Expanding family offices are finding themselves spoilt for choice in recruiting and retaining executive talent to help them navigate an increasingly complex and diversified investment space. After a six-week pause, family offices have returned to pre-coronavirus lockdown levels of activity in hiring new staff, according to leading family office recruiter Agreus Group. Professionalised families were depending less on outside institutional advisers as they had in the past. They sought talented professionals as they entered ambitious direct and co-investment deals just as lockdown redundancies thrust skilled, experienced and connected candidates back onto the crowded job market.