Longevity experts frequently point to the importance of avoiding four complex conditions to improve your health span: cancer, cardiac diseases, diabetes, and dementia. This webinar looks at why cancer continues to be the most feared disease and how a paradigm shift is offering new hope for early detection, treatment, and survival.
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Looking down on planet Earth from space radically shifts one’s perception of our world and our place within it. After witnessing our planet’s thin, brilliant blue line of atmosphere against the stark blackness of space, astronauts return home to engage more deeply in solving our social and environmental challenges. Join us to learn about a new way of travelling to space that enables researchers to readily perform critical climate change science, artists to experience and communicate the transformative experience, and educators to inspire millions of students worldwide.
Engaged Healthy, Wealthy & Wise: Lessons from Inheritors and their Significant Others | 2023 FOX Family Forum
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When a young inheritor announces that they have met “the one,” the wheels of the wealthadvising industry whir into motion, with families and advisors discussing prenups, onboarding, and whether to include the new partner in family wealth discussions. But amid all of this, there is a young couple in love. How do we nurture this new union and foster relationships across the family instead of getting caught up in transactional work? What best practices should we reexamine in order to truly serve the well-being of all family members and allow space for couple-defined individuation?
Over the past 30 years, families have worked hard and invested enormous resources to create the plans and structures that promise to carry the family into the future and ensure its long-term success. The vast majority of these investments have focused on the quantitative disciplines that serve the family’s financial capital – the collective disciplines that today we call “wealth management”.
Whether it’s a conversation about money, the role of the beneficiary, what it means to be wealthy, or clarifying values and purpose, families often delay important discussions with kids out of fear, or the rationale they are not ready. Like so many things in life, helping children develop readiness is how we prepare them for the future. With early education and age-appropriate learning they get a head start that allows them to incrementally adapt to their unique future, with abundant resources and options.
Many families are not aware of important legal issues that affect their 18 – 21-year-old children. Parents are often so focused on the fact that the drinking age is 21 that they do not realize that their 18-year-olds are, for most other purposes, adults in the eyes of the law. Parents no longer have the same access to information or control over their children after age 18. Proper planning for the legal issues that arise with an 18 – 21-year-old child can help avoid problems later.
A Brief Guide to Prenups
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If you’ve been thinking that a prenuptial agreement might be a nice precautionary measure to have in your back pocket, you’re not alone. Romantic notions are increasingly giving way to pragmatism in recent years. Among the reasons to implement a prenup will vary, including protecting your children’s inheritance in the event there is a divorce. If you’re considering a prenuptial agreement, there are best practices to follow to help safeguard your marriage—as well as your financial future.
Introduction to Investing
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This series of short, educational videos provides an overview of the core elements of investing and some of the asset classes most commonly used in portfolio construction. Download the full presentation deck and explore the educational modules on the topics of interest that include:
Join Nate Hamilton and Peter H. Diamandis, MD for a discussion on the latest longevity-related diagnostics and therapeutics, and the recent breakthroughs on how to slow, stop and even reverse aging.
All parents have reasons for why they do or do not share their wealth with their children, and neither option is without challenges. The key for parents is to find the balance between sharing everything and sharing nothing while also passing along the skills required to ensure their children become responsible inheritors and/or beneficiaries. Here are some best practices for striking that balance without losing the opportunities that come with significant wealth.