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Bloomberg - Credit Suisse Group AG, Switzerland’s second-biggest bank, bought New York-based Asset Management Finance Corp. for $384 million to provide financing to investment firms.
Credit Suisse paid stock for more than 80 percent of the firm, founded by former Putnam Investments chief Norton Reamer in 2003, from a unit of National Bank of Canada. Reamer, 72, who also ran Boston-based United Asset Management Corp., will stay on, the bank said today in a statement.
AMF, which provides capital to money managers in exchange for a slice of revenue, will benefit from Credit Suisse’s global reach, said Brian Finn, chairman of the Zurich-based company’s alternative-asset business. The unit, which manages $167 billion, holds a minority stake in hedge-fund firm Ospraie Management LLC and has started joint investing ventures with Abu Dhabi and General Electric Co.
AMF “is a platform with a leadership team and an investment approach in which we see enormous growth opportunities,” Finn said in an interview.
Reamer targets independent money managers looking to expand or buy out a founder who wants to retire. In exchange for up- front cash, it gets a share of future revenue. It doesn’t acquire an ownership stake.
Reuters - The Federal Reserve acted on rumors last month and called Credit Suisse Group to see if it had pulled a credit line from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, The Wall Street Journal said citing people familiar with the matter.
Credit Suisse told Federal Reserve officials that there was no truth to the rumor and it had no intention of pulling the line of credit, the paper cited the people as saying.
A person familiar with the rumor told the Journal that it was circulating in early July.
Fed officials contacted Credit Suisse last month, but it is unclear whether the move occurred before or after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed dozens of hedge funds and financial firms about four Lehman-related rumors, the paper said.
Bloomberg - Man Group Plc, the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund manager, began selling a managed futures fund with a capital guarantee to Hong Kong individuals seeking protection from falling stock markets.
Man AHL Guaranteed Futures 3 Ltd. will trade mostly futures and option contracts on currencies, bonds, stocks, interest rates, metals, energy and agricultural products using computer-driven models, according to a fund sale brochure.
Credit Suisse Group will provide a guarantee for 90 percent of the initial investment in the dollar shares of the fund. The Australian dollar shares will be 105 percent capital guaranteed.
A 22 percent decline in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index since its Oct. 30 peak is forcing the city’s residents to reduce stock holdings and seek capital protection of their investments.
"We’re seeing strong demand for products that allow investors to diversify away from equities,” said Giselle Lee, head of sales for Man Investments (Hong Kong) Ltd. The protection of the initial capital investment adds comfort, "especially for first-time investors in alternative products.”
Managed futures funds bet on the directions of markets for various assets by trading instruments such as futures, options and forward contracts. Man Group began selling its capital guarantee fund in Hong Kong yesterday.