Software for family offices in Australia
One platform for multi-asset opportunity intake, diligence, portfolio consolidation, governance and beneficiary reporting, priced in AUD.
Reuben AI is used by family office teams across multiple jurisdictions. This page summarises how the platform fits the regulatory and structural context that family office teams in Australia typically operate in.
A family office manages capital across every asset class at once, for a small number of principals with long horizons. The operating problem is consolidation: public and private holdings, direct deals, funds and operating businesses rarely sit anywhere near each other.
Regulatory context in Australia
The primary financial services regulator is ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission), with fund vehicles also engaging APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority).
Australian private capital uses VCLP, ESVCLP or VILP partnerships registered under the Venture Capital Act 2002, CCIVs under the 2022 CCIV framework, or unit trusts operated as Managed Investment Schemes supervised by ASIC. Fund managers of wholesale MIS and CCIVs typically hold an AFSL from ASIC, with MIT and AMIT elections available for eligible trusts.
Australian family offices commonly operate through private companies and trusts; managing external family capital generally requires an AFSL from ASIC.
Common fund structures we see
- Managed Investment Scheme (MIS) under the Corporations Act 2001
- Wholesale Unit Trust for wholesale clients under the Corporations Act 2001
- Venture Capital Limited Partnership (VCLP) under the Venture Capital Act 2002
- Early Stage Venture Capital Limited Partnership (ESVCLP) under the Venture Capital Act 2002
- Venture Capital Incorporated Limited Partnership (VILP/ILP) under state Partnership Act frameworks
- Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle (CCIV) under the Corporations Amendment (Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle Framework and Other Measures) Act 2022
- Managed Investment Trust (MIT) under Division 275 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
- Australian Fund of Funds (AFOF) under the Venture Capital Act 2002
- Family or discretionary trust regulated by the ATO
- Self-Managed Super Fund (SMSF) regulated by the ATO
Reuben AI is structure-agnostic. It stores investment, LP and portfolio data in a shared model that maps cleanly onto each of the vehicle wrappers above. It is not a legal, tax or regulatory advice tool. Fund formation and structure decisions should be taken with qualified local counsel.
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How family office teams in Australia actually operate
Most family offices know their total position only as often as someone rebuilds it. Custodian statements, fund capital account notices, direct investment records and property valuations arrive at different times in different formats, and the consolidated view is a spreadsheet refreshed quarterly at best. Decisions get made against a picture that is already out of date.
The second issue is continuity. Family offices are small teams holding decades of context, and much of it is undocumented. Reuben AI keeps holdings, decisions and documents on one record, so the consolidated position is current and the reasoning behind past decisions survives a change of staff or a generational handover.
The recurring work Reuben AI carries
Consolidated position
Direct holdings, fund commitments, operating businesses and property in one view across every entity.
Commitment and call management
Undrawn commitments, call notices and distributions tracked so liquidity planning is based on real obligations.
Direct deal assessment
Opportunities assessed against the family's own criteria, with the record retained whether or not the deal proceeds.
Governance and continuity
Decisions, mandates and their rationale documented so context survives the people who hold it.
Local structuring, tax and regulatory advice remains with the fund's counsel and administrator. Reuben AI is software and is not registered with ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission).
Common questions
Can a family office see every asset class in one place?
Yes. That consolidation is the point: private holdings, fund interests, operating businesses and other assets sit on one record rather than in separate systems.
How are external fund commitments handled?
Commitments, calls, distributions and reported valuations are tracked per fund, so undrawn exposure and liquidity needs are visible rather than estimated.
Is it suitable for a multi-family office?
Yes. Each family's data is segregated, while the office can operate across them from one platform.
Also available for Australia
VC funds · PE funds · Private credit funds · Real estate funds
Sources
Every regulator, framework and jurisdictional fact on this page is drawn from the primary sources below. This page is informational and does not constitute legal, tax or regulatory advice.