Family office
Family office
ASTERALE carries out its family office work under two brands. ASTÉRALE Gazania advises large fortunes and entrepreneurial families from Africa. ASTÉRALE Cassinia is devoted to the governance and succession of large French family estates.
ASTÉRALE Gazania
Gazania provides wealth advice to large fortunes and entrepreneurial families from Africa, in Africa, France and Europe. These estates fall under several jurisdictions.
Access is by invitation or referral.
Website: gazania.fr. Contact: contact@gazania.fr.
ASTÉRALE Cassinia
Cassinia advises French families on the governance and succession of their estates, and on their structuring. It works with estates from €5 million, by referral.
Website: cassinia.fr. Contact: contact@cassinia.fr.
Common framework
ASTÉRALE Gazania and ASTÉRALE Cassinia are brands of ASTERALE, the wealth management advisory firm founded by Sébastien Bailly. Both brands operate under the firm's authorisations, ORIAS no. 23 007 423.
ASTERALE advises business owners, professionals and holders of established estates from Arcueil and Paris.
The aster family
All three names come from the botany of the Asteraceae, one of the two largest families of flowering plants.
In the daisy, the sunflower or the aster, the apparent flower is a flower head (capitulum): an assembly of dozens of florets gathered on a common receptacle.
ASTERALE takes its name from the order Asterales, to which this family belongs. The name comes from the Greek ἀστήρ, star.
Theodorus Gaza and the genus Gazania
The genus Gazania, native to southern Africa, honours Theodorus Gaza (c. 1398-1478), a Byzantine humanist.
Born in Thessalonica, Gaza took refuge in Italy ahead of the Ottoman advance. He taught Greek at Ferrara and then in Rome.
He translated into Latin Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants and Causes of Plants, the first botanical treatises in history. These texts had been inaccessible to Western readers for centuries.
Henri Cassini and the genus Cassinia
The genus Cassinia bears the name of Henri Cassini (1781-1832), botanist and viscount. The botanist Robert Brown dedicated it to him.
Four generations of Cassinis worked in succession at the Paris Observatory, measuring the sky and then the country. The first gave his name to the Cassini division in Saturn's rings. The fourth, Jean-Dominique, Henri's father, completed the map of France.
Henri Cassini turned to botany. From 1812 to 1830 he concentrated on one family, the Compositae, now called Asteraceae. He distinguished nineteen to twenty tribes within it, and the current classification of the family still bears the trace of this division.
Appointments
The first meeting, which lasts about an hour, is free of charge.
- Place
- By video call, in Arcueil, at our Paris 8th offices or at your home, by appointment
- Telephone
- +33 6 28 54 13 74