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The family PTC is an evolving and essential strategy that contributes to long-term financial and family enterprise success. Join us for this in-depth discussion on how a private trust company that leverages a lender structure can benefit your organizations. This webcast is specifically for those who have: A lender structure and are co...

Don’t miss this in-depth tax, trust, and estate planning update. Recent trust and estate litigation cases will be examined, as well as trust and fiduciary state laws. Current UHNW tax audit practices will be addressed in addition to a discussion on how to manage the tax challenges that come along with states trying to tax beneficiaries who live in ...

Direct investors forging new paths into frontier investing will reveal the industries you should pay attention to and why. Join us for a conversation with expert panelists who will share the trends they’re seeing and provide invaluable insight into fast-moving and exciting spaces of next-generation wealth creation. Dave Mullen, Vice President, S...

We invest a lot of time and energy figuring out the best way to pass wealth from one generation to the next. But how can anyone truly prepare for the practical realities of settling a family member’s estate while grieving and managing the impact of this loss on the family? This session will outline some of the things you can be thinking about now t...

A private family trust company (PTC) often serves as an excellent governance framework and corporate structure for a virtual family office (VFO) by providing integrated, holistic oversight of fiduciary, investment, tax, philanthropic, governance, and other activity. Learn more about how and why families choose to form a VFO around their PTC, the co...

As noted in The New Family Office 5.0 Model, a rising number of family offices are allocating resources to direct investments, including building an in-house direct investment function to gain greater control, better diversification, increased flexibility, and income and estate tax benefits. From generating deal flow to due diligence, key cons...

Also known as a family trust company, a private trust company (PTC) is an entity that allows families to unbundle fiduciary services in furtherance of family and financial goals. In this overview and primer, learn more about the elements of the PTC structure, board roles and responsibilities, and when it makes sense to form a PTC.

While many family offices stay cognizant of continued volatility as investors, they also are continuing to search for the best investments in public and private markets. This report—based on 188 family office respondents from 32 countries—provides a comprehensive picture of how family offices view the world and the key factors driving their investm...

The family enterprise provides a strategic framework for families to stay together and accomplish the shared goals of growing wealth and managing risks through the generations. Within the enterprise, the Private Trust Company (the PTC) provides a beneficial mechanism to support the enterprise and the family’s growth and development. In addition to ...

While 2024 saw global asset prices reach record highs, family office investors may benefit from reassessing both their expectations and how their investable assets are positioned for the future. We explore the possibility of a shifting investment landscape and why the years ahead may present a more challenging backdrop for sustaining and growing we...

FOX’s annual estate planning webcast will lead participants through a thoughtful discussion of some of the most important topics and developments that were covered at the 55th Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning. Key legislative, regulatory, and case law updates impacting ultra-high net worth families and their family offices will be cov...

A solid governance structure is critical to any private trust company’s long-term success. Through a thoughtful review that includes useful diagrams and outlines, learn the common elements of the PTC structure; the Board role and responsibilities; the Board attributes, composition, selection process, and succession planning; and addi...

As family offices have grown in number, size and sophistication, they have increasingly looked to invest directly. Largely, the pursuit of direct investing opportunities has been driven by several factors, including the desire for increased control, better alignment of interests, reduced fees and expenses, and higher returns. While the appeal of di...

Once the private trust company’s (PTC) governance structure is designed, the foundational operations and administration elements will be central to bringing the PTC to life. Three key elements toward that end include reducing PTC complexity through documentation and recordkeeping; maintaining the PTC through communications and compliance;...