Preparing for leadership succession may be the single most important planning element for a family and family office. Ivan Lansberg, Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Lansberg-Gersick & Associates, describes the two different sides of the coin, so to speak, that define succession:The challenge of l...

As impact philanthropy becomes more important to families, they are further engaging in the issues facing their communities. Here Nadia Roumani, Co-Founder and Senior Designer for the Designing for Social Systems Program at Sanford University, and Wendy Steele, Founder and CEO at Impact 100 Global A...

Taxable investors need to think differently. Here Stuart Lucas, Co-Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Wealth Strategist Partners, tells us why, and also how to extract value at the intersection of investing, estate planning and tax.So what makes a good investment? Lucas gives us four e...

While families have a growing desire to participate in impact investing, return profiles have had the reputation for being lower to other asset classes. But this is changing quickly.FOX welcomes two experts and thought leaders in their fields, John C. Maxwell, III, CEO at SteepRock Advisors and Mani...

One question facing families and family offices today is how to build a strategic long-term view of your family’s future. Scott Peppet, President at Chai Trust Company, says families and family systems tend to work on long-wave frequencies, and normal business works on a short-wave frequency, often ...

FOX hosts a panel on “Rebuilding Economies,” and invites Ivo Daadler, President of Chicago Council on Global Affairs and John Dionne, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor at The Blackstone Group, to walk us through their most current thinking and predictions.Daadler attempts...

How families talk about money is important. Although it often can feel awkward to get started, Nathan Dungan, Founder and President of Share, Save, Spend,® gives tips, tools and activities to make it a much easier to have these important ongoing conversations among families.Dungan recommends familie...

Successive generations want to leave a legacy, and are looking at future prospects and pathways for the family office to be a more diverse workplace. Why does diversity matter in the family office setting? Vincent Robinson, Founder and Managing Partner of the 360 Group, says diversity matters becaus...

FOX recently conducted a research project to study how family offices explain their value to clients, as well as to look at the complexity and cost allocation of family offices. The study participants included:The four key topics of the study included:The value propositionThe scope of servicesComple...

The element of trust is perhaps one of the most crucial pieces within the family and the family office. Here Jeff Strese, Adjunct Faculty at SMU and Head of Leadership Curriculum, and Mindy Earley, Chief Learning Officer at FOX address the critical value of trust and provide us with important tips t...

Responding Swiftly to the Pandemic ChallengeLeading up to 2020, family office technology providers made significant improvements with expanded offerings and new entrants. Nonetheless, adoption remained relatively low, as technology simply wasn’t at the top of most family office priority lists. But h...

Nathan Dungan thinks frequently and deeply about who and what is shaping our money habits and values. In fact, that will be the focus of his breakout session—The Rising Generations’ Relationship With Money—at next week’s FOX Family Forum.This short video will give you a preview of how Nathan frames ...

Bill Lyons is the Senior Director for the Institute for Family Culture at Abbot Downing. Here Lyons defines resiliency, shares six domains of resilience and recovery, and offers some best practices to foster resilience and recovery in these unprecedented times.Resilience is the capacity to recover, ...

Here Michael Hotz (Vice President at Asset Consulting Group) and Katherine Kroll (Senior Institutional Sustainable Investing Specialist at Brown Advisory) share current thinking and approaches to impact investing.In the last 5-7 years, families have shown a strong interest in these areas:Technology ...

Stockton Rush founded and leads OceanGate, as CEO of the company dedicated to opening the oceans for human observations and exploration through the development of state-of-the-art five person submersibles.With his family’s wealth behind him, Rush had the capacity to “meander” his way through various...

One of the most important aspects of the family office today is delivering value through a trusted advisor ecosystem and advancing your partnerships. Here we explore three examples of how partnership is key to the success of the family office:Family LearningOne family office worked with their adviso...

With the election coming up in November and year-end following – then couple that with a pandemic that has completely disrupted the economy and interest rates – we can be certain tax and estate planning changes are coming.Here Mark Harder (Partner at Warner Norcross & Judd LLP) and Jamie Sanders...

Kent Lawson, Director of Technology Integration Services at FOX, explains how we can drive efficiencies by employing technology.In short, efficiencies means doing things quickly and with productivity, in a way that makes sense and is user friendly. Lawson recommends looking at things very specifical...

Here Rob Mallernee, a long-time member of FOX and the CEO and System Designer at Eton Solutions, looks at how family offices can use a process driven approach to help determine core competencies, and to understand clearly what should be insourced and outsourced.Mallernee examines the family office “...

The pandemic is especially overwhelming as we view of all the headlines in the news and on social media. We don’t yet know the full effect the pandemic – how long it’s going to last or the impact it will have on our health, our families, our businesses or our livelihood. All of this together is why ...

Every other year FOX sponsors a Family Office Compensation and Benefits Survey. The 2020 survey had a total of 201 participants from across the United States, and was based on data collected from June 11-August 7. 60% of participants own one more more operating businesses, and 42% have professional ...

Covid-19 has certainly changed the landscape and created a new normal, along with many decisions and points of challenge. Here Cassie Atteberry (Principal at Talent Outside the Lines) and Neil Kreuzberger (President and Founder of Kreuzberger, LLC) share wise counsel to family offices for managing t...

To be successful in our ever-changing world, family offices need to embrace new technology like never before. The question is, how can a family office technology leader incorporate change to meet family members’ needs. One aspect is by replacing manual processes and older legacy systems with new tec...

In our fast paced world, we see how client needs and expectations are changing the role of the family office. Here, Mindy Earley (Chief Learning Officer at FOX), and Gaby Griffin (Market Leader, Business Owners and Family Executives at FOX), share how the family office can meet these evolving client...

President of the Family Office Exchange, Bill Sullivan, shares key areas of change to help us understand the evolving landscape of the family office.First, as the modern family evolves, families are experiencing a change in priorities and more complex family dynamics are now the norm. Families also ...

"The general rule seems to be that the level of consciousness of an organization [i.e. its capacity and agility] cannot exceed the level of consciousness of its leader." -Fredric Laloux, author, Reinventing OrganizationsThe world that a few months ago seemed volatile, uncertain, complex, and am...