Your Family Matters

The firm consciously separates itself from the investment- and asset-management focus of traditional multi-family offices. It provides financial coaching, cash-flow education, and behavioral advice rather than building or monitoring investment portfolios. Its core proposition is helping families make better day-to-day financial decisions and resolve the emotional tensions that often surround inherited or earned wealth.

No. Your Family Matters does not select fund managers, allocate across asset classes, or execute direct investments on behalf of its clients. Its role is upstream of portfolio management — it coaches families on how to structure their spending, saving, and financial communication so that any subsequent investment mandate can be designed to serve their actual life goals.

The firm works with families and individuals — often those who have recently come into wealth through a liquidity event or inheritance — who need help understanding their relationship with money before making long-term financial commitments. Clients often arrive via referrals from private banks, wealth managers, or solicitors who recognize that a purely product-based approach is insufficient for the family's needs.

Simonne Glessen, the founder, is the lead practitioner and public face of the firm. She is a trained financial planner and coach, co-author of a book on financial coaching, and a frequent speaker in the UK financial-planning community. Business Manager Emma Paoli supports client operations, but the core advisory methodology is Glessen's own.

Your Family Matters operates on a fee-for-service coaching and advisory model, not on assets under management. This deliberately sidesteps the conflict of interest inherent in percentage-of-AUM fee structures. It charges for its time and process, meaning the advice is not tied to a product sale or a portfolio size.