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March 1, 2017

Family offices are invited to benchmark themselves on new research areas including next generation, impact investing, and co-investment in this week’s Global Family Office Report 2017 (GFO Report) survey launch. 

Family offices are invited to benchmark themselves on new research areas including next generation, impact investing, and co-investment in this week’s Global Family Office Report 2017 survey launch.

Now in its fourth year, the Global Family Office Report is the definitive review of the family office space—last year’s report surveyed 242 family offices, with average assets under management of $759 million, and in-depth interviews with 25 principals.

January 4, 2017

Overturning the industry’s reputation for secrecy, the third Global Family Office Report provides unprecedented data on everything from sliding hedge fund allocations to cyber-attacks. Michael Finnigan introduces the pioneering piece of research

Overturning the industry’s reputation for secrecy, the third Global Family Office Report provides unprecedented data on everything from sliding hedge fund allocations to cyber-attacks. Michael Finnigan introduces the pioneering piece of research.

May 5, 2016

Family offices have two weeks left to benchmark themselves on new research areas including software, cyber security, and succession as participants in the Global Family Office Report 2016 (GFO Report). 

Family offices have two weeks left to benchmark themselves on new research areas including software, cyber security, and succession as participants in the Global Family Office Report 2016 (GFO Report).

In its third year, the GFO Report is the definitive review of the family office space. Last year’s research surveyed 224 family offices with combined private wealth of more than $200 billion.

November 20, 2015

Real estate was the best performing asset category for family offices, thanks to quantitative easing and low interest rates. But why is a home-market bias so strong?

Family offices prefer to invest locally for both commercial and residential property, despite an expectation that returns are higher further afield, according to The Global Family Office Report 2015

September 24, 2015

The majority of family offices pay higher salaries to senior executives from outside of the family in a bid to recruit and retain talent, according to a new report from Campden Wealth and UBS.

The majority of family offices pay higher salaries to senior executives from outside of the family in a bid to recruit and retain talent, according to a new report from Campden Wealth and UBS.

Non-family CEOs on average receive a base salary of $338,000, while family CEOs receive a salary of $302,000, according to the Global Family Office Report 2015, which was released this week.

November 21, 2014

Family offices in developing regions are the most cost efficient in the industry with governance and investments on par with their western peers. Is this down to operational efficiency or how offices interact with family businesses?

The family offices of Africa, Latin America and the Middle East have the lowest operating costs in the industry, according to the Global Family Office Report 2014, challenging the conventional wisdom that they are costly and underdeveloped.

Despite this, many have governance structures and investment services on par with older offices in Europe and North America, with which they have far more in common than originally thought.

October 3, 2014

Many family offices do not deliver adequate lifestyle and governance support, despite these areas becoming increasingly important to the families they serve, an industry professional says.

Many family offices do not deliver adequate lifestyle and governance support, despite these areas becoming increasingly important to the families they serve, an industry professional says.

Catherine Grum, head of a new private office division at merchant bank and operational risk business Salamanca Group, says instead many family offices are focussed almost exclusively on investment management.

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