In today’s hyperconnected world, news headlines are filled with stories about identity exposure, data breaches and other major threats to your personal information and financial assets. This guide provides best practices, resources, and actionable advice to help you protect yourself or recover from a cyberattack.
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Making Insurance a Cornerstone of Wealth Management
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With the past two years as a backdrop, risk management and insurance for 2022 will be anything but simple. It will entail assessing vulnerabilities with regards to changes such as permanent work-from-home arrangements, increased exposure to extreme weather events, cybercrime, and various pandemic-related ripple effects. High net worth individuals and families will need to look at risk management and insurance in a whole new light: It’s no longer a commodity but an important part of protecting their lifestyle and future.
2022 FOX Foresight
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FOX Foresight keeps you up to date on our latest thinking about matters affecting families, family offices, and their advisors. It gives you our forward look on what we're learning from our members and subject matter experts.
What to Look for in an Independent Agent or Broker
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Whether you’ve worked with ultra-high-net-worth clients for years or are just starting to grow that business, you know that these families and individuals are typically very private and prefer to deal exclusively with trusted advisors. When considering the right independent insurance agents or brokers, there are six things to keep in mind when making your decision.
Often, families execute wealth transfer planning strategies without fully considering what wealth and family legacy means to them—particularly the importance of defining and sharing their associated social, economic, and philanthropic values. In this interview, two advisors examine the value of family education and the critical role advisors play in the process.
2021 FOX State of the Ultra-Wealth Business
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This is the report of findings of the 2021 FOX State of the Ultra-Wealth Business. The full report is only available to firms that participated in the study. If your firm participated, please contact your FOX Relationship Manager to obtain a copy of the report. The study represents FOX’s best and most current thinking on the direction of Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) business. The report is presented in three sections, with key takeaways identified for each as follows:
2021 State of the Ultra-Wealth Business
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The ultra-wealth business continues to perform well, but not without some growing pains. While advisors to families of wealth benefited from a strong rebound in the markets during 2020, for some firms costs are rising faster than revenue. Now that we are in the midst of a receding pandemic, what does this look back on 2020 tell us about how prepared advisors were for the challenges? What strategies have they employed that served them well with their clients during this extraordinary time will sustain them through 2021?
Lawmakers have passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) to help in the ongoing fight against fraud, corruption, terrorism financing, and money laundering. The CTA contains significant new federal reporting obligations, and it may have an especially onerous impact on estate planning for those who accomplish their planning goals through the use of one or more business entities.
What's Next? Adapting to Rapid Change
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The last year ushered in sweeping changes that impact financial services and partners serving ultra-high net worth clients. Firms are left needing answers about which digital methods and tools will sustain if conditions get back to normal, how to reinforce culture among a hybrid employee base, and how to gain an edge on competition and reach prospects now that the world is trending toward digital rather than physical processes.
The Transformational Role of the Family Advisor
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Panelists will discuss how the role of the advisor is changing within families and what is driving that change. Attendees will walk away with tools to help advisors adapt and develop their skills to better serve families of wealth, especially during their transitions.Amy E. Szostak, Director of Family Education and Governance, Northern TrustDien Yuen, JD/LLM, CAP®, AEP®, Blunt-Nickel Professor in Philanthropy, Assistant Professor of Philanthropy, The American College of Financial Services