Netherlands-based insurance and financial services company Achmea’s investment unit, Achmea Investment Management announced the launch of “Achmea IM PE Partnership Fund – Healthy People & Planet 2025,” a new private equity fund aimed at investing in key impact themes including climate, biodiversity, healthy nutrition and good health.

Targeted at Dutch pension funds and other institutional investors, Achmea said that the new fund is aimed at providing investors with cost-efficient access to private equity investments that work towards the goal of healthy people in a healthy society.

Achmea said that it has set a €250 million (USD$292 million) target size for the new fund, and has already received capital commitments of €225 million towards the fund’s first close.

According to Achmea, the new fund will pursue market rate investment returns, while targeting a combination of positive social and environmental impact. Companies eligible for investment will be those that make an intentional and measurable positive contribution, in addition to offering attractive risk/return characteristics.

Maureen Schlejen, Chair of the Achmea IM Board, said:

“There is enormous interest in impact investing among our clients and we’re proud to have set up this impact fund with them. Collaboration is key as far as we’re concerned: it accelerates impact and increases scale. This fund offers pension funds and other institutional investors the opportunity to contribute to the goal of healthy people in a healthy society at a return that is in keeping with market rates.”

Achmea said that it has appointed Neuberger Berman Private Markets as the investment partner for the fund. First investments from the fund are expected to be made in Q4 2025.