Anthos Fund & Asset Management

Overall leadership sits with CEO Jacco Maters until his planned departure on 31 July 2026. Day-to-day investment responsibilities are distributed across senior managing directors: Yorick Groen oversees private equity, Dimple Sahni leads multi-asset impact investing, and Reinoud van Ieperen Bokhorst and Matthew David Kaplan co-head absolute-return strategies. Bastiaan Pluijmers directs investment strategy and research, reporting into a supervisory board chaired by Leen Meijaard.

Anthos is formally a multi-family office, though the founding Brenninkmeijer family remains its anchor client. It was founded in 1929 to invest the family's C&A retail fortune and now extends its values-based investment and advisory services to a select group of external families, foundations, and faith-based institutions. The firm sits inside COFRA Holding AG, the Brenninkmeijer family's privately held group, alongside sister companies including Redevco and Bregal.

The firm deploys across both fund commitments and direct investments. Its private-market activity spans direct co-investments, special purpose vehicles, fund-of-funds commitments, and limited-partner stakes in buyout, growth, venture, distressed, and secondaries funds. Anthos also makes direct allocations to absolute-return strategies, real estate, and a portfolio of alternative exposures that includes litigation finance, digital assets, royalties, and water entitlements.

Anthos Fund & Asset Management is a subsidiary of COFRA Holding AG, the Swiss-based group that has held the Brenninkmeijer family's business assets for six generations. The family's wealth originated with the C&A retail chain, co-founded by Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer in 1841. Within COFRA, Anthos serves as the dedicated asset-management arm, while Redevco manages the real estate portfolio, Bregal operates as the private-equity platform, and entities such as Laudes Foundation and Porticus focus on philanthropy.

Anthos actively pursues co-investment opportunities alongside its fund managers. The firm's private-equity and impact-investing teams seek direct co-investment and SPV transactions that complement their fund commitments, particularly in climate, healthcare, and financial-inclusion themes. Managing Director Dimple Sahni, who joined from Unilever Corporate Ventures and Omidyar Network, leads the multi-asset impact strategy and regularly evaluates co-investment pipelines in emerging and developed markets.

Anthos organizes its impact-investing activity around four thematic pillars: climate, healthcare, financial inclusion, and food and energy supply. In practice, its confirmed sector exposures include climate technology, water technology, digital health, education technology, agricultural technology, renewable energy, and the circular economy. The firm publishes a regular 'Spotlight on Impact' series, with recent editions dedicated to healthcare and climate investing.

Philanthropy operates through separate legal entities inside the COFRA ecosystem rather than from Anthos's investment balance sheet. The Brenninkmeijer family established Laudes Foundation, Porticus, the Argidius Foundation, and Fondation Entreprendre, each with distinct programmatic focuses. Anthos's own mission is to achieve market-rate financial returns alongside measurable impact, while grant-making and charitable activities flow through those separate foundations.