BTG Pactual Peru has named Guillermo Van Oordt as the new director of wealth management for its Peru office. The appointment comes months after José Antonio Blanco was appointed as CEO.
S&P Dow Jones to take over all Lima Stock Exchange indices
September 23, 2014 by
S&P DJI will be responsible for the marketing and commercial licensing of the BVL indices. The agreement also allows S&P DJI to eventually calculate all of the BVL indices, and to jointly create new indices with the Exchange to meet the evolving needs of investors inside and out of Peru.
Peruvian pension-fund cross-border limit raised from 40% to 42%
September 19, 2014 by
The increase would be made in four installments through January 2015. According to Latin Asset Management estimates, the increase translates directly to an additional USD 195 million in potential cross-border flows per month.
Credicorp launches MILA funds across asset classes
August 26, 2014 by
Credicorp is launching Cayman- and Luxembourg-domiciled funds in the equity and debt markets. The Condor Equity Fund invest exclusively in MILA, while the Latin American Corporate Debt Fund seeks to invest 40 to 60 percent in MILA and the remainder in Mexico and Brazil primarily. Meanwhile, it is in the fundraising period for its Peru Real Estate Fund and its Colombian Real Estate Construction Fund, which offer investors access to MILA’s developing real estate sector.
Peru’s AFPs can now invest up to 20% in alternatives
August 15, 2014 by
AFPs can now invest up to 15% of their type 2 moderate portfolios and 20% of their type 3 aggressive portfolios in alternatives, without weighing against the overall equity limit. The previous limit was a scant 3%, and was being fully utilized.
Pension managers may be showing renewed interest in active funds
June 27, 2014 by
Even though Peruvian pension managers' positions in ETFs continue to increase, distributors detect an opening to other portfolio management models.
Pension managers replace equity with mutual funds and ETFs
May 28, 2014 by
Local experts point to disappointing results in Brazilian equities and attractive opportunities in global mid-cap companies that target the consumer sector.
Distributors have mixed feelings about SBS change
March 19, 2014 by
Market agents contacted by Fund Pro Latin America said that, with the new rule, the SBS is clearly taking a load off its own shoulders, but at the same time saddling AFPs with the responsibility for due diligence. ETF providers and active managers with well-established relationships are the likely beneficiaries.
Derivatives use by long-only funds still likely to frustrate global managers in Peru
March 12, 2014 by
The regulation, which will create a system similar to the one operating in Colombia, provided a glass-half-empty vs. glass-half-full predicament for global fund managers, since mention of derivatives use in the funds' investment policies may still prevent largely long-only funds from flying under the regulators' radar.
Peruvian regulator gets out of approvals business
March 11, 2014 by
As part of the implementation of the AFP reform, the SBS eliminated the obligation to register financial instruments considered "simple" and most frequently allocated to, which cover about 97% of pension fund investments. This includes cross-border mutual funds.
