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
Maryann Selfe is an investment strategist, healthcare investor and the author of The Billion Dollar Blindspot: Why Women's Health Is the Investment Opportunity of Our Time. She is founder and Chief Investment Officer of Calabar Capital, which invests in women's health and healthcare technology, and founder and president of FemmeHealth Alliance, an independent Swiss non-profit.
Selfe spent more than 20 years in institutional investment management, private banking and wealth management, much of it at Credit Suisse, which later became part of UBS. In that time she invested capital in public and private markets, built investment portfolios and structured cross-border investment solutions. Her experience includes portfolio construction, investment risk and capital allocation; she has reviewed more than 1,000 fund managers and worked on investment risk oversight covering more than US$100 billion.
Selfe founded Calabar Capital as a healthcare-focused investment and advisory platform. It invests in women's health and healthcare technology through specialist venture funds and direct co-investments, and she advises clients who want to deploy capital in healthcare. She also founded FemmeHealth Alliance, a convening platform that connects investors, fund managers, healthcare leaders and researchers with the aim of directing capital towards women's health innovation.
Her interest in the field began with her own health. She has uterine fibroids, a condition she says affects up to 80% of women by the age of 50, and she began to question why better treatments did not exist.
The Billion Dollar Blindspot grew out of Selfe's research into why healthcare needs affecting half the population were largely absent from mainstream investment frameworks. The book argues that medicine historically treated male biology as the default human model, and traces how a persistent gap in data about women's health has left the sector underpriced by investors. She publishes a newsletter under the same name, writes for CEOWORLD magazine on healthcare innovation, demographic change and investment, and has coined the term "The Precision Premium". She has spoken at events including the Institutional Investor DACH Summit, the Zurich Fund Forum, the Shanghai Global Women's Health Capital Summit and the SIP-BILANZ Health & Longevity Conference.
Selfe spoke to Michael Macfarlane in the Wealth Office episode "The Billion Dollar Blindspot in Women's Healthcare". She argued that healthcare is being repriced in real time, citing growth in health tech and women's health funding, and explained how women came to be excluded from clinical trials after the thalidomide scandal and why drugs such as Ambien later had to be re-dosed for women. She described a self-reinforcing cycle in which missing data leads to weak reimbursement, a weak commercial case and little capital. She identified three converging forces: 1.2 billion women in menopause by 2030, longer lives bringing conditions such as dementia and autoimmune disease into view, and women gaining control of capital. She made the case that long-duration family capital, particularly from Asia, is well suited to these opportunities, and said she prefers to call the field health for all.
Maryann Selfe, author of The Billion Dollar Blindspot, explains how a data gap left women's health underpriced, and why long-duration private capital is well placed for the correction.
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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