With a wealth of natural resources, a growing middle class and close ties to the U.S., Latin America is also the home of world-class companies. Latin America is the emerging-market region with the longest history of economic reform and deepest investment base. It provides potentially greater opportunities for higher returns than in developed markets, but with greater liquidity and lower risk than many other emerging markets. Investing in Latin America is easy using a deceptively simple tool: the American Depositary Receipt (ADR), a convenient, low-cost way for U.S. investors to diversify by adding non-US.-based companies to their portfolios. ADRs represent shares of international blue-chip firms that are listed in the US. and quoted in US. dollars.
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