James Williams

​​Man Capital, the London-based family office of Mohamed Mansour, is the latest investor to back a US soccer franchise based in San Diego.
Former hedge fund investor Peter Lupoff and his wife Kelly Stevens are using a family office to build a portfolio around early-stage investments in funds managed by people of colour and/or women
Might AI be about to infiltrate the family office world in a serious way? Prominent investors and technologists think so and are backing a new digital family office platform
Family offices are cautiously renewing their interest in cryptocurrency ventures following a bounce in depressed crypto prices, which has pushed up the price of bitcoin by 67% since the start of 2023
Dedicated private equity impact funds have reached critical mass
The family office of Sir Peter Wood, one of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs, is joining forces with a UK-listed investment company, Castelnau Group, to invest in UK companies.
Private equity funds are making more overtures to family offices as institutional funds become scarer in tougher economic times. Some are even hiring top advisers to go after these investors
California’s real estate market is beginning to creak under the pressure of rising interest rates as refinancings loom. Taxes are rising and the weather is hitting extremes.
Family offices would be forgiven for getting irked by newly-published analysis, which reveals the average base cost of investing in a multi-strategy fund is a hefty 7%, plus performance fees of 20%
Shipping tycoon Rodolphe Saadé, head of his family’s shipping empire CMA CGM, likes to think outside the box.
An era ended in January, when Dassault Systèmes of France said farewell to the executive services of chairman Charles Edelstenne.
Over the years, multi-strategy hedge funds have proven more effective at protecting family offices against market extremes than other hedge funds. The year 2023 is unlikely to be different