Will Landers, senior portfolio manager on the BlackRock Latin American investment trust, looks at the countries driving the region's story this year...
Latin America continues to offer one of the most attractive equity investment opportunities when combining its solid top-down macro story with an attractive and diversified array of companies looking at the market from a bottom-up perspective. Following 395.6% accumulated returns for the MSCI Total Return Latin America index during the first decade of this century, returns from 2010 to 2012 barely accumulated a positive return of 0.63%, leading many investors to question whether the region has seen its best days. This is especially true given that the Ibovespa, Brazil’s principal inde...
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