Risk
Operational, reputational and security risks that family offices face — and what the careful ones do about them.
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, 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.
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.
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.
What we are reading about family offices
No noise, no selling. A measured note on the advisory landscape.