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28/06/2010

F&C launches an open-ended real estate fund

The British asset management firm F&C is launching its first open-ended real estate fund. The product, UK Property Fund, co-managed by Julian Smith and Guy Glover at F&C REIT, will invest in British commercial real estate at a point in the cycle which is considered favourable by managers. The fund will be diversified in all areas (geographical, sectoral, etc), and will retain a total cash allocation of 10% to 20%. F&C REIT, born of the merger in 2008 of Reit Asset Management and F&C Property Asset Management, manages about GBP7.5bn in assets.
28/06/2010

Appointment at BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking

BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking announced on Friday, 25 June that it has appointed Robert McAdie to the newly-created position of global head of credit research and strategy. McAdie will be based in London, and will report directly to David Brunner, deputy global head of Fixed Income. He will supervise credit research worldwide, which in turn includes the independent credit research activities. He will also be responsible for specialists in the sector and the credit trading desks, according to a statement from the bank. From 2000 to 2004, McAdie led the European credit strategy team at Lehman Brothers; he then spent five years at the head of European emerging markets strategy at Salomon Brothers, in London.
28/06/2010

Goldman Sachs to reimburse Bayou subscribers

An arbitration committee at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on Friday sentenced the Goldman Sachs Group to pay USD20.6m to unprotected investors in Bayour Group, who accused the banking group of voluntarily or involuntarily ignoring signs of fraud at the hedge fund management firm, which went bankrupt in 2005. The Wall Street Journal adds that the former CEO of Bayou, Samuel Israel III, was sentenced to 20 years in prison; he pleaded guilty to distributing false information about funds. Subscribers lost more than USD400m.
28/06/2010

Efama announces launch of pan-European fund processing passport portal

The European Fund an Asset Management Association ‘Efama) announced today the opening of its Fund Processing Passort Portal, available to the asset management industry vie the Efama website. The FPP is an industry standard for the presentation of the key operational characteristics that fund promoters should provide on their investment funds to facilitate their trading. By making this information available to the market in a fully harmonised document, fund managers help reduce delays in processing transactions and errors in executing orders.
28/06/2010

High net worth private money moves to Panama

Since the Spanish government has embarked on its hunt for illicit bank accounts in Switzerland, and signed a tax information sharing agreement with Andorra, high net worth Spanish clients are making Panama their preferred destination, but they are also heading to countries such as Singapore, Costa Rica, Gibraltar and Uruguay, Expansión reports. The Spanish government is already in negotiations with Panama, Gibraltar, Hong Kong and Singapore to sign tax information sharing agreements, but the time this takes to complete will be time gained for banking clients.
28/06/2010

FRM launches an alternative platform with Korean firm IBK Securities

Asian Investor reports that the Korean IBK Securities has signed a partnership with the London-based firm Financial Risk Management (FRM), to set up a fund of hedge funds and fund distribution in South Korea. The fund of hedge funds, which will be known as IBKS-FRM Fund of Funds, will be released by the end of the year. The fund will invest in single hedge funds and will aim for constant returns with low correlation to the market. It will be distributed exclusively to qualified institutional investors. Assets under management at FRM total about USD9bn; it was one of the first fund of fund groups to open an office in Korea (in 2008).
28/06/2010

Good performance for Franklin Rising Dividends Fund

The Wall Street Journal estimates that shares in companies that pay high dividends, which have previously been popular with retired persons seeking to increase their income, will be likely to attract more investors than before the financial crisis. One of the funds likely to profit from this trend is the Franklin Rising Dividends Fund (FRDPX), which has USD2.3bn in assets. The fund, managed by Donald Taylor at Franklin Templeton Investments, has earned annual performance of 6.31% in the ten years to 25 June, while at the same time, the S&P 500 total return has lost an average of 1.07%. The fund invests only in firms which have increased their dividends at least eight times in the past ten years, whose dividends have doubled over this time period, and whose dividends are a maximum 65% of profits, to leave the company some money to invest. Only 120 companies satisfy these various filters, including Becton Dickinson and Abbott Laboratories in the health sector, Wal-Mart Stores and Family Dollar Stores in retail, Erie Indemnity in insurance, United Technologies in industrials, and IBM in tech. But there are no Wall Street firms on this list.
28/06/2010

Allianz Alternative AM to be sold soon

Les Echos reports that the alternative multi-management firm of the Allianz group, Allianz Alternative Asset Management (AAAm), which is up for sale, may interest Nexar Capital, the hedge fund founded by former SGAM AI managers. No deals have been signed, but talks are said to be at an advanced stage, and may be completed this summer. Nexar Capital, which has offices in Paris and New York, has two major activities: funds of hedge funds, and volatility arbitrage funds. By acquiring AAAm, the firm would considerably increase its strengths the former of these two areas, and would also strengthen its institutional client base.
28/06/2010

Odyssey IM recruits Mikhail Filiminov

Jayavardhan Diwan, co-founder of Odyssey Investment Management, in 2009, has announced the recruitment of Mickail Filiminov as CIO, Hedge Week reports. Filiminov, who has already worked with Diwan in the past, founded and led Alexandra Investment Management. Odyssey is planning to launch several global credit funds, including one special situations fund and one focused on Indian convertible bonds.
28/06/2010

ebase contracted to administer AmpegaGerling client accounts

From 21 June, the European Bank for Fund Services GmbH (ebase) has taken charge of administration of new payments to all AmpegaGerling Investment (Talanx group) client accounts. This allows AmpegaGerling to concentrate on fund management. ebase is a wholly-owned subsidiary of comdirect (Commerzbank group).
28/06/2010

La crise financière a modifié le comportement des clients de banques privées allemands

Une étude* réalisée auprès de 332 clients de banques privées en Allemagne (au moins 0,6 million d’euros de liquidités, en Autriche (0,5 million et plus) et en Suisse (0,9 million de francs suisse et plus) par la division gestion d’actifs de l’Université Johannes Kepler de Linz, sous la direction du Pr. Teodoro D. Cocca, pour le compte de LGT Wealth & Asset Management montre que l’exposition moyenne aux actions se situe à 32 %, celle affectée aux liquidités se montant à 29 %. D’autre part, 16 % étaient réservés par ces investisseurs pour se prémunir contre l’inflation ou un scénario «worst case», sous forme de matières premières/or ou métaux précieux.Environ les deux tiers du total investi étaient placés sur le marché intérieur de chacun des pays, ce qui représente un risque important de concentration.D’autre part, l'étude a montré que la crise financière a provoqué d’importantes redistributions, au détriment des dérivés, des actions, des placements alternatifs et des fonds d’investissement, au profit des matières premières/or, des métaux précieux, du cash et d’autres valeurs concrètes. 48 % des personnes interrogées ont ainsi augmenté leur allocation aux matières premières/or ou métaux précieux, tandis que 31 % ont diminué leur exposition aux actions.* LGT Private Banking Report 2010
28/06/2010

Former Amaranth head looking for new investors

Nicholas Maounis, former head of the hedge fund management firm Amaranth Advisors, which imploded in September 2006 after losses of USD6.6bn due to huge bets on natural gas, is now seeking to raise USD1bn for his new firm, Verition Fund Management, which has assets of USD235m,composed largely of the private wealth of its founder, the Wall Street Journal reports. Verition is not investing in natural gas, and will confine itself to corporate bonds, equities, and convertible bonds. The firm has also set up several risk control mechanisms, with Maounis himself as chief risk officer, though there is also a team for day-to-day risk management for each fund and for the firm as a whole. The largest fund from Verition earned 17% in 2009, and has earned about 2% since the beginning of the year.
28/06/2010

Dreyfus to launch actively-managed ETF funds

On 9 June, the Dreyfus Corporation, an affiliate of BNY Mellon Asset Management, applied to the SEC (form 40-APP1) for permission to launch actively-managed ETF funds, which would be registered by a new entity, Dreyfus ETF Trust, which may also engage sub-advisors to operate the funds.
28/06/2010

Equities funds: Outperformance doesn't last

According to a study by Forbes online of US equities funds on the basis of data from the ratings agency Standard & Poor’s for the periods from March 2000-March 2005 and March 2005-March 2010, only 39.3% of the 791 products which ranked in the top half for performance in the first five-year period were still in the top class in the second period. 17.9% of them were liquidated or absorbed into another fund. Meanwhile, 32.9% of funds in the bottom half of the rankings in the first period moved up in the second period, while 37.7% were liquidated or merged. In terms of large cap equities funds in the top half for 2000-2005, only 18.5% were able to hold their place in this group in 2005-2010.
28/06/2010

S-Box becomes Solactive

From 21 June, the German index provider S-Box, which was previously an affiliate of the Stuttgart stock exchange, becomes wholly owned by Structured Solutions AG< which has changed the name of the firm to “Solactive.” All S-Box products will adopt the new brand name. Currently, there are 21 ETF funds which use Structured Solutions indices as their benchmark or underlying. They have assets of about USD5bn. Sebastrian Seifried, head of indexing, says that Structured Solutions sees significant potential for growth in the area of ETFs, with demand evolving towards custom products focused on regional or special themes and strategies.
25/06/2010

Deka board voted in for new five-year term

Though a number of rumours had recently hinted at differences of opinion between shareholders, the savings banks and the Landesbanken, and between shareholders and the managing board, the supervisory board at DekaBank has re-elected chairman Franz S. Waas and board members Oliver Behrens (head of securities funds) and Friedrich Oelrich (CFO) for a new five-year term, beginning on 1 January 2011. Financial industry circles were expecting them to be re-elected for only two years. Now, they may wonder what concessions Waas agreed to in terms of risk reduction.
25/06/2010

Carmen Reschke quitte la direction générale de KanAm Grund

La société de gestion de fonds immobiliers KanAm Grund a annoncé que Carmen Reschke a quitté au 31 mai ses fonctions de responsable de la comptabilité, de la fiscalité, des financements et de la gestion du risque dans les sociétés KanAm Grund KAG et KanAm Grund Spezialfondsgesellschaft pour prendre de nouvelles fonctions dans le secteur de l’immobilier.Ses responsabilités sont désormais réparties entre les quatre autres membres de la direction générale, Hans-Joachim Kleinert, Matti Kreutzer, Olivier Catusse et Heiko Hartwig.
25/06/2010

Bärbel Schomberg (ex Degi et Aberdeen) s'est mise à son compte

Avec Karl Ohl, Bärbel Schomberg, qui a démissionné précipitamment de ses fonctions de présidente du comité exécutif d’Aberdeen Immobilien KAG et de head of Continental Europe d’Aberdeen Property Investors (lire notre article du 2 mars) a créé il y a quelques semaines la société de conseil Schomberg & Co Real Estate Consulting GmbH à Koenigstein, près de Francfort. Cette nouvelle société couvre trois secteurs d’activité : stratégies d’investissement, gestion de fonds et gestion d’actifs.
25/06/2010

Promotion pour Volker Noack chez Union Investment Real Estate

Après avoir dirigé l’activité gestion de fonds, Volker Noack devient membre de la direction générale d’Union Investment Real Estate (UIRE) où il sera chargé, outre de la gestion des fonds, des finances et des participations.La direction générale, sous la responsabilité de Reinhard Kutscher (président), comprend deux autres personnes, Frank Billand (Asset Management Allemagne, AM Shopping-Center, AM Hotel, gestion de projets) et Karl-Josef Hermanns-Engel (AM Europe, AM Americas, AM Asia/Pacific).
25/06/2010

L'état-major de Deka est finalement confirmé pour cinq ans

Alors que plusieurs rumeurs faisaient état ces derniers temps de divergences d’opinion entre actionnaires, les caisses d'épargne et les Landesbanken, ainsi qu’entre les actionnaires et le directoire, le conseil d’administration de DekaBank a reconduit pour cinq ans le président Franz S. Waas ainsi que les membres du directoire Oliver Behrens (responsable des fonds de valeurs mobilières) et Friderich Oelrich (directeur financier), à compter du 1er janvier 2011. Les milieux financiers spéculaient sur une prorogation de seulement deux ans. Maintenant, ils peuvent se demander quelles concessions Franz Waas ont acceptées en matière de réduction des prises de risques.
25/06/2010

Somangest recrute un ancien de Quilvest & Associés

La société de gestion Somangest vient de recruter Olivier Flornoy en tant que directeur général adjoint et gérant de portefeuilles au sein du département de gestion privée dirigé par Frédéric Maitre. L’intéressé, âgé de 49 ans, était depuis 2005 associé fondateur de Quilvest & Associés, société de gestion du groupe Quilvest. Il avait précédemment effetué une grande partie de sa carrière au sein du groupe HSBC. Fondée en décembre 1990 par Jacques Pailloux et dirigée par son fils Patrice depuis 1998, Somangest est une société de gestion indépendante spécialisée dans la gestion de portefeuilles de valeurs mobilières. Elle développe une offre globale de solutions d’investissement composée de mandats, OPCVM et contrats d’assurances-vie à destination d’une clientèle d’investisseurs privés et institutionnels depuis fin 2009.
25/06/2010

Alto Invest prend une participation dans Bazile Telecom

Alto Invest a annoncé le 24 juin son arrivée au capital de la société Bazile Telecom pour le compte des fonds qu’elle gère. Alto Invest et Naxicap Partners ont finalisé un investissement de 3,7 millions d’euros dans le premier opérateur de téléphonie mobile dédié aux seniors.

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