What 290 of the world's leading single family offices told BNY Wealth about where they are putting their money, ranked by importance and checked against the market as it stands on October 14, 2026. RESEARCH SYNTHESIS · BNY WEALTH 2026 SINGLE FAMILY OFFICE STUDY WHY THIS STUDY MATTERS A single family

Most families spend years preparing their assets for their children. Very few spend the same effort preparing their children, and themselves, for the assets.

Bond yields at multi-decade highs, a quiet split inside AI credit, and the most expensive midterm ad season on record. What it means for families who think in generations.

St. Carlo Acutis offers wealthy families a powerful lesson: the lasting value of an inheritance depends on what people learn to do with their advantages.

"Pride is too great admiration of oneself. The ultimate stage of pride is to make oneself his own law, his own judge, his own god.

The ability to disagree constructively is an essential family office leadership skill. When executives and family members can question assumptions without risking humiliation or retaliation, the office has a better chance of identifying problems before commitments become difficult to reverse.

The Power of Needing to Put Food on the Table There’s no shortage of rags to riches stories that many of us are familiar with. You know the kind, the immigrant who arrives with a suitcase and a few dollars and then goes on to create a hugely successful business. That could actually be my […]

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More than 300 family offices in India now manage over $30 billion, with a third allocating to healthtech, fintech, and climate ventures instead of traditional assets.

Investment firms of ultra-wealthy families aren't immune to FOMO.

Most fortunes are made by people who never grew up with one. Grubman shows that this single fact explains why so much family wealth disappears, and what the families who keep it do differently.

Craig Hill holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and once ran an oil and gas business and a Learjet charter company. Earl Pitts spent nineteen years at IBM, the last seven as an operations manager, before joining Youth With A Mission.

The central lesson St. Francis Borgia offers wealthy families is that wealth should serve a purpose worthy of the people entrusted with it.

Pope St. John XXIII offers family offices and ultra-high-net-worth families a compelling example of stewardship: leadership grounded in human dignity, authority exercised through service, and renewal undertaken for the benefit of future generations.