur le site Internet. Cela ne change rien au risque, mais le souscripteur sait au moins ce qu’il a vraiment dans son portefeuille.
Fonds
06/09/2010
Fonds

Minerva lance un ETI sur un échantillon de valeurs autrichiennes

La Fondsbörse Hamburg admet à la négociation ce lundi 6 septembre les parts du nouveau BE Dynamic Fund (LI0113711308), un exchange traded investment (ETI) de la société de gestion liechtensteinoise Minerva Investments. Ce produit bénéficiant d’un agrément de commercialisation en Autriche et en Allemagne se concentrera principalement (au moins à 70 %) sur les 5 à 8 actions les plus prometteuses cotées à la Bourse de Vienne ensuivant à 75 % au moins celles du portefeuille modèle de Styria Börse Express, a indiqué Andreas Wölfl, directeur général de Minerva et gérant initial du fonds.Le nouvel ETI est un compartiment du véhicule «Minerva Structured Investments». Durant la première semaine (6-10 septembre) les parts seront traitées à Hambourg avec un «hot spread» maximal de 50 points de base, ce qui permettra aux investisseurs d'économiser le droit d’entrée.Par ailleurs, Andreas Wölfl a annoncé dans un communiqué boursier que chacun des investissements sera commenté sous un délai très court par le gestionnaire sur le site Internet autrichien Börse Express, un reporting hedbdomadaire étant par ailleurs prévu à l’adresse http://www.be24.at.Les ETI sont des fonds dont les parts sont cotées en Bourse mais qui ne sont pas coordonnés, ce qui leur permet d'être investis en produits alternatifs et de ne pas être assujettis en permanence aux normes de diversification des risques ; les ETI peuvent également utiliser l’effet de levier. Le prospectus est établi en conformité avec la directive européenne.
Fonds
06/09/2010

eFonds élargit son offre à des produits Deutsche Bank

Le prestataire de services financiers eFonds Group, contrôlé entre autres à 27,98 % chacun par MPC Capital et HCI Capital, a annoncé qu’il propose depuis le 1er septembre des produits de valeurs mobilières provenant de Deutsche Bank Privat Wealth Management ainsi que des plans de prévoyance retraite et des contrats Riester du gestionnaire de fonds DWS Investments (également du groupe Deutsche Bank).Cela vient étoffer l’offre de la plate-forme All Round Finance d’eFonds qui propose déjà à ses quelque 2.500 CGPI adhérents des produits et solutions de l’Augsburger Aktienbank, de CortalConsors, d’eBase et de la DAB Bank.
06/09/2010

RREEF recentre ses activités en Asie

Après quelque dix-mois difficiles, l’entité de gestion alternative de Deutsche Bank Asset Management, RREEF, repart à l’offensive en Asie selon de nouvelles modalités.Selon Asian Investor, les investissements seront désormais concentrés dans la sphère immobilière et seulement sur quatre grands marchés : l’Australie, la Chine, le Japon et la Corée du Sud.Dans cette perspective, la société a nommé deux responsables pays supplémentaires par le biais de promotions internes. Mark Cho prend la responsabilité des activités en Chine, une fonction nouvelle auparavant distribuée entre plusieurs senior managers. Mark Cho était précédemment chief operating officer (COO) pour la zone Asie-Pacifique. De son côté, Terry Hwang, précédemment responsable des acquisitions en Corée, devient responsable pays pour la Corée du Sud.
06/09/2010

Merrill Lynch perd son patron de la gestion de fortune pour l'Asie

Le patron de la gestion de fortune de Merrill Lynch pour la zone Asie-Pacifique, Antony Hung, a présenté sa démission, selon Wealthbriefing. Après dix-huit ans au sein de Merrill, Antony Hung souhaite poursuivre d’autres intérêts professionnels.Wilson Ho, responsable de la gestion de Bank of America pour l’Asie du nord, devrait assurer l’intérim en attendant la nomination d’un successeur officiel.

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