Family office insights this week:
2025 set the bar. 2026 aims higher
Our favorite books of 2025
3 family office jobs and an internship
Billionaire and family office investment plans
The perfect family office gift
Sayonara 2025. What a year!
A look back and a look forward
2025 in Mr Family Office world
This week it’s a bit self-indulgent. But it’s the right time of year for some indulgence!
The growth we’ve seen at Mr Family Office has been encouraging:
56k+ people are following the fun on 𝕏
5k+ people are following on LinkedIn
90 million+ impressions across social media
That reach matters. It helps us identify the most important topics and focus on what actually matters to family offices.
But we’re most proud of the newsletter. We crossed 10,000 subscribers in 2025, and the readership profile tells us we’re speaking to the right people:
62% open rate
8% click through rate
32% of readers from family offices
11% of readers planning to set up a family office
62% of readers C-suite or Partner
69% US based, 17% Europe, 10% APAC
In short: senior decision-makers, globally distributed, and deeply engaged.
Friday newsletters have ranged from the technical to the occasionally light-hearted. The aim is always the same: practical insight you can actually use.
Every Monday, the Buzz distils the week’s family office news into what actually matters. Monday’s final Buzz of the year will pull together the most-read stories of 2025.
This year, we launched the Investor Community, a curated, trusted group of family offices with access to high-quality, off-market opportunities. Deals have included SpaceX, Velorai (Family Offices Bank), OpenAI, real estate, gold mines to name just a few.
Jobs and careers are always popular topics. We’ve written a lot about family office careers and entered a partnership to help family offices recruit the best talent.
There have been Thought Leadership pieces from friends and sponsors on topics ranging from NAV lending to financial wellness for next-gen heirs.
All of this is only possible with the support of our sponsors. We genuinely appreciate the support of some outstanding names in the family office world.
(If you’re interested in sponsoring a newsletter in 2026, there’s a link at the bottom).
2026 will be even better
2025 has been great, but we plan to take things to the next level in 2026.
Our aim is to make Mr Family Office more useful, more practical, and more relevant to how family offices actually operate.
The Mr Family Office team will grow, the content will improve, and we’ve got some exciting ideas in the pipeline.
Content will become more accessible, with more direct insight from leading family offices and more emphasis on what works in practice. Key themes for 2026 will include wealthtech, multi-family offices, careers and philanthropy. There will be more practical adivce for people setting up family offices or learning from them.
We also expect to reach a larger audience with Mr Family Office turning up on new platforms and media. Watch this space!
Feeling Bullish?
At this time of the year, we try to gauge family office sentiment.
Last year, 86% of family offices surveyed said they planned to hire in 2025.
Family offices… let us know your plans for 2026. We’ll share the results next week.
𝕏 highlights
Where to work
Four family office industry job opportunities posted this week…
What to read
It’s a look back at some of our favorite books we read this year.
The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel is a reminder that wealth is less about what you earn and more about how wisely you enjoy and control it.
The Dealmaker by Guy Hands is a brutally honest look at the ego, risk, and pressure behind big-ticket PE deals.
Family Office Fundamentals by Mark Somers is a practical, no-nonsense handbook for families trying to professionalise without overcomplicating things.
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams is an uncomfortable but gripping read on how good intentions at Facebook slid into bad outcomes.
And our favorite of the year was Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein, which makes a convincing case that breadth, not narrow expertise, wins over the long run.
What to listen to
We love podcasts that examine wealth, family offices, and how money really works.
Some in our regular rotation include Wealth Actually by Frazer Rice, and MoneyWise from Hampton.
The Family Office Sherpa by Shaun Parkin is our standout recommendation of the year.
What to watch
Each week, we share videos that are relevant to family offices.
The most popular video of the year was from Ray Dalio sharing the secrets of his investing success.
And finally…
So, a self-indulgent newsletter this week (we get one a year).
Writing the newsletter is enormous fun, but only because the audience is exceptional: Smart, curious, and properly switched-on.
Thank you for reading, for sharing ideas, for challenging assumptions, and for contributing suggestions that genuinely improve what we publish. We appreciate you all. 🙏
For now, a toast to you, your families, and to long-term success.
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