BREHMER & CIE. Family Office

Overview

BREHMER & CIE. Family Office is an independently identifiable, currently operating multi-family office based in Frankfurt. The firm serves families seeking intergenerational protection, wealth structuring, administration and sustainable development of substantial assets.¹

History

Thomas and Monika Brehmer founded the firm in 2009 to provide independent wealth management and multi-family-office services. The business moved from Bad Nauheim to Frankfurt in 2012 and has operated from Frankfurt’s Westend since 2017.²

Timeline

1. 2009Thomas and Monika Brehmer founded the firm in 2009 to provide independent wealth management and multi-family-office services.
2. 2012The business moved from Bad Nauheim to Frankfurt in 2012 and has operated from Frankfurt’s Westend since 2017.

Leadership

Thomas Brehmer is managing shareholder and licensed asset manager. The team page lists Monika Brehmer as shareholder, Dr. Conrad v. Sydow and Klaus Deng as senior partners, and Elmar J. Bohr as partner.³

Thomas Brehmer’s published background includes leadership roles at Sparkasse Wetterau, UBS Deutschland AG and Bank Sarasin AG. His qualifications include Diplom-Betriebswirt (FH), certified financial planner and bank clerk.⁴

Services

The firm’s model combines independent wealth management, family-office services and special-topic implementation. Its specialist work covers foreign assets, private-label funds and direct investments.⁵

Wealth management uses a multi-manager strategy with up to 20 independent asset managers. The firm says managers are selected through a best-in-class process and reviewed by its investment committee.⁶

Family-office services coordinate banks, investments, tax advisers, asset managers and insurers. The firm also assists with succession and inheritance planning, wills and powers of attorney, family-day facilitation, governance structures and advice on corporate-body appointments.⁷

BREHMER & CIE. monitors consolidated total-wealth reporting, appointed managers and banks, private-equity holdings, company participations, real estate and partner costs.⁸

Existing assets that can be integrated into an overall strategy include real estate, participations, shares in outside or family-owned companies and physical gold holdings.⁹

What the firm offers

• Tax planning
• Family governance and education
• Administration and bill pay
• Private and alternative investments

Client Focus

The firm primarily works with entrepreneurially oriented families that want coordinated oversight of substantial wealth, preparation for intergenerational transfer and practical administration across financial and non-financial assets.¹

Approach

BREHMER & CIE. describes its approach as independent, transparent and conservative, with an open investment architecture. It states that it excludes house products, commission transactions, unregulated products and other instruments it considers non-value-adding.¹⁰

The firm reports that it is a regulated securities institution authorized under § 15 WpIG and supervised by BaFin and the Deutsche Bundesbank. Its published authorization number is WA 31-K 5000-122601.¹¹

FAQs

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Sources

11. https://www.verwaltungsdaten-informationsplattform.de/register/134

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