It’s usually smooth sailing when the world is predictable yet becomes like a ship in rough seas when things occur that are outside of our control – like conflicts around the world. Adversity is not the exception but the rule in life and business, and the investor must consider how an investment will persevere when calamity strikes.
And most recently, with oil prices spiking we thought it was an opportune time to drop a post related to how family offices, hedge funds and institutional investors around the globe allocate capital during war times.
Family offices have been deploying capital towards real estate (both residential and commercial) and other tangible assets where the investor can capitalize on the disconnect between the intrinsic value and market price.
As another example, though not definitive, look at the price of gold over the past 6 months and the clear spike at the beginning of the year (2026). For hundreds and even thousands of years gold has been the preferred currency, and it’s interesting how the world is progressing so rapidly with technology yet sometimes things go back to the roots.
There’s also the element of playing things safe while on the flip side discovering asymmetric opportunities (carpe diem at its fullest) and sometimes that means embracing the instability/uncertainty.
The moral of this story is that family offices with the right mindset and guidance should be celebrating these times and strategizing what’s next. And in the end that’s why you have a family office – to preserve wealth by building a legacy for generations to come. That requires seeing what’s around the next turn.