Managing a family’s wealth has never been more challenging. Portfolio complexity is rising along with expectations for transparency, digital access, and compliance readiness. For family office professionals, traditional approaches involving periodic meetings to review spreadsheets and documentation are no longer sufficient. Fortunately, financial technology (fintech) companies can help advisors meet the expectations wealth owners have in the digital age. In this article, we shine a light on how the fintech we know best – ours – is doing just that.
For UHNWIs, selecting the right financial technology company — or fintech for short — is a high-stakes decision. Different types of fintechs serve different purposes, but one supporting wealth management demands extra scrutiny: It handles a wide variety of a wealth owner’s most sensitive data. The country where such a fintech company operates is a key factor in how this data is protected — and should be a key factor in the decision to work with this company.
In an era where digital breaches make headlines and banking giants can falter overnight, UHNWIs face ongoing challenges in safeguarding their wealth. This article explores how fintech firms are emerging as the new sentinels of financial security, offering enhanced protection through purpose-built technology, unprecedented transparency, and rigorous compliance.
Technology is reshaping every industry, and finance is no exception. Fintechs — financial technology companies — are at the forefront of this transformation. While mass-market fintechs like Revolut, Klarna, and Robinhood dominate headlines with their focus on streamlining finances for consumers and retail investors, UHNWIs have a fundamentally different requirement: leveraging technology to liberate themselves and their advisors to focus on the strategic decisions, relationships, and communications that humans handle better than machines.
According to EY, in 2025 private equity (PE) firms' emphasis on growth through improved operations will be a key trend shaping the sector. The consultancy identifies data and analytics capabilities as playing a crucial role in PE growth strategy, particularly for meeting stakeholders' increasing demands for greater transparency into performance, risk management, and value creation strategies. For PE firms looking to capitalize on this trend, focusing on three specific data analytics capabilities can provide a significant competitive advantage.
In February 2025, when US President Trump signed an executive order to formulate a plan for creating a federal-level sovereign wealth fund (SWF), it highlighted a growing recognition of the importance of such financial structures when it comes to preserving and growing national wealth management. With trillions under management, SWFs often demonstrate remarkable resilience during economic downturns and market volatility.
In a world where data rivals oil in value, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are prioritizing data sovereignty to ensure that only they — and the wealthy governments they serve — control their critical financial information. UHNWIs and their advisors should take note: they can adopt SWF-inspired strategies to protect sensitive wealth data from geopolitical and cyber risks.
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are investing heavily in digital infrastructure and advanced analytics to sharpen their decision-making and optimise performance. For UHNW individuals and families, these moves to digitalise offer a compelling model for elevating management of private wealth.
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have long shaped financial markets through meticulous governance, multi-decade foresight, and strategic asset allocation. Now, a growing number of affluent families see parallels between SWFs’ institutional rigor and the framework required to achieve meaningful, long-term philanthropy. By weaving in principles like transparency, diversification, and disciplined governance — plus leveraging platforms such as Altoo’s for centralised oversight — families can better direct their capital toward sustained global impact.
Following our exploration of sovereign wealth fund (SWF) governance frameworks in our previous article, this second piece on the SWF-UHNWI connection examines how the investment strategies of these massive state-owned vehicles offer valuable principles that UHNWIs can adapt to their own wealth management approaches.
Securing diversified wealth is a never-ending process. In this process, market and economic forces are among the most widely discussed and analysed factors when it comes to future-proofing portfolios.
On 3 February 2025, US President Trump signed an executive order to formulate a plan for creating a federal-level sovereign wealth fund (SWF). This initiative will obviously have implications for global markets, but it also invites UHNWIs to consider what can be learned through observing these massive state-owned investment vehicles in general. In many ways, SWFs' objectives mirror those of ultra-high-net-worth individuals and their families - both are focused on growing and preserving wealth across generations while balancing risk and opportunity. Starting with this piece on SWF governance, over the coming weeks we will explore the striking parallels between sovereign
Ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) often prefer to keep a low profile. Yet in today’s digital era, discretion alone no longer suffices. Cybercriminals now target family offices—the specialized entities managing the wealth and affairs of the world’s wealthiest families.
Cyberattacks on financial institutions are hardly rare these days, yet few entities shoulder as much risk as family offices tasked with safeguarding ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) clients. IBM Security’s “Cost of a Data Breach” report places the global average expense of a breach at $4.45 million, noting that incursions into financial services typically run almost 10 percent higher than those in other sectors.
To successfully help high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) preserve and grow their wealth, a family office (FO) requires more than expert asset management and financial planning skills. It also needs comprehensive visibility into all the family’s assets—both those the FO manages and those it does not. Open banking is here to help. This article explains how.
To boost the efficiency of the Swiss wealth management business and to strengthen Switzerland as a financial and innovation center are two main goals of the OpenWealth Association. The community of banks, wealth, and wealth managers was established in 2021 in Zurich to develop, define, maintain, and operationalize the Open API standard for the wealth management community.
Whether you’re looking for a net-new wealth management platform, or looking to make a change, customer satisfaction should always be a top priority. It’s important to make sure your wealth management platform provider can deliver both the technology and the service that you need.
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Managing a family’s wealth has never been more challenging. Portfolio complexity is rising along with expectations for transparency, digital access, and compliance readiness. For family office professionals, traditional approaches involving periodic meetings to review spreadsheets and documentation are no longer sufficient. Fortunately, financial technology (fintech) companies can help advisors meet the expectations wealth owners have in the digital age. In this article, we shine a light on how the fintech we know best – ours – is doing just that.
For UHNWIs, selecting the right financial technology company — or fintech for short — is a high-stakes decision. Different types of fintechs serve different purposes, but one supporting wealth management demands extra scrutiny: It handles a wide variety of a wealth owner’s most sensitive data. The country where such a fintech company operates is a key factor in how this data is protected — and should be a key factor in the decision to work with this company.
According to EY, in 2025 private equity (PE) firms' emphasis on growth through improved operations will be a key trend shaping the sector. The consultancy identifies data and analytics capabilities as playing a crucial role in PE growth strategy, particularly for meeting stakeholders' increasing demands for greater transparency into performance, risk management, and value creation strategies. For PE firms looking to capitalize on this trend, focusing on three specific data analytics capabilities can provide a significant competitive advantage.
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