Family advisors often have a strong technical or financial background, but the importance of cultivating communication style, emotional intelligence, coaching skills, trust-building, and similar qualitative skills to serve clients cannot be overstated. Join a panel of peers who will share how they meaningfully engage with family clients and discuss the invaluable impact of continuous qualitative skill development in today's ever-changing family-advisory environment.
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Elevating Women Magazine—Money: Friend or Foe?
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The more you know about yourself, the better your relationships will be—including with money. In this issue, we celebrate two people who are harnessing their experiences and expertise to help others understand the emotional side of money. From a conversation with Jennifer Risher on breaking the money taboo, to Stan Treger, a behavioral scientist, using psychology to unpack money stories—this issue shows that exploring your relationship with money can be the first step to taking charge of your wealth.
Using Technology to Elevate Client Engagement and Experience | 2023 FOX Technology Showcase
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Meeting client needs has always been core to family offices and financial institutions serving ultra-high-net-worth families. But what if you could augment your operations to better serve your end-clients? Join SEI for an open dialogue that focuses on how leveraging technology, human connection, and scalable processes can help enhance the client experience and increase engagement with end-clients.
How do we build cohesive multi-generational financial strategies? | 2023 FOX Technology Showcase
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How do we advance the family mission while solving for the unique needs of each generation? This session presents a framework for designing cohesive financial strategies that embody a family’s mission and address objectives spanning multiple generations. Jeff Coyle, Founder and CEO, Libretto Kent Lawson, Chief Technology Officer, FOX
When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was passed in late 2017, the “sunsetting” of many of the provisions in 2026 seemed far away. Among those of benefit to high-net-worth individuals was the increasing of the gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax exemptions to $11.18 million per person ($22.36 million for married couples) for 2018. The tax exemptions are indexed annually for inflation through December 31, 2025. For those who can afford to use the higher exemption, learn what’s at stake and what needs to happen before the exemption is significantly reduced.
The dramatic growth of the family office industry in the 1980s was sparked by new liquidity running through hundreds of business-owning families. In an effort to preserve and expand their wealth, they needed a professional financial office so they could focus on broadening their business endeavors or living unencumbered lives.
For families with substantial diversified portfolio investments, costs are an important consideration when devising an overall wealth management strategy. While there are a range of cost estimates drawn from real world examples, each family’s wealth management cost formula is different when analyzing it through a framework and analysis of four parts: the evaluation of costs; factors that can cause costs to fluctuate; key questions to ask when evaluating wealth management costs; and best practices.
Global Family Business Tax Monitor 2023
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With more business families going global, it’s imperative that family businesses consider the tax implications as well as the business and personal factors when planning a family business transfer. In this report, KPMG offers two case studies on taxing family business transfers and the significant disparities between tax regimes. The report also compares the vastly different tax implications of transferring the family business through gifting during the owner’s lifetime (including on retirement) and through inheritance across 57 countries, territories, and jurisdictions worldwide.
Asset Gatherers vs. Boutiques: It Can Pay to Be Small | 2023 FOX Global Investment Forum
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Join experts from Asset Consulting Group as they share why a small and nimble asset base allows managers to maintain their investment discipline and fully allocate to their highest conviction ideas. This session will help attendees understand how a focus on asset gathering can adversely impact a manager’s ability to add value over time, while capacity-minded firms can protect alpha potential.
Examining the Impact of Fundamental Global Investment Themes | 2023 FOX Global Investment Forum
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Panelists discussed two highly relevant post-pandemic investment themes, Supply Chain and Energy. Join industry experts as they walk through the current state of these highly disrupted industries, key drivers and pitfalls impacting potential investment opportunities, and where families could find long term potential and harness these disrupted and dynamic industries.