Whether knowledge is shared around the dinner table or in a boardroom, starting family member education early puts a family office in a strong position to strengthen the family’s legacy. While the education program would likely depend on family characteristics, there are three topics that should be part of the curriculum: basic financial literacy, security and privacy, and the lessons and legend on how the family built its wealth.
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Disruptions and Their Impact on Family Offices
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The pandemic has created tremendous disruption on many levels causing dramatic changes in how we work, communicate, travel and manage risk. Our reliance and integration of technology has created data security risks across the office and family. Talent is on the move, and it remains difficult to find and retain critical employees, and where and how they work has forever changed. The regulatory and tax landscape is rapidly shifting, causing a renewed focus on longer term planning and structural changes in the office.
Caroline Rose Hunt was the 3rd child of H.L. Hunt Jr. an American oil tycoon and entrepreneur. She established her family enterprise in the early 1980s, focusing on hotels and leisure, and exited in 2011. Today the enterprise holding company, The Rosewood Corporation, has a centralized ownership structure, headed by John Dziminski, enterprise president. John oversees three diversified business lines including oil and gas exploration, private equity direct investments, and real estate direct ownership.
This seminar will begin with trends discovered from FOX’s biennial family office benchmarking survey and will be supported by family office case studies to bring several of the trends to life. The case studies will be used to illustrate a variety of best practices and strategies that were identified in the survey.
Returning to Work Amid COVID-19
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Since the pandemic’s early days, employers have been wondering when – and how – they’d be able to return to the office. Those concerns only got more pressing as vaccinations grew and COVID-19 variants increased. In this piece, FOX’s family office members share their timetables, policies, and what returning to work looks like at this point in the pandemic.
2021 State of the Family Office Industry
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The 2021 State of the Family Office Industry benchmarking report is the next iteration in FOX’s ongoing research into Family Offices. The FOX Family Office study is intended to empower family leadership and office executives to understand important metrics to measure family office value, identify areas for improvement, and plan for the future of the family office and the entire family enterprise.
Demonstrating the value of a family office is no small feat. The pressing priorities of an office often leave little room to fully grasp the impact of the work being done to fulfill the family’s vision. This 2021 FOX Family Office Study explored several key components of family office operations such as cost, governance structure, education, and risks and challenges.
At some point, your family wealth may be so complex, or a significant transition happens that starts a process to form an independent family office outside of the business. Whatever the reason, separating family wealth management from the business should be considered an evolutionary process and starts with your family gaining consensus to establish an independent office or use outside partners.
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.
BKD Podcast: The Family Office—Why Have One?
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Join host Damien Martin in his ongoing quest for insights and best practices for affluent families and their advisors as he sits down with guest Jeff Davidson to unpack the often mystifying and sometimes daunting world of the family office. Here’s what’s covered: