Sustainability

Sustainability: a long term commitment

As a holding company, our purpose is to act as a change agent in companies seeking to create sustainable value to society, investees and shareholders.
We believe that developing and carrying out long-lasting actions strengthen the commitment to Brazil’s sustainable development, mitigating impact on the environment and ensuring a broader risk management and more opportunities for our shareholders, employees and society. To this end, we have adopted the ESG model that brings in three core factors (environmental, social and governance practices) to measure the sustainability and the social impact of our investments, in addition to contributing to better manage the expected future risk and return-based financial performance.

For us, sustainability is more than a simple concept. It’s a commitment . And for a long time.

For decades, Itaúsa integrates top capital market indexes composed by companies with differentiated management and performance in sustainability, people and corporate governance. We are the only Brazilian holding company to integrate the DJSI and for 2 decades.

In addition, Itaúsa integrates important indexes related to Sustainability and Corporate Governance of the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), such as ISE, ICO2, ITAG, IGC, IDIVERSA and IGPTW.

Itaúsa’s long time commitment to sustainability reflects the intrinsic values of the controlling families.

Throughout their history, our controlling shareholders have made a strong commitment to responsible business performance and the development of Brazil. In this context, in 2022 we assessed trends, risks, impacts, real and potential opportunities arising, directly or indirectly, from our business and the demands from different stakeholders on Itaúsa and its portfolio. Accordingly, still in 2022 we announced our Sustainability Ambition: “Invest with responsibility, working as agents of change to build businesses that create value and impact the sustainable development in Brazil.”

Supported by a solid governance, we adopted a sustainability strategy that seeks to maximize our contribution to a more productive and positive economy for climate, nature and people, through 2 two pillars of impact: (i) Impact by Itaúsa and its portfolio and (ii) impact by Itaúsa Institute.

Learn more about Itaúsa Institute here.

Participation in the main indexes