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Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly shapes our daily lives and businesses, promising enhanced efficiencies, decision-making, accuracy, and analysis. It also poses significant risk of error and misuse. We are all stakeholders in the development and implementation of AI technologies. Understanding the principles of Responsible AI is essential t...

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...

How will technology look and feel when any user of a platform can independently decide what it is they see? Will everyone’s experience be so unique that the platform really becomes a map to the creative side of a non-creative and fact-based world. Learn how today’s data environments will soon become a representation of how and what families and adv...

When is the right time to start talking about succession within the family office? Who starts the conversation so that it is comfortable, non-threatening, and becomes a planned process rather than a one-time event? Hear from families, family office executives, our thought leaders, as well as executive recruiters on how to navigate the succession pr...

For business and wealth creators, preserving the family in the midst of wealth is far more difficult than creating the wealth. Integrating second and third generations into ownership and decision-making is something business builders haven’t yet experienced. We focus on 14 strategies families can use to integrate rising generations and pass down re...

With the varied viewpoints, personalities, and emotions of UHNW family members, finding consensus can be a difficult topic, yet it is imperative to reach goals and move ahead. Gain insight into the structure and practices required for consensus and consider real-life situations resolved using these techniques. ...

Technology within the family office and wealth management industry is changing rapidly. Software applications are changing how we will work and are delivering new ways to implement and integrate reporting, communication, and aggregation. Suppliers are learning from each other and teaching us how to approach and apply newer technologies. Take a glim...

As families grow larger and more diffused—the epitome of an enterprise family—consensus seems ever more difficult to attain. In this Q&A, FOX’s Chief Learning Officer Mindy Kalinowski Earley and principal Jeff Strese of Jeff Strese Consulting Group discuss how families can reduce conflict by taking a consensus-building approach that can navigat...

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.

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...

FOX Foresight keeps FOX members up to date on the latest thinking on matters that affect enterprise families. It summarizes what we have been learning from our members and our subject matter experts over the last year. Please share it broadly within your family, your office, and your advisors. FOX Foresight is presented in 8 chapters: Trend...

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 ...

We rely on – and have come to expect – real-time information to make decisions in every aspect of our lives. Family offices are no different. Unfortunately, many continue to use time-consuming manual processes for getting their data into the systems that need it. As a result, many family offices have been searching for technology solutions that fun...

At our Family Office Exchange (FOX) Rising Gen Leadership Programs held in February and June, we noticed developing themes from our next-generation attendees. It became clear their needs and concerns were coalescing around three emergent areas. In this article we’re presenting a simple engagement pipleline to guide families and rising gen on their ...

Each year brings new possibilities – and 2021 is no different. Emerging from the pandemic. Deepening social change. More predictable U.S. politics. The way we see it, 2021 will be a year many families turn optimistic and begin to act on rising opportunities. And while much remains uncertain, some changes are already either steaming ahead, or eme...