Founder and CIO Aradhna Dayal is pivoting her family's traditional real estate portfolio toward data centres, smart logistics hubs and AI-driven healthcare funds.
Singapore now captures more than 40% of Taiwanese offshore assets as families prioritise geopolitical safety, legal clarity and multigenerational planning.
While Hong Kong leverages tax breaks and China connectivity, Singapore’s regulatory stability is cementing its role as the region’s primary governance anchor.
Asia’s family offices are embedding music royalties and other niche alternatives more deeply into portfolios, shifting the conversation from short-term diversification metrics to governance, durability and uncorrelated income.
Singapore-based Vedas Group, a single family office, views JPY carry-trade unwinds as short-term market dislocations rather than systemic economic risks — and is positioning its portfolio accordingly.
Singapore's family offices surged 43% to over 2,000 in 2024, but this rapid growth is exposing critical talent shortages and risk management gaps that threaten their sustainability.
Family offices are charging deeper into private equity, taking on institutional investors in deals while layering into complex products. But rapid expansion, rising rates and weak governance controls are combining to raise the stakes, and the risks.