The BDO Global Private Client Symposium 2026 was held at the Andaz Singapore on Thursday 15 October 2026, reported venue-day by The Business Times (Tan Nai Lun and Jean Low, published 16 October 2026, 08:00 SGT). The coverage describes a private-client forum at which succession, governance and what gets passed down were re-examined against two figures it cites: US$12 trillion set to change hands in Asia over the next 15 years, and a Wealth Management Institute (WMI) study finding that seven in ten high-net-worth families are set to transfer wealth to later generations while only about half think the next generation is prepared to engage with the family office. Panels reported by name: a panel on the role of the next-gen in family offices, with moderator Yvonne Chan and panellists Russell Wee (director, Jean Yip Group, and a second-generation member of the family), Angel S Kurnia (chief operating officer, Icon Cozmo Realty) and Shareen Sandhu (an investment professional at Takahe, a Singapore-based family office, speaking as a member of the second generation herself); a panel in which Richard Mak, principal and chief executive officer of Highland Family Office, described a family charter drafted in 1992 and since revised, which sets liquidity requirements, a minimum investment size and ethical guidelines and bars the family from using leverage; and a panel on impact investing and patient capital, where Koh Jin Hoe, head of capital markets, global sales and origination at Singapore Exchange (SGX), said families provide entrepreneurial experience and networks rather than just capital, and Kenneth Goh, associate professor at Singapore Management University (SMU), argued that governance systems should allow for catalytic, long-horizon investments. Teo Kai Xiang, head of the Banking Development Division at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), is quoted on anchoring and resilience and on why Singapore continues to attract family offices. SCOPE, STATED HONESTLY: the symposium's own organizer surface was not fetched this run, so this node relies on the press report for the venue, the date and the named panellists; no delegate list, headcount, capital figure or fund size is asserted, and nothing here is an attendance list. The photograph printed with the coverage is credited to BDO but was published only by the newspaper, so no image ships on this node (see photoQaa). Public OSINT only; no invented attendees, net-worth or deals.