Family business owners are more comfortable investing in tangibles and businesses than other wealthy families, according to new research, allocating three times as much to direct private equity and almost twice as much to real estate as their non-business owning counterparts.
The study, by family office networking centre Family Office Exchange (FOX) and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, compared the investment decisions made in 2012 by business-owning families, and "financial" families – wealthy families without an operating business.
