Our 2023 FOX Family Office Benchmarking Study found the tremendous surge in wealth is creating higher expectations about what can be done with that wealth, which, in turn, is adding complexity and increasing costs for many family offices. Creating and sustaining a successful family office has never been more fraught with challenges.
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There are many resources and games available for teaching children about different aspects of managing money, investing, and philanthropy. Starting financial literacy education with children and teens will be more successful when you make the activity fun, connected to their life stage and related to current interests. This includes gamifying learning, suggesting books to the readers, board games for kinesthetic learners, and offering videos for those that are auditory and visual learners.
The nature and variety of investment alternatives, ever-changing tax laws and rigorous regulatory constraints make the work of managing multigenerational wealth more complex than ever. The common use of the term “wealth advisor” makes it difficult to distinguish between product providers and independent advisors who are paid to look out for the owners’ best interests.
The process of identifying the right technology solution for your family office can be tough, especially if you don't know where to begin. This complementary whitepaper details the steps you'll need to take.This whitepaper includes:A breakdown of the key business objectives and goals associated with family office technology and softwareA sample family office systems architectureA look at a new approach to technology costs
The FOX Guide to the Professional Family Office is an update of our classic Family Office Primer. The Guide documents the challenges faced by families who want to manage their wealth collectively for the long-term and opens the door to the inner workings of today’s family office. Using concrete examples and FOX Family Office Benchmarking™ data, it is an invaluable tool for families seeking to build a best practice family office or evaluate their current office operations.The Guide includes:
Financial reports provide family members with a consolidated picture of their wealth holdings, allowing them to make fully informed decisions about their future. However, creating meaningful reports that advance, rather than distract from family members’ long-term goals is extremely challenging. The goal of this white paper is to spark new thinking about the ways that you deliver financial information to your clients.
The shift to a full cloud-based model for infrastructure and application delivery is here for family offices, if they choose to use it. Over the next five years in the wealth management space in total, there will be hybrid and convergence solutions (such as co-source) to provide a transition from ‘onpremise’ to the cloud, especially as legacy vendors try to extend the life of their aging applications. But, ultimately, there will be little on-premise IT left.
The study explores several components instrumental to the operations of a family office such as cost of services, governance structure, strategy and risk management and education. The report is designed to help family office executives and board members evaluate the office’s performance relative to 103 family office peers.First launched in 1991, the FOX Family Office Study is the longest running study of its kind and the only one that provides participants with a comprehensive report designed to articulate the value of the office.
FOX’s study on The Shifting Talent Paradigm: How Advisors Are Redesigning Their Talent Strategy can serve as a great resource for those seeking insights on what is changing the advisor labor market and how they can shape the best talent strategy for their firm. The full version of this report covers:
Disruptions in the Investment Industry, a chapter from the 2018 members-only publication FOX Foresight, discusses how families are materially modifying their investment strategies and portfolios amidst the current uncertainty across the investment landscape. It summarizes what we have been learning from the FOX community and our subject matter experts over the last year. Please share it broadly within your family, your office, and your advisors.