FAMILY INVESTMENT OFFICES:

Family Investment Offices manage the personal fortunes of very wealthy families. Families who set up such offices are either entrepreneurs who intimately manage their family business or wealthy families who wish to manage their fortune trans-generationally. The Jawa family first set up Starling Holding in 1986 as the Family Office with the mandate to invest and manage the family assets, within the Private Equity asset class, for the benefit of future generations.

There are about more than a 1000 Family Offices actively investing across the globe, many of these managing assets in excess of over €1bn in size. The size of existing Family Offices continues to grow and many new Family Offices are coming into being in recent times. Family Offices are recognized as a well-suited group of investors for the private equity asset class as this asset class is long term in nature and highly illiquid. Professional Family Offices are hungry for the attractive returns that the asset class offers but are also able to assess and understand the risk associated with the asset class.

While Family Offices invest in various assets classes including traditional equities and also alternative assets (Private Equity Funds, Hedge Funds, CTAs and Real Estate), the role of Family Offices as investors in private equity has increased exponentially in recent times. It is understood that Family Offices invest from 15% to 50% of their assets in the Private Equity Asset Class.

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