As a strategic wealth coach (our term for my role at Ascent) I am often asked, “What does that mean?” I pause, raise my eyebrows, smile, and reply, “I’m a money ...

Advantages of a Prenuptual AgreementPrenuptial agreements get a bad rap and carry a mostly negative stigma because they are associated with one spouse wanting to...

Below is an excerpt from my article, Forging a Direct Investment Path, found in the 2019 FOX ForesightTM publication.Family offices are forging ahead—increasing ...

We all are experiencing the outsize impact of political issues on the markets.

When families think about “risk mitigation,” they typically are thinking about preparing themselves to handle problems when and if they occur, perhaps by creatin...

Adapted from an article in Trust & Estates.Crafting an Entrepreneurial VisionWhen there’s disruption, there’s opportunity. Therefore, it’s important that suc...

Engaging a coach can be an effective way to develop your leadership skills, engage more effectively with your teams, and accelerate your career development. FOX ...

As family interests expand beyond the core operating business and foundational family office services, the family, executives, and entities involved typical...

Engaging a coach can be an effective way to develop your leadership skills, engage better with your teams, and accelerate your career development. FOX recently s...

The season for entertaining is here — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, New Year’s Eve, the Super Bowl, all great reasons to get together with family and friends...

Private Trust Companies (PTCs) first drew industry attention when industry elder, Jay Hughes, in his book Family Wealth – Keeping It in the Family called out the...

Recently, a FOX member inquired about the best practices of onboarding a next generation family member into the Family Council. "What does the first year look li...

While folks residing on the coasts are keenly aware of the threats that hurricanes can pose in terms of water damage, most families are unaware that the main ris...

Measuring successSometimes the greatest challenge for a family is to agree on how they will measure the “success” of the enterprise in each generation. The metri...

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. -Benjamin FranklinYou’ve seen the news- wildfires are becoming a common occurrence. So much so that the term “me...

Transitions within families, increasing complexity on a global scale, and the dynamics of managing families are making governing boards more indispensable to fam...

Demographics, automation, and inequality have the potential to dramatically reshape our world in the 2020s and beyond. Our analysis shows that the collision of t...

As lawyers, we are taught to zealously advocate for the client or the position we represent. At its best, this advocacy almost always entails thinking outside th...

Everyone these days is talking about “impact investing”. A Google search returns over 150 million results for the phrase. There are hundreds of investment manage...

Matt Hougan was the CEO of ETF.com, a three-time member of the Barron’s ETF Roundtable, and the co-author of the CFA Institute’s Monograph on ETFs. He was also a...

I have been traveling in the US and abroad lately, meeting successful business owning families who feel that they have “become bigger than their business”. They ...

This summer we hosted our first FOX Family Security Workshop. According to attendees, security is currently one of their top concerns.