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While successful businesses benefit from disciplined operations and strategic planning, the management of family wealth is often eclipsed by the needs of the business and improperly delegated to trusted business executives. Ostensibly practical, this approach of embedding the family office inside a business can result in a loss of critical long-ter...

Effective tax and wealth planning can be a challenge, especially when there is a possible recession, elevated inflation, rising interest rates, and geopolitical strife. With this guide, you have the planning information and resources to help you make the right moves to plan for your family’s future and manage your wealth. In addition to insights on...

The family office industry is constantly evolving, and the family offices that embrace the changing dynamics continue to be successful in achieving their overall purpose. As in the first edition, this second edition of the Plante Moran Family Office Book provides timely and relevant insights to help family office professionals manage, operate, and ...

A family office may generally be described as an organization that engages in substantial, active management, oversight, and monitoring of a family’s business, investment, and personal assets in a purposeful, prudent, and business-like manner. As seen from the well-run family offices, there are many positive outcomes when families make an intention...

In the field of family wealth, increasing attention is being paid to the needs of human capital. With the needs extending beyond the reach of the quantitative disciplines that traditionally serve families of wealth, family mental health has become an integral part of protecting and fostering the wellbeing of the family—the most valuable family offi...

Many successful family-owned businesses are managing embedded family offices within their existing operations to maximize the benefits and opportunities gained from the unique structure. But in time, the needs of both the business and the family shift for various reasons that include the family growing and earlier generations transitioning out of t...

Family offices, much like the families that need them, are works in progress. You can’t just set up a family office ownership structure and think it won’t need some type of attention in the future. A number of factors, including regulatory changes, could compel you to revisit your ownership structure to ensure it still makes sense. See why it may b...

At every stage, a Family Office needs the right team, governance, and processes in place to continue growing. With this Family Office Maturity Model that identifies the five different stages—embedded, early stage, developed, professionalized, and mature—you can assess areas for improvement and determine the right steps to progress. By understanding...