General Investing >> Sector Roundtables >> September 18, 2000
JORGE O. MARISCAL is the Chief Investment Strategist for Latin America
and Director of the Latin America Equity Research Group at Goldman,
Sachs & Co. He also coordinated the firm's global emerging Markets
research and became a Managing Director in 1999. Prior to joining
Goldman Sachs in 1992, Mr. Mariscal worked at The Nomura Research
Institute as Chief Strategist and Director of Research for Latin
America. He received a BA in Economics from the Metropolitan University
in Mexico City and a PhD from New York University in Economics and
International Finance. Profile
Ernesto Ramos, Ph.D., is Managing Director and Head of Equities at BMO Global Asset Management. Dr. Ramos joined BMO Global Asset Management U.S. in 2005. He is a member of the firm's investment committee and leads the team responsible for portfolio management and research for all equity strategies. Before joining the firm, he was Partner and Lead Portfolio Manager at Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management LLC. He began his career in investment management in 1992, and has a Ph.D. and an M.A. in statistics from Harvard University, and a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Profile
EDUARDO M. CABRERA is a First Vice President, Senior Managing Director
at Merrill Lynch and Chief Latin America Strategist. He has been an
equity analyst on Wall Street for over 12 years. Previously, Mr. Cabrera
worked for the British brokerage firm James Capel as one of the first
Latin America equity analysts on Wall Street and prior to that, he
worked at Paine Webber; Eppler Guerin & Turner; and at Raymond James &
Associates. He is frequently featured on CNN, CNBC, Reuters, The Wall
Street Journal, and The New York Times. Mr. Cabrera received his BS in
Industrial and Systems Engineering with a double major in Economics from
the University of Florida and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of
Business Administration. Born in Matanza, Cuba, he has lived in Mexico,
Venezuela and Spain. Profile
TWST: Jorge, may we start with you? Today's Wall Street Journal notesthat emerging market stocks have enjoyed one of their best years ever.
How does the performance of the Latin American stocks in