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Family offices are private advisory firms set up by affluent families (or individuals) primarily to manage their wealth, investments and trusts \u2013<\/em> and on more day-to-day basis to cater to their financial and legal needs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family offices are an important source of funding for small and medium-sized businesses, despite their reputation for being elusive and highly selective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll come across many different definitions but usually a family office will offer wealth management (i.e. investment), wealth planning\/transfer, budgeting, insurance, charitable giving, family governance, trust and corporate services, and tax planning. A family office might also handle non-financial i<\/strong>ssues such as private schooling, travel and other household arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at the wealth management side, a family office invests in a similar way to a venture capital fund, but there is one potential difference. A family office typically manages money that’s been built up over generations and so, not surprisingly, the investment focus tends to be similarly long-term. In other words, a family office is more likely to offer patient (longer-term) capital because there is less imperative for fast returns \u2013<\/em> after all it doesn’t have a range of investors to appease on a short-term basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some family offices have a general investment strategy while others might look to invest in companies that are (directly or indirectly) related to the core business on which the family wealth is built \u2013<\/em> or in companies that might boost the family’s legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Single Family Offices (SFOs) usually look after one family, whereas multi family offices (MFOs) pool the wealth of multiple families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of family offices in operation globally has risen tenfold over the last decade, to around 10,000. This correlates with the rapid increase in the number of ultra high-net-worth individuals (UHNWs) globally over the same time period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family offices are private advisory firms set up by affluent families (or individuals) primarily to manage their wealth, investments and trusts \u2013 and on more day-to-day basis to cater to their financial and legal needs. Family offices are an important source of funding for small and medium-sized businesses, despite their reputation for being elusive and highly selective. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":24,"template":"","segment":[1629],"class_list":["post-4371","knowledge-hub","type-knowledge-hub","status-publish","hentry","segment-equity-finance"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","image_blog":"","image_blog_full":"","image_podcast":"","image_banking":"","image_blog_internal":"","image_blog_medium":"","image_single_banking":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

Family offices are private advisory firms set up by affluent families (or individuals) primarily to manage their wealth, investments and trusts \u2013 and on more day-to-day basis to cater to their financial and legal needs. Family offices are an important source of funding for small and medium-sized businesses, despite their reputation for being elusive and highly selective. You’ll come across many different definitions but usually a family office will offer wealth management (i.e. investment), wealth planning\/transfer, budgeting, insurance, charitable giving, family governance, trust and corporate services, and tax planning. A family office might also handle non-financial issues such as private schooling, travel…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"","author_info_v2":{"name":"root","url":"https:\/\/swoopfunding.com\/au\/author\/root\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoopfunding.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge-hub\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoopfunding.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge-hub"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoopfunding.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledge-hub"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoopfunding.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swoopfunding.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge-hub\/4371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoopfunding.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"segment","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoopfunding.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/segment?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}