Luxembourg's annual gathering where family offices and European fund managers meet on neutral ground.
The Family Offices & Asset Management Summit (FOAM Luxembourg) is an annual, invitation-filtered conference held at the European Convention Center Luxembourg. Now in its fifth edition, it brings together approximately 300 delegates from single and multi-family offices, private banks, and asset management firms for a full-day programme of panels, think tanks, and a standing lunch with awards. The event is produced by Hubfinance, a Luxembourg-headquartered wealth management community platform operating across eight European countries.
Luxembourg holds a structural position in European private capital that no other jurisdiction replicates at scale. It is the largest fund domicile in the EU by assets under administration, housing a significant share of UCITS and alternative investment fund structures used by institutional investors across the continent. For family offices that allocate to private equity, real assets, or cross-border bond strategies, Luxembourg is not simply a conference venue: it is an operational jurisdiction where their fund investments are registered, administered, and distributed.
This context shapes the FOAM Luxembourg agenda in ways that distinguish it from generic wealth management conferences. Sessions address AIFMD and UCITS regulatory developments, fund domiciliation decisions, and the selection and monitoring of third-party managers, alongside more universal themes such as portfolio construction and succession planning. The combination pulls in not only family office principals but also service providers who are integral to fund operations: fund administrators, depositary banks, legal counsel, and distribution platforms.
The fifth-edition programme (2026) reflected macro uncertainty directly: panel titles included "Fortress Capital: Investing in Security, Sovereignty and Survival Assets", "The Great Reallocation: Redefining Safe Havens and Store-of-Value Strategies", and a think tank on AI adoption inside large asset managers and family offices. The inclusion of a NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence director as a panellist on the Fortress Capital session illustrated the event's willingness to bring in non-standard voices on geopolitical risk.
The delegate base divides into three broad groups. Family office principals and investment officers form the core: both single-family offices managing concentrated generational wealth and multi-family offices serving several client families. Private bankers and wealth managers from institutions such as HSBC Private Bank attend as counterparts to the family office community. The third group covers asset managers, fund platforms, and service providers, including firms such as KKR, Blackstone, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and BNY Investments, which use the event both as a distribution channel and as a source of market intelligence on family office allocation trends.
Access is filtered: Hubfinance license members attend free; non-members pay a registration fee and require prior validation by the organiser. This mechanism keeps the ratio of qualified buyers to vendors higher than at open-registration events.
The 2026 programme ran as a single main-stage day from 8:45 AM to 6:00 PM, structured around five panels and one think tank, followed by a standing lunch with the Partner Excellence Awards ceremony and an evening cocktail. Themes across the day included:
Confirmed speakers in 2026 included Georgia Pont (Alkimia Capital), Mikael Markman (KKR), Helie de Cornois (Stonehage Fleming), Diego De Potter (Family Partners), François Mollat du Jourdin (MJ&Cie), Erik Nordenskjöld (Citroneer), Christian Subbe (HQ Trust), Lior Katz (BlackRock), Jānis Sārts (NATO Stratcom Center of Excellence), and Nikola Krstic (Midas Wealth Management).
Luxembourg's relevance is structural rather than geographic. As the EU's dominant fund domiciliation hub, it is where the legal and operational infrastructure of European private markets actually sits. Family offices with cross-border allocations interact daily with Luxembourg-based fund administrators, depositary banks, and regulatory frameworks. Holding the summit there collapses the distance between the wealth allocation decision and the fund infrastructure that executes it. The presence of LAFO, the Luxembourg Association of Family Offices, as an event partner reinforces the jurisdiction's density of organised family office activity.
Hubfinance is a Luxembourg-headquartered membership platform for wealth management professionals, with 2,650 members across eight European countries. It functions as a combination of professional network, lead-generation tool, and event organiser. The organisation runs approximately 50 events per year across Luxembourg, Paris, Geneva, and Monaco, ranging from intimate networking lunches to full-day conferences. The FOAM summit is its flagship annual event. Hubfinance also operates the Luxembourg Wealth Management Awards, held the previous evening to the summit as a companion gathering.
FOAM Luxembourg is smaller and more geographically concentrated than pan-European family office events such as Prestel & Partner (Munich-based, broader LP universe) or the HNWI track at IPEM Cannes. Its advantage is specificity: the Luxembourg fund domicile angle, the Hubfinance community filter, and the single-day format compress relationship-building into a more tractable session. Delegates who need to cover EU fund regulation, cross-border distribution, and family office allocation in one room will find the density useful. Those seeking broader deal origination across European family offices may find the attendance count limiting.
If your primary objective is meeting a large number of new family office contacts across multiple jurisdictions, a 300-person single-jurisdiction event will under-deliver relative to larger conferences with open registration. Similarly, if your institution has no meaningful connection to Luxembourg as a fund domicile or distribution jurisdiction, the thematic anchoring of many sessions may not translate into actionable intelligence. The access filter also means that service providers without an existing Hubfinance relationship may face friction at registration.
Hubfinance was founded in Luxembourg and operates as a private membership network for wealth management and financial services professionals across continental Europe. Its 2,650 members include family offices, private banks, asset managers, insurance companies, fund servicers, legal advisors, and fintech operators. The platform combines CRM-style matchmaking tools with a live events programme of roughly 50 gatherings per year.
The organisation positions itself as a distribution infrastructure for wealth management: connecting asset managers seeking family office allocations with the investment decision-makers inside those offices. The FOAM summit functions as the centrepiece of this commercial logic, bringing the Hubfinance community together at scale once a year, with the Partner Excellence Awards recognising service quality across the network. Contact for event enquiries: event@hubfinance.com.
FOAM Luxembourg earns its place on the circuit through compression rather than scale: the Luxembourg fund domicile context gives the agenda a specificity that larger, geography-agnostic wealth events cannot replicate, and the Hubfinance membership filter keeps the delegate mix closer to genuine decision-makers than open-registration alternatives. The fifth-edition programme showed real willingness to engage with hard macro themes, including geopolitical risk and AI operational reality, rather than retreating to evergreen panel formats. For family offices and fund managers with meaningful exposure to Luxembourg-domiciled structures, attendance has a clear functional rationale beyond networking.
Registration requires prior validation by Hubfinance. Hubfinance license members and profiles meeting the organiser's eligibility criteria attend free of charge. For other professional profiles, an early-bird rate of €750 excluding VAT applies until 30 November, rising to a standard rate of €950 excluding VAT. Registration is handled via the official event page. The 2027 edition is already listed on the Hubfinance event platform.
The ECCL is located at 4 Place de l'Europe, 1499 Luxembourg (Kirchberg district), within the European Quarter. It sits adjacent to the European Parliament building and the Court of Justice of the EU. The venue is accessible by tram from Luxembourg City centre and has dedicated conference facilities across multiple auditorium and breakout configurations.
The 2026 edition was conducted in English. Given Hubfinance's bilingual French-English operations and its pan-European delegate base, English is the working language for plenary sessions. Some networking and sidebar conversations may occur in French, given the Luxembourg, French, and Belgian participant density.
| Official website | https://event.hubfinance.com/e/family-offices-asset-management-summit-2026/en |
| 2027 edition | https://event.hubfinance.com/e/family-offices-asset-management-summit-2027/en |
| Register | https://event.hubfinance.com/e/family-offices-asset-management-summit-2026/en/registration/register |
| Hubfinance community | https://www.hubfinance.com/en/ |