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LatinFinance magazine
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| Editor | James Crombie |
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| Categories | Finance |
| Frequency | 10 issues each year |
| Circulation | 29,000 BPA audited, plus varying additinal circulation |
| First issue | October 1988 |
| Company | LatinFinance Latin American Financial Publications Inc. |
| Country | Pan-regional |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.latinfinance.com |
LatinFinance (written as single word, with an upper-case L and F) is the only magazine dedicated to examining cross-border finance and investment in Latin America and the Caribbean.[1] Published 10 times each year it is primarily focused on debt, equity, structured finance, syndicated lending and multilateral financing, and on the practical application of these products in finance and/or investment by sovereign, sub-sovereign, financial and corporate issuers and portfolio, private equity and hedge fund investors. It also covers secondary trading, tracks people-moves within the financial markets of Latin America and the Caribbean, explores legal issues impacting those markets, and examines the business of banking and the role of banking technology within the region.
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[edit] History
LatinFinance was first published in October 1988. Its initial editorial objective was, in large part, to explore and document the changes and opportunities in Latin America brought about as a result of the Latin American debt crisis, sovereign defaults and subsequent Brady Plan of the late 1980s. During this period LatinFinance was primarily focused on debt, covering banks' attempts to reduce their exposure to LDC debt, sovereigns' efforts to restructure their debt and raise fresh capital through amongst other things privatization, and the secondary markets activity that grew from this.
The editorial focus, and readership, of the magazine expanded rapidly to encompass debt, equity, forex and emerging financial products including derivatives and structured finance products and to examine the practical application of these products by sovereign, sub-sovereign, financial and corporate issuers as well as their role in areas such as infrastructure and project finance, M&A, and financial risk management. Over time travel, wine and art were all added to the magazine's coverage and by the mid-1990s it was being described by the New York Times as the "glossy magazine that fills the coffee-table niche" among titles covering business in Latin America.[2] For a while LatinFinance even carried a regular, if short-lived, Japanese-language section.
From 2003 the magazine's owners Latin American American Financial Publications Inc. (whose trade name is also LatinFinance) embarked on a new strategy to diversify from its core magazine. This led to investment in and a realignment of editorial – notably replacing its entire editorial team and moving it from Miami to New York or into Latin America – to enable the launch of electronic news and data products such as its early morning daily news alert, the LatinFinance Daily Brief. It runs a data intensive web-site, www.latinfinance.com – home to its League Tables and Deal Pipeline.
In step with these changes LatinFinance's editorial policy broadened into an explicit aim to cover the drivers and direction of movements of capital into, out of and around Latin America and the Caribbean, as they happen, where-ever those flows come from or from where-ever they are directed. Therefore, in addition to Latin America and the Caribbean, LatinFinance is now active in the major financial centers of North America and Europe as well as in newer centers for capital provision including the Gulf and China.
[edit] Present coverage
[edit] Polls and awards
In addition to analytical features it LatinFinance a series of respected and widely reported polls and awards – including its annual Deals of the Year,[3] Man of the Year,[4] and The LatinFinance Banks of the Year[5] – and several surveys most notably a series ranking the sustainability of the region's banks and companies in association with M&E, a Madrid and Sao Paulo based consultancy.[6]
[edit] Contributors
[edit] Readership and Circulation
LatinFinance readers include heads of state, finance ministers and heads of public credit, heads of retail and investment banks, corporate and sovereign issuers, leading portfolio managers, private equity and hedge fund investors, traders and analysts.
Within Latin America and the Caribbean the circulation of LatinFinance magazine is primarily to issuers (sovereign, corporate and financial) though increasingly also to the evolving local buy-side. Outside Latin America and the Caribbean distribution is primarily to institutional investors including hedge fund and private equity investors.[7]
The magazine has a BPA audited circulation of near 30,000 copies[8] while several thousand additional copies are distributed at events including the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings, the Inter American Development Bank or IDB Annual Meeting and at the annual Felaban Assembly.
[edit] Honors
LatinFinance [9] has won numerous editorial awards over the past two decades. On its 20th Anniversary in 2008 was honored by Nasdaq for its its contribution to the evolution of the capital markets of Latin America and the Caribbean.[10]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ "LatinFinance is the only magazine dedicated to examining cross-border finance and investment in Latin America and the Caribbean." NASDAQ MarketSite, March 24, 2008
- ^ [1] A Boom in Latin Business Reading "New York Times, September 19, 1994"
- ^ GOL announces its “LatinFinance Best Equity Deal of The Year” award As reported to the SEC, February, 2005
- ^ Alan Garcia fue elegido hombre del año El Comercio, March 15, 2008
- ^ Innovation Makes IFC Best Multilateral of the Year
- ^ M&E and LatinFinance sustainability studies and rankings
- ^ BPA audited circulation BPA Audited circulation
- ^ BPA audited circulation
- ^ On the strength of its "wide-ranging, in-depth reporting supported by thoroughly researched data and analysis" LatinFinance wins in TABPI single issue category
- ^ Nasdaq honors LatinFinance
