Graham Reeve

Graham Geoffrey Reeve is a Chartered Accountant (Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia) who has advised wealthy families and single- and multi-family offices for more than 40 years. His career is rooted in the professional-services and family-wealth world, with his professional history associated with Arthur Andersen & Co and, most prominently, The Myer Family Company Ltd and the Myer Family Office in Melbourne.

Reeve served as Chief Executive / Managing Director of the Myer Family Office, one of Australia's oldest and best-known multi-family offices. The Myer operation traces its origins to 1972, when the first employee was hired to serve one branch of the Myer retailing family, and from 1999 it opened its services to other high-net-worth families (initially with a minimum of around A$30 million in investable assets). Under Reeve's leadership the firm expanded beyond investment management into intergenerational planning, governance and the "softer," family-psychology dimensions of managing multi-generational wealth. He has publicly argued that establishing a genuine single-family office generally requires disposable assets of at least roughly A$100 million, and that ultra-high-net-worth clients reject standard, packaged solutions in favour of bespoke advice.

Since 23 July 2010 Reeve has been a director of Todd Family Office Limited in New Zealand — the family office of the Todd family, one of New Zealand's wealthiest business dynasties (associated with the Todd Corporation's energy, property and investment interests) — and he currently serves as its Chairman. In this capacity he continues to advise on family-office structure, governance and long-term investment strategy across the Australia–New Zealand region.

• Operates through the multi-family / single-family office model, deploying and stewarding capital on behalf of ultra-high-net-worth families rather than as a stand-alone angel writing personal cheques.
• Emphasises long-horizon, multi-asset portfolios and capital preservation across generations, integrating investments with tax, estate, governance and philanthropic planning.
• Believes ultra-high-net-worth families "do not want standard packaged solutions" — i.e., bespoke, mandate-driven strategy over off-the-shelf products.
• Has framed the sector optimistically, describing a "golden era for family offices, where clients have realised what they want and that it is delivered well through the type of model we offer."
• Family offices in his orbit (Myer, and the Mutual Trust group that absorbed Myer Family Office) have publicly emphasised software/technology, infrastructure, property, insurance, healthcare and listed equities — with a value-growth, quality-at-a-discount philosophy.