01Hatton Carter
Hatton Carter is a Western European multi-family office with offices in London and The Hague, focused on investment strategy and the stewardship of substantial private capital.
Portfolios tend to sit inside a wider financial reality than the positions shown on a statement. Liquidity, structures, tax and reporting pressures and long-term obligations all shape the outcome, so our work begins by mapping those pieces alongside the assets.
02Positioning
Hatton Carter is built for clients who want serious investment thinking without allowing the rest of their affairs to fragment into separate conversations.
Public markets, private assets, cash requirements and long-term planning all influence one another. Hatton Carter is often engaged precisely because investment management on its own does not resolve those interdependencies.
02.1What we do
03Approach
We set strategy by asking what the money is meant to do and how much loss is acceptable on the way. Strategic allocation and manager choices are assessed against the whole balance sheet. The same is true of liquidity.
In practice, the same pool may need to support growth and provide spending power. It may also need to be ready for transactions that do not run on a reporting timetable.
04Why Hatton Carter
Many clients come to us with several capable advisers, each working in isolation and none charged with joining the pieces together. Hatton Carter makes that difference.
04.1What changes
The portfolio is examined alongside ownership arrangements and current obligations. The point is to bring these strands into one frame, so decisions are taken with a full picture.
05Family office
Mandates range from narrow, investment-led briefs to broader engagements where we also bring the surrounding arrangements into order.
Our family office work can include consolidated reporting and planning coordination. It may also extend to oversight of external specialists and selected personal office support.
05.1Information first
Sophisticated portfolios are weakened by poor reporting. When information is scattered, decisions drift and positions can quietly become more concentrated than intended.
We place real weight on reporting quality, capital mapping and implementation oversight.
06Capabilities
Allocation design shaped by objectives, liquidity needs, tax position and risk appetite.
Review of managers, mandates, concentration, performance and cash deployment.
Assessment of fit, pacing, downside exposure and portfolio interaction across less liquid investments.
Work alongside legal, tax and specialist advisers so major decisions hold together in practice.
Consolidated reporting with practical support for how the finances are run day to day.
07In their words
I know who I’m calling. It’s a small team, they know our situation and I don’t have to explain the background every time.
Jonathan W. · London
They have a good sense of when to press a point and when to leave something alone for a while. That balance has been important for us.
A. Patel · London
The conversations never feel hurried, even when the topic is sensitive. I don’t feel sold to. I feel like someone is thinking it through with me.
R. Janssen · Rotterdam
What I like is that they don’t arrive with a fixed answer. They ask questions and they listen to us carefully. Only then do they suggest a way forward. It has changed how we think about our affairs.
C. de Vries · The Hague
Our family is spread between the Netherlands, the UK and Switzerland. Hatton Carter helped us get a clear picture of our situation without trying to push everyone into the same solution.
Sofia L. · Amsterdam
08Begin a conversation
Serious investment work starts with a clear grasp of the client’s position and ends with decisions being carried through in a way that can withstand events.
Hatton Carter brings that work together from London and The Hague, with an investment-led approach supported by the family office capabilities required to keep wealth properly organised.