IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones is a leading investment group in Latin America that includes IRSA (shopping centres, office buildings, hotels, residential developments and land reserves in Argentina and the US); Cresud (portfolio of one million hectares of agricultural and farm land under control in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia); Banco Hipotecario (leading commercial bank in Argentina); and Austral Gold (gold and silver mine in Guanaco, Chile).