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Australia's family office market concentrates heavily around Sydney, where multi-generational resource, media, and industrial fortunes have transitioned into structured investment vehicles.
The 10 family offices below collectively manage more than $37 billion in disclosed assets, spanning private equity, real estate, venture capital, and direct co-investment strategies.
Dakota Marketplace covers the full landscape beyond this list, including smaller and emerging family offices across the region.
Top 10 Family Offices in Australia
$13B | Sydney
Bangarra Family Office is a multi-family office founded by Jeff Chapman AM in 2000, operating globally through funds management and investment businesses across Australia, Europe, and the US. Its executive team and board oversee the group's broader interests while individual businesses are managed independently, with 585 staff across five global offices and a "Business for Good" ethos reflected in 700+ grants to more than 360 charities.
Investment Focus: Funds management and private equity, with eight funds management investment partners and a diverse range of operating businesses across industries, including golf course holdings spanning 1,432 acres.
What They Look For: Purpose-driven partners and businesses aligned with the group's principles of collaboration, impact, and accountability.
$10B | Brisbane
EWM Group is Australia's first and only independent multi-family office, delivering expert investment, advisory, governance, and specialist services to high-net-worth families under the banner "Protecting wealth. Preserving legacy. For generations." The firm provides conflict-free advice to a diverse client base spanning individuals, families, family business owners, inheritors of wealth, and philanthropists, with tailored education and philanthropy resources, including the EWM Group Charitable Fund.
Investment Focus: Investment, advisory, and governance services for multi-generational wealth, supported by dedicated education and philanthropy capabilities.
What They Look For: Managers and partners that meet institutional standards of independence and transparency, in keeping with EWM's conflict-free advisory model and its commitment to protecting client wealth across generations.
$5B | Claremont
Candor Family Office is Western Australia's longest-established multi-family office and one of Australia's first, having quietly partnered with some of the country's highest-net-worth businesspeople and families for over two decades. Established by founding director Andrew Hector to provide impartial guidance free from investment and banking conflicts, the firm delivers a highly personalized 360° service through a team of Private Chief Financial Officers and support specialists, relieving the wealth burden that typically sits solely on ultra-high-net-worth individuals.
Investment Focus: Investment strategy, structuring and tax, succession and intergenerational wealth planning, governance, and philanthropy for first- and second-generation wealth creators.
What They Look For: Partners and managers who offer impartial, conflict-free opportunities that help retain and amplify client wealth and streamline life for long-term security and freedom.
$2.4B | Melbourne
Portland House Group is one of Australia's largest private funds management groups, engaging as a sophisticated investor in global markets. The firm primarily trades in equities and maintains activity across fixed income, external funds, currencies, and derivatives, with a structure and governance more akin to a professional funds manager than an informal family vehicle.
Investment Focus: Global public equities as the primary allocation, supplemented by fixed income, alternatives, currencies, derivatives, and external fund commitments across varied strategies.
What They Look For: Institutional-quality investment processes with transparent risk management, including clear attribution reporting and currency-aware fund structures, from managers prepared for substantive engagement on portfolio construction.
$2.0B | Sydney
Marinya Capital is the family office of John B. Fairfax, Nick Fairfax, and their families, descended from the Fairfax name that has been synonymous with Australian media for over 180 years since John Fairfax purchased The Sydney Morning Herald in 1841. The firm manages wealth with a patient, generational horizon focused on capital preservation and growth, guided by stewardship and prudent risk management.
Investment Focus: A global, low-beta, concentrated direct investment strategy, typically holding 10 to 15 public and private long equity positions that make up the majority of assets, alongside direct property and allocations to external private market managers.
What They Look For: Patient, high-conviction managers with multi-cycle track records whose approach aligns with Marinya's stewardship-oriented, sustainable value creation philosophy.
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6. Australian Capital Equity
$2.0B | Perth
Australian Capital Equity (ACE) is the main private holding company of Perth businessman Kerry Stokes, established in 1979 and ultimately owned through the Griffin Trust. Its main asset is a controlling stake in ASX-listed Seven Group Holdings, alongside a major stake in salt producer BCI Minerals, a position in Southern Cross Media, and interests in honey production, pastoral stations, and one of Australia's largest private art collections.
Investment Focus: Media, industrial services, resources, property, construction, and mining and petroleum exploration, anchored by long-term controlling and strategic stakes in listed companies.
What They Look For: Long-horizon, concentrated positions in Australian businesses where significant ownership allows influence over strategy, particularly in media, industrial services, and resources.
$1.7B | Melbourne
Victor Smorgon Group is one of Australia's most established family offices, built on the Smorgon family's near-century legacy of generational wealth creation and founded after the divestment of various segments of Smorgon Consolidated Industries. Led by Executive Chair Peter Edwards, the group pairs strong governance with a thematic investment approach, identifying long-term trends and investing in areas deemed attractive.
Investment Focus: Thematic, multi-asset investing across global equities, resources and gold, and multi-strategy funds, with a strong belief in co-investments and a history in the gold mining sector.
What They Look For: Managers with genuine thematic insight and conviction who can offer co-investment access alongside fund vehicles, aligned with the group's "strength in generations" philosophy.
$1B | Sydney
Tattarang is the private investment group of Andrew and Nicola Forrest, investing across a wide variety of sectors and asset classes, including real assets and public and private markets, with a belief in "using our capital as a force for good." The group supports the philanthropic work of Minderoo Foundation and operates through divisions including Fiveight (property), Harvest Road (agri-food), Squadron Energy, Wyloo Metals, and Z1Z.
Investment Focus: Agri-food (including Bega Group), energy, health technology, consumer and lifestyle brands (R.M.Williams, Western Force, Akubra), property (including Waldorf Astoria Sydney), and resources (including Fortescue and Wyloo).
What They Look For: Long-term growth opportunities across listed and unlisted markets, with strong interest in energy transition, critical minerals, and agri-food managers who bring real sector expertise.
~$1B | Sydney
Stonebridge Family Office was founded in 2000 by Ronnie Dyne, a Chartered Accountant with a global financial footprint, and has grown from a single-family office into a multi-family office serving six high-net-worth families across Australia, the USA, and Europe. Since 2021, Saul Dyne has led the integration of technology to optimize service delivery, alongside a network of global partners including banks, investment advisors, and accountants.
Investment Focus: Total family office management and outsourced CFO services across multiple generations, covering the full financial needs of affluent families.
What They Look For: Managers and partners who offer transparent fees, clean governance, and consistent results across full market cycles, in keeping with the firm's Chartered Accountant roots and 25-year track record.
$1B | Sydney
Marshall Capital (Marshall Investments) is a leading private investment company focused on sustainable wealth accumulation and long-term investment value, delivering returns through a dynamic portfolio of risk-weighted investments. Its approach rests on a capital-partnering and co-investment model, expertise across multiple asset classes, and an established risk management framework, with strategic interests in the fashion industry through APG & Co and The Apparel Group.
Investment Focus: Growth capital in the form of senior secured loans to high-growth, venture-backed companies (a less dilutive alternative to equity), plus property, direct equities, operating businesses, private equity, and allocations to external fund managers.
What They Look For: Fund managers with strong performance histories and proven stock-picking ability who can demonstrate clear differentiation from public markets, with long-term value creation and capital preservation as the decision frame.
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