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02/07/2010
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La collecte du private equity est tombée à l'étiage au deuxième trimestre

Avec 41,3 milliards de dollars levés grâce au bouclage définitif de 82 fonds, le secteur mondial du private equity a enregistré au deuxième trimestre 2010 sa collecte la plus faible depuis 2003, selon Preqin. Le sondage de juin montre que 76 % des investisseurs ont simplement l’intention de maintenir leur allocation du private equity pour les douze prochains mois.
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02/07/2010

Allianz constitue AGI Capital

Les trois sociétés de gestion NFJ Investment Group, Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management et Oppenheimer Capital sont désormais fondues en une seule entité qui prend le nom d’Allianz Global Investors Capital, avec un encours «unifié» de 48 milliard de dollars. Pimco conserve en revanche son identité.Cela posé, les stratégies mises en œuvre par Nicholas-Applegate et Oppenheimer seront «rebrandées» AGI Capital tandis que le nouvel ensemble conservera la marque NFJ pour les actions value gérées à Dallas.Marna Whittington et Horacio Valeiras sont respectivement CEO et CIO d’AGI Capital, dont le management board comprend également Barbara Claussen, Ben Fischer et Geoff Mullen.
02/07/2010

Allianz creates AGI Capital

The three asset management firms NFJ Investment Group, Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management and Oppenheimer Capital have now been merged into a single entity, which will be known as Allianz Global Investors Capital, with “unified” assets of USD48bn. Pimco will, however, retain its identity. The strategies pursued by Nicholas-Applegate and Oppenheimer will be “rebranded” as AGI Capital, while the new merged entity will retain the NFJ brand for value equities managed in Dallas, Texas. Marna Whittington and Horatio Valerias will serve as CEO and CIO of AGI Capital, respectively. The board also includes Barbara Claussen, Ben Fischer and Geoff Mullen.
02/07/2010

US firm Gramercy recruits two former JP Morgan managers

The US management boutique Gramercy, a specialist in emerging markets, has announced the recruitment of Jeffrey Grills and Gunter Heiland, both formerly of JP Morgan AM, to launch new strategies focused on emerging market debt. The two new recruits, who previously were co-heads of the emerging markets team at JP Morgan AM, and who managed as much as USD12bn, yesterday launched three funds focused on emerging markets. The first of these is focused on US dollar government debts in emerging markets; the second, on emerging market debt in local currencies; and the third on corporate debt from the same markets. Assets under management at Gramercy total USD2.6bn.
02/07/2010

Morningstar France finalises acquisition of Seeds Group

Morningstar France Holding on 1 July announced that it has finalised its previously announced acquisition of Seeds group, a financial investment advising and research firm specialised in French OPCVM funds. The acquisition price has not been disclosed. Seeds Finance, an affiliate of Seeds Group, provides investment advising to institutional investors, management firms, and banks. In addition to investment advising, Seeds Group also operates Multiratings.com, a website providing analysis of mutual funds and financial training to independent financial advisers and institutional investors.
02/07/2010

Spanish government hopes to convince Pimco to invest in its bonds

José Manuel Campa, Spanish secretary of state for the economy, on Monday held a meeting with “some of the main investors” in his government (banks, fund managers, and hedge funds) to explain to them “the reality of the Spanish economic situation, and to attempt to dispel the unfounded negative sentiment which is currently prevailing,” Expansión reports. On Thursday, the day after meeting the New York Times, Bloomberg, and the Financial Times in New York, he was to meet heads at Pimco, including Bill Gross, who manages the largest bond fund in the world, with USD464bn in assets. Gross has been one of the charpest critics of Spain in recent months.
02/07/2010

Duet launches a commodities hedge fund

Duet Asset Management, the USD2.3bn London-based alternative asset manager, is raising money for a new hedge fund to be headed by two of the world’s most senior commodities traders. The firm has hired Tony Hall, who worked at Credit Suisse-Glencore, and Arno Pilz, from UBS and Lehman Brothers, to manage the new Duet Commodities Fund.
02/07/2010

Net inflows in May at their lowest in 18 months

The recent turbulence on the markets has left its mark on funds. According to statistics from the British investment management association (IMA), net inflows in May fell below GBP1bn, to GBP948m, down 56% from April. This is the first time since November 2008 (18 months previously) that this variable has fallen below the GBP1bn mark. In May 2009, net inflows totalled GBP2.84bn. Assets under management as of the end of May totalled GBP492.6bn, down 3.5% from their peak in April (GBP510.6bn), but up 25% compared with their levels in May 2009. The most popular sector was absolute returns, with net inflows of GBP181m. This category, introduced in April 2008, has been in the top fifth of all strategies in 21 months out of 26. Distribution platforms have increased their market share to 39%, an increase of 1% compared with April, and 5% compared with January.
02/07/2010

New Star European Growth fund made part of Henderson Horizon and changes names

Henderson Plc on Thursday, 1 July announced that it the Irish-registered OEIC fund New Star European Growth has been integrated into the Luxembourg Sicav Henderson Horizon, as of 18 June. The fund will now be known as the Henderson Horizon European Growth Fund. The mutual fund, managed by Richard Pease and Simon Rowe, has assets of EUR84.2m. The operation follows the acquisition of New Star Asset Management by the Henderson Plc group in 2009. Characteristics Name: Henderson Horizon European Growth Fund Structure of the fund: Complex UCITS III SICAV Currency of the fund: EUR Minimal subscription: EUR2,500 or USD2,500 for retail share class Front-end fee: Maximum 5% Management commission: 1.75%
02/07/2010

DJE Kapital enlarges board

Six months after the appointment to the managing board of Jan Ehrhardt, head of research and portoflio design activities, and son of founder Jens Ehrhardt, DJE Kapital on Thursday announced that Ulrich Kaffarnik and Peter Schmitz have been promoted to become members of the board. Kaffarnik will be head of investment funds, institutional and retail clients, while retaining his position as head of the Luxembourg affiliate DJE Investment. Schmitz, an economist, will become head of finance, administration, and service center. With Eberhard Winberger, the board includes five members.
02/07/2010

JPMAM focuses on insurers

Dirk Popielas, co-head of the pensions & insurance advisory group at the JP Morgan investment bank, has been appointed as head of insurance solutions for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region at JPMorgan Asset Management. Popielas will be based in Frankfurt, and will report directly to Jamie Broderick, CEO of JPMAM for Europe, who is based in London.
02/07/2010

LaSalle IM recruits a manager from ING REIM

Kai Brunko has left ING Real Estate Investment Management Germany, to take on the newly-created position of asset manager for the retail sector at LaSalle Investment Management in Munich, from 1 July.
02/07/2010

Credit Suisse adds to ETF team

The head of institutional distribution at ComStage ETF (Commerzbank), Levente Kulcsar, on 1 July became director and head of ETF activities for Germany and Austria at Credit Suisse. Meanwhile, Annabelle Wegner is leaving RBS/ABN Amro, where she worked in the structured products team, to join the ETF division of Credit Suisse. ETF assets at Credit Suisse represent CHF12bn, or EUR8.4bn. The ETF product range from Credit Suisse currently includes 31 funds with a sales license in Germany.
02/07/2010

Traditional managers look to hedge fund managers

Benjamin Phillips a partner at the New York firm Casey & Quirk & Associates, says traditional asset managers are looking for simple ways to bank profits, independently of the prevailing trends on equities and bond markets, Handelsblatt reports. Kevin Packenham, CEO of Jefferies in London, says that more than half of the 41 mergers and acquisitions this year (January-May) involved alternative managers. Jamie Broderick, CEO of JPMorgan AM for Europe, also in attendance at the Monaco Fund Forum, predicts that the number of transactions will increase, as banks and insurers are seeking to unload their asset management affiliates, and may now be able to do so at a more attractive price than last year. Kevin Pakenham estimates that the number of deals in 2010 will not rival the 140 deals signed last year, but Martin Gilbert, head of Aberdeen, thinks this number will be exceeded.
02/07/2010

Fitch confirms Asset Manager rating of M1 for Alcentra

The Fitch Ratings agency on 1 July announced that it is confirming its Asset Manager rating of M1 for the management firm Alcentra (Bank of New York Mellon) for its European management activities. The decision reflects the stable track record of activities at Alcentra (CLO), and efforts at diversification which have been embarked on, into areas including special situations and structured funds.
02/07/2010

PGGM seeking a manager for responsible equities portfolio

The Dutch pension fund PGGM, which manages about EUR80bn in assets, is seeking a senior manager or director of investments for its portfolio of responsible equities, Responsible Investor reports. The team which manages the fund already has nine members. PGGM, which dedicated EUR1bn to this strategy in 2008, would like to increase assets in the fund to EUR2.2bn during 2010. PGGM has also announced that it has decided to exclude the Indian mining firm Vedanta Resources from its investment portfolio.
02/07/2010

Commerzbank sells two affiliates to RHJ

On Thursday evening, Commerzbank announced that it has sold its Kleinwort Benson activities to the private equity investor RHJ International. These include the wealth and fiduciary management firms Channel Islands Holdings Limited and Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited. Their assets in wealth management as of the end of 2009 totalled GBP5.6bn (EUR6.3bn); the firms have about 600 employees.
02/07/2010

Omam fires head of UK retail sales

Fund Strategy reports that Old Mutual Asset Managers (Omam) has dismissed Mark Allpress, head of UK retail sales, in a reorganisation of the firm. As of 30 April this year, assets under management at Omam totalled GBP4.4bn.
02/07/2010

Threadneedle fills vacancies left by departures to RWC

Threadneedle has appointed Quentin Fitzsimmons as lead manager for two bond funds, the Threadneedle Absolute Return Bond and Target Return funds, previously managed by Peter Annwright and Stuart Frost, who have recently left the firm to join RWC. Fitzsimmons, who has been head of government bonds since 2003, made significant contributions to the growth of absolute return strategies, and it would be an exaggeration to attribute the success of these strategies solely to the two managers who have moved to RWC, Threadneedle says in a statement. Assets in the two funds concerned totalled over EUR2.3bn as of the end of March, within fixed income (EUR22bn in assets under management in total). Threadneedle has also recruited Vladimir Gerasimia, who will join the team specialised in emerging market debts, a,dn who previously worked at Fortis Investments. Another new arrival, Richard Stevens, previously of Old Mutual Asset Managers, joins the government bond team.
02/07/2010

Head of marketing appointed at Gartmore

Gartmore on 30 June announced the appointment of Charolotte Gibson as head of marketing. Gibson, previously of JP Morgan AM, will join Gartmore in mid-July. She will report to Richard Pursglove, head of UK retail. Gibson will lead a team of 12 people in charge of advertising, client relationships, and other elements of the distribution chain.
02/07/2010

Barclays reimburses a client

Fund Strategy reports that the British financial mediation service has asked Barclays to reimburse GBP17,192 to a prudent client who was led to invest in a high-risk fund. The bank has also apologised to the client for the delay in addressing her claim. The client, Sue Murton, initally invested GBP52,000 in April 2007, in a fund (Aviva Global Balanced Income) which then changed formats and moved into the high-risk category; but the client was never informed. In response to an initial claim, Barclays offered compensation of GBP8,374, though in March 2009, the value of the client’s investment had fallen by GBP21,000.
02/07/2010

Spanish tax amnesty offer is a total washout

The Spanish finance ministry has suffered a setback. The Spanish tax authorities had offered to regularise the situation of Spanish holders of 3,000 offshore accounts in Switzerland, which would have represented the largest tax amnesty in Spain since the restoration of democracy. However, according to sources familiar with the matter, Expansión reports, not a single one of the individuals concerned took the Spanish authorities up on the offer before the deadline passed on 30 June, though they had all been directly contacted by the tax authority.
01/07/2010

Invesco selects a Morningstar index for one of its ETFs

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management has acquired a license for the new StockInvestor Core index, which reproduces a diversified equities portfolio drawn from the Hare and Tortoise portfolios made popular by the StockInvestor newsletter from Morningstar. The portfolios include high-quality shares which are trading far below the estimations of Morningstar analysts. The StockInvestor Core Index will serve as the new benchmark for the PowerShares Value Line Industry Rotation Portfolio ETF, which will now be known as the PowerShares Morningstar StockInvestor Core Portfolio. The product is traded on the NYSE with the acronym PYH.
01/07/2010

A good month of June for HMG Globetrotter fund

On the fund’s fifth birthday, Marc Girault, CIO for HMG Finance, announced that the HMG Globetrotter fund has reached EUR85m in assets as of 29 June, compared with EUR73.5m as of 31 May, with a performance of 4.1%, compared with 0.1% for the benchmark index, the MSCI World. The fund invests in affiliates of European companies in emerging countries, or in European companies whose activities are largely in emerging countries (see Newsmanagers of 21 June). Meanwhile, the heads of HMG Finance have announced that separate analysis tools have been created for each fund in the range, which will allow them to better serve institutional investors, by providing them with more detailed performance contribution statistics. HMG Finance, which has brought its sales and marketing within the firm, is planning a drive in the IFA and private banking markets. The management firm is also considering a potential international expansion, though there are no concrete plans at present.
01/07/2010
Fonds

Nouvel abaissement de la VL du Morgan Stanley P2 Value

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investment GmbH a annoncé mardi soir que la valeur liquidative de son fonds immobilier offert au public P2 Value (1,37 milliard d’euros d’encours, 56 millions d’euros de liquidité nette) a été abaissée au 29 juin pour la quatrième fois depuis le 13 mai (lire nos dépêches des 14 et 28 mai ainsi que du 24 juin). Cette fois, la dépréciation est de 3,51 euros, et la valeur de la part tombe à 40,88 euros. Cette révision à la baisse est imputable pour l’essentiel à la nouvelle estimation de l’immeuble Itoche headquarter Building à Osaka (Japon).
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01/07/2010

La perte d'Arques Industrie s'est encore creusée

Dans un communiqué boursier publié mercredi, le capital-investisseur allemand Arques Industrie a annoncé pour l’exercice 2009 une perte de 153 millions d’euros contre 145,7 millions pour l’année précédente. Pour un chiffre d’affaires de 3,49 milliards d’euros contre 5,5 milliards). La perte d’exploitation s’est limitée en revanche à 17,7 millions contre 111,46 millions, mais les dépréciations sur les participations ont continué de plomber le résultat.Pour janvier-mars, le chiffre d’affaires est tombé à 226,9 millions d’euros contre 1,23 milliard tandis que l’ebitda a été positif de 24 millions contre une perte de 115,5 millions et que le bénéfice net se situé à 1,03 million contre une perte de 38,5 millions.Ces résultats n’ont pas encore été certifiés, toutefois. Les comptes 2009 certifiés devraient être disponibles pour la mi-juillet 2010, ce qui permettrait de tenir l’assemblée générale fin août.
01/07/2010
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SEB AM investit dans l'immobilier munichois

SEB Asset Management a annoncé avoir consacré environ 20,4 millions d’euros à l’acquisition d’un immeuble commercial de 12.650 mètres carrés situé à Munich-Passing. Cet actif est affecté au fonds immobilier offert au public SEB ImmoPortfolio Target Return Fund (DE00009802314), un produit destiné aux investisseurs institutionnels et aux particuliers haut de gamme, dont il sera le 13ème immeuble dans le portefeuille allemand ; le portefeuille comprend au total 45 actifs répartis sur 12 pays.Le vendeur est MG Grundbesitz Objekt Gleisdreieck Pasing GmbH & Co. KG, filiale ad hoc du viennois UBM Realitätenentwicklung AG.
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01/07/2010
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Frankfurt Trust réduit de moitié les frais sur le FT Accu Geld

A compter du 1er juillet 2010, Frankfurt Trust, filiale de la BHF-Bank, abaisse de moitié, à 0,20 % la commission de gestion facturée pour son fonds monétaire FT AccuGeld. Cette initiative est une réaction à la persistance de taux faibles dans la zone euro, afin de permettre au fonds de demeurer un réceptacle attrayant pour les liquidités, a souligné Karl Stäcker, le directeur général.Cette modification n’altère en rien la stratégie du gérant Matthias Bayer, qui priorigse la sécurité.Par ailleurs, Frankfurt Trust a annoncé qu’elle lance deux nouvelles classes de parts pour le FT AccuGeld, à savoir une part de distribution destinée aux particuliers (DE000A0YCBQ8) et une part de capitalisation pour les investisseurs institutionnels (DE000A0YCBR6) à partir d’un apport de 250.000 euros.
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