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
Marco Poon is a third-generation member of a Hong Kong business-owning family and a founding partner of JCP Partners, an extended family office that combines fiduciary services with family advisory work. He is also managing director of Greenbury Capital Ltd, a single family office, and focuses on investment, family governance and the long-term stewardship of his family's platform.
Poon's family business was started by his grandfather as a factory, and his father's generation developed it into a larger platform. JCP Partners describes him as a third-generation leader of a Hong Kong-headquartered global family conglomerate. He spent more than 15 years managing the family's China operations, where he was a key revenue generator, before turning his attention to investment and governance.
Within the family he handles finance and legal work, a role he describes as that of a gatekeeper, and his stated aim is to keep the platform together and integrate its resources. The family invests in financial markets and, through venture capital, in startups. At Greenbury Capital he leads investments in education, media and growth sectors across Greater China and South-east Asia.
Poon holds an MBA from Peking University's BiMBA programme with Vlerick Business School, an MSc in Global Finance from Fordham University and a Family Office Diploma from CEIBS, the China Europe International Business School.
JCP Partners was established by next-generation family members with close ties to the Centre for Family Business at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). It describes its purpose as helping families maintain their values and governance across generations, offering fiduciary services and family advisory work alongside asset management, with an emphasis on decision-making and succession planning. Poon has described JCP as a fiduciary advisory business operating on a net-fee model.
Poon is one of seven NxGen Ambassadors at the CUHK Centre for Family Business, where he promotes next-generation engagement and Hong Kong's family office ecosystem. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Young Entrepreneurs Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. He has also described a peer community in Hong Kong in which second- and third-generation family members share experience on governance, tax, charity and teaching children about money.
Poon spoke to Michael Macfarlane in the Wealth Office episode "What The Wealthy Understand About Risk That Banks Don't", which examined why time horizon and geopolitics change what a family regards as safe. He recounted recommending that his family invest in US bonds, only for the older generation to ask whether he had ever examined the issuing country's balance sheet, and explained how this taught him the difference between an institutional view of risk and that of a family thinking 100 or 200 years ahead. He argued that families need governance and charitable support that banks, built around investment revenue, are poorly placed to provide. He discussed why outside work and entrepreneurship prepare successors, China's progress in AI, automation and new energy, and opportunities in power grid modernisation, including in Japan. He closed by describing JCP and the importance of passing down values, stories and the understanding that each generation manages the family's wealth without owning it.
Marco Poon, a third-generation member of a Hong Kong business-owning family, on why time horizon and geopolitics change what a family regards as safe.
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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