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The Changing Role of the Chief Investment Officer
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As families grow their investment function, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) must provide insight and flexibility to serve varied and changing investment platforms. While much of the CIO’s role is focused on investments and the investment decision-making process, many CIO responsibilities aren’t investment-centric and will impact the long-term success of the investment strategy—and therefore the long-term success of the family office as it continually evolves to meet its mission, goals, and objectives.

Developing Long and Short-Term Incentive Plans for Family Offices
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Family offices are getting more and more sophisticated, with complex structures and investment platforms similar to that of institutions. Attracting the talent to deliver and manage those models and platforms demands a compensation package that is competitive with other professional firms. Eric and Ken will discuss how the industry has changed and how compensation packages at family offices have evolved to meet those needs.

Diversity, Inclusion and Effective Philanthropy
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Good intentions do not make for philanthropic success on their own. Blind spots cost philanthropists—and the causes they espouse—dearly. To make the most of their philanthropic dollars, donors practice due diligence. But when concepts of diversity and inclusion are added to basic due diligence, the result can create a philanthropy that is both responsive and efficient. Any philanthropist can benefit from adopting a policy of including diverse voices at all levels of their giving program. This guide aims to show how that can be done.

FOX Public Webcast: The 3Ts: Critical Forces Disrupting Our Future
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The new year brings unique opportunities for families and their offices, but it can also create new obstacles to navigate. FOX has identified three dominant themes that will drive disruption and opportunity for families of wealth, their family offices, and their professional advisors.

The 3Ts: Critical Forces Disrupting Our Future
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The new year brings unique opportunities for families and their offices, but it can also create new obstacles to navigate. 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.

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.

2022 FOX Foresight - Solving the Talent Dilemma
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It's not news to family office hiring managers that prepandemic employment challenges have only become more intense. COVID-19 just fanned an existing flame of empowerment and flexibility demands. Salary is no longer a potential hire’s biggest concern. When the postpandemic conversation becomes less about where work is done and more about how (and how well), thoughtful programs focused on health and wellness will become table stakes. If your organization doesn’t have a competitive total-compensation philosophy, be prepared to lose in today’s fierce talent war.

2022 FOX Foresight - Collaborating for Greater Influence and Impact
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Even as we head into 2022, the effects from the pandemic and events of 2020 continue to be felt, particularly in the philanthropic community. In this vibrant conversation with Glen W. Johnson, President of FOX, Bruce Boyd, Principal and Senior Managing Director of Arabella Advisors, Nancy Roob, CEO of Blue Meridian Partners and President and CEO of The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, and Nick Tedesco, President and CEO of the National Center for Family Philanthropy, we discuss four separate-but-related issues.

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.

Open Enrollment Compliance Checklist
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Your employee benefits plan is likely one of your organization's largest expenses and one of your most important for attracting and retaining employees. To help you prepare for open enrollment season, this checklist will assist with your compliance obligations.