The Latibex market: An opportunity of investment in times of crisis?

Abstract

In the last decade, Latin America has become one of the regions with the best projections for investors. A sustained GDP growth, managing its sovereign debt, and positive results in markets such as Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia, make an ideal set for the arrival of new foreign capital through investment portfolios. Given the slow economic recovery in Europe and the United States as a result of the global fi nancial crisis in 2008, their fi nancial markets are unattractive. However, Latibex is a Spanish market that off ers large and small European investors the possibility to get annual returns that can reach up to 12%, with a moderate level of risk. The shares purchased in this market allow the participation in important economic activities such as energy, metals, food and trade, through Latin American companies, many of them of Spanish origin.