Family Office · Est. 1998
We advise a small number of families on the long work of capital: investment, succession, and the governance that holds it together across generations.
Ashcombe & Vale works with a deliberately limited number of families at any time: currently fourteen.
We are not a fund. We hold no house view we sell to clients; every mandate is built around one family's circumstances.
"Wealth that outlives its founder is not preserved by returns alone. It is preserved by the family's own agreement on what the money is for."
Founding philosophy, Ashcombe & Vale
What We Do
Each engagement draws on all three, weighted to what the family needs most this decade.
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Discretionary management built around a family's real liquidity needs and risk temperament, not a model portfolio.
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Structuring for transition: trusts, cross-border considerations, and the harder conversations that precede the paperwork.
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Charters, family councils, and next-generation preparation: the structures that keep capital and family aligned.
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Insights
Why the families who transition well start the conversation years before any paperwork is drafted.
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A working structure for families who want alignment without a bureaucracy.
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What we tell founders who hold most of their wealth in one company.
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