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
Philip Marcovici is a Canadian lawyer, author and teacher who advises governments, financial institutions and wealth-owning families on taxation, wealth management and family governance. He spent close to three decades at the international law firm Baker McKenzie and is the author of The Destructive Power of Family Wealth and The Transformative Power of Family Wealth.
Marcovici holds law degrees from the University of Ottawa and Harvard Law School. He began his career as a corporate tax lawyer in New York before joining Baker McKenzie in Hong Kong in 1982, where he became a partner practising international taxation. He advised multinationals, financial institutions and families on Canadian, Hong Kong and US tax as well as cross-border commercial matters. After twelve years in Hong Kong in the period leading up to the 1997 handover, he moved to Zurich, where he spent around fifteen years as private banking shifted from undeclared money towards tax transparency.
Within the firm he helped to found the Asia-Pacific tax practice and the international wealth management practice, chaired the European tax practice and founded LawInContext, the firm's interactive knowledge venture, serving as its chief executive. He retired from Baker McKenzie at the end of 2009 and received the firm's Russell Baker Award in 2010 for his contribution to its global tax practice. He was closely involved in establishing the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, a programme that allowed taxpayers to regularise previously undeclared assets.
His first book, The Destructive Power of Family Wealth: A Guide to Succession Planning, Asset Protection, Taxation and Wealth Management, was published by John Wiley in 2016. It examines how wealth can damage relationships and businesses within families. His second, The Transformative Power of Family Wealth: Helping Families and their Communities Capture its Regenerative Potential, was published by Wiley in 2025. It addresses succession, family conflict, rising inequality and political risk, and proposes what he calls regenerative tax systems for governments seeking strong economies with less inequality.
Marcovici teaches on taxation, wealth management and family governance. He is a founding adviser to, and a lecturer and facilitator for, the Multi-Generational Leadership Programme at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and has taught as adjunct faculty at Singapore Management University. He sits on the advisory committee of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's centre for Asian family business and on the boards of several wealth management and family succession entities. He is a senior adviser to Ispahani Advisory and is based in Hong Kong.
His awards include the Citywealth Magic Circle Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, the Wealth Management Innovator Award in 2011, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 and the WealthBriefing Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.
Philip Marcovici appeared on Wealth Office in the episode "Can Family Wealth Destroy the People Who Inherit It?" with Michael Macfarlane. Drawing on four decades of client work, he argued that any amount of wealth is enough to damage a family, and that open communication, preparation of every family member and involving the next generation in decisions can reverse that. He discussed philanthropy as a way to engage family members with no interest in the operating business, his view that society is not optional for mobile wealth owners, three kinds of mobility that he expects to narrow, the security offered by trusted governments such as Singapore and Switzerland, and the UK's removal of the non-dom regime.
Philip Marcovici, author of The Transformative Power of Family Wealth, on why any amount of money can damage a family and how purpose and preparation can reverse that.
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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