Single family offices operate largely in private. The most useful thinking in this industry — on governance, direct investing, succession, staffing, technology and the practical business of running an office — rarely reaches the mainstream financial press, and where it does surface on social platforms, it sits buried among promotional noise.
Since 2007, TFOA has built relationships with the principals, senior executives and advisers who shape how single family offices actually operate. What appears below is drawn from those relationships: commentary we have written ourselves, perspectives gathered from the people doing the work, and the themes we see recurring in conversation across our peer network.
It is deliberately curated rather than comprehensive. We publish what we believe merits a family office principal’s attention and leave out the rest — sparing you the hours otherwise spent filtering LinkedIn and the wider web for the few ideas that genuinely apply to your situation.
The subjects we return to most often include family office structure and governance, direct and co-investment, next-generation engagement, philanthropy, talent and compensation, technology and reporting, and the practical trade-offs of building an office from scratch.
