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Rate Increase “Devastating” for LatAm Debt

Mar 22, 2013

A sharp rise in rates in the US would be “devastating” for Latin America’s debt market borrowers if it occurred, Hari Hariharan, chairman and CEO of New World Investments, says. The volume of emerging market debt vulnerable to a fast rise in US rates is many times larger than what was affected by such a move in 1994, the investor says. Structural changes in the market also make...

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The most pressing issue is related to guaranteeing this growth of the system, the savings. We have to guarantee that this growth is followed by better asset managers on the side of the Afores.

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