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16/03/2009

Royaume-Uni - Skandia sélectionne Dalton Capital et SVM

Standia Investment Group (SIG) a annoncé que, pour exploiter les inefficiences sur le marché actions japonais et sur les entreprises européennes «sous-recherchées», il a sélectionné deux gestionnaires spécialisés, Dalton Capital (Hong Kong) Ltd et l'écossais SVM Asset Management Ltd (Edimbourg), comme subadvisors pour, respectivement, le Skandia Japanese Equity Fund et le Skandia European Opportunities Fund.
16/03/2009

Suisse - Madoff : UBP dédommage partiellement ses clients

Selon l’Agefi, UBP, lourdement exposée au scandale Madoff propose à ses clients lésés un remboursement correspondant à la moitié de la valeur initiale de leurs investissements. #Le paiement sera réalisé annuellement en numéraire sur une période de cinq ans à compter du 31 décembre 2009# et #il sera assorti d’un intérêt de 2 % sur chaque tranche annuelle remboursée#, précise le quotidien numérique
16/03/2009

Monde - Secret bancaire : la Suisse ne devrait pas être pénalisée

Dans un entretien à L"Agefi suisse, le président de Genève Place Financière, Ivan Pictet, estime que, «si toutes les places font des concessions, et on semble se diriger vers cette évolution, alors la compétitivité de la Suisse ne sera pas fondamentalement remise en question». Il est crucial que la Suisse obtienne un «level playing field». A l"interne, nous devons également nous réformer pour renforcer l"attractivité de la place financière suisse».
16/03/2009

Suisse - La SFA réclame la réciprocité

La Swiss Fund Association (SFA) s’est félicitée vendredi des propositions du Conseil fédéral en matière d’assistance administrative pour les questions fiscales. Gérard Fischer, président de la SFA, estime toutefois que Berne doit réclamer en contrepartie en matière d’accès aux marchés pour les acteurs suisses, notamment en connectant le marché suisse des fonds au marché européen des OPCVM. Matthäus den Otter, directeur général de la SFA, a réclamé pour sa part que les discriminations pratiquées par d’autres Etats comme l’Allemagne et l’Italie par exemple, doivent être abrogées.
16/03/2009

World - Gordon Brown: ?USA will help to regulate hedge funds?

At the conclusion of a summit with German chancellor Angela Merkel, the British prime minister Gordon Brown on Saturday declared that in his opinion the US is ready to support the Europeans in their efforts to regulate external establishments in the banking system, particularly hedge funds, Channelnewsasia.com reports.
16/03/2009

United Kingdom - Barclays puts iShares up for sale

Barclays and JPMorgan Cazenove are seeking a buyer for iShares, a division of Barclays Global Investors, the Sunday Times reports. The owners are hoping to raise GBP5bn, in order to avoid having to accept government assistance to cover losses related to toxic assets. Barclays is also seeking buyers for several large credit portfolios.
16/03/2009

United States - Madoff estimated his assets at USD823m

On Friday evening, a New York court published a list of assets declared to the SEC in December by Bernard Madoff and his wife. It comes out to USD823m, of which USD700m were held by the firm led by the confessed fraudster, Die Welt reports.
16/03/2009

United Kingdom - Skandia selects Dalton Capital and SVM

Skandia Investment Group (SIG) has announced that, in order to exploit inefficiencies on the Japanese equities markets and ?under-researched? European businesses, it has selected two specialised management firms, Dalton Capital (Hong Kong) Ltd and the Scottish firm SVM Asset Management Ltd (Edinburgh), as subadvisors for the Skandia Japanese Equity Fund and the Skandia European Opportunities Fund, respectively.
16/03/2009

United States - Deutsche Bank attacks Reserve Management

Ignites relays reports in Financial Times Deutschland that Deutsche Bank is suing Reserve Management in the United States for a refund of USD72.2m which were invested in the Reserve Primary Fund. On the morning of 15 September, before the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the German bank ordered a redemption of USD500m, and received verbal consent - but they only got USD428m the next day.
16/03/2009

Norway - Government pension fund puts Siemens under surveillance

Kristin Halvorsen, the Norwegian finance minister, has decided to place Siemens under observation due to systematic large-scale corruption practiced by the group over many years. This may lead to the firm being expelled from the portfolio of the Government Pension Fund - Global, formerly known as the Oil Fund. ?Even so, Siemens is now in the eye of public opinion, and has begun rolling out a series of anti-corruption measures. Putting the firm under observation will allow the Fund to maintain pressure to incite the German group to continue its efforts in the fight against corruption,? the Norwegian minister stated.As of 31 December 2008, the Government Pension Fund - Global held NOK6.3bn in Siemens shares, which represent 1.34% of voting rights in the firm.
16/03/2009

Switzerland - SFA wants to see reciprocal agreements with EU markets

The Swiss Fund Association (SFA) on Friday welcomed propositions by the Federal Council to provide administrative assistance on tax-related questions. Gérard Fischer, chairman of the SFA, says that in return, the Swiss government should ask for access to markets for Swiss actors, in order to connect Switzerland to European OPCVM markets in particular. Matthäus den Otter, president of the SFA, declares that discrimination against Switzerland practised by other states such as Germany and Italy should be stopped.
16/03/2009

World - Alex Stanic leaves BNY Mellon

Alex Stanic, manager of the Newton Global Opportunities fund, has resigned, and is expected to join the British management boutique River & Mercantile as its new head of equities management, Citywire reports on 12 March. Stanic also managed the BNY Mellon Global Equity and the BNY Mellon Global Intrepid.
16/03/2009

Sweden - Funds post net subscriptions of SEK2bn

In February, Swedish funds posted net subscriptions of SEK2.1bn, largely thanks to net inflows of EUR1.1bn to equities funds, the Swedish investment fund association (Fondbolagens Förening) states.Hedge funds and diversified funds posted net inflows of SEK0.6bn and SEK0.2bn, respectively. Money market funds are also in positive territory (+SEK0.3bn), while bond funds have seen net outflows of SEK0.1bn.
16/03/2009

World - Hedge fund sector shrank in 2008

According to the most recent Investhedge Billion Dollar Club survey, assets in hedge funds contracted by about 30% in 2008, and losses averaged 16.63%. The largest funds of hedge funds, those with more than USD1bn in assets, had assets under management at the end of last year of USD744bn. There were 137 of them at the end of December, compared with 164 one year previously. The three actors with more than USD30bn in assets are UBS Global Asset Management with USD34bn, Union Bancaire Privée with USD33bn, and HSBC Alternative Investments with USD31.88bn.
16/03/2009

World - Eleven ?sustainable? banks create an international alliance

At a meeting in the Netherlands from 2 to 4 March, eleven banks with strong commitments to sustainable development founded the Global Alliance of Banking on Values, which will aim to deliver a social, ecological and sustainable economic response to the global financial crisis. The establishments in the alliance have assets of over USD10bn, and more than 7 million clients in 20 countries.The alliance includes the following banks: Alternative Bank ABS (Switzerland), Banca Popolare Etica (Italy), GLS Bank (Germany), Banex (Nicaragua); BRAC Bank (Bangladesh), Mibanco (Peru), Merkur Bank (Denmark); New Resource Bank and ShoreBank Corp (United States), Triodos (Netherlands) and XacBank (Mongolia).
16/03/2009

United Kingdom - Paulson made more than USD300m money by shorting Lloyds and HBOS

Fondsprofessionell relays Bloomberg reports that the alternative management firm Paulson & Co has earned gains since September of GBP311m by short-selling shares in Lloyds Banking Group and HBOS. Paulson also declared a short position amounting to 1.17% of capital in Barclays, whose shares have since fallen by two thirds.
16/03/2009

United States - Daniel Sontag joins board at BlackRock

Daniel C. Sontag, chairman of Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, has been appointed as a member of the board of directors at BlackRock (USD1.3trn in assets as of the end of December). He and Brian T. Moynihan, president of global banking and wealth management at Bank of America, will replace John Thain and Gregory J. Fleming, who have resigned.
16/03/2009

Germany - Mirror, mirror, on the wall...

DWS (Deutsche Bank), Deka (savings banks) and Allianz Global Investors are all claiming to be the number one management firm in Germany. All three of them are right, in their way. In the case of DWS, it is true in terms of asset volumes in securities funds; for Deka, it is true if funds of funds and house funds in which they are invested are included in the count; and for AGI, it is true counting assets under management for the insurance group. Union Investment (co-operative banks), meanwhile, is number one for assets in Reister retirement savings accounts, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. But the question of which firm has the most assets under management doesn’t say anything about which one is the best.
16/03/2009

Germany - Talanx to buy stakes in Swiss Life and MLP

According to financial industry sources, Talanx is preparing to buy a 10% stake in Swiss Life, and to buy up 10% of the 24% stake in MLP held by the insurer, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The Talanx group incudes Hannover Rück (Hanovre Ré), HDI-Gerling and Aspecta, the latter two of which already cooperate with AWD and MLP in life insurance distribution. Swiss Life owns 100% of AWD; its stake in MLP was diluted by a capital increase which Axa and Allianz subscribed to.
16/03/2009

Germany - Hedge funds may sue Porsche

The Financial Times reports that hedge funds belonging to the Alternative Investment Management Association are considering a lawsuit against Porsche over its involvement in the spectacular rise in the share price of Volkswagen last year which caused the funds billions of dollars in losses.
16/03/2009

United Kingdom - Centaurus launches a fund

The hedge fund Centaurus Capital, managed by former BNP Paribas traders Bernard Oppetit and Randy Freeman, will launch a new merger arbitrage fund, the Financial Times reports. The new product will charge 1.5% per year in fees and 15% of profits, which is less than the 2% and 20% usually charged in the sector. The fund will offer total transparency as to its positions and will allow monthly withdrawals with 30 days’ advance notice.
16/03/2009

United States - ING IM merges two closed-ended real estate funds

ING Investment Management has announced that the boards of trustees of the closed real estate funds ING Clarion Real Estate Income Fund and ING Clarion Global Real Estate Income Fund have approved the merger of the two funds. The funds are managed by ING Clarion Real Estate Securities (USD11bn in assets as of the end of 2008).
16/03/2009

Europe - Private equity in the red

The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association will announce on Friday that the European venture capital sector lost 26.4% in 2008, the Financial Times reports.
16/03/2009

United Kingdom - RAB changes managers of UK fund

The hedge fund manager RAB Capital has replaced the managers of its British fund, Mark Darell Brown and Steve Thompson, as the fund’s assets have fallen from USD400m two years ago to less than USD5m currently, the Financial Times reports. Nearly all the fund’s clients left in the wake of 31% losses last year. The fund will now be managed by Simon Acton and Alex Codrington, the managers of the RAB European fund.
16/03/2009

United States - Madoff appeal to be heard on 19 March

Following the incarceration of Bernard Madoff, his lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin will appeal the decision before a New York federal court. The former broker’s appeal will be heard on Thursday, 19 March. Les Echos reports that the estimated size of the fraud has been revised upward from USD50bn to USD65bn.
16/03/2009

United States - JPMorgan leads US managers

JPMorgan posted the largest subscriptions of any US management firm last year, with USD140bn, the Financial Times reports, citing Morningstar. But excluding money market funds, the management firm posted net redemptions of USD1.3bn in the twelve months to the end of February.
16/03/2009

United States - Oppenheimer recruits former Stanford managers

Not all is lost for the 1,000 former employees of Stanford who lost their jobs last week, says the Financial Times. 100 of them have been offered jobs at the financial services group Oppenheimer Holdings, which is hoping to grow by opening new branches in the United States.
16/03/2009

United States - Stanford's labyrinth

Compared to Bernard Madoff, Sir Allen Stanford is small fry. But he stands out for the size and complexity of his USD8bn fraud, the Financial Times reports. The Stanford group controlled at least 175 entities, including banks and restaurants in more than 100 cities, such as Houston, Montreal, Caracas, Quito, and St. Croix.

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