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There has been a paradigm shift in family office technology.A decade ago, family offices had to custom build systems to meet their specific needs. It was expensive, cumbersome, and could quickly prove obsolete as the family’s needs grew and evolved. Even when cloud-based solutions first joined the c...

An impressive 79% of families say they have at least one family foundation. That's what we found in the 2014 FOX Family Office Benchmarking™ survey, our comprehensive biannual benchmarking study among single family offices. This 79% number is consistent with the 80% of families that reported ha...

The SEC has expanded the definition of “family” in single-family offices.The January 2015 ruling, which was an update to a previous SEC ruling we covered in the FOX Insights blog last year, affirmed that single-family offices not only have the right to also service family members’ in-laws and their ...

The SEC has expanded the definition of “family” in single-family offices.The January 2015 ruling, which was an update to a previous SEC ruling we covered in the FOX Insights blog last year, affirmed that single-family offices not only have the right to also service family members’ in-laws and their ...

When you think of Millennials, one of the first images that likely comes to mind is a group of young adults, all standing around in a circle... looking down at their smartphones. Unfortunately, this widely accepted vision of Millennials gives a false impression of how young adults prefer to communic...

Families change, grow and evolve from one generation to the next. So do family offices.While family offices are first formed to serve the needs of their founders, they eventually will shift in focus toward serving the founders' offspring and extended family—the next generation. A third-generation or...

Every January, we launch our annual Global Investment Survey to find out how FOX members fared in the markets, and what changes they’re planning for the year ahead. Members anxiously await these results so they can provide their clients and governing boards with critical peer perspective that helps ...

A third shoe has fallen. Family offices have now cleared three hurdles in the regulatory actions considered as a result of the Dodd-Frank repeal of the SEC’s old system for exempting family offices from regulation. The first was the ruling that family offices, meeting certain conditions,...

In September, the FOX Wealth Advisor Council convened in New York to discuss the latest FOX research, benchmarking and best practices for advisors serving single family offices. Many issues – from talent acquisition to profitability – were raised by Council members as key industry challenges. Perhap...

A frustration we often hear from families is that wealth management firms all sound the same. No firm can be all things to all families. The sooner in the process firms and families realize this, the better off everyone will be. For families seeking a wealth advisor, the question isn’t who is the "b...