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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.

Family office

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.

10 July 2026
Family office

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.

10 July 2026
Family office

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.

6 July 2026
Family office

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'.

2 July 2026
Family office

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.

30 June 2026
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