
Amerant Investments Chief Investment Officer Baylor Lancaster-Samuel joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss the Amerant Latin American Debt UCITS ETF (RNTA), outlining how the fund offers investors targeted exposure to high-yield Latin American corporate bonds while eliminating currency risk. Lancaster-Samuel said the ETF was designed to solve a common challenge for investors seeking access to the region’s fixed income markets. Many Latin American corporate bonds are issued in large minimum denominations, making it difficult for individual and smaller institutional investors to build diversified portfolios. By packaging these opportunities into an ETF structure, RNTA provides more accessible and efficient exposure to the asset class. The fund invests in U.S. dollar-denominated corporate bonds, allowing investors to benefit from emerging market yields without being exposed to foreign exchange volatility. Lancaster-Samuel emphasized that this approach enables the ETF to foc...