Private Family Capital Investment Survey
What is the Private Family Capital Investment Survey
FOX has transitioned from the Global Investment Survey to better reflect the unique investment approaches and capital allocation strategies of our members and family office investors.
Peer-Comparable Information
We are helping family offices and family office investors to recognize, harness, and embrace Private Family Capital’s unique advantages and characteristics against a rapidly changing macro investing backdrop that continues to prompt families to rethink their approaches to portfolio strategy, direct investments, and capital structuring.
Survey Covers
Our revamped survey covers the familiar areas of investment allocation and performance, economic outlook, and the operating business landscape—highly sought-after data points within the FOX community.
But that's not all! This year's survey introduces exciting new sections on Enterprise Capital Strategies and Fund Investing. Dive into areas like direct investing, GP fund seeding, and builder capitalism.
This section covers Investment performance across different asset classes including cash and equivalents, fixed income, public equity, private natural resources, real estate, hedge funds, and private investing.

This new section looks comprehensively at decision-making process for portfolio investments and the percentage of investable assets managed internally or externally. It provides insights into the reasons for participating in direct investing, equity investment sizes, and examines traditional and direct investing portfolios from various angles to deliver unique benchmarking data.
Family offices are increasingly being intentional with investments and we seek to learn more about how such investments are structured and what motivates these initiatives.
This is the highly sought after benchmarking data delving into how families are thinking about the operating businesses, global issues likely to affect and measures taken in response.
Why Participate?
“I am keen on benchmarking my investment returns by asset class, especially in illiquid investments like private equity, real estate, and hedge funds. These are the hardest to gather data on.
I am interested in after-tax returns by asset class, which I can currently only calculate at the total portfolio level. I think FOX membership is probably the only organized group of sophisticated investors that are focused on after tax returns.
I want to learn how peers gather and analyze their investment return data. The FOX membership, particularly SCIOC, is the group most like me, making their solutions highly relevant"
- Member, FOX Strategic Chief Investment Officer Council
Statement of Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure
All information collected is strictly confidential and stored within encrypted and password-protected servers. Only select FOX employees will have access to individual-level data. FOX will never share any information collected from the survey that may lead to personal identification with any member or with any third party.
The survey results are anonymous and defined publicly in aggregate data sets. All information is treated as highly confidential and will never be used for any other purpose.