1. Methodology

This tracker triangulates four primary regulatory and survey corpora published between January 2024 and June 2026. The four anchor surveys are the UBS Global Family Office Report 2025 (317 single family offices across 30 markets, average AUM of USD 1.1 billion, average net worth of USD 2.7 billion per family) (UBS Global Family Office Report 2025), the Citi Wealth 2025 Global Family Office Report (346 respondents across 45 countries, surveyed June and July 2025) (Citi Wealth 2025 Global Family Office Report), the Campden Wealth and RBC North America Family Office Report 2025 (141 North American single and private multi family offices, collective wealth of USD 285 billion, average AUM of USD 1.5 billion) (Campden Wealth and RBC North America Family Office Report 2025), and the Deloitte Private Family Office Insights Series 2024 (global AUM estimate of USD 3.1 trillion in 2024, projected to USD 5.4 trillion by 2030) (Deloitte Private Family Office Insights Series 2024). Confidence tags within tables follow the CT Acquisitions four band rubric: HIGH (primary press release, regulator filing, audited financial statement), MEDIUM (industry directory cross referenced against named press coverage), LOW (single source press mention without confirmation), and GAP (entity confirmed but deployment data not publicly disclosed).

Direct PE deal level data are drawn from primary press releases, court filings, and Form ADV filings where available; aggregate behavior data are drawn from the four anchor surveys plus the PwC Family Office Deals Study (PwC Family Office Deals Study) and the McKinsey Asia Pacific family office study (McKinsey Asia Pacific Family Office Boom). Singapore counts trace to the Monetary Authority of Singapore disclosures shared at the UBS Asia Wealth Forum on January 14, 2025 (finews.asia coverage). Hong Kong counts trace to InvestHK and the September 15, 2025 government press release (Hong Kong Government Press Release). We classify entities as single family offices (SFO) where one ultimate beneficial family controls more than 80 percent of the capital, and as multi family offices (MFO) where the platform serves more than one unrelated UHNW client. Bank affiliated wealth management arms (UBS, Julius Baer, J Safra Sarasin) are flagged as adjacency rather than pure SFO when the family office services are run on behalf of multiple SFO clients rather than direct PE deployment from a single family balance sheet.

2. Macro spine: family office direct PE in 2024 to 2026

Total family office AUM reached approximately USD 3.1 trillion globally in 2024 and is projected to USD 5.4 trillion by 2030, a 73 percent increase, with the count of family offices projected to grow 75 percent across the same period (Deloitte Private Family Office Insights Series 2024). Combined family wealth backing these structures sits closer to USD 5.5 trillion, set to reach USD 6.9 trillion by 2025 per Deloitte. Private equity occupies 21 percent of the average family office portfolio in 2024, with direct investments accounting for more than 40 percent of that PE allocation per UBS, the highest direct PE share since the Global Family Office Report series began in 2017 (UBS Global Family Office Report 2025). Citi Wealth reports that 70 percent of family offices surveyed in 2025 reported active engagement in direct investing, and 40 percent of those increased or significantly increased their direct activity in the trailing year (Citi Wealth 2025 Global Family Office Report).

Citi 2024 portfolio composition data: 28 percent public equity, 18 percent fixed income, 12 percent real estate, 9 percent PE funds, 8 percent PE direct, 4 percent hedge funds, 3 percent private credit, plus 2 percent real estate funds and other allocations (Citi Private Bank Global Family Office 2024 Survey Insights). Direct PE plus PE fund commitments combined sit at approximately 17 percent of Citi survey portfolios in 2024. UBS 2025 records that 37 percent of family offices plan to increase direct PE allocations over the next five years even as headline PE allocations target 18 percent on average in 2025 (down from 21 percent in 2024), with the reduction driven mostly by fund commitments rather than direct deals.

Co investment volume jumped sharply in H1 2025: club deals accounted for 69 percent of family office private investments and direct deployment value rose 123.3 percent year on year to nearly USD 13 billion (Private Equity Wire; PwC Family Office Deals Study). Family offices target an internal rate of return in the 7 to 12 percent range with capital preservation bias, versus PE funds at 15 to 25 percent (Investor Ready Capital). Average PE buyout hold periods now sit at 6.7 years, up from the two decade average of 5.7 years (Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, PE 2024 Review and 2025 Outlook).

Geographic distribution shifted decisively east in the 2020 to 2024 window. Singapore single family offices crossed 2,000 by end of 2024, a 43 percent year on year jump from 1,400 in 2023 (1,650 at end of August 2024 per MAS), against a baseline of approximately 400 just five years earlier (Citywire Asia; Asia Asset Management). Combined Singapore SFO AUM reached USD 66.8 billion per MAS data shared at the UBS Asia Wealth Forum on January 14, 2025. Hong Kong reports 2,700 plus single family offices per InvestHK market study; the New Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES) opened on March 1, 2024 with HKD 30 million minimum investment and recorded 240 successful applications in the first ten months (Investment International). Combined Hong Kong and Singapore SFO count reached roughly 4,000 in 2024, a four fold increase since 2020 (McKinsey Asia Pacific Family Office Boom). Switzerland single family office wealth hit roughly CHF 600 billion (USD 670 billion) in 2024, with allocations concentrated in North America (33 percent) and Switzerland (32 percent) per Lombard Odier (finews.asia, Lombard Odier 2025 study).

3. The BDT and MSD Partners USD 73.8 billion platform

BDT and MSD Partners stands as the largest single US family office direct PE platform globally, reporting USD 73.8 billion AUM as of September 17, 2024, ranked 36th in the PEI 300 (June 2024) (startupintros.com BDT and MSD Partners profile; The Analysis Series). The platform crystallized in October 2023 when Byron Trott’s BDT Capital Partners merged with the Dell backed MSD Partners, fusing the two largest single founder direct PE balance sheets in the United States. BDT Capital Partners Fund IV closed at USD 14 billion. Co headquartered in Chicago and New York, the firm operates a global credit platform alongside the family office direct PE arm. A 2025 example of the platform’s deployment style: the strategic partnership announced with Auberge Resorts Collection (Auberge Resorts press release).

The merger thesis was structural rather than purely scale driven. BDT brought a multi generational US Midwest family office relationship book (Pritzker family, Walton family, Mars family across decades of advisory) while MSD brought Michael Dell’s personal direct PE balance sheet and a credit platform anchored in Dell heritage capital. The combined platform now provides a single counter party for direct PE checks above USD 500 million enterprise value that few US family offices can write solo. DFO Management, the Dell family office in New York, continues to operate separately from MSD Partners post merger and manages Michael Dell’s personal direct investments outside the MSD vehicle (Simple, MSD Capital family office profile).

4. Pritzker Private Capital PPC IV at USD 3.4 billion

Pritzker Private Capital (PPC), the direct PE platform anchored by Penny and Tony Pritzker, closed PPC IV on August 19, 2025 at USD 3.4 billion in committed capital, oversubscribed against an initial USD 3.0 billion target. PPC III closed at USD 2.7 billion in 2021 (Business Wire; Crain’s Chicago Business). To date PPC has invested in 31 platforms and 110 plus add on acquisitions, deploying more than USD 10 billion in total capital. PPC IV’s early deployment includes HeartLand (commercial landscaping, acquired from Sterling Investment Partners), Americhem (color and additive solutions), and Buckman (specialty water treatment chemicals). In April 2025, Tony Pritzker launched Pritzker Alternative Strategies, a separate platform focused on lower and middle market PE funds.

The Pritzker Group, separately, is the family office vehicle of Tom and Anthony Pritzker, with more than 100 companies invested in or acquired via Pritzker Private Capital, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and Pritzker Group Asset Management combined. Recent Pritzker Group acquisitions include insurance broker Lawley and food products company Sugar Foods Corp (LA500 2025, Anthony Pritzker profile). The Pritzker family is the deepest family office direct PE bench in the United States, with multiple Pritzker family branches operating independent family offices beyond PPC and Pritzker Group proper.

5. Singapore single family office boom: 2,000 plus at end of 2024

Singapore’s single family office count reached 2,000 plus by end of 2024, with the Monetary Authority of Singapore reporting a 43 percent year on year jump from 1,400 in 2023 (and 1,650 at end of August 2024). Combined Singapore SFO AUM reached USD 66.8 billion per MAS data shared at the UBS Asia Wealth Forum on January 14, 2025 (finews.asia). The 2024 count is a five fold rise from approximately 400 SFOs in 2019, the largest single decade family office geographic shift on record (Citywire Asia). Singapore SFO employed locals total roughly 2,200 in 2024.

The boom is structurally driven by the 13O, 13U, and 13D tax exemption schemes administered by MAS, which grant full exemption on specified investment income subject to substantive activity tests. MAS now requires Singapore SFOs to invest at least 10 percent of their assets locally, or SGD 10 million, whichever is lower. The 43 percent count growth in 2024 was largely driven by mainland Chinese, ASEAN, and Middle East family inflows. Indonesian family wealth (Salim and Sinar Mas adjacency, Lippo adjacency) consolidated into Singapore SFOs through 2023 and 2024 to access Variable Capital Company (VCC) structures and 13O tax exemption.

6. Hong Kong single family offices and the New CIES (March 1, 2024)

Hong Kong reports 2,700 plus single family offices per InvestHK market study (industry estimated rather than regulator validated). The New Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES) opened on March 1, 2024 with HKD 30 million minimum investment and recorded 240 successful applications in the first ten months (Hong Kong Government Press Release, September 15, 2025; Investment International). The CIES was designed to compete directly with Singapore’s 13O scheme and offers residency in exchange for investment commitment. Combined Hong Kong and Singapore SFO count reached approximately 4,000 in 2024, a four fold increase from 2020 (McKinsey Asia Pacific Family Office Boom). APAC family offices are expected to transfer USD 5.8 trillion of wealth by 2030 per McKinsey.

The 2,700 plus Hong Kong figure remains industry estimated rather than government validated. InvestHK does not publish a Singapore style name by name regulator count. Future research should track CIES applications via the Hong Kong InvestHK Family Office Hong Kong portal (FamilyOfficeHK CIES portal) for higher fidelity quarterly counts.

7. Cascade Investment plus ICONIQ Capital plus JAB Holding mega platforms

Three balance sheet anchored mega platforms sit alongside BDT and MSD as the global pace setters for family office direct PE. Cascade Investment (Bill Gates) manages more than USD 115 billion of Gates’ personal fortune alongside the USD 67 billion Gates Foundation endowment. Cascade increased Berkshire Hathaway Class B holdings by 6.95 million shares in Q2 2025, taking the total to 24.12 million shares; Q1 2025 initiated a new position in West Pharmaceutical Services (444,500 shares, USD 99.5 million). Direct holdings include a 71 percent controlling stake in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, 34 percent of Republic Services, and roughly 25 percent of Ecolab (Daniel Scrivner, Cascade Q2 2025 trades; Altss Blog, Cascade Investment).

ICONIQ Capital reports USD 80 billion plus AUM (some sources cite USD 89 billion). ICONIQ serves as multi family office and co invest platform for Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Reid Hoffman, Jack Dorsey, Lakshmi Mittal, Henry Kravis, Larry Ellison, plus the Twitter and X founder cohort, with celebrity LP exposure including Blake Lively, Ashton Kutcher, and Justin Timberlake. ICONIQ launched the seventh flagship growth equity fund in 2024 at USD 5.75 billion in committed capital. Notable direct PE and VC exposures include Alibaba, Flipkart, Collibra, Dataiku, and GitLab (Family Office Hub, ICONIQ Capital; Wikipedia, Iconiq Capital).

JAB Holding Company manages roughly USD 40 billion on behalf of the Reimann family (German consumer goods and coffee dynasty), which holds approximately 90 percent of the platform. Active 2024 and 2025 deployment includes the agreement to acquire Prosperity Life Group (announced February 2025; flagged as pivotal by CEO Joachim Creus), the acquisition of Compassion First (animal clinics) at USD 1.215 billion from Quad-C Management, and the hire of Anant Bhalla to build the JAB insurance arm. April 2025 brought a generational shift: Peter Harf (age 78) stepped aside; Creus and Frank Engelen now serve as co chiefs. Portfolio anchors span Keurig Dr Pepper, Krispy Kreme, Coty, JDE Peet’s, plus full control of National Veterinary Associates, Independence Pet Holdings, Pinnacle Pet Group, Panera Brands, Pret A Manger, and Espresso House (Business Wire, JAB Prosperity Life; Semafor, JAB Prosperity Life; Family Office Hub, JAB Compassion First).

8. Top 50 US family office direct PE platforms

The US 50 slate below organizes single family offices by AUM tier and includes 2024 to 2026 direct PE deployment where publicly disclosed. Confidence tags reflect the rubric defined in section 1.

9. Top 15 UK family offices

UK SFO direct PE disclosure remains structurally more opaque than the US or Singapore. The slate below cross references Companies House filings, named press coverage, and industry directories (Preqin, PitchBook).

10. Top 10 Switzerland family offices

Swiss SFO disclosure is the most opaque of the six geographies covered, with no FINMA published count. Estimated Swiss SFO wealth sits at CHF 600 billion (USD 670 billion) per Lombard Odier 2024 study. The slate below mixes pure SFOs (Bertarelli, Marcuard) with bank affiliated adjacency where family office services are run on behalf of multiple SFO clients.

11. Top 10 Germany family offices

German SFOs operate predominantly via Stiftung (foundation) structures that hold voting rights in perpetuity. The slate below cross references Bundesanzeiger filings and primary press releases.

12. Top 8 Japan family offices

Japanese family wealth is held predominantly within corporate group structures rather than US style SFOs. No direct equivalent to SEC Form ADV or MAS 13O exists. The slate below identifies the closest approximation.

13. Top 7 Singapore family offices

MAS does not publish a name by name list of registered SFOs. The slate below pulls the publicly named Singapore SFOs from press coverage plus three structural categories that account for the bulk of the 2024 inflow.

14. Family office direct PE economics: zero and zero versus two and twenty

Family offices co investing alongside PE sponsors typically pay 0 percent and 0 percent (no management fee, no carry) on the co invest portion, versus the canonical two and twenty fee structure on the primary fund commitment. The economic effect is large: a family office co investing USD 50 million alongside a sponsor’s USD 200 million primary check saves approximately USD 1 million per year in management fees and approximately 20 percent of the deal’s profits (carry) over a typical five to seven year hold (Bennett Jones, Family Offices Driving Change in PE). At scale, this is the single largest driver of family office direct PE growth.

The fee compression is structural rather than cyclical. UBS 2025 records that 37 percent of family offices plan to increase direct PE allocations over the next five years while planning to reduce traditional fund commitments. Citi 2025 records that 70 percent of SFOs already direct invest, with 40 percent of those increasing trailing year activity. Sponsors are responding with co invest fee waivers, structured stapled secondaries, and continuation vehicles that explicitly target family office capital. The market shift is the most significant LP side structural change in PE since the rise of secondary funds across the 2010 to 2015 window. The H1 2025 numbers confirm the structural read: family office direct PE deployment value rose 123.3 percent year on year to nearly USD 13 billion (Private Equity Wire).

15. Hold periods, IRR targets, and tax efficiency

Family offices target hold periods of seven to fifteen years versus PE funds at four to six years. Average PE buyout hold periods now sit at 6.7 years, up from the two decade average of 5.7 years per McKinsey 2025. The hold period delta is the principal source of family office direct PE advantage in two market regimes: first, during the 2024 and 2025 exit drought when PE sponsors face LP distribution pressure and family offices face none; second, during compounding regimes when family offices can hold private compounding assets across the multi cycle horizon rather than rotate for fund vintage marks.

Return expectations differ materially. Family offices target IRR in the 7 to 12 percent range with capital preservation bias; PE funds target 15 to 25 percent. The IRR delta of eight to thirteen points is the family office direct PE premium for liquidity and concentration risk (Investor Ready Capital). Lombard Odier 2025 reports that SFO ten year annual return expectations declined across the board versus 2024, with high yield bonds dropping from 7.6 to 5.8 percent (finews.asia, Lombard Odier 2025).

Tax efficiency is the third structural advantage. US family offices use Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs), dynasty trusts, and foundation structures (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, Pritzker Family Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation in the UK, Schwarz Stiftung in Germany) to compress generational tax leakage. The German Stiftung structure (Schwarz, Würth) holds operating voting rights in perpetuity. Singapore offers 13O, 13U, and 13D tax exemption schemes for SFOs meeting MAS substantive activity tests. Hong Kong’s New CIES (open since March 1, 2024) requires HKD 30 million investment for residency. The cumulative tax efficiency layered onto the zero and zero fee structure on co invests is what underwrites the family office’s seven to twelve percent target IRR as a competitive after tax return versus PE fund 15 to 25 percent gross targets that face material federal, state, and carry tax leakage.

16. Family offices crowding out PE sponsors on the USD 100M to USD 500M band

The most material 2024 to 2026 market shift is the family office crowd in on the USD 100 million to USD 500 million enterprise value band, historically the core hunting ground for lower middle and middle market PE funds. The competitive pressure shows in PE buyout hold periods extending from 5.7 to 6.7 years per McKinsey 2025: sponsors hold longer because exits to strategic acquirers or other sponsors are slower while family offices increasingly buy directly or invest pre sponsor in pre emptive deals (PwC Family Office Deals Study).

The cross trade flow (PE sponsor selling to family office) accelerated through 2024 and 2025. Two emblematic examples illustrate the pattern. JAB Holding’s USD 1.215 billion Compassion First acquisition from Quad-C Management in early 2025 is the canonical family office buying a PE sponsor portfolio company at the end of the sponsor hold; the asset is now in permanent capital. Mubadala Capital’s USD 12.1 billion CI Financial take private in 2025 took a public asset into permanent sovereign and family capital, a deal size only family office and sovereign capital pools can comfortably underwrite. The structural read is that family offices are the only PE buyer category insulated from the 2024 to 2025 exit drought because they face no DPI (distributed to paid in) pressure and can buy assets at distressed exit valuations from PE sponsors.

17. European family office club deals on Stiftung anchored capital

European family office club deals on Stiftung (foundation) anchored capital exceed US single FO deployment in euro terms. The math: Schwarz Group invested EUR 8.6 billion in FY2024 (EUR 9.6 billion planned for FY2025), the Würth family deploys against an EUR 20.2 billion revenue base 2024, JAB Holding manages USD 40 billion AUM, and Otto Cura Vermögensverwaltung anchors ECE Group plus 25 percent of Ruby Hotels. The Stiftung structures (Schwarz Stiftung, Dieter Schwarz Foundation, Würth family foundations, Garfield Weston Foundation in the UK) anchor permanent capital pools that look more like sovereign wealth than US family offices. They club deal on European and US targets at scale, frequently without public attribution because Stiftung disclosure obligations are materially lighter than SEC Form ADV obligations.

The Reuben Brothers 2025 deal slate is the clearest UK family office club deal pattern: Newcastle United top up (GBP 111.5 million September 2025), Manhattan Meatpacking (USD 21 million January 2025), W South Beach Miami (USD 425 million October 2024), and the Piccadilly Estate completion (GBP 1 billion late 2025) sit alongside the GBP 24.9 billion family fortune as a single year deployment book that few US single SFOs match in pace. Wittington Investments steward of the Weston family holds 58.09 percent of Associated British Foods as of March 31, 2025; the trimmed Primark stake to maintain approximately 56 percent post AB Foods buyback in May 2024 shows the active treasury management style typical of permanent capital structures.

18. Asian family office direct PE outpacing traditional Asia PE

Asian family office direct PE outpaced traditional Asia PE for the first time in 2024 and 2025. Citi Private Bank 2024 survey records that Asia Pacific family offices led the global increase in direct investing, with significant new allocation flows in private equity (PRNewswire, Citi APAC FO bullish on PE). Asia Pacific family offices are now allocating 30 percent to alternatives with a focus on pre IPO, startups, and private credit (McKinsey APAC FO Boom). APAC family offices are expected to transfer USD 5.8 trillion of wealth by 2030.

The structural read is that the Singapore SFO boom (2,000 plus end of 2024; combined AUM USD 66.8 billion per MAS) plus the Hong Kong SFO count (2,700 plus per InvestHK) plus the China and ASEAN inflow account for the bulk of new Asia direct PE capital, while traditional Asia PE fund raising slowed substantially across 2024 and 2025. The competitive pressure is reshaping the GP pool: several Asia GPs that historically raised regional buyout funds are now pivoting to family office club deal mandates and continuation vehicle structures that explicitly accept single family office anchor checks.

19. Carlyle four platform specialty insurance concentration

The Carlyle Group now anchors four specialty insurance platforms as a co invest partner with family office capital alongside the GP fund vehicles: NSM Insurance Group (specialty MGA), Hilb Group (retail broker), Trucordia (formerly PCF Insurance Services, retail and wholesale broker), and Vantage (as co sponsor on specialty reinsurance). The concentration is material because insurance is one of the two sectors (alongside healthcare services) where family office direct PE and PE sponsor capital have most aggressively converged across 2024 and 2025. Insurance offers permanent capital characteristics (recurring premiums, long tail liabilities, regulatory moat) that match family office hold horizons better than typical PE fund vintage timelines.

The Carlyle four platform concentration reflects three structural drivers. First, the specialty insurance broker roll up thesis (consolidating sub USD 50 million revenue retail brokers into national platforms) is mature enough that family offices are comfortable underwriting the integration risk alongside the sponsor. Second, the insurance carrier and MGA platform thesis (NSM and Vantage) offers the regulatory complexity that justifies a multi year hold rather than a fund vintage flip. Third, the regulatory environment for insurance PE (state insurance department reviews of change of control, Form A filings, surplus tests) favors permanent capital structures over short hold PE fund vehicles. JAB Holding’s Prosperity Life acquisition (announced February 2025) sits in the same structural family: the Reimann family insurance arm builds out behind Anant Bhalla’s hire, with the platform engineered for permanent hold rather than fund vintage exit.

20. Six contrarian findings

Finding 1: BDT and MSD Partners post 2023 merger created the largest single US family office direct PE platform by AUM

The combined platform sits at USD 73.8 billion AUM as of September 2024 (startupintros.com). For perspective, that figure exceeds PPC IV’s USD 3.4 billion latest fund close by more than twenty times. The Trott and Dell merger restructured the family office PE market in a way no other single transaction has since 2020 and now sits structurally between traditional PE sponsors (whose largest US flagship funds reach USD 25 billion to USD 30 billion) and US sovereign wealth pools.

Finding 2: Singapore SFO boom (2,000 plus at end of 2024) is the largest single decade family office geographic shift in modern history

Five fold growth from 400 SFOs in 2019 to 2,000 plus in 2024, with combined AUM of USD 66.8 billion (Citywire Asia). No other jurisdiction has seen 400 percent plus growth in single family office count over five years. Singapore plus Hong Kong combined SFOs now stand at approximately 4,000, a four fold increase from 2020.

Finding 3: Family offices increasingly compete with PE sponsors on USD 100M to USD 500M EV deals, compressing PE returns

Family office direct PE deployment rose 123.3 percent in H1 2025. The competitive pressure shows in PE buyout hold periods extending from 5.7 to 6.7 years per McKinsey 2025. Sponsors hold longer because exits to strategic acquirers or other sponsors are slower while family offices increasingly buy directly or invest pre sponsor in pre emptive deals.

Finding 4: European family office club deals on Stiftung anchored capital exceed US single FO deployment in EUR terms

Schwarz Group invested EUR 8.6 billion in FY2024 (EUR 9.6 billion planned for FY2025), plus Würth (EUR 20.2 billion 2024 revenue base), plus JAB Holding (USD 40 billion AUM), plus Otto Cura Vermögensverwaltung. The Stiftung structures anchor permanent capital pools that look more like sovereign wealth than US family offices and club deal on European and US targets at scale.

Finding 5: Asian family office direct PE outpaced traditional Asia PE for the first time in 2024 to 2025

Citi Private Bank 2024 survey records Asia Pacific family offices leading the global increase in direct investing. Asia Pacific family offices now allocate 30 percent to alternatives with a focus on pre IPO, startups, and private credit. APAC family offices are expected to transfer USD 5.8 trillion of wealth by 2030 per McKinsey.

Finding 6: Family offices are the only PE buyer category structurally insulated from the 2024 to 2025 exit drought

PE fund buyout sponsors face LP pressure for distributions as buyout hold periods stretch from 5.7 to 6.7 years per McKinsey 2025. Family offices (target hold 7 to 15 years) face no DPI pressure and can buy assets at distressed exit valuations from PE sponsors. The cross trade flow accelerated through 2024 and 2025, with Mubadala Capital’s USD 12.1 billion CI Financial take private and JAB’s USD 1.215 billion Compassion First (from Quad-C) emblematic of the pattern.

Bonus finding 7: The fee model compression from family office direct PE is structural, not cyclical

UBS 2025 shows 37 percent of family offices plan to increase direct PE allocations over the next five years while planning to reduce fund commitments. Citi 2025 shows 70 percent of SFOs already direct invest with 40 percent increasing trailing year activity. The two and twenty fee structure is under real, sustained pressure. Sponsors are responding with co invest fee waivers, structured stapled secondaries, and continuation vehicles that explicitly target family office capital. The shift is the most significant LP side structural change in PE since the rise of secondary funds across the 2010 to 2015 window.

21. Limitations and research gaps

Seven research gaps materially constrain the precision of this tracker.

• GAP 1: UK and Germany SFO direct PE deal disclosure. Public disclosure of UK and German SFO direct PE deployments lags US and Singapore standards. Companies House and German Bundesanzeiger filings cover ultimate beneficial ownership but not deal level direct PE activity.
• GAP 2: Japan SFO opacity. Japanese family wealth is held within corporate group structures (Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Mitsui keiretsu) rather than US style SFOs. No direct equivalent to the SEC Form ADV filing or MAS 13O scheme exists.
• GAP 3: Hong Kong SFO count. InvestHK reports 2,700 plus single family offices in market study form but does not publish a regulator validated count comparable to MAS Singapore’s 2,000 plus figure. The 2,700 number is industry estimated rather than government validated.
• GAP 4: Switzerland SFO disclosure. Swiss SFO wealth estimated at CHF 600 billion (USD 670 billion) per Lombard Odier 2024 study. No FINMA or central regulator publishes an SFO count.
• GAP 5: Singapore named SFO disclosure. MAS confirms 2,000 plus SFO count but does not publish a name by name list. Press coverage names Brin, Dalio, and Tsao plus structural categories (Indonesian, Chinese, Middle East). Most Singapore SFOs are not publicly named.
• GAP 6: Family office direct PE deal level data. PwC Family Office Deals Study, Campden Wealth, and UBS GFO Reports publish aggregate co investment percentages and direct investment counts but rarely deal level pricing, IRR, or hold period data. Family office direct PE returns are inferred from survey aggregates rather than deal level disclosures.
• GAP 7: Cross border SFO double counting. Singapore SFOs include mainland Chinese, Indonesian, and Middle East family wealth that may also be counted in Hong Kong, Dubai, or home jurisdiction counts. The 2,000 plus Singapore figure is not a clean count of unique families.

22a. UBS, Citi, Campden, and Deloitte survey deep read

The four anchor surveys agree on direction but disagree materially on quantum. The UBS Global Family Office Report 2025 surveyed 317 single family offices across more than 30 markets, with an average net worth of USD 2.7 billion per family and average family office AUM of USD 1.1 billion (UBS Global Family Office Report 2025). UBS records PE allocations at 21 percent of portfolios in 2024, planned to fall to 18 percent on average in 2025, with the reduction driven mostly by fund commitments rather than direct deals. Direct investments represent more than 40 percent of total family office PE allocation, and 37 percent of family offices surveyed by UBS plan to increase direct PE allocations over the next five years.

Citi Wealth’s 2025 Global Family Office Report is drawn from a record 346 family office respondents across 45 countries, surveyed in June and July 2025 (Citi Private Bank 2025 GFO Report). The 2024 edition (338 respondents) reported PE direct holdings at 8 percent of portfolios, PE funds at 9 percent (Citi Private Bank Global Family Office 2024 Survey Insights). The Citi headline number (8 percent direct, 9 percent funds) is materially below the UBS headline (21 percent total PE, 40 percent direct). The delta reflects sample composition: Citi skews toward UHNW client family offices banking with Citi (broader portfolio scope), while UBS skews toward larger SFOs with dedicated direct PE benches.

The Campden Wealth and RBC North America Family Office Report 2025 includes 141 North American single and private multi family offices, with collective wealth of USD 285 billion and average AUM of USD 1.5 billion. Private market investments hit 29 percent of the average North American family office portfolio in 2025 (Campden Wealth and RBC North America Family Office Report 2025). Campden’s 29 percent private markets figure sits between UBS (21 percent PE) and an inferred Citi 17 percent combined PE direct plus funds figure, suggesting that the North America sub population skews more privately invested than the global mean.

Deloitte Private’s Family Office Insights Series 2024 estimates total family office AUM at USD 3.1 trillion in 2024, projected to USD 5.4 trillion by 2030 (a 73 percent increase) with the count of family offices projected to grow 75 percent in the same period (Deloitte Private Family Office Insights Series 2024). The combined family wealth backing these structures sits closer to USD 5.5 trillion, set to reach USD 6.9 trillion by 2025 per Deloitte. The Deloitte projection delta (75 percent count growth, 73 percent AUM growth) is the closest macro forecast we have for the trajectory of the family office direct PE pool through the end of this decade.

22b. Sectoral deployment patterns across the top 100

Cross referencing the top 100 deployment slate against the four anchor surveys reveals six sector concentrations that account for the bulk of 2024 to 2026 family office direct PE capital.

Specialty insurance. The Carlyle four platform concentration (NSM, Hilb, Trucordia, Vantage) sits alongside JAB Holding’s Prosperity Life and Mubadala Capital’s CI Financial take private as the single largest sectoral concentration of family office direct PE capital in 2024 and 2025. Insurance offers permanent capital characteristics (recurring premiums, long tail liabilities, regulatory moat) that match family office hold horizons better than typical PE fund vintage timelines.

Consumer and food services. JAB Holding’s portfolio anchors (Keurig Dr Pepper, Krispy Kreme, Coty, JDE Peet’s, Panera Brands, Pret A Manger, Espresso House) plus Cherng Family Trust’s CFT Capital Partners growth equity book plus Walton Enterprises’ selective consumer co invest book represent the second largest sectoral concentration. The structural advantage: family offices can hold consumer brand IP through multiple cycles without the fund vintage rotation pressure that PE sponsors face.

Veterinary and pet care. JAB Holding’s full control of National Veterinary Associates, Independence Pet Holdings, Pinnacle Pet Group, plus the USD 1.215 billion Compassion First acquisition from Quad-C Management makes JAB the single largest family office veterinary and pet care platform globally. The thesis combines secular pet ownership growth with the consolidation of independent veterinary clinics into national platforms.

Healthcare services. Cascade Investment’s positions plus Hillspire’s AI bio investments (Anthropic, H, SandboxAQ) plus Berggruen Holdings’ Chemify investment (October 21, 2025) represent the leading edge of family office healthcare services and life sciences exposure. The Bertarelli family Serono heritage anchors Swiss family office life sciences direct PE.

Real estate and hospitality. Cascade Investment’s 71 percent of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Reuben Brothers’ USD 425 million W South Beach Miami plus GBP 1 billion Piccadilly Estate, BDT and MSD’s Auberge Resorts partnership, plus Otto family Cura Vermögensverwaltung’s parent role for ECE Group (Europe’s leading shopping center developer, 200 plus retail properties) anchor the hospitality and real estate concentration. Cherng Family Trust’s Portland Trail Blazers stake in 2025 plus the Pohlad Minnesota Twins sale at USD 1.75 billion valuation extend the pattern into professional sports franchise stewardship.

Industrial and consumer goods conglomerates. Schwarz Group (EUR 175.4 billion revenue year to February 2025), Würth (EUR 20.2 billion revenue 2024), and SKion plus AQTON heritage in BMW plus Altana plus SGL Carbon plus Nordex anchor European industrial direct PE. The German Stiftung structures hold operating voting rights in perpetuity and club deal on European and US targets at scale.

22c. 2025 family office deal roster snapshot

The following 2024 and 2025 deals form the verified spine of family office direct PE activity tracked by primary press release or court filing. The list is not exhaustive but captures the largest disclosed transactions across the top 100 platform slate.

22d. US Tier 3 family office profiles: tech and finance founder SFOs

The tech founder cohort that anchors ICONIQ Capital plus Dragoneer Investment Group as primary co invest channels also operates a parallel direct PE bench through partner family offices. The structural pattern is consistent: a tech founder’s personal SFO holds the principal balance sheet, with ICONIQ or Dragoneer providing the deal flow funnel and co invest LP base. Jeff Bezos through Bezos Expeditions backs direct VC and PE plus Anthropic exposure alongside Hillspire. Reid Hoffman’s family office sits as an LP in ICONIQ Capital and provides selective direct VC co invest capital. Marc Andreessen’s family office backed Narya Capital alongside the Thiel cohort and operates direct VC investment alongside Andreessen Horowitz partner capital. The Founders Fund partner cohort operates personal SFO direct investment alongside the Founders Fund vehicles, with the personal SFOs serving as the carry pool deployment channel into future founder bets.

Ken Griffin’s family office (anchored by Citadel founder personal wealth) and Steve Cohen’s Point72 Family Office (separate from the Point72 public investment fund) form the principal hedge fund founder family office bench. Both face less public disclosure than the BDT or ICONIQ platforms but operate large personal direct PE balance sheets that LP into selective sponsor funds and co invest on flagship deals. Stephen Ross (Related Companies founder), Charles Schwab, George Roberts and Henry Kravis (KKR co founders), and David Tepper (Appaloosa, Carolina Panthers stewardship) form the broader finance founder SFO bench with similar structural patterns.

Industrial heritage US family offices (Mars Inc. stewards, Cargill MacMillan family with USD 45 billion family wealth and 88 percent of Cargill held in 2024, Lauder family office stewards of Estée Lauder Companies, Stuart Family Trust with Schwabian heritage, Hunt family office of Ray Lee Hunt and Hunt Consolidated in Dallas, Bass family office of Sid Bass and Robert Bass heritage in Fort Worth, Bronfman family office with Seagram heritage, Newhouse family office stewards of Advance Publications) form the third cohort of US Tier 3 family offices. The Cargill case is particularly instructive: Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies holds USD 7 billion in PE, hedge funds, real estate, and public markets (PipelineRoad, Cargill MacMillan family), positioning the philanthropic vehicle as the primary direct PE deployment channel for the broader Cargill family wealth.

The Pritzker family stands as the deepest US family office direct PE bench, with multiple Pritzker family branches operating independent family offices beyond PPC and Pritzker Group proper. The structural read is that the Pritzker descendants’ independent family offices each operate at a scale that would qualify as a top 20 US single FO, but the family branches’ formal disclosure remains limited to PPC and Pritzker Group press releases. Future research should track Pritzker descendant SFO formation via Form ADV filings and Delaware corporate registry.

22e. Cross border family office capital flows and double counting

Cross border family office capital flows are the single largest sample fidelity risk in tracker work. Singapore single family office counts include mainland Chinese, Indonesian, and Middle East family wealth that may also be counted in Hong Kong, Dubai, or home jurisdiction counts. The 2,000 plus Singapore figure per MAS is therefore not a clean count of unique families. The most common double counting patterns are: (1) Chinese family wealth held in Hong Kong SFO structures plus mirrored Singapore SFO structures for redundancy; (2) Indonesian family wealth held in Singapore SFOs plus mirrored Hong Kong or Australia SFO structures; (3) Middle East family wealth held in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, plus mirrored Singapore VCC structures for Asia Pacific deployment; (4) US tech founder SFOs with Singapore branch offices (Bayshore Global Management is the canonical case) counted in both the US 50 and Singapore 7 slates.

The Bayshore case shows the cleanest structural pattern: Sergey Brin’s primary balance sheet sits in Palo Alto (USD 100 billion plus AUM) while the Singapore branch (opened 2020) supports Asia Pacific direct PE and ESG strategy under Rachel Teo (former GIC head of sustainability, who joined in 2024). The branch is not a separate AUM pool; it is a deployment arm for the parent balance sheet. Most other top 100 cross border family offices follow this pattern rather than operating two genuinely separate balance sheets, which is why naive aggregation of the country counts overstates the unique global family office AUM pool.

The implication for direct PE deal sourcing is that family office co invest checks may appear under any of multiple SFO names depending on which entity in the family’s structure signs the deal documentation. CT Acquisitions tracker work uses the primary deployment entity (Bayshore for Brin, BDT and MSD for the merged Trott Dell platform, JAB Holding for the Reimann family) as the canonical attribution for each deal, with mirror entity references noted in the source documentation but not double counted in the headline AUM total.

22f. The permanent capital thesis driving the 2024 to 2026 shift

The structural thesis underlying the 2024 to 2026 family office direct PE expansion is the permanent capital thesis. Three structural drivers converge in this period to favor permanent capital pools (family offices, sovereign wealth, insurance balance sheets) over traditional PE fund vehicles.

First, the 2024 and 2025 exit drought has stretched PE buyout hold periods from a two decade average of 5.7 years to 6.7 years per McKinsey 2025. The DPI (distributed to paid in) pressure on PE sponsors has forced longer holds, structured stapled secondaries, and continuation vehicle creation at scale. Family offices face no DPI pressure and can buy assets at distressed exit valuations from PE sponsors, which is why the cross trade flow (PE sponsor selling to family office) accelerated sharply through 2024 and 2025.

Second, the regulatory environment for permanent capital pools has improved materially. Singapore’s 13O, 13U, and 13D tax exemption schemes have driven the 2,000 plus SFO count by end of 2024. Hong Kong’s New CIES opened on March 1, 2024 with HKD 30 million minimum investment requirement. The German Stiftung structure (Schwarz, Würth) provides perpetual operating voting rights. The cumulative effect is that the regulatory cost of operating a permanent capital pool has fallen relative to the regulatory cost of operating a traditional PE fund vehicle, which faces SEC, AIFMD, MAS, and FCA fund manager regulation that has tightened materially across 2024 and 2025.

Third, the secular sectors that family offices favor (specialty insurance, consumer brand IP, veterinary and pet care, healthcare services, real estate and hospitality, industrial and consumer goods conglomerates) all benefit from multi cycle holds rather than fund vintage rotation. The structural advantage of permanent capital is largest where the asset can compound across multiple business cycles without forced sale pressure. The 2024 to 2026 shift toward family office direct PE is therefore not a cyclical phenomenon driven by the exit drought alone; it reflects the underlying compounding economics of the asset classes that family offices target.

The implication for traditional PE sponsors is structural rather than cyclical. Sponsors are responding with co invest fee waivers (effectively meeting family offices on price), structured stapled secondaries (creating exit liquidity without dependence on strategic buyers), and continuation vehicles that explicitly target family office anchor capital. The shift is the most significant LP side structural change in PE since the rise of secondary funds across the 2010 to 2015 window, and the trajectory through 2026 to 2030 suggests further compression of the traditional two and twenty fee model on co invest portions of deals.

22g. Benchmark comparison: family office direct PE versus traditional PE, sovereign wealth, and pension allocations

The 2024 to 2026 expansion of family office direct PE sits inside a broader institutional capital reallocation. Four institutional pool types deploy direct PE capital at scale: family offices (USD 3.1 trillion total AUM 2024, 21 percent PE allocation, 40 percent direct share per UBS); sovereign wealth funds (Mubadala, GIC, Khazna, ADQ, PIF, NBIM); insurance balance sheets (Apollo Athene, KKR Global Atlantic, Carlyle Fortitude, Brookfield American Equity Life); and public pension and endowment systems (CPPIB, CalPERS, OTPP, Yale, Harvard Management Company). The four pool types differ on three key axes: cost of capital, hold horizon, and regulatory disclosure load.

Family offices have the lowest disclosed cost of capital (no LP performance fee pressure, family principal does not require quarterly mark to market reporting) and the longest hold horizon (target seven to fifteen years). Their disclosure load is materially lighter than sovereign wealth or public pension systems. The trade off is concentration risk (single family principal) and key person risk (CIO succession). The BDT and MSD merger illustrates how the largest family offices solve the concentration and key person risks: by merging two single principal platforms into a multi family co invest vehicle that retains the cost of capital advantage but adds institutional bench depth.

Sovereign wealth funds have a higher disclosure load than family offices but a comparable hold horizon and cost of capital advantage. Mubadala Capital sits structurally between family office and sovereign wealth: the parent (Mubadala Investment Company) is a sovereign vehicle, but the MIC Capital Partners IV vehicle at USD 3.1 billion (October 2024) is structured as a third party LP fund that competes directly with traditional PE sponsor funds. The CI Financial take private (USD 12.1 billion, 2025) shows how sovereign and family office cost of capital advantage compounds at the largest deal sizes that traditional PE sponsors cannot underwrite without consortium structures.

Insurance balance sheet PE (Apollo Athene, KKR Global Atlantic, Carlyle Fortitude) operates at a different point on the trade off curve: the cost of capital is higher than family office or sovereign (insurance reserves carry NAIC capital charges) but the regulatory float and liability matching create a structural reason to hold private credit and direct equity for long durations. The convergence between family office direct PE and insurance balance sheet PE is the Carlyle four platform specialty insurance concentration (NSM, Hilb, Trucordia, Vantage), where family office capital co invests alongside Carlyle to anchor permanent capital specialty insurance platforms.

Public pension and endowment systems have the highest disclosure load and the longest formal liability horizons but face the most rigid governance constraints. They participate in family office club deals as LP rather than as direct lead investors. The four pool type convergence (family offices, sovereign wealth, insurance, pension) on the same set of secular sectors (specialty insurance, consumer brand IP, veterinary and pet care, healthcare services, real estate and hospitality, industrial and consumer goods conglomerates) is the structural feature that drives the 2024 to 2026 fee compression on co invest portions of deals.

22h. Forward look: 2026 to 2030 family office direct PE trajectory

The trajectory through 2026 to 2030 hinges on three primary variables. First, the Asia Pacific family office wealth transfer (USD 5.8 trillion expected by 2030 per McKinsey) will further deepen the Singapore and Hong Kong SFO pools and likely drive a second wave of formation in Taipei, Tokyo, and Seoul as the next generation of Asian tech and consumer founders professionalize their family wealth. The Hong Kong CIES applications (240 in the first ten months from March 1, 2024) suggest a steady run rate of approximately 250 to 350 incremental Hong Kong SFOs per year through 2027.

Second, the US family office direct PE pool is likely to consolidate further at the top, following the BDT and MSD template. The structural advantages of merger (cost of capital efficiency, bench depth, deal flow funnel, co invest LP base) outweigh the structural disadvantages (governance complexity, principal alignment) for SFOs above the USD 50 billion AUM threshold. Future consolidations may pair Cascade Investment with a Pritzker family branch, or ICONIQ Capital with Dragoneer Investment Group, or pair the Carlyle four platform specialty insurance concentration with a family office anchor partner.

Third, the German Stiftung structures are likely to remain the most stable single jurisdiction permanent capital pools through 2030, with the Reimann (JAB), Quandt (SKion and AQTON), Schwarz (Lidl and Kaufland), Würth (Würth Group), and Otto (Cura Vermögensverwaltung) families anchoring European industrial direct PE at a scale that traditional European PE sponsors cannot match. The UK SFO pool will likely follow the same trajectory at smaller scale, with Wittington Investments, Pears Group, Reuben Brothers, and Sainsbury family office Innotech Advisers anchoring UK retail and real estate direct PE.

The fee model compression on co invest portions of deals is structural rather than cyclical and is likely to deepen through 2030. Traditional PE sponsors will continue to respond with co invest fee waivers, structured stapled secondaries, and continuation vehicles that explicitly target family office anchor capital. The trajectory points to a steady state in which the largest PE sponsors operate as deal sourcing and operating execution platforms rather than as primary capital pools, with family offices, sovereign wealth, insurance balance sheets, and public pension systems providing the bulk of the direct equity capital alongside selective primary fund commitments. CT Acquisitions will continue to update this tracker annually as part of the Wave 8 thematic report series.

22. Related CT Acquisitions research

This Wave 8 tracker sits alongside the CT Acquisitions independent sponsor, continuation vehicle, and search fund tracker corpus published across 2025 and 2026. For deeper structural reading, see the following:

• Family Offices Acquiring Businesses 2026 buyer guide
• Independent Sponsor Economics Explained
• CT Acquisitions Platform Map
• Wave 5: continuation vehicle and GP led secondary tracker
• Wave 6: independent sponsor tracker
• Wave 7: search fund tracker

23. Sources

Primary regulatory and survey corpora:

• UBS Global Family Office Report 2025
• Citi Private Bank 2025 Global Family Office Report
• Citi Private Bank Global Family Office 2024 Survey Insights PDF
• Campden Wealth and RBC North America Family Office Report 2025
• Deloitte Private Family Office Insights Series 2024
• PwC Family Office Deals Study
• McKinsey Asia Pacific Family Office Boom
• Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, PE 2024 Review and 2025 Outlook
• Hong Kong Government press release, September 15, 2025
• FamilyOfficeHK New CIES portal
• Citi Wealth 2025 Global Family Office Report press release
• Citywire Asia, Singapore SFO 2,000 milestone
• Asia Asset Management, Singapore SFO doubling 2024
• finews.asia, UBS Asia Wealth Forum coverage
• finews.asia, Lombard Odier 2025 SFO study
• Private Equity Wire, family offices direct deals under PE fee pressure
• Investor Ready Capital, family offices vs PE funds
• Intuit Consultancy, Singapore SFO 43 percent growth coverage
• Investment International, Hong Kong CIES

Primary press releases and platform documentation:

• BDT and MSD Partners AUM profile
• The Analysis Series, BDT and MSD restructuring
• Auberge Resorts Collection, BDT and MSD partnership
• Simple, MSD Capital family office profile
• Business Wire, PPC IV USD 3.4 billion close August 19, 2025
• Crain’s Chicago Business, PPC IV close
• LA500 2025, Anthony Pritzker profile
• Daniel Scrivner, Cascade Investment Q2 2025 trades
• Altss Blog, Cascade Investment
• CNBC, Walton fortune family offices
• Institutional Investor, Walton family consolidates investment offices
• Walton Global investments overview
• Family Office Hub, ICONIQ Capital
• Wikipedia, Iconiq Capital
• Wikipedia, Bayshore Global Management
• Caproasia, Sergey Brin SFO profile
• Tracxn, KED acquisitions
• PRNewswire, Koch Equity Development press wire
• Cox Enterprises, Unite Private Networks press release
• King and Spalding, OpenGov advisory
• Freenance, Dragoneer Investment Group
• Wikipedia, Dragoneer Investment Group
• CNBC, Eric Schmidt 22 AI startups
• Family Office Hub, Hillspire profile
• Wikipedia, Thiel Capital
• CNBC, family office deals August 2025
• Wikipedia, Soros Fund Management
• Soros Fund Management, what we do
• Berggruen Holdings
• Tracxn, Nicolas Berggruen portfolio
• Wikipedia, Harbour Group Industries
• Harbour Group
• Sky Sports, Williams F1 Dorilton
• Front Office Sports, Williams valuation
• PE Forum, CFT Capital Fund II
• Wikipedia, Cherng Family Trust
• ESPN, Twins finalize sales
• Sportico, Twins sale
• Altss, Glick Family Investments
• Zone Coverage, Twins new LPs
• Wikipedia, Wittington Investments
• Proactive Investors, Weston AB Foods stake
• Caproasia, Reuben Brothers W South Beach
• Wikipedia, David and Simon Reuben
• Stonehage Fleming media
• AltAssets, Stonehage Fleming 2025 fund
• City AM, Sainsbury family office
• Preqin, Pears Partnership Capital
• Pears Global
• Citywire, Pictet hires Lombard Odier trio
• Lombard Odier insights July 2025
• Marcuard Family Office
• Altss, Marcuard Family Office
• PRNewswire, MIC Capital Partners IV
• Semafor, Mubadala co investment fund
• Torys, CI Financial take private advisory
• Business Wire, JAB Prosperity Life
• Semafor, JAB Prosperity Life
• Family Office Hub, JAB Compassion First
• Bloomberg Billionaires, Susanne Klatten
• Family Office Hub, AQTON SE
• CoinCodex, BMW ownership
• Wikipedia, Schwarz Group
• Wikipedia, Dieter Schwarz Foundation
• Family Office Hub, Otto Ruby Hotels
• Altss, Otto family office
• Wikipedia, Reinhold Würth
• Würth Group, Reinhold Würth
• Preqin, Henkel Family Office
• SWF Institute, Henkel Family Office
• Wikipedia, Werhahn Group
• Wikipedia, Mori Building Company
• Wikipedia, Mori Trust
• Family Office Hub, Tadashi Yanai SFO
• Wikipedia, Hiroshi Mikitani
• Asia Asset Management, Brin family office Singapore
• EIA Family Office, Dalio family office Singapore
• ImpactAlpha, Tsao Family Office
• Tsao Family Office
• PRNewswire, Citi APAC FO bullish on PE
• PipelineRoad, Cargill MacMillan family
• Bennett Jones, family offices driving change in PE

24. Frequently asked questions

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Related research: for 200+ named US + EU + Asia SFOs with 60+ named direct PE deals 2024-2026 (Mars-Kellanova $35.9B Aug 2024, Ellison-Paramount $8B close Aug 7 2025, Hinduja-Reliance Capital INR 9,650cr March 18 2025, Pinault-CAA $7B 2023-24, PPC IV $3.4B Aug 2025 final close, Reuben-W South Beach $425M Oct 2024, Crown-Rockefeller Center $3.5B Nov 2024) plus the JAB BBB downgrade + INEOS + Artémis stress counter-narrative, see the 2024-2026 Top 200 Single Family Office Direct PE Investment Tracker.

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25. About the author

This tracker was produced by the CT Acquisitions Research Desk, the primary research arm of CT Acquisitions. The desk specializes in private market tracker research across family offices, independent sponsors, search funds, continuation vehicles, and specialty insurance PE. Methodology questions and corrections can be submitted via the CT Acquisitions contact form.

Last updated: June 21, 2026.