Family Offices????

Can you get access to Preqin? Is usually pretty good, lists family offices that invest in HFs, so most of the large ones, some of the information can be a little out of date though.

There are a lot of them, obviously - Soros comes to mind lol. But a significant portion of these "offices" are simply funds which are incorporated as Family Offices for tax purposes, and are really just glorified AM accounts.

Hoovers might be good to search if your bank has a subscription.

Multi-family offices aren't too dificult to find, in fact a lot of banks offer "family office" services (as Sandhurts said, they're basically glorified AM accounts). I looked the Prequin and they're mostly these. I know there are the big whales like Cascade, Soros, Vulcan, Henry Crown, Oak Hill, etc. but I guess I'm looking for a "garden variety" list.

My strategy so far has been google, google, google. Not efficient..

I met someone the other day who said they worked at a 'family office of XX Private Equity firm'. It is one of the larger PE shops....what exactly does that mean?? The kid is usually full of shit - If he said he worked for the family office of KKR for example, what exactly would that mean?

I spent a few minutes in Thompson, and can't seem to turn up anything. I imagine these guys like it that way, though. Privacy and whatnot.

Sandhurst, you aren't looking in the right places. HumPiran, Check out www.familyofficereview.com. Looking for lists is a waste of time - even if you get one it's crap. You have to start learning about the biz as a whole, dude.