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Family offices have emerged as a rapidly growing segment of investors in Southeast Asia. Sovereign wealth funds such as Temasek and Khazanah have also been pivotal in expanding the region’s private markets, according to Preqin's latest report.

New research from JLL confirms a 19% year-on-year increase in hotel transactions, with family offices leading the investment charge in the Asia-Pacific hospitality sector that is making a comeback.

Adrija Agarwal, founder of Sattva Ventures, is making concerted efforts to ensure the single family office actively engages in both public and private markets.

All three destinations are pulling out all the stops in terms of making the business environment easier, offering tax incentives and showcasing quality of life to family offices.

Asia’s challenging environment for private equity exits is set to fuel demand for the private equity secondaries markets.

Samuel Wu of Tridel Capital tells AsianInvestor that the family office is keeping an eye out for interesting sectoral bets, even as the overall investment strategy remains defensive.

Asia Pacific family offices are now a significant player in Australia’s private capital market, which has experienced a meteoric rise in recent years.

With the Middle-East nation located between Europe and Asia, it helps both regions by being a connectivity corridor, a family office industry executive tells AsianInvestor.

As the region's family offices and private wealth investors increasingly channel funds into alternative assets, the markets are adapting to accommodate their preferences which in turn fuels further investment activity.

Traditional asset allocation patterns, heavily tilted towards assets such as property, could change as wealth transfers to the next generation of wealthy Thai families, says a top investment executive at a single family office.

Some regional single-family offices are switching to a multi-family office model, as they look to consolidate and operate cost efficiently, but regulatory challenges remain.

An array of investors from the Middle East are looking at expanding investments in Asia, inspired by the activities of Middle-East sovereign wealth funds and state-owned investors.