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Estate Planning for Digital Assets
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Every day we use smartphones, tablets, computers and other digital devices to access, transfer and store information, conduct financial transactions and operate many other aspects of our lives. Your digital assets include all of the digital devices you own, all data stored in them and on external servers, and all of your online user accounts. Ensuring the proper management and orderly transfer of these assets after incapacity or death is an increasingly important aspect of estate planning.

Onboarding Household Staff
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This paper is a guide for employers, family offices and households to establish an effective onboarding strategy that spans a new hire's first full year of employment.When well designed, well managed and well executed, onboarding can have a dramatically positive impact on a household's entire operation. Onboarding can:

Mitigating Risks in Art Related Financial Transactions
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This paper lays out general insights around art as an asset class and how best to mitigate risks inherent in art-related transactions to buyers and sellers, financial institutions, trust and estate practitioners, and art investment vehicles.

Managing Your Wealth: 2014 Guide to Tax and Wealth Management
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Wealth management and tax planning, done right, require care and a thoughtful approach. Helping you be vigilant in these and all other aspects is the purpose of this guide, which walks you through the key concepts and approaches pertaining to tax planning, investing, charitable giving, estate and gift planning, business succession, family meetings, family offices, risk management, and cross-border considerations.

Selecting the Best Insurer for a Family Art Collection
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Examine how to select the best insurer for a private art collection in order that it may be preserved and protected for future generations. This paper delves into the causes of some of the most expensive art claims paid out to collectors and how families can take a more pro-active role in reducing the ris

Master Class on Talent Strategies
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Despite the continuing concern over job creation, researchers around the globe identify a lack of available skilled talent as a continuing drag on performance. Inherent in this issue are three profound questions: How do you achieve a successful combination of culture and talent to allow ideas to thrive within the context of the family and family office culture? How do you remain competitive in recruiting and retaining talent? How do you effectively engage, motivate and inspire the next generation of family members and employees?

Applying State of the Art Practices in Your Family Office
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At the 2013 Thought Leaders Council Summit, attendees worked collaboratively on outlining what is considered State of the Industry, common practice, and State of the Art, best practice, in the private wealth management industry today. FOX led a similar study in 2000, and 13 years later, the industry has evolved radically with not only significant market shifts, but new entrants, new products and capabilities, new servicing processes, new technology systems and more sophisticated clients with dramatically altered expectations.

Transferring Business Ownership
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Transferring Business Ownership: How to Prepare the Family for a Smooth TransitionStephen G. Salley, Of Counsel, Greenberg Traurig, LLC.; Mark Nash, Partner, PwC Private Company Services and Karen Neal, Managing Director, Consulting, Family Office Exchange A recent PwC study on family business owner trends indicated that more than half of the business owners intend to transition the ownership of their business during the next ten years.

Rewarding High Performance
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Rewarding High Performance: The 2013 FOX Compensation StudyJane Flanagan, Senior Consultant, and Mariann Mihailidis, Managing Director, Councils, Family Office Exchange A family office’s success is largely dependent on selecting and retaining the right employees. So how does a family office develop a compensation and benefits package that will attract and retain key talent? During the summer of 2013, FOX surveyed its members to learn more about the compensation and benefits practices of today’s family office.