Families are becoming more complex, but a shared family vision and strategy are becoming easier to define. Business-centric families are becoming enterprise-centric and risk assessment is more sophisticated. Having impact in the future will require new strategies and new ways of thinking. The Family Office of old will need to make substantial adjustments to stay relevant in the coming decades. To thrive in the future, families must prepare themselves for dramatic change. Here we look at the seven most significant changes taking place as families adapt to the modern times.
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2020 FOX Foresight: The Future of Wealth Management
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As disruption in the wealth management industry accelerates, the industry is struggling to keep pace. While Family Offices may not feel the full pressure of this disruption today, it is indeed on its way. How exactly the future plays out is still anyone’s guess. What is certain is that the Family Office business model and value proposition will evolve, including the wealth manager’s role expanding to include building strong partner ecosystem to best meet the needs of family clients.
Overtime Rule: What You Need to Know
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In this webcast, learn about the new overtime rule that went into effect on January 1st, 2020. The training focuses on understanding what the new overtime rule is, its history, the implications to employers, and what you should do next.
The HR Coaching Tree
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Many organizations are realizing that HR executives’ mandate extends beyond figuring out the firm’s health insurance and writing the employee handbook. They are key to creating a positive work culture and attracting (and keeping) talented employees—all essential to the success of any enterprise. In the world of human resources, Mike Feiner and Bill Conaty are known as the progenitors of two of the world’s greatest coaching trees.
5 Best Practices of High Performing Finance Leaders
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High performing CFOs in financial services organizations integrate data-driven decision-making activities across the entire company, changing the role of finance from back-room financial reporters into forward-thinking analysts and trusted advisors. This infographic shows how they do it and how you can too.
Organizations that want to develop or retain a competitive advantage should create a diverse and inclusive environment where all can thrive. This means addressing both the company-wide structural and behavioral issues that may be preventing people from achieving their full potential. It also means taking on an approach involving six choices and seeing how they can be applied effectively by underrepresented employees.
Go Slow to Go Far
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Traditionally, wealth advisors use a succession planning framework that involves working with the founders to look downstream to the next generation for an effective “passing of the baton” strategy. In contrast, a multi-generational approach encourages each person within the family system to contemplate and share with others where they’ve come from, what they’ve come with, what they wish to pass on, and what they wish to leave behind.
A new FOX study, “Capturing Opportunity and Managing Risk in the Next Decade,” is now available for members who are interested in taking a proactive approach to risk management across the enterprise. Complexity and risk are inevitable consequences of building and perpetuating wealth. Therefore, the issue at stake for families of wealth is not risk avoidance, but rather, risk management. Well-managed risk presents opportunities, but it takes a team operating as trusted partners to sort through the range of risks, helping families make the best decisions.
As healthcare acuity continues to rise among assisted living and independent living residents, savvy providers are finding ways to expand their reach across the care continuum. While this often means branching out into services such as in-home care and insurance products, increasingly providers are opting to stick to the business of service-enhanced real estate. The difference is a new focus on enticing the younger segment of older adults—with an active adult strategy.
Driving Performance in Financial Services: 3 New Approaches for the Data-Driven Finance Leader
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Intuitively, many business managers recognize that their decision window has been shrinking with each passing year. Information dissemination has become real-time and on-demand. What is required is an analytical approach that enables management to monitor and measure the development of the important strategic drivers and make decisions with confidence. Learn why ad hoc reporting is failing to fill the gap, the changing role of the modern finance leader, and the three new approaches to attaining deeper financial analytical insight.