Pembury Partners Travel Diaries: Canada Canada has some of the most rugged, unspoiled landscapes anywhere in the world. It naturally follows therefore that as a getaway-from-everything haven it is a highly desirable destination, and is home to some of the world’s finest resorts, spas and restaurants. Here we highlight a few of the highest calibre…
Pembury Partners Travel Diaries: Hong Kong The gateway to Asia, Hong Kong has for many, many years been a fusion of East and West, and has become a hub of cosmopolitan life. There’s a seemingly ever-growing number of luxury hotels and upscale bars, which would make compiling a comprehensive list an impossible task, and the…
Household Staff Uniforms For as long as families have had household staff, there have been staff uniforms in one form or another. A uniform can be seen to perform several desirable functions – it might protect your staff from the elements or other factors of their jobs, it helps to identify them to family, guests…
Cannes Yachting Festival The 2021 Cannes Yachting Festival takes place this year from Tuesday 7th September to Saturday 11th September, at Vieux Port and Port Canto on the beautiful Côte d’Azur. The festival has long been seen as the opening to the nautical season and plays host to many innovation and product premieres in the…
Who should lead your Family Office? A newly founded family office will need to seek a leader, as will an established office which has recently lost their senior executive. But where should this individual come from? Of what should their background and skill set consist? It’s an important consideration and could have a major influence…
Often when people hear the term ‘Family Assistant’, they might jump to the conclusion that it’s just another term for a ‘Nanny’ or Personal Assistant. But neither category can fully describe the benefits of having someone in your home to assist in the day to day runnings. For single mums with a full-time career, or…
What is a family office? A family office is a private consultancy firm that offers wealth management services to investors who have high net worth. They differ from regular wealth management agencies in that they bring a totally outsourced approach of managing the investment and financial aspects of an affluent family or party. Most family…
Benefits of Hiring a Personal Assistant Agency Finding the right talent to fill your personal assistant role(s) can be tough. It can be a real pressure to find the “right” candidate and if you are not actively involved in recruiting it can be difficult to know exactly where to start – or indeed where…
Finding people you can trust is perhaps one of the most critical components when hiring domestic and private staff. But that can be much easier said than done. There’s no shortage of willing applicants to domestic staffing roles and equally no shortage of means to find them – job boards, social media, LinkedIn, personal connections,…
