Many people collect artwork for the joy it brings them, while others also focus on the investment angle of their collection. In both cases, collectors should ensure their insurance program and risk management advice aligns with their collecting goals, as well as their estate plans. In this session, we explored how to ensure your insurance policy mirrors your collecting habits and what you expect in the event of a claim.
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How Your Board Can Better Oversee Cyber Risk
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Having a good cyber risk management program in place might help a company prevent some breaches. But more importantly, when a breach does happen, it can help companies get back on their feet faster and mitigate financial and reputational damage. How do you know whether your company is doing what it should to address the risk and become cyber resilient?
Attracting and retaining talent is the top Human Capital challenge in family offices today. FOX Managing Director, David Toth and Ken Cameron and Bruce Benesh of Grant Thornton LLP joined us and share what your peers who completed the 2018 FOX Family Office Compensation & Benefits Survey are doing to attract and retain key talent.
Breakout 5 - FOX Compensation and Benefits Study
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Offering a competitive compensation plan is essential to attracting and retaining the top talent that can ensure a family office’s success. However, compensation is also consistently the biggest line item in every family office budget. This makes designing compensation plans that are competitive and effective especially imperative.
Breakout 6 - The Essential Wellness Tool Kit - For You, Your Family, and Your Organization
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Research shows that effective self-care practices can lead to success at work and at home. Join us to discuss the four pillars of well-being and how they inform the way we care for ourselves, our families, and our organizations. Develop a practical self-care tool kit, including mindfulness, nutrition, and movement to increase your productivity in the office, impact your effectiveness as a family member, and engender greater fulfillment and longevity.
Equity Compensation
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The ability to attract, retain, and reward a superior workforce is fundamental to every organization’s long-term growth. One way to achieve it is to offer stock options to employees, giving them a stake in the company’s value as part of their compensation package. In general, there are two forms of stock options: nonqualified stock options and incentive stock options.
The 2018 Compensation and Benefits Report is designed to aid family office board members and executives in their review of the office’s compensation plan. The report highlights the key areas of family office compensation and benefits while providing you with invaluable perspective on your office’s plan relative to your peers.
Family Office Structure: Lender Decision
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In December of 2017, the U.S. Tax Court decided in the Lender Management, LLC v. Commissioner case that deductions that were part of a taxpayer’s trade or business were deductible under Section 162; however, deductions under Section 212 were suspended through tax year 2025. Following the suspension of the 2-percent miscellaneous itemized deductions, family offices should consider whether entity restructuring will enable them to deduct expenses under Section 162, rather than under Section 212.
New York State and City Raise Bar for Employers in Handling Sexual Harassment Allegations
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Both New York State and New York City have recently passed a series of laws that significantly increased the protections against sexual harassment in the workplace. These laws outline additional and specific requirements—including the adoption of anti-sexual harassment policies and training—that employers must comply with over the next year.
The 5 Questions To Ask Your Controller
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As the office of the controller becomes ever more strategic—creating higher levels of financial visibility to help drive growth and profitability—the financial organization’s relationship to the controller role must evolve as well.