Sunday, May 2, 2010

The ten best urban spots for investment in LatAm

A new study called the Index of Attractiveness for Urban Investments (Índice de atractividad de inversiones urbanas), published last week by the Centre of Strategic Thinking of the University of Rosario in Colombia (what a mouthful) in conjunction with private sector consultors 'Business Intelligence' of Chile, ranked up for us all the ten best urban areas in LatAm for foreign investment. Here's the list:

Best LatAm urban investment places, 2010
1 Mexico City Mexico
2 Sao Paulo Brazil
3 Santiago Chile
4 Rio de Janeiro Brazil
5 Buenos Aires Argentina
6 Bogota Colombia
7 Panama City Panama
8 Monterrey Mexico
9 Lima Peru
10 Brasilia Brazil
source: CPE Colombia, IdN Chile


Top is Mexico City (known as DF Mexico in Spanish, fwiw). Next comes Sao Paulo, which is one of three entries in the ten claimed by Brazil (and Mex gets two with Monterrey). After that we have Santiago de Chile (thanks to 'Chelle), Buenos Aires Argentina (no thanks to any of the politicos ever, all thanks to the great people), Bogota (go Antanas!!), Panama City (cos they speak a lot of English) and Lima there in ninth place (they didn't visit Cono Norte, obviously).

So big props to Mexico City, props to all the others and "must try harder" if your fave 'hood didn't make it. Mojitos served, the end.

The IKN Weekly, out now


IKN52 has just been sent to subscribers (I thought it might turn out to be a bit late today and I was right...it's now just before 7pm). Inside there are a whole bunch of photos, a couple of pretty significant changes to the 'Stocks to Follow' list and a whole bucketload of other things, all wrapped up inside 12,713 words.

Hope you find it useful, dudettes and dudes.


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Saturday, May 1, 2010

IKN Weekly subscriber message


Just a quick note to IKN Weekly subscribers. Due to an abnormal week (work and personal things have been sapping time) a little more time than normal may be needed to finish up IKN52, out tomorrow. In short, you may find the Weekly hitting your inboxes tomorrow Sunday evening EST instead of the normal Sunday afternoon EST.

Apart from that, life is beautiful. Go sniff some flowers and have a cool weekend.