False prophet or land of plenty?

LATIN AMERICA

With emerging markets remaining a hot topic, BlackRock's Will Landers looks at Latin America, one of the few regions to post positive GDP growth during the crisis

2010 was the year that allowed investors around the globe a sigh of relief – economies recovered from anaemic, and in many cases negative, GDP growth in 2009; stock markets generally performed well, with a few exceptions in the troubled parts of Europe; and the fears of a double-dip seem to be lessening (although not totally discarded). Against this backdrop, there is continued good value for investing in Latin America – a region that historically has been one of the most volatile in the world, but that in the last decade has provided investors with more than 500% while the S&P has provi...