Pimco’s Mexico Derivatives Wagers Grew Before Gross Exit

Pacific Investment Management Co. Chief Investment Officer Daniel Ivascyn has made no secret about his bullishness toward Mexico, a view that predecessor Bill Gross also backed.

Chile market manipulation scandal takes toll on investor confidence

(Reuters) - Investor confidence in Chile has been shaken by a market manipulation scandal involving the former son in law of ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, a business leader said on Wednesday as a union denounced the affair as "shameful."

Brazil asset managers have worst year for fundraising since 2002

(Reuters) - Asset managers in Brazil raised the lowest amount of money from investors in 12 years in the first six months, an industry group said on Thursday, a sign that worries over the October presidential election, high borrowing costs and growing global market turmoil are scaring market participants.

Colombia Proves Latin America’s Best Equities Since 2002

Colombia (IGBC), Latin America’s murder capital when Pablo Escobar ran the Medellin drug cartel in the 1980s, produced the region’s best risk-adjusted stock returns over the past decade as improved security bolstered economic growth and foreign investment.