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18/01/2010

Remboursements nets pour Man Group

Au 31 décembre, l’encours du gestionnaire alternatif Man Group Plc est ressorti à 42,4 milliards de dollars contre 44 milliards trois mois plus tôt, suite à des remboursements nets de 1,1 milliard de dollars ainsi qu'à des effets négatifs de 1,2 milliard pour la performance et de 0,3 milliard pour les taux de change. Les «autres « éléments ont en revanche contribué positivement au total des actifs dans la proportion de 1 milliard de dollars.Les remboursements ont surtout concerné la gestion institutionnelle, où les sorties ont atteint 1 milliard de dollars en net. Ajoutées aux pertes de la gamme de fondsAHL (5,6 % en octobre-décembre, 16,9 % sur douze mois), cela explique la baisse de 4 % des l’encours en un trimestre, souligne le CEO Peter Clarke.
18/01/2010

JP Morgan Chase affiche des résultats solides en gestion d'actifs au quatrième trimestre

Au quatrième trimestre 2009, le résultat net de la gestion d’actifs de JP Morgan Chase s’est établi à 424 millions de dollars, en progression de 66% par rapport au quatrième trimestre 2008.Les produits d’exploitation du trimestre se sont élevés à 2,2 milliards de dollars, en hausse de 32% par rapport au quatrième trimestre 2008. En banque privée, les produits ont progressé de 15% à 723 millions de dollars. Du côté des institutionnels, ils ont fait un bond de 79% à 584 millions de dollars, alors qu’ils affichent une hausse de 68 % à 445 millions sur le segment retail. Les produits de Private Wealth Management sont demeurés stables à 331 millions, ceux de Bear Stearns Private Client Services marquant un gain de 6% à 112 millions de dollars.L’encours des actifs sous supervision s'élevait au quatrième trimestre à 1.701 milliards de dollars, en hausse de 14% d’une année sur l’autre. Les actifs sous gestion totalisaient pour leur part 1.200 milliards de dollars, en progression de 10%. Le quatrième trimestre s’est soldé par des sorties nettes de 24 milliards de dollars mais l’année s’est terminée sur des entrées nettes de 28 milliards de dollars.
18/01/2010

Aviva Investors vise l'immobilier commercial

La société de gestion Aviva Investors a levé un fonds de plus de 200 millions de livres destiné à investir dans l’immobilier commercial britannique. Le fonds devrait être totalement investi à la mi-2010.
18/01/2010
Fonds

Marshall Wace lance un ETF alternatif

Marshall Wace, l’un des plus gros hedge funds européens, va dévoiler lundi son projet de lancer un ETF, indique le Financial Times. Le véhicule, appelé Marshall Wace Tops Global Alpha, suivra un indice censé refléter les positions des six fonds Marshall Wace Tops, des stratégies alternatives actuellement uniquement disponibles pour les institutions et les individus fortunés. Coté à Londres et Francfort, l’ETF est censé lever 500 millions de dollars.
Fonds
18/01/2010

JO Hambro lance une boutique de gestion de fortune

JO Hambro Capital Management lance la boutique de gestion de fortune James Hambro & Partners, rapporte le Financial Times. La nouvelle entité sera autonome et reprendra les 220 millions de livres d’encours de JO Hambro gérés pour le compte de sa clientèle privée.
18/01/2010

TMW Pramerica a signé les UN-PRI

Vendredi, TMW Pramerica Property Investments GmbH, filiale allemande de Pramerica Real Estate International AG, a annoncé avoir investi l’an dernier 325 millions d’euros pour acquérir six actifs immobiliers pour ses trois fonds institutionnels. Le volume d’investissement de ces trois produits représente environ 2 milliards d’euros et TMW Pramerica annonce son intention de lancer cette année de nouveaux «Spezialfonds».Les acquisitions de 2009 ont porté sur un bâtiment logistique à Milan, un centre commercial à Lille, un supermarché alimentaire à Cologne et des immeubles de bureaux à Londres, Paris et Séoul.La société a rouvert son Weltfonds (DE 000A0DJ328) aux remboursements le 11 décembre et au 31 décembre son encours était retombé à 840,48 millions d’euros contre 1,01 milliards avant la réouverture.Gestion verteA noter par ailleurs que Pramerica Real Estate Investors, qui est filiale de Prudential Financial, a signé récemment les principes de l’investissement responsable des nations-Unis (UN-PRI). Cela s’inscrit dans la suite logique de l’adhésion au programme Energy Star de l’Agence américaine de protection de l’environnement (EPA).Les objectifs de Pramerica sont la réduction de l’empreinte écologique du portefeuille immobilier, l’amélioration de sa situation bénéficiaire par une réduction des dépenses d’exploitation, l’augmentation de la valeur des immeubles grâce à une gestion stratégique de la consommation d'énergie et de matières premières et, enfin l’amélioration du bien-être des locataires, des habitants et des salariés par la mise à disposition de locaux «verts» pour l’habitat et le travail.
18/01/2010

"Ma manière d'être agressif est fonction de la liquidité"

Depuis le 5 novembre 2008, Firmino Morgado a pris en charge et redressé le compartiment European Aggressive de la sicav luxembourgeoise Fidelity Funds. Depuis mars, ce produit actions surperforme confortablement le marché. Pour l'ensemble de 2009, le fonds a gagné 35,63 %, contre 31,60 % pour le MSCI Europe, et son encours à fin décembre se situait à 930 millions d'euros, grâce à la fois à un effet de marché positif et à des souscriptions brutes de 242 millions d'euros.
18/01/2010

La Deutsche Bank prend tout le pouvoir chez Sal. Oppenheim

Vendredi, le luxembourgeois Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. S.C.A., société de tête du groupe Sal. Oppenheim, s’est vu imposer une nouvelle structure de commandement, sur le modèle de celle appliquée en décembre pour Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. KgaA en Allemagne.Désormais, Wilhelm von Haller, qui a été détaché par la Deutsche Bank pour prendre la présidence du directoire de Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. Verwaltungs AG en Allemagne, est aussi président du conseil d’administration de la nouvelle SOP Verwaltungsgesellschaft S.A. au Luxembourg, SOP étant associé-gérant de Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. S.C.A.La SOP Verwaltungsgesellschaft S.A. a été créée dans l’intention de diriger toutes les activités de Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. S.C.A. et donc du groupe Sal. Oppenheim. Deux autres membres du conseil d’administration de SOP ont été nommés : il s’agit de François Pauly, qui est directeur général de Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. S.C.A., et d’Alfons Klein, membre du comité de direction de la banque à Luxembourg.Wilhelm von Haller a tenu à préciser que Sal. Oppenheim continuera de fonctionner comme banque privée indépendante. Par ailleurs, les associés-gérants de Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. S.C.A. et de Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. KgaA ont quitté les comités directeurs de ces deux structures. De surcroît, Friedrich Carl Janssen et Dieter Pfundt se sont retirés en tant qu’associés-gérants.
18/01/2010

Petercam nomme deux associés et remanie son comité exécutif

Petercam annonce la nomination de Francis Heymans et de Sylvie Huret comme associés à partir du 1er janvier 2010. Depuis 2000, Francis Heymans est responsable du développement commercial et du marketing de la gestion d’actifs à l’attention des clients institutionnels, tandis que Sylvie Huret occupe le poste de responsable du pôle finances et risk management du groupe.A partir du 18 janvier, le comité exécutif de Petercam, qui est chargé de la coordination et de l’organisation quotidienne de l’ensemble des métiers et fonctions de la société change. Il sera alors composé de : Axel Miller, Pascal Minne, Sylvie Huret, Francis Heymans, Geoffroy d’Aspremont et Marc Janssens.
18/01/2010

Marshall Wace launches an alternative ETF

Marshall Wace, one of Europe’s largest hedge funds, will on Monday unveil plans to launch an exchange-traded fund, says the Financial Times. The vehicle, to be named Marshall Wace Tops Global Alpha, will be listed on both the London and Frankfurt stock exchanges and will track an index designed to mirror the holdings of the six existing Marshall Wace Tops funds, hedge fund strategies currently only available to institutions and wealthy individuals. The ETF is expected to raise USD500m.
18/01/2010

Skandia to be more aggressive on US large caps

Skandia Investment Gruop (SIG) on 15 January announced the appointment of the management firm Fifth Third Asset Management, a specialist in US large caps, to manage its US Large Cap Growth Fund, which has about USD80m in assets. The mandate was previously assigned to Wellington Management. The change in contractor is a sign of Skandia’s desire to adopt a more aggressive strategy on large caps, as Fifth Third AM predicts lower returns from US large caps in 2010, which will favour high quality shares.
18/01/2010

Musical chairs at BNP Paribas

Sofia Merlo, 46, director of sales for private banking in France at BNP Paribas since February 2009, has been appointed as director of the private bank from 1 January 2010. She succeeds Marie-Claire Capobianco, who will now become head of BNP Paribas Wealth Management Networks, in charge of development of private banking activities in all countries where BNP Paribas has a banking network, a statement from the bank says. Merlo will aim to continue the development of the private bank in France; it currently manages EUR63bn and has 120,000 clients. She will report to François Villeroy de Galhau, a member of the group’s executive board, and head of the retail banking unit in France, and to Capiobanco.
18/01/2010

Sanders Capital joins Vanguard advising team

Two asset management professionals, Lewis Sanders, CEO and co-CIO of Sanders Capital, and John Mahedy, co-CIO and director of research at Sanders Capital, are joining the advisory team for the largest actively-managed fund at Vanguard, the Windsor II Fund, which has USD35bn in assets. The Sanders experts will manage the fund’s large caps allocation, which accounts for about 8.5% of assets in the fund. Sanders Capital uses a traditional bottom-up approach to identify undervalued shares. The sub-fund will include 35 to 45 positions, with a turnover rate of 30% to 40% per year.
18/01/2010

T. Rowe Price CIO defends US stocks

Brian Rogers, chairman and CEO of T. Rowe Price (USD400bn in assets) is worried that American investors who continue to snub US equities in favour of bonds or emerging markets equities are setting themselves up for a fall, the Financial Times reports. With an increase in interest rates on the cards, which could cut into the value of assets such as corporate bonds, and the rapid rise of emerging markets last year, Rogers predicts that investors would do well to buck the trend. In his opinion, emerging markets equities, high yield bonds and precious metals should be avoided.
18/01/2010

Reshuffle in asset management at BNY Mellon AM

BNY Mellon Asset Management has announced that, following the departure of Sean Simon, CEO and son of the founder of the fund of hedge fund management firm Ivy Asset Management, Ivy will now undergo a strategic re-examination to improve its position, the Wall Street Journal reports. In addition, Ivy, Mellon Global Alternative Investments (MGAi) and EACM Advisors will be put under the control of Phil Maisano, head of alternative investments. The grouping will create a fund of hedge fund management firm with assets of over USD8bn. The CEO of EACM, Bill Crerend, will become chairman, and assets at MGAI will be transferred to EACM. The New York Times reports that Ivy (USD7.2bn in assets) has also announced in a letter to clients that Peter Norris, CIO, has left the firm, and has been replaced by Fred Sloan, who joins the firm from its rival, Island Brook Capital. Lawrence R. Morgenthal, former managing director of Acom Partners, has also been recruited as COO.
18/01/2010

Perella makes a recruitment for asset management unit

Perella Weinberg has recruited a former JP Morgan Chase manager, William Johnson, who will be joining the firm as a partner and deputy head of the asset management unit. In his new position, Johnson, who has 25 years of experience in the asset management profession, will be in charge of developing the product range, for multi-manager investment strategies, private capital and hedge funds.
18/01/2010

TMW Pramerica signs up to UN-PRI

On Friday, TMW Pramerica Property Investments GmbH, a German affiliate of Pramerica Real Estate International AG, announced that last year it invested EUR325m to acquire real estate properties for its three institutional funds. The investment volume for the three funds represents about EUR2bn, and TMW Pramerica has announced plans to launch new “Spezialfonds” this year. Acquisitions in 2009 included a logistical property in Milan, a shopping centre in Lille, a supermarket property in Cologne, and offices in London, Paris and Seoul. The firm reopened its Weltfonds (DE 000A0DJ32 8) to subscriptions on 11 December, and on 31 December, its assets totalled EUR840.48m, down from EUR1.01bn before the reopening. Green management Pramerica Real Estate Investor, which is an affiliate of Pramerica Financial, has recently signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN-PRI). The move comes as the firm joins the Energy Star program by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pramerica’s objectives are to reduce the ecological footprint of its real estate portfolio, to improve its profitability through a reduction of operating costs, to increase the value of the properties through strategic management of energy and commodities consumption, and to improve the well-being of tenants, residents and employees, by making green living and working spaces available to them.
18/01/2010

JPMorgan AM confident in future for high yield in 2010

Michael Mewes, credit manager at JPMorgan AM, says credit remains the major conviction of the firm in the allocation of its risk budget. Corporate bonds will continue to outperform in the next two to three years, but the high yield segment will perform best. In this area, default rates may return to 4-6% by the end of the year.
18/01/2010

Target date funds outperform benchmarks in 2009

Using the new Target Date Metric (TDM) tool on 39 ranges of target-date funds, Russell Indexes has found a wide variance in performance, from 107.7% outperformance of the benchmark to underperformance of 31.8%. On average, however, the 39 product ranges posted average performance last year 36.4% above their benchmark indexes. Initially, performance rankings based on the TDM will be available only from Russell, but in the next few months, Morningstar will integrate them into its Morningstar Direct research platform, aimed at institutional investors. T. Rowe Price Retirement tops the one-year rankings, with outperformance of 107.7%, followed by John Hancock2 Lifecycle (106.8%), Oppenheimer Transition (94.8%), AllianceBernstein Retirement Strategy (71.7%) and Franklin Templeton Retirement Target (71.5%). On three years, only Franklin Templeton Retirement turned in outperformance (of 4.6%). American Century Lifesong and Wells Fargo Advantage show underperformance of 1.1% and 4.9%, respectively.
18/01/2010

La Financière Responsable measures the eco-social footprint of its funds

The asset management firm La Financière Responsable, a specialist in socially responsible investment, has sought to measure the extra-financial performance of its fund, LFR Euro Développement (EUR29bn in assets), in the two years since its creation. To achieve this, the asset manager has focused on social and environmental criteria, although financial management also takes other aspects into account. For 40 indicators considered, 19 have been retained. For each indicator, LFR considered 103 companies, including those in the portfolio, and others in the universe of the CAC 30 and Eurostoxx indices, to provide a basis for comparison. The resulting “social footprint” findings were satisfactory to LFR.
18/01/2010

Significant increase in assets in 2009

According to statistics from Strategic Insight, equities and bond mutual funds in the United States, including ETFs, last year attracted USD478bn in net subscriptions, of which an all-time record USD396bn went to bond products (traditional and ETFs). Total assets as of the end of December for all equities and bond mutual funds, including ETFs but not including variable annuity funds, represented a total of USD7.8trn. ETFs attracted USD144.4bn in net inflows, compared with USD176bn in 2008 and USD149bn in 2007. They finished the year with record assets of USD785.3bn, in 893 products, compared with USD535.2bn one year earlier, and USD613.2bn at the end of 2007.
18/01/2010

Allianz remains cautious about equities

Paul Achleitner, CFO, has announced that Allianz will this year continue to avoid equities and to prefer bonds, as global growth is too weak, and uncertainty about markets is too great. The German insurer manages a portfolio of more than EUR400bn, which last year was 355 invested in government bonds, 27% in Pfandbriefe, 15% in corporate bonds, and 8% in equities. Allianz is planning to double its private equity allocation to EUR15bn, while alternative investments will be increased to EUR30bn, the Börsen-Zeitung reports.
18/01/2010

Gen Re Capital becomes Oppenheim VAM

The acquisition of the management firm Gen Re Capital GmbH from Kölnische Rück (group Gen Re) by Bankhaus Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie was completed on Friday, as the necessary permission was issued by the antitrust and supervisory authorities (see Newsmanagers of 10 September 2009). Gen Re Capital (EUR11bn in assets) will now be known as Oppenheim VAM Kapalanlagegessellschaft mbH (OVAM), and will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Oppenheim Kapitalanlagegesellschaft (OKAG), which is in turn an affiliate of Sal. Oppenheim in charge of institutional management (EUR42bn). The two directors of Gen Re Capital, Andrea Simokat and Christian Finke, and most of the partners at Gen Re Capital, will join Oppenheim VAM.
18/01/2010

Matthias Aellig appointed as chief risk officer at Swiss Life

Swiss Life on 15 January announced the appointment of Matthias Aellig, 38, beginning in second quarter 2010. Aellig was previously an actuary at Zurich Life Switzerland. In his new position, he will be in charge of risk management, compliance, and actuary responsibilities for the Swiss Life group. He will report directly to the group’s CFO.
18/01/2010

Petercam appoints two partners and reshuffles executive board

Petercam has announced the appointment of Francis Heymans and Sylvie Huret as partners, from 1 January 2010. Since 2000, Heymans has been head of commercial development and marketing for asset management serving institutional clients, while Huret has been head of the financial and risk management unit at the gruop. From 18 January, the executive board at Petercam, which handles coordination and daily organisation for all the firm’s professions and functions, will undergo some changes. It will now be composed of Axel Miller, Pascal Minne, Sylvie Huret, Francis Heymans, Geoffroy d’Aspremont and Marc Janssens.
18/01/2010

Hauck & Aufhäuser is now completely privately owned

Michael Achramm, managing partner at the bank Hauck & Aufhäuser, has announced that the Mast family, owners of Mast-Jägermeister AG, have bought a stake in the bank equivalent to the 9% recently acquired by Frank Asbeck, founder and president of Solarworld, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The private bank is now wholly in private hands, as institutional investors such as BayernLB, Münchener Verein and WWK Versicherung have sold their stakes.
18/01/2010

Pictet launches a convertible bond fund managed by Philippe Jabre

On 1 February, Pictet Funds (Lux) will launch the Convertible Bonds sub-fund, whose management has been contracted out to Jabre Capital Partners (Jabcap). The fund (LU0366535077 for the P Cap share class) has already been the subject of a prospectus addendum published in France in September 2009, and already has sales licenses for 12 other countries. The initial subscription period runs from 11 to 25 January. The manager will be Philippe Jabre (formerly of GLG Partners), and the convertible bond portfolio will initially concentrate on large caps, 40% of which will be North American, 40% European, and 20% from other continents. The fund complies with the UCITS III directive, with a management commission of 1.6% and a performance commission of 20%. The initial subscription fee will be EUR100, and the fund, denominated in Euros, will also be available in shares hedged for currency risks in US dollars and Swiss francs.
18/01/2010

Net redemptions for Man Group

As of 31 December, assets at the alternative management firm Man Group Plc totalled USD44bn, compared with USD42.4bn three months earlier, following net redemptions of USD1.1bn, negative performance effects of USD1.2bn, and negative currency effects of USD0.3bn. “Other” factors, however, made a positive contribution of USD1bn to total assets under management. Redemptions concerned institutional management, where outflows totalled a net USD1bn. With the addition of lesses from the AHL fund range (5.6% in October-December, 16.9% in twelve months), this explains a 4% decline in assets in one quarter, says CEO Peter Clarke.
18/01/2010

Cazenove adds to British sales team

Investment Week reports that Cazenove Cpaital has recruited Louis Greening as a consultant for British distribution. In his new role, he will be in charge of developing relations with intermediaries, and strengthening relations with existing clients. Greening was previously at Skandia, where he was part of the team specialised in distribution.

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