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Explore setup requirements, costs and timelines, family-office VCCs, 13O and 13U, your own licence versus an existing fund manager, and ongoing compliance.
Private trust company Singapore guide: the reg 4(1)(a) exemption, the duty to engage a licensed trust company, MAS Notice TCA-N03 and Trustees Act shields.
Does Singapore have estate tax? No: estate duty ended for deaths from 15 February 2008. See where UK, US, Japanese and Korean death taxes can still apply.
Existing Singapore single family offices must meet MAS's new class exemption conditions by 15 June 2027. Here are the restructuring options for each failed condition: third-party money, key-employee…
Where the MAS licensing line falls between a single family office and a multi-family office in Singapore, tested against in-laws, a family split, a friend's capital, co-investment and…
Singapore applies the amended CRS and the new CARF from 1 January 2027, with first exchanges in September 2028. How VCCs, single family offices, private trust companies and…
Singapore VCC Fund formation Family office structures Singapore incorporation and administration Discuss your structure → Short answer: ADGM offers a lightly administered single family office licence (its published…
Singapore VCC Fund formation Family office structures Singapore incorporation and administration Discuss your structure → Short answer: Swiss voters rejected the proposed 50% federal inheritance and gift tax…
Singapore VCC Fund formation Family office structures Singapore incorporation and administration Discuss your structure → Short answer: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Singapore Asset Management Survey 2025…
How a single family office principal can reach Singapore permanent residence without the GIP: the Employment Pass and COMPASS, Dependant's Passes for the family, and the factors ICA…
Where assets are booked, where they are managed, where the vehicle is domiciled and where the family lives are four separate legal questions. We explain the difference using…
Section 90 of the Trustees Act 1967 shields lifetime Singapore-law trusts of foreign settlors from inheritance and succession rules, on three conditions. We read the text, its reserved…
Singapore VCC Fund formation Family office structures Singapore incorporation and administration Discuss your structure → Short answer: The Global Investor Programme grants Singapore permanent residence to qualifying business…
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