Alexandre Maia

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.

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.

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.

UAM Assessoria e Gestão de Investimento Ltda. (UAM Assessoria e Gestão) is the asset management division of Itaú Unibanco Holding SA (NYSE : ITUB), a leading South American banking group created in 2008 through the merger of the Itau and Unibanco groups, two of Brazil's leading privately-owned banks. The bank is an affiliate of the financial conglomerate Investimentos Itaú SA, known as Itaúsa. The Moreira Salles family (formerly controlling Unibanco) and the Setubal-Villela family (formerly controlling Itaú) hold significant interests. The group's securities arm has offices in Brazil, New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Dubai. Based in São Paulo, UAM Assessoria e Gestão combines the asset management activities of the former Itaú Asset Management SA and Unibanco Asset Management SA, founded in 1995. They serve a widely diverse clientele including corporate and institutional clients as well as high-net worth private individuals and retail investors. Foreign investors from the US, Europe, the Middle East as well as Asia (particularly Japan and South Korea) make up a significant part of their clientele. UAM Assessoria e Gestão manages a diverse range of traditional and specialist investment products including Brazilian long-only equity and fixed income funds, as well as hedge funds and funds-of-hedge funds, and discretionary portfolios. IUAM runs an incubator FoF for emerging hedge fund managers. They offer Brazilian products as well as Luxembourg- and Cayman-domiciled funds. The firm subadvises Brazilian and Latin American portfolios for leading global asset management firms.