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2021 Crypto Market: Year in Review
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The blockchain/crypto space continues to evolve at a blistering pace, with bitcoin reaching an all-time high of $65k in mid-April up from its $29k price at the beginning of 2021. The growth was fueled by a number of converging factors and game-changing developments in the crypto space. In addition to a crypto market update, this year-in-review report highlights the most common audit, tax, and advisory themes that are top-of-mind.

Managing Direct Investing Deal Flow
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One of the greatest direct investing struggles is how to manage deal flow once opportunities start to come in. It sounds simple enough, but it is quite actually complex – in ways that might surprise you. Mainly, once word gets out you’re looking to invest, you’ll be inundated with opportunities. So before you work with your network to surface deals, be sure to proactively build your deal architecture and guidelines.

Bitcoin and Crypto Hype: Is it Real?
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The crypto landscape is constantly shifting and blockchain’s real value is almost impossible to assess. Despite the skepticism and confusion, this might be one of the most intriguing social and financial experiments of our lifetime. We examine crypto through a venture capital investment lens where most of these endeavors will fail but a small number could be incredibly valuable and highly disruptive to traditional businesses.

New Frontiers Creating Investment Opportunities
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Direct investors are forging new paths into frontier investing on a daily basis. As ideas become reality in a constantly evolving realm, investors should seek guidance on seeing around the corners. Join us for a conversation with two experts in the life science and fintech space, where they’ll discuss the trends they’re seeing and share invaluable insight into two fast-moving and exciting spaces of next-generation wealth creation.

Investment Vehicles: A Critical Choice for Private Clients and Family Offices
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Selecting the right investment vehicle often receives less attention than the other more known investment principles such as the value of diversification. Broadly speaking, investors can access four types of investment vehicles—including separately managed accounts—to avert making a wrong decision that can saddle a family with unexpected taxes, increased costs, or limited flexibility.

Family Office Co-Investing: Negotiating Deals
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In order for two family offices to successfully work out a co-investing deal on a commercial and fair basis, both sides have to understand what the other party cares about. Negotiators need to understand what is ‘market’ so that they can come to a ‘down the middle’ deal without unnecessary haggling. During this webcast, experts will talk through the market for deal terms, what really matters to each side and why, and how the terms get negotiated in real life situations. War stories and case studies will be shared.

Investment Resourcing a Family Office
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In today’s investment environment, family offices require full investment capabilities to achieve the returns required by wealth owners. As there are many non-investment activities happening in a family office setting, the build or outsource approach to investment resourcing should include saving on both the costs and time associated with running an in-house investment company. Other key points should also be considered.

Unpacking the Family Investment Committee
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What’s the first step in investing if you’re given the opportunity? How do you collaborate effectively within a committee of family members tasked with investing a portion of wealth? If you already have an investment committee formed, how do you report back to the family governing body or refine best practices? These questions and more will be addressed by seasoned FOX members with deep family investment committee experience.

FOX 2021 Global Investment Survey Highlights
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One of FOX’s invaluable member benefits is the peer perspective gleaned from participating in FOX surveys. Gaby Griffin, the Market Leader for Business Owners and Family Office Executives at FOX, and Jonathan Tunner, the Director of Private Investment Opportunities at FOX, will share the key themes that emerged from this year’s annual Global Investment Survey.

Deliberate Evolution vs. Mutation in Public Equities Markets
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A well-intentioned and deliberate approach to adjusting public equity market structure through regulation can result in positive outcomes for investors, but that approach isn’t always what drives change in global equity markets. The media, investor advocacy groups, and legislators often intervene to influence the trajectory, and the outcome can be more of a mutation than an evolutionary process. We will discuss a range of recently implemented and currently contemplated equity and ETF market changes and how these changes have or could affect the way we invest – for better or worse.