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Risk

Operational, reputational and security risks that family offices face — and what the careful ones do about them.

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Families protect the balance sheet, not the house. A new report maps the gap.

The State of Family Office Security 2026, a study by Presage Global and Nines, finds that most family offices apply institutional rigour to investments and tax but leave the home largely unmanaged. Sixty-two per cent of household staff receive no security training at all.

Security

Security, privacy and reputation for principal families

Wealth makes a family findable. Protecting it is less about gadgets than about habits, discretion and who you let close.

17 February 2026
Operations

The unglamorous backbone: operations, data and cyber risk

Operations, data and cyber risk are the unglamorous backbone of a family office, and the area wealthy families most often neglect until something breaks.

9 December 2025
Investment

84 per cent of family offices say geopolitics is their top concern. They are not changing much.

BlackRock's 2025 survey of 175 single family offices found near-universal concern about geopolitical risk but surprisingly stable portfolio allocations.

19 June 2025
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