Family offices in Asia may have a significant role to play in the early days of cryptocurrencies. A Hong Kong venture capital founder argues that their investment horizon and goals are better aligned with the financing and growth needs of cryptocompanies, making them more ideal investors than institutional LPs (limited partners). Allen Ng, who founded Hong Kong-based Everest Ventures Group […]

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Family offices in Southeast Asia find themselves in a growing pool of global and regional private deals, but many are unable to separate the wheat from the chaff in a space swarming with opportunities and risks. “What we have seen over recent years is client interest — especially from a single-family office’s perspective — building out beyond the public markets […]

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US technology and China stocks may have occupied the minds of Asian HNW equity investors in the past few years, but the pandemic has highlighted neglected investment opportunities in Europe. The pandemic-battered EU member states reached an agreement on a COVID-19 recovery fund in July, which reignited political as well as economic faith in the entity — to the extent […]

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Singapore based multi-family office Golden Equator Wealth (GEW) has hired a portfolio strategist and a wealth manager to support its expansion plans. Rainer Michael Preiss has joined GEW as portfolio strategist. Preiss was most recently the CIO for equities at The Global CIO Office and, before that, was a portfolio strategist at Singapore-based IAM, Taurus Wealth Advisors. Before independent asset managers, […]

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Succession planning is often the “elephant in the room” in Asian HNW families: everyone agrees there should be a conversation, but because of the sensitivity of the issue, the conversation is always delayed. “More generally speaking, wealthy families’ attitude towards succession planning is one of procrastination,” observed Gary Tiernan, managing partner of the Singapore-based multi-family office Golden Equator Wealth. He […]

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