Category: Argentina

A decade of market-oriented reforms, the introduction of private pension funds and the growth of mutual funds should have transformed Latin America’s capital markets. Argentina’s private pension fund managers and mututal fund industry together manage assets worth $28 billion, up from almost nothing 10 years ago. Mexico’s Afores, or private pension funds, have more than $15 billion under management.

Argentina’s former Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo is impatient with the government’s lack of conviction in implementing the market reforms he began 10 years ago.

Argentina’s Tax Revenues Track Industrial Output Argentina, like many Latin American countries, has trouble collecting adequate tax revenues. Evasion is widespread in spite of repeated efforts to clamp down on […]

Argentina Appoints New Industry Secretary Javier Tizado is Argentina’s new industry secretary, taking the place of Débora Giorgi, who becomes the energy secretary. She replaces Daniel Montamat, who is leaving […]

International telecommunications companies have told Henoch Aguilar, Argentina’s communications secretary, that they are prepared to invest over $5 billion in the country once the government deregulates the tightly controlled industry […]

Argentina successfully swapped $2.4 billion of Brady debt for 15-year Global bonds, saving the government up to $300 million. Argentina, already well established as the most active Latin borrower on […]

Domestic investors should absorb Argentina’s financing needs for the rest of the year. But a huge deficit and eroding export competitiveness remain key problems for the sovereign and the markets.