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Family office conference craze. Smaller family office rethink. Unnecessary family business drama. Hybrid real estate solutions.
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February 24, 2025
FAMILY OFFICE BUZZ
A weekly collection of family office news and highlights. Included this week:
Family office conferences are getting out of hand
A real estate record in Florida
The case for small family offices
A family office university program
Family businesses: avoiding unnecessary drama
Hybrid real estate solutions for family offices
𝕏 highlights
Paul Allen’s family office.
The year after Cercano Management was spun out of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s family office in late 2021, its US stocks portfolio had a 17% weighting to the US software giant
— Bloomberg (@business)
2:26 PM • Feb 20, 2025
Indiana University’s family office program.
You should check out IU's Maurer School of Law's Family Office program. Led by my colleague Prof. Bill Henderson. Very successful and niche. Would love to get you in touch. law.indiana.edu/academics/fami…
— Josh Kubicki (@jkubicki)
12:41 PM • Feb 18, 2025
Unnecessary drama in family businesses.
Legal agreements and inherited ownership distributions can cause unnecessary strife in a family business.
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz)
4:32 AM • Feb 22, 2025
Where to get your startup ideas.
Palmer Luckey explains why science fiction is a great place to look for ideas
“One of the things that I’ve realized in my career is that nothing I ever come up with will be new. I’ve literally never come up with an idea that a science fiction author has not come up with before.”… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_)
12:49 PM • Feb 18, 2025
This is so accurate! 🤣
Every TedX speaker giving a Ted Talk
— Bo Crave (@Bomanizer)
10:03 PM • Aug 2, 2022
in LinkedIn highlights
Family offices vs. private banks.
Interesting perspective on smaller family offices.
Family office spinout collects $370M for buyout deals.
📰 family office news roundup
The rise of hybrid real estate solutions for family offices. Real estate needs within multi-generational families can become very complex very quickly, draining precious time from principals and their internal teams. Having a qualified, external partner on speed dial who can triage and solve these issues gets the family back to its priorities and doing what it does best - Mr Family Office
Schroders ramps up business with ultra wealthy families. Schroders has expanded its family office business significantly, adding 400 new clients in the past year as part of its strategy to target ultra-high-net-worth investors - Financial News
Next Generation more involved in Middle East family offices. Ocorian's research shows that the next generation is playing a more significant role in Middle Eastern family offices, focusing on digital assets and long-term sustainability. This shift aligns with increasing professionalization, including stronger succession planning - Wealth Briefing
Behind the Hong Kong family office boom. Experts suggest Hong Kong could surpass Switzerland as the top cross-border wealth management hub by 2027, driven by its advanced financial services and strategic access to China - Spears
The family-office gold rush is spurring a conference craze. There has been a surge in events to reach this coveted clientele, with 244 family-office conferences scheduled this year alone - CNBC
Technology and the family office - Australian family office study. A KPMG and Table Club report reveals how family offices are using technology to optimize their operations and performance - KPMG
New family offices may contribute $15 billion to Singapore bourse this year. Maybank Securities research head says new single-family offices with an AUM of at least $200 million are to allocate at least $50 million of that to invest in local equities, with another 300 or so family offices expected to be established in region this year. - The Edge
🍾 Living Large
A thread of inspiring interior designs.
Thread of beautiful interior designs 🧵
1. The Orient Express, an icon since 1883
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT)
3:54 AM • Feb 22, 2025
A new residential record in Florida.
$285 Million Manalapan Estate Poised to Set a U.S. Residential Price Record
Spanning nearly four acres, this one-of-a-kind property combines unmatched oceanfront views and exclusive customization potential, elevating Florida’s luxury real estate market.
jamesedition.com/stories/real-e…
— The Life of Luxury (@TheLifeOfLuxury)
9:48 PM • Feb 20, 2025
The White Lotus effect in Thailand.
Top 10 future yachts shaping the next wave of luxury in 2025: Prices and features - Middle East Economy
Last week’s newsletter was one of my favorites - it looked at the importance of family office leaders being generalists. If you missed it, you can find it here.
Friday’s newsletter is a look at Fake Family Offices.
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