Latin America
15 November 2011
The first three quarters of 2011 saw 119 emerging markets private equity and venture capital funds raising $32.3bn, against the $23.5bn raised in all of 2010, returning fundrasising activity in this sector to pre-crisis fundraising levels, according to new research.
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15 July 2011
Latin America could provide a fruitful market for private equity investors, due to an increasingly favourable investment environment, according to a new report.
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14 June 2011
The private equity and venture capital industry in Latin America gained momentum in 2010, with fundraising for the region reaching a record US$8.1bn. The 2011 edition of the Scorecard on the Private Equity and Venture Capital Environment in Latin America reflects a stable regulatory environment in which the top ranking countries maintain high scores, with Chile (75), Brazil (72) and Mexico (63) repeating in the top three positions. However, both Chile and Brazil saw slight decreases in their overall scores due to adjustments to perfect scores for laws on fund formation and restrictions on local institutional investors, respectively.
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25 March 2008
Aureos, a private equity fund manager that specialises in emerging markets, is in the process of launching a Latin America Fund that will be exclusively focused on investment in small and medium-sized companies in the region. In this article, Erik Peterson, head of the Aureos Latin America Fund, talks about investment opportunities in Latin America.
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23 January 2008
This Monitor Group/ABVCAP study provides an overview of the private equity and venture capital activity in Brazil.
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23 April 2007
Private equity money continues to increase its hold on corporate deals in Latin America where the investment community has increased its focus on Mexico, rather than Brazil, as a primary destination for their transaction spending, say fund managers and other stakeholders in the region in an annual poll by KPMG.
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23 January 2007
Emerging markets benchmark returns have been solidly ahead of US and Europe on both a mean and top quartile basis for the last 3 years says the EMPEA. Additional data on fund-raising and exits further confirmed that the asset class had a strong showing across emerging markets regions in 2006.
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6 June 2006
Over the last few decades South America has been a focus of enormous hopes and great disappointments for private equity investors. Yet to the surprise of many forecasters and analysts, Argentina, Brazil and Chile have emerged rapidly from the recent period of economic stress. Overall growth has regained momentum, and trade in particular has revived sharply. Foreign direct investment has increased dramatically, and the resurgence is most evident in manufacturing businesses.
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4 May 2004
After two consecutive years of a declining trend, the value of private equity and venture capital investment in Brazil increased by 32 per cent in 2003, according to the Brazilian Venture Capital Association. A total of 54 companies received $451m last year, compared with $342 in 79 companies in 2002.
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13 June 2003
Prospects have improved considerably for Brazil's energy sector since the government replaced the self-regulating Mercado Atacadista de Energia (MAE) with a new government- controlled entity last year, according to Matthew Fowler of Coudert Brothers. Governmental reorganisation of the company and the market conditions that govern it have created a fertile energy sector but it remains to be seen if the reforms will translate into a sustainable regulatory framework for Brazil's wholesale energy market.
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