Does the one-person billion-dollar company have relevance for family enterprises? Could a multi-generational family business one day be controlled by just one person, with no other employees?
Business
The van Geest family is cutting its exposure to UK private rentals to enter the lending business, aided by a residential private credit fund that paid investors a net return of 10% in its first year.
Take a trip to Beverly Hills, and one private concierge service you might not expect to find is the world’s first fertility family office.
Family office principals have a problem finding ways to protect their homes against crime. Not least, because it stems from their own complacency.
An eight-year alliance between two family offices, one of which is owned by one of Europe's wealthiest families, continues to flourish. Maybe it’s helped by operating from beautiful locations.
Investment
Some big investments over the last week involved generative AI, quantum computing, and a fast-growing crypto trading platform.
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Xavier Niel’s family office and 17 other investors contributed to one of the biggest-ever fundraising efforts for a crypto-trading platform in the history of DeFi, valuing the Paris-based group at…
One of Europe’s richest dynasties has recently invested alongside an Oxford college, hedge funds, and oil companies in a fast-growing quantum computing group as the technology, some argue, nears commercial…
Juan Manuel Serruya is the latest in a long line of Spotify alumni raising money for new ventures through his investment office.
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Press Digest Thursday, 11 June From the world of family capital
www.afr.com
183 hours ago
Billionaire Oatley family office sells private jet – AFR
dailybusinessgroup.co.uk
186 hours ago
Balmoral to invest £50m after family office switch – Daily Business
www.forbes.com
246 hours ago
The Next Phase Of Family Office Growth: Technology And Data – Forbes
cryptobriefing.com
344 hours ago
UBS family office clients are quietly pulling money out of the US
spearswms.com
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The best family office advisory & consultancy services in 2026 – Spear’s Magazine
www.nytimes.com
369 hours ago
Donald E. Newhouse, Low-Profile Heir to a Media Empire, Dies at 96 – The New York Times
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