Family Offices

Geopolitical tensions are prompting family offices based in Dubai to split their risk by expanding operations into Singapore and Hong Kong.

While many foundations focus on writing cheques, the Lo Kwee Seong Foundation increasingly sees itself as an incubator of ideas, funding experiments, testing models and helping innovations move from research labs into the real world.

Oil has drifted lower since the Iran war spike in March. Defence budgets and central bank gold purchases have not. The divergence is reshaping the emerging market investment case.

Singapore's new single family office framework is expected to accelerate family office formation, but industry participants say the bigger significance lies in how it strengthens the city-state's position in an increasingly competitive battle for global private capital.

Artificial intelligence is collapsing the cost of execution. That makes origination the rarest asset of all.

While impact investing gains traction among Asia's wealthy families, the Lo Kwee Seong Foundation is charting a different course, placing a clear distinction between business returns and charitable giving at the core of its philosophy.

As sustainability investing matures, Raintree family office shares how it is building stricter frameworks around impact measurement, return expectations and climate-focused capital deployment.

Geopolitical fragmentation and tighter spreads may define the macro backdrop, but how capital responds depends largely on who controls it.

AsianInvestor's flagship Hong Kong event featured commentary from leaders in institutional and asset management.

A third-generation Hong Kong family member says the industry’s investment-first model ignores the real drivers of wealth survival — governance, values, and family cohesion.

The most coveted late-stage investment opportunities in Asia rarely need family office capital. The firms that are getting in are offering something else entirely.

While Hong Kong leverages tax breaks and China connectivity, Singapore’s regulatory stability is cementing its role as the region’s primary governance anchor.