Impact investing continues to garner increasing attention in the financial media and amongst the investing community. While generating shared consensus and arriving at the decision to invest in line with your family values is a great accomplishment, many families face challenges when it comes to moving beyond conversations and formulating an actual implementation plan with key advisors.
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Breakout 1B - Venture Capital: De-Risking Early Stage Investments and Maximizing Returns
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Constance Freedman has invested in more than 40 technology companies and helped bring them to market by partnering with over 300 executives and corporations. Based on her extensive experience, Constance will lead an interactive dialogue highlighting venture strategies of several of the SaaS-based technologies in digital media, fintech, business services, big data and B2B investment in which she engages.
The water industry is among the world’s largest and most essential, yet water industry economics remain under-appreciated and largely misunderstood by most investors. Water Asset Management's public and private equity water experience provides insights into an industry with exceptional long term growth drivers and pricing power. The discussion will focus on public and private equity investment opportunities in water companies and assets that provide returns, solutions and impact.
Emerging Markets
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The Rohatyn Group is a leading, specialized asset management firm focused exclusively on investing in emerging markets. It is Nick Rohatyn’s belief that successful investment outcomes in emerging markets require experienced, talented individuals utilizing local sources of insight and information.
As family members, office executives and advisors work to instill an entrepreneurial mindset in their family's ventures, it's critical for them to understand the phases startups go through. They also need to understand the best practices to refine and evaluate their ventures at each stage. This allows everyone upfront to be aligned about what leaders in the startup should be focused on and how to quantifiably measure their success. Sean's case based research resulting in his recently published first book, The Science of Growth, provides just such a framework for families.
The announcement of proposed regulations under Internal Revenue Code Section 2704 has many families and their advisors scrambling to mitigate the potential impact the regulation could have on their estate planning efforts. Owners of family businesses have traditionally relied on valuation discounts to curb the estate and gift tax burden associated with transferring wealth and ownership to future generations. That could all change by the end of the year, should the proposed regulations take effect.
Managing fiduciary responsibilities within a private trust company can sometimes feel like more of an art than a science. Developing effective and meaningful relationships with the beneficiaries, overseeing distributions and investment policy, understanding how and when decanting a trust is the best solution, while also being aware of the statutes under which the PTC should be operating all mandate experience and insight.
2016 Wealth Advisor Forum Recap
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Family Office Exchange revealed their latest insights into the needs of the world's most financially successful families and their preferred ways of working with their advisors. The Forum occurred at a time of unprecedented change in this market.
Evaluating Private Equity Funds
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In light of volatility and low returns in the public equity markets, private equity remains a strategic and tactical part of most family office asset allocations. This session on due diligence of private equity funds will deepen participants’ understanding of the complex analysis that is needed to select fund managers with the greatest potential to effectively manage the capital entrusted to them.
QuickBooks and Excel are a common software pairing for family offices that seemingly has cost, flexibility and familiarity on its side. However, the disadvantages of this approach soon begin to outweigh the benefits. The fact that close to 90% of spreadsheets contain errors in at least 1% of all formula cells means considerable hidden risk. Plus, family office demands on QuickBooks tend to quickly exceed its functionality and the spreadsheet as de-facto reporting tool can only work for so long.