Consar will soon be in charge of cross-border-fund approvals, replacing the Amafore

The Amafore’s vice-president, Alvaro Melendez, says he expects the change to occur toward the end of July or beginning of August 2021.

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Natixis fills recently vacated sales post for Colombia, Peru and Panama

Natixis hired Bogotá-based BNP veteran Lucas Pérez, replacing sales manager Daniel Arias Kluge, who moved to Miami to join Pimco. Pérez reports to Jose Luis León.

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BNP Paribas gets back in game, launching local feeder targeting Europe

The firm already has three other feeders in Brazil, but the new fund, to be launched in November, is its first with a foreign-exchange hedge," says BNP's Luiz Felipe Santos.

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Invex hires institutional sales veteran Luis Palacio

Palacio had most recently served as commercial director on the institutional side for BNP Paribas Investment Partners in Mexico.

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BNP Paribas Brazil makes string of hirings to beef up wealth team

Rogerio Santos, who has passed through HSBC, Votorantim, BankBoston and Cititbank, was named BNP's commercial superintendent for wealth management. Five other hires were made to beef up the wealth management area.

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BNP Paribas IP launches local lifecycle funds in Mexico

BNP Paribas Investment Partners maintains its high expectations for the Mexican market over the long term and in January launched its family of Ciclos de Vida funds targeted at institutional clients.

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UBS, Julius Baer and Pactual ponder Buenos Aires beachhead

The firms are said to be closely eyeing Argentina's tax amnesty program, which promises to bring back more than USD 15 billion into the country, while bringing billions more out of the shadows.

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Chilean AFPs added allocations to Asia and emerging-market-bond funds in August

Funds from Templeton and BlackRock led the advance in the Asian region, while an Asian products from Investec and a Japanese fund from Julius Baer were among the biggest losers in August, which was another bad month for US and European funds as well.

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BNP Paribas outlines how mandate process in Mexico could be improved

Noting that the Afores were born in 1997 and turn 18 in 2015, Luis Palacio, sales director of BNP Paribas Investment Partners in Mexico, says: "They have reached legal age and must be allowed to make decisions like adults."

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Afore Banamex disburses USD 820 million to three global firms

With the latest disbursement, Banamex has announced mandates of USD 3.2 billion, of which it has already allocated USD 2.1 billion, according to figures maintained by Latin Asset Management.

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