Tracking the Activities of Global Asset Managers in Latin America
“According to our estimates, the overall size of the three asset-gathering segments stands at USD 105 billion, with the US offshore segment accounting for more than half of the total at USD 56 billion,” said Thomas Ciampi, founder and director of Latin Asset Management.
Gino Bettochi recently took over as CIO, as two key executives departed for roles outside the pension industry. The firm also named a new fund selector.
It remanins unclear what will become of Deutsche's custody businesses in Argentina and Mexico, where it serves as custodian for locally-traded instruments such as funds, ETFs and securities.
This service is being launched precisely at a time when the Peruvian pension fund investment regime has undergone important changes, including elimination of "approved lists" of the SBS, creation of sub-limits for investments in private equity, and validation of mutual funds that use derivatives for hedging.
A new SBS resoultion makes it easier for Peruvian AFPs to allocate to UCITs and other funds that use derivatives for non-hedging purposes and to ETFs based on synthetic indices.
From its office in Lima, the firm distributes the funds of several boutique fund managers, mostly to institutional investors, family offices and wealth managers in Chile, Peru and Colombia, said Nicolás Lasarte, director of Capital Strategies Latam.
Raising the international investment limit to 42% "has been very positive for our system," said Jorge Ramos, CEO of Sura Peru - AFP Integra. "It has allowed us to diversify our investments and achieve positive real returns in all our funds despite the very negative performance of the local stock market."
Initiative of the Mutual Fund Association seems like more of a political announcement than a project with a real future, sources told Fund Pro Latin America.
Academics María Amparo Cruz-Saco, Juan Mendoza and Bruno Seminario, find three basic errors in the existing models: they criticize the attempt to finance pensions through a tax on workers’ wages in a market where about two-thirds of employment is informal, they find ample evidence that people are saving voluntarily for old age outside of the system, and they argue that existing law is “suffocating” initiative and competition between AFPs.
"This acquisition is in line with our strategy to increase our scale within the Peruvian banking sector, as well as the other Pacific Alliance economies of Mexico, Colombia and Chile," said Dieter Jentsch, group head of international banking at Scotiabank.
