“Like a child who fears no danger in his father's protecting arms, we must cast ourselves into the arms of our Heavenly Father…” — Venerable Louis of Granada For a family office or ultra-high-net-worth family, confidence can easily become confused with control. Wealth creates extraordinary capacity.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of the operating infrastructure of modern family offices. It can summarize research, organize complex information, compare scenarios, draft documents, identify patterns, challenge assumptions, and reduce the time required to move from information to a

The deepest lesson from New Philosopher Issue 52 is deceptively simple: memory is not a perfect recording of the past. It is selective, creative, emotional and constantly reconstructed.

S&P 500 slipped for a second straight session as crude's advance toward $84 hardened Treasury yields ahead of Wednesday's decisive CPI print — while gold pressed to a two-month high, Bitcoin drifted lower, and Alphabet's capex confession collided with Nvidia's $500 billion counter-signal. I.

“Love God, serve God; everything is in that.” — St.

Updated Aug 10, 2026, 3:29 PM GMT Is the wait finally over at Berkshire Hathaway? Warren Buffett spent much of his last decade as CEO hoarding phenomenal amounts of cash, as he waited for stocks, acquisitions, and even buybacks to become cheap enough to satisfy his hunger for bargains. Greg Abel, who succeeded the legendary investor at the turn of the year, might not have quite so much patience, based on Berkshire's second-quarter earnings report on Saturday. Michael Burry, the value investor of

Chinese megacities are seeing a slight decrease in households with assets of at least 100 million yuan (US$14.8 million), as the country’s private wealth remains concentrated in three places – national capital Beijing, financial centre Shanghai and…

The family office of Henderson Land Development co-chairman and managing director Peter Lee Ka-kit has signed a deal with Kazakh authorities to advance a range of green energy projects in the Central Asian country. The cooperation was sealed on Tuesday…

Look past the headlines and the institutional money tells a different story. Across Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the world's most disciplined investors and the government itself are building positions for the next decade.

Three experts agree family control, not money, is what risk analysis misses; they back an index scoring governance, learning, resources, and competitiveness.

A U.S. federal judge has approved the Department of Justice's decision to dismiss the criminal probe against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani on graft charges.

A billionaire investment group featuring Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-creator Eduardo Saverin closed in on a Liverpool stake that valued the Premier League giants at nearly $6 billion

August 3, 2026, 11:08 AM ET Sam Altman owns no equity in OpenAI and earns a $76K salary—but says Peter Thiel and Paul Graham taught him how to build billions in investment wealth. With an $852 billion valuation, OpenAI is one of the world’s most valuable startups. But unlike many Silicon Valley CEOs, Sam Altman’s fortune isn’t tied to his AI company’s soaring valuation. Altman notably owns no equity in OpenAI and has historically taken a salary of roughly $76,000 a year. Even so, Altman has

Leaf Li’s Futu brokerage has become a central target in the government’s campaign to control the flow of Chinese money offshore Tuesday August 11 2026, 6.05am, The Times This article was originally published in The Wall Street Journal. Leaf Li said his inspiration came from Charles Schwab. The Chinese billionaire started his brokerage in 2012 with a simple goal: bring stock investing to the Asian masses. Within a decade, he built a company that spanned China, Hong Kong, Asian markets and the U.S

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Elon Musk launches his way onto the Inc. 5000.

Billionaire Mat Ishbia was in trouble after a failed takeover and mistimed bets on interest rates

For a family office or ultra-high-net-worth family, the life of St. Clare of Assisi presents a provocative question: What if the greatest test of wealth is not whether a family can create more of it, but whether the family remains free enough to choose something greater than wealth? Born in 1194 int

In a family office, some of the most consequential decisions are made by people who technically have no authority over one another. A next-generation family member may need to persuade a patriarch or matriarch to reconsider an investment.

A family office co-investment structure looks nothing like a standard VC syndicate: different fee arrangements, different governance asks, and often a