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2024 FOX Foresight: Investing in an Age of Change
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Investors are processing more data more rapidly than ever. For family offices, sticking to their principles and investing within a risk-adjusted framework has never been more important. With a greater number of opportunities, success will require families to reflect upon what has and has not worked, clarify the sectors or strategies where they have a differentiated, competitive advantage, and recognize more patience and thoughtful decision-making is required.

Q1'24 Member Town Hall
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Join FOX for our first quarterly town hall of 2024, hear the latest news about FOX membership, new and helpful services and benefits for members, and FOX leadership observations on our community and our industry. Most importantly, please join us to ask any questions or share any thoughts and feedback pertaining to FOX membership, services, benefits, and activities. This is a great opportunity to create a regular and open channel for communication with the FOX team and your fellow FOX members.

Japan—Can the Recent Equity Rally Continue?
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The uneven historic GDP growth, deflation, and low corporate productivity have made Japan a tough market for investors. But given the strong performance in 2023, the Japanese market is changing. Starting with Abenomics more than a decade ago and the more recent initiatives by Japanese stock exchanges, the tangible changes in Japan are attracting investors once again.

5 Private Equity Predictions for 2024
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As private equity (PE) fund managers and portfolio companies look ahead in 2024, they anticipate a changing exit landscape, hurdles in meeting their investment theses, and ongoing talent obstacles. To meet the inevitable dealmaking challenges (and opportunities), there are 5 PE trends to keep in mind: (1) the ramifications of the U.S.

Four Must-Know Trends for 2024
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Seasoned investors know that you cannot predict the future of the markets. But smart private wealth managers know that the key to preserving and growing wealth is to anticipate critical trends that are likely to have a lasting impact. Where trends are concerned, 2024 has a lot brewing around the geopolitical conflicts, the explosion of artificial intelligence, the use of alternative investments as portfolio management tools, and the generational transitions that are coming to the family office.

Economic and Market Outlook for 2024: A Return to Sound Money
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Sound money is the result when interest rates are above the rate of inflation, a development that is expected to persist in the years ahead. In the meantime, the transition to a higher interest rate environment has no doubt challenged investors, who have endured historical losses in bonds and high volatility in stocks. But make no mistake: This structural shift is the single best economic and financial development in the last 20 years. Looking forward and as shown in this report, investors will benefit from a return to sound money.

What's on the Minds of FOX Members? | 2023 FOX Family Forum
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The FOX peer community is a vibrant and generous one, and one place where that is abundantly evident is the FOXChat discussion boards and networks, where members ask anything that is of critical importance to their families and their enterprises and receive real-time answers and feedback from their peers and fellow members. FOXCloud, the latest digital feature from FOX, allows members to quickly and efficiently see what their peers are asking about and the answers they are receiving.

2023 FOX Global Investment Survey
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FOX’s annual Global Investment Survey was divided into two segments, launched in February and March 2023, respectively, to the FOX community. The surveys fielded until the end of April 2023. Please note that the 2023 FOX Global Investment Survey data pertains to investment activities and performance during calendar year 2022.

Mid-Year Market & Investment Check Up: What Family Offices Need to Know to Navigate the Remainder of 2023 | 2023 FOX Family Office and Wealth Advisor Forum
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As we head into the second half of the year, questions surrounding the global economy and financial markets remain. Is the U.S. headed for a recession? Will there be secondary effects from divergent Global Central Bank policies? Does the 2024 political cycle matter? And importantly, how should family offices invest capital given the current and future global market dynamics? Join Fiducient Advisors’ Brad Long, CFA, Chief Investment Officer and Adam Newell, CFA, CFP, Director of Family Office Consulting, for their mid-year market updates and valuable investment insights.

Inflationary Vortex: The Gravitational Pull of Labor, China, and Energy
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The inflationary vortex has been the result of several forces—some unforeseen or unforeseeable—spiraling upward. In this forecast, the focus is on the three catalysts that are expected to impact tomorrow’s inflation outlook: the U.S. labor market, China’s economic and demographic evolution, and the role of the green energy. Between these themes, there are important linkages and investment portfolio positioning to consider.