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In this 2019 Foresight article, we explore how family enterprises face an increasingly uncertain and risky world owing to developments in the economy, geopolitics, financial markets, technology, and industry competition. We review a wide range of general and specific strategies to mitigate systemic risks.

Once a family recognizes they own and manage a complex range of endeavors, the family leaders need to look strategically across the enterprise at where opportunities and risks exist. They should then assess where the opportunities and risks exist and how to allocate capital to the best alternatives. This article identifies the most common risk fact...

Many wealth owning families own extensive property as a significant portion of their portfolio and are looking for ways to balance the need for investment returns with environmental responsibility and leadership. Join us as an expert from Baceline Investments outlines ways to lower operating costs and increase value while implementing environmental...

Multinational families are not a new phenomenon; history is full of noteworthy family trees whose branches have spanned the globe for generations. Increasingly, though, even younger families find that business, marriage, or simply serendipity lead to many family members making their lives in different countries and different cultures. And as the fa...

As family offices begin planning summer meetings and retreats, leaders may find themselves faced with a multitude of questions – challenges that can begin with setting the agenda and continue through finding proven facilitators and meeting locations.

When you think of Martha Stewart, you think of insider trading. When you think of Rod Blagojevich, you think of his auction for Obama's senate seat. These are two examples of reputations can be tarnished overnight. What can be done to lessen the severity of reputation risk during a crisis? What is involved in effective, day-to-day management of fam...

When a family aviation emergency occurs, family offices must be ready to lead rather than observe in the onslaught of activity that inevitably follows.Integrated preparedness is the key to successfully managing and recovering from such emergencies. But creating an appropriate plan is a complex endeavor involving numerous dimensions of family servic...

For business owning families, family councils offer opportunities for members to be involved with both the family business and the family system itself. A council can provide structure that helps members productively manage the strengths, challenges, and tensions that arise when a family has both an active operating business and multi-generational ...

In the wake of the worst financial meltdown since the Great Depression, many investors have begun to question the basic principles of investing that lie at the core of the financial industry. Diversification, the risk/reward trade-off, the separation of alpha and beta, the benefits of passive index funds, the ability to manage risks via asset alloc...

Since the Autumn of 2008 many heads of family offices have focused their attention on the most basic aspects of financial arrangements. This is true of owner managers and professional CEOs alike. Since the demise of Lehman two dominant questions arise from this group of decision makers. Firstly whether client assets are genuinely segregated off the...

Many investors are questioning the value of diversification, particularly after the events of 2008. Perhaps the problem is not diversification itself, but the way investors have implemented it. Risk-Parity portfolios offer a different approach to diversification, one that proved more resilient in the credit crisis. But what is risk parity, and how ...

Over the past decades, family specialists have developed a deeper understanding of the host of emotional responses that accompany wealth events – whether the event in question is a business sale, inheritance, trust distribution, or other financial transition.These wealth events can have powerful effects on individuals’ notions of identity, purpose,...

There are many misconceptions about prenuptial agreements and while many people feel they are integral to protecting the assets of the family, others feel they engender feelings of distrust and add yet one more emotional burden to wealth ownership.On this webinar, listen in as speakers examine this sensitive topic and hear examples of different way...

The latest in FOX's original research studies examines the many ways in which family wealth advisors structure and implement their fee and pricing models in today's marketplace.This program will offer a comprehensive review of pricing strategies and practices that leading multi-family offices, private banks and other wealth advisors employ to reali...

Contemplating or deciding to sell the family business creates a challenging transition for families. How do you prepare your family or your clients? What happens when legal and financial structures change? What is the reinvestment plan? How will the family reinvent themselves? Listen in as GenSpring Chief Fiduciary Officer, Steve Salley explores th...