Pandemic tests family office attraction to private equity

Family offices across the world are increasingly keen on private equity over the medium and long term as part of a mounting interest in institutional-style strategic asset allocating, despite some lagging levels of confidence in the depths of the volatility surrounding Covid-19. Meanwhile a slowly growing minority are also focused on sustainability investing, according to the first annual report of family offices by UBS. The Swiss private bank released the study, which had polle…