Armando Armenta
5 Years at AB|16 Years of Experience
Armando Armenta is a Vice President and Senior Economist for Global Economic Research, responsible for economic analysis and strategy of Latin America's fixed-income and currency markets. He joined the firm in August 2019. From 2016 to 2019, Armenta was an emerging-market strategist with the Global Macro Strategy division at UBS. In this role, he conducted macroeconomic and quantitative research to generate new, macro-driven investment strategies across emerging-market asset classes. From 2015 to 2016, Armenta was an investment macro-strategist with BlackRock's Multi-Asset Strategies team, where he assisted portfolio managers in the development of investment strategy for a multi-asset emerging markets fund. Earlier in his career, he worked at Invesco and Deutsche Bank, where he was a Latin America economist. Armenta holds both a BA and an MA in economics from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. Location: New York
Published Work
The favorite in Argentina’s presidential election has vowed to eliminate the central bank and dollarize the economy. Which path will the country follow?
Fundamentals in Latin America's economies have been strengthening, though uncertainty surrounds the future path of government policies.
Late in 2019, Chile, Colombia and Peru saw an uptick in political turmoil that was unusual, given that they're perceived as politically stable countries with "market-friendly" policies. With several key elections on tap in 2020, we're watching closely for potential risk flare-ups.