SEBI clarifies ‘No Regulatory Oversight of Family Offices’ amid Media Speculation [Read Press Release]
Recent Media Reports had suggested that the Securities and Exchange Board of India had opted to bring increased oversight into family offices.
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The Securities andExchange Board of India (SEBI) on Friday (03 October, 2025) issued a clarificatory press release rebutting recent media reports suggesting that the body was preparing regulatory oversight of family offices.
The clarification added that the saying the stories were “factually incorrect” and that it was not pursuing the matter at present. The clarification by SEBI came following extensive media coverage by major houses that linked the regulator to potential measures affecting ultra-high-net-worth family wealth managers.
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What are Family Offices?
Family offices are essentially private entities that manage investments, tax and succession planning for wealthy families. Family offices have attracted greater public attention in recent times as changing norms in reporting standards.
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Industry commentators had flagged the possibility that regulators might seek greater transparency around family offices’ structures, assets and disclosures; these debates inadvertently led to the media picking up on speculative threads.
However, the SEBI note stops short of digressing into the subject of admitting any internal review on the topic, stressing that the specific reports in circulation were inaccurate.
Sources report that news published by the Bloomberg had hinted that SEBI had intimated family offices to disclose details regarding their entities, assets and investments returns - paving way for a separate categorization of such offices and their working mechanism.
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For now, the official clarification from the Securities and Exchange Board of India puts to rest all the immediate speculation about plausible oversight over family offices. All market participants and media outlets have thus been informed of the Regulator’s stance on the matter as the final and most authoritative account on the subject, until and unless the SEBI itself signals otherwise.
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