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Your Family Matters
Simonne Glessen's London-based multi-family office blends financial planning with life coaching, rejecting the traditional asset-gathering model.
Your Family Matters
Your Family Matters was established in London by Simonne Glessen, a financial planner who built her practice on the premise that families need advice on how to think about their wealth before they need product recommendations. The firm operates as a multi-family office, but one that deliberately avoids the investment-management arm's-length model. Instead, it positions itself at the intersection of cash-flow coaching, financial education, and emotional-money consultancy — serving families who want to align their resources with their actual lives. The firm's deployment posture is unconventional by institutional standards. Your Family Matters does not market a set of fund commitments, direct deals, or a proprietary asset-allocation framework. Its work centers on household-level financial decision-making: spending structures, savings rates, mortgage planning, intergenerational wealth transfer conversations, and the psychological barriers that prevent wealthy families from enjoying or effectively deploying their capital. The practice model treats the family's own lifetime spending as the primary asset to manage, with long-term portfolio allocation as a secondary consideration. Your Family Matters operates a lean, London-based professional team under Glessen's leadership, with key support from Business Manager Emma Paoli. The firm's output includes one-on-one family advisory, group workshops, and published thought leadership — including Glessen's co-authored book on financial coaching and her frequent commentary in the UK financial-planning press. The firm has carved a niche within the broader family-office ecosystem by partnering with private banks and wealth managers who refer clients needing the behavioral overlay that standard private-banking relationship managers are not structured to provide. The structural differentiator of Your Family Matters is its identity as a financial-coaching firm deliberately operating under the family-office label. This hybrid posture places it outside the standard regulatory and service categories of both traditional family offices and independent financial advisors (IFAs). Its 'strategy' is not a playbook of asset-class tilts but a repeatable process for aligning family spending, saving, and communication patterns — a moat built on practitioner-led behavioral finance rather than institutional brand or product shelf.
General information
Firm type
Multi Family Office
Year founded
—
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Europe
Country
United Kingdom
City
London
Corporate office
London, United Kingdom
Principals
Simonne Gnessen
Founder
Emma Paoli
Business Manager
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
How does Your Family Matters differ from a standard multi-family office?
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.
Does Your Family Matters manage investment portfolios?
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.
What kind of client typically engages Your Family Matters?
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.
Who runs the day-to-day advisory work at Your Family Matters?
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.
How does the firm get paid?
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.
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