Institutional Investor European Single Family Office Symposium

Institutional Investor's European Single Family Office Symposium is the organisation's long-running gathering for European single family offices, held each June at the Beau-Rivage Palace in Lausanne. The 14th edition runs from 23 to 25 June 2027. It is the European counterpart to the West Coast and East Coast Family Office Wealth Conferences, and to the closed Asia Single Family Office Roundtable in Singapore.

Who attends

The organiser frames the audience as the European single family office community: the people who run those offices, not a mixed room of wealth managers and product specialists. An advisory board of family office investors helps set the agenda, which is the same signal Institutional Investor uses on its US conferences. A programme written with working family office investors answers different questions from one set by a sponsorship team.

The three-day length and the lakeside hotel are deliberate. This is closer in shape to the Laguna Beach conference than to the one-day Singapore roundtable.

How access works

Registration goes through a form on the organiser's site, which asks for name, company and job title. Institutional Investor publishes no price and no public asset minimum. Attendance terms come at the registration stage. Anyone attending on the commercial side should assume separate partner arrangements rather than an open ticket.

The registration page was marked not to be indexed by search engines when this entry was last checked. The event itself is real and recurring; the thin public page is typical of Institutional Investor's invitation-led conferences.

What attendees get

Three days of sessions and networking built around the concerns the advisory board raises for that year, rather than a fixed franchise agenda. Institutional Investor describes the meeting as a forum for collaboration and intellectual exchange among European single family office investors, held on the shores of Lake Geneva.

For a European single family office with investment staff, this is the Institutional Investor event that matches the US conferences in length and seniority, without requiring a transatlantic trip. Lausanne also sits within reach of the Swiss family office and private banking centres, which is why the symposium has stayed there.