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

  • Are most family offices built for status?

  • The 50 best cities to raise families in

  • Why the most trusted families get the best deals

  • Time to rethink the 100-year real estate strategy?

  • Living Large: Billionaire scores big returns on art masterpieces

𝕏 highlights

Family offices: the next act.

FO people are interesting people.

The incredible case of Pronto and the families in the background.

The 50 best cities for families.

When family offices lose patience with VC.

And the best private golf clubs in the world.

in highlights

The families that get the best access are the most trusted.

I talk to 10+ family offices a week. The question I hear most: “How do I get access to the best private deals?”

Some people think that the answer is through brokers. A database. Or cold emailing the company. It's not. The real answer: relationships built over years. The best secondary opportunities never hit platforms. They move through private channels - a founder calls someone they trust, a GP reaches out to a known buyer, an early employee asks their network quietly. By the time a deal is on a “platform”, it's either picked over or there's a reason no one took it through private channels…

Inside the modern family office.

Unhappy Family Offices: Separating Enduring from Fragile Structures

This piece explores the structural principles that consistently separate enduring families from fragile ones, and the new trends reshaping how capital is organized today. From governance to generational purpose, the future of the family office is being redesigned in real time.

“If your advisor owns your history, you don’t own your wealth.”

Spreadsheets Limit Family Office Flexibility

When I ran a multifamily office, I saw families stay with advisors they had outgrown simply because the switching cost was too high. Leaving meant losing years of historical data, performance metrics, and tax records. The data lived with the advisor, not the family…

Family Office news roundup

‘A thirty second job’: how AI replaces the family office analyst. Are many family offices just built for status rather than smart investing? Some offices are burning cash while pretending to operate like sophisticated investment firms, but AI could change that - Tech in Asia

How a family office can safeguard your legacy. A primer on family offices from EY, noting how governance, clear succession planning, and structured decision-making are the real backbones of a lasting family enterprise - EY

Family office leaders should think like mentors, not executives. Running a family office isn’t like running a corporation: the real job is guiding younger generations, building judgment and trust, and helping families make thoughtful long-term decisions rather than just chasing performance - Forbes

This market requires another look at your 100-year plan. The Great Wealth Transfer together with shifting valuations, tighter lending standards and uneven performance across asset classes means family offices must rethink long-term real estate strategies - Fortune

The family office talent management market. A brief interview highlights how competition for experienced staff in family offices has intensified, especially for investment professionals, CIOs and governance specialists - Family Wealth Report

$50 billion IPO wave to bring global money back to Hong Kong and China. Prominent regional family offices Raffles sees a wave of new listings marking a turning point for China, just as shifting global risks demand a more dynamic investment playbook - AsianInvestor

Living Large: the finer things in life

Billionaire scores 3,500% return on art masterpieces. Joe Lewis and his family are cashing in on lucrative bets made in the art sector, with gains of more than 3,500% through offloading parts of his art collection at Sotheby’s last week. This included works by Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff and a Francis Bacon self-portrait purchased for $485,900 in 1994 that sold for $18 million - Bloomberg

ICYMI: last week’s newsletter shared how psychological themes around succession are often not best suited to legal solutions.

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