Dr. Kon­rad Bösl/Gebhard Mei­er: What fami­ly offices can do to impro­ve their com­pa­ny invest­ments.

Stu­dy on the approach of fami­ly offices to par­ti­ci­pa­te in unlis­ted com­pa­nies.

  • Blätt­chen & Part­ner has inves­ti­ga­ted the approach of Fami­ly Offices in its par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in unlis­ted com­pa­nies.
  • Fami­ly offices often do not pur­sue reco­gnizable par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on stra­te­gies.
  • Suf­fi­ci­ent human resour­ces, which are qua­li­fied in the manage­ment of share­hol­dings, are often lack­ing
  • Infor­ma­ti­on from accoun­ting and a seat on the Super­vi­so­ry Board are the main sources of infor­ma­ti­on in equi­ty manage­ment.

Munich | Zurich, Nov 26, 2015. For a long time, the focus of fami­ly office invest­ments in real estate and lis­ted secu­ri­ties. Very few fami­ly offices par­ti­ci­pa­ted in unlis­ted com­pa­nies. For seve­ral years now, more and more fami­ly offices have been tur­ning to this asset class and are deve­lo­ping into ano­ther equi­ty pil­lar, espe­ci­al­ly for medi­um-sized com­pa­nies.

This stu­dy looks at what fami­ly offices can or must do bet­ter when par­ti­ci­pa­ting in unlis­ted com­pa­nies. Dr. Kon­rad Bösl, CEO of Blätt­chen & Part­ner, explains: “From the mul­ti-year coope­ra­ti­on with a num­ber of fami­ly offices, we have repea­ted­ly noti­ced poten­ti­al for impro­ve­ment in the fun­da­men­tal approach to par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in com­pa­nies.” The stu­dy reviews and docu­ments the poten­ti­al for impro­ve­ment based on 74 fami­ly offices. Geb­hard Mei­er, Seni­or Con­sul­tant and co-aut­hor of the stu­dy, sta­tes: “A lar­ge num­ber of fami­ly offices have to fun­da­men­tal­ly reo­ri­ent their approach to cor­po­ra­te share­hol­dings. The stu­dy shows that the lack of a con­sis­tent invest­ment stra­tegy often leads to a hete­ro­ge­neous invest­ment port­fo­lio, which can no lon­ger be actively accom­pa­nied and con­trol­led by the too few and over­bur­den­ed employees. As a result, the­re is a risk that fami­ly offices may suf­fer (signi­fi­cant) los­ses from cor­po­ra­te hol­dings or that the mode­ra­te asset build-up they want will not be achie­ved.”

 

The num­ber of fami­ly offices has increased signi­fi­cant­ly in recent years and at the same time the invest­ment beha­vi­or has chan­ged. Pre­vious­ly, the invest­ment focus was almost exclu­si­ve­ly on real estate, lis­ted assets and pre­cious metals, but for seve­ral years now fami­ly offices have incre­asing­ly beco­me invol­ved in unlis­ted com­pa­nies. In doing so, they are adding ano­ther asset class to their asset diver­si­fi­ca­ti­on and are incre­asing­ly beco­ming an important pil­lar of equi­ty, espe­ci­al­ly for medi­um-sized com­pa­nies.
In the event that medi­um-sized com­pa­nies want or need to streng­then their equi­ty base, fami­ly offices are often con­side­red the pre­fer­red exter­nal inves­tor. The reasons are mani­fold.

Fami­ly Offices

  • are long-term inves­tors
  • in many cases, mino­ri­ty hol­dings
  • do not in prin­ci­ple influence the ope­ra­ting busi­ness of the
  • usual­ly have an entre­pre­neu­ri­al back­ground
  • stand with a ste­ady hand to the com­pa­ny even in dif­fi­cult situa­tions.
    Par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in unlis­ted com­pa­nies requi­res a fami­ly office to take a dif­fe­rent approach and struc­tures from what was neces­sa­ry for exis­ting invest­ments. From working with a varie­ty of fami­ly offices, we have found that the incor­po­ra­ti­on of cor­po­ra­te share­hol­dings in fami­ly offices is pre­pared and imple­men­ted in very dif­fe­rent ways.

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