The rise of the Far East Organisation, and the patriarch that helmed it The Chinese have a saying -  富不过三代 – that “wealth does not pass through three generations” due to one generation earning it, one generation stewarding it, and one generation spending it. However, there is one family that is proving an exception to the rule. The Ng family , founders of the Far East Organisation, have built and retained control of one of largest private real estate empires across Singapore

The age of digital assets has well and truly arrived Cast your mind back to 2020-21. COVID lockdowns had shut down much of the world, and people started turning their attention to a new asset class that had entered the mainstream: Crypto - specifically, Bitcoin and NFTs. This wave of new digital assets captured global attention, fuelled by rapid price increases and the promise of a new financial frontier. Bitcoin pushed through $20k USD for the first time, and NFTs were being

You diversify your investments. Why not diversify your countries? Wealthy families don’t keep all their assets in one stock, one industry, or one country. The purpose of diversification is to make sure that when one stock goes down, others may stay stable or go up, so the impact is lessened on their entire portfolio. The same principle applies to where they live; strategically deciding where they’re a citizen, where they live, and where their business operates – and those loc

A guide to tax and residency. When tax time rolls around, many of us try to work out how we can pay less tax – through deductions, business expenses or other allowable offsets. We spend time working out how we can minimise our taxable income, and hope that the tax office will let it through. In short, we try to optimise within the system we’re in. But what if you could optimise which  system you’re in? The biggest lever that many high net wealth individuals use is picking and