How and Where Do The Wealthiest Families of India Invest? | Prashant Tandon of Lighthouse Canton on The India Opportunity Show with Shrishti Sahu
Global investment playbook for Indians looking to diversify geographically
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Our guest today works closely with Indian promoters and family offices as they globalise their wealth and restructure their capital across India, the UAE, and other international markets.
Prashant Tandon from Lighthouse Canton has been deeply involved in building and scaling cross-border wealth platforms, and advising families on the things that really matter at that level: governance, capital allocation, succession, and long-term legacy, especially as capital becomes more global and families diversify across geographies.
This conversation is designed as a practical playbook for Indian business owners and family offices who are either seriously evaluating the UAE, or are already in the middle of setting up a presence there.
Prashant, you’ve spent decades advising some of the wealthiest families across India, Southeast Asia, and now the Middle East across market cycles, across jurisdictions, and across generations.
So today, I’d love to go beyond just “returns” and talk about how global wealth is actually built, preserved, and transferred.
Over the last few years, we’ve seen more and more Indian promoters and founders look at the UAE, not just for tax efficiency, but as a strategic base for global investing, holding structures, governance, and long-term planning.
So I want to unpack this shift from a very practical, decision-maker lens - what’s real, what’s hype, what families get wrong, and what the best families do differently.
Chapters
00:00 Episode introduction
03:10 Ease of Business: India v/s UAE
06:12 Global banking exposure
09:45 Banker to entrepreneur
13:18 UHNI mindset
16:42 Wealth preservation rules
20:05 Risk vs reward
23:34 Asset allocation logic
27:02 Market cycle mistakes
30:18 Investor psychology
33:56 India vs global markets
37:22 Managing volatility
40:48 Client behavior insights
44:05 Common investing errors
47:36 Power of patience
51:04 Long term discipline
53:28 Closing thoughts
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