RZLC11

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What it is

RZLC11 is an actively managed Brazilian real-estate investment fund that deploys its capital into two asset classes: certificates of real-estate receivables (CRIs, which are essentially bonds backed by property loans) and shares of other listed real-estate funds.

It operates as a senior-class participant in real-estate credit — meaning it sits at the front of the repayment queue — and its protection comes from subordinated units issued by the same structures, which absorb losses first and give RZLC11 priority of payment and lower volatility.

Who owns it

As a publicly listed investment fund, RZLC11 has no controlling shareholder in the corporate sense: ownership is spread across all unitholders. The administrator — responsible for legal and operational oversight — is BTG Pactual Serviços Financeiros S/A DTVM, and the portfolio manager is Riza Asset Management.

Institutional investors hold 34.1% of units (EODHD data), with the remaining free float in retail hands — in listed real-estate funds such as this one, the investor base is predominantly retail, and across the Riza platform as a whole retail accounts for roughly 80% of assets under management.

Who runs it

Daniel Albernaz Lemos is the founder and CEO of Riza Asset Management, the firm that manages RZLC11. Riza’s co-founders are Lemos and Marco Gonçalves; Lemos spent seven years at BTG Pactual across fixed income, structuring, and proprietary trading before moving to Mauá and then XP Investimentos.

Riza Asset Management — formally Riza Gestora de Recursos Ltda — is registered in São Paulo and has grown from zero to R$ 20 billion (US$3.9 bn) in assets under management in roughly six years, advancing 25% in AUM in 2025 alone, across 20 funds, half of which are exchange-listed.

The money, in plain words

With R$ 162.2 million (US$31 mn) of assets against only R$ 3.4 million (US$660 k) of liabilities, the fund is essentially debt-free — its balance sheet is almost entirely the unitholders’ own equity of R$ 158.8 million (~US$ 30.8 million, our calculation). The net margin of 93.1% (our calculation) is not a sign of exceptional skill but of structure: a CRI fund has almost no operating costs, so nearly every real of interest income flows straight to the bottom line.

The price-to-earnings ratio of 19.95× tells you the market values each real of annual income at about twenty reais of unit price — fair for a low-risk, senior-secured credit vehicle in a high-interest-rate environment. The fund delivered a trailing 12-month income return of 14.75%, with units trading around R$ 1,010.

(US$196)

What it is doing now

In one of Riza’s most notable 2025 moves at the platform level, the firm bought a minority stake in nine assets of the large shopping-mall fund XP Malls (XPML11), with Riza’s senior position representing roughly R$ 1 billion (US$194 mn) of that transaction.

The most recent income distribution was R$ 13.02 (US$3)per unit, paid on 13 April 2026, and the unit price is up 2.25% so far in 2026, from R$ 987.81 (US$192)at the start of January to around R$ 1,010. (US$196)

What to watch

• Credit quality of the CRI book. The main risk is the creditworthiness of the underlying borrowers and potential default on the real-estate receivables backing the portfolio.
• Brazilian interest rates. RZLC11’s CRIs are fixed-income instruments; if Brazil’s benchmark Selic rate falls, reinvestment rates drop and new CRI yields narrow, compressing future income.
• Fund size. At a market value of only ~US$ 31.5 million, RZLC11 is a micro-cap fund; thin daily trading volume means large orders can move the unit price, a practical constraint for institutional buyers.
• Manager growth. Riza is expanding rapidly — 20 funds and R$ 20 billion (US$3.9 bn) in assets under management — which brings both brand strength and the risk of management attention being spread across a larger platform.

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