Category: Brazil

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. […]

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.

Spain’s Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria wants to consolidate its Latin empire and crown its Brazilian bank king of that and more. But the Spaniards face well-capitalized global opponents in the grab for the Latin American market.