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We’ll examine how to successfully navigate the challenges that arise with the aging and cognitive decline of a family member and/or board member from the perspective of the family office. Aging experts emphasize several strategies for identifying cognitive impairment and ensuring early detection, along with resources and approaches for handling the...

Generating positive impact has emerged as a key trend within the Family and Wealth Management space. Investors, families, and society show growing interest in measuring the effects of their actions—and non-actions— with an emphasis on the impact of their investments. We explore current views and provide practical ways families can move forward to b...

Investors are processing more data more rapidly than ever. For family offices, sticking to their principles and investing within a risk-adjusted framework has never been more important. With a greater number of opportunities, success will require families to reflect upon what has and has not worked, clarify the sectors or strategies where they have...

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...

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.