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
Keyu Jin is a Chinese economist, professor and author whose work focuses on the Chinese economy, international macroeconomics and international finance. She is a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, taught at the London School of Economics for fifteen years, and is the author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism.
Keyu Jin was born in Beijing in 1982. She attended the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China before completing her secondary education at the Horace Mann School in New York. She studied economics at Harvard University, receiving her bachelor's degree in 2004 and her PhD in 2009 with a dissertation on international trade and macroeconomic dynamics supervised by Kenneth Rogoff.
She joined the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics in 2009, becoming an associate professor in 2017 and remaining on the faculty until 2024. She held visiting positions at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2025 joined the Department of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a professor. Her research has addressed global imbalances and asset prices, the drivers of China's growth model, the economic effects of the one-child policy and the high rate of saving in China. She has served on the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies.
The New China Playbook, published in 2023, sets out to explain China's economic development to a Western readership. It argues that China has followed its own path rather than the Western model, and examines the role of the state, local government competition and Chinese consumers and entrepreneurs. Jin has written columns for Project Syndicate and Caixin and opinion pieces for the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and the South China Morning Post. She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014.
Before and alongside her academic career, Jin worked in financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, and has advised or consulted for the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She served on a fintech working committee of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, is a member of the China Finance 40 Forum and has been a member of the Economic Council of the State of Qatar since 2023.
She has been a non-executive director of the luxury group Richemont since 2017, serving on its compensation and nominations committees, and joined the board of Jardine Matheson as an independent non-executive director in January 2024. She is also a non-executive director of the artificial intelligence company AInnovation, and served on the board of Credit Suisse Group from 2022 to 2023.
Keyu Jin appeared on Wealth Office in the episode "Why The USA Cannot Stop China", published in July 2026, in conversation with Michael Macfarlane in London. She set out three common Western misunderstandings of China, concerning its economic model, the relationship between people and authority, and the habit of viewing the country only through a security lens. She described a hybrid system of political centralisation and economic decentralisation, an innovation flywheel built on scale and manufacturing with Shenzhen as its clearest example, and the costs of overcapacity, debt and intense competition. The conversation closed on capital flows, the limits of containment and the soft power of China's younger, consumption-minded generation.
Economist Keyu Jin argues that the West misreads China through a security lens, while China's hybrid model, private competition and young consumers reshape global capital.
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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