Morgan Stanley's Single Family Office Advisory has released its biennial compensation report. The 2025 report, created in collaboration with Botoff Consulting, offers critical benchmarks and trend analysis to empower family office leaders to make informed staffing and compensation decisions.
Findings spotlight how investment-focused single-family offices diverge from broader single-family office trends, particularly in terms of compensation. Investment-focused single-family offices are prioritizing the alignment of compensation practices with organizational strategy and assets under management (AUM), especially through executive compensation and structured long-term incentive (LTI) plans. LTIs are increasingly being used to help drive performance and safeguard family objectives — all as family members become more involved.
“Investment-focused single-family offices are particularly complex, and their compensation structures are no less so. With candidates more sophi
