Global Business Families

Singapore serves the investment needs and asset allocation ambitions of family offices.

Source: (i) Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore Asset Management Survey 2021; (ii) A list of SEA’s unicorns and their early investors (Updated). Accessed in March 2024; (iii) Why South-east Asia still holds much promise for startups and venture capital. Accessed March 2024

The Southeast Asia private equity market clinched an all-time high deal value of S$34 billion (US$25 billion) in 2021, more than double of 2020.

This presents exciting investment opportunities in green economy, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, and digital economy.

Tap Singapore’s growing community of business families and family offices, ecosystem of partners, and pool of professional services providers to access high-growth investment opportunities across Asia.
 

Connect with business family networks

Based in Singapore, Family Business Network (FBN) Asia aims to bring progressive family businesses and thought leaders together to create an environment of shared learning and effect positive social change.

Learn more about FBN Asia

Family office community

Singapore is building up the business family network with the Wealth Management Institute (WMI), Asia’s centre of excellence for wealth and asset management education and research, established by GIC and Temasek.

In partnership with the family office community and supported by EDB and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), WMI launched the Global-Asia Family Office Circle (GFO Circle) as the leading voice and umbrella association for family offices in Singapore and Asia.

The GFO Circle brings together a global-Asia community of family office principals, professionals, and service partners to collaborate and ideate innovative opportunities.

Learn more about WMI’s GFO Circle

Family Office Development Team

In 2019, EDB and the MAS formed the Family Office Development Team (FODT) to lead and coordinate initiatives to enhance Singapore’s position as the global hub for Family Offices. 

In addition to building an environment that is responsive to the evolving needs of family offices, we seek to tighten the linkages between private capital owners and the local investment & innovation ecosystem.

Read more insights about business families in Singapore
 

Take a look at the resources and information available to help family offices grow and connect with other business families in Singapore.
 

Family Office Discovery Series

Organised by the Wealth Management Institute, this initiative guides family offices through Singapore’s investment and impact ecosystem, and connects them with communities of peers.

The Series curates networking opportunities with new and existing family offices in Singapore. It also facilitates workshops and roundtables covering a range of topics from private market investments to social impact discovery. 

Learn more about the Family Office Discovery Series

Family Business Network (FBN) Asia

FBN Asia is a regional chapter of FBN International, a private not-for-profit organisation representing business families in 65 countries across five continents. 

Based in Singapore, FBN Asia offers business families a safe space to learn from peers and experts, as well as to share best practices.

It also encourages dialogue about how to guide family involvement in the business, facilitate relationships within the family, and raise the awareness and importance of family business models in society.

Learn more about FBN Asia
 

Singapore has the right private-sector professionals – and learning programmes – to support the operations of business families and family offices.

Highly skilled professional services

Access a full suite of services from Singapore that ranges from wealth management, legal and tax advisory to trust, philanthropy and governance.

View our curated network of family office service providers
 

Family Office Skills Map

Family office professionals can sharpen their skills and keep abreast of new information and regulations.

Try out the interactive Family Office Skills Map, launched by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in collaboration with the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF), for a quick overview.

The Wealth Management Institute also offers certification for Family Office Advisors with programmes that draw on real-world case studies to prepare industry practitioners for supporting family office operations.