How are family offices investing in private markets?

Family Office Insider (FOI) | September 2022

Hello, and welcome to this month’s premium edition of Family Office Insider (FOI) from Global Partnership Family Offices (GPFO).

At a glance:

1. Private Markets | We discuss 3 perceptions of how family offices invest in private capital markets, and try to match up with available data to validate.

2. Family Office Reports & Research Database | We launch the beta of our family office research and reports database for subscribers, it aims to be the most comprehensive aggregation of reports on Family Offices & UHNWIs.

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1. How are family offices investing in private markets?

by Hugo King-Oakley.

The family office world is rife with perceptions and misconceptions. Driven by two puzzles, privacy (as you would expect) and heterogeneity of family offices (the old addage of no two family offices being the same… blah blah blah). If we are fortunate we can find useful datapoints from primary research and reports to validate. All too often the data is imperfect, as you will see below.

Today we will look at 3 perceptions of how family offices invest in private capital markets. I will present some currently available data alongside each perception (all research and reports quoted are accessible via our Research & Reports Database linked at the bottom of this post/email).

For this piece I will focus on private equity (including venture), not debt/credit, we will save that for another time.