World Family Office Forum Asia

The World Family Office Forum Asia is a private two-day meeting for business families and single family offices across the region, run by Connect Group Global and held at the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong. It is now in its seventh year. The organiser describes it as a private forum for Asia's leading business families and capital stewards, and the agenda runs across wealth management, business succession and investment.

Who attends

The room is made up of family office principals, single family offices and the advisers those families trust. The organiser does not publish attendance numbers, which is consistent with how it runs the event: this is a closed meeting that does not market itself on scale.

Advisers are present by design rather than by accident, so this is not a principals-only peer group. The distinction the organiser draws is between people the families bring or already work with, and the open commercial participation you find at larger conferences.

How access works

Attendance is by invitation. If you have received a personal invitation, the organiser asks you to respond to whoever approached you rather than registering online. If you have not, you can write to Connect Group and ask, but the organiser states plainly that every attendance request is assessed and depends on board approval.

That is a stricter gate than most events in this directory apply. There is no published route in for someone with no existing connection, and no ticket to buy. No prices are published for any attendee category, so anyone invited should expect terms to come from the organiser directly.

What attendees get

Two days built around knowledge sharing, thought leadership and senior-level networking, with a published agenda for each edition. The format mixes sessions with substantial time for conversation, which is the usual trade a small closed forum makes: fewer speakers than an open conference, more access to the ones who are there.

The specific value of the Asian edition is cross-border. Hong Kong sits between mainland Chinese family wealth, Southeast Asian business families and the international offices that serve both, and a private forum in that location gathers a mix that would be hard to assemble anywhere else. Connect Group runs a matching European forum in Montreux, and families active on both continents sometimes attend the pair.