Latin American innovation of the year: Bice Vida synthetic leveraged inflation assets

The Chilean investor wanted to buy Telmex debt. Deutsche Bank helped find a way to do it.

At a glance:
Investor:
Bice Vida
Structurer: Deutsche Bank
Deal type: Synthetic leveraged inflation assets
Date: June 30, 2005


It’s difficult enough for pension funds and insurance companies in the UK or US to find actuarially acceptable yield, but for their counterparts in more closed economies such as Chile it’s much harder.

Chilean insurance company Bice Vida found itself in such a predicament in 2005. Its liabilities are denominated in UF (unidad de fomento), inflation-indexed Chilean pesos. But demand for long-dated, high-yielding, UF-denominated fixed-income investments is enormous – Chilean insurance companies control some $16 billion – and vastly exceeds supply.

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