02/08/2021
Why performance needs to be more than just about financial return for family office investors
Family offices are increasingly wanting to invest in stocks and funds that are both profitable and reflective of social values.
02/05/2021
Richard Joynt and Amy Collins take a quick look at some of the main reasons these offices are being set up.
02/05/2021
The 21st century has seen an explosion of Family Offices with widely varying missions.
02/05/2021
What exactly is a family office? Top advisor explores the lack of a standard definition and what it means for this burgeoning industry in Canada
02/04/2021
A 2020 report on global billionaires confirmed Asia to be the fastest growing market of wealth in the world.
02/03/2021
Singapore is trying to attract wealthiest people to its shores
02/02/2021
This marks the sixth consecutive year that WE Family Offices has been considered for the Family Wealth Report Awards.
02/02/2021
“If you’ve seen one family office, you’ve seen one family office.”
01/27/2021
International Federation of Family Offices launches to support global family office ecosystem
It was following this last meeting that AFFO and the AIFO decided to jointly create a federation to bring together the existing family office associations of each country, with over 50 family offices as members.
01/26/2021
Economic developments in Asia present investment opportunities and current high valuations may be "an accident waiting to happen", say investors.
01/26/2021
Recognising the trajectory and opportunity presented by the evolving ecosystem, Liquefy Ventures will collaborate with its clients on strategic initiatives and invest in projects that are the backbone of the next-generational financial infrastructure.
01/25/2021
For many years, AFFO has been meeting with its foreign counterparts in order to better understand the way in which they operate and the specific characteristics of the family offices in each country.
01/20/2021
The concept of a product having a life cycle was theorised in the mid-1960s by Raymond Vernon and has since passed into standard economic theory as one of the bedrocks of modern marketing.
01/20/2021
Since expertise is a given, not a differentiator, in the Middle East the starting point has to be investment in a meaningful relationship with the family.
01/18/2021
Family offices in Europe and Switzerland are doing well – and they play a not insignificant economic role thanks to the volume of their investments. In Switzerland, five family offices stand out among active investors.
01/14/2021
This pandemic poses a different risk, and a realisation of vulnerability has certainly made some of our clients re-assess their priorities.
01/12/2021
Advisors and investors can use the models and pools to simplify the creation and management of diversified alternative investment portfolios.
01/11/2021
By talking in this manner the family squabbles are less likely to arise and the business of family wealth will remain the featured event.
01/10/2021
The tribunal case also highlights the importance of careful planning while implementing trust and asset holding structures in a transparent world where information is automatically exchanged between countries.
01/08/2021
BlackRock’s first deep-dive into trends finds resilience as a common theme but with many looking to the future.