Family Office Circle (Caproasia)

The Family Office Circle is run by Caproasia, the Singapore-based publication covering wealth management and family offices across Asia. It is the standing community that sits underneath Caproasia's better-known Family Office Summit series, and its distinguishing feature is frequency rather than scale.

Who joins

Caproasia states the qualification plainly on its registration page: the Circle is for single family offices only. That is narrower than the summits, which also admit pure multi-family offices, and narrower than most Asian family office communities, which take in the surrounding professional ecosystem.

Caproasia also runs a separate Professional Investor Circle, which keeps the two audiences apart rather than mixing them into one room. Partners and sponsors register through their own route, so the commercial side exists but is handled separately from membership.

How access works

Registration goes through Caproasia's member platform, where applicants select which gatherings they want and are checked against the single family office qualification.

No membership fee is published for the Circle. Caproasia does publish the price of its own publication subscription, at around US$20 a month or US$180 a year against a full price of US$680, but that buys the research and news service rather than membership of the Circle. Do not confuse the two. Ask Caproasia directly for the Circle's terms.

What members get

The calendar is the offer. Monthly networking sessions and roundtables run across Hong Kong, Singapore and a virtual track, held at a fixed time in the Asian afternoon so that members in both hubs can attend the same session. On top of that sit the annual Family Office Summits, held several times a year across the two cities.

Monthly contact is what separates this from almost everything else in the region. Most Asian family office organisations offer one or two events a year and expect relationships to survive nine months of silence. A monthly roundtable produces something closer to a working peer group, and the virtual option means a member who cannot travel still keeps the thread.

The dual-hub structure suits the reality of Asian family wealth, where a family may be resident in one city, hold assets through another and have the operating business somewhere else entirely. Being able to join in Hong Kong one month and Singapore the next, without holding two memberships, is a practical advantage.

For a single family office in either city wanting regular peer contact rather than an annual conference, this is among the more sensible commitments in the region.