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Quick Takes on Artificial Intelligence Governance
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Dive into Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance with Grant Thornton’s concise video series that are designed for board members and senior executives. The four short videos summarize insights on the challenges and opportunities of AI board governance. From understanding the need for “AI circuit breakers” to tracking risks and accountability, and finally embracing AI as a manageable challenge, this series addresses some of the key issues for staying on top of AI in your business.

2024 FOX Foresight: Time Capital: The Ultimate Liquid Asset
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Time is our most precious, finite, and versatile resource. Family office industry stakeholders are reevaluating their relationship with time—making meaningful behavioral changes to maximize their “return on invested time.” Powerful and practical tools—some borrowed from the field of investment management—can help maximize return on this scarce and treasured asset.

2024 FOX Foresight: Future of the Family
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The future will bring transformative changes to families, their enterprises, family offices, and wealth advisors. Transformation will be structural, philosophical and cultural, resulting in a paradigm shift that better balances managing the family’s financial capital and nurturing its other capitals—especially the well-being of its members.

2024 FOX Foresight
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We are excited to bring you FOX’s 2024 Foresight. As FOX turns 35, join us in exploring a range of highly consequential themes shaping the next 35 years and beyond. It is our hope the topics, which originated from families, thought leaders, practitioners, and the FOX team, will stimulate your thinking and inform your decisions and actions over the coming months. 2024 FOX Foresight is presented in 9 chapters:

The Family Office Industry Supports the Evolving Family Enterprise
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The dramatic growth of the family office industry in the 1980s was sparked by new liquidity running through hundreds of business-owning families. In an effort to preserve and expand their wealth, they needed a professional financial office so they could focus on broadening their business endeavors or living unencumbered lives.

2022 FOX Foresight - The 3Ts: Critical Forces Disrupting Our Future
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As we approach the two-year mark since the COVID-19 virus first hit and start to envision a “new normal,” Family Office Exchange (FOX) has identified three dominant themes that will drive disruption and opportunity for families of wealth, their family offices, and their professional advisors. We call them the "3Ts” – transitions, talent, and technology.

Own It: How to Develop a Family Enterprise Mindset
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Any owner at any age can gain ownership-related perspective and skills contributing to greater family harmony and business success. With two other authors, Gaia Marchisio, executive director at Cox Family Enterprise Center at Kennesaw State University, has written a book providing enterprising families and their advisors examples and practical advice to promote knowledge, skills, and capabilities -- incorporating a broad range of topics spanning personal and interpersonal, leadership and wealth, business, ownership, and financial.

Private Wealth vs. Family Wealth: A Holistic Approach to Sustaining Generational Wealth
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While it is essential to employ the best investment managers, accountants, attorneys, and experts to guard the private wealth, from a multi-generational perspective, it is crucial to think beyond the private wealth, and incorporate the family wealth. This shift is a holistic approach that prepares the human capital, enhances the intellectual capital, and builds the appropriate governance framework. The result will foster clearer communication among family members, stronger family cohesiveness, and well-prepared heirs who are better positioned to govern the family enterprise.

The Great Unwinding: How to Thrive as the World Re-Opens
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Rob Wolcott, Co-Founder and Chairman of The World Innovation Network (TWIN), will explain the ‘great unwinding’ of 2021 and how organizations can harness the powerful yet chaotic energy that will be unleashed on the world as society opens back up. Now more than ever, organizations need to identify what objectives they’ll prioritize during this unprecedented period, which changes born of the pandemic they will retain, what re-opening will mean for their stakeholders, and understand who needs help and how they can contribute in relevant ways that align with their values.