Caproasia Family Office Summit

The Family Office Summit is run by Caproasia, a Singapore-based publication covering wealth management and family offices across Asia. Unlike most events in this directory it is not a single annual fixture. Caproasia holds several editions a year, splitting them between Hong Kong and Singapore, with venues such as the Amara Sanctuary Resort on Sentosa. Across the series the organiser advertises more than 200 family offices, family office professionals and investment managers.

Who attends

Caproasia states the qualification in one line: the summit is for qualified single family offices and pure multi-family offices. The word pure is doing work there. It excludes multi-family offices that are really advisory or asset management businesses selling to many clients, which is the usual way a family office event fills its room.

The organiser has claimed that around 80% of attendees are pure single family offices. That is the organiser's own figure and cannot be checked from outside, but the qualification wording on the registration pages is consistent with it. Private banks, institutes and family office experts also speak at and attend the summits, so the room is not families alone.

How access works

Registration goes through a form on Caproasia's site, where you pick which editions you want. Applicants are screened against the qualification. No summit fee is published for any attendee category, so terms come from the organiser after you apply.

Caproasia does publish the price of its own subscription, which runs at about $20 a month or $180 a year against a full price of $680. That is a subscription to the publication and its research rather than a ticket to the summit, and the two should not be confused.

Alongside the summits Caproasia runs smaller networking sessions and roundtables in both cities through the year, which are a lower-commitment way to test whether the community suits you.

What attendees get

The framing question Caproasia puts on its own pages is a good summary of the content: how do you manage $30 million, $300 million or $3 billion? Sessions run across the practical work of setting up and operating an office at very different sizes, with speakers drawn from family offices, private banks and specialist institutes.

The real argument for the series is frequency. Most of the region's family office events happen once a year, which makes them hard to build a relationship around. Several summits a year in two cities, plus roundtables between them, gives an office in Hong Kong or Singapore something closer to a standing network than a conference.