Eva Law | Founder and Chairman
Association of Family Offices in Asia | Hong Kong

Eva Law, Founder and Chairman, Association of Family Offices in Asia

Ms. Eva Law established the Association of Private Bankers in Greater China Region in 2010 aiming to promote industry development, offer professional training to practitioners, foster knowledge exchange & collaboration and launch service portal designated for market participants. 

While in 2013, Eva also set up the Association of Family Offices in Asia targeting to support ultra-affluence and industry practitioners who own intimate & deep relationship with mega wealth holders to establish and manage their family councils, single or independent family offices and to administer the family’s wealth succession, strategic philanthropy and corporate development of their family business. 

Eva has served the industry for 19 years. Before setting up the Associations, she worked in the head office of top-rated Chinese bank, responsible for the strategic development and the P&L performance of private banking & cross-border financial services. She has been with a Chinese boutique investment banking firm, through leveraging Swiss EAM private banking platform and arranging direct investment to serve the Ultra HNW clients in great China region. 

Eva also served Fortune 500 companies, including global bank, pension fund, asset manager, insurer and listed family business enterprise, taking leadership positions and sitting in board of directors, investment management, risk management, asset & liability management, product development and audit committees. Eva owns wealthy of management experience, she has been the registered responsible officer and chief executive licensed with regulators under SFC, Insurance, Retirement and Money Lending regimes. She also won the Best Master Trust Award, Wealth Management High-Flyer Award and various Fund Performer Awards from Lipper, Morning Star for her served companies. 

Eva is the Chairman of APB, AFO and Institute for Asia Family Firms, she is also the founding member of Women In Leadership – Hong Kong & Pearl River Delta Chapter, the Honorary Chairman of Hong Kong Family Offices Association and the Executive Chairman of Association of China Independent Wealth Advisory Institutions - Family Office Council, the researcher of Xi'an Jiaotong University, the Honorary Research Fellow of Legacy Academy, the Special Advisor to Singapore Private Wealth Association, US Family Offices Institute, Global Visions Community in Switzerland and Asian Co-Investors Club and the appointed writer for Family Office Elite Magazine, CEO & Entrepreneur Magazine and frequent speaker in international conferences. 

She is advancing her study with University of Pennsylvania. She also held Master of Science with Edinburgh Napier University. She is a Chartered Family Office Specialist and has awarded FLMI certificate, Bachelor of Art (Hon) and several professional diplomas in investment banking, mergers & acquisition, security and asset management professions.

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REIW Asia 2017 day 2 @ 15:50

Cutting out the middle man: New trends in family office investing

  • Reducing reliance on fund managers: Is the trend of family offices investing directly set to continue, or will fund participation still be there?
  • Risk profile: Are family offices less risk-averse than their institutional counterparts?
  • The Brexit effect: As some investors pull money from UK property funds, what opportunities does this create for family offices?
  • What is the appetite of family offices for investing in alternative asset classes such as shared workspaces, data centres etc?
  • What opportunities are there for collaboration between traditional CRE investors and family offices?
last published: 30/Sep/19 03:05 GMT

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