While Edmond de Rothschild led with four mutual funds registered in the month, Neuberger Berman and Santander also won approval for two products of their own.
Pension association suggests allowing smaller Afores to invest in cross-border funds
"This possibility would an interesting revolution for active managers, especially for smaller Afores, which find the cost of mandates beyond their means," said Carlos Noriega, president of Amafore.
CCR Monthly Approval Report – July 2015
A global ETF brand registered nine new ETFs in the month, all of them UCITs products, while Invesco, F&C, Goldman Sachs and Van Eck each won approval for one of their own.
AGFs have not yet assimilated new supplementary activities
This new regulation authorizes supplementary activities for companies that manage mutual funds and closed-end investment funds, including managing and distributing shares of foreign funds and providing investment advisory services to local firms.
Cash contributions to retirement schemes raise money-laundering fears
According to sources in the sector, the issue of cash contributions has raised the eyebrows of some international players interested in the potentially huge global-investment-mandate business with the Afores, which manage close to USD 200 billion.
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."
FATCA: Chilean market still awaiting ratification of tax agreements
Both countries must ratify an intergovernmental agreement and double-taxation agreement before Chile can begin releasing account information of US clients to American tax authorities.
CCR Monthly Approval Report – June 2015
BlackRock registered six new iShares ETFs and four mutual funds, while JP Morgan and Principal each had two new funds approved.
Consar, Afores and global managers discuss speeding up the mandate process
Consar President Carlos Ramírez has met recently with the teams of Afore Banamex and two global managers with which the pension manager has funded mandates, Schroders and BlackRock.
Managers welcome easing of Peruvian AFP investment rules
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.











