Climate change is impacting affluent homeowners in the form of insurance premium hikes and non-renewals. Learn how to safeguard your property and lifestyle with the right coverage.
Wealthy families have always faced complex risk management issues, but it is particularly challenging when facing soaring inflation, regulatory uncertainty, rising cybercrime rates, and increasingly severe natural disasters. These market stressors impact all sectors of the insurance market, making it more expensive and challenging for affluent fami...
When setting up a family legacy plan that extends across generations, it’s vital to have a family governance plan that empowers a family to govern its wealth and enterprises as a cohesive unit. While each family is unique, the keys to incorporating an effective family governance will be uniting around shared purposes, having a written family consti...
A changing insurance market continues to impact coverage, premium, deductibles, and many other essential factors. While the insurance outlook has challenges, there are opportunities to make positive impacts on the insurance costs, coverage, and risk quality.
With rising property and casualty premiums and reduced insurance availability, many U.S. homeowners have either chosen to self-insure their homes or have been given no other viable choice. This trend includes an increasing number of affluent families with high-luxury homes in areas prone to wildfires, extreme weather, and other catastrophic events....
Across the United States, coverage for homes, autos and valuable collections have increased at a double-digit pace. In states that have experienced multiple disasters, particularly Florida and California, affluent homeowners have seen premium increases of at least 20% and higher. Others must scramble to find any coverage as carriers continue to pul...
The insurance market outlook for 2025 shows stabilization in several areas, with continued challenges and evolving risks across property, casualty, executive and professional risk, aviation, environmental, and international lines. In a dynamic yet cautious market, insurers are adapting to changing conditions, regulatory pressures, and emerging thre...
A family vision statement is rooted in shared values, interests, and goals. Written with a sense of purpose, your statement becomes your guiding principles for the rules and actions of your family members. In this webcast, learn why most successful families develop a shared vision for their future together on the family journey, how they go about i...
Families who successfully navigate the complexity of wealth through multiple generations tend to do things differently. They recognize the need to establish a framework for decision-making that includes creating foundational documents—also viewed as the “Cornerstone Statement”—that feature their values, vision, and mission for the wealth over many ...
Families spend a lifetime building a legacy and tragically, just one lawsuit can place that legacy in jeopardy. Without that critical layer of personal liability insurance, your are at risk. Personal excess liability coverage—commonly called an umbrella policy—protects individuals from a covered claim brought against them, personal injury, or ...
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, u...
In this comprehensive report and outlook, expert and actionable insights are gathered to show 2024’s most impactful trends and challenges across insurance lines and major industries. A brief retrospective is also provided for each insurance line, including property, general/products liability, auto, umbrella/excess, workers’ compensation, cyber, di...