JPMorgan Latin America A

If Dilma Rousseff is impeached by the Senate, Michel Temer will head the government until 2018 before the next election.

A release from the Central Bank of Brazil showed that the country’s primary deficit stood at 136 billion Brazilian real in the 12-months until March 2016.

Brazil’s fiscal woes have just worsened. A release from Banco Central do Brasil showed that the country’s cumulative primary deficit stood at 125.1 billion reais in the 12-month period ended February 2016.

JLTAX’s assets were invested across 57 holdings as of November 2015, and it was managing assets worth $62.3 million.

Unlike its peers in Japan, China, and Europe, Banco Central do Brasil can’t adopt an easing approach, the primary reason being its high levels of inflation.

The JPMorgan Latin America Fund – A (JLTAX) rose 4.6% in October 2015 from a month ago. In the three-month and six-month periods ended October 30, the fund fell 12.1% and 23.6%, respectively.

The JPMorgan Latin America Fund Class A fell by 6.2% in September from August 2015. But from the end of September until October 28, the fund was up 5.2%.

The JPMorgan Latin America Fund seeks long-term growth through “investments that are tied economically to Latin America.”

The JPMorgan Latin America Fund – A (JLTAX) is offered by JPMorgan Asset Management. The fund seeks long-term growth of capital.

The JPMorgan Latin America A (JLTAX) tanked 10.5% in August 2015 from a month ago—the third-worst performance among the eight funds in this review.