Banking The panel’s bond market experiences may have been relatively benign, but the debt market has not been open to all firms. They have relied on the banking sector. “Within international corporate and commercial banking, we were managing a book of somewhere in the range of about US$78bn entering the pandemic,” said Robert Williams, senior vice president, international corporate and commercial banking, Latin America and Caribbean, at Scotiabank. “During the first two q

Economic review Even before the first case of Covid was recorded, at the beginning of March 2020, Chile’s economy had been disrupted by an idiosyncratic shock: Chile’s worst political unrest in decades. The violent protests, which began during the last quarter of 2019, provided the context against which discussions about the economy were set. “Chile’s response to the pandemic was proactive and multi-faceted,” said Andrés Pérez, international finance co

Carolina Mery AFP Habitat Chile Carolina Mery is the chief investment officer of AFP Habitat, the largest private pension fund in Chile, with assets under management of more than US$55bn. She has worked at the company for the last 15 years and has more than 20 years of experience in the Chilean pension fund system. Prior to becoming CIO in 2018, Mery was head of international equity and developed a US$700m private equity programme for the firm. Gianfranco Truffello Celulosa Arauco y Constituci&o