Family offices – beware of hiring managers who are friends, performance could suffer
Endowments and foundations who hire managers due to the influence of business connections end up disappointed,…
Demand from family offices drives up gold price
Family offices are helping to fuel the price of gold which is continually hitting record highs, according…
Private banks are withering…family offices don’t require their services and pinching their best staff
Private banks are withering on the vine as European family offices take back control of their own affairs.
Whiskey without grain, wine without grapes – now being backed by family offices
Unlikely as it seems, Endless West of San Francisco has started to use molecular science to manufacture…
Wirecard, short-sellers, and big tech
The worrying thing about the collapse of German fintech stock Wirecard is not that it happened, but that…
New family office targets professional services groups
Dallas-based entrepreneur Greg Alexander has opened a family office which plans to invest in a wide range…
The death of value investing
Twenty years ago, value investors were jubilant.
Investors warm to the securitisation of commercial real estate initiatives
Initiatives are taking place on both sides of the Atlantic, which aim to revolutionise the commercial…
Investors pile into gold
The gold price is poised to hit an all-time high, amid growing expectations that the Federal Reserve…
Family offices look to take direct general partner stakes in private equity firms
Goodhart Partners is seeking finance from family offices for a strategy which invests in private equity…
Regulator warns family offices over high fees and non-transparent charges from private equity groups
A US regulatory body has warned that family offices and institutions who invest in private equity and…
Profile: North-East Family Office looks to fund the family’s descendants for 200 years
Jan-Ole Hansen, chief investment officer at Denmark’s North-East Family Office, knows the importance…
Richard Nixon, fiscal stimulus, and stagflation…why they are all relevant for investors now
Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon had a problem. His first of many.