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Long before they were founders of Priceline.com, Betsy and Jesse Fink shared a passion for environmental solutions. Post IPO, they chose to focus more deeply on their early interests by building an integrated, systemic approach for identifying and solving environmental issues. They also became early adopters and field builders of venture philanthropy and impact investing. Betsy and Jesse will share stories and lessons learned from starting an impact investment firm (MissionPoint Partners), creating a sustainable farm (Millstone), and starting a U.S.

When FOX member Elizabeth Carlock Phillips assumed leadership of the Phillips Foundation in 2013, she and the trustees moved deliberately and with great passion to re-align the corpus as well as the grant-making function of the foundation with their family values. In order to do so, she sought out new relationships with impact-oriented financial advisers and other experts to help achieve the family’s goals.

Longevity is a gift only if you know how to use it. Covie will share insights from vibrant elders about the factors that allowed them to design meaningful later lives as well as the best practices that each of us can put in place today to ensure that our aging impacts our families more positively than negatively.Covie will lead us through a planning process to help families get started, based on how she has observed other families successfully navigate the longevity journey.

Like the Fink Family, a growing number of families are investing directly into impact companies and for good reason. There are great investment opportunities and investors can pick the specific type of positive impact they would like to see (sustainable fishery, renewable energy, financial inclusion, etc.). But investing directly into companies efficiently and effectively requires a different acumen and infrastructure than investing in public markets.

Learn how non-family business executives can lead discussions on succession and why you may want to facilitate this process. In this session, Charlie and Jonathan will share data and case studies from successful (and unsuccessful) successions at leading family enterprises and engage in a group discussion to help answer the following questions:

Families of exceptional wealth enjoy abundant resources to achieve family goals, but also face peculiar, idiosyncratic risks not easily managed through traditional means. This session explores a framework for managing those risks while taking advantage of the unique edge which families can have over other investors.

As new social and geopolitical conflicts arise, threats to a family’s security and well-being change. This landscape has materially shifted over the last few years and, as a result, families need to be prepared to address a variety of personal, physical, and cyber risks.

Many FOX members have come to realize that effective education programs don’t just happen, they are creatively designed with specific outcomes in mind. Come to this session to hear from several chief learning officers who are positively impacting their families by designing engaging experiential programs for each generation. Program overviews and learning modules designed and used by three families will be featured.

In Skin in the Game, a proposed TV show with a format similar to Shark Tank, the audience effectively runs the game, deciding which businesses get funded. Audience members also have the option to invest their own capital in the Skin in the Game fund. More than fun and games, it was designed with projections for job creation and economic development in mind, and the success of these crowd-funded deals will be published and discussed on each show.

If you’re looking for ways to compare your family office performance and demonstrate the value the office provides, this session is for you. FOX Benchmarking is designed to help participants celebrate their successes and identify changes to improve performance. Find out how data and insights from the newly released FOX Family Office Study apply to your office.