The Importance of Creating Family Offices in Chile: A Strategic Opportunity for the Regions

Chile is at a pivotal moment in the evolution of private wealth, particularly beyond Santiago. Across the regions, there is a significant concentration of economic value within diversified family-owned groups—spanning real estate and construction, mining, fisheries, hospitality, agriculture, and agroindustry—that now require far more sophisticated, professional, and strategic wealth management structures. Under these conditions, the creation of regional Family Offices is no longer a luxury, but a structural necessity to protect, project, and grow family wealth over the long term.

From Maximiliano Morales and Juan Carlos Nuñez Agreda from URKAN Innovación y Proyectos emphasize that the main challenge for regional Family Offices is high-level specialization. Unlike more homogeneous wealth structures, regional economic groups operate across multiple industries, each with distinct regulatory, technological, and environmental realities. This demands teams capable of integrating financial vision with deep sectoral expertise and territorial understanding—while incorporating sustainability, climate change adaptation, water efficiency, and productive modernization into their strategies.

A critical pillar of this new model is the systematic connection with scientific research and universities. In Chile, dozens of patents, technological developments, and innovations—particularly in agricultural genetics, water management, biotechnology, and advanced materials—remain stalled due to a lack of commercialization pathways, scaling strategies, or smart capital. Family Offices can become the essential bridge between science and the market: attracting investment, improving productive processes, supporting researchers, and turning knowledge into tangible economic, social, and environmental impact for the regions.

Strengthening regional Family Offices not only professionalizes family wealth management, but also drives innovation, creates productive linkages, and positions Chile as a country capable of transforming traditional wealth into knowledge-based development.

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