Family Office Buzz

Archegos sentencing. The ten biggest family offices. Jeff Bezos' jet for sale. A deal-winning masterclass. Future focus areas for FOs.

Family Office Buzz

It’s short. It’s snappy. It’s family office. It’s family office-adjacent.

A weekly collection of family office news and highlights.

Included this week:

  • The 10 biggest family offices in the world

  • Family office founder sentenced to 18 years

  • Time for an upgrade: Jeff Bezos is selling his private jet (for $38m)

  • A masterclass on winning deals and growing portfolio companies

  • Coming up: the family office deal sharing newsletter

𝕏 highlights

Following the collapse of his $36 billion family office, Bill Hwang has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud and market manipulation.

How Benjamin Graham built generational wealth.

AI family office concierge services.

A family office masterclass on winning deals and growing portfolio companies.

Wanna buy Jeff Bezos’ plane? If you missed it, here’s the newsletter on PJs.

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Investment movements and murmurs from the family office ecosystem.

Why mattering matters so much for families.

Which are the ten biggest family offices in the world?

📰 family office news roundup

Morgan Stanley Identifies 6 Key Focus Areas for the Future-Ready Family Office. Their latest report highlights six key strategies for family offices to stay relevant. These include modernizing governance, building institutional-quality teams, leveraging robust data systems, enhancing financial education for younger generations, addressing cybersecurity risks, and adopting AI responsibly. - Business Wire

Appetite for Risk Among Family Offices Expected to Increase. Increased regulation of higher-risk assets is giving family offices more confidence to embrace risk, while a survey by Ocorian indicates that investments in infrastructure are also set to grow. - Chief Investment Officer

Family offices increase exposure to alts. Family offices are set to increase their risk appetite, with 82% of professionals expecting greater risk-taking driven by improved regulation, peaked inflation, and market recovery. Alternative assets remain a long-term focus, with infrastructure and private debt projected to see the largest allocation increases. - Funds Europe

BlackRock goes after family offices from both ends. BlackRock aims to be a one-stop shop for family offices, offering ETFs for cost-effective public market exposure and private market opportunities for alpha generation. ETF adoption among Asia-Pacific family offices is growing, with interest expanding from equities to fixed income and thematic investments like semiconductors and cryptocurrencies. On the alternatives front, family offices are diversifying into private credit and climate-aligned investments, focusing on alpha-driven strategies without rigid asset allocations. - Citywire

Oil dynasty’s family office turns away from London. A fascinating account of the multi-family office that manages assets for the Schlumberger family that’s leaving the UK (partly attributed to Brexit) to Luxembourg, described as "Monaco without the crowds". - Financial Times

This week it’s another full schedule:

Wednesday: Family Office Deals - sharing deals for family offices. If you have an opportunity that could be of interest, send details to [email protected].

Friday newsletter: exploring the latest in Risk and Security.

Until then, see you on 𝕏 or LinkedIn.

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