Giovanni Tamburi, founder, chairman and chief executive of Tamburi Investment Partners (TIP), will be among the guests at the next SFIM, the Starting Finance Investment Meeting. The 2026 edition, described by the organisers as the biggest ever, will be held in Milan on 5 and 6 November at the Superstudio Village in via Michele Pericle Negrotto 59, in the Bovisa district, with free admission.
Who is Giovanni Tamburi
One of the best-known Italian investors. In 2000 he founded Tamburi Investment Partners, an industrial group focused from the start on the growth of Italian companies, investing in fast-growing businesses eager to capitalise on new technologies. Today TIP is the largest private Italian investor focused on medium-to-large companies, with investments worth an estimated 6 billion euros.
Over the past ten years, according to figures released by the event's organisers, TIP posted an average annual total return of 22%, against an average of 14.7% for the S&P 500 index over the same period.
A model different from traditional private equity
With TIP, Tamburi built a model that departs from traditional private equity funds: finance at the service of companies, with a long-term perspective. An investment company able to hold stakes for more than twenty years, avoiding excessive financial leverage and favouring minority investments designed to accompany entrepreneurs in their growth.
The goal, in Tamburi's view, has never been to maximise short-term gains, but to support companies' strategy and development. A philosophy rooted in the conviction that Italy is home to many quality businesses, often undervalued and above all undercapitalised.
The Italian savings paradox
For Tamburi, one of the great paradoxes of the Italian system is twofold: on one side, a highly valuable industrial fabric that needs capital to grow; on the other, a significant share of Italians' savings invested abroad. To restart the country, in his view, Italy needs greater confidence in its companies and more resources directed toward the real economy.
A record edition for SFIM
SFIM is Italy's reference event for students, young professionals and anyone who wants to understand markets and build their own career path: two days of panels, keynotes and interviews with entrepreneurs, investors and managers, training on investing, careers and entrepreneurship, and networking with thousands of attendees. For 2026 the organisers have announced more than one hundred speakers on the main stage, including Vittorio Colao, Carlo Cottarelli and Luca Ferrari, and the new Talent Village area dedicated to bringing companies and young talent together. The 2025 edition, held last November at Superstudio, closed with more than six thousand participants among students, recent graduates and young professionals.
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