Belz Family & Associates

Belz Family & Associates

Belz Family & Associates operates as an alternative investment manager and multi-family office from Sydney, with additional footholds in Singapore and the US. The firm was built to bridge Asia-Pacific family capital with private-market opportunities concentrated in the United States. Jonathan Belz, who spent earlier career years at Credit Suisse in New York and Goldman Sachs in Australia and Hong Kong, co-leads the firm after a tenure as head of Private Investments at the Victor Smorgon Group. The firm pursues a relationship-sourced model across private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, and digital assets. Sectors of focus include gaming, sports, wellness, and startup-stage ventures. The team invests directly alongside its clients, underwriting downside risk before sizing commitments. The geographic remit spans Australia, Greater China, and North America — a corridor the firm's Mandarin-fluent founder has explicitly cultivated. Beyond Belz, a 20-person team includes Co-Founder Gavin Ezekowitz, formerly RBC's Head of Capital Markets Asia-Pacific, and Head of Investments Matt Curtolo, who previously directed private equity at MetLife Investment Management. The firm is not a single-family operation; it serves multiple ultra-high-net-worth families and in 2025 added institutional-caliber operations leadership, naming Bridget Nichols as COO/CCO after she helped launch Australia's first spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. The firm's structural differentiator is a disclosed marketing arrangement with Memphis-based Belz Investco GP, LLC, which points to a trans-Pacific capital-raising architecture rather than a pure advisory mandate. This alignment with a US GP suggests co-investment pipelines are part of the model — a hybrid family-office and placement-agent posture that is distinct from most Sydney-headquartered multi-family peers.