Keeping it in the family

Is that spare $400 million giving you a headache? Do you already have the private jet, the yacht, art collection, international properties and a charitable foundation? Maybe you now need your own team of dedicated advisers to help you oversee your family's wealth. How about a family office?

Profiles of family offices

Kedge Capital

The LongChamp Group

Lord North Street

Rockefeller & Co.

Sand Aire

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AN INCREASING NUMBER of lawyers, accountants, private banks and ultra-wealthy families themselves are trying to break into the family office sector, describing themselves as multi-family offices, or multi-client family offices, private investment offices or even virtual family offices.

There are now an estimated 3,500 family offices in the US and about 200 in Europe. But the influx of players, each with its own terminology, is causing confusion for families.

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