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 […]

Brazil’s GP Investimentos, Chase Capital Partners and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity are among the backers of a $31 million financing round for Viajo.com, a Spanish- and Portuguese-language travel […]

Brazil reopened its February sale of 30-year bonds in March, selling $600 million above the original $1 billion auction. The sovereign will use the proceeds to retire expensive Brady bonds. […]

After a bitter battle by a rival brewery, antitrust regulators in Brazil have cleared the way for the takeover by Cia. Cervejaria Brahma of its biggest competitor, Cia. Antartica Paulista. […]

BCP, the upstart Brazilian cellular provider owned by BellSouth and Safra, has closed a $1.77 billion deal to refinance existing debt that expired in March. ABN AMRO, Bank of America, […]

In a likely prelude to its attempt to gain majority control of Brazil’s Light Servicos de Eletricidade, Electricite de France has spent $290 million to raise its stake in the […]

Brazil’s biggest cable television company, Globo Cabo, has named Leonardo Pereira chief financial officer as it transforms into a full-service telecommunications company. Pereira previously was director of planning and investor […]