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07/04/2010

La Deutsche Bank regroupe une partie de ses activités de private equity

Mardi, la Deutsche Bank a annoncé qu’après le bouclage de l’acquisition de Sal. Oppenheim elle va centraliser ses activités de fonds de fonds de private equity dans sa division gestion d’actifs. La nouvelle entité, DB Private Equity regroupera le private equity group de la division private wealth management (PWM), l'équipe «secondaries private equity» de la filiale RREEF et enfin Sal. Oppenheim Private Equity Partners (SOPEP). Son encours se situe à environ 6 milliards d’euros.Le global head de DB Private Equity sera Chris Minter, managing director de la Deutsche Bank, qui sera subordonné à Kevin Parker, global head of Deutsche Asset Management et membre du Group executive comité de la Deutsche Bank.Quant à Rolf Wickenkamp, qui était jusque récemment l’un des associés de SOPEP, il est nommé vice chairman de DB Private Equity.
07/04/2010
Fonds

Les rentrées nettes de février ont porté sur 9,7 milliards d'euros

D’après les statistiques publiées mardi par l’association allemandes BVI des sociétés de gestion, les investisseurs ont confié en février un total de 9,7 milliards d’euros au secteur, dont 3,8 milliards placés dans des fonds offerts au public, 3,3 milliards dans des fonds institutionnels (Spezialfonds) et 2,6 milliards dans des mandats. L’encours au 28 février se situait à 1.715 milliards d’euros, dont 659,2 milliards pour les fonds offerts au public, 740,2 milliards pour les Spezialfonds et 315,5 milliards pour les mandats.En ce qui concerne les fonds de valeurs mobilières offerts au public, le numéro un est largement le groupe Deutsche Bank (DWS, DB Advisors) avec 141,2 milliards, devant DekaBank (caisse d'épargne) avec 103,8 milliards, Allianz Global Investors (AGI) avec 84,6 milliards, Union Investment (banques populaires, 84 milliards) et les ETF iShares de BlackRock lancés en Allemagne (19,1 milliards).Pour les Spezialfonds de valeurs mobilières, le champion est AGI avec 130 milliards d’euros, devant Universal-Investment (84 milliards), HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt (60,9 milliards), Helaba Invest (56 milliards) et Union Investment (48,1 milliards)Pour les fonds immobiliers offerts au public, le tiercé de tête se compose de Deka (19,1 milliards), Union (17,5 milliards) et Commerz Real (12,5 milliards) tandis que pour les fonds immobiliers institutionnels, IVG Institutional Funds se classe largement en tête avec 7,5 milliards d’euros.Enfin, pour les mandats, AGI est numéro un avec 125,4 milliards d’euros, loin devant Generali Investments (67,6 milliards et DWS/DB Advisors/DB Goup avec 53,2 milliards. Axa IM se classe quatrième avec 28,2 milliards d’euros.
Fonds
07/04/2010
Fonds

Union lance un fonds d'obligations convertibles

Mardi, Union Investment (banques populaires allemandes) a lancé le fonds luxembourgeois UniConvertibles qui a vocation à investir en obligations convertibles du monde entier. Ce produit est confié à Stefan Steinberger, qui fait partie d’une équipe spécialisée de sept personnes gérant presque 3 milliards d’euros pour le compte de clients institutionnels.CaractéristiquesDénomination : UniConvertibles AISIN : LU0489914670Droit d’entrée : 3 %Commission de gestion : 1,2 % (1,5 % maximum)
Fonds
06/04/2010

Threadneedle to offer two tech funds

According to Citywire, Threadneedle is planning to transfer two US technology funds from its sister company Seligman into its Sicav. The two funds, Threadneedle Global Technology and Threadneedle US Communication, will thus be opened to investors in Europe.
06/04/2010

Offshore funds now integrated into IMA classification system

The British investment management association (IMA) on 2 April announced that it has now integrated offshore funds into its classification system. 91 funds will be included in 17 existing classes.About 180 funds were candidates for integration into the IMA grid; the association says that 69 more are nearing approval.
06/04/2010

Aviva Investors restructures its business development

Following the departures of Adam Lessing, head of business development Europe, and Kirk Skarba, head of business development Central Europe, at the end of December, Aviva Investors appears to be in the process of restructuring its global business development activities, Fondsprofessionell reports. The new scheme is said not to be organized around countries, but instead on three types of clients: financial institutions, institutions, and Aviva. Fondsprofessionell suggests that the reorganization may be a part of a cost reduction effort, as revenues are not developing as positively as expected.
06/04/2010

Carlyle recruits former head of private equity for Dubai sovereign fund

Carlyle, the US-based private equity group, has poached Eric Kump, head of Dubai International Capital’s European private equity team, says the Financial Times. Eric Kump will on Tuesday be unveiled by Carlyle as a new managing director in its European buy-out team, only two years after he was hired by the sovereign wealth fund.
06/04/2010

Reputation of Berkshire Hathaway up, AIG and Citigroup down

According to a survey by Harris Interactive, the reputation of the business world is “not good” or “catastrophic” in the opinion of 81% of those surveyed. Agefi reports. At the top of the list of businesses with the worst reputations are AIG and Citigroup. At the other end of the spectrum is Berkshire Hathaway, whose head, Warren Buffett, is regarted as a man who effectively leads his business without excessive remuneration.
06/04/2010

Star managers striking out on their own

According to a study by Prince Associates, 48% of private banking clients in the United States withdrew their assets from their bank between September 2008 and January 2010. 40% of them opted for a multi-family office, while 26.4% chose an independent management firm, Expansión reports. This development coincides with an increase in departures of star managers to found their own businesses. For example, Joan David Grimá left Santander to create Tegri Asesoramiento, while Zoe Cruz, former co-president of Morgan Stanley, is launching the hedge fund management firm Voras Capital Management. Eric Brugel and Jeff Erber (formerly of Merrill Lynch) have gone into the wealth management business, with Grey Own Capital Management, while Erich Thurber, Fred Molfino and Mrett Sharkey (formerly of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney) have followed their example, founding Three Bridge Wealth Advisors. The four founders of Old Lane (Citigroup) and their executive director, Guru Ramakrishnan, at the end of 2009 launched the hedge fund Meru Capital Group (EUR200m in assets), while Justin Kennedy (formerly of Deutsche Bank) is preparing to launch a real estate fund. Florian de Sigy, director of structured products for Europe at Deutsche bank, has launched a hedge fund management firm, Gamma Finance, with Javier Rodriguez, a former director of Barclays Global Investors. Lastly, Andrew Bodner has joined his father Martin, also formerly of UBS, to found a firm in New Jersey, while Arié Assayag (formerly of SocGen) has joined 30 senior managers to launch a hedge fund.
06/04/2010

Nationwide hands a new mandate to JP Morgan

Nationwide Funds Group (NFG), which includes the asset management activities of Nationwide Financial Services, has asked JP Morgan to provide it with more services. In addition to custody and securities lending, JP Morgan will take charge of accounting, administration and settlement. NFG manages about USD32bn in 92 mutual funds.
06/04/2010

Guillaume Rambourg violated procedures which had been in place since May 2009

Jeff Meyer, CEO of Gartmore, says the manager Guillaume Rambourg, who controls a 4% stake in the management firm, was dismissed last week for continuing to give instructions to the trading floors about brokers to be used in specific transactions, which has been forbidden since 15 May 2009. To do this, he did not use the Gartmore IT system, but the Bloomberg instant messenger system, the Sunday Times reports. Meyer, however, says he is convinced that Rambourg did not do this for personal profit. All communications external to the manager (email, instant messaging, phone calls and other data) will now be analysed by the law firm Clifford Chance, which will take three weeks.
06/04/2010

AAA rating for UK government bonds under pressure

Pimco continues to be highly negative about the outlooks for British government debt. Scott Mather, director of international portfolio management at the largest manager of bond funds in the world, estimates that the UK may lose its AAA rating in the next twelve months, according to reports by Reuters. He also estimates that the European Union’s plan in support of Greece will be ineffective. “There will need to be miracles in the next six months to maintain economic growth in the developed world,” Mather said in Taipei. As a result, Pimco recommends an underweight exposure to government bonds from the UK, the US and Europe. In January, the co-founder and co-head of investment at Pimco, Bill Gross, expressed his reservations about UK government debt, remarking that gilts were sitting on a “bed of nitroglycerine.” Standard & Poor’s has recently placed its AAA rating for the United Kingdom on a watch with negative outlook.
06/04/2010

ABP confirms interest in microfinance

ABP, the pension fund for Dutch civil servants, has invested USD30m (EUR22.3m) in a global private equity microfinance fund from Grassroots Capital, says IPE.com. It means ABP’s holding in microfinance debt and private equity has now grown to USD215m since it first invested $5m in this strategy with Dexia Asset Management in 2005.
06/04/2010

Marcel Herbst joins Weston Capital

Hedge Week reports that Weston Capital Management has appointed Marcel Herbst as a member of the board of directors. Marcel Herbst, who was previously managing director at Harcourt, will be in charge of development for international activities and the creation of strategic partnerhships.
06/04/2010

Roc Capital Management touts transparency

The hedge fund management firm Roc Capital Management has raised more than USD1bn since the financial crisis, a success which it owes partly to its transparency campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports. The team, led by Arvind Ragunathan, is the former Equitech team from Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank invested the first USD500m, and owns 10% of the firm. Unlike other quant funds, Roc Capital provides details of its investments by sector and by geographical region, as well as other data, all of which are certified by an external company. Roc Capital also relies on the resources of a team of more than 50 analysts based in Chennai, which systematically combs through the public data provided by US companies in real time, but without a knowledge of the fund’s positions. Roc Capital limits its use of leverage and specializes in US large caps. It often holds its stakes for several weeks.
06/04/2010

Goldman Sachs fund buys a stake in a hedge fund

Petershill Fund Offshore LP, a fund from Goldman Sachs with USD1bn in assets which invests in minority stakes in hedge funds, has acquired a minority stake in a hedge fund from David Ganek, entitled Level Global Investors LP. Bloomberg reports that Level Global, founded in 2003, has 64 employees, of whom 25 are investment professionals. Petershill also has stakes in three London firms: Capula Investment Management, Winton Capital Management, and Trafalgar Asset Managers, as well as in a firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, entitled Shumway Capital Partners LLC.
06/04/2010

Bono's fund buys 1% stake in Facebook

Elevation Partners, an investment fund in which Bono, the singer for the group U2, is one of the shareholders, at the end of 2009 bought a 1% stake in the social network Facebook for USD90m, Cinco Días reports. Facebook has declined to comment. In early 2010, Elevation Partners went on to invest USD25m in Yelp, a social networking startup; the fund has since confirmed its plans to increase its investment in the firm to USD100m.
06/04/2010

Private equity fund buys a stake in a hedge fund

La Tribune reports that Petershill Fund Offshore LP, a private equity fund from Goldman Sachs, has announced that it has acquired a minority stake in a USD4bn hedge fund by David Ganek, entitled Level Global Investors LP. The business bank says that it will not take part in investment decisions, the newspaper adds.
06/04/2010

Hedge fund managers are often copyists paid princely sums

In a study of 8,650 funds on sale in Germany, the wealth management firm Gecam has found that 2009 was a good year in terms of performance, but that managers are not responsible for much of it, Die Welt am Sonntag reports. Nearly half of German equities funds outperformed the MSCI Germany, compared with 30% in 2008; for global equities, the percentage of funds which outperformed their benchmarks rose from 36% to 41%, while the percentage has more than doubled for North American equities funds, from 165 to 35%. However, the percentage of emerging markets equities funds which outperformed their benchmark has fallen to 22% from 23%. To better judge the results, Gecam has added a measure of correlation. It came in at 0.97 for German equities funds in 2009, compared with 0.94 over the past three years, which shows that managers have become even more passive and are now content to follow the index for 97% of their investments. The correlation and performance of larger funds is naturally respectively higher, and weaker, than those of smaller funds, which are more easily maneuverable. This high level of correlation raises questions about whether it is genuinely worth paying at least 2% in management commissions per year, rather than investing in a tracker fund for considerably less money.
06/04/2010

Gartmore teams up with Hermes in private equity

Gartmore has announced the completion of the joint venture with Hermes Fund Managers Limited to combine Private Equity fund of fund businesses into a new vehicle, Hermes GPE LLP. At inception, Hermes GPE LLP will have combined assets under management of GBP4.1 billion.
06/04/2010

Former Rambourg fund under watch

Fund Strategy reports that Hargreaves Lansdown has withdrawn the Gartmore European Absolute Return Fund from its “Wealth 150” list of recommended funds, following the suspension of its manager, Guillaume Rambourg.
06/04/2010

Wave of redemptions hits Nevsky Capital

Nevsky Capital, the USD7bn London hedge fund manager, was hit last week by more than USD1bn of redemption requests from investors seeking to leave its flagship hedge fund, Nevsky Fund. The outflows follow the disclosure that Martin Taylor and Nick Barnes, the fund’s two star managers, were planning to step down next spring, says the Financial Times. In a letter to investors, the fund’s directors said the fund was unlikely to continue after the pair left.
06/04/2010

Bankinter launches a guaranteed fund to bet on US economic recovery

Bankinter is releasing the Bankinter Consolidación América Garantizado fund for sale until 13 April. The product guarantees initial capital, plus a participation (limited to 2% per month) in any gains on the American S%P 500 index until 14 April 2015, Cinco Días reports. Minimal subscription is set at EUR600, and management commission totals 1.90%, while the depository bank charges 0.10%.
06/04/2010

Coordinator appointed for joint ACP-AMF unit

Danièle Nouy, secretary general of the French pension regulatory body Autorité de contrôle prudentiel (ACP), and Thierry Francq, secretary general of its financial counterpart, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AFP), on 2 April announced the appointment of the deputy secretary general for pension control, Fabrice Pesin, as coordinator of the joint ACP-AMF unit for supervision of relations between professionals and their clients, created by an ordnance passed on 21 January 2010. His counterpart at the AMF is Natalie Lemaire, director of the office for relations with savings investors. The coordinator has been appointed for a period of two years, and the position will be held alternately by individuals from the ACP and the AMF. Pesin has been appointed until 31 December 2011. From 1 January 2012, Lemaire will succeed him. Pesin, a graduate of the École Polytechnique and of the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique (ENSAE), and director of INSEE, joined the ACP in March 2010 as deputy secretary general.
06/04/2010

Les gérants-vedette tendent à se mettre à leur compte

D’après une étude de Prince Associates, 48 % des clients de banque privée aux Etats-Unis ont retiré leurs avoirs de leur banque entre septembre 2008 et janvier 2010. 40 % d’entre eux se sont tournés vers un multi-family office et 26,4 % ont opté pour un gestionnaire indépendant, rapporte Expansión. Cette évolution coïncide avec la multiplication de départs de gérants-star qui montent leur propre entreprise.Par exemple, Joan David Grimá a quitté le Santander pour créer Tegri Asesoramiento, tandis que Zoe Cruz, ex co-présidente de Morgan Stanley, lançait le gestionnaire alternatif Voras Capital Management. Eric Brugel et Jeff Erber (ex Merrill Lynch) se sont lancés dans la gestion patrimoniale avec Grey Owl Capital Management, imités par Erich Thurber, Fred Molfino et Brett Sharkey (ex Morgan Stanley Smith Barney), qui ont monté Three Bridge Wealth Advisors. Par ailleurs quatre des fondateurs de Old Lane (citigroup) et leur directeur exécutif Guru Ramakrishnan ont lancé fin 2009 le gestionnaire alternatif Meru Capital Group (200 millions d’euros d’encours) tandis que Justin Kennedy (ex Deutsche Bank) prépare le lancement d’un fonds immobilier.Florián de Sigy, directeur Europe des produits structurés chez Deutsche Bank, vient de lancer un gestionnaire de hedge funds, Gamma Finance, avec Javier Rodríguez, un ancien dirigeant de Barclays Global Investors.Enfin, Andrew Bodner a rejoint son père Martin, lui aussi ancien d’UBS, pour fonder une société dans le new Jersey, tandis qu’Arié Assayag (ex Soc Gen) a rejoint une trentaine de gérants senior pour lancer un hedge fund.
06/04/2010
Fonds

Période de vaches maigres pour le private equity

Selon Preqin, les capital-investisseurs n’ont collecté qu’environ 50 milliards de dollars dans le monde entier au premier trimestre, soit à peine plus qu’en octobre-décembre 2009, alors que, durant la période faste de 2007-2008, les rentées avaient atteint jusqu'à 200 milliards de dollars par trimestre, rapporte la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. La difficulté de lever de nouveaux fonds tient notamment au fait que les ventes d’entreprises du portefeuille se sont raréfiées, si bien que les souscripteurs potentiels, assureurs, fonds de pension ou fondations, disposent de moins de liquidités.
Fonds
06/04/2010

Nevsky Capital subit des rachats

La société de hedge funds britannique Nevsky Capital, qui gère 7 milliards de dollars, a subi la semaine dernière plus de 1 milliard de dollars de demandes de remboursements de la part d’investisseurs souhaitant quitter son fonds vedette, le Nevsky Fund, rapporte le Financial Times. Les rachats font suite à l’annonce du départ de Martin Taylor et Nick Barnes, les deux gérants stars du fonds de 3,3 milliards de dollars. Dans une lettre aux investisseurs, les dirigeants du Nevsky Fund avaient indiqué qu’il était peu probable que le fonds continue après leur départ.
06/04/2010

Gartmore s'allie à Hermes dans le private equity

Gartmore a annoncé mardi 6 avril le bouclage de sa joint venture avec Hermes Fund Managers Limited visant à fusionner leurs activités de fonds de fonds de private equity dans un nouveau véhicule, Hermes GPE LLP. Ce dernier, lors de son lancement, affichera un encours sous gestion de 4,1 milliards de livres sterling.

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