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This series covers industry sector dynamics in three parts:Part 1: Working the Plan – City Capital Venture’s seasoned deal team, Dan Kipp and Allen Tibshrany will explore the critical steps necessary to ensure success in the first 18 months post-investment, including guidance on governance, transparency and reporting.Part 2: Unlocking o...

Change is never easy, especially with the challenge of mainstreaming impact investing. But when change is fun, it is easier for those faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges to begin to see opportunities. For the past three years in Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has designed and implemented elaborate and highly competitive interactio...

Stuart Porter will discuss investment opportunities in energy such as oil and gas as well as renewables. Mr. Porter will talk about energy pricing and US shale production, the energy renaissance in North America versus conditions in the rest of the world, and the role of technology in the energy sector. In addition to more traditional energy source...

Family member and private investor Oakleigh Thorne will be part of an interactive discussion through the use of a moderator regarding his investment approach since the sale of his family’s business, Commerce Clearing House, 20 years ago. He will share the lessons he has learned in the process and also talk about his experiences as a diversifi...

As Benjamin Franklin once stated, “If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.” High net worth individuals often accumulate substantial assets in the form of art, jewelry, wine and as an element of equestrian actives and equine ownership. While the pursuit of these passions can become sound financial investments…they can al...

One Thousand & One Voices™ is a movement of influential families investing Relational Capital, Intellectual Capital and Patient Financial Capital — or Three-Dimensional Capital™ — to profitably accelerate prosperity in rising markets. The consortium of aligned families from around the world has the objective of accelerating prosperity in rising...

Liquid Alternatives have risen in popularity for family offices and families as they increasingly bring these vehicles to supplement their alternative allocations. Packaging and delivery of these return streams have been brought to market in the form of Alternative '40 Act Funds or Alternative Private Investment Partnerships. Do the...

Families continue to seek a better way of communicating performance results so that end users can gain a thorough understanding of the impact of strategic asset allocation, rebalancing, tactical shifts, and individual manager results and other performance measures. Critical to the success of such reporting is starting the performance discussion at ...

FOX and FDX Capital are pleased to profile current investment strategies of importance to our members, and will ask some investors to provide updates on their activities over the past year. We will also present new sources of deal flow for your consideration, as the dynamics of the private equity industry are changing rapidly. On the research...

PFTCs provide significant flexibility with respect to investment management. The governance models afforded under PFTCs allow families to carefully craft the role of investment management, from the what, to the who, to the how. Modern trust laws in select states will allow you to create this flexibility through PFTCs, or for those less ...