Insights
Writing on the coordination of significant acquisitions.
A small editorial record rather than a blog: four essays on how significant purchases should be structured, which disciplines belong at the table, and how commercial judgment is preserved from requirement through to long-term ownership.
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Marine
What to Consider Before Buying a Yacht
Use profile, running cost, survey and build oversight.
A yacht is an operating asset and a multi-year programme rather than a purchase that concludes at signature. Use profile, running cost, survey rigour and — where a build or refit is involved — construction governance determine whether ownership is satisfying or corrosive.
August 2026 · 8 minute read
Estates & Construction
Why Major Estate Projects Need Integrated Oversight
Where multi-year residential programmes lose value, and how the disciplines should be coordinated.
Significant residential programmes rarely fail for want of talented specialists. They lose value where each discipline optimises its own portion of the work and no one maintains the owner's commercial and decision framework across the whole.
August 2026 · 8 minute read
Acquisition Governance
How Family Offices Can Improve Acquisition Governance
Bringing institutional decision discipline to private acquisitions.
Family offices apply rigorous governance to investment decisions and frequently apply none to significant private purchases of comparable size. Governance here does not mean bureaucracy; it means knowing who advises, who decides, who has an economic interest, and what record remains.
August 2026 · 7 minute read
Further essays are issued only when the subject warrants one. Correspondence on the editorial programme may be directed to insights@aifeg.com.