Christian Armbruester, CIO & Founding Principal, explains to WealthBriefing
why you should stay truly diversified.

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We're pleased to announce that Blu has moved into its new office on Richmond Green. The team is looking forward to seeing you all there very soon.

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Our new address: 15 Little Green, Richmond, TW9 1QH, UK

Christian Armbruester, Founding Principal & CIO, shares with WealthBriefing what investors should do with the gyrations of Tesla's stock and similar types of company if they want to avoid getting burned. And what lessons should be applied to those running portfolios.

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Christian Armbruester, Founding Principal & CIO, was interviewed by Market Currents and discussed how we have navigated COVID's impact on investments.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares with WealthBriefing how the investment environment has changed dramatically this year and why investors should embrace alternative investment strategies.

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On 4th June at 14:00 UK time, Blu Family Office's Christian Armbruester & Doris Sommavilla and Lily Advisory's Indre Butkeviciute will be holding an online webinar for families and HNW investors to look at Investment Risk - a very relevant topic given the current climate.

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Register here.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager why home bias is likely to seriously damage long-term returns and outlines key concepts in building a globally diversified portfolio that minimises risk.

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Yesterday, Christian Armbruester, Founding Principal & CIO, held a seminar for families and HNW investors on the topic of Investment Risk.

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Christian shared his experience and lessons learned from investing his family's intergenerational wealth and elaborated on potential solutions for the needs common to all investors.

Christian Armbruester, Founding Principal & CIO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager that whilst gold pays no dividends and costs money to store (which is implied in the price), with government bonds paying next to nothing, all that makes less of a difference.

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We're thrilled to share with you that The Blu Discretionary Fund had great success in 2019:

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- Strong performance across all share classes - net of all fees in 2019: EUR +11.34% | USD +9.94% | GBP +7.61%.

- Despite various market cycles, a sharpe ratio of 2.16, annualised volatility of 3.70% & maximum drawdown of 2.75% (in GBP) evidences our strategy's ability to deliver consistent performance.

- A truly diversified portfolio, invested across distinctly different risks, with less than 20% exposure to the equity markets.

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With the US elections, Brexit and global geopolitical events, financial markets seem poised for more volatility ahead in 2020. We are prepared, positioned well and looking forward to another year of providing superior returns to our investors.

Thank you to all those that attended our seminar this week, where Christian Armbruester, Principal & CIO, presented on the topic of Investment Risk.

Nick Rees, CEO & PM, explains to Citywire Wealth Manager how we invest in private debt to generate fixed income for our families and clients.

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Doris Sommavilla, Family Adviser, spoke at the recent Leaders First conference on the importance of women in business and the power of female entrepreneurship.

Christian Armbruester, Founding Principal and CIO, shares with WealthBriefing one of the most overlooked yet biggest risks to an investment strategy - currencies.

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Doris Sommavilla, Family Advisor, will be attending the Women First event in Rome on 18th November. Doris will be moderating the International Female Leaders panel.

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Click here to register for the event.

Christian Armbruester, Founding Principal & CIO, will take attendees through an update on The Blu Discretionary Fund on 14th November at 14:00 UK time.

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Dominik von Eynern, Principal, shares with Horizons Family Office & Investor Magazine (Opalesque) his experience with managing behavioural risks in successions..

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Markets Currents Wealth Management conducted a Q&A With Blu Family Office's Christian Armbruester.

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Nick Rees, CEO, shares with Citywire Selector why we invest in private debt to generate a fixed income.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares with Find A Wealth Manager, our thoughts on interest rates, currencies and no "free lunch".​

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WealthBriefing reports on the launch of our new fund - The Blu Discretionary Fund.

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Thank you to all those that attended our very first Hedge Funds seminar yesterday at our Richmond office.

Thank you to all those that attended our Investment Risk seminar yesterday at our Richmond office. Next month we will be holding our very first seminar on the topic of Hedge Funds.

Dominik von Eynern and Doris Sommavilla, Family Advisers, presented at the recent SmartBridges conference on Generation Succession in Business-Governance and shared their own family business stories.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager our thoughts on gold.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager six precepts that will help potential wealth management clients feel more confident about getting started with a professional money manager.

Read more here.

Dominik von Eynern talked at the recent Entrepreneurs First Event about the reasons for forming his family office business and how it is critical to manage risk properly - with a particular focus on behavioural risks - in order to preserve the family wealth.

Dominik von Eynern shares with Horizons Family Office & Investor Magazine some real-life recommendations on how to create and live a Family Constitution.

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Blu Family Office shares with Citywire Wealth Manager insights on conducting efficient due diligence for its investments.

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The term "due diligence" gets thrown around in wealth management - and many other fields. When it comes to choosing investments, what sort of issues need to be addressed? Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to WealthBriefing.

Read more here.

Nick Rees, CEO, explains to AltFi how Brexit's endgame could affect investors across alternative lending strategies.

Read more here.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager our thoughts on collectibles and their investment potential.

Read more here.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to WealthBriefing our thoughts on thematic investing.

Read more here.

Domink von Eynern and Doris Sommavilla discussed the role and importance of family offices in the European economy at the recent European Investment Summit in London.

Tom Tardif explains to Private Debt Investor our approach to investing in the private debt markets.

Read more here.

In this WealthBriefing article, we address the risks of being overly concerned with having liquid assets.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager the problem with daily liquidity.

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What steps should investors take to cope with a potential new financial crackup? Blu Family Office explains their approach to WealthBriefing.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, and Nick Rees, CEO, explain to Private Debt Investor why we are investing in private debt.

Watch here.

Nick Rees, CEO, explains to AltFi our thoughts on P2P lending platforms.

Read more here.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, reveals to Citywire why he is investing in private lending and the traps investors should avoid.

Read more here.

Last week Christian Armbruester, CIO, and Nick Rees, CEO, challenged the Citywire team to a tennis tournament.

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Watch the highlights here.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Citywire the main theme for the second half of 2018 will be political.​

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager our thoughts on Sterling.

Read more here.

Thank you to all those that attended our seminar yesterday at our Richmond office. The principals shared their experiences and lessons learned from investing their wealth and elaborated on potential solutions for the needs common to all investors.

If you would like to attend future Blu Family Office seminars, please register your interest by emailing info@blu-fo.com

Do you understand all the steps and costs of making a trade? Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to WealthBriefing.

Read more here.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares with Find A Wealth Manager his thoughts on the FTSE100 Index.

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We are currently recruiting for a Junior Quantitative Analyst.

A degree in a quantitative field (e.g. computer science, engineering, statistics, mathematics) and strong programming skills in R or Python and one object-oriented language (e.g. Java, C++) is required.

Please email your CV to info@blu-fo.com

Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to WealthBriefing our view of the investment landscape.

Read more here.

Dominik von Eynern, Partner, recently presented our approach to Family-Business (Corporate) Governance at The Aster Club.

We will be holding a breakfast seminar on 9th May from 08:30 to 10:45 in the City of London, where we will present The Blu Income Fund by delving into:

- What is the private lending asset class?

- The importance of rigorous research and due diligence

- Perils and pitfalls

- Why The Blu Income Fund?

If you would like to attend, please register your interest by emailing info@blu-fo.com

Read more on The Blu Income Fund here.

Christian Armbruester, CEO, shares with Find A Wealth Manager how volatility could be your new best friend.

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Richmond based Blu Family Office has announced the appointment of Nick Rees as its new chief executive officer.

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With all the talk about tariffs and a looming global trade war, what can we do as investors to protect ourselves and are there any investment ideas to take advantage of potential opportunities? Christian Armbruester, CEO, shares our thoughts with WealthBriefing.

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Christian Armbruester, CEO, shares our approach to performance benchmarks with Find A Wealth Manager.

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Christian Armbruester, CEO, shares with Find A Wealth Manager our thoughts on the recent market sell off.

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Christian Armbruester, CEO, shares with Find A Wealth Manager our thoughts on Bitcoin.

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Christian Armbruester, CEO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager that the risk of not investing in alternatives for diversification is far greater than haggling over definitions.

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Yesterday we held a successful breakfast seminar at the Royal Exchange where we presented The Blu Income Fund.

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Christian Armbruester, CEO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager how great the risks are across the investment universe.

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Today marks the one year anniversary of The Blu Income Fund’s launch. This is a great milestone for us and we are very pleased to have met all the fund’s objectives. We would like to thank you for your ongoing support as we continue to provide you with a steady source of secured, fixed income.

Read more here.

Amid increasing geopolitical risks, why are the markets hitting new highs? Christian Armbruester, CEO, explains Find A Wealth Manager that particularly in times like these managing your risk is all the more important.

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Christian Armbruester, CEO, explains in a recent WealthBriefing guest feature why Blu Family Office favours private lending as a source of yield amid rock-bottom interest rates.

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Is there an alternative to traditional strategic asset allocation? Blu Family Office’s CEO, Christian Armbruester, shares his approach with Find A Wealth Manager.

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Christian Armbruester, Founding Principal & CIO, explains to Bloomberg why cryptocurrencies have earned a place in a diversified portfolio.

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Christian Armbruester, Founding Principal & CIO, explains the alternative credit markets to WealthBriefing.

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We are pleased to announce that we have joined Managed Portfolio Indices, MPI - A STEP Member Service that helps private client advisors find, compare and select discretionary investment managers for their clients.

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Visit our profile on MPI here.

The recent rally in equities may not be as strange as it seems. Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager/

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The Blu Lily Advisory Webinar was a great success yesterday. Thank you to all the attendees for joining us and creating such an engaging discussion.​

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We would also like to thank our panellists, Indre Butkeviciute, Doris Sommavilla & Christian Armbruester for sharing their insights. In particular, we'd like to thank Indre for joining Blu Family Office on the virtual stage and for sharing her knowledge, particularly with regards to the issues women experience when investing.

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For those that couldn't attend the live event, watch the recording here.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares with Find A Wealth Manager why the Nasdaq index is up on the year, whereas every other major global equity index is still very much stuck in Coronavirus quagmire.

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Coronavirus and family offices: The anti-corona strategy of the rich clans. Christian Armbruester shares our approach with manager magazin.

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Christian Armbruester, Founding Principal & CIO, explains to WealthBriefing that if there is a premium to be had for making illiquid investments, then we can't expect to get paid the same returns for making liquid investments.

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Christian Armbruester, Founding Principal & CIO, Doris Sommavilla, Family Advisor, & our Italian team hosted a seminar and dinner in Northern Italy for business families last month.

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Christian explained his family's journey from creating wealth through manufacturing and trade. With the second generation's expertise in investment and wealth management, this led to the creation of Blu Family Office. We shared our approach to investment risk and how families & investors can benefit from sharing capabilities to protect and grow wealth for the next generations.

We're delighted to share with you that The Blu Income Fund had an excellent 2019:

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- Strongest performing year since inception - returning +7.20% (vs. 2018 +5.11% & 2017 +5.80%) net of all fees.

- 37 consecutive positive months of performance.

- Three-year anniversary on 1st November 2019.

- Our pipeline of new investments grew substantially (& continues to grow) bringing further substantial diversification to the portfolio.

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At the beginning of 2020, we added two additional strategies to the portfolio and are poised for another successful year providing investors with steady & robust returns.

Why take the direct investing route when you have to carry out all the due diligence tasks that take time and cost money? What's driving family offices to do this and will the trend continue if the economic trends take a turn? Christian Armbruester, Principal & CIO, shares his perspective with WealthBriefing.

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Christian Armbruester, Founding Principal & CIO, features in today's Bloomberg LP article: Super-Rich Families Pour Into $787 Billion Private Debt Market.

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Dominik von Eynern, Principal, shares with Forbes the risks hidden in estate succession.

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Press Release: Blu Family Office celebrates The Blu Income Fund’s three year anniversary.

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Nick Rees, CEO & PM, will take attendees through an update on The Blu Income Fund on 21st November at 14:00 UK time.

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Dominik von Eyern, Principal, & Doris Sommavilla, Family Advisor, present how Stonewalling & Hidden Succession Risks can affect family wealth at the recent Prestel & Partner conference in London.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares with Find A Wealth Manager the potential costs of cash.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares with WealthBriefing a number of investment themes and controversies.

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Join our Blu Income Webinar on 23rd August at 14:00 (UK time). CEO & PM, Nick Rees, will take attendees through an update on The Blu Income Fund. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions throughout the webinar.

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Register for the webinar here.

Following the successful launch of The Blu Discretionary Fund, we will be holding a webinar on 19th July 14:00 (UK time) where we will take attendees through an introduction to the strategy and how we have implemented our unique investment philosophy.

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Miss the webinar? Watch the recording here.

Richmond based Blu Family Office Ltd (Blu) has expanded its offering with the launch of The Blu Discretionary Fund on 1st July 2019.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains our thoughts to Find A Wealth Manager on investing in commodities.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares with Find A Wealth Manager our thoughts on the US stock market.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares with WealthBriefing a family office perspective on diversity in managing investments.

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Dominik von Eynern presents at the recent Prestel & Partner Family Office Forum the behavioural risks faced by families and what can be done to mitigate these.

Thank you to all those that attended our seminar yesterday at our Richmond office. Christian Armbruester, CIO, explained our approach to constructing an investment portfolio and the important factors to consider, such as the cost of implementing your desired solution.

If you would like to attend future Blu Family Office seminars, please register your interest by emailing info@blu-fo.com or calling +44 (0)208 166 1223.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares his Brexit Investment Strategy with Find A Wealth Manager.

Read more here.

We are pleased to announce that Blu Family Office has won the first People's Choice Award from​ Find A Wealth Manager for outstanding client service.

Read more here.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares our thoughts with Find A Wealth Manager on market trends.

Read more here.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares with The Billionaire Chronicle our approach to investment risks.

Read more here.

Nick Rees, CEO, explains in the latest edition of the Family Office Magazine why we invest in private lending to generate a fixed income.

Read more here, on p.59.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager our approach to portfolio positioning.

Read more here.

We share our thoughts on the recent market turmoil in October with Find A Wealth Manager.

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How are you investing to generate a fixed income?

Join us for our webinar next week on Thursday 22nd November at 14:00 (UK Time) to learn more about our Blu Income Fund.

Miss the webinar? Watch the recording here.

Nick Rees, CEO, explains to AltCredit the factors to consider when choosing a fund domicile.

Read more here.

Thank you to all those that attended our seminar yesterday at our Richmond office. Christian Armbruester, CIO, explained our approach to constructing an investment portfolio and the important factors to consider, such as the cost of implementing your desired solution.

If you would like to attend future Blu Family Office seminars, please register your interest by emailing info@blu-fo.com or calling +44 (0)208 166 1223.

Dominik von Eynern, Principal, explains our approach to managing 'Behavioural Risks in Successions & The Lucky Warrior' in the latest The BILLIONAIRE CHRONICLE Monaco Edition.

Christian Armbruester, founding principal and CIO, spoke about 'future-proofing your family office' at the Citywire Private Office Retreat.

Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager our thoughts on risk management.

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Christian Armbruester explains to Find A Wealth Manager our thoughts on the markets.

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We share with WealthBriefing our thoughts on to what extent banks and technology stocks share growing similarities in this fintech age.

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Dominik von Eynern, Principal, shares his thoughts with Market Currents on how families can navigate addiction and behavioural problems.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to WealthBriefing how you can apply behavioural economics to financial markets.

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Nick Rees, chief executive officer of the Blu family office discusses with AltFi why non-bank lending assets are attractive for income investors.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Citywire that technology is having an incredible effect on the way people manage their wealth.

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Christian Armbruester, Chief Investment Officer, explains to Find A Wealth Manager the foundational principles of investing and some of the big pitfalls to avoid.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to WealthBriefing what to do when you take no view.

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Profile piece: Christian Armbruester, CIO and founding principal, recently interviewed with Citywire about Blu Family Office.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, explains to Find A Wealth Manager the cost of sitting in cash.

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Christian Armbruester, CIO, shares our thoughts with WealthBriefing on the current trends in direct investing for family offices.

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Thank you to all those that attended our 'Investment Risk' seminar yesterday at our Richmond office. The principals shared their experiences and lessons learned from investing their wealth and elaborated on potential solutions for the needs common to all investors.

If you would like to attend future Blu Family Office seminars, please register your interest by emailing info@blu-fo.com

Nick Rees, CEO, explains to AltCredit that we have a strong preference for shorter-term specialist lenders to have a local presence.

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Richmond based Blu Family Office Ltd (Blu) has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Nick Rees, who starts as Chief Executive Officer today.

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Last week we held our third seminar of the year at our Richmond office where we presented 'Investment Risk'. The principals shared their experiences and lessons learned from investing their wealth and elaborated on potential solutions for the needs common to all investors.

Christian Armbruester, CEO, shares with Find A Wealth Manager how you should position your portfolio in a world of so much uncertainty.

Read more here.

Beautiful views from our Richmond office.

Yesterday we held our first seminar of the year at our Richmond office where we presented 'Investment Risk'. The principals shared their experiences and lessons learned from investing their wealth and elaborated on potential solutions for the needs common to all investors.

If you would like to attend future Blu Family Office seminars, please register your interest by emailing info@blu-fo.com

Last night we held an end of year event at the Tesla dealership in Chiswick. We are passionate about the world we live in and preserving the environment for future generations to enjoy. Therefore, we thought the emerging electric car industry was worth exploring. Thank you to the Tesla team for making this such an enjoyable evening and giving us the opportunity to be taken out for a drive in your premium electric cars.

Yesterday we held a successful seminar at our Richmond office where we presented 'Investment Risk'. The principals shared their experiences and lessons learned from investing their wealth and elaborated on potential solutions for the needs common to all investors.

If you would like to attend future Blu Family Office seminars, please register your interest by emailing info@blu-fo.com

Dominik von Eynern, Partner, presented 'Behavioural Risks' at the recent marcus evans Summit.

For An Introduction to Behavioural Risks, click here.

We are pleased to announce that our partners in Holland, Blu Asset Management, have won the 2017 Gouden Stier (Golden Bull) Award for Best Asset Manager in Holland!

We are pleased to announce that our scientific article based on The Blu Income Fund: Private Lending as a Source of Fixed-Income Yields (Ziggel, Armbruester, Gösmann and Tardif 2017) has been published in the winter edition of The Journal of Wealth Management.

If you would like to receive a copy of this article or any other materials please let us know.

Nick Rees, Partner, shares our knowledge of the private lending asset class with Find A Wealth Manager and explains how we use it to achieve a fixed income for our families and investors.

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Blu Family Office’s CEO, Christian Armbruester, shares his approach with Find A Wealth Manager.

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