Invest in Latin America with ETFs

Invest in Latin America with ETFs explained by professional Forex trading experts the “ForexSQ” FX trading team.

Invest in Latin America with ETFs

If you feel Latin America is an emerging marketand offers a strong investing opportunity, there are two ways to utilize ETFs to accomplish your goal. This includes Argentina ETFs, Brazil and Chile funds, and ETFs from Columbia, Mexico, and Peru.

You can invest in a general Latin America ETF which targets many of the various countries within the region.
You can purchase a country specific fund in Latin America for areas such as Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia. Each of these countries had ETFs focusing specifically on their markets.

There are many reasons you may feel the Latin American Region is an investment opportunity.

It can be considered a growing region or emerging market with upside opportunity
The volatile political scenario can cause a lot of equity movement and there create trading opportunities
You can diversify your foreign investment strategy by including multiple countries or target an entire region
You can decrease general risk through diversity of a portfolio with multiple assets
If you have risk in the Latin American region from other investments or assets, you can use this type of ETF as a hedge

So if you want to take advantage of the many benefits of ETFs and gain exposure to the Latin America region, here is a list of funds for your research.

List of Latin America ETFs

BONO – Market Vectors LatAm Aggregate Bond ETF
GML – SPDR S&P Emerging Latin America ETF
FLN – First Trust Latin America AlphaDex Fund
ILF – iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index ETF

LATM – Latin America Small-Cap ETF (recently closed)
LARE – Tierra XP Latin America Real Estate ETF
LBJ – Direxion Daily Latin America 3x Bull Shares ETF
EEML – iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Latin America ETF (recently closed)

As you can see there are a few variations of Latin American Funds for your portfolio.

LBJ is a leveraged fund, while LATM targets Small-Cap equities in the region. There is also a Latin American SPDR (GML) as well a bond fund (BONO). And of course there are the other Latin America ETFs as you can see.

However, if you want to drill down and have a more focused strategy that focuses on a specific country in the region, then the next set of funds might be worth a look. Here are list of ETFs broken down by specific countries in Latin America that are currently available on the market…

List of Argentina ETFs

ARGT – Global X FTSE Argentina 20 ETF

List of Brazil ETFs

BRAQ – Global X Brazil Consumer ETF
BRAZ – Global X Brazil Mid Cap ETF
BRF – Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF
BZQ – UltraShort MSCI Brazil ProShares ETF
DBBR – DBX Brazil Currency-Hedged Equity Fund
EWZ – iShares MSCI Brazil Index ETF
EWZS – iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap Index Fund
FBZ – First Trust Brazil AlphaDex Fund
UBR – Ultra MSCI Brazil

List of Chile ETFs

ECH – iShares MSCI Chile Investable Market Index ETF

List of Colombia ETFs

GXG – Global X/InterBolsa FTSE Colombia 20 ETF

List of Mexico ETFs

EWW – iShares MSCI Mexico Investable Market Index ETF
FXM – CurrencyShares Mexican Peso Trust ETF
SMK – UltraShort MSCI Mexico Investment ProShares ETF

UMX – Ultra MSCI Mexico Investable Market
QMEX – SPDR MSCI Mexico Quality Mix ETF

List of Peru ETFs

EPU – iShares MSCI All Peru Capped Index ETF

Hopefully, we not only see more ETFs for the regions above, but we also see new regions in Latin America get some attention. And before buying or selling any exchange traded fund, please make sure you conduct due diligence on each ETF and consult your broker or advisor for any questions or concerns.