Ricardo Almendra

Votorantim CTVM Ltda. is the brokerage subsidiary of Banco Votorantim SA, which is ultimately held by the Government of Brazil. The firm is headquartered in São Paulo and was founded in 1995. Votorantim provides brokerage services to their clients.

Empiricus Research Publicações Ltda. (Empiricus) is an independent research firm headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. The firm was founded by Caio Mesquita, Felipe Miranda and Rodolfo Amstalden in 2009 as Empiricus Consultoria e Negocios Ltda. Empiricus is a digital investment platform that offers individual investors investment recommendations as good (or better) than those of professional investors.

Kinea Investimentos Ltda. (Kinea) is an investment management firm headquartered in headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The firm was founded by former BankBoston executives in 2007 and is a subsidiary of Itaú Unibanco SA, itself a subsidiary of Itaú Unibanco Holding SA (ADR: ITUB) in Brazil. Kinea manages hedge funds, multimarket shares funds, real estate funds and private equity 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.

Part of Delomitas Participações Ltda., Quatá Gestão de Recursos Ltda. is a Brazilian investment management company based in São Paulo, Brazil. Quatá specializes in credit analysis and operates in the structuring of private credit products, in the management of fixed income investment funds and multimarket investment funds. The Brazilian company's culture is based on consistency, transparency, and versatility, building a close and long-term relationship with customers. Quatá has deep knowledge of the Brazilian credit market, with expertise in large prominent financial institutions in the areas of commercial, structuring, and management of fixed income assets. The company has approximately R $2 billion under credit expertise management and has already invested more than R $15 billion in assets with loss less than 0.2%%. The company was founded in 2008 by Pedro Mac Dowell and Beatriz Degani, who has been the CEO since then.

Banco Alfa de Investimento SA (Investment Management) (Banco Alfa-IM) is the investment management division of Banco Alfa de Investimento SA (BVMF: BRIV3) in Brazil. Founded in 1966, the firm is headquartered in Sao Paulo and manages investment funds for individual and corporate clients.

Fisher Investimentos Ltda. The private company is based in São Paulo, Brazil. provides investment services.

Part of XP, Inc., XP Investimentos CCTVM SA is a financial investment company based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Brazilian company offers a variety of investment options such as CDB, LCA, LCI, COE, CRI, CRA, Fundos, Futuros, Tesouro, and more. XP Investimentos CCTVM was founded in 1997 by Guilherme Benchimol, who has been the CEO since then.