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Family Office
External asset advisers are benefiting from a growing distrust among wealthy families in big banks, according to a director at financial research firm Cerulli Associates.
The nomadic lifestyle of the modern high net worth individual is one of the biggest influences on their investment and charitable giving patterns, according to research by the wealth management division of Royal Bank of Canada and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Europe’s wealthiest families have registered the worst investment returns in five years, due to an over-allocation of assets such as cash and real estate that underperformed compared to investments in government bonds.
Single family offices will not be required to register as commodity pool operators, following a change of heart by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Despite the huge growth of the very rich in the big emerging markets, family offices have been slow to take hold. Campden asks why.
The family office of Theophilus Danjuma – one of Africa’s wealthiest individuals – comes with plenty of compliance headaches. Campden speaks to its principal about investing – and why he wants more regulation.
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