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“Present and promote global solutions for business processes”

When offering advisory services, PROBATUS emphasises the necessary blend of several aspects, namely financial, marketing, and technological, taking into account local circumstances in Brazil. This page in English gives only a brief overview of the site's content.

An indication of our commitment to produce and deliver reports and projects that are applicable, concise, and dense, with theoretical innovation linked to business' interests can be seen in the book "CRISE E PROSPERIDADE COMERCIAL, FINANCEIRA E POLÍTICA", as well as in many other papers presented in scientific conferences and in numerous articles published in the press since 2004. All the work already carried out and those presented in Portuguese in this site result from life experience associated with a thorough cross-disciplinary study and research.

ATTENTION: Check on the paper "International Pricing Strategy: Why Prices Rise and How Prices Change", which Marcelo Henriques de Brito presented at The Eigth Brazilian Finance Society Meeting held on July 2008, that new arguments and an original mathematical model point out that there is indeed a link between "The Big Mac Index" data and the UBS study "Prices and Earnings around the Globe". The work elucidates pricing policy beyond what is explained in traditional financial textbooks. A previous paper in Portuguese presented in 2004 in a finance conference in Brazil won a prize. The new article in English furthers the research, showing that two independent data source confirm the findings and conclusions.
For a quick overview to the lay public, check:
THE BIG MAC AND THE REAL - OVERVALUED?. (A one-page text in English published on The Umbrella, which is produced by the British&Commonwealth Society of Rio de Janeiro for the English-speaking Community.)
The Umbrella, page 16 – Vol XV, February 2010

ANOTHER SUGGESTION: Read the work "The Interaction of the Exchange Rate Variation with Decisions Regarding Monetary Policy and Investments in Brazil", which was published at RBRS International on the December 2009 printed and electronic editions, after a previous version was selected for presentation in October 2009 at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management - ICIEOM. This work evidences that investors’ decisions in Brazil regarding the investment type (fixed income or equity) should consider the outlook for the exchange rate variation. Such prospect may also influence the decisions of The Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) of Brazil’s Central Bank (BCB) regarding the target for the basic short-term interest rate in Brazil (known as Over-Selic interest rate).

Update of Figure 2 in the scientific paper
"The Interaction of the Exchange Rate Variation with Decisions Regarding Monetary Policy and Investments in Brazil"
published at RBRS International December 2009. -

by Marcelo Henriques de Brito, Administrador, Tec.Contab. e Engenheheiro., Ph.D., CNPI, CFP

Update of Figure 3 in the scientific paper
"The Interaction of the Exchange Rate Variation with Decisions Regarding Monetary Policy and Investments in Brazil"
published at RBRS International December 2009. -

by Marcelo Henriques de Brito, Administrador, Tec.Contab. e Engenheheiro., Ph.D., CNPI, CFP

Photo: Fernando Alvim Tel.: (21)2531-7457 faralvim@terra.com.br

MARCELO HENRIQUES DE BRITO Head of PROBATUS • Ph.D. degree from ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE EPFL - Switzerland. His EPFL PhD Thesis is available for download at http://library.epfl.ch/en/theses/?nr=984&fmt=full • Degree in Business from "Universidade Mackenzie" (São Paulo), (MACKENZIE), acheiving the Prize "Prêmio de Mérito Acadêmico em Administração" bestowed by the CONSELHO REGIONAL DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO SÃO PAULO (CRA-SP) • Degree in Mechanical Engeneering from UFRJ ("Federal University Rio de Janeiro"). • He he concluded a technical course on accounting which entitled a register at CRC-RJ (Accounting Council of Rio de Janeiro). Due to his interest and activities in International Business, Finance & Investment Analysis: • He fulfilled the requirements (including Exams) established by FPSB and IBCPF to be a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) • He passed the exams of APIMEC/IBCPI required by the Brazilian law (CVM) to be a Brazilian Certified Investment Professional (CNPI) • He holds the Professional Certification - ANBIMA CPA 20 (professionals who have direct contact with Qualified Investors in the sale of investment products) from ANBIMA (Associação Brasileira das Entidades dos Mercados Financeiro - Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets Association) • He was approved in the four-day Examination of the Brazilian Insurance School (FUNENSEG), which entitles him to be a full insurance broker with register at SUSEP. • He has also concluded a course to be Real Estate Agent which entitles an official register at COFECI/CRECI. Besides activities at PROBATUS, he is also a Part-Time Professor at Ibmec-RJ since August 2008, where he lectures each semester "International Finance" (since 2008) and "Strategic Financial Management with Globalisation" (since 2010) at the "International Relations Undregraduate Course". Since 2012, he lectures "Financial Planning and Comptrollership" at the Business and Administration Undregraduate Course. During his life, he has always been exposed to different cultures, as well as trained to switch with ease between different written and spoken languages (English, French, German, Swiss German, Spanish, and Portuguese, his mother tongue), specially because of his long-term international exposure (more than 5 years in Switzerland, where he worked and carried out a PhD thesis) and because he was sent to a British School when he was a child. All this international background is very useful for professional activities at Brazilian and multinational companies. Throughout his professional career, he has been interested in international business, corporate finance and foreign politics, environmental technology and management, project management, and R&D of technology equipment for unit operation (e.g., evaporation, distillation, absorption, mixing) and industrial process (e.g., chemical process industries, stock preparation, including recycle technology, waste treatment plants). Currently, he takes part in several professional associations and since 2003 he is a director of the traditional Chamber of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro (ACRJ), founded in 1809, where he launched his book CRISE E PROSPERIDADE COMERCIAL, FINANCEIRA E POLÍTICA. For additional information, see: - Marcelo Henriques de Brito at LinkedIn. or - detailed, updated résumé in Portuguese of Marcelo Henriques de Brito on Lattes Database hosted by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), which is a foundation linked to the Ministry of Science and Technology of Brazil (MCT). Read the interview about his background and life on the June 2008 edition of The Umbrella, a newspaper produced by The British & Commonwealth Society of Rio de Janeiro for the English-speaking Community.