Wealthy families across the Asia Pacific are opening offices to manage their personal wealth in increasing numbers, with many family offices are reaching a critical point of leadership turnover, presenting tough questions about succession and governance, as well as challenges in preserving and enhancing family wealth, including locating family offices that will always be confronted with omnipresent risks, as such, this conference provides a timely platform to navigate towards an efficient development of family offices, their governance and the transfer of a business from one generation to the next, within the context of family dynamics change and business interests diversify by location as well as by asset class, including developing and implementing advanced planning and investment strategies for the preservation of capital, tax minimization and lifetime cash flow needs of ultra high net worth families, all this is geared to manage risk to better protect themselves today and preserve their legacy for the following generations
This Conference provides an opportunity to understand the complexities facing ultra high net worth (UHNW) families and family offices, as well as reviewing opportunities. Large, multi-generational families with substantial assets have unique risk management needs. As such, this is a timely opportunity to uncover all available options to review challenges and opportunities in managing wealth and planning for the transfer of assets across generations, reflecting returns objectives and risk tolerances, as well as navigating a complex maze of tangled investments, documents, advisors, and obligations, while keeping pace with a shifting regulatory landscape, innovative investment strategies and technology transformation that is creating uncertainty and opportunity for today’s family offices. Discussions will include best practices in identifying value-oriented investments, succession planning, overcoming transitions and building a sustainable family office, as well as relocating to a new jurisdiction or expanding business geographically that will always be confronted with omnipresent risks. While recent development reveals family offices are planning to increase their exposure to private debt in the next two years, along with the desire for more variety, independence and achieving the preservation of capital, tax minimization and lifetime cash flow needs of high-net-worth families (under an increasing regulatory burden that challenges the current financial model of many family offices), this conference will have critical insights into managing the orderly succession of wealth for the next generation, in the sphere of overcoming the complexities inherent in creating and maintaining a multi-generational enterprise, investment structure and legacy, towards protecting and nurturing private capital in real estate, financial and non-financial assets across countries and generations. All this geared to look ahead to the opportunities and challenges for tomorrow’s ultra high net worth families and family offices.