Societe Generale Group

As global copper demand is ever-growing, largely driven by demand for renewable infrastructure, Latin America, and particularly Chile, is in a leading position for copper production. The latest of several copper mining projects in the country, El Espino, will be partly funded with a $375 million financing. Leveraging its decade-long expertise in copper mining...

Over the last few years economies around the world were significantly impacted by the COVID pandemic, war and geopolitics that crimped trade and tied up supply lines. While these disruptions impacted most markets negatively, Latin America economies appear to have been an outlier, benefitting from the resulting boost in commodities prices and their own...

Societe Generale’s Prime Services unit’s most recent poll of global investors, conducted in the final quarter of 2023, surveyed pensions, endowments, funds of funds and other institutional investors about their hedge fund allocation priorities over the next year. Nearly 370 investment firms globally contributed their investment preferences.

Copper mining can’t operate without fresh water. Lots of it, in fact, is needed in the smelting process and other stages of production. And this can cause a strain on groundwater supplies, especially if the copper mines are located in bone-dry regions, and where there are communities relying on the same water for their daily lives. Notwithstanding, copper is...