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Enhancing the impact that you and your family can have in supporting causes near to your hearts also requires more than just generosity and good intentions. It takes careful planning and an in-depth understanding of the various vehicles that can be used to facilitate your charitable gifts and the tax laws related to those gifts. Beginning with three key questions to ask yourself, this guide helps you develop your philanthropic strategy that must also be designed as an integrated piece of the family’s comprehensive wealth-management plan.

This guidebook takes a critical look at significant challenges and opportunities in family office operations and offers comprehensive guidance with a future-focused lens. Gain expert insight, strategies, and best practices on the top-of-mind issues that include strengthening your cybersecurity, leveraging your technology, the role of the chief investment officer, starting a direct investment function, and choosing an appropriate trustee.

Advisors and investors have long struggled with demonstrating the value of their advice recommendations. By putting a number on the value of their advice, financial advisors can surface the highest-value advice interventions and demonstrate their value to clients to retain and attract more business. The value of this personalized advice—which can strengthen your wealth advisor relationships—is illustrated through a four-part framework, methodology model, and four hypothetical case studies.

Charitable giving is an important goal for many investors. Although any form can be beneficial, proper planning of the when, what, and how can help maximize the donor’s philanthropic as well as overall wealth planning goals. In examining some common charitable giving strategies, the advantages and disadvantages are discussed, and examples are presented to illustrate the potential impact.

Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the federal estate tax exemption was temporarily doubled through December 31, 2025. Effective January 1, 2026, the exemption limits are scheduled to be reduced by half, adjusted for inflation. Charting the change and inflation adjustment, the projected limits are provided for your tax and estate planning.

Employing service providers in your home carries considerable risk. If not handled with extreme care, the process of hiring, termination, and managing day-to-day responsibilities can create liability—and even result in claims of discrimination and retaliation by the employee. This report provides a snapshot of an increasingly complex employment landscape, including laws and trends that are critical to not only protect you and your employees, but create a safer and happier work environment for all parties.

Many newly wealthy families can credit their expanded fortunes to a major liquidity event, most frequently the sale of a business. For many in this group, recently acquired wealth creates a host of new and, sometimes unexpected, challenges. While the challenges will vary from family to family, the members of this group share some common needs. In this piece, we look at what those needs are and how they might be addressed when creating a comprehensive financial plan.

Best practice business processes and workflows for the family office are essential factors in maximizing efficiency, minimizing risk, and positively impacting ongoing staffing challenges. However, clinging to old ideas has hindered family offices’ adoption of modern capabilities. Despite the uniqueness of every family office, there are many areas to incorporate universal truths where industry-standard workflows and best practices can be leveraged to ensure efficiency and employee productivity, reduce risks, and improve outcomes across the entire enterprise.