Family offices should forget pooled funds – they can’t be trusted
The Financial Conduct Authority, the UK regulator, has provided family offices with proof, if proof were…
Profile: The ups and downs of billionaire Thor Björgólfsson…and his latest big investment gamble – US housing finance
Billionaire Thor Björgólfsson is relentless.
DMGT wants to go private – its plight underlines why so many family businesses don’t like public markets
Investors, and the media, could easily make a fuss over the way Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere…
Real estate, debt-fuelled investors, and the perfect way for family offices to get richer
The $35 trillion US housing market - backed by owner-occupiers and debt-fuelled investors - provides…
Why investors leave alone first and second-generation family businesses
Investment bankers tend to operate by rules of thumb
From BlackRock to boutique family office-oriented investment group
Not content with managing his own wealth, Arno Kitts is building an investment business, five years after…
Entrepreneurs and family offices look to refinance European football clubs
Tony Ressler’s private equity firm Ares Management has bought 34% of Spanish football club Atletico M…
Hydrogen – family offices back the gas, but can it make money for them?
Hydrogen is fast becoming an alternative energy source to fossil fuels, according to Goldman Sachs which…
Boutique investment group works with family offices for a European SPAC
Investment bankers Michael and Yoel Zaoui who are connected to some of Europe’s wealthiest family offices a…
Family offices now see climate change as the biggest influence on asset allocation
Science fiction writer William Gibson once said: “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distr…
Family office hires investment director
A UK-based family office has hired a senior manager as an investment specialist; he also sits on the…
Profile: UK’s grandest property dynasty wants to co-invest with family offices
Drawing on a lineage stretching back a thousand years, the Duke of Westminster’s Grosvenor Estate takes a…