Features - Interviews
9 Nov 2011
Bullish on the Brazilian market and driven by delivering results in 2020, private equity manager Nova Investimentos is looking for long term gains from its energy fund
3 Oct 2011
Ecuador’s fixed income markets may be showing signs of life, but according to Business Point’s Martin Acosta, the country’s fund space has never truly recovered from the financial crisis of 1999/2000.
3 Oct 2011
Personale’s approach is all about unearthing deep value in the Brazilian equities market. As Luiz Sampaio explains, while Brazil’s rise to prominence as an investment destination has proved profitable for the firm, finding niche bargains has never been more challenging
3 Oct 2011
After expanding its global fund to Brazilian managers last year, $800m fund of hedge funds firm van Biema Value Partners is screening Latam for its high alpha niche of undiscovered, small and emerging deep value managers.
3 Oct 2011
Itaú Unibanco is Latam’s largest privately owned asset manager with a firm foothold in Brazil and several Latam markets, but according to head of asset management Desmosthenes Madureira the firm is set to expand further in order to establish its credentials as a regional specialist.
3 Oct 2011
Through times of global market volatility, choosing a fund with a winning manager is of utmost importance. But what are fund managers doing to attract investors and what are the criteria they need to fulfil?
3 Apr 2011
$16bn Swiss fund of hedge funds UBP has undergone an internal transformation following the financial crisis and rates Argentina as the most attractive Latam market
3 Apr 2011
BNP Paribas’$18bn Latam business is expanding in more ways than one, according to CEO Marcelo Giufrida, who plans to diversify into three new strategies as well as winning institutional investors from untapped markets
23 Mar 2011
London-based global macro player Onslow Capital is increasingly active in Latam – steering clear of the BRIC story in favour of attractive risk/reward opportunities elsewhere in the region
23 Mar 2011
The evolution of Latam debt markets and the surrounding hedge fund universe coupled with growing interest from US pension funds spells good news for fixed income fund of hedge funds Signet, according to chairman Robert Marquardt
23 Mar 2011
Brazilian hedge fund pioneer Claritas has its sights on tripling in size by targeting international institutional investors for the first time, according to founding partner Marcelo Karvelis
22 Feb 2011
Pedro Rudge, founder and managing director of Leblon Equities, a Brazil-focused fund house with an equity long/short hedge fund and an Irish fund in the Ucits mould, explains to LatAm Fund Manager why shorting is still a challenge in the Brazilian market, how a bottom-up approach is the key to
unearthing alpha and why Ucits funds are capturing the industry’s imagination
