AYU Family Office Summits

The AYU Family Office Summits are one-day events run by AYU, a private members club connecting alternative fund managers, family offices and institutional investment professionals through a digital platform and events around the world. The London summit, held each October from morning to late evening, is the longest running and gathers more than 100 family offices representing billions in investable capital. AYU now runs the same format in Miami, timed to hedge fund week in late February, and added a Swiss edition in Gstaad in March 2026, paired with a members' ski weekend. The format and the access rules are the same in each city.

Who attends

Two groups, and AYU controls the ratio between them tightly. On one side are family offices, which must be vetted for AYU membership and accepted into what the club calls its Approved Family Office programme. On the other are fund managers and founders presenting opportunities, and those are capped at fifteen organisations for the whole day.

One hundred family offices against fifteen presenting firms is among the most favourable ratios of any event in this directory. Most conferences that promise a family-heavy room do so with a ratio nearer one to one.

The vetting cuts both ways. Approved family offices are asked to share their investment interests and to commit to taking meetings, so this is not an event you attend passively. If you do not intend to meet managers, the programme has little for you.

How access works

Family offices apply for AYU membership and then for the Approved Family Office programme. Managers and founders attend by invitation, competing for the fifteen slots. Anyone outside both routes can register interest through the summit page.

AYU publishes no fee for the summit or for membership. Given the club's model, the commercial burden almost certainly sits with the managers rather than the families, but the club does not say so publicly, so confirm terms directly.

What attendees get

The day mixes networking sessions, scheduled one-to-one meetings, open pitches and forum debates. That combination is unusually structured. Open pitches mean the fifteen presenting firms do so in front of the room rather than in private, which lets a family office judge a manager alongside its peers and see what questions others ask.

For a family office actively allocating to alternatives, the design is close to ideal: a screened room, a capped number of managers, and a format that produces both public assessment and private meetings in a single day. For an office not currently looking to deploy capital into funds, the commitment to take meetings makes it a poor fit, and a governance-focused forum would be the better choice.

The three cities give the format a calendar: Miami in February for families that are in town for hedge fund week, Gstaad in March for a small Alpine edition with five sponsors and the usual fifteen managers, and London in October as the main event. Sponsors RFA and Jersey Finance backed the 2026 London summit, and RFA and Canoe Intelligence the Swiss one; sponsorship is the only route in for service providers.