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Direct investing is nothing new, but it’s a code not everyone has cracked. And while there are no shortcuts to achieving direct investing success, the right ecosystem will help you get there. FOX Foresight keeps you up to date on our latest thinking about matters affecting Enterprise Families. It gives you our forward look on what we're learning...

FOX Foresight keeps you up to date on our latest thinking about matters affecting Enterprise Families. It gives you our forward look on what we're learning from our members and subject matter experts. Please share it broadly with your family, your office, and your advisors. 2021 FOX Foresight is presented in 7 chapters: Resiliency in Times...

FOX Foresight keeps you up to date on our latest thinking about matters affecting Enterprise Families. It gives you our forward look on what we're learning from our members and subject matter experts. Please share it broadly with your family, your office, and your advisors. 2020 FOX Foresight is presented in 7 chapters: Changes in the Famil...

Sophisticated families are looking for new ways to positively affect their communities and the world. Learn the innovative approaches of six families achieving lasting impact in our world.

Today’s families of wealth are increasingly focused on aligning their dollars with their values. The question often is, “Why not deploy our capital to achieve financial return and social/environmental good?” Some view this as abandoning traditional investing. In truth, it’s an evolution of ideals that always have been part of many families’ investm...

Today’s current volatility has made maintaining and creating value from your direct investments more difficult. What are leading indicators telling you about the current climate’s effect on direct and economic drivers? Do you have different forecasting scenarios to navigate out of the uncertainty? The following will help surface key ins...

Family offices are forging ahead despite volatility and uncertainty in the markets—increasing their appetite for direct investments in real estate and operating businesses—as they continue to reassess the more traditional approaches to building investment portfolios.

The FOX Global Investment Survey is designed to aid wealth owners and family office executives in their review of the family's allocation decisions and investment performance each year. This report highlights critical areas as to how families structure their investment decision-making, allocate across their portfolios, staff their investment te...

FOX Foresight – Appeal of Direct Investing shows the growing interest in private company investments. It tells the story of families who are pursuing this opportunity, highlighting the top themes from FOX's research and ongoing conversations with FOX members. It summarizes what we have been learning from the FOX community and our subject matter exp...

This annual FOX survey of investor attitudes and behaviors provides readers with peer perspective from 118 family offices on a wide range of topics, including asset allocation and investment performance, passive versus active investing in long-only equity, 2017 investment trends, benchmarking a multi-asset portfolio, current economic outlook, inves...

Mexico is at a pivotal point in the evolution of its energy markets. In the last few years it has passed reforms to liberalize its oil, gas, and electricity markets with the intent of attracting private investment to build out its energy infrastructure. Driven primarily by increased demand in the electricity sector, Mexico’s natural gas market has ...

FROM “POLYCRISIS” to “POLYOPPORTUNITIES”: In October 2022, in an article in the Financial Times 1, historian Adam Toze brought back into popular use the term “polycrisis” to describe the situation the world was in, with several crises building each other to create an intertwined web of complex disruptions. The developments in mid-March 2023 arou...

Investing in direct opportunities has become increasingly mainstream, and the evolution of family portfolios over the past 30 years supports that. While direct investing is not new, well-funded and focused competitors are increasingly changing the investing landscape. Families entering into direct opportunities can encounter unfamiliar and even uns...

We rely on – and have come to expect – real-time information to make decisions in every aspect of our lives. Family offices are no different. Unfortunately, many continue to use time-consuming manual processes for getting their data into the systems that need it. As a result, many family offices have been searching for technology solutions that fun...

Whether the sale of your artwork is a remote contingency or it is an immediate need, planning for it will help you and your fiduciaries anticipate the possible risks and opportunities that lie ahead. This guide leads you through the steps and takes you to the opportunities that exist when artwork, and the associated intellectual property ...