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Statistically, every day 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach the age of 65, a phenomena that will occur daily until 2029. And, according to the Small Business Administration, half of small business owners are currently over age 50. As a result, waves of small businesses will be sold or transitioned. When you couple these statistics with the emergent meg...

Distributions have many implications for the Private Family Trust Company (PFTC). The responsibilities of the PFTC in preserving the corpus and being true to the role of the trustee must also align with the changing needs of the family. This peer dialogue centers on a case study examining the art and complexity of family distributions and provide t...

Family education is critical to wealth sustainability. In this session, participants will hear directly from families who have successfully implemented family education programs and the challenges and obstacles they have had to overcome to design, develop and deliver quality programming. In addition, family members will share information about the ...

Family success over generations is often contingent on the health and vibrancy of family culture. Family culture can destroy legacy, decimate planning, and wreak havoc on even the best laid plans of founders, professionals and family leaders. This session helps to bring clarity to the confusing dynamics of family culture and, more importantly, prov...

A multigenerational family can benefit from a visioning process when moving from one stage of the enterprise to another— perhaps facing a change in leadership or a change in ownership of key family assets. The time for a Family Visioning process has come when family members can see a major change coming, but are uncertain as to how the transi...

Dr. Crace will explore the promises and pitfalls of values-based living from both a personal and family perspective. While research links values to flourishing, there has been little discussion of how values can unintentionally get in the way of our productivity. This workshop will examine these issues and outline a process called “dynamic bl...

One of the most difficult things for family leaders to convey to younger owners is the relevance and complexity of family governance. Using our recently completed Family Learning Module, Charlie Grace will provide an overview on governance concepts, and he will show you how to highlight the most important concepts to make the decision-making proces...

Effective governance empowers leaders of wealthy families and/or families in business to make the most of the unique strength of a family enterprise: the synergy between a strong, unified business owning family and a well-run family enterprise or family office.Ernesto Poza will explain why so many families fail to govern the family-business relatio...

PFTCs provide significant flexibility with respect to investment management. The governance models afforded under PFTCs allow families to carefully craft the role of investment management, from the what, to the who, to the how. Modern trust laws in select states will allow you to create this flexibility through PFTCs, or for those less ...

Regulated PFTC’s are licensed and supervised by state banking regulators. In exchange, families are given the only non-federal, permanent corporate/LLC charter allowing them to provide trust services and, without registration with the SEC, act as an investment adviser. The main price they pay is the burden of state regulations and...

A founder of the modern private trust company industry will provide a brief history of the industry and where it is at today: its strengths, growing maturity, challenges and how it must evolve going forward. Attendees will learn:A top-down overview of today’s state-of-art private trust company, both inside and outSome key recent st...

Poor trust risk management and family disunity remain major if not the major threats to families seeking to remain together from generation to generation. Often embraced hesitantly by families, the most important risk management actions are basic and logical, only requiring families to understand and commit to them. Communication is often the...

For those considering a PFTC or in the early stages of developing one, this session provides the core information needed to get started, including identifying the right state and right structure for your family, chartering or licensing, and insight on the day to day realities of operating a PFTC.Attendees will learn:The chartering/licensing p...