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
Gary Hersham is a British estate agent and the founder of Beauchamp Estates, a London agency specialising in prime and ultra-prime residential property. He has worked in the London property market for more than four decades and is closely associated with some of the most expensive private home sales recorded in the United Kingdom, including the sale of a mansion on Rutland Gate in Knightsbridge for around £210 million.
Hersham founded Beauchamp Estates in 1979. The firm's head office is on Curzon Street in Mayfair, and it has since opened further London offices, including in St John's Wood and Marylebone. Over time the agency has extended its reach beyond London, with offices or associate offices in Cannes, St Tropez, Mykonos, Tel Aviv, New York and Los Angeles. Its client base is international, and the firm works with buyers and sellers from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America.
Trade press accounts of his early career describe an agent who built the business from the ground up. In an interview with The Negotiator, he recalled letting a Belgravia house to a senior member of a Middle Eastern royal family in the firm's early years and carrying the deposit and first month's rent back to the office by bus, as he did not yet own a car.
Hersham's name is most often linked to the sale of 2-8a Rutland Gate, a 45-room mansion in Knightsbridge. The sale, completed in 2020, was widely reported as the most expensive home ever sold in Britain at the time, exceeding the previous UK record of £140 million. According to the firm's own published account, Beauchamp sold the house on behalf of a member of the Saudi royal family to a Hong Kong buyer. In the same period the agency also sold a London flat for £50 million to a buyer from Hong Kong.
Other instructions handled by the firm include 93 Eaton Square in Belgravia, a former London home of the prime ministers Stanley Baldwin and Margaret Thatcher, which Beauchamp sold for £21 million on behalf of the estate of Mrs Henry Ford II. The agency has also marketed the Beverly House in Los Angeles, once owned by William Randolph Hearst, and has acted on properties formerly owned by public figures including Robbie Williams, Harold Pinter and Sting.
In 2022 Hersham published Anthology, a 121-page hardback book recording the histories of some of Beauchamp's best-known ultra-prime instructions, including homes valued between £20 million and more than £200 million. He has also written commentary for the property trade publication PrimeResi, including a 2019 article titled "The Art of the Mega-Deal" and a 2022 piece on the effect of sanctions on Russian investment in London property.
In 2024 Hersham received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the property data consultancy LonRes, which described him as a giant of the sector. He is listed in the Spear's 500 index of property brokers, where he is ranked in the Top Flight category for 2026, and the publication notes that he is one of relatively few brokers with eight-figure deals attributed to them.
Gary Hersham appeared on Wealth Office X in the episode "The Agents Selling $300m Homes In London", published in August 2026, alongside the adviser Irina Gamagina and the host Michael Macfarlane. Asked where he would spend $100 million on a home, he chose London and prime Belgravia in particular, linking London's renewed appeal as a safe haven to conflict in the Middle East and a sense of insecurity in the Gulf. He questioned how much business really happens through private pocket listings, explained how stamp duty, ownership structures and price discipline buyers who first fall for a property emotionally, and observed that buyers at the very top of the market now tend to avoid competing with one another. The conversation also traced how London's buyer base has shifted over the decades and considered emerging prime markets such as Madrid and Milan.
Gary Hersham and Irina Gamagina explain how ultra-prime property really trades, why London still draws capital and what wealthy families want from a home.
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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