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.
Scholar-practitioner on Asian family wealth and family offices, and Hong Kong advocate
Biography
Marshall Jen is a Hong Kong-based scholar-practitioner who specialises in family business, succession planning and family offices in Asia. He is Executive Director of the Centre for Family Business and the Centre for Entrepreneurship at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and combines academic research and teaching with advisory work for enterprising families.
At CUHK Business School, Jen leads the Centre for Family Business, which researches and supports family enterprises in Asia. He was one of the founders of NxGen Visionaries, which together with the Family Office Association Hong Kong donated HK$1.25 million to the centre to develop a Family-in-Business Award recognising Asian Chinese families for their achievements in succession, governance, family office practice, philanthropy and next-generation entrepreneurship. The donation also supports research on multi-family offices in Hong Kong.
He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Hospitality and Business Management at the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong. His research and practice interests include succession planning, next-generation learning and development, family-in-business leadership, family decision-making and governance, and family entrepreneurship.
Jen founded his first company in the final year of his undergraduate studies and later sold it. He went on to found Edlinked and the FiBI Advisory and Research Institute, a family business advisory firm focused on succession planning and the development of family office talent. FiBI's AI-assisted approach to succession planning has been adopted by HK4FAMILIES, a non-profit organisation launched in Hong Kong in 2026 to build the capabilities of families with enterprises.
Jen holds an MBA from CUHK, where he was valedictorian of his graduating class in 2019, and a Bachelor of Education from Simon Fraser University in Canada. He is a candidate for an executive doctorate in business administration at the University of Liverpool, holds a PGCE from the University of Sunderland and is a Certified Management Consultant. In 2011 he represented Canada at the World University Games.
He has co-authored case studies and book chapters on Asian family business published by World Scientific, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, Edward Elgar and the Family Firm Institute. These include studies of Mission Hills Group and the Hong Kong restaurant group LH Group, chapters on transgenerational entrepreneurship and succession-induced portfolio entrepreneurship, and The Governance Marathon, a 2021 report on durability in entrepreneurial families.
Jen is active in Hong Kong civic life. He has been a member of the Consumer Council since 2025, serves as vice chair of the Economic Development Committee of the Hong Kong CPPCC Youth Association, and sits on a youth development and civic education committee in the Kowloon City district. He is also an academic adviser to a research unit of the Development Research Center of the People's Government of Guangdong Province, and an independent non-executive director of international schools in Singapore and Malaysia. In 2024 he received a commendation from the Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs.
Marshall Jen appeared on Wealth Office in the episode "Who Will Control the $100 Trillion Wealth Transfer?", published in March 2026, in conversation with Michael Macfarlane. He argued that the coming transfer of wealth in Asia is an emotional problem before a structural one, since families have used trusts and insurance for a century yet still fall into dispute. He proposed that families act as strategists and professionals as tacticians, described a well-rounded family office as resting on three pillars of investment, spending on human and social capital, and donation, and suggested that Asian and Western family office models are converging. He also discussed the Greater Bay Area, the relationship between Hong Kong and Singapore, competition from Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and next-generation leaders who hold titles while the older generation still makes the decisions.
Marshall Jen argues that Asia's coming wealth transfer will turn on family emotion and trust, and sets out what a mature family office should look like.
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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