Independent media for the global private client world
Wealth Office is a long-form interview series with the founders, families and private capital holders reshaping the world. Filmed in London's great rooms. Published across Western and Chinese platforms.
The guest's chairEvery Wealth Office conversation is filmed on location in London. The chair is the only seat a guest is offered.
The Wealth Office audience this week
Subscribers and followers across all platforms
Checked 12 Oct 2026. Updated every Monday.
What we are building
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.
Wealth Office Insights
Essays drawn from what Wealth Office guests have said on the record. New essays follow every new episode.
News
Briefs on billionaires, family offices and private capital from Bloomberg, Forbes, the South China Morning Post and more. All news
Series architecture
Both series are filmed to the same production standard, in the same rooms, by the same team.
Editorial · Never sponsoredOne-on-one conversations exclusively with private capital-holding principals, authors and academics. The focus is their perspective, and how private capital is building the new world across business, technology, philanthropy and culture.
Exchange · Sometimes sponsoredTwo globally recognised leaders explore one subject where power, risk and long-term consequence intersect. Issue-led dialogue that stress-tests an idea or proposition.
Wealth Office X is where paid collaboration lives. It is always editorially led, never an advertisement in interview form.
The recurring questions
Ranked by how often each theme recurs across the episode library. Each theme has its own page that grows with every new episode.
In the chair
Every guest has a profile page drawing together their episodes, clips and the ideas they put on the record.
Behind the camera
The hosts, producers and strategists who make Wealth Office, in London, Hong Kong and Mumbai. Full biographies
From the comments
Real comments left under Wealth Office episodes on YouTube, quoted exactly as written. Collected weekly; a comment appears only after the team approves it.
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Hosts
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.
Published in long, mid and short form
One filmed session becomes a long-form episode, mid-length clips and short-form cuts in English and Mandarin.
Collaboration partners
Wealth Office X places a firm's expertise inside a trusted, independent private client channel, with long-form authority, multi-platform distribution and content built for how AI now recommends people and firms.
Wealth Office Insights
Essays on private capital, family wealth and the forces reshaping the private client world, drawn from what Wealth Office guests have said on the record.
Episodes
Long-form episodes from both series, with an overview, key ideas and verified quotes for each.
Biography
Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe is a British former police officer who served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of London's Metropolitan Police, from 2011 to 2017. He has sat in the House of Lords as a crossbench life peer since 2017, and in 2026 he was appointed to lead an independent review of the structure of police forces in England and Wales.
Bernard Hogan-Howe was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in 1957 and attended Hinde House Comprehensive School in the city. Before joining the police he worked for four years as a laboratory assistant in the NHS. He later studied law at Merton College, Oxford, beginning his degree at the age of 28 while serving with South Yorkshire Police, and went on to gain a postgraduate diploma in applied criminology from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and an MBA from the University of Sheffield.
He joined South Yorkshire Police in 1979 and rose to become district commander for Doncaster West. In 1997 he moved to Merseyside Police as an assistant chief constable, and in 2001 he joined the Metropolitan Police as Assistant Commissioner responsible for personnel. He returned to Merseyside as Chief Constable from 2004 to 2009, where he promoted what he called a "total war on crime", and then served as one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Constabulary from 2009 to 2011.
In September 2011 he became Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, leading the country's largest force until February 2017. As Commissioner he introduced a strategy known as Total Policing, which combined a focus on reducing crime and caring for victims with investment in technology, including body-worn video and mobile devices for officers. He also commissioned an independent review, led by Lord Adebowale, into how the force dealt with people experiencing mental illness.
He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 2003 and was knighted in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to policing. He holds honorary doctorates from Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Sheffield and Royal Holloway, University of London.
He was created a life peer as Baron Hogan-Howe, of Sheffield, in November 2017 and sits as a crossbencher. In the Lords he has served on committees including the Public Services Committee and the Services Committee, and in 2026 he became a member of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee and a Deputy Chairman of Committees. He has served as a non-executive board member at the Cabinet Office, is a trustee of the Arise Foundation and is a patron of the St Giles Trust. In March 2026 the Home Office appointed him to lead the Independent Review of Police Force Structures, which is examining the case for fewer, larger police forces in England and Wales.
Lord Hogan-Howe appeared on Wealth Office X in the episode "Cybersecurity in the Age of AI, Extortion & Exposure", published in February 2026, alongside David Ferbrache OBE of Beyond Blue and the host Michael Macfarlane. Drawing on his experience of attacks on organisations, he argued that family offices now hold wealth comparable to institutions with far less infrastructure to protect it, and that the trust that makes a small office work can also amplify insider risk. He discussed how dispersal across jurisdictions can both protect and expose a family, how oversharing online gives criminals useful intelligence, and why early warning signals are easily missed. His central advice was to assume an attack will succeed, build trusted relationships before a crisis, know whom to call in each jurisdiction and plan for resilience through capable deputies.
Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe and David Ferbrache OBE explain why extortion, impersonation and oversharing now place family offices on the front line of cyber risk.
News
Weekly briefs on billionaires, family offices and private capital, drawn from Bloomberg, Forbes, the South China Morning Post and other leading titles, with context for families and their advisers.
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.
On YouTube at @wealthofficeofficial, with clips on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Substack, RedNote and Bilibili (as 财富办公室), and audio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.
Hosts and team
A London-based team with deep relationships across Asia's family offices, and fluency in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Wealth Office XWhere paid collaboration lives. Always editorially led.
Collaboration partners
Firms that serve the private client world collaborate with Wealth Office to own a theme: credible, independent, long-form video in front of the audience that matters, in the format AI-driven search now rewards.
The full collaboration brief, packages and audience data. Approved partners receive a one-time sign-in code by email.
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