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定数额的当地投资。除了这些直接贡献外，SFOs 在与外部金融、税务和法律专

业人士合作处理财富规划和管理事务时，也间接创造了就业机会。此外，他们扩

充了潜在资本数量，用于 ESG 投资、慈善活动等有意义的事项。这将增加对新
加坡经济的正面溢出效应，并提高新加坡家族理财办公室的专业性。

21. Reply to Parliamentary Question on Family Offices Registered in Singapore

(2022/7/4)

Question:

To ask the Prime Minister in each of the last five years and year-to-date, what is

(i) the number of family offices registered in Singapore (ii) their aggregate business

spending (iii) the amount of assets under management (AUM) held and (iv) the

amount of their AUM invested locally.

Answer by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Minister in
charge of MAS:

As Single Family Offices (SFOs) do not manage third party monies, they are not

required to be registered or licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

As such, MAS does not have authoritative data on the number of SFOs or the scale of

their operations in Singapore.

Based on MAS’ estimates, there were about 400 SFOs as at end-2020 and 700

SFOs as at end-2021. MAS does not have estimates on aggregate business spending,

aggregate AUM held and the amount invested locally by SFOs.

For SFOs seeking tax incentives on income derived from their investments

managed in Singapore, they are required to meet criteria on business spending, assets

under management, and investment professionals hired. With effect from April this

year, the requirements under each of these criteria were increased, and a new
requirement stipulating that SFOs must make a certain amount of local investments

was introduced. Besides these direct contributions, SFOs also generate indirect

employment when they work with external finance, tax and legal professionals on

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