Polo Capital is an independent asset management group based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The company was established in 2002 and started operating its first investment products in 2003. Polo Capital manages over R$ 3 billion of clients’ capital across various liquid and illiquid strategies. The liquid mandates comprise event-driven L/S and Long Bias and Macro, while the illiquid products pursue credit, real estate and special situations (precatórios, NPLs and others). The firm employs a partnership model and values ethics, hard work, quality, creativity, innovation and alignment of interests. Polo Capital has 45 motivated professionals who share such values and who subscribe to a compensation scheme that aims to reward performance and business contribution. (July 2019)