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A €17.5m broker fee, a family office, and a ChatGPT search
Nik Storonsky's defence to a yacht brokerage's commission claim, filed at the High Court this month, turns on who found the seller. Introduction fees on passion assets are rarely documented as carefully as the rest of a family office's contracts.
UBS builds a fund programme around the minimum a family office cannot write alone
UBS Global Wealth Management has launched the Exclusive Manager Access Fund Programme in Hong Kong and Singapore, with a $5 million commitment and a $500,000 minimum per fund. The bank says family offices asked for it.
A UK family's new office opens in Dubai with seven staff and an AI operating model
Stonegate Capital has launched a family office at the Dubai World Trade Centre for an unnamed British family. The mandate covers everything a mature single family office does. The team is seven people.
Barclays opens its Singapore booking centre. The pitch to family offices is investment-bank access.
Barclays Private Bank began booking client assets in Singapore on 4 September 2026, nearly two years after announcing the plan. The interesting part is not the office but where the assets now sit, and what the bank is selling alongside custody.
The quietest industry has the loudest influencers
The family office world is quietly awash with LinkedIn "experts". There is a lot of noise, but no serious HNW or UHNW is fooled by a low-credibility influencer. And yet the economy behind them is real, or they would not exist. So who actually pays the bill?
SFO Alliance loses its chief executive after less than seven months
Jeroen Vetter has left the invite-only single-family-office club SFO Alliance under seven months after taking the top job, the second CEO change in under a year. Founder Lex van Dam remains executive chairman.
SpaceX's record listing hands family offices a new kind of client
The largest IPO in history, with Anthropic and OpenAI expected to follow, is creating suddenly wealthy employees in numbers the family office world has not handled before.
Private chefs on $300,000: the household staffing bill is climbing
A Morgan & Mallet study finds private chefs earning up to $300,000 and estate managers among the fastest-rising roles, as the wealthy staff more homes across more countries.
Deutsche Bank and Dubai sign a referral pact aimed at family offices
Deutsche Bank's Private Bank and Dubai's Department of Economy and Tourism have agreed a client-introduction partnership to bring family offices and UHNW individuals into the emirate. The interesting part is who introduces whom, and on what terms.
BBVA launches a bank-owned 'independent' multi-family office in Spain
BBVA Private Banking has opened a multi-family office for fortunes of €30–300 million, structured as a separate company with open-architecture custody. The word doing the heavy lifting is 'independent'.
Evertern Wealth ties up with Vontobel's Swiss arm for cross-border banking
A first-year US multi-family office has signed a referral alliance with Vontobel Swiss Financial Advisers, adding Swiss custody, multi-currency banking and allocated gold storage rather than building the capability itself.
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