What We Do For Families

A family typically engages Caines for the whole journey, but the firm is built in connected modules. Families often come to us first for investment management and expand the relationship over time, while others want the full structure in place from the outset.
A single advisory fee is charged on assets under management. Other work is included within the engagement or provided at cost where appropriate.

What Families Receive

  • A written investment policy
  • Quarterly portfolio reviews
  • Consolidated reporting across holdings
  • A dedicated principal relationship
  • Access to direct and co-investment opportunities
  • Coordination with tax and legal advisers

Investment Management

Caines manages the family’s portfolio across operating businesses and infrastructure, alongside listed securities and cash positions. Mandates are discretionary by default, with advisory carve-outs available where a family wants to retain decision rights over specific holdings.

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The work begins with a written investment policy, drafted with the family and refreshed annually. From there we construct the portfolio around operating businesses and listed markets, sized for the family’s horizon and liquidity need. The portfolio is reviewed every quarter and adjusted when the facts change.

What’s included

Discretionary or advisory portfolio management, a written annual investment policy, quarterly review meetings, a twice-yearly written letter and on-demand reporting through the family portal.

Direct Investment & Co-Investment

For families who want to take operating positions in their own name, we source and structure direct deals, most often alongside the Caines portfolio and, where appropriate, with a small number of specialist partners.

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This work sits closest to principal investing. We act on the capital structure the family participates in, with the same governance discipline we apply to our own positions. Families have the option to remain closely involved in this work or to allow us to lead and bring opportunities forward only when they are ready. Transactions may be executed alongside the wider Caines portfolio or on a sole-family basis where the circumstances justify it.

What’s included

Deal origination, commercial and financial diligence, transaction structuring and execution, post-completion governance support and board representation where appropriate.

Wealth Structuring

While Caines does not provide tax or legal advice in-house, we run the structuring work that sits between the family’s investments and its tax and legal counsel.

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That includes the design of holding vehicles, ownership architecture and cross-border structures, with preparatory work carried out in coordination with the family’s lawyers and accountants. We work through the advisory team the family already has and keep the work coordinated. Where additional specialists are needed, we help identify them and make sure their work ties back to the wider plan. Families with meaningful assets often suffer from fragmentation between advisers; our role is to impose coherence across the entire structure.

What’s included

Structuring design, coordination with external tax and legal counsel, vehicle administration oversight, succession architecture, and philanthropic vehicle setup.

Reporting & Governance

Caines provides a single consolidated reporting line for each family, supplemented by live portfolio data through the family portal.

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Consolidated reporting across custodians, family portal access with live positions, governance calendar management and audit and regulatory liaison.

What’s included

Consolidated reporting across custodians, family portal access with live positions, governance calendar management and audit and regulatory liaison.

Family Office Services

For families without a separate private office, we provide the operational layer behind significant wealth.

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This covers the practical administration that sits around capital but is rarely handled well by investment firms alone: bill payment, household and entity bookkeeping, insurance oversight, treasury coordination and the day-to-day management of the personal infrastructure that comes with significant wealth. This module is usually added later in the relationship, once the investment work is established, and is provided at cost as part of the broader engagement.

What’s included

Bookkeeping for personal entities, bill payment and treasury, insurance review and oversight, property and asset administration and on-call support for the principal and family members.

Philanthropy

Many of the families we work with support charities in a wide range of areas. Our role is to put the right structures around that giving so it sits cleanly within the wider plan.

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Philanthropy is usually shaped alongside the family’s wider capital. We work with the family’s existing advisers to establish the appropriate vehicles and ensure giving firs coherently with the family’s governance and long-term intentions. Where families prefer to give quietly, we help structure that work with the same discretion applied elsewhere.

What’s included

Design of giving vehicles alongside existing structures, coordination with external legal and tax advisers, liaison with chosen charities or intermediaries and optional integration of philanthropic reporting into the family’s wider reporting line.

Illustrative Charities

The Ecosystem Around Caines

Alongside our own team, we collaborate with independent specialists in areas such as private client law, tax advisory, fiduciary administration and property or concierge services. We bring them in only where they are additive and can ensure their work fits cleanly within the family’s overall structure.