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We recap a live, interactive discussion with FOX members about Managing Stress. Most everyone has been experiencing some form of stress and anxiety since the Covid-19 outbreak – whether about catching the virus or the social and economic impact. For family office staff, uncertainty about how the workplace will accommodate these concerns is creating ongoing stress and anxiety as well.

Communicating financial values and nurturing financial skills in the next generation is a far more challenging enterprise for today’s family than it was for previous generations. Social media, easy access to information through search engines, and dramatically different expectations call for creative ways for families to raise financially mindful children.

Interactive discussion with FOX members about Reopening Your Family Office. Begin preparing now for a post-lockdown re-opening of your family office. Which employees come back when? How will you control the number of people in the office to ensure social distancing? Will your disinfecting and cleaning policies or procedures change? What current and future governmental requirements do you need to consider? Hear from other members who are already preparing for a back-to-work environment.

We recap FOX Investment Opportunity Exchange - Putting Capital to Work. This live, interactive event for FOX Members is intended to share investment ideas, deals under way, or opportunities being considered. Each session will feature discussions with select investors on their current thinking, as well as peer dialogue to enable shared learnings.

Our annual cybersecurity update where experts shared the leading threats you need to be aware of to keep your clients, your firm, and yourselves protected. In addition to recurring threats over the last year, we also discussed more recent COVID-19 focused security threats.In this session, we covered:

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the environment of highly valued equity markets has undergone a sudden shift to a bear market. What are the immediate term and potentially long-term implications on asset allocation? As the pandemic has taken hold on a global basis, how do we factor polarization of the economy, political environment, and social unrest into asset allocation decisions? What are the long-term implications of the value destruction and health of businesses? What may be "green shoots" of opportunity as the pandemic begins to subside?

We will relay what we have been hearing from members, and How Family Offices Can Work from Home Effectively. Any questions about the Crisis Checklist we sent you last week also will be covered. We invite you to contribute your thoughts on operating in a virtual Family Office environment – a new experience for most of us.

Talent development is an opportunity and challenge for any business, but the distinctiveness of a family office presents flexibility and greater challenge. In this webinar we explored:Why talent development may matter more in the family officeTalent development opportunities in the family officeCareer profilingSuccessionRising GenSkills development/maintenanceBest practices & resources

A cherished beach house, lakeside cottage, mountain retreat, ranch, or other vacation property can foster deep emotional ties for families, creating unique opportunities and challenges over multiple generations. For some families, they can be touchstones for the extended family to gather and serve to define family identity. For families with operating businesses, shared investments, complex trusts, and other shared assets, such properties can be a gathering place for cousins to get to know one another and build relationships.

FOX’s annual estate planning review webinar lead participants through a thoughtful discussion of some of the most important topics and developments that were covered at the 54th Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning. Key legislative, regulatory, and case law updates impacting ultra-high net worth families and their family offices were reviewed.