There is a rule in serious wealth management. It has existed in various forms across various family offices for decades. It is never written down. It is passed, quietly, from advisor to principal at the moment the principal becomes wealthy enough to need to hear it. The rule is this:...
Not spoken publicly. Not on record. But present in every conversation where serious money is being deployed and someone slides a sustainability framework across the table and calls it strategy. The ultra-wealthy did not build what they built by confusing performance with optics. And ESG, in its current form, has...
Not because it was beautiful — though it was. Not because it was expensive — though it is. But because it was rare enough to feel like an event. A Phantom on the street was a disruption in the ordinary. A Silver Shadow in the rearview mirror meant something. That...
Say it in a room full of billionaires and watch them nod — slowly, carefully — the way people nod when someone finally says the thing everyone already knows. A second passport is not disloyalty. It is not tax evasion dressed in leather. It is not the moral failure the...
There is no press release. No farewell interview. No dramatic exit. One quarter, the family office is in Mumbai. The next, it is registered in Dubai. The principals still attend the right events. They still have the right addresses. But the capital — and the decision-making — has moved. India...

