Jan Boyer is in charge of the largest new technology investment fund in Latin America. Picking winners from losers is getting harder all the time.
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BellSouth to Sell Stock in Latin Operations
BellSouth Corp. has registered with the SEC to raise as much as $1 billion by selling a tracking stock measuring the performance of its Latin operations. Lead underwriters in the […]
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Growing Brazilian Pension Funds Go For Fixed Income
Brazil’s pension funds are the largest in Latin America, accounting for about 40% of the region’s retirement fund assets last year, when they had R$115.12 billion ($63.98 billion) in funds […]
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Sprint Runs into Mexico
US cellular operator Sprint PCS is paying $200 million to enter the Mexican market through a stake in wireless operator Pegaso PCS SA. The acquisition will give Sprint PCS access […]
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Bladex Expands in Latin Market
Banco Latinamericano de Exportaciones SA, the trade finance bank better known as Bladex, is opening an office in São Paulo, adding one in Mexico City and expanding its operations in […]
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High-Risk Ventures Harder to Find
Where there is return there is always risk. The improving economic outlook for most Latin American economies this year is pushing down the risk-return ratio. Investors […]
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The Investment Management Review- Part I
LatinFinance, in cooperation with Standard & Poor’s, ranks the best Latin American investment funds and their managers in its annual review of the industry. Last year was fraught with risk in Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela and recession in most other countries. This year, growth and stability is reducing risk and returns in all but a few countries.
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Holding on to the Start-Ups
Brazil’s CVM securities commission has eased listing regulations to encourage local and foreign companies Internet companies to list on the São Paulo stock market and stanch the loss of trading […]
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The Investment Management Review Part II – Equity Funds
Telecommunications came as close as possible to being a one-way bet last year as Latin equity markets caught the Internet bug. Teléfonos de Mexico (Telmex) continued storming ahead and privatized […]