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14/01/2010

Forte progression des encours de Polar Capital sur neuf mois

Au 31 décembre 2009, les actifs sous gestion de la société de gestion Polar Capital totalisaient près de 2,17 milliards de dollars, en progression de 47% par rapport au 31 mars 2009.Sur les neuf premiers mois de l’exercice 2009-2010, précise un communiqué de la société, la collecte nette s’inscrit à 378 millions de dollars, les fonds long only drainant 191 millons de dollars et les hedge funds 187 millions.
14/01/2010

Brevan Howard obligé de refuser des clients

Fondé en 2002, Brevan Howard gère maintenant un encours de 27 milliards de dollars, ce qui en fait le plus gros hedge fund d’Europe et l’un des cinq premiers dans le monde, rapporte le Financial Times dans un long article sur la société de gestion créée notamment par Alan Howard. La stratégie déployée par Brevan – le global macro – est basée sur le trading des marchés obligataires et devises. Elle devrait avoir du succès en 2010. La demande a été si forte que la société a déjà fermé ses portes à de nouvelles souscriptions, indique le FT.
14/01/2010

Les fonds perdent souscripteurs et capitaux

L’an dernier, environ 400.000 souscripteurs de fonds ont jeté l'éponge en Espagne, ce qui porte à 3,2 millions le nombre total de partant sur les trois dernières années, soit 36 % du nombre total d’investisseurs fin 2006, rapporte Expansión. Seule consolation : la baisse s’est ralentie (par rapport aux 2,2 millions de sorties de 2008), de même que les remboursements nets, tombés à 11,64 milliards d’euros contre 57,6 milliards.Cette inflexion de tendance est attribuable à un changement de la stratégie commerciale des groupes financiers. Ils s’intéressent désormais moins aux dépôts bancaires et promeuvent les fonds d’investissement pour améliorer leurs marges.Les gestionnaires qui ont enregistré la meilleure collecte en 2009 ont et InverCaixa avec 1,63 milliard d’euros, Ibercaja Gestión, avec 683 millions et Mutuactivos avec 547 millions d’euros. Au total 47,5 % des sociétés de gestion ont enregistré des souscriptions nettes l’an dernier, contre 12,5 % en 2008.
14/01/2010

Banca Caminos acquerra progressivement Gesconsult

Dans un premier temps, Banca Caminos, spécialiste de la gestion obligataire va acheter 35 % de la société de gestion indépendante Gesconsult dont elle prendra progressivement 100 % sur les quatre ans qui viennent, annonce Funds People. Gesconsult est surtout positionnée sur les fonds d’actions et diversifiés.Avec cette opération, l’encours du groupe Banca Caminos se situera aux alentours de 800 millions d’euros, l’objectif étant d’atteindre 1 milliard d’euros pour la fin de cette année. Selon Cinco Días, Caminos a l’intention de fusionner dans quatre ans Gesconsult (203 millions d’euros) avec sa société de gestion GestifonsaGesconsult était contrôlée jusqu'à présent à 91,82 % par Finconsult et à 2,11 % par Axa Seguros Generales.
14/01/2010

Banif va dédommager les porteurs d'obligations islandaises

La banque privée du Santander, Banif, propose à ses clients espagnols porteurs d’obligations de banques islandaises (Kaupthing, Landsbanki et Glitnir) diverses formules d'échange personnalisées qui leur permettront de récupérer entre le quart et le moitié de leur investissement, rapporte Cinco Días. En substitution, Banif leur propose des titres préférentiels d'émetteurs solvables, notamment celles du groupe Santander
14/01/2010

Le britannique Dalton décline son fonds européen au Luxembourg

Dalton Strategic Partnership va lancer début février une version conforme à la directive OPCVM de son fonds d’actions européennes (MEF).Leonard Charlton, qui gère le MEF (1,7 milliard de dollars), sera également en charge de la sicav basée au Luxembourg Melchior Selected Trust European Fund (MSTEF). Depuis son lancement en octobre 2006, le MEF ou Melchior European Fund a dégagé un rendement de 22,2 %, à comparer à une baisse de 16,6% de l’indice MSCI paneuropéen.Il s’agit d’un fonds de performance absolue qui prendra des positions long/short dans des grandes capitalisations européennes liquides. Et qui conjugue cette stratégie avec du trading tactique.Le fonds devrait comporter entre 30 et 60 lignes, l’investissement minimum étant fixé à 10.000 dollars pour les particuliers et 250.000 dollars pour les investisseurs institutionnels.Les frais de gestion sont de 1,5 % pour les institutionnels et 2 % pour le retail, avec une commission de performance de 20%.
14/01/2010
Fonds

Record d'actifs sous gestion pour les ETF

Tant aux Etats-Unis qu’en Europe, les ETF ont enregistré à fin 2009 des encours record de respectivement 705,5 milliards de dollars (+ 41,9 % en un an) et 223,5 milliards contre 142,82 milliards un an plus tôt (+ 56,5 %). BlackRock dénombrait au 31 décembre 821 ETF cotés 2.359 fois sur 18 Bourses contre 772 produits aux Etats-Unis.Selon Lipper FMI, les souscriptions nettes affichées par les ETF domiciliés en Europe ont représenté 36,5 milliards de dollars durant les dix premiers mois de l’an dernier, alors que celles des autres mutual funds se situaient à 210,5 milliards de dollars.Les trois premiers promoteurs d’ETF s’adjugent 75 % du marché : iShares (BlackRock), avec 38,4 %, Lyxor Asset Management (Société Générale), avec 20,4 % et db x-trackers (Deutsche Bank), avec 16,6 %. Cela correspond à des montants respectifs de 185,7 milliards de dollars, de 45,6 milliards et de 37,2 milliards.
Fonds
13/01/2010

MBO at Merck Finck Invest AM

The Munich-based private bank Merck Finck & Co Privatbankiers (KBL group) on Tuesday announced that on 1 January, it sold its affiliate Merck Finck Invest Asset Management GmbH (EUR1.75bn in assets) to the management of the firm. The heads of the new MFI Asset Management are Johann Peter Roßgoderer and Johann Ipfelkofer.The new firm, which has been issued a license by BaFin, will specialise in asset allocation strategies for institutional funds. It will retain its privileged ties with the bank in the areas of wealth management and open-ended funds.
13/01/2010

Appointment at Natixis AM

Natixis Asset management has announced the appointment of Aline Flamain as director of customer service in the office of the director of development. In this position, she will be in charge of client reporting, performance attribution and client assistance. Flamain, 38, was previously at Crédit Agricole Asset Management, from 2005, where she was head of the commercial and marketing information system in the customer services department, in charge of Relationship Marketing Consumer areas, asset management, inflows, and product reference.
13/01/2010

Crédit Agricole PE signs up to PRI

Crédit Agricole Private Equity has become a signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). By adopting the Principles, the private equity firm pledges to include ESG issues in its investment analysis and decision-making process, to take ESG questions into account in its shareholder policies and practices, to require business in which Crédit Agricole Private Equity invests to publish appropriate information about ESG questions, to foster the acceptance and application of the Principles by asset management actors, to work together to increase the effectiveness of signatories in the application of the Principles, and to individually track activities and progress in the application of the Principles.
13/01/2010

Financière de Champlain acquires 42 % de Nef Capital Ethique Management

Financière de Champlain, a specialist in sustainable development funds, has acquired a 42% stake in the capital of Nef Capital Ethique Management (NCEM), a private equity firm founded in December 2007, through an acquisition of the stake in that firm acquired in 2008 by Sarasin-France, which has been held since 2009 by the UFG group. The investor thus becomes the largest shareholder in NCEM, alongside the Société Financière de la Nef (42%); the remainder is held by Ecofi Investissements (12%) and the management. The change in shareholders was provoked by the arrival of UFG, which is considered a potential competitor to NCEM, in the capital of Sarasin-France. This has not prevented the Banque Sarasin from continuing to produce extra-financial investment analysis of FCPR funds from NCEM. On the contrary, says Jacques Favier, CEO of NCEM: the new configuration will allow the insurer total independence from the Sarasin brand.
13/01/2010

Julius Baer recruits a director from UBS

Julius Baer has announced the recruitment of Lee Boon Keng as co-director of investment solutions in Asia, and co-CIO for the region. Lee will be based in Hong Kong; he was previously a chief strategist at UBS Wealth Management for Asia, Asian Investor report. A search is underway at UBS to replace him.
13/01/2010

Other hedge funds may be implicated in Galleon fraud case

A hedge-fund manager known to prosecutors as «Tipper X» in the Galleon Group insider-trading investigation could lead prosecutors to scrutinize hedge funds not previously implicated in the probe, people familiar with the case say. The manager was identified as Thomas Hardin, a trader at Lanexa Global Management. Mr. Hardin is included in a list of individuals that the Securities and Exchange Commission has provided to defense lawyers as potential witnesses.
13/01/2010

Galleon founder challenges wiretap evidence

Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, accused of fraud and conspiracy, attacked the U.S. government’s wiretap evidence on Tuesday, says the Financial Times. His lawyer John Dowd said that he would file a motion to suppress telephone recordings used to arrest his client last October. Raj Rajaratnam also won approval to stay free on bail.
13/01/2010

AFG and FIR unveil new transparency code for open-ended SRI funds

The guiding transparency principles initially released in 2005, were in need of a brushing up. Thus, after 18 months of work, the AFG on 12 January unveiled the new version of the principles, now known as the Transparency Code for open-ended SRI funds, designed and approved by the AFG and the FIR (Forum for Responsible Investment). The chairman of the AFG, Pierre-Henri de La Porte du Theil, says that the board of directors of the association has decided to make adherence ot teh code obligatory for all funds bearing the open-ended SRI stamp. For their part, the AFG and FIR will engage to publish a list of funds that have signed up to the code on their websites.
13/01/2010

ETF assets top USD1trn

The amount of assets held by exchange-traded funds has climbed above USD1,000bn for the first time. The figure at the end of 2009 was USD1,032bn, up 45 per cent from a year earlier, according to a BlackRock report to be released on Wednesday.
13/01/2010

Equities research: Nasdaq OMX extends agreement with Morningstar

Nasdaq OMX on 11 January announced that it has extended its previously-announced agreement with Morningstar in the area of equities research. In June 2009, the exclusive agreement between the two firms included basic research produced by Morningstar on all companies traded on the Nasdaq. Now, it includes deeper analysis of the same companies. Nasdaq OMX says in a statement that research provided by Morningstar in the past few months has been very favourably received by the companies concerned. Morningstar’s product offerings are all the more welcome as coverage in terms of the number of small and mid-sized companies has often been considerably reduced recently if not completely discontinued.
13/01/2010

Tiberius recommends investing in corn and coffee

Swiss-based Tiberius Asset Management is this year predicting 20% returns on investments in some commodities, such as corn, due to demand for ethanol, and coffee, due to a shortage of arabica for meteorological reasons, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. Gold will also be a good investment. However, aluminium, zinc, and nickel prices rose too far in 2009, and have not much further room to increase. Equities will not be likely to continue their increases of last year, and the Dax may fall back to 5600 points by the end of the year, from 6000 currently.
13/01/2010

Metrópolis and La Caixa get their start in the City

The Metroinvest fund, founded by Metrópolis and clients of the private bank La Caixa, founded one year ago with EUR150m in acapital, is making its first deal in London with the acquisition of a 3,000 square metre office property near Finsbury Square for GBP20.2m, Expansión reports. The vendor is a fund from the German asset management firm IVG. Metroinvest is planning to invest about EUR500m in two years.
13/01/2010

London HFs haven't come, yet

British hedge funds’ interest for settling in Geneva is slow to materialize. Only a few big London names like Bluegold, CQS Asset Management and Tiresias Capital already have set up a physical presence on the shores of the lake over the last 18 months, Le Temps reports. According to the Swiss Funds Association, some 10 to 20 hedge funds have been settling in Switzerland over the last two years.These FMCs have limited their presence to 2-3 person offices. Neither Brevan Howard Asset Management nor BlueCrest have actually opened the rep offices the had said they would. They plan to move big teams -up to 50 people- to Geneva, which would represent 20% of their present headcount.
13/01/2010

Wendel launches Helikos SPAC

The French investment firm Wendel is releasing 25 million shares in Helikos, a “Special Purpose Acquisition Companiy” (SPAC), at EUR10 per share, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The shares will be available from 2 February. The board of directors, composed of Roland Lienau, Hermann Simon and Jürgen Heraeus, will aim to build up a “hidden champion” war chest of EUR650m-EUR750m, with revenues of more than EUR3bn, which will then immediately be listed through Helikos. The firm should be expected to grow by 10% per year, and be one of the top three actors in its industry.
13/01/2010

ETFlab launches a jumbo-Pfandbriefe fund

ETFlab Investment, an affiliate of DekaBank, has added the ETFlab iBoxx € Liquid Germany Covered Diversified, a German-registered index-linked fund (DE000A1A4DP7) which complies with UCITS III and replicates the performance of the Markit iBoxx € Liquid Germany Covered Diversified index, to trading on the XTF segment of the Xetra electronic platform from Deutsche Börse. The fund covers the evolution of the 30 most liquid German Pfandbriefe (jumbo-Pfandbriefe), which have a minimum volume of EUR1bn. The index may include only up to four Pfandbriefe from the same issuer. The product was launched on 16 December 2009, and has assets of EUR30.27m. Management commission is 0.09%. With this new fund, the XTF segment now includes 550 ETFs.
13/01/2010

2009 was a record year for Swedish funds

In 2009, funds on sale in Sweden posted net subscriptions of SEK135bn (about EUR13.2bn), the Swedish fund association Fondbolagens Förening reports. This is a record annual amount, which is all the more surprising as it comes after a difficult year in 2008, when funds saw outflows of SEK7.8bn. Inflows got a boost from investor interest in equities funds, which alone saw net inflows of SEK112bn. Diversified funds and bond funds received SEK24bn and SEK22bn. However, money market funds saw outflows of SEK23bn, while hedge funds had SEK1bn in outflows. The Swedish association observes that 2009 was also an exceptional year in terms of performance. On average, equities funds earned 38%. In the month of December alone, Swedish funds posted net subscriptions of SEK36.6bn, with SEK28.7bn for equities funds.
13/01/2010

Ignis AM appoints a CIO for fixed income

Ignis Asset Management has appointed Chris Fellingham as Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income. He joins Ignis from George Soros’ London based asset management business where he has been working since 2008. Prior to joining Soros he spent 12 years at Blackrock/Merrill Lynch/Mercury Asset Management.Chris Fellingham will join the Ignis Board and take overall responsibility for the company’s circa GBP50bn of fixed income assets. Peter Reid remains CIO responsible for all other asset classes – circa GBP21 billion of equity, property and alternative assets.
13/01/2010

PSigma IM appoints a CIO

PSigma Investment Management has recruited Tom Becket at chief investment officer (CIO) and Tim Gregory as director of global equities, Money Marketing reports. Becket joined the firm six years ago, and is currently director if investment strategies. PSigma Investment Management manages more than GBP1bn in assets.
13/01/2010

Guotai gets a USD700m QDII quota

The Chinese asset management firm Guotai has received a USD700m quota from the regulatory authorities as part of the QDII program. Z-Ben Advisors reports that Guotai will be the only major fund management firm which will resist the temptation to launch an ETF based on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) index: instead, its product will be based on the Nasdaq 100. The fund is slated for launch by the end of first half, and will be the first non-Hong Kong based single-country fund to be offered as part of the QDII program. It is likely that UBS SDIC has also received a USD500m quota, but no announcement has yet been made so far. Z-Ben Advisors remarked on Wednesday that nine fund management firms to date have received a total of USD7bn in QDII quotas, but only E-Fund, China Merchants and China Universal also have a license to sell their products, which is the last stage before the effective launch of the funds.
13/01/2010

Private banking profit margins shrinking

Horst Schmidt, chairman of the managing board at the German private bank Delbrück Bethmann Maffei (ABN Amro group), says that net profits in European private banking have fallen to 17 basis points in terms of assets under management, down from 35 basis points previously, due to the crisis. This remains a comfortable figure, but increases the critical size necessary for a private bank to EUR10bn under management, from EUR6-7bn previously, the Börsen-Zeitung reports. Delbrück saw an increase in its assets of EUR2bn in 2009, to EUR13bn. The bank is planning to increase its distribution staff and possibly to make acquisitions.

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