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Four Must-Know Trends for 2024
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Seasoned investors know that you cannot predict the future of the markets. But smart private wealth managers know that the key to preserving and growing wealth is to anticipate critical trends that are likely to have a lasting impact. Where trends are concerned, 2024 has a lot brewing around the geopolitical conflicts, the explosion of artificial intelligence, the use of alternative investments as portfolio management tools, and the generational transitions that are coming to the family office.

Economic and Market Outlook for 2024: A Return to Sound Money
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Sound money is the result when interest rates are above the rate of inflation, a development that is expected to persist in the years ahead. In the meantime, the transition to a higher interest rate environment has no doubt challenged investors, who have endured historical losses in bonds and high volatility in stocks. But make no mistake: This structural shift is the single best economic and financial development in the last 20 years. Looking forward and as shown in this report, investors will benefit from a return to sound money.

Tech Predictions for 2024
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The tech industry has been undergoing a difficult period. Economic instability, high inflation, and rising interest rates have prompted tech companies to reevaluate their business strategies, adjust their growth plans, and revisit their staffing models. At the same time, there have been remarkable advancements with generative artificial intelligence (AI) taking center stage and ushering a new era of technology. This acerating pace of tech innovation continues to introduce new business opportunities across industries.

What's on the Minds of FOX Members? | 2023 FOX Family Forum
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The FOX peer community is a vibrant and generous one, and one place where that is abundantly evident is the FOXChat discussion boards and networks, where members ask anything that is of critical importance to their families and their enterprises and receive real-time answers and feedback from their peers and fellow members. FOXCloud, the latest digital feature from FOX, allows members to quickly and efficiently see what their peers are asking about and the answers they are receiving.

Reimagining the Future with AI: Fireside Chat with Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross | 2023 FOX Family Forum
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Our speaker has requested to not share his presentation. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating tremendous uncertainty – and amazing opportunities – for families, business owners, and advisors. Understanding the possibilities AI unlocks and integrating its transformative power into the family’s systems, governance, and businesses has the potential to propel families and their family offices into a new era of speed, efficiency, and virtually infinite knowledge. Join us for this timely and relevant fireside chat with Dr.

Industry Founders Panel: The Evolution of Family Wealth, Part 1 | 2023 FOX Family Forum
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For nearly 40 years, the pioneers of the family wealth profession have been working with family leaders and family office executives to help their families manage and grow their enterprises, strengthen their family systems and well-being, and deliver a positive impact on their communities and the world. For the first time ever, FOX will gather on the same stage the five most prominent and iconic founders of the family wealth field.

PROXIMITY: How All Industries Will Transform - and How to Win | 2023 FOX Family Forum
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Professor Wolcott will preview his new book, PROXIMITY, forthcoming from Columbia Business School Publishing March 2024. While everyone witnesses the dramatic changes underway as a result of digitally-enabled technologies from Generative AI and data analytics to rooftop solar and additive manufacturing, few have noted one common force they all exert across industries. Digital technologies push the production and provision of value ever closer to the moment of actual demand in time and space.

2023 FOX Global Investment Survey
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FOX’s annual Global Investment Survey was divided into two segments, launched in February and March 2023, respectively, to the FOX community. The surveys fielded until the end of April 2023. Please note that the 2023 FOX Global Investment Survey data pertains to investment activities and performance during calendar year 2022.

Partner Webcast: AI and Adoption - What Does it Mean for Investors and the World?
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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving field that has the potential to revolutionize many industries. This powerful technology uses deep learning algorithms to create new and original content, ranging from text and images to music and 3D models. As a result, generative AI has garnered the attention of investors looking to capitalize on its vast potential.