Our expertise
A global multi-family office built on personal relationships for dynamic wealth management
“VAR Capital bases its business on good people and they prioritise picking a good team.”
Our Story
From single-family origins to global financial stewardship
Rooted in our origins as a single-family office, VAR Capital has evolved into a leading international financial advisory firm.
Our foundation is built on the first-hand experience of managing complex, cross-border family wealth and navigating the intricate dynamics of succession across generations.
Over the past decade, we have scaled our capabilities, intellectual capital, and international presence to meet the sophisticated needs of our clients who are global entrepreneurs and established families.
Throughout this evolution, our core principle remains absolute: to deliver a highly personalised service for each of our relationships while focusing on the conservation of capital.
As we have expanded internationally, our entrepreneurial culture remains firmly intact. We are driven by the same dedicated work ethic that built our own successful businesses, ensuring our clients receive consistent, senior-level partnership from day one. For our clients, this means the absolute reassurance of a stable team that truly understands their journey and acts as a steadfast financial anchor across generations.
Our Expertise
Decades of experience. Direct senior access.
Our senior team brings decades of experience across international hedge funds, investment banking and wealth management.
That depth shapes how we invest, how we communicate and how we respond when circumstances change. Our clients work directly with the people making decisions on their behalf.
We take a complete view of our clients' financial landscape: investment management, lending, succession planning. Investment performance is the foundation. Beyond investments, we have forged generational client relationships based on trust and attention. We listen carefully, speak honestly and remain engaged through every stage of your financial life.
Regulation driven by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority underpins everything we do. It provides a clear structure for how we manage our clients' wealth, report on performance and safeguard their interests. For our clients, it offers confidence that rigorous standards are consistently met.
Our Independence
Your outcome is our only incentive
As a founder-led company, our interests are aligned exclusively with those of our clients.
VAR Capital operates with structural independence. We allocate capital based strictly on strategic merit. Our fees derive entirely from assets under management. Therefore portfolio growth dictates our mutual success.
This structural freedom extends far beyond daily portfolio management. It empowers us to act as a truly objective anchor for your entire financial ecosystem. Whether we are navigating complex succession planning, structuring private capital investments or collaborating seamlessly with trustees, our independence guarantees that every piece of advice serves only the preservation of our clients' family legacies.
Our clients often come to us after years with larger institutions. They value direct access to decision-makers, transparent reporting and the freedom to ask difficult questions. We welcome that scrutiny.
VAR Capital’s Services
Based in London and Dubai, we offer asset management, lending and family office services to global clients.
Asset
Management
Disciplined investment management for private and corporate clients. Single-line securities deliver transparency and cost efficiency. Performance and capital preservation drive every decision.
Family Office
Support
Bespoke support for single family offices and UHNW clients. We act as an extension of your team, adding capability wherever gaps exist.
Private Capital
& Advisory
Strategic capital deployment into proven, profitable businesses. Patient, conviction-led investment with full transparency and aligned interests on every transaction.
Lending &
Bridging Finance
Specialist finance for high-net-worth borrowers. We act for you, source appropriate facilities and manage the process from application through completion.
Our Team
Vikash Gupta is a prominent figure in the global wealth management and fintech sectors, currently serving as the Co-Founder and CEO of VAR Capital, a multi-family office based in London and Dubai.
Vikash
Gupta
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Ashish Vasudeva is a Co-Founder and the Head of Clients at VAR Capital, where he oversees the firm’s relationship management strategy and client advisory services. With a deep commitment to transparency and alignment of interests, Ashish plays a central role in delivering bespoke financial solutions to ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals, families, and institutions globally.
Ashish
Vasudeva
Co-Founder and Head of Clients
Rajat Sharma is a Co-Founder and the Chief Investment Officer of VAR Capital, where he spearheads the firm’s investment philosophy and multi-asset strategy. With over 20 years of experience in global financial markets, Rajat is dedicated to providing ultra-high-net-worth investors and family offices with the sophisticated, institutional-grade portfolio management typically reserved for the world’s largest asset managers.
Rajat
Sharma
Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer
Amy Stewart is a Vice President at VAR Capital. Since joining VAR Capital in 2023, Amy has held a dual role as a Relationship Manager and Chief of Staff, combining client-facing responsibilities with strategic and operational oversight.
Amy
Stewart
Vice President
Tom brings over 20 years of Private Wealth experience to VAR Capital, where he leads the firm's lending practice and serves as a Partner.
Tom
Graham
Partner
Amie is a Director at VAR Capital, where she is responsible for coverage of key client relationships. She has extensive experience in financial services, with a background spanning investment advisory, strategic planning, and private wealth management.
Amie
O'Callaghan
Director
Rupesh is a Partner at VAR Capital, focused on Private Capital Investments. He works with entrepreneurs, business owners and family offices to deploy flexible capital — structured as credit or equity — into profitable mid-market businesses across the UK, MENA and India. Alongside this, he selectively advises on M&A and capital raising transactions where there is a strong fit with VAR's client relationships and investment mandate.
Rupesh
Patel
Partner
Jon is an Assistant Vice President at VAR Capital, bringing a distinctive combination of private banking experience, military discipline and quantitative training to the firm's client service and investment activities.
Jon
Sheldon
Assistant Vice President
Lynn is an Executive Director at VAR Capital where she focuses on international clients across Europe and the Americas as well as clients based in the UK. With more than 25 years of Private Banking and Wealth Management experience, Lynn is specialised in managing and advising UHNW clients and families with diverse and complex family structures and wealth requirements.
Lynn
Baker
Director
Chirag is a Director at VAR Capital, responsible for business development in the UK and growth markets. He brings over 15 years of experience across capital markets, risk, structuring and ultra-high-net-worth relationship management, gained at Barclays and J.P. Morgan.
Chirag
Patel
Director
Corporate Social Responsibility
We know that positive action and thought benefits both our clients’ financial ecosystems and the wider world, which is why we take our CSR seriously.
For us, social responsibility is more than empty words and corporate grandstanding, we view ESG as a continuous journey and a call to do better at all times.
As such, we have integrated an ESG lens into all our investment decision-making, in the belief that ESG-conscious firms will attract more capital in the future. Strong environmental initiatives are also embedded in our culture. Employees are encouraged to support their causes.
VAR Capital is proud to support several charitable causes. We also work with several global charities who benefit from our institutional advice and reduced fees.