Kairos Partners

Kairos Partners SGR S.p.A. is an Italian asset-management and wealth-management firm headquartered in Milan, Italy (Via San Prospero, 2, 20121 Milan), with additional offices in Rome, Turin, and historically in London, founded in 1999 by Paolo Basilico and partners originally from Warburg Milan's sell-side institutional equity business as an entrepreneurial alternative to Italy's large bank-owned asset managers. Authorised by the Bank of Italy (Banca d'Italia) as a SGR (societA di gestione del risparmio), in March 2001 Kairos became the first Italian SGR authorised to manage domestic funds of hedge funds and the first to launch a single-manager hedge fund in Italy. The Kairos Group historically comprised Kairos Partners SGR, Kairos Investment Management, Kairos Asset Management SpA, and Kairos Investment Management Ltd (London), offering mutual funds, SICAVs, ELTIF vehicles, discretionary mandates, and private-banking / wealth-management services to private, professional, and institutional investors, with approximately EUR 5.6 to 8 billion in assets under management at various points and around 100 to 150 employees. In 2013 Swiss private bank Julius Baer took a minority stake, acquiring a majority in 2016. In May 2024 Kairos Partners SGR was acquired by Italian asset-management group ANIMA, opening a new consolidation and growth phase under ANIMA ownership with current CEO-level leadership alongside Chairman Guido Maria Brera.