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Frankfurt am Main, 25 April 2012 – Berenberg Bank and Bankhaus Lampe are increasing their holdings in Universal-Investment. In the future, the two well-known private banks will each hold 36.7 percent of the shares in the largest independent investment company in the German-speaking world.
Zug (Switzerland) / London / Frankfurt am Main, 24 April 2012. Zarko Stefanovski has been appointed new fund advisor of the Swiss, Cape Town and London based Earth Resource Investment Group‘s (ERIG) Earth Energy Fund UI (ISIN DE000A0MWKJ7). The 48 year old commodity expert will advise the fund together with current fund advisor Willem de Meyer. The Earth Energy Fund UI invests in stocks from the energy sector worldwide.
Frankfurt am Main, 13 February 2012 – At the beginning of the year 2012, Universal-Investment has acquired SEB Master KAG. In this sector, SEB previously bundled its activities in Germany relating to the launching and management of hedge funds. “This acquisition will strengthen our position as the only complete provider of administration services in Germany,” explains Bernd Vorbeck, spokesman of the Universal-Investment management board.
Zurich, Frankfurt am Main, 9 February 2012. Berenberg Bank (Schweiz) AG and Universal-Investment-Luxembourg S.A. are jointly launching the new corporate bond fund Berenberg Renminbi Bond Opportunities UI (ISIN LU0679891803). Berenberg’s new renminbi fund can invest more flexibly in a much larger investment universe of corporate bonds than is the case with more conventional products. A currency overlay makes indirect renminbi investments via Asian US dollar corporate bonds possible in a fund for the first time, giving investors full renminbi exposure.
Zurich, Frankfurt am Main, 9 February 2012. Berenberg Bank (Schweiz) AG and Universal-Investment-Luxembourg S.A. are jointly launching the new corporate bond fund Berenberg Renminbi Bond Opportunities UI (ISIN LU0679891803). Berenberg’s new renminbi fund can invest more flexibly in a much larger investment universe of corporate bonds than is the case with more conventional products. A currency overlay makes indirect renminbi investments via Asian US dollar corporate bonds possible in a fund for the first time, giving investors full renminbi exposure.
Zurich, Frankfurt am Main, 9 February 2012. Berenberg Bank (Schweiz) AG and Universal-Investment-Luxembourg S.A. are jointly launching the new corporate bond fund Berenberg Renminbi Bond Opportunities UI (ISIN LU0679891803). Berenberg’s new renminbi fund can invest more flexibly in a much larger investment universe of corporate bonds than is the case with more conventional products. A currency overlay makes indirect renminbi investments via Asian US dollar corporate bonds possible in a fund for the first time, giving investors full renminbi exposure.
Luxembourg/Frankfurt, 25 January 2012 – With immediate effect, Johannes Höring has been appointed to the management board of Universal-Investment-Luxembourg to advance growth further.
Frankfurt, 27 October 2009. Universal-Investment has drawn a positive balance for the fiscal year which came to an end in September 2009. The Frankfurt-based investment company (KAG) has lifted assets under administration significantly by EUR 22.6bn to EUR 105.3bn. ’A large part of this, some EUR 15.6bn, derives from net inflows’, as summed up by Bernd Vorbeck, speaker of the management board of Universal-Investment. ’This puts us in first place by a clear lead in the sales statistics of the fund industry association BVI’. According to Vorbeck, the company has successfully bucked the sector trend to become the most swiftly growing KAG in Germany. ’While the market is weakening up’, Vorbeck claims, ’we are managing to gain mandates’. The company can also boast of encouraging developments last fiscal year, having taken out a shareholding in an Austrian KAG at the beginning of October and, parallel to this, gained an insourcing mandate worth EUR 7.5bn.