Maria Izabel Guerra

Baring Asset Management Ltd. (Barings UK) is the Great Britain-based subsidiary of Barings Europe Ltd., ultimately held by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. in the US. Barings traces its origins to 1762 when it was founded in London as a firm of merchants and merchant bankers. They were an asset management pioneer in the UK and set up an Investment Department in 1955. In 1989, all of Barings' asset management activities were consolidated within Baring Asset Management. Headquartered in London, the firm manages assets on behalf of pension funds, pooled vehicles, governments, charities and high-net worth individuals. Barings UK offers a wide range of equity and fixed-income mutual funds in both domestic and international markets. They are a socially responsible investor which takes environmental and socially responsible investment issues into account and seek guidance from clients.

Itaú Unibanco SA is the asset management subsidiary of Itaú Unibanco Holding SA (BVMF: ITUB4; NYSE: ITUB) in Brazil. The firm was created as Banco Itaú SA when Unibanco and Itaú merged. Headquartered in Sao Paulo, Itaú Unibanco provides a full line of banking services to individual, institutional and corporate clients.

Banco Fibra SA operates commercial, foreign exchange, investment portfolios, credit, financing, and manages investment clubs. Its services include credit operations, anticipation of receivables, export, import, checking account, bank deposit certificate, capital markets, derivatives, and others. The company was founded on February 18, 1988 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Part of Itaú Unibanco Holding SA, Banco BBA Creditanstalt SA is an international investment bank. The company is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

NS Partners Ltd. is the wholly-owned Great Britain-based investment management subsidiary of Worldinvest Management Ltd., ultimately held by Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd. (CCLFG) in Canada. Headquartered in London, the firm was founded in 1988 and primarily provides investment advice and management on a discretionary basis to US and non-US accounts.

Santander CCVM SA is a brokerage firm headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The firm was founded in 1982 and is a subsidiary of Banco Santander (Brasil) SA (BVMF: SANB3; NYSE: BSBR). Santander provides brokerage services to their clients.

Itaú Corretora de Valores SA is a brokerage company based in São Paulo, Brazil. Part of Itaú Unibanco Holding SA, Itaú Corretora de Valores SA provides brokerage services. The Brazilian company was founded in 1965 and Leonard Bruno Linnet has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Part of Fator Empreendimentos e Participações Ltda, Banco Fator SA is a Brazilian company that provides investment advice. The company is based in São Paulo, Brazil. The company was founded in 1973. The CEO is Marco Antonio Bologna.

GAP Gestora de Recursos Ltda. (Gap Asset) is the Brazilian asset management subsidiary of GAH Participacoes Ltda., ultimately held by Prudential Financial Inc. (NYSE: PRU) in the US. The firm was founded in 1996 by Renato Junqueira B. Ribeiro, Emanuel Pereira da Silva and Carlos Camacho. Headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Gap Asset manages the GAP range of funds including multimarket, equities, fund of funds, private pension plans and hedge funds.

Part of Lacan Administração de Bens e Participações Ltda, Lacan Investimentos e Participações Ltda. is a company based in São Paulo, Brazil. Lacan Investimentos e Participações Ltda. is a Brazilian real asset fund management company with a focus on ESG principles and over 20 years of experience. The company was founded in 2000 by Luiz Augusto de Oliveira Candiota, who has been the CEO since 2000.

Bram Bradesco Asset Management S/A DTVM (BRAM) is an asset management firm headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The firm was founded in 2000 as a result of the consolidation of Bradesco Templeton Asset Management, BCN Alliance Asset Management, Boavista, BANEB, Credireal and Banco Bradesco´s Fund Management and Investment Portfolio departments. They are a subsidiary of Banco Bradesco BBI SA, which is owned by Banco Bradesco SA (BVMF: BBDC4, NYSE: BBD). The firm manages local funds that invest globally for Brazilian investors and, on the other hand, it manages management of Latin American funds for foreign investors. BRAM is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

BTG Pactual Asset Management S/A DTVM (BTG Pactual-AM) is the investment management subsidiary of Banco BTG Pactual SA (BVMF: BPAC11) in Brazil. Headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, BTG Pactual-AM was founded in 2010 and provides asset management services to clients, including institutional clients, high-net worth individuals, corporations and distribution partners in Brazil and across Latin America.

Part of SAS Rue la Boétie, CA Indosuez Wealth (Brasil) SA DTVM provides investment advice. The company is based in São Paulo, Brazil. The Brazilian company was founded in 1997. The CEO is Urbano Araujo de Moraes.

Sul América Investimentos DTVM SA (Sul América Investimentos) is the Brazilian asset management subsidiary of Sul América Companhia de Seguro Saude, ultimately held by Sul América SA (SP: SULA11). Established in 1996 as Sul América Investimentos Distribuidora de Títulos e Valores Mobiliários SA, the firm became Sul America Investimentos DTVM SA in 1998. Sul América Investimentos is based in Sao Paulo. The firm has been in a strategic partnership with ING Group since 2002 and provides asset management services such as mutual funds, exclusive funds and managed portfolios to a range of clients including pension funds, insurance companies, financial institutions, family offices, brokers and distributors and high-net worth individuals.

Somma Investimentos SA is an independent asset management firm headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil. Founded in 2003, the firm offers investment funds for the general public, suited to different investor profiles and their financial objectives.

AZ Quest Investimentos Ltda. (AZ Quest) is the Brazilian asset management subsidiary of AZ Brasil Holdings Ltda., ultimately held by Azimut Holding SpA (BIT: AZM, ADR: AZIHY) in Italy. The firm was founded by Luiz Carlos Mendonça de Barros in 2001. Headquartered in Sao Paulo, AZ Quest offers investors a diversified platform of high quality products in Equities, Macro, Private Credit and Arbitrage strategies.

Perfin Administração de Recursos Ltda. (Perfin) is the asset management subsidiary of Infinity Participacoes Em Novos Negocios Ltda. in Brazil. The firm was founded in 2007 by Ralph Gustavo Rosenberg and Luís de Oliveira Perego. Headquartered in São Paulo, Perfin specializes in equity fund management for individual and institutional investors. To align investments, the partners invest in the same vehicles as clients.

Nest Investimentos Ltda. is an independent fund manager based in Brazil that offers various investment portfolios with unique strategies. The private company is based in São Paulo, Brazil and has subsidiaries in Brazil. The Brazilian company operates under a model of multi-management and multi-product. The company was founded in 2005 by Francisco Giffoni Meirelles de Andrade, Pedro Tourinho Falcão Baptista, Felipe Prata.

Bresser Administração de Recursos Ltda. The private company is based in São Paulo, Brazil, and has subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands and Brazil. Bresser Asset Management focuses on the knowledge and evaluation of companies and sectors present in the Brazilian stock market. The Brazilian company has built a solid investor base based on a relationship of transparency and confidence with customers. Bresser Asset Management offers its customers an excellent risk/return relationship and an extremely trained and experienced team. The company warns the public about the false use of their name to offer personal loans on the internet and clarifies that the manager and his funds do not act in the credit segment. Bresser Fast Funds FIC, Bresser Hedge End, and Bresser Hedge Plus End are allowed to make investments in financial assets abroad. The profitability obtained in the past does not represent a guarantee of future profitability. is a traditional resource manager founded in 2001 by Rodrigo Bresser-Pereira.

Claritas Administração de Recursos Ltda. (Claritas) is the Brazilian investment management subsidiary of PFG do Brasil Ltda., ultimately held by The Principal Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: PFG) in the US. The firm was founded in 1999 by Marcelo Karvelis and Renato Ribeiro Fortes Abucham. Headquartered in Sao Paulo, Claritas offers local and international funds to individual and institutional investors. The firm is a signatory of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) and committed to incorporating environmental, social and corporate governance issues into their investment analysis and decision-making processes.

Empire Capital Gestão de Recursos Ltda. is a Brazilian company based in São Paulo, Brazil. and has subsidiaries in Brazil. The Brazilian company was founded in 2005 by Frederico Mesnik. Clóvis Souto has been the CEO of the private company since 2017. provides investment advice.

Santander Brasil Gestão de Recursos Ltda. (SBG) is the Brazilian asset management subsidiary of Santander Asset Management Investment Holdings Ltd. in Great Britain. Headquartered in Sao Paulo, SBG was founded in 2008 and offers a diversified range of investment funds, managed portfolios and investment advice to individual, corporate and institutional investors.

Agora Gestão de Recursos Ltda. (AGR) is the fund management subsidiary of Kirton Bank SA, itself a subsidiary of Banco Bradesco SA (BVMF: BBDC4, ADR: BBDO) in Brazil. The firm was founded in 2004 as Kirton Gestão de Recursos Ltda. They changed their name to HSBC Gestão de Recursos Ltda. in 2016 and Agora Gestão de Recursos Ltda. in 2019. Headquartered in São Paul, AGR manages mutual funds for individual and institutional clients.

Banco J. Safra SA (BJS) is the wealth management subsidiary of Banco Safra SA and their ultimate parent is Grupo Safra SA. BJS provides a private banking and wealth management services for high-net worth, institutional and individual clients. The firm is headquartered in Sao Paulo and was founded in 1998.

Gavea Investimentos Ltda. (GIL) is an independent investment management firm headquartered in Rio de Janeiro and was founded in 2003. Formerly known as 3F Administracao De Recursos Ltda., the firm was founded in 2003 by Arminio Fraga and Luiz Henrique Fraga. In 2010, Gavea became a subsidiary of JPMorgan Asset Management, the asset management arm of J.P Morgan Chase & Co. and created a strategic alliance with Highbridge Capital Management, the global alternative asset manager owned by JPMorgan Asset Management. GIL’s activities are focused on hedge funds, private equity funds, equity funds and real estate funds.

Trek Investimentos Ltda is an independent asset management firm headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Formerly known as GAP Prudential LT Gestão de Recursos Ltda., the firm was founded in 2007 as Novero Investimentos Ltda. Trek Investimentos manages funds for individual and institutional investors.

Part of Banco Paulista SA, Riviera Gestora de Recursos Ltda. The company is based in São Paulo, Brazil and was founded in 2005. is a Brazilian company that provides investment advice.

AMS Capital Ltda., do-business-as M. Safra & Co. Money Managers, is a privately-held asset management firm headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. The firm was founded by Ezra Moise Safra as Everest Participações Ltda. in 1998 to manage resources of the Safra family. AMS Capital offers investment funds for qualified investors, individuals and companies.

Tarpon Gestora de Recursos SA (Tarpon Gestora) is the wholly-owned fund management subsidiary of Tarpon Investimentos SA (SP: TRPN3) in Brazil. The firm is headquartered in São Paulo and was founded in 2012 when Tarpon Investimentos SA reorganized, integrating the activities of the securities portfolio into a unique entity. The reorganization transferred certain third party fund assets to Tarpon Gestora, which subsequently manages all funds, portfolios and investment vehicles for Tarpon Investimentos.

AndBank Gestão de Patrimônio Financeiro Ltda. (AndBank) is the Brazilian private banking subsidiary of Banco AndBank (Brasil) SA, which in turn is owned by Andorra Banc Agricol Reig SA in Andorra. Headquartered in Sao Paulo, the firm was founded in 2008 as Lla Gestão de Patrimônio Financeiro Ltda. AndBank provides private banking services and investment solutions to individual investors, institutions and companies.

Vista Capital Gestora de Recursos Ltda. is an investment management company based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Vista Capital offers various investment strategies, including long biased view, macro research, and multi-strategy view, in Brazilian and international markets. The Brazilian company has grown from managing $30 million to over $6 billion in assets under management, thanks to consistent performance, strict risk controls, and a focus on retaining the best human capital. Vista Capital does not sell or distribute quotas of investment funds or any other financial assets, and past profitability does not guarantee future profitability. The private company was founded in 2014 by João Landau, Luis Felipe Aleixo Lutosa Clark Magon, João Eduardo Lopes, and has Luiz Guilherme Gama as the CEO since 2015.

Sul América Investimentos Gestora de Recursos SA (SulAmérica Investimentos) is the asset management subsidiary of Sul América Investimentos DTVM SA, ultimately held by Rede D'Or São Luiz SA (BVMF: RDOR3) in Brazil. Founded in 2015, the firm is headquartered in Sao Paulo and manages assets for a range of clients such as pension funds, insurers, companies, financial institutions, family offices, brokers, distributors and high-net worth individuals. SulAmérica Investimentos is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) and seeks to incorporate environmental, social and corporate governance matters into their business practices.

ASA Asset Gestão em Investimentos Ltda. (ASA Investments) is an asset management firm headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The firm was founded in 2018 and is a subsidiary of Asa 1 Holding Nao Financeira Ltda., which is owned by Alberto J. Safra Holding Ltda. ASA Investments develops investment products for various types of clients.

Organon Capital Gestão de Recursos Ltda. is a private company based in São Paulo, Brazil that was founded in 2020 by Raphael Fraga Maia. The Brazilian company specializes in investment management and offers various funds for investment. The company's website provides information on how to invest, their media presence, and details about their funds.

Part of Wealth High Governance Holding de Participações SA, Wealth High Governance Capital Ltda provides investment advice. The company is based in São Paulo, Brazil. The Brazilian company was founded in 2019. Marco Aurélio Abrahão has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

RBR Gestão de Recursos Ltda. The private company is based in São Paulo, BR. provides investment advice. and has subsidiaries in the United States. The Brazilian company was founded in 2013 by Ricardo Almendra, who has been the CEO since 2013.

Part of Warsk Participações Ltda., Apex Capital Ltda. The company is based in São Paulo, Brazil. is a Brazilian company that provides independent management of third-party resources. The company's description includes policies related to ethics, risk, internal controls, personal investment, allocation, information security, training, voting, privacy, ESG, and environmental practices. The company specializes in analyzing and managing resources for large national and international banks and managers. The company was founded in 2011 by José Rocha, Fabio Spinola Vianna, Paulo Eduardo Muller Weickert. Fabio Spinola Vianna has been the CEO since 2011.

SFA Investimentos Ltda. is a resource management company based in São Paulo, Brazil. SFA Investimentos focuses on investing in long-term focus companies to generate alpha and create equity value and growth for their investors. The Brazilian company has a differentiated investment philosophy and solid and well-structured processes to achieve long-term returns and preserve them. SFA Investimentos has invested time and resources to develop processes that allow its professionals to know deeply invested companies, their strategies, and execution capacity. The private company provides a monthly report and quarterly management letter to its subscribers. The information available on their website is exclusively informative and does not constitute any kind of investment counseling. The company was founded in 2013 by Ciro Aliperti Neto, who has been the CEO since then.