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Wealthy individuals need to play an active role in their wealth management, asking advisors the right questions and reviewing their answers regularly. This requires a solid understanding of wealth management principles and how to apply them in a variety of areas, ranging from personal tax planning to the transfer of a business.

Fears regarding the future of fiat currencies (e.g., the dollar and euro) have created surging demand for “alternative” currencies. Alternative currencies, such as gold and even the fledgling Bitcoin possess many of the required characteristics to serve as currencies, but limitations will likely prohibit attainment of currency status in the foreseeable future.

Regardless of the project scope, knowing the parties and defining parameters are essential to a successful relationship. Investors and developers alike should do their homework, protect themselves and have confidence in the structure of the deal.

The world is witnessing a major rebalancing of economic power. Once dominated by the G7 nations, it is today making room for a new and expanding set of rapidly growing economies. The citizens of emerging market countries, while comparatively poor on a per capita GDP basis, are being helped out of poverty by astounding rates of domestic economic growth. For some of the larger developing economies such as China and India, economic progress has catapulted them to a plane where they are able to compete side-by-side with the wealthiest and most advanced nations of the world.

Many wealthy families envision keeping a shared property in the family as a means of building family unity, harmony and legacy. A number of notable families have been successful at this, but many others find the reality creates the opposite of their intention.

This paper is a technical summary of some of the challenges facing the U.S. nonprofit museum community in regard to risk management of art ownership. It includes a summary of key events that has shaped the art market over the last 50 years as well as consideration of the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley and issues surrounding D&O insurance, where museums and art trustees are not typically protected against art market legal title risk.

In this edition of Eton's quarterly newsletter, they discuss goals-based investing from the highly personal and conceptual processes of goal definition and prioritization featured in past issues to the important process of marrying the investor’s goals with his investment portfolio. The report includes a quarterly economic and market outlook by Jean Brunel.

This report highlights the views of 100 owners, leaders, and top executives of US family businesses across a variety of industries on the economy and the top challenges they foresee for 2013. The report looks at a wide range of issues, including:

This paper, which draws from interviews and a survey of executives in privately held businesses in North America and Western Europe, explores how private companies are turning to emerging and fast-growing markets that, in the

Quarterly Highlights - PwC commissioned independent research firm BSI Global Research Inc. to interview 225 chief executive officers (CEOs/CFOs) of leading privately held US businesses in the first quarter of 2013. The interviewees were asked about their current business performance, the state of the economy, and their expectations for business growth over the next 12 months. The authors then compared the responses with the prior quarter's results to see how the outlook has changed.