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12/01/2009

United States - Half of Madoff loss borne by foreigners

Roughly half the estimated losses from Bernard Madoff"s alleged ?Ponzi? are being borne by non-US investors, according to the Financial Times. While most of the small individual investors appear to be in the US, some of the biggest by dollar amount were from abroad.
12/01/2009

Italy - Funds will have to be more transprent on derivatives

When taking their investment decisions, funds will have to make sure that their assets are easily tradable and above all that their exposure to derivative instruments are under control, thanks to adequate risk-management systems, Il Sole-24 Ore says. The paper states that the Bank of Italy has just updated its regulations concerning the financial instruments which are eligible for the funds, along the lines of the European directive of 2007.
12/01/2009

World - Deborah Fuhr (BGI) : "Investors are attracted by the transparency of ETFs"

Deborah Fuhr, who is in charge of ETF research at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), told Les Echos that at end-October, European ETFs had recorded inflows of USD61bn. This success is a result of the transparency of these funds. She expects that investors will turn more to fixed income, credit ETFs this year. And they also could come back to ETFs based on bright indices for the US, European and Japanese markets.
12/01/2009

Germany - db x-trackers netted EUR12bn in 2008

db x-trackers succeeded in beating its CEO’s forecast: while Thorsten Michalik was quoted as saying the Deutsche Bank’s ETF affiliate would reach EUR17bn in AUM for 2008, it actually reached some 18.6bn thanks to EUR12.01bn in net inflows, of which EUR6.77 for equity ETFs and EUR5.24bn for fixed income ETFs. During the first four days of 2009, db x-trackers has recorded more than EUR1bn in net new money.
12/01/2009

United States - Harbinger Capital imposes limits on withdrawals

Harbinger Capital, the activist US hedge fund headed by Philip Falcone, joined the list of funds restricting withdrawals for investors a day before the end of last year, according to two investors quoted by the Financial Times. Harbinger"s main fund rose almost 43 per cent in the first six months of last year but lost all its profits and ended the year down 27.1 per cent. The fund now manages about USD6bn, down from a peak of almost USD20bn last summer.
12/01/2009

United Kingdom - Patrick Degorce has left TCI

Patrick Degorce, a former Merrill Lynch executive and ex-French navy officer, has left The Children’s Investment Fund Management LLP, which he helped launch in 2004. The fund, known as TCI, was down about 43% in 2008, according to people familiar with the matter quoted by the Wall Street Journal.
12/01/2009

United Kingdom - SocGen backs Geoff Grant

Geoff Grant, co-founder of failed hedge fund Peloton Partners, has succeeded in launching another fund, according to the Financial Times. Grant Capital Partners has backing of close to USD100m from Société Générale, according to two people familiar with the fund. It has assets under management of about USD130m.
12/01/2009

United Kingdom - Rathbone's AUM dropped by one fifth in 2008

Rathbone Brothers on Friday said its total AUM was GBP10.46bn at end-December, down from GBP 13.12bn twelve months earlier, which is a drop of 20.3%. Assets managed by Rathbone Investment Management Ltd were down 16% at GBP 9.43bn, but the annualised growth of the underlying assets has been 7.3%.AUM at Rathbone Unit Trust Management Ltd dived 45.5% to GBP 1.89bn, with net outflows of GBP234m.
12/01/2009

Austria - One new and one old head for Bank Medici

Bank Medici, which has been put under government control after it said it had lost up to USD2bn in the Madoff scheme, has a new managing board, with the Britishman John Holliwell and the Austrian Werner Tripolt, who was a member of the old management and had resigned on January 2nd.
12/01/2009

Spain - Funds with Madoff contents netted EUR15m in fees last year

Expansión has reckoned that 45 funds in Spain have acknowledged a direct or indirect exposure to the Madoff scheme. Their total AUM is somewhat less than EUR1bn, of which less than EUR50m invested in Madoff’s funds. These funds have earned some EUR15m in fees last year.
12/01/2009

United Kingdom - Patrick Degorce has left TCI

The Deutsche Börse share Friday lost 7.25% on Xetra, because market participants feared that the TCI hedge fund would sell its interest. This rumor was fed according to the Börsen-Zeitung by the announcement that Patrick Degorce has left the alternative management company on January 1st.
12/01/2009

Germany - Properties in RE funds are "young"

According to the German asset managers association (BVI), 66.2% of the properties featuring in the portfolios of the open-ended real estate funds are «younger» than 10 years and 52.4% are let for periods ending after January 1st, 2013.BVI also stated that 377 properties have been either bought or sold by the funds during the twelve months to end october, for a total EUR17.8bn.
12/01/2009

Spain - More than 20 foreign asset managers entered the market in 2008

Expansión reports that more than 20 foreign fund managers last year made their first inroads in the Spanish market, among which F&C Investments, T. Rowe Price, Scottish Widows, Raiffeisen Capital Management, Mirae Asset Management and BPI. Standard Life Investments is expected to get a license in the coming weeks.
12/01/2009

Italy - CAAM AI introduces side-pockets for its hedge funds

Crédit Agricole Asset Management Alternative Investment Sgr is the first asset manager in Italy that has adopted the new liquidity rules for hedge funds, says Il Sole - 24 Ore. These new measures allow asset managers to introduce gates and side-pockets. CAAM has created a side-pocket for the illiquid assets of its funds from the ranges Multi Arbitrage, Multi Strategy, Long/Short and Opportunity.
12/01/2009

United Kingdom - Schroders among the potential buyers of New Star

According to the Financial Times, about 10 potential buyers, including Schroders, have submitted first-round proposals for New Star, the struggling fund management group. Other parties that have submitted indicative proposals for the asset manager include Henderson, Gartmore, Neptune IM and Aberdeen AM. People familiar with the situation said the price tag being put on New Star was above GBP100m, although some other observers were sceptical that this level would be achieved.
09/01/2009

France - Immobilier d?entreprise : 2009, année de tous les dangers

Selon La Tribune, citant le GIE Immostat (Atisreal, CBRE, DTZ, Jones Lang LaSalle), alors que la crise de l’immobilier de bureaux du début des années 1990 est encore dans tous les esprits, les investissements en Île-de-France ont chuté de 58,8 % en 2008 et la demande placée de 14,4 %.Si les valeurs vénales ont chuté de 15 % à 20 %, une nouvelle baisse est possible en 2009 et, sauf reprise du crédit, le marché de l’investissement pourrait reculer à nouveau en 2009, pour tomber à 7 milliards d’euros.
09/01/2009

Europe - Les gérants vont verrouiller leurs fonds

Les gestionnaires vont durcir les conditions de liquidité de leurs nouveaux produits, mais les promoteurs devront rester flexibles face à la concurrence, indique Ignites Europe du 8 janvier. «Ce phénomène a déjà commencé avec les fonds de hedge funds, mais cela va concerner de plus en plus les fonds immobiliers, les fonds crédit et d"autres», indique Aymeric Poizot, analyste chez Fitch Ratings.
09/01/2009

France - 10,5 milliards de plus pour les banques tricolores

Selon La Tribune, l"Elysée a fait savoir que les banques françaises vont profiter d’un nouveau prêt de l’Etat de 10,5 milliards d’euros d’ici à la fin du premier trimestre, après la première tranche de 10,5 milliards d’euros prêtée en décembre. Ces fonds seront rémunérés à un peu plus de 8% d’intérêts annuels, précise le quotidien financier.
09/01/2009

Europe - Crédit : la dette en euro se place bien

Selon La Tribune, le marché du crédit en euros est au zénith comme en attestent les 7 milliards levés par les entreprises non financières le mercredi 7 janvier. «Les entreprises de services aux collectivités (utilities) gardent les faveurs des investisseurs», précise le quotidien tout en soulignant que le marché primaire reste réservé aux signatures simple A et que les émetteurs doivent offrir des spreads particulièrement attractifs pour placer leur dette.
09/01/2009

Europe - D?autres banques vont céder leur gestion d?actifs

Plus de 70 % des asset managers interrogés par Ignites Europe pensent que le secteur européen de la gestion d"actifs a besoin de se concentrer en 2009. Comme Credit Suisse, d"autres grandes banques vont décider de vendre une part majoritaire de leurs activités de gestion d"actifs, estime Frédéric Jolly, ancien patron des opérations EMEA de Russell Investments, qui vient de fonder une sociétés de private equity spécialisée dans les acquisitions dans l"asset management. Cela pourrait résulter dans la création d"un géant paneuropéen de la gestion d"actifs, poursuit Ignites.
09/01/2009

Etats-Unis - Deux nouvelles affaires de type "Madoff"

Selon l"Agefi, les autorités américaines ont révélé deux nouvelles escroqueries pyramidales de moindre ampleur que celle de Bernard Madoff. Elles portent sur des montant respectifs de 50 et 17 millions de dollars.
09/01/2009

Etats-Unis - Le numéro deux de Merrill plie les gaules

Après le départ du patron du brokerage/gestion de fortune, Bob Mc Cann annoncé lundi, Merrill Lynch a annoncé ce jeudi une nouvelle défection dans son état-major, puisque le numéro deux de la banque d’investissement quitte le groupe Bank of America : Gregory Fleming rejoint la faculté de droit de Yale comme senior research scholar, selon the Wall Street Journal, qui cite des proches du dossier. A cela s’ajoutent les départs récents de Rosemary Berkery, qui a été longtemps directeur juridique de Merrill, et de Peter Kraus, head of global strategy, qui a été nommé CEO d’AllianceBernstein Holding le mois dernier.

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