Category: Brazil

Banks must provide tailored, personalized services to their customers. What’s more, the Brazilian capital markets need to become more sophisticated or private banking clients will move their business overseas.

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.

Octavio Queiroz Ferreira, portfolio manager of the CCF Premium Ltd. fund, which placed first in the three-year Brazil equity category, says Brazil is probably the region’s most attractive equity market […]

In the Brazilan debt category, Indosuez Brasil Brady Ltd., managed by Juan Seen of Spinnaker Asset Management, took first place for the one-year competition, giving investors a 33.23% return in […]

Multinationals Test Brazilian Pride Brazil’s nationalist urges always seem to grow stronger with the approach of a major privatization. Opposition politicians are mobilizing in congress and the courts to either […]

Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobrás, is focusing on improving its bottom line and opening up to the outside world.

Brazil’s quiet and conservative Banco Bradesco has assumed a more public, and so far, more popular management style.

Brazil has set out to update its financial regulations to gain liquidity and greater foreign investment in its markets.

Fuel Swaps Chug Ahead Repsol-YPF, the Spanish-owned multinational oil company, plans to link up with Brazil’s national oil company Petrobras in an asset swap estimated at about $750 million. If […]

January brought fresh signs of investor confidence in the largest Latin American debt issuers. Brazil was able to successfully issue a 20-year bond in the US market, the longest tenor […]