Research

Why Emerging Markets?

Silva Capital believes that emerging market investments will offer attractive risk/return opportunities versus the developed world for the foreseeable future. Here we outline the fundamental case for EM outperformance.

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Currency Ranking Methodology

Understanding that the key long-term movers of foreign exchange markets are macroeconomics and public policy, Silva Capital has structured its investment process around thoroughgoing, fundamental evaluations of the countries whose currencies we trade. Through our investigations, we aim to select those variables which hold the greatest explanatory power of FX trends, to normalize these metrics for comparison, and to weight our findings in a way which reflects the current market environment. At end, we utilize our findings to produce a ranked basket of investable currencies. Here we detail this process.

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Press

Behind the Quote

Banxico Policy and the Peso - November 15, 2011

Silva Capital calls for an end to Banxico's rule-based USD Put interventions in the face of MXN weakness

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The Decoupling of Mexican and American Bonds

Silva Capital remarks on the fading correlation of Mexican M Bonos and U.S. Treasuries

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Future Issuance of Brazilian BRL-Linked Globals - August 19, 2011

Silva Capital's Alejandro Urbina discusses the increasing appeal of real-linked, USD based Brazilian globals with Bloomberg News

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