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This session with the Salgar Family will provide background on the transitions underway in their family and how they used the Family Charter / Constitution to reaffirm the family values, align their goals, and organize their governance process. As part of the move from the first generation to the leadership of Gen 2-3, the family outlined the key c...

Family offices may take on a variety of roles in service to the family, so it is essential that there is a strategy that helps frame the office’s purpose and an overarching plan to help align and execute against diverse interests. The panel will cover three key areas during this session: 1) Share critical questions to ask and answer when designing ...

Join the Tsotsorkov family’s journey over the decades, from its entrepreneurial roots going back 250 years to its modern-day enterprise. Gen 2 family leader, Dimitar Tsotsorkov, shares the story of, and learnings from, the family’s recent efforts to capture and codify the unique values that have shaped the enterprise family and its ecosystem throug...

For the past 3 decades, the private wealth industry has been heavily focused on, and dominated by, highly technical disciplines, such as investment management, tax and accounting, and trust and estate planning, with solutions primarily serving the financial capital of enterprise families and the vision of prior generations. The qualitative needs an...

Get up to speed on the latest results and relevant themes from FOX's Family Office Benchmarking Survey, Global Investment Survey, and Multi-Family Office Survey. Hilary Leav, Director, Insights & Research, FOX David Toth, President, Membership, FOX

We are entering a New Era in Family Wealth. The New Era represents a distinct shift in families’ needs and priorities. Family wealth has long been defined mostly in financial terms, which led to growth and protection of the family’s financial capital as the overriding priority. Today, here is an emerging desire by more families to focus on purpose,...

Philanthropy is no longer just a box to check on the year-end planning list – over the last decade, strategic philanthropy has emerged as an invaluable tool for maximizing family engagement and creating targeted impact. This overlap of values and interests provides critical structure for families to come together to make targeted gifts. Panelists f...

When a strategic plan is developed with the family's values and mission in mind, it can serve as a family-endorsed and impactful roadmap. In this event session, hear about FOX's work with developing a vision and mission statement, and from a seasoned family governance expert who has worked with families and family offices to create proven strategic...

Sharing, documenting, and preserving family narratives are an important part of wealth planning and governance. This session explores how family histories can set a foundation for connection and continuity. Karen McNeill, PhD, Managing Director, Family History, Ascent Private Capital Management of U.S. Bank Moderated by Scott Winget, Enter...

This seminar will begin with trends discovered from FOX’s biennial family office benchmarking survey and will be supported by family office case studies to bring several of the trends to life. The case studies will be used to illustrate a variety of best practices and strategies that were identified in the survey. Josh Kanter, President, Chicago...

We all want our children and grandchildren to be critical thinkers and to find their own way in the world. But we often want them to also adopt the family’s values and, in some cases, the responsibilities of running a family business. When those two goals are mutually exclusive, it can be a challenge to chart a course that embraces the future witho...

The unique and personalized nature of each Family Office can make it challenging to access benchmark remuneration data. Family Offices require a distinct skillset, incomparable to other working environments, and many professionals that Family Offices search to recruit are accustomed to a certain compensation structure. This informative report by KP...

At its core, a mission statement serves as a compass, continually steering an organization or business toward their goals. For the families who undertake the process of creating a mission statement, it provides a similar and essential navigational tool. To be successful, however, the mission statement must resonate and mean something to everyone in...

When setting up a family legacy plan that extends across generations, it’s vital to have a family governance plan that empowers a family to govern its wealth and enterprises as a cohesive unit. While each family is unique, the keys to incorporating an effective family governance will be uniting around shared purposes, having a written family consti...