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22/12/2009
Fonds

Simon Brazier quitte Schroders

Le gérant actions britanniques Simon Brazier a quitté Schroders pour prendre des responsabilités au sein d’une autre société de gestion, rapporte Money Marketing. Le fonds Schroder UK Equity qu’il gère sera repris par Ed Meier et Errol Francis. D’après Citywire du 22 décembre, Simon Brazier rejoint Threadneedle en tant que co-responsable des actions UK en début d’année prochaine.
Fonds
22/12/2009
Fonds

Des modifications pour un fonds de Natixis

Natixis Asset Management a annoncé lundi 21 décembre, par voie de presse, qu'à compter du 29 décembre, le fonds commun de placement Ecureuil Sécuripremière changera de nom et subira quelques modifications en matière de tarification et de mode de fonctionnement. A partir de cette date, le fonds s’appelera Sécuripremière FCP et ses frais de gestion annuels seront ramenés de 0,45 % à 0,30 %. En outre, la méthode de l’engagement de l’actif du fonds sera modifiée. «Il s’agira d’un fonds de type B. La méthode de calcul de l’engagement utilisée sera la méthode probabiliste telles que définie à l’article 411-44-5 du réglement général de l’AMF en lieu et place de la méthode d’approximation linaire», précise l’avis financier de la société de gestion.
Fonds
22/12/2009

Une belle augmentation pour un cadre d'AIG

Le gouvernement américain, représenté par Kenneth Feinberg, dit «le tsar des rémunérations», a accepté la demande de l’assureur AIG - qui a bénéficié de l’aide de l’Etat - d’accorder une augmentation de sa rémunération à un de ses hauts dirigeants, de 4,3 millions de dollars (3 millions d’euros), rapporte la Tribune. Principalement sous la forme de stock-options - 3,26 millions de dollars (2,26 millions d’euros). Le Trésor américain et AIG ont refusé de révéler le nom de ce dirigeant qui menaçait de quitter l’établissement.
22/12/2009

Un activiste au capital de Legg Mason

L’investisseur activiste Nelson Peltz a augmenté sa participation dans Legg Mason à 4,75 % du capital, indique The Baltimore Sun, citant la SEC.
22/12/2009

Un nouveau départ chez TCW

Ron Redell a quitté TCW où il était responsable de l’activité «mutual fund» pour rejoindre DoubleLine LLC, la nouvelle société créée la semaine dernière par Jeff Gundlach, l’ex-CIO de la société de gestion américaine du groupe Société Générale. Plus de 40 employés de TCW ont rejoint Jeff Gundlach dans sa nouvelle société, rappelle MutualFundWire.com.
22/12/2009

Injonction contre Deutsche IM

Un juge de New York a ordonné à Deutsche Investment Management de cesser d’utiliser trois outils logiciels maison dans la mesure où ils répliquent ou dupliquent des outils développés par Invesco Institutional, une branche d’Amvescap, rapporte le Financial Times Fund Management. Cette décision est le dernier rebondissement d’un feuilleton judiciaire avec Amvescap qui dure depuis près de trois ans. L’affaire a commencé en mars 2007 lorsque 16 membres de l'équipe taux d’Amvescap ont rejoint Deutsche.
22/12/2009
Fonds

Le capital risque renaît en Italie

En Italie, le capital risque, qui était pratiquement moribond en 2000, représente aujourd’hui une dizaine de fonds et des engagements d’environ 1 milliard d’euros, indique Il Sole – 24 Ore, citant la première étude Venture Capital Monitor. En 2009, le nombre d’opérations devrait être stable par rapport aux 23 de 2008.
Fonds
22/12/2009

Les têtes de Sal. Oppenheim tombent

Les dirigeants du gestionnaire de fortune Sal. Oppenheim vont démissionner d’ici à la fin de l’année, rapporte l’Agefi qui cite des sources proches du dossier. Une décision qui s’explique par les pertes de l’établissement, devenu propriété de Deutsche Bank, et des prêts consentis aux quatre principaux managers de Sal. Oppenheim. Sal. Oppenheim, qui gère des fortunes depuis 1789, a enregistré en 2008 sa première perte de l’après-guerre, en raison d’investissements malheureux.
22/12/2009

Alliance Trust AM launches a European equity fund

Alliance Trust Asset Management has just launched the Alliance Trust European Equity Fund. The fund is managed by Fiona MacRae, head of European equities. It aims to produce long-term total return from investment in a portfolio of companies in any economic sector in Europe, excluding the United Kingdom. The Fund’s benchmark is the FTSE All World Developed Europe ex-UK Index (Total Return). The Fund is managed with a long term investment horizon. A high conviction stock-picking approach is key to the fund’s long term returns. While Fiona primarily follows a bottom-up investment process, there are times when themes and top-down issues are important and the portfolio will reflect these. The portfolio is concentrated around 25-35 holdings.
22/12/2009

Simon Brazier leaves Schroders

UK equity fund manager Simon Brazier has left Schroders to take a senior management position at another asset management firm with his duties on the Schroder UK Equity fund passing to both Ed Meier and Errol Francis, says Money Marketing. According to Citywire, Simon Brazier is joining Threadneedle, as co-head of UK equities.
22/12/2009

LGIM closes Japanese hedge fund

Legal & General Investment Management is shutting down its Japan equities hedge fund, Japan Alpha, says Investment Week. The fund was launched in 2004 and had been managed by Andrew Nagele. LGIM is the latest in a string of managers to liquidate Japan long/short funds over the past 18 months. Others include Odey Asset Management, Baring Asset Management and Asia Genesis Asset Management, recalls Investment Week.
22/12/2009

Henderson to reopen New Star International Property

Henderson has agreed the final sale needed in order to re-open its New Star International Property fund, which has been suspended since 25 November 2008, says Investment Week. The GBP295.7m fund this month is expected to obtain over 90% of the liquidity necessary to re-open.
22/12/2009

ING IM needs to develop in retail to survive

ING must offload its insurance and asset management arm by 2013. Jan Straatman, Global CIO of ING IM, is alive to the danger that, by stripping ING IM of the distribution benefits of a retail bank network, the asset manager could become overly reliant on its insurance division. “The very big risk of this development could be that we are moving back towards a much more captive asset manager. That in itself will have a negative influence, decreasing competitive pressure and the ability to attract and retain talent,” he says to the Financial Times Fund Management. "(…) We can only survive long term if we can prove we can develop this organisation, that we are not merely the captive asset manager of an insurance organisation. We have to work hard to attract retail assets,” he adds.
22/12/2009

ETF Securities launches an ETF platform with three banks

ETF Securities Ltd has announced the launch of the ETF Exchange (Europe) (ETFX), a «third generation ETF platform». ETF Securities is initially working with BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi, and Rabobank International who are participants on the platform, acting as distribution partners, authorised participants and swap providers, with scope to add additional participants in the future. ETFX offers a total of 21 equity ETFs comprising Europe’s first ETF platform concentrating on resource-equity ETFs and double leveraged (2x) and double short (-2x) ETFs. These ETFs are listed across 5 European exchanges (the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Borse, NYSE-Euronext Amsterdam, the Borsa Italiana and the Irish Stock Exchange) and traded in up to 3 currencies (USD, EUR and GBP).
22/12/2009

Barclays Private Equity to launch a fund in 2010

La Tribune reports that Barclays Private Equity (BPE) will launch its fourth fund in the second half of 2010, with an objective of raising EUR2bn. The launch is an ambitious move, the newspaper says, as the parent firm in London will not lend its traditional support. In fundraising for the past three funds, the Barclays group contributed EUR600m each time.
21/12/2009

Madoff: Luxalpha liquidators on the offensive

At a shareholders meeting of Luxalpha, the Luxembourg Sicav fund with ties to Madoff in which French savings investor clients of the US broker held shares, liquidators announced that they have subpoenaed the depository for the Sicav, UBS Luxembourg, the promoter, UBS AG and other UBS structures with links to the Sicav, the newspaper Les Echos reports. In addition to these UBS entities, the advisor to the manager, Access International Advisors, the auditor, Ernst & Young, all the administrators of the Sicav, and the Luxembourg regulator, the CSSF also received subpoenas.
21/12/2009

Dublin lays out welcome mat for hedge funds

The Irish government has passed legislation to make it easier for hedge funds based in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens to move to Dublin, says the Financial Times.
21/12/2009

Aviva Gestión aims to double assets in two years

Funds People reports that José Caturla has announced that the team at Aviva Gestión is aiming for EUR500m in assets under management in Spain within a two-year time frame. As of the end of October, the asset management firm had assets of EUR225m, according to Inverco. The new objective for the firm comes following a reshuffle of the management at Aviva Gestión last year, and a decision to release Aviva products for sale in Spain, beyond portfolio management on behalf of the firm itself, as previously. Aviva funds are now available on the Inversis platforms, and have more recently become available on Allfunds. The product range on offer includes five funds (short-term bonds, bonds, Aviva valor Preferente, Spanish equities, and Euro zone equities), and José Caturla, who is also chief investment officer at Aviva España, says this range is enough for the time being.
21/12/2009

Edrim bets on guided architecture

In an interview with Cinco Días, Guillaume Poli, chairman of the executive board, explains that Edmond de Rothschild Investment Managers (Edrim) has opened an office in Serrano street in Madrid, because, after four years of serving the Spanish market from offices in Paris, clients demanded more direct service. Edrim predicts that Spain will transition from an open architecture to a guided architecture market, and hopes to be one of the 10 to 12 providers relied on by the major networks. Its product range consists of controlled risk and low-volatility products, which are in demand for Spanish clients. Currently, Edrim already has 12 products on offer in Spain, and its objective is to reach 30 products in the short term. Though the range includes a wide variety of products, Edrim is only planning to register those products in Spain which sell best there.
21/12/2009

Natixis Global Asset Management wholly taken over by Natixis

Natixis announced on Friday, December 18, that it has become the 100% owner of Natixis Global Asset Management, which includes the asset managers of Natixis, after buying a 11.34% stake which CNP Assurances has held in Natixis Global Asset Management by CE Participations. The transfer of shares in Natixis Global AM from CNP Assurances to CE Participations was approved by the board of directors of CNP Assurances on October 20, 2009, and was undertaken in the form of an exercise of a sell option in which CE Participations was the receiving party. Natixis Global AM had assets totalling EUR494bn as of September 30, 2009.
21/12/2009

BNY Mellon appoints new heads of client management for United States and Europe

BNY Mellon has announced the appointment of two new heads for the United States and Europe. For the United States, Frank Froud, executive vice president, has been appointed head of client management. He was previously head of client management for Europe. In his new role he will be based in New York. For Europe, Hani Kablawi, executive vice president, will become head of client management. He will retain his role as chairman for the Middle East and Africa, and will relocate from Dubai to London. Frank Froud and Hani Kablawi will both report directly to Tim Keaney, senior executive vice president and head of Global Client management.
21/12/2009

ETF Securities launches an ETC fund of physical gold stored in Zurich

With the ETFS Physical Swiss Gold fund, ETF Securities is launching an ETC which replicates the evolution of the price of gold, backed by a stock of the metal held in Zurich by the custodian JP Morgan Chase Bank. Each lingot is packaged, individually labelled, and deposited with the Trust. The product, denominated in US dollars and domiciled in Jersey, has been listed on the London Stock Exchange under the acronym SGBS since December 16, but is not subject to British stamp tax, and is also listed as Sharia-compliant. Management commission is 0.39%.
21/12/2009

Fidelity appoints a new head of Asia

Fidelity has appointed Arne Lindman as president and CEO for the Asia-Pacific region, following the departure of Brett Goodin, who held the same position, in May, Asian Investor reports. Lindman, who has recently left the British Prudential group, will join Fidelity in his new role on 19 April next year. He had previously been chief executive of asset management activities at Prudential, since May 2008.
21/12/2009

Apollo joins bidding for Gala Coral

The American private equity firm Apollo has offered GBP250m to the board at Gala Coral for a 50% stake in the firm, which has debt of GBP2.6bn, the Sunday Times reports. Blackstone is already in the running to acquire Gala Coral, which operates 2,000 betting shops, 148 bingo clubs and 227 casinos, as is a group of junior creditors to the group.
21/12/2009

High-level layoffs at Skandia

According to Money Marketing, Skandia Investment Group has laid off Steve Kowal, head of open architecture, and Tom Berger, head of investment research. Two others are reported to have been laid off from the open architecture team. Investment Week reports that COO John Tomlins and CFO Simon Lloyd have also been laid off.
21/12/2009

Jubilee selects BNY Mellon Asset Servicing

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has been selected by Jubilee Financial Products LLP to provide custody and fund administration services for its range of structured investment products.
21/12/2009
Fonds

EDHEC : seuls les hedge funds "short" ont été dans le rouge pour novembre

Selon les estimations d’Edhec-Risk, toutes les stratégies de hedge funds ont généré des performances en novembre, sauf celle des ventes à découvert, qui a perdu en moyenne 2,16 %. Les plus forts gains ont été constatés pour les fonds de futures (CTA global) avec 3,54 % et les distressed securities avec 2,32 %.Depuis le début de l’année, c’est l’arbitrage de convertibles qui affiche le meilleur résultat, avec un gain de 43,8 %, devant les marchés émergents (34,9 %). La vente à découvert est cette fois encore la lanterne rouge, avec une perte de 17,4 %.Depuis janvier 2001, les performances annuelles moyennes les plus élevées ont été enregistrées avec 12,4 % par les marchés émergents et avec 10,8 % par les distressed securities.
Fonds
21/12/2009

BNY Mellon : de nouveaux responsables gestion clientèle pour les Etats-Unis et l'Europe

BNY Mellon a annoncé la nomination de nouveaux responsables pour les Etats-Unis et l’Europe. Pour les Etats-Unis, Frank Froud, executive vice president, a été nommé responsable de la gestion clients. Il était précédemment responsable de la gestion client pour l’Europe. Il exercera ses nouvelles fonctions à partir de New York.Pour l’Europe, c’est Hani Kablawi, executive vice president, qui prend la responsabilité de la gestion de la clientèle. Il conserve ses fonctions de chairman pour le Moyen Orient et l’Afrique, et va déménager de Dubai à Londres. Frank Froud et Hani Kablawi seront tous deux rattachés directement à Tim Keaney, senior executive vice president et responsable du management Global Client.

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