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Wealth Office is building the independent media brand for the families and principals who hold private capital, and for the advisers, institutions and creators who serve them. Long-form conversations filmed in London's great rooms, published in six languages across Western and Chinese platforms, and organised into the ideas that shape how wealth is held, passed on and put to work.
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Based in London, Michael is a close adviser to some of the world's most ambitious private capital holders, with particular depth across Asia's major business families and family offices. His work sits at the intersection of media, reputation and the relationships shaping this era of private wealth. He is Principal Partner of Michael Macfarlane Associates, which produces Wealth Office.
About the seriesBased in Mumbai. Former South Asia Bureau Chief for the Daily Telegraph and host of The Diplomat's Beyond the Indus podcast, with over a decade advising UHNWIs and family offices across India and South Asia.
Based in Hong Kong. Moves between Western and Greater China circles in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, with long-standing relationships across Asia's family office and private client world.
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Allen Law sees longevity as one of the defining opportunities of the next decade. Michael Macfarlane opens with a UBS report that names power, artificial intelligence and longevity as the three areas set to drive equity markets, and Law cites its estimate of a US$8 trillion longevity industry by 2030. In his view the opportunity rests on a gap of about nine years, globally, between lifespan and healthspan, and around ten in Singapore. Health systems built on treating sickness, he argues, cannot keep paying for longer years in poor health, and Covid changed how people think about prevention.
Law's answer is Morrow, a chain of lifestyle medical centres backed by a US$156 million commitment. It rests on six pillars of lifestyle medicine: physical activity, nutrition, sleep, stress management, avoiding harmful substances and positive social connection. Most countries are moving slowly because more preventive care seems to mean less sick care, so Law wants the private sector to build a proof of concept that others can follow and that nudges governments to invest. He has also launched a US$70 million venture fund to back early-stage companies that can extend healthspan, especially in Asia, where he sees a funding gap.
The conversation turns to family enterprise. Law's Hong Kong family follows a rule of one family member in one business unit, which has pushed each generation to build something new, from garment manufacturing to real estate, hotels, fitness and now longevity. He describes keeping part of the family's wealth in traditional asset allocation while reserving a separate pool for higher-risk entrepreneurial bets. He closes with advice to founders and a balanced view of family backing compared with institutional capital.
Law frames the longevity industry around the gap between how long people live and how long they stay healthy, which he puts at about nine years globally. He cites surveys in which more than half of respondents said they did not want to live longer, yet almost all would if those extra years were healthy. For him, the question is how healthily people live, more than how long.
Law describes health systems that tell people to stay away unless they are ill, then treat symptoms. With lifespans rising, healthspans static and medical costs climbing each year, he says research suggests many countries would go bankrupt on the current model, and raising taxes indefinitely is not possible. Social pressure after Covid and economic pressure on governments are, in his account, pushing systems towards prevention.
Morrow is built on six pillars: physical activity, nutrition and diet, sleep, stress management, avoiding harmful substances, and positive social connection. Law stresses that they are linked, noting that stress undermines sleep. Macfarlane observes that many people invest in fitness through a gym or yoga membership while neglecting the other areas. Law sees the value of social connection as one lesson the pandemic made clearer.
Most governments, Law says, are constrained by existing models and fear that more preventive care means less sick care. Singapore has made small investments that raise awareness, but mass adoption has not followed. He believes the private sector can move faster, so Morrow is intended as a working model for others to follow and a nudge for governments to invest more in prevention.
Law's family rule requires each member to lead a business unit. As the family grew from his grandfather to six members in his father's generation and many more in his own, the rule demanded new ventures. Garment manufacturing led to real estate, then hotels, then fitness and longevity. Law credits that philosophy with keeping the family entrepreneurial while preserving wealth.
Law describes keeping part of the family's wealth in a traditional set-up built on asset allocation and diversification, and setting aside a separate pool for entrepreneurial investments that are unproven or early-stage. He frames the balance as calculated risk. Some bets may promise financial upside, he says, while others are made partly because they could help many people. Macfarlane sees the same pattern among his Asian clients.
Law sees pros and cons on both sides. Family support opens doors through networks and connections, but it can become a hindrance if family members disagree on risk and reward. Founders backed by venture or institutional money avoid family baggage, yet face constant pressure to grow fast and exit within set timeframes to protect returns. The best outcome, he suggests, comes from balancing the two.
So it's literally, it's not about how long you live, it's about how healthy you can live your life and fulfil that purpose in life.
— Allen Law, Wealth Office
None of us want to spend our last 10 years in sickbed.
— Allen Law, Wealth Office
So it's scary, right? You can spend a lot but you don't get outcome for the individual's health.
— Allen Law, Wealth Office
But how do we grow wealth at the same time creating impact in the society? I think if you can find this three way approach to your investment, that's the best.
— Allen Law, Wealth Office
Quotes are taken word for word from the episode transcript.
Morrow is a chain of lifestyle medical centres that Allen Law launched with a commitment of about US$156 million in August 2025. It is built on six pillars of lifestyle medicine, covering physical activity, nutrition, sleep, stress management, avoiding harmful substances and social connection. Law describes it as a private-sector proof of concept for preventive healthcare.
Law points to a UBS estimate that the longevity industry could be worth about US$8 trillion by 2030. He argues that health systems must shift from sick care towards diagnostic and preventive models, that ageing populations need new forms of assisted living, and that closing the roughly nine-year gap between lifespan and healthspan is driving rapid growth.
Law's family follows a philosophy of one family member in one business unit. Because the family has grown with each generation, the rule has pushed members to start new businesses. His grandfather began in garment manufacturing, his father's generation moved into real estate, and Law built a hotel group before moving into fitness and longevity.
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About
Wealth Office is an independent media platform built for the private client world, launched in September 2025 and produced in London.
What Wealth Office is
Wealth Office explores the structural forces reshaping the private client world: the rise of private capital, the globalisation of family wealth, the shift of ambition and innovation toward Asia, the psychology of intergenerational stewardship, and the responsibility that comes with significant capital.
The series speaks with the principals themselves: founders, inheritors and long-term holders of capital, together with the authors and academics who study them. It does not cover market commentary or portfolio management. It asks how private wealth is used, governed and passed on, and what it is building.
Wealth Office is hosted by Michael Macfarlane and produced by a dedicated team in London and Hong Kong. Full biographies follow below.
Ultra-high-net-worth individuals, business-owning families, family offices, next-generation wealth holders, founders, and the lawyers, trustees and advisers who serve them.
Michael Macfarlane, Principal Partner of Michael Macfarlane Associates, is the principal host. Joe Wallen in Mumbai and Stephanie Chen in Hong Kong join as hosts.
The Wealth Office series is never sponsored. Wealth Office X episodes may involve a paid collaboration partner and are always editorially led.
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A London-based team with deep relationships across Asia's family offices, and fluency in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
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