Thu Sep 9, 2010 17:32 GMT |
While my bullish Latin American fixed income views have played out really well of late, other Latin American asset classes have been much harder to call. A case in point has been Brazil’s Bovespa equity index which, despite the rapid sell-off in April and May is trading pretty much where it started the year. I… [Read more]
Tags: BanColombia, Bovespa, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecopetrol, Ecuador, emerging markets, Equities, Global Financial Crisis, IGBC, IPSA, Latin America, oil, Pension Funds, Venezuela
Posted in: Equities, Financials, Latin America, oil and gas, Political Risk
Tue Sep 2, 2008 15:59 GMT |
Modesty is a virtue that Risk Watchdog admires as much as the next investor, but the decision to relax capital controls on equities in Colombia could have come straight out of his own Les Propheties. As predicted, Bogotá has finally seen sense and removed requirements that foreign investors deposit 50% of their stock investments in… [Read more]
Tags: Capital Controls, Colombia, IGBC
Posted in: Africa, Emerging Europe, Equities, Financials, General, Latin America