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Belgium's family office market concentrates heavily around Brussels, where multi-generational retail, brewing, and industrial fortunes have transitioned into structured investment vehicles.
The 10 family offices below collectively manage more than $21.7 billion in disclosed assets, spanning private equity, real estate, venture capital, and direct co-investment strategies.
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Top 10 Family Offices in Belgium
$4.5B | Brussels
Korys is the family office of the Colruyt family, founded in 2012 to manage the wealth built over four generations through the Colruyt Group's growth into an international retail business. The firm takes a values-driven approach, pairing its investment activity with a stated commitment to positive social and environmental impact.
Investment Focus: Direct company investments, private equity and venture capital fund commitments, renewable energy assets, and liquid investments, concentrated in Conscious Consumer, Energy Transition, and Healthy Living.
What They Look For: Long-term partnerships with founders and fund managers offering patient capital, strategic support, and sustainable growth over short-term returns.
$4.04B | Brussels
SPDG is the seventh-generation family investment holding company of the Périer D'Ieteren family, deploying permanent capital into operating businesses to promote sustainable and profitable economic development. Its permanent-capital platform acquires and develops significant positions in operational companies, backed by equity capital, strategic guidance, governance expertise, and industrial ownership experience.
Investment Focus: Direct operating-company investments and growth-stage opportunities, alongside listed-equity positions, liquidity management, and sustainable redevelopment of heritage real estate.
What They Look For: Long-term positions in operating companies where permanent capital and industrial ownership experience add value, without fundraising or exit pressure.
~$3.1B (€2.89B) | Brussels
Verlinvest is a family office and direct investor operating a global consumer-investment platform spanning growth equity, platform investments, and venture capital through V3 Ventures. The firm deploys permanent family capital to back consumer brands from early growth through international expansion and IPOs, focusing on food, beverages, health, consumer technology, and lifestyle markets.
Investment Focus: Growth equity and platform investments in consumer brands, plus venture capital through V3 Ventures, across Europe, the US, and Asia.
What They Look For: Consumer brands positioned for long-term, international growth, where patient capital and operating expertise in branding, supply chain, and market entry can accelerate expansion.
$1.7B | Brussels
Waterloo Asset Management is a family office and asset manager offering a cross-border advisory platform from Luxembourg and Belgium. Its integrated wealth-management platform combines strategic asset allocation, discretionary portfolio management, external-manager selection, and family-office coordination, supporting wealthy families in managing, structuring, preserving, and transferring wealth.
Investment Focus: Diversified investment strategies and discretionary portfolio management, including access to Waterloo-branded SICAV products.
What They Look For: Wealthy families seeking integrated, cross-border wealth management and long-term structuring and preservation support rather than a single-product relationship.
$100M | Antwerp
Portolani NV is a family office providing entrepreneurial families with independent, in-house expertise and tools to address wealth management issues. The firm collaborates with outside fund managers and plans to invest in a fund within the next 12 months.
Investment Focus: Geographic exposure across Europe, including Western Europe, Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece), Northern Europe/Nordics, and the United Kingdom.
What They Look For: Fund managers offering European exposure who can partner with an independent, in-house family office team on a near-term commitment.
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$1.14B | Ghent
Baltisse is a family office focused on capital markets, private equity, and real estate with a global reach, emphasizing European and US-listed equities. Its investment platform spans North America and Europe, with the firm collaborating with external fund managers and planning to invest in a fund within the next 12 months.
Investment Focus: Capital markets, private equity, and real estate, with emphasis on European and US-listed equities across North America and Europe.
What They Look For: External fund managers with North America or Europe exposure who can support a near-term fund commitment.
$1B | Zaventem
Pareto LLC is a family office and financial coordinator structuring services around four pillars: Pension, Income, Wealth, and Succession. The firm aims to optimize and manage a family's total assets, taxes, and intergenerational wealth transfer, supported by its My Pareto digital platform for remote monitoring.
Investment Focus: Comprehensive financial planning and wealth coordination, following a three-step Analyse, Guidance, and Solutions process tailored to each family's situation.
What They Look For: Families seeking a coordinated, long-term approach to wealth, tax, and succession planning rather than a single-strategy investment relationship.
$500M | Hasselt
Your Family Office assists successful entrepreneurs and wealthy families with building, managing, protecting, and transferring wealth across generations. Its integrated platform coordinates financial assets, family governance, succession arrangements, tax structures, and corporate-finance projects, alongside financial education and next-generation engagement.
Investment Focus: Coordinated wealth management spanning investment strategy, insurance, tax, and corporate-finance support rather than a single asset class.
What They Look For: Entrepreneurial families needing a centralized advisory platform that aligns wealth management with family governance and multigenerational planning.
$500M | Antwerp
Victrix NV is the family office of the Saverys family, deploying long-term capital and expertise across impact investments, sustainable shipping, organic winemaking, and philanthropic initiatives targeting measurable environmental and social benefits. Its platform integrates direct company investments, minority and majority stakes, co-investments, and commitments to specialist funds.
Investment Focus: Impact-driven investments in decarbonisation, circularity, oceans, sustainable agriculture, logistics, and infrastructure, alongside established family interests in maritime activities, agriculture, and wine.
What they look for: Businesses and managers developing sustainable solutions where patient capital, active ownership, and transaction expertise can drive measurable impact.
$500M | Vilvoorde
Vermec is a Belgian single family office owned by Michel Verhaeren and Brigitte Bogaert, investing proprietary family capital in companies and assets with long-term growth potential. The firm takes an active partnership approach, supporting management teams strategically and operationally while entrepreneurs retain day-to-day leadership.
Investment Focus: Direct corporate investments, real estate, infrastructure, and other diversified assets, deployed through a globally diversified, permanent-capital platform.
What They Look For: Management teams open to active shareholder involvement and patient capital, without external fundraising pressure or predetermined exit timelines.
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