13th annual gathering of 100+ single family offices and UHNWIs at the Dolder Grand Hotel, Zurich: two days of peer exchange with no sales pitches and strict data privacy.
The Prestel & Partner Zurich Family Office Forum is a two-day, invitation-reviewed gathering held annually at the Dolder Grand Hotel in Zurich. Now in its 13th edition, it brings together more than 100 single family offices, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and selected investment experts for peer-to-peer discussion on governance, investment strategy, and operational practice. The format is deliberately selective: principals managing at least USD 150 million attend at no cost, while service providers purchase a delegate pass. The result is a room where family office decision-makers structurally outnumber vendors.
Prestel & Partner is an independent London-based platform that has operated exclusively in the family office segment for fourteen years. The firm runs nine annual forums across key financial cities: London, Wiesbaden, New York, Zurich, Riyadh, Dubai, Los Angeles, and Singapore. Each event follows the same format logic: a controlled attendee ratio, interactive panels dominated by family office representatives rather than service providers, and a strict no-sales-pitch environment. The platform does not operate as a conference business in the conventional sense. It positions itself as a private membership circuit for principals who want to compare notes with peers rather than sit through product presentations.
The Zurich edition occupies a specific role within this circuit. Held each November, it draws Swiss-domiciled family offices alongside international families with Swiss banking relationships or structural ties to the DACH region. With the 2025 edition recording 132 family office attendees, Zurich consistently delivers one of the highest buy-side concentrations in the series. For principals seeking peers at a comparable asset scale in the Germanic and Alpine markets, it is the natural annual touchpoint.
The core constituency is single family offices (SFOs) managed by principals or a small executive team, typically overseeing assets of USD 150 million and above. Multi-family offices and UHNWI principals without a formal office structure also attend, provided they meet the asset threshold and are not marketing a product or service to other attendees.
On the supply side, a controlled number of asset managers, private equity and private credit fund managers, real estate specialists, and professional advisors attend as paid delegates. The organiser enforces a buy-side majority: family office decision-makers must outnumber service providers at all times. This is not a rhetorical commitment; it is structurally enforced through the attendance categories.
The 2026 programme spans topics including advanced nuclear energy, healthcare innovation, real estate, fintech, sustainability, and governance. Speaker selection favours practitioners and entrepreneurs over keynote-circuit professionals, and family office principals appear on panels alongside external experts rather than ceding the stage to service providers.
The Dolder Grand is a 125-year-old grand hotel set on a hillside overlooking Zurich, ten minutes from the city centre and twenty minutes from the airport. It houses a Michelin-starred restaurant, a 4,000 m² spa, a golf course, and one of Switzerland's most significant private art collections. The property was comprehensively renovated in 2008 by Norman Foster and Partners, adding a contemporary wing while preserving the original Historicist main building.
The choice of venue is not incidental. A hotel at this level communicates scarcity and quality simultaneously: the number of attendees is capped by the space available for intimate networking rather than by artificial limits set in the brochure. Breakout areas, dining rooms, and the spa grounds all function as networking infrastructure. For principals who are accustomed to being solicited at large conventions, the Dolder Grand setting reinforces the organiser's central promise: this is a private gathering, not a trade show in an expensive jacket.
Prestel & Partner is an independent London-registered platform specialising exclusively in family office forums. Founded approximately fourteen years ago, it operates nine annual events across global financial centres: London, Wiesbaden, New York, Zurich, Riyadh, Dubai, Los Angeles, and Singapore. The Zurich edition is the longest-running of the European forums, reaching its 13th edition in 2026.
The forum draws primarily single family offices from Switzerland and the broader DACH region, complemented by international SFOs with Swiss custody, banking, or legal structures. Multi-family offices are also present. The common denominator is asset scale: the organiser targets families managing USD 150 million or above, with many attendees significantly above that threshold. Families from the Gulf, UK, and wider Europe attend alongside the Swiss and German core.
The forum is open to both sides, but on different terms. Asset managers, fund managers, private banks, and other service providers attend as paid delegates at £4,490 (plus 8.1% Swiss VAT) for the full two days, or £2,990 for a single day. All applications are individually reviewed. The organiser enforces a structural majority of family office principals at all sessions; service providers are present but do not dominate the programme or the room.
The forum is not suited to networking across a broad professional spectrum: it is tightly focused on the family office and UHNWI segment. For asset managers whose target LP base sits below USD 150 million in assets under management, the audience density will not justify the delegate fee. The format also centres on peer discussion rather than keynote content; attendees who prefer structured conference programming or large exhibition floors will find the intimate two-day gathering constraining rather than valuable.
Prestel & Partner operates as an independent platform rather than a trade association or events company with a broader portfolio. Its entire output consists of family office forums. The firm's differentiation rests on format discipline: it maintains the buy-side majority commitment across every edition and every city, and enforces total data privacy, meaning attendee lists are not sold or shared with third parties. Speakers and attendees are described only in aggregate in any post-event materials.
The 2025 Zurich post-event report confirmed 132 family offices in attendance. Over fourteen years of consistent format execution, Prestel & Partner has built a circuit of principals who return annually across multiple cities. The London edition (Corinthia Hotel, July 2026) and the Wiesbaden edition (September 2026) bracket the Zurich forum seasonally and draw from an overlapping principal base.
The intimate luxury format is a genuine differentiator for a specific buyer: a principal who is already saturated by large conferences and needs a room where everyone present is a peer. The Dolder Grand setting and the enforced buy-side majority both serve that buyer directly. The risk is that the format's selectivity becomes self-reinforcing to the point of exclusivity by asset scale alone: principals managing USD 150 to 300 million may find the network skewed toward the very top of the wealth distribution. The paid delegate track for service providers is honest and clearly priced, but the annual calibration between buy-side proportion and commercial sustainability is the organiser's central operational challenge. Fourteen years of consistent execution suggests they have found a working equilibrium.
Family office principals and UHNWIs managing a minimum of USD 150 million (EUR 120 million) who are not marketing a product or service attend at no cost. All other attendees, including asset managers, fund managers, private banks, real estate specialists, and advisors, purchase a delegate pass.
Pricing for the 2026 Zurich edition:
Registration is by application only. Attendees submit a request via the online form on the official event page or by email to events@prestelandpartner.com. Every application is reviewed individually before confirmation. This is the mechanism through which the organiser maintains the buy-side ratio.
The forum operates on an application-reviewed basis rather than strict invitation-only. Anyone can apply via the official website or by email. Applications from family office principals meeting the asset threshold are approved by default unless the organiser identifies a conflict with the no-sales-pitch policy. Service provider applications are reviewed for fit and for maintaining the buy-side majority. The process is selective but not closed.
The Dolder Grand is located at Kurhausstrasse 65, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland. It sits on a hillside in the Doldertal neighbourhood, approximately ten minutes by car from Zurich's main train station (Hauptbahnhof) and twenty minutes from Zurich Airport. The hotel operates its own funicular from Römerhof tram station.
| Official event page | https://prestelandpartner.com/familyofficeforumzurich.html |
| Agenda | https://prestelandpartner.com/zurich-agenda.html |
| Organiser main site | https://prestelandpartner.com/ |
| Registration / contact | events@prestelandpartner.com |