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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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CNBV works with AMIB to roll out fund platforms

The CNBV's Eduardo Flores Herrera, who is responsible for supervising the creation of an open architecture framework and the financial institutions involved, said the new system would be up and running by December 2016.

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Confirmed: New fund rules for Brazil delayed through October

the Anbima, which believes that the industry needs more time to adapt to the rules, which facilitate global investing, in order to create systems to control which clients can access certain types of funds.

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CCR Monthly Approval Report – May 2015

May was a very active month for the Comisión Clasificadora de Riesgo, with 20 mutual funds added to the list and 27 products delisted. Candriam led with 11 funds registered in the month, while Pictet and Mirae each won approval for two of their mutual funds.

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CCR Monthly Approval Report – April 2015

While Franklin Templeton and iShares led with nine mutual funds and 10 ETFs, respectively, registered in the month, Allianz, HSBC, Bluebay, NN IM, Pimco and Vanguard also won approval for products of their own.

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Banorte-Ixe: Open architecture a laudable but challenging goal

"The principle that anyone can distribute any fund is laudable," but there must also be clear ground rules, a communication platform between fund managers and distributors, and and effort to improve financial literacy of clients, says Alejandro Aguilar Ceballos, CEO of Operadora de Fondos Banorte-Ixe.

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Two sides to open architecture debate in Mexico: those who want it and those who don’t

The director of Allianz Fondika said the financial reform will be a watershed in the history of Mexico, since it will "crack open the oligopolistic control of the market" and allow for additional providers and better products to compete.

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