Thursday, November 1, 2012

Credit Suisse Raises $420 Million to Create Mexico Fund



Credit Suisse Group raised $420 million for a new investment fund focused on Mexico, as Switzerland’s second-largest bank taps clients in an economy forecast to grow twice as fast as Brazil’s, the good people at Bloomberg tell us.

The Credit Suisse Mexico Credit Opportunities Trust raised the money from institutional investors, including some of Mexico’s largest pension funds, Zurich-based Credit Suisse said in an e-mailed statement. The fund, managed by Andres Borrego, will be listed on the Mexican stock exchange, said Suzanne Fleming, a New York-based spokeswoman.

The fund seeks “to capture opportunities presented by structural inefficiencies in the Mexican credit market through investments in a diversified portfolio of alternative assets with debt-like characteristics,” the bank said in the statement. Targets include debt instruments such as loans and bonds, Fleming said….

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