SFO Information

Schmidt Family Office (SFO) is a multi-family office that supports legacy families. Our firm is headquartered in Stellenbosch with a satellite office in Zurich. We view ourselves as family governance experts who support clients through family design and administration services to maintain their family architecture. We are a diverse team of 40 members. Our senior executives have been working together for over 25 years which brings decades of experience in family office management and a wealth of knowledge. WE combine their wisdom with the energy of our next-gen team to offer a sustainable wealth management service. A family office mandate is truly bespoke and centred on advice and administration as the core offering. Our related client services include: Bringing deep experience and knowledge of the family, law, finance, investments, social sciences, and related disciplines to bear on issues that are crucial to the governance and administration of multi-generational family wealth. Providing authoritative, unbiased and independent guidance, advice and administration of family wealth. Fulfilling the roles of Confidants, Advisors, Interpreters, Guardians, Custodians, Coordinators and Administrators. Creating strategy, administration and governance considerations required to enable legacy families to flourish across generations. Acting as the custodians of a family’s strategy, governance and operating procedures. Maintaining the primary repository of family information, financial records, minutes and legal documents. We believe the design of family governance systems offers practical and positive solutions to most challenges facing legacy families. Our team collaborates with clients’ existing advisors and maintain an external ecosystem of leading experts in various jurisdictions, and practice areas to cater to the needs of sophisticated consumers. We operate with a dual mandate: Financial Services. Family Focused.