Category: Family Offices

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Advisors

How To Identify A True Multi-Family Office

The family office sector is a coveted space as trillions of dollars under management soar across the globe. Increasing numbers of firms labelling themselves as “multi-family offices” have been popping up to grab their share of the market for the better part of the last decade. Yet, one must question whether these entities are what they say they are or if they are just private banks and traditional wealth managers “borrowing” the label to enter this lucrative arena.

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Family Offices

Australia’s Covid recovery gives banks a head start .

Just like the global financial crisis, Australia is emerging from Covid-19 more strongly than the rest of the developed world. Investment banks here have never been busier, raising huge sums of equity from one of the world’s largest asset pools. When borders reopen they will be primed for outbound M&A. But why does almost nobody have a private banking business? In the first of a two-part series on Australian investment banking, we look at the work that came out of a global pandemic.

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Family Offices

Singapore: Offshore Private Fund Laws And Family Office Structures

Offshore jurisdictions have historically been popular places to incorporate investment holding vehicles. The corporate law of offshore jurisdictions is typically flexible and free from the requirement to prepare audited financial accounts. Offshore jurisdictions are also well served by professional service providers such as lawyers, accountants and corporate secretarial providers.

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Business

Ten interesting things we read this week

Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Investing (Five levels to become the master investor; Buy-and-hold myth; Green investing has shortcomings), Business (Coronavirus rips a hole in newspapers’ business models; Meet the 13-year-old entrepreneurs), Lifestyle (Why so many smart people aren’t happy) and Geopolitics (Art of war and Sino-Indian business).

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Family Offices

Current Family Office Investment Trends

Family offices have played a pivotal role in the alternative investment industry for quite some time – though in the last decade especially, we have seen these groups reaching new heights. As the number of these groups continue to broaden, so do their investment patterns and overall prominence in the private markets. To keep you informed on the private wealth space, FINTRX has put together a list of developing trends that are expected to make a lasting impact on family offices over the coming years.

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