Diversifying Outside and Within Brazil

Brazil

Diversifying Outside and Within

Premium Article OCT, 2011 Given its robust growth in recent years and massive wealth compared to its neighbors, Brazil has attracted the lion’s share of global investment in LatAm, with foreign investors allocating especially aggressively to equity and government bonds. Brazilian investors, meanwhile, have been reluctant to look beyond fixed income, as the risk-free returns they find there are better than those in other, more volatile asset classes. Brazil’s benchmark Selic interest rate is, at 12%, the highest among G20 nations. “Nowhere else in the world,” says Ernesto Leme, CEO of Wealth Management at Claritas Investments, a Sao Paulo-based hedge fund, “have investors been able to find that combination of economic and political stability, high level of interest rates and strong currency that you have in Brazil. In the past three or four years, the vast majority of our clients that have generated wealth have preferr.....

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