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2024 Compensation and Benefits Survey Member Brief
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With the participation of 150 unique family offices, this biennial and comprehensive report is designed to assist family office board members and executives in evaluating their compensation plans. Developed in collaboration with Grant Thornton, the report is divided into three main sections: governance structures, staff benefits, and detailed position compensation. Together, it offers valuable insights into the compensation and benefits landscape within family offices, providing a benchmark against peers.

2024 Compensation and Benefits Survey Executive Summary | Public Brief
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With the participation of 150 unique family offices, this biennial and comprehensive report is designed to assist family office board members and executives in evaluating their compensation plans. Developed in collaboration with Grant Thornton, the report is divided into three main sections: governance structures, staff benefits, and detailed position compensation. Together, it offers valuable insights into the compensation and benefits landscape within family offices, providing a benchmark against peers.

Strategic Approach to Managing Family Office Complexity | 2024 FOX Family Office & Wealth Advisor Forum
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Family capital delineations, exchange mechanisms, and family office sophistication are crucial as the UHNW family demands of their family offices rise. Peter and Amjed will walk through Trove’s insights from creating and managing over 100 unique family offices. Learn about various forms of family capital and how to facilitate seamless transfer mechanisms, measure sophistication of different office types, and understand their operational framework. We'll dive into the data, analysis, and decision support layers, complemented by case studies from diverse family archetypes.

3 Keys to Creating a Sustainable Family Office
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The tremendous surge in wealth has made it more challenging to establish a sustainable and successful family office, as revealed in the 2023 FOX Family Office Benchmarking Study. However, this research brief shows that a sustainable family office can be within reach when there is thoughtful planning that incorporates three key ingredients: strong governance, a focus on leadership and succession planning, and a dedication to learning and develo

2024 FOX Foresight: Future of the Family Office
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We are in a period of extraordinary wealth creation and accumulation that is driving the need for more family offices and expanding the breadth and depth of services that support the important work and collective well-being of the family. It’s about the sustainability of the family office and preparing it for the long run. With the future of the family office in mind, there are three best practices that lay the foundation for sustainability that all family offices should closely examine and adopt in a way that best suits their family.

Highlights from the 2023 Family Office Benchmarking and Complexity Study
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Navigating increasing complexity and changing needs while demonstrating the value of a family office is no small feat. The day-to-day work of running an office often leaves little room to fully grasp the impact of the work being done to fulfill the family’s vision. This 2023 FOX Family Office Study explored several key components of family office operations such as complexity, cost, governance structure, education, and advisors and outsourcing.

Determining the Right Price: A Wealth Management Cost Framework for Families
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For families with substantial diversified portfolio investments, costs are an important consideration when devising an overall wealth management strategy. While there are a range of cost estimates drawn from real world examples, each family’s wealth management cost formula is different when analyzing it through a framework and analysis of four parts: the evaluation of costs; factors that can cause costs to fluctuate; key questions to ask when evaluating wealth management costs; and best practices.

2022 Compensation and Benefits Survey Highlights
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Join FOX and our partner Grant Thornton as we explore the findings from our research on the current state of compensation and benefits in the family office space. This year’s surveys focused on Board, Trustee and Committee compensation, in addition to benefits and compensation offered to family office staff. We will explore themes and insights within our data, and how you can use this information to navigate the current talent marketplace. By the end of this webcast, attendees will be able to:

The Cost of Complexity: Why Does It Matter?
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Private trust companies; profits interest structures; direct investments. The world of family wealth management is getting more complex all the time. As families and their office management teams evolve and learn best practices, there is a natural tendency to add more complexity to their structure and operations. Recently, we’ve seen this movement exhibit itself in several ways. Click here if you would like to participate in the survey.