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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...

More than ever before, giving families are working to involve multiple generations in their philanthropy. This emergent trend comes with a shift that focuses the conversation of next generation engagement from a “passing the baton” mentality—where succession planning is the motivator for next gen participation—to an intergen...

Even as we head into 2022, the effects from the pandemic and events of 2020 continue to be felt, particularly in the philanthropic community. In this vibrant conversation with Glen W. Johnson, President of FOX, Bruce Boyd, Principal and Senior Managing Director of Arabella Advisors, Nancy Roob, CEO of Blue Meridian Partners and President and CEO of...

Document Contains Resources for: Getting Started, Current Trends, and Navigating Generational Differences

The concept of “making an impact” is not new. Families of substantial wealth and philanthropy have long had an intertwined history. So it is no surprise that, when 2020’s tremors hit, families of exceptional wealth stepped up in ways not only addressing the pandemic but also tackling deeper societal issues. FOX Chief Operating Off...

The 2019 FOX Survey on Values-Aligned Investing was completed alongside our annual Global Investment Survey. There has been a fundamental shift in how families of wealth view capital deployment and this research brings new insights regarding values-aligned investing.This report highlights investor profiles for the 98 m...

Get ready to comply with the five new data privacy laws that will come into effect in January 2025 in Delaware, Nebraska, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. With the active enforcement by several states’ Attorneys General and a trend toward broader applicability, data privacy compliance is becoming increasingly important and complex. Companies sh...

Family offices of every size and type can serve as unknowing gateways to sensitive data and personal information due to their extensive financial dealings and relatively low maturity in cyber preparedness. These vulnerabilities make family offices attractive targets to threat actors who may not even need sophisticated hacking skills to compromise a...

In the quest to generate positive social change, family philanthropies face diverse and sometimes competing perspectives. They also must sort through an overwhelming amount of information to make good decisions—and often, that information is too general or limited to be useful. With this research report, clear and focused data goes a long way towar...

This guidebook takes a critical look at significant challenges and opportunities in family office operations and offers comprehensive guidance with a future-focused lens. Gain expert insight, strategies, and best practices on the top-of-mind issues that include strengthening your cybersecurity, leveraging your technology, the role of the chief inve...

Cyber threats are seen as the third most impactful risk to businesses over the next three years, after the cost of capital and economic downturns, respectively. Threat actors are not only deploying new tactics using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to conduct more targeted and sophisticated attacks, but they are also advancing familiar threa...

If you’re philanthropically inclined, you can contribute your life insurance to a 501(c)(3) public charity, like a donor-advised fund. There are two primary methods to contribute life insurance to charity, and each one has different timing and tax benefits. Using a case study, the two options illustrate how donations can maximize the charitable imp...

The act of giving through family philanthropy can be a transformative experience for both family members and the communities they serve, sometimes with an impact that lasts generations. However, achieving a positive, enduring impact requires purposeful vision and decision making throughout the lifespan of the family's philanthropic work. With the d...

New cybersecurity guidance for artificial intelligence (AI) systems was issued jointly by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI, the National Security Agency’s Artificial Intelligence Security Center, and cybersecurity agencies of Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., and Canada. The Guidelines, Deploying AI Systems Securel...

Amid the growing excitement surrounding generative artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, CFOs in asset management and banking remain keenly focused on the impact that these tools can have on their clients. AI is enabling asset management firms to provide investors with valuable insights from extensive datasets, assisting the...