Valmex steps up efforts to grow in Mexico’s stagnant private-pension segment

Valmex’s Luis Lozano said the voluntary pension market is a solution for those with higher income, “who are not fully covered under the traditional and obligatory pension market.”

Vanguard’s Emerging Markets Bond Fund attracts AFP allocations prior to CCR’s green light

Vanguard's Mauro Favini said the product attracted attention by its ability to generate alpha in this asset class and its unique investment process.

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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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Global relationships power Banorte’s surge in international fund AUM

Banorte’s Alejandro Aguilar Ceballos spoke about the firm’s many subadvisory relationships with global managers, which have helped the firm respond to retail-investor demand for diversification.

Colombian AFPs bailed on US equity in July

The AFPs sold USD 456 million in North American equity funds and ETFs, reducing their AUM in that category to USD 4.1 billion. 

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Colombian AFPs dive back into equities in June

The AFPs finished June with USD 17.2 billion invested in cross-border funds and ETFs, almost all of which was in equity-oriented products.

Colombian AFPs post broad retreat from global equities

Colombian AFPs pulled away from cross-border funds and ETFs in May, yanking USD 1.2 billion mostly from equity funds as global markets reeled amid trade tensions.

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Vanguard to support BIVA with a first ETF domiciled in Mexico

As soon as approval is received from regulators, Vanguard will launch its first ETF domiciled in Mexico, based on the FTSE BIVA index, the fledgling Institutional Securities Exchange that began operations in 2018.

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Colombian AFPs turn away from USA and Europe, and toward emerging markets

Eemerging-markets-equity funds and ETFs continued to attract assets. Category favorite iShares MSCI Emerging Markets led inflows with USD 178 million coming into the fund.

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Colombian AFPs go yet longer on emerging-markets equities

The AFPs finished April with USD 17.8 billion invested in cross-border funds and ETFs, almost all of which was in equities, after having yanked USD 597 million in the first quarter.