We are excited to welcome you to the 2025 edition of FOX’s Foresight. This year’s collection of articles is designed to inspire, inform, and guide our community as we navigate the evolving complexities enterprise families face along their multigenerational journey. Drawing on insights from our own FOX subject matter experts, foremost industry thoug...
We are excited to bring you FOX’s 2024 Foresight. As FOX turns 35, join us in exploring a range of highly consequential themes shaping the next 35 years and beyond. It is our hope the topics, which originated from families, thought leaders, practitioners, and the FOX team, will stimulate your thinking and inform your decisions and actions over the ...
Time is our most precious, finite, and versatile resource. Family office industry stakeholders are reevaluating their relationship with time—making meaningful behavioral changes to maximize their “return on invested time.” Powerful and practical tools—some borrowed from the field of investment management—can help maximize return on this scarce and ...
The future will bring transformative changes to families, their enterprises, family offices, and wealth advisors. Transformation will be structural, philosophical and cultural, resulting in a paradigm shift that better balances managing the family’s financial capital and nurturing its other capitals—especially the well-being of its members. &nbs...
FOX Foresight keeps you up to date on our latest thinking about matters affecting Enterprise Families. It gives you our forward look on what we're learning from our members and subject matter experts. Please share it broadly with your family, your office, and your advisors. 2021 FOX Foresight is presented in 7 chapters: Resiliency in Times...
FOX Foresight keeps you up to date on our latest thinking about matters affecting Enterprise Families. It gives you our forward look on what we're learning from our members and subject matter experts. Please share it broadly with your family, your office, and your advisors. 2020 FOX Foresight is presented in 7 chapters: Changes in the Famil...
As families of wealth and their Family Offices consider future success strategies, how ready are they to adapt? To help families prepare for the various stages of changes in the family journey, Dr. Jim Grubman shares the approach he uses—including the application of the Readiness Ruler—in this Q&A with FOX.
The perennial question facing financially successful families is how to preserve the family and its well-being beyond the first generation. It isn’t the size of wealth that determines the family’s ability to build successful Enterprise Family—it’s realizing you have something worth preserving and setting a goal to maintain the family’s financial, s...
Sophisticated families are looking for new ways to positively affect their communities and the world. Learn the innovative approaches of six families achieving lasting impact in our world.
Families are becoming more complex, but a shared family vision and strategy are becoming easier to define. Business-centric families are becoming enterprise-centric and risk assessment is more sophisticated. Having impact in the future will require new strategies and new ways of thinking. The Family Office of old will need to make substantial adjus...
In this 2019 edition of FOX Foresight, we review how business owners need to shift shift to an enterprise mindset, and how family offices seek to redefine their role, and as a new generation of family members prepares for leadership in a time of great transformation. FOX Foresight is presented in 7 chapters: Managing Family Enterprises in a...
Some trends move slowly until they reach a point of inflection, at which time they seem to accelerate at almost blinding speed. So it has been for the rapid emergence of The New Era of Family Wealth. The departure from the past has been driven by four trends (transitions, talent, technology, and time) introduced by FOX in January of 2022. As these ...
FOX Foresight keeps you up to date on our latest thinking about matters affecting families, family offices, and their advisors. It gives you our forward look on what we're learning from our members and subject matter experts. Please share it broadly with your family, your office, and your advisors. 2023 FOX Foresight is presented in 8 chapt...
At some point, your family wealth may be so complex, or a significant transition happens that starts a process to form an independent family office outside of the business. Whatever the reason, separating family wealth management from the business should be considered an evolutionary process and starts with your family gaining consensus to establis...