This week’s family investment deals

The man in the deal news this week was Andre Hoffmann, vice chairman of Roche Holdings, the big Swiss pharmaceutical company his family own a sizable chunk of. Hoffmann gave a huge grant to his old alma mater, INSEAD, to set up the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society at the business school. He’s signed a cheque for €40 million, the biggest individual donation in INSEAD’s history, to support the new institute. Also, a venture group the Swiss billionaire funds called 4FO Ventures has backed a healthcare group called Aspivix (see below).