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Investing in Chile: From Mines to Wines

Chile"Last year's Chilean earthquake and the recent mine disaster have an important lesson: Countries with really good management should be strongly considered by investors," says Martin Hutchinson.

Hutchinson adds, "Well managed countries will be more efficient. they will use resources and labor better, there will be fewer sink-holes of value destruction in the public sector and the uncompetitive private sector and they will generally be more open to new ideas and new techniques.

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Chile Fund (ECH): Post-Quake Buy

"Our latest buy recommendation, the iShares MSCI Chile Investable Market Index (ECH), is a high-risk bet that Chile's stock market will weather the devastation of the earthquake just fine and resume its already strong upward trend," says international expert Nicholas Vardy.

In The Global Bull Market Alert, he explains, "The market will very likely be weak near term because of the general level of uncertainty and concerns over damage to infrastructure. Looking back a few weeks from now, I believe this will represent a buying opportunity.

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Hot prospects for Chile (ECH)

"Resource-rich, politically stable and increasingly prosperous, Chile is an attractive play on commodities and growing wealth in emerging markets," explains Mark Salzinger, editor of The Investor's ETF Report.

Chile is also a favorite investment position of Nicholas Vardy, editor of The Global Bull Market Alert, who notes, "Thanks to its fiscal prudence, its lack of a domestic housing bubble, and its sizeable wealth reserves, Chile has weathered the current global economic meltdown better than most countries."

Here, the two advisors assess the longer-term opportunity in iShares MSCI Chile (NYSE: ECH), an exchange-traded fund.

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