Family Office Buzz

Top ten power couples. Goldman opens PE offering. Singapore rising. Family office case studies. Dubai attracting Swiss family offices.

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Mr FamilyOffice
May 05, 2025

FAMILY OFFICE BUZZ

A weekly collection of family office news and highlights. Included this week:

  • The top ten power couples aren’t who you’d expect

  • The WealthTech Effect: Rise of the Sub-$300M Family Office

  • Goldman opens PE offering to wealthy clients

  • The rise and rise of Singapore

  • A collection of family office case studies

  • Dubai attracting Swiss family offices tired of tax and regulation

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The top ten power couples.

Goldman opening up its PE offering to wealthy clients.

When putting in extra effort makes you worse at your job.

The rise and rise of Singapore (Watch out for a newsletter on Singapore as a family office hub coming soon).

This sparked a lively conversation.

in LinkedIn highlights

Family office case studies from Deloitte worth a read.

#familyoffice #deloitteus | Deloitte Private

The Fireside case studies offer insights into the strategies of top family offices. Learn from executives as they navigate family harmony, risk management, and long-term success #FamilyOffice #DeloitteUS https://delo.tt/6049Fzro5

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What investment priorities private wealth clients care about most.

In Adams Street Partners’ latest Private Wealth in Private Markets…

In Adams Street Partners’ latest Private Wealth in Private Markets outlook, advisers were asked what their clients care about most heading into 2025. Two signals jump out: 1. Growth is (still) king – “New investment opportunities” tops the list at 42%, narrowly ahead of “Wealth preservation” at 40%. Investors haven’t lost their appetite for upside, but they want it wrapped in capital-protective packaging…

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The hard cost of tax policies shifting against the wealthy.

How much tax is £104,000,000.00 really…

How much tax is £104,000,000.00 really… Let’s take Ian and Richard Livingstone as an example. They paid £104 million in UK taxes last year - a figure so large it would take the average taxpayer over 21,000 years to match it. Now, they’ve left for Monaco.

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📰 family office news roundup

The WealthTech Effect: Rise of the Sub-$300M Family Office. A new class of lean, tech-enabled family offices is rising, using the power of Agentic AI to reduce the high operating costs of a family office. The first part in an ongoing series exploring how emerging technology is disrupting the traditional family office world - Mr Family Office 

Dubai attracts Swiss family offices tired of tax and regulation. Wealthy family offices are increasingly relocating from Switzerland to Dubai due to rising regulation, disclosure requirements, and political uncertainty, including a proposed inheritance tax. Despite remaining a top wealth hub, Switzerland's appeal is weakening among some investors - Financial Times

RIAs and Family Offices in Private Real Estate. Registered Investment Advisors are partnering with family offices to offer clients diversified, risk-managed access to private real estate. These partnerships fill talent gaps and provide access to high-quality, vetted opportunities - WealthManagement

Family offices must prepare for cyber security threat. Family offices are falling behind on cybersecurity, making them easy targets for increasingly slick scams—many now powered by AI. Nearly half have been hit by cyberattacks in the last two years, yet most still spend far less on IT than big financial firms. Loose internal structures and blurred personal-professional lines add to the risk, and most don’t act until something goes wrong - Professional Wealth Management

Family Offices Apply Private Equity Discipline To Art And Collectibles Investments. Family offices are starting to treat art and collectibles like private equity—applying more structure, due diligence, and exit planning. The market’s huge but messy, with high risks like forgery and emotional buying. By using a PE-style framework, offices can turn passion buys into legit portfolio assets - Forbes

🍾 Living Large

London and Miami are forming a powerful luxury real estate duo, with British design firms reshaping Miami’s skyline and UK buyers driving demand.

And a unique luxury property project in Dubai.

Friday’s newsletter features a Q&A with the founders of family office network SFO Alliance.

Until then, see you on 𝕏 or LinkedIn.