A guide to the family office employment market 29/01/2013 They may not quite resemble Winston Churchill’s concept of the former Soviet Union as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” At the very least, however, it would very difficult to disagree with the notion that family offices, in all their guises, do have chameleon-like qualities. And this can pose any number of problems.
Take the family office labour market, for example.
London-based trade association hosts new initiative to boost family office sector 25/01/2013 More evidence of the growing interest in family offices in all their shapes and guises comes from Global Partnership Family Offices, a London-based organisation that “serves the family office market as an impartial resource for knowledge, advice, research and private peer to peer networking”.
Retirement concerns top the list of priorities for HNWs 03/01/2013 The top financial priority for almost half of high net worth individuals is having the money to maintain their lifestyle throughout their retirement years.
International trust firm launches family office service 27/11/2012 Trust and estate planning consultancy, International Protector Group (IPG), has launched a new family office service to help HNW families set up wealth protection structures.
Another family office myth: The $100 million minimum threshold 22/11/2012 Peruse any literature on single family offices (SFOs) and it is not long before the question of the minimum volume of assets required to support such an edifice is first introduced and then almost summarily dismissed. The conventional wisdom is that anyone with less than $100 million of “net worth” should steer well clear of a single family office. Is this really the case?
Credit Suisse launches single family office service in India 08/11/2012 Credit Suisse has launched a single family office service in India in an effort to strengthen the bank’s product offering to the fast-growing segment of ultra high net worth (UHNW) and high net worth individuals (HNWI) in India.
Family-owned businesses in Europe and the US 'outperform the market' 31/08/2012 Despite a perception that family businesses are “half asleep and uncompetitive”, in the United States and Europe they tend to outperform market in general, according to research by Syz Asset Management.
