List of the 100 largest Single Family Offices in Australia [2025]

List of 3 large Australian single-family offices

Australia is often overlooked as an important hub for high-net-worth individuals (HNWI) and their respective family offices. Sydney is home to more than 200 people with a net worth of over 100 million USD and 30 billionaires. Thanks to its high living standards and access to international markets, Australia is experiencing a boom in family offices. In the following, we are introducing you to three interesting Australian single-family offices that are also part of our list we created to give an overview of the Australian family office landscape.

1. Tattarang (Perth)

Tattarang is the family office of the Forrest family. The private investment firm invests in agriculture and food, resources, real estate, hospitality, and entertainment. Portfolio companies include Fortescue Metals Group (through a 36% stake), invex Therapeutics (listed on ASX since July 2019), and GLX Digital. Tattarang is also active in philanthropic efforts through the Minderoo Foundation. Tattarang structures its operations around several core investment verticals: Energy, Health Technology, Consumer and Lifestyle, Property, Resources, and Other. Within Energy, Tattarang operates through Squadron Energy, which has developed and acquired a number of renewable energy projects in Australia.

2. Sandbar Investments (Sydney)

The Barry and Sandra Smorgon family manages its wealth through the Sandbar Investments single-family office. Sandbar invests in private equity, stock markets, venture capital, and real estate, as well as alternative assets. The family office is managed by Darren Smorgon and chaired by Barry Smorgon. Smorgon was the owner and chairman of the Jalco Group of Companies, which was sold in 2015. Portfolio companies of Sandbar include the co-working platform Hub Australia and Tismor Health & Wellness. A notable example is the $100 million corporate debt fund at Arrowpoint Capital.

3. BBRC Worldwide (Sydney)

Brett Blundy, an Australian entrepreneur with a net worth estimated at 1.8 billion AUD, manages his wealth through his family office, BBRC. The private investment vehicle invests in retail, consumer, funds management, property, agriculture, and technology. The company is also an active fund manager, e.g, through BBRC Capital Management. Property investments are made through the Aventus Retail Property Fund. BBRC also runs an office in New York.

Information included in our list

The following data points are given applicability and availability, included in our Australian single-family office database:

• Country of main location
• Company name
• Contact data (URL, address, e-mail, telephone number, executives)
• Family information (Name, Estimated family assets in M€, Holding structure)*
• Real Estate Focus (Yes/No) / Real Estate Focus Details / Example Real Estate Investments
• Venture Capital Focus (Yes/No) / Details on Venture Capital Focus / Examples of Venture Capital Investments
• Private Equity Focus (Yes/No) / Details on Private Equity Focus / Examples of Private Equity Investments
• Financial assets focus (Yes/No)
• Renewable Energies Focus (Yes/No)
• Other focus (art, forest and agricultural areas, etc.)
• Date of creation, last check and last update

Our database of the largest Australian single family offices

Australia has a highly developed economy with strong companies, especially in the mining and tech industries. Today, more than 30 billionaires live in Australia. Many of the wealthy manage their wealth through so-called single-family offices, which are dedicated family investment firms. Australian family offices are an important part of today’s investment environment. They are active investors in financial markets, real estate, private equity, venture capital, and other alternative asset classes. Our list offers a unique chance to get in touch with the most important family investment vehicles from Australia.

Important family investment vehicles from Sydney and Melbourne

Major family office hubs in Australia are located in Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is a major financial center in Australia. Also, the Australian Securities Exchange, one of the major trading hubs in the Asia-Pacific region, is headquartered in Sydney. Also, Melbourne is a major financial hub. Melbourne, especially the suburban South Yarra, is home to many different single-family office investment firms.

Why do we offer the best HNWI investor list?

Our research team has spent years identifying the most relevant Australian single-family offices and collecting them in our internal database. For our research, various channels are utilized: network research, transaction investigation, web crawlers, press releases, etc. Our team has several years of experience in the family office sector and is well-connected. Our European single-family office database or American single-family office database are highly-regarded product in the global investment and family office community.

High data quality through in-depth research

We offer the most datapoints and the highest data quality: every single family office we add to our list is manually checked by our research team. We gather as much information as possible and take care to carefully select the most relevant and largest single-family offices. Thereby, our customers receive a high-quality list of Australian single-family offices.

Disclaimer: Due to the secrecy of some family offices, we are sometimes not able to provide you with email addresses or other pieces of information. In case we don’t know the exact investment focus, the specific column is marked as n.a.

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