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MACSF

MACSF is a mutual insurance company founded in 1935 in Puteaux, France. It provides insurance and financial services to healthcare professionals.

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MACSF

MACSF is a mutual insurance company founded in 1935 in Puteaux, France. It provides insurance and financial services to healthcare professionals. MACSF offers a range of products including professional liability insurance, savings and retirement plans, health and life insurance, property and leisure insurance, auto insurance, and credit services.

General information

Firm type

Insurance

Year founded

1935

AUM

Undisclosed

Location

Region

Europe

Country

France

City

Paris

Corporate office

Paris, France

Principals

Stéphane Dessirier

Directeur Général

Sector focus

Real EstatePrivate EquityInfrastructureInsurTech

Frequently asked questions

Who runs investment decisions at MACSF?

Stéphane Dessirier serves as Directeur Général of MACSF, overseeing both the insurance operations and the group's direct investment activities. The group does not publish a separate CIO or head-of-investments role, reflecting its integrated mutual structure where the balance sheet is managed internally rather than through an outsourced investment office.

How does MACSF source its real estate and private-market deals?

MACSF sources deals primarily through direct relationships with other French institutional co-investors. Its network includes SMABTP, with whom it acquired the reinsurance platform Arundo Re, Caisse des Dépôts in the Emeis rescue consortium, and co-investment relationships with UI Investissement and Financière Dassault. This places MACSF within a tight Paris-based co-investment ecosystem rather than relying on broader auction processes.

Is MACSF a single-family office or an insurance asset manager?

MACSF is neither. It is a mutual insurance company — technically an asset owner owned by its policyholders — that invests directly from its own balance sheet. Its capital base originates from compulsory professional-liability premiums paid by French doctors and health professionals, not from a single family's or individual's wealth.

What property assets does MACSF own directly?

MACSF's direct property holdings include the Triangle de l'Arche office complex in La Défense, the 16 Avenue George V address in central Paris, the Twenty Campus student-residence network across six French cities, and the Foncière Médicale portfolio of healthcare properties throughout France. These are held as balance-sheet assets, not through external fund structures.

Does MACSF invest in venture capital, and if so how?

Yes, MACSF accesses French venture and growth-stage opportunities through its participation in Founders Future, a vehicle co-backed by the Dassault family's holding company and the shipping-and-logistics group CMA CGM. This provides exposure to early-stage French innovation while keeping MACSF's own internal team focused on direct real estate and co-investment transactions.

How is Fondation MACSF separated from the insurance and investment operations?

Fondation MACSF operates as a legally distinct philanthropic vehicle funded by the insurance group but governed independently. Its public mandate focuses on healthcare-related social initiatives, consistent with MACSF's mutual identity serving medical professionals. The investment portfolio and the foundation's endowment are managed separately.

What is MACSF's known posture on co-investments alongside external GPs?

MACSF consistently co-invests directly alongside peer French institutions rather than through blind-pool commitments to external general partners. Its disclosed transactions — Arundo Re, Emeis, ADIT Group, and Founders Future — are all direct co-investments or consortium deals, suggesting a preference for control, alignment with known counterparties, and avoidance of the fee layers inherent in traditional fund commitments.

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