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This session will help attendees understand how to manage the challenging insurance market including steeply rising insurance P&C premiums and canceled policies. Speakers will discuss how to keep premiums down as much as possible and how to work with brokers to ensure you’re considering the best strategies for dealing with this challenging insu...

Many family businesses are undergoing or anticipating transitions, prompting the need for trusted advisors more than ever. This session features experts who have deep breadth of experience in helping families manage business transitions and the complexity that comes with them, including new liquidity, helping founders find their next purpose, and m...

Trusts are often used for tax efficient wealth transfer and liability protection. In exchange for these benefits, however, trusts create certain obligations. Rooted in ancient times, the rules governing trusts are not always intuitive. Understanding their genesis can help us better understand the roles and responsibilities they create and how ...

What does it mean to be an engaged and responsible beneficiary? We will explore the roles and responsibilities of a trustee, and learn from a father-daughter team about how they make the trustee-beneficiary relationship work. We will understand the roles each party plays and how to effectively approach trust-related communications.Robert Hammett, V...

A trustee of family trusts must understand the legal duties and deliver them with a keen appreciation of family dynamics. We will discuss the range of trustee and beneficiary responsibilities as well as practical tips for making the trustee-beneficiary relationship work effectively. Members will share their experiences as trustees.Katherine Dunlevi...

The traditional nuclear family is no longer the presumption. With multiple demographic trends including samesex marriages, blended families, and cohabitation alongside different paths to parenthood, including adoption and assisted reproductive technologies, there are numerous estate planning challenges that ultra-...

Each year, the Global Risks Report, published by the World Economic Forum at Davos, in partnership with Marsh & McLennan Companies and Zurich Insurance Group, is a critical guide to explore some of the major challenges and risks of the world. Understand how decision-makers across the industry can find opportunity amid today’s global chall...

Get a first look at the new FOX research on managing opportunities and risks in the family enterprise. This research focuses on a process for the family to address future uncertainties, recognizing both known and unknown risks a family may face in the 21st century. Families who can embrace change, seek opportunity, and manage uncertainty will ...

Presented at the 2018 FOX Family Security WorkshopJuly 18-19, 2018With cyber breaches making headlines with increasing frequency and magnitude and as more and more family offices have become targets of cyberattacks, it is no surprise that concerns about cybersecurity keep family office executives awake at night. During this working lunch, participa...

Presented at the 2018 FOX Family Security WorkshopJuly 18-19, 2018In a world where social media makes personal privacy a challenge, how can you keep your family safe? Just as you have a process for evaluating business and investment risks, the process for assessing personal security risks should help you identify areas of vulnerability and outline ...

Presented at the 2018 FOX Family Security WorkshopJuly 18-19, 2018Brent White discussed proven methods of bypassing popular physical security controls and employees, using only publicly available tools and social engineering. See war stories from assessments, and the frightening simplicity of gaining unauthorized physical access to many things...

Presented at the 2018 FOX Family Security WorkshopJuly 18-19, 2018Financial institutions are critical partners of family offices. Security experts cite cyber threats as one of the top risks to financial markets. Financial institutions are continually challenged by the speed of technological change and the increasingly sophisticated nature of threat...

Enterprise Risk Management offers a robust approach to managing risk for families, developing a cost effective, comprehensive plan taking into consideration the rapidly evolving nature of our clients’ needs. It takes a holistic approach to identifying, defining, quantifying, analyzing and providing solutions to all the identifiable exposures ...