Latin American markets, once largely ignored by the global investment community, have posted returns outperforming the stock indexes of the United States, Europe, and Asia. This is most noticeable in the wake of the recent world wide recession, conservative fiscal policies and lessons learned during past regional crisis have insulated the LatAm region. Alternative Latin Investor and Focus Point Press are proud to bring you the first collaborative round table discussion, Alternative Investments in Latin America.

1. Alternative Investments in Latin America
Moderated by Marianne Nardone and Nate Suppaiah

2. • Will Landers, Managing Director,
Black Rock Latin American Fund
• Andrew Cummings, Senior Chief
Investment Officer, Explorador Capital
Management, LLC
• Brigitte Posch, Executive Vice
President, PIMCO
• Eric Saucedo, Principal, Tricap
Partners LLC

3. Topics to be discussed
• How alternative investment vehicles are faring in this recovery phase
of the crisis
• What strategies performed better than others
- Regions
- Sectors
• What regions, sectors and vehicles are looking good for the coming
year
• New players to the region who we should keep an eye on
• Growth of regulation in the alternative space
• Where new capital to Latin America is coming from
• Participation of both, foreign and domestic institutional investors
• How LatAm stacks up against other emerging markets
• The effect of Chavez on investor confidence in LatAm investments
• How sustainable is Brazil
• Countries to watch

4. Speaker Specialty Topics
Current LatAm Portfolio Allocation
Will Landers CFA, Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager, is the
portfolio manager for the BlackRock Latin America Fund, the BGF Latin
America Fund, the BSF Latin American Opportunities Fund and the
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust PLC. Prior to joining
BlackRock in 2006, he was a portfolio manager with Merrill Lynch
Investment Managers (MLIM). Will joined MLIM in January 2002 to
focus on Latin America within the Global Emerging Markets Team.
Educated at Georgetown University, Will began his career as an invest-
ment banker working with Latin American clients, then spent seven years
as a Latin American research analyst at two “Bulge Bracket” Wall Street
firms, focusing initially on Food and Beverage stocks, and later on
Technology stocks. Will speaks Portuguese and Spanish and is based in
Princeton, NJ.

5. LatAm fund environment
Andrew Cummings Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Explorador Capital
Management, LLC. Previously, Andrew worked for Emerging Markets Investors
Corporation, focused on investments in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Ecuador.
Andrew holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. from the University
of California at Berkeley. He has lived and traveled in Latin America over the last
20 years and serves on the Board of INPAR, a publicly traded Real Estate
company in Brazil.
Alternative instruments as part of a Latin American portfolio
Brigitte Posch PIMCO Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager in its emerging
markets group. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2008, she was a managing director and head
of Latin American securitization and trading at Deutsche Bank. Ms. Posch was
previously a director with Ambac, responsible for developing asset- and mortgage-
backed securities in emerging markets. Before joining Ambac, she was a vice president
and senior credit officer with Moody’s Investors Service in New York, responsible for
rating asset- and mortgage- backed securities in Latin America. She also worked in Sao
Paulo, Brazil at Banco Inter-Atlantico/Credit Agricole, Citibank and ABN AMRO. She
has 15 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree from
Mackenzie University of São Paulo.

6. Private Equity Investment in Brazil
Eric Saucedo Partner at Tricap Partners & Co., an investment banking
firm focused on early-stage and middle market growth companies. He
has experience in investment banking with UBS and JP Morgan & Co.,
he served as a Principal with Compass Capital LLC in New York, a
private equity fund and affiliate of JP Morgan Partners, and he served
as a Vice President at Apax Partners & Co. He is a Director of Granite
Intelligence, a due diligence and investigations firm, a Director of The
KidSmart Company, a supplemental learning and education company,
and a Director of the Miami Finance Forum. Mr. Saucedo holds a BA in
Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA
from The Georgetown University Graduate School of Business.

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8. Alternative Latin Investor is the first online
news source and digital magazine to provide
information on Alternative Asset Classes in
Latin America.
Focus Point Press publishes a weekly
magazine called Emerging Manage Focus,
written for emerging managers, hedge funds,
institutional investors and research firms.

9. Thank you for your participation.
Joseph L. Falu
Director of Business Development
Focus Point Press
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Marketing Director
Alternative Latin Investor
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