While Brazil has traditionally dominated investors' Latin America exposure, Charlotte Richards discovers the region has much more to offer off the beaten track.
Emerging markets were far from immune from the financial crisis that crippled many developed economies in 2008/09. Their growing correlation with the developed world was highlighted again last year when, due to escalating concerns in Europe and a slow economic recovery in the US, the MSCI Emerging Markets index fell to a year-low of 824.39 in October 2011. Developing markets began to recover at the beginning of this year, however, as improving investor sentiment on the back of encouraging US data and the refinancing operations proposed by the European Central Bank increased flows to the ...
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