Snipers Alley – and family enterprise leaders
Snipers Alley, the allegory for when health issues begin to “pick off” individuals in their 60s,…
Person of the Week: Byron Allen – and the growing power of African American-owned family offices
Byron Allen, comedian, businessman, and investor, made the headlines this week with his acquisition of…
Eco-construction, cosmetics…all the latest deals
The big deal of the week was Allen Family Capital taking a majority stake in Buzzfeed.
University of Chicago’s business school hires top advisor for its family office initiative
The University of Chicago Booth School of Management's continuing efforts to become an outstanding centre…
One of Europe’s biggest family offices lays down its intentions with two big advisory hires
Kirkbi, the family investment group of the Kristiansen dynasty, has made two major hires, signalling…
Persons of the Week: Recanati family – four generations of entrepreneurship and investing
The Recanati family is among the world’s great entrepreneurial dynasties, certainly in terms of their…
Renewable ocean platforms, surgical X-ray vision…all the latest deals
AI-related investments still the dominant theme among family/principal investment offices, as well as…
Inheritance taxes, Sweden and family businesses
Faced with burgeoning budget deficits and massive welfare costs, few European governments are contemplating…
A little-known banking dynasty that’s spawned multiple family offices
The Rothschilds, the Safras, and the Morgans, all great banking dynasties, but another, much less well-known…
Healthcare billionaire, his daughter, and a family office spin-off backing an X-ray vision startup
A newly founded investment company, set up by the daughter of a billionaire healthcare entrepreneur,…
A business rooted in the paper industry has transformed into a family investment group backing startups…in the former East Germany
A paper processing company based in a small village in the former East Germany is the genesis of a…
Person of the Week: Onsi Sawiris
Onsi Sawiris might have fallen into the nepo-babe trap of dabbling in one or two fashionable jobs, but…
Space logistics, supercars…all the latest deals
This week’s highlights include a huge seed round for a generative AI startup and the acquisition of…