The new year brings unique opportunities for families and their offices, but it can also create new obstacles to navigate. FOX has identified three dominant themes that will drive disruption and opportunity for families of wealth, their family offices, and their professional advisors. We call them the “3Ts” – transitions, talent, ...
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In The Time is NOW for your Rising Gen, FOX Chief Learning Officer, Mindy Kalinowski Earley, cautions families on waiting too long to involve their future family leaders. Outlaying personal quotes from members of the rising generation and relaying best practice first steps, Early argues that when starting family learning and leadership skills&helli...
Having observed private investors at work over many years, authors Jonny Lach and Sara Hamilton see some clear patterns separating the most successful family investors from others. They offer some of the lessons learned, including the advantages and challenges that family investors face.
Private investors including family offices can be great investors, but many are not. They have some big competitive advantages over institutional investors which live with significant constraints imposed by law, stakeholders, media and regulators. Private investors are usually less constrained, but often fail to recognize and exploit their competit...
Strategy is often thought of as an art form—an unstructured, intuitive exercise propelled by inspiration and brilliance. However, just like finance, operations, or marketing, strategy is a functional discipline with tools, frameworks, processes, best practices, and metrics.This checklist is end-to-end process for developing and executing a co...
The nature and variety of investment alternatives, ever-changing tax laws and rigorous regulatory constraints make the work of managing multigenerational wealth more complex than ever. The common use of the term “wealth advisor” makes it difficult to distinguish between product providers and independent advisors who are paid to look out...
The process of identifying the right technology solution for your family office can be tough, especially if you don't know where to begin. This complementary whitepaper details the steps you'll need to take.This whitepaper includes:A breakdown of the key business objectives and goals associated with family office technology and softwareA sample fam...
The FOX Guide to the Professional Family Office is an update of our classic Family Office Primer. The Guide documents the challenges faced by families who want to manage their wealth collectively for the long-term and opens the door to the inner workings of today’s family office. Using concrete examples and FOX Family Office Benchmarking™...
Financial reports provide family members with a consolidated picture of their wealth holdings, allowing them to make fully informed decisions about their future. However, creating meaningful reports that advance, rather than distract from family members’ long-term goals is extremely challenging. The goal of this white paper is to spark new th...
The shift to a full cloud-based model for infrastructure and application delivery is here for family offices, if they choose to use it. Over the next five years in the wealth management space in total, there will be hybrid and convergence solutions (such as co-source) to provide a transition from ‘onpremise’ to the cloud, especially as legacy vendo...
The study explores several components instrumental to the operations of a family office such as cost of services, governance structure, strategy and risk management and education. The report is designed to help family office executives and board members evaluate the office’s performance relative to 103 family office peers.First launched in 1991, th...
Continuing a trend of the past five years, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) grew in assets under management in 2020. However, the fact remains that the ETF continues to be a one-size-fits-all solution that isn’t optimal for everyone. The flexibility of a custom passive separately managed account (SMA) can beat an ETF in terms of tax efficiency in...
The evolution of cybersecurity threats is increasing at a rapid pace and becoming more sophisticated as they leverage the same advanced technologies and methodologies as cyber defense tools. No longer are cyberattacks focused primarily on financial incentives, they are also aiming at maximizing operational disruption. With the continuing cyber t...
Since 1986, Byron R. Wein gave his views on a number of economic, financial, and political surprises for the coming year. By “surprise,” Byron defined it as an event that the average investor would only assign a one out of three chances of taking place but which he believed had a better than 50% likelihood of happening. Paying homage to Byron’s ann...
Managing multiple short- and long-term financial goals can feel overwhelming at times. With this guide by Vanguard, a three-step financial wellness framework is provided for determining the next best actions you can take to bring you closer to your goals and improve not only your financial situation but also your overall holistic well-being, no mat...