Family Stories
We Thought a Family Office Was for Billionaires
An illustrative family-office story about planning, purpose and continuity.
A couple laughed at the phrase “family office” because they were not ultra-wealthy.
A couple laughed at the phrase “family office” because they were not ultra-wealthy. Yet they had a business, multiple properties, a trust, insurance, investments, charitable goals and five advisors. The point was not to imitate a billionaire’s staffing chart. It was to borrow the coordination discipline their complexity already demanded.
A question for your family
Are you too small for a family office—or simply too complex for silos?
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