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Forluz
Founded in 1971, Forluz manages the retirement assets for employees of Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais, the state-controlled electricity...
Forluz
Founded in 1971, Forluz manages the retirement assets for employees of Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais, the state-controlled electricity concessionaire, and is also sponsored by its gas subsidiary Gasmig. Former CEMIG VP of Finance Leonardo George de Magalhães serves as president, and Emilio Luiz Cafaro directs investments and control. The fund operates out of Belo Horizonte, housed within the same complex as its sponsor at the Edifício Júlio Soares. Forluz runs a multi-asset allocation spanning natural resources, timber, buyout and growth equity, distressed debt, and fund-of-funds structures. Its real-asset book includes direct ownership of the Edifício Júlio Soares commercial tower and an interest in the Santo Antônio hydroelectric complex in Rondônia. On the public-markets side, it holds stakes in Brazilian listed real estate vehicles such as Kinea Fundo de Fundos, Hedge Brasil Shopping, and the BTG Pactual Corporate Office Fund, positioning it as a steady participant in Latin America’s institutional real estate and infrastructure pipelines. With an estimated $4.2 billion in assets (Altss estimate), Forluz belongs to ABRAPP, the Brazilian closed-pension-fund association, and is a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment, the Carbon Disclosure Project, and the GRI Institute. It maintains adjacent health-assistance structures — Cemig Saúde and Cemig Sim — that serve the same beneficiary base. No dedicated external website for its investment strategy appears publicly maintained, reflecting the common opacity of Latin American closed pension funds that prioritize liability matching over public-profile building. The fund’s structural identity is tightly coupled to CEMIG — its investment governance, office location, and even adjacent health operations all radiate from that single sponsor relationship. This creates a concentrated risk profile distinct from multi-sponsor funds, but also ensures that the asset pool is managed with intimate knowledge of the beneficiary liability stream and the sponsor’s own energy-sector capital demands.
General information
Firm type
Pension Fund
Year founded
1971
AUM
$4.2B (Altss estimate)
Location
Region
Latin America
Country
Brazil
City
Belo Horizonte
Corporate office
Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Principals
Leonardo George de Magalhães
President
Emilio Luiz Cafaro
Director of Investments and Control
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Forluz?
Investment and control functions are directed by Emilio Luiz Cafaro, under the presidency of Leonardo George de Magalhães — a former CEMIG VP of Finance. Day-to-day allocation recommendations and manager selection flow through Cafaro’s office, ultimately approved within the governance framework that ties back to the sponsor.
How is Forluz’s asset base structured between plan participants and sponsor contributions?
Forluz is a closed pension fund — known locally as an Entidade Fechada de Previdência Complementar — exclusively serving employees of CEMIG and its sponsoring entities. Its asset pool is the aggregated result of decades of defined-benefit and defined-contribution plan flows, with liability characteristics heavily influenced by the maturity of CEMIG’s workforce.
Does Forluz invest directly in operating companies or primarily through funds?
The fund uses a hybrid model. It holds direct real estate — the Edifício Júlio Soares, CEMIG’s own headquarters — and an equity stake in the Santo Antônio hydroelectric plant. For other private-market exposure, it relies on fund commitments and listed alternatives such as Brazilian real estate investment trusts, reflecting a common liquidity-management approach among Brazilian closed pension funds.
What is Forluz’s relationship to Cemig Saúde and Cemig Sim?
Cemig Saúde is a health-assistance operator founded by Forluz and CEMIG to provide medical coverage to the same beneficiary base. Cemig Sim is a related entity that also participates as a plan sponsor. The structures are operationally adjacent but legally separate from the pension asset pool, designed to keep welfare obligations ring-fenced from retirement liabilities.
How does being tied to a single sponsor affect Forluz’s investment posture?
Concentration risk is structural: Forluz’s entire beneficiary pool and much of its investment governance depend on CEMIG’s financial health. This demands heightened attention to correlation — its direct real estate includes CEMIG’s headquarters, and energy-sector investments like Santo Antônio Energia align with the sponsor’s industrial logic, creating a dense web of overlapping exposures that diversified multi-sponsor funds typically avoid.
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