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Fondo italiano d’Investimento SGR is an alternative investment firm founded in March 2010 and is 43% owned by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and for the remaining by some of the major italian banks and institutions.

History
Estabished on the initiative of the Italian Ministry of Treasury and Finance, Fondo Italiano d’Investimento SGR manages closed-end investment funds dedicated to small and medium-sized firms in order to support their growth and development projects. The distinctive feature of the initiative has been, since the beginning, to combine objectives of high financial performance with the development of the production system, through the use of market instruments.

Initially, the business was managed by a single fund with a total of 1.2 billion euros, acting both as direct Private Equity investor and as fund of fund. In September 2014, the investment firm launched two new vehicles: Private Debt Fund of Funds and Venture Capital Fund of Funds, focused on investments in other private debt and venture capital funds. On 5th April 2016, the first Fund was splitted into three further new investment vehicles:n (1) Fondo Italiano di Investimento (FII Uno), dedicated to direct investments in companies with a turnover between 10 and 250 million euros; (2) Private Equity Fund of Funds, focused on investments in other private equity funds which helped to develop the Italian private equity segment; (3) FII Venture Italian Investment Fund, specialized in investments in funds belonging to the venture capital sector. In November 2017 all the shares of Fondo Italiano di Investimento (FII Uno) were sold through an operation on the secondary market and, after this divestiture the management of the fund passed to another Management Company. At the end of 2017, two other funds were launched: FII Tech Growth and Innovazione e Sviluppo, the first dedicated to Venture Capital and the second to Private Equity.

In July 2018 the investments firm has six closed-end investment funds reserved for qualified investors, for a total of about 2 billion euros of managed resources.

Shareholders
Fondo Italiano d'Investimento SGR is for 43% owned by the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Group, and for the remaining part by some of the main Italian institutions and banks, according to the following distribution:


 * Cassa Depositi e Prestiti S.p.A. - 43,0%
 * Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. - 12,5%
 * MPS Investments S.p.A. - 12,5%
 * UniCredit S.p.A. - 12,5%
 * Nexi S.p.A. - 12,5%
 * Associazione Bancaria Italiana - 3,5%
 * Confindustria - 3,5%

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