World’s Richest Families Trimming Positions In One Sector in Effort to Beat Inflation, According to Goldman Sachs

Family offices around the world are shuffling their portfolios in reaction to persistent and sticky inflation in most developed markets.

The world’s richest families are trimming positions in private equity and moving more towards public markets, Bloomberg reports.

A Goldman Sachs survey found that single-family offices allocated an average of 31% of their investment portfolios to public equities in 2025, up from 28% in 2023, which was the last time that Goldman conducted the survey.

Besides private equity, other large allocations include cash and cash equivalents, fixed income, private real estate and infrastructure and hedge funds.

Sara Naison-Tarajano, Goldman’s global head of private wealth management capital markets, said that family offices began buying up discounts when markets dipped on tariff-induced uncertainty in April of this year.

“Family offices jumped in at ‘Liberation Day’ with two feet, two arms, the whole head.”

Over half of family offices surveyed said they hold an overweight position in technology, and 86% reported some level of exposure to artificial intelligence, primarily through publicly traded stocks.

Interest in cryptocurrency is also rising — 33% now invest in the asset class, up from 26% two years ago — though 44% still say they are not interested at all. Nearly 70% of respondents manage at least $1 billion in assets, with 47% based in the Americas and the rest spread across Asia and the EMEA region.

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