Family offices weigh club deal pros and cons

Family offices can often struggle to access the best investment deals on their own, so are now seen to be increasingly clubbing together, but this creates its own challenges. Helen Wong, CEO of Hong Kong-based investment firm Lapis Global, said she was seeing a growing number of families partnering to form investment syndicates. “This is the way to decrease fees and costs and to build out the back office,” she said during a panel discussion at the PERE Global Investment Forum i…