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Women have become financial powerhouses exercising decision-making control over $11.2 trillion of investible assets. Women investors from inheritors and spouses to wealth creators and wealth owners are taking a more significant role in managing their families' investments in addition to their philanthropic endeavors. We are also in the midst of...

The 2017 Tax Act presents planning opportunities around the choice of entity. Existing clients with pass through entities like S-Corporations and LLCs need to consider if maintaining this status is prudent given the changes in the tax law. In the past C-Corporations considered elections to become pass through entities to avoid two tiers of tax. Wha...

Many families have adopted strategic approaches to the way they run their businesses and their life in an integrated fashion. Some have applied business expertise to their philanthropic causes, and others have pursued impact across all of their investments to promote social and environmental returns. Representatives from three families will share t...

Increasingly, companies of all stripes are being stressed to manage their reputations in a world that is always on, more social, and more contentious than ever. The problems faced can be even more challenging for family-owned businesses. Family members and businesses are increasingly asked to take stands on social concerns and political issues by t...

Learn how non-family business executives can lead discussions on succession and why you may want to facilitate this process. In this session, Charlie and Jonathan will share data and case studies from successful (and unsuccessful) successions at leading family enterprises and engage in a group discussion to help answer the following questions:What ...

Successful business-owning families know that a set of timely decisions is required to continually prepare and grow the family-operating companies. For the long-term success of the family, timely and thoughtful exploration of future planning for self and family is also required, but often overlooked. This session presents ideas and best practices f...

In Skin in the Game, a proposed TV show with a format similar to Shark Tank, the audience effectively runs the game, deciding which businesses get funded. Audience members also have the option to invest their own capital in the Skin in the Game fund. More than fun and games, it was designed with projections for job creation and ...

Family businesses transitioning from the owner-manager stage to a larger and more diverse family ownership group often lack the practices necessary to assure owner alignment and avoid conflict. Many times, owner groups are perched on the lip of what we call the “conflict spiral,” ready to descend into fractured communication and hostile...

Wealth levels continue to rise, yet overall charitable giving has remained stagnant over the past forty years. What is on the horizon for philanthropy? How can families most effectively have an impact on society now and in the future? Kim Laughton, President of Schwab Charitable will share current giving trends including the tax benefits, new ideas...

You hear it repeatedly, Millennials and Women are set to inherit $41T in the next 10 years. What does this mean to your practice? What needs to change? What tools do you need and what resources are out there to meet new demands for investment with conscience? How can a thoughtful, perhaps slow, ethical approach align with the super-efficiency of ro...

A growing number of wealth owners around the world are actively involved in impact investing, supporting innovative, commercially viable solutions that drive transformation into a more just and sustainable society. In her new study, Catalyzing Wealth For Change, A Guide to Impact Investing for ultra-high net worth individuals, family offices, found...

Many of us struggle to identify the ways in which we can affect change in the world. It is obvious and easy to some, yet daunting to others. This panel will explore insights to enlighten, educate, inspire and motivate the audience in the quest for living an engaged and purposeful life by sharing their own experiences philanthropic action prompted b...