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Global Partnership Family Offices hosts a number of private gatherings, the following are excerpts from a number of well-attended events.

Benedikt von Michel, chief investment officer of JMH Capital, discusses with FOG reasons for creating a single family office and how regulation and bank disintermediation is presenting a wealth of investment opportunities.

FINE&RARE’s 2005 Masterclass in November assessed five iconic wines from the 2005 Bordeaux vintage, which are being touted as the best choice for the connoisseur.

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of Easyjet and EasyGroup, his private investment vehicle, sees encouraging entrepreneurship as a way of promoting philanthropic goals.

Mark Mahoney of Wealden Associates knows all about the challenges of running a family office. For the last five years he has acted as an adviser and is also an Associate of Global Partnership Family Offices. Here he talks to FOG about the kind of problems that his clients are confronting.

Mark Mobius, executive chairman, Templeton Emerging Markets Group, is often referred to as the “Indiana Jones of emerging market investing”. Here he speaks to FOG about his most recent experiences in researching investment opportunities in some of the world’s highest risk frontier markets.

Odey Asset Management currently has $12.6 billion of assets under management. Its flagship hedge fund, Odey European Inc, boasts a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 13.4% since its launch in June 1992. FOG spoke to founder Crispin Odey about his investment philosophy.

“No man is an Iland, intire of itself”, wrote John Donne in 1624. Almost 400 years later, however, it is possible to get close.

With FATCA now a reality, FOG discusses its implications with three family office consultants from different parts of the world.

Much of the world is looking to China to pull the global economy out of the sand. But will the Chinese economy stay on the rails? FOG investigates.

Given the vast range of choice by style, size, function and price, selecting your first yacht is a daunting prospect. For all but the most extravagantly wealthy among us, a superyacht is the single biggest asset we will ever own. Oliver Holroyd-Pearce and Xavier Calloc’h of Yacht Investor magazine, and Neil Anthony Richmond of Morpho Luxury Asset Management, sat down with FOG to illuminate the mist surrounding the purchase, ownership, operation and sale of a superyacht.

What is the appropriate investment model for family assets? FOG spoke to Chris Ivey, Managing Director, Cambridge Associates, investment advisors to both institutional and private clients, about family office investment patterns.