On 12 September 2014, SMU Business Families Institute (BFI@SMU) celebrated its second anniversary. The Institute also received a second research grant from Deloitte Southeast Asia, which will fund a Business Family Research Programme over three years beginning Academic Year 2014. The Institute is set to kick-start the three-year programme with a research study among business families in Asia on the best practices in business family governance, which will cover family governance strategies, platforms and structures. The signing ceremony for the research grant was represented by signatories: SMU President Professor Arnoud De Meyer, and Mr Tam Chee Chong, Regional Managing Partner of Financial Advisory Services at Deloitte Southeast Asia. Professor De Meyer, said, “In the last two years, BFI has stayed focused on its mission and philosophy of working with business families, for business families.”