family offices

A report by consultancy EY found family office branding can predict as much as 35% of return on equity when combined with growth ambition, sustainability, and family cohesion. But what is a family office brand?

Stakeholders, ranging from family members, professional advisers, employees, clients and communities, differ in their structural relationship to the family office, depending on whether it is a single family office (SFO) or multi family office (MFO).

Almost all family businesses confess they are operating without a strategy for succession, despite knowing full well the issue of generational transition is looming, new research claims.

A remarkable 97% of family business owners surveyed complained of a lack of direction and purpose for their business and 95% admitted the challenges of achieving a work-life balance contributed to the lack of succession planning.

Family offices have lost up to $50,000 in attacks on their cyber security, the new Global Family Office Report by Campden Wealth reveals.

The report, in partnership with UBS, also found family offices were barely satisfied, or even dissatisfied, with their software – despite each family office spending on average a staggering $245,000 a year on their information technology systems.

A family office protects what has been achieved and takes full advantage of all the social capital the family brings, a London law firm says.

Wedlake Bell commentated on the rocketing popularity of family offices following an EY report which claimed there are between 3,000 and 15,000 family offices worldwide, with more than half having been set up since the Millennium.