A vibrant ecosystem
Stable, connected and a hub for innovation, capital and talent flows, Singapore offers leading business families access to Asia’s high growth markets and opportunities to drive positive change.
Drive your next phase of growth, from Singapore
50%
of Southeast Asia’s top family businesses are in Singapore1
>2,000
single family offices established in Singapore2
>1,900
specialised investment professionals3
50%
of Southeast Asia’s top family businesses are in Singapore1
>2,000
single family offices established in Singapore2
>1,900
specialised investment professionals3
Stable, connected and a hub for innovation, capital and talent flows, Singapore offers leading business families access to Asia’s high growth markets and opportunities to drive positive change.
Some of the world's most significant family enterprises have a presence in Singapore.
Their activities cut across a diverse range of industries including agricommodities, consumer goods and energy.
Many have set up their international headquarters here to continue their legacies and achieve long-term growth, while advancing their sustainability and innovation goals.
Singapore serves the investment needs and asset allocation ambitions of family offices.
increase in assets under management (AUM) over the past decade to reach S$5.4 trillion (US$4 trillion)a
AUM came from outside Singapore, with 55% invested in the Asia-Pacific regiona
of Southeast Asia's unicorns are based in Singaporeb
projected valuation of technology startups in Southeast Asia by 2024, up from US$340 billion in 2020c
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Discover how to set up your SFO in Singapore and find relevant resources, service providers, and partners.
Eligible family principals who intend to drive their businesses and investment growth from Singapore may apply for permanent residency through the Global Investor Programme (GIP) to spearhead the setup and operationalisation of their family offices in Singapore.