WHAT’S UP
The week, distilled
WEALTH MANAGEMENT
When Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz looked at the wealth management options available to them and their portfolio founders, they found the industry structurally inadequate. The result was a16z Perennial, a multi-family office built specifically for principals of Andreessen Horowitz and the founders they back.
#entrepreneurship #familyoffice #newmodel #wealthcreation
WEALTH PLANNING
Every year, parents leave substantial amounts of wealth to their children. Most of these transfers are concentrated at the upper end of the wealth distribution. A growing literature further reveals inequalities in the allocation of parental wealth among siblings. Unequal wealth transfers thus occur both between and within families..
#succession #academicresearch #wealthtransfer
WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Art, Trust and Growth: How Swiss Private Banks May Benefit. Art has the potential to become a valuable strategic capability in the UHNW segment. Swiss private banks that ignore it risk appearing incomplete. By contrast, Swiss private banks that approach it too casually risk reputational damage.
#art #privatebanking #coreservices
WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Family offices are meant to make a family’s life easier. When they are well structured and professionally run, they can be one of the most powerful tools for family cohesion, wealth management and succession planning. And yet, at the same time, a rising number are either closing, consolidating or shifting to outsourced models.
#familyoffice #professionalism #costmanagement
INVESTMENT
Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham exposes his long-term view grounded in historical cycles and structural imbalances. Beneath today’s market exuberance, he says the AI boom masks deeper vulnerabilities: falling sperm counts, shrinking populations, and vanishing resources.
#AIboom #bubble #financialmarkets
UHNWI
Asia’s 20 Richest Families of 2026. Even as warnings of an AI bubble grow louder, the fortunes tied to powering the technology are swelling just as quickly, enriching Asia’s wealthiest dynasties and tightening their grip on the region’s economic landscape.
#wealthranking #asiawealth #chips
WHAT’S THAT
This week’s visual clue.
Silver Linings - the longevity opportunity
Silver Linings reframes aging as one of the largest untapped economic and societal opportunities of our time, arguing that extending healthy lifespan could unlock trillions in value while preserving human productivity and reducing the burden of age-related disease.
By combining scientific insights with economic modeling, the project highlights a central paradox: despite the immense upside, potentially trillions in GDP gains and millions of lives improved, misaligned incentives and market failures continue to slow investment in true longevity innovation.
WHAT’S ON
This week’s pick of entertainment
ATTEND
2026 Watches and Wonders
April 18th - 20th
Geneva, Switzerland
W&W 2026 opens its doors with 65 exhibiting brands, and reaffirms more than ever the city’s status as the capital of time and offers a completely new experience, from the Salon right into the heart of the city.
ATTEND
Sotheby’s - The Paris Edit
April 16th
Paris, France
At Sotheby's, the re-emergence of two paintings by Claude Monet, unseen for over a century, anchors a sale that traces a century of artistic innovation, from Impressionism to the contemporary era.
WHAT ELSE
Wealth, off duty.
Five New Members Clubs That Will Actually Be Good - GENTLEMAN’S JOURNAL
Ray Dalio on meditation: the daily practice the billionaire investor says is key to his success - TATLER
Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? - NEW YORKER
