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Francois Botha

Copenhagen
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Covers:  family offices, technology, private wealth, next generation, sustainability
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Francois Botha is an entrepreneur and strategist - focussed on brand management, business strategy, digitization, and technology. He grew up in Cape Town, South Africa and currently resides in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he heads up Simple - a consultancy with the aim to provide the future generation with "Simple solutions for complex times".
He writes about family offices, and how to align investments to families - using soft assets like a clearly defined Purpose, Values, Agility and more.

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The Rise Of The Family Office: Where Do They Go Beyond 2019?

The Rise Of The Family Office: Where Do They Go Beyond 2019?

There has been a significant increase in the number of family offices globally over the last ten years and th…

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How To Build Your Future Family Office

How To Build Your Future Family Office

Family offices have been around for ages but now is the time to take them forward. What crucial roles do they…

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The top ten trends that will affect family offices in 2019 and beyond

The top ten trends that will affect family offices in 2019 and beyond

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The latest trends in how family offices use technology

The latest trends in how family offices use technology

In another transformative year for the family office software industry — and for the entire tech industry — a…

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How AI is shifting expertise inside family offices

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By Francois Botha
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For much of family office history, knowledge moved in one direction. The principal held the institutional memory. The heir observed and eventually inherited authority along with the assets. That model assumed the tools of the trade were stable. They are not. A generation is entering family offices with a genuine technical advantage over those who built them. Fluency in new tools increasingly affects how capital is deployed, monitored and assessed.
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The succession challenge of next-generation technical expertise

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By Francois Botha
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For years, knowledge in most family offices moved in one direction. The principal held the institutional memory. The heir observed and eventually inherited authority, along with the assets. That model assumed the tools of the trade were stable, an assumption that is becoming harder to sustain as technology reshapes how investment decisions are made and information is processed across the office. A generation is entering family offices with a genuine technical advantage over those who built them.
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Dec. 18, 2025: Why family offices need strong data management to deliver greater value to clients

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By Francois Botha
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Dennis Mangalindan is the senior director of family office strategy and accounting sales for Canoe Intelligence, a financial technology company focused on alternative investment management. He spoke with Crain Currency about the challenges family offices face when grappling with the flood of private-markets data available today and why more precise, efficient data management is essential for extracting value from that data. His responses have been edited for clarity.
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