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29/06/2010
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Credit Suisse fait enregistrer la sicav CS ETF

Au 24 juin, la succursale espagnole de Credit Suisse a fait enregistrer par la CNMV sa sicav irlandaise CS ETF qui comporte pour l’instant 29 compartiments. Le groupe helvétique profite en l’occurrence des nouvelles dispositions permettant désormais d’enregistrer en Espagne des ETF au format de sicav. Ces fonds seront commercialisés par la succursale espagnole.
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29/06/2010

Pictet adds to Hong Kong retail product range

Pictet, which has recently registered eight funds in Hong Kong, is now in the process of signing several distribution agreements with local and international financial establishments, which will offer new exposure for the Swiss group’s products, Asian Investor reports. The funds which have been approved are the Pictet-Agriculture (assets under mainagement of EUR104.6m, +41.35% since the beginning of the year), Pictet-Emerging Markets (USD1.35bn, +29.81%), Pictet-EUR Inflation Linked Bonds (EUR222.2m, +6.92%), Pictet-Global Megatrend Selection (USD358m, +22.95%), Pictet-Indian Equities (USD440.6m, +31.70%), Pictet-Japanese Equities 130/30 (JPY5.84bn, +3.93%), Pictet-Middle East and North Africa (USD21.4m) and Pictet0-World Government Bonds (Usd187.2m, +17.66%). The retail product range from Pictet in Hong Kong now includes 33 funds: two absolute return funds, six bond funds, two money market funsd, six developed market equities funds, seven emerging markets equities funds, and ten themed funds.
29/06/2010

Increase in savings in the form of investment funds

As of the end of 2009, average savings in the form of investment funds in Germany increased 13.7% compared with the end of 2008, to EUR7,946 per person. However, this is still 10.3% below the record of EUR8,862 per person, set in 2007, the BVI association of asset management firms reports in its 2010 yearbook (Jahrbuch 2010). In the past ten years, Germans’ investments in shares in investment funds increased 66.4%, but the average portfolio remains modest compared with that of the U.S. (EUR25,608, +0.3% in ten years) and French (EUR20,314, +82.7%). Swedish investors (EUR13.575, +44.5%), Austrians (EUR9.938, +7%), and British (EUR8,746, +26.5%) savings investors also average higher than the Germans. However, the Germans rank higher than the Spaniards (EUR4,168, -20.6%) and the Italians (EUR3,266, -60.4%).
29/06/2010

Paris détaille son plan de rigueur

Ce programme doit dégager 10 milliards d’euros d’économies sur 2011-2013 et s’ajoutera aux autres mesures de réduction du déficit public
28/06/2010

A round of promotions at Fidelity

Peter Hicks has been appointed product director, UK equities, at Fidelity International, from 1 August, and will be leaving his current position as head of UK retail sales to Ben Waterhouse, who will join the firm on that date from Legal 7 General Investment Management (LGIM), as head of UK wholesale sales. Julian Webb is appointed head of sales for the FundsNetwork platform; he currently serves as head of UK defined contribution business.
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

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.
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

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

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

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

GAM green funds to be released in fall

The UCITS-compliant long/short environmental fund for which GAM has recruited Paul Udall from Climate Change Capital (see Newsmanagers of 26 May) will be launched in October, and will have 35 to 45 positions.
28/06/2010

Fidelity International recruits in Italy

Fidelity International is adding to its teams in Italy with the arrival of Cosmo Schinaia as director of professional and institutional sales for Italy, Bluerating reports. He was previously at Crédit Agricole Asset Management Sgr. Schinaia will be part of the team led by Paolo Federici, head of distribution for Fidelity products in Italy.
28/06/2010

BPM to distribute funds from foreign firms

The Italian newspaper Soldi, cited by Bluerating, reports that Banca Popolare di Milano has recently signed distribution agreements with several foreign management firms. Only four were selected at the conclusion of a competition; they include Franklin Templeton and BlackRock.
28/06/2010

Sicav assets up 2.2% in first quarter

In January-March, assets in 3,206 Spanish Sicav funds, custom investment vehicles for high net worth private clients, rose 2.2% to nearly EUR26.21bn, for 405,442 shareholders, VDOS Stochastics reports, relayed by Funds People. The weighted average performance as a function of assets in the period under review totalled 0.88%. The two best-performing Sica funds are managed by UBS Gestión, with 19.14% and 17.45%, followed by Gold & Silver Spain (+16.06%), from Bankinter Gestión, which was previously the provider with the highest gains in 2009 (144.7%). BBVA Patrimonios remains at the top of the rankings in terms of assets under management, with a market share of 10.96%. It was also the leading provider in terms of net subscriptions, with EUR77m. The Sicav with the largest single volume of assets is Morinvest, managed by BBVA Patrimonios, with EUR452m.
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

Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners renforce ses équipes

La société Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners qui gère trois fonds dédiés aux LBO de croissance a annoncé, vendredi 25 juin, le renforcement de ses équipes. Aymeric Marraud des Grottes a été nommé directeur d’investissement tandis que Thomas Moussallieh est nommé chargé d’affaires et Marie Londero, analyste.Arrivé en mai 2010, Aymeric Marraud des Grottes, 32 ans, occupait auparavant la fonction d’ «associate» chez JPMorgan, en banque privée et en conseil aux entreprises familiales. Thomas Moussallieh, 25 ans, était précédemment analyste chez Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners, où il a débuté sa carrière en juin 2008. Marie Londero, 24 ans, a rejoint Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners en avril 2010.
28/06/2010

Allianz Alternative AM sur le point d'être vendu

Selon Les Echos, la société de multigestion alternative du groupe Allianz, Allianz Alternative Asset management (AAAm), en vente, serait convoité par Nexar Capital, le «hedge fund» formé par des anciens de SGAM AI. Rien n’est signé mais les discussions seraient dans leur dernière ligne droite, pour, peut-être, une conclusion cet été. Nexar Capital, qui a des bureaux à Paris et New York, a deux activités principales, les fonds de «hedge funds» et fonds d’arbitrage de volatilité. En prenant possession de AAAm, il augmenterait notablement la première de ses deux activités, tout en renforçant son positionnement sur la clientèle institutionnelle.
28/06/2010

Fidelity International recrute en Italie

Fidelity International renforce ses équipes en Italie avec l’arrivée de Cosmo Schinaia en tant que directeur des ventes professionnelles et institutionnelles pour l’Italie, rapporte Bluerating. Il était précédemment au Crédit Agricole Asset Management Sgr. Cosmo Schinaia fera partie de l'équipe dirigée par Paolo Federici, responsable de la distribution des produits Fidelity en Italie.
28/06/2010

Banca Popolare di Milano va distribuer des fonds de sociétés étrangères

Selon le journal italien Soldi, cité par Bluerating, Banca Popolare di Milano aurait récemment conclu des accords de distribution avec plusieurs sociétés de gestion étrangères. Quatre seulement ont été sélectionnées au terme d’une compétition. Parmi elles figureraient Franklin Templeton et BlackRock.

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