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Men & Wealth: Report of Findings
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While men continue to play a leadership role in their families when it comes to wealth management planning and decision-making, a growing number are inclined to discuss the family wealth and wealth transfer intentions with not only their spouses but also their heirs. Research indicates wealth-related decision-making is now a shared responsibility in more than 50 percent of households.

Effective Governance through a Private Trust Company Structure
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You don’t want to miss this 2009 FOX Fall Forum session to learn how a private trust company structure can significantly increase the odds of a family implementing its transitional strategic plan through effective governance. The session will deliver valuable information on U.S. private trust company structures and cross-border private trust structures. You also will receive the latest updates on private trust company laws and state jurisdictions.

What We Have Learned from Families of Fortune
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Without question, Jay Hughes has changed the thinking of most families and wealth advisors regarding how family assets are defined. Over the past 20 years, Jay and Sara Hamilton have discussed the many critical challenges that families face and the transitions that occur as they cross the generational bridges. In this 2009 FOX Fall Forum presentation, Jay and Sara have share for the first time their insights from these client experiences, and the important concepts that Jay has developed are brought to life as they reflect on the lessons learned from the exceptional families they have served.

Four Ways Families Can Enhance Human Capital
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In this 2009 FOX Fall Forum presentation, Ellen Perry outlines four ways in which families of significant wealth can enhance their human capital, developing the skills and talents of the younger generation, strengthening family ties and enabling individual members and families as a whole to flourish for multiple generations.

Entrepreneurs Within the Family: Encouraging Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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One key to helping develop greatness in the next generation is to encourage entrepreneurship. The formula for encouraging entrepreneurship will differ among families and may need to be adjusted to fit the needs of individual family members. It is important for families to recognize some of the unique issues they face and to think in advance of the steps they can take to address these challenges.

Changing of the Guard
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As the management and control of a family office passes to a younger generation, it is common for new leadership to reassess many of the organization's strategic elements against a new measurement criteria, a necessary process that can lead to difficult and transformational decisions. For many, the single-family offices that remain will bear little resemblance to the operations that their parents established.

Overcoming Entitlement and Raising Responsible Next Generation Family Members
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The current economic environment offers parents the opportunity to educate their children about the transience of wealth and the need for self-reliance. This paper from Relative Solutions offers suggestions for overcoming a sense of entitlement and for increasing responsibility among next-generation family members.

A Silver Lining for Family-Owned Businesses
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Despite its challenges, the current economic environment offers opportunities that can benefit family-owned businesses. This article from the Beringer Group encourages family businesses to consider the possibilities that may exist in acquisitions, corporate restructurings, internal buyouts, succession planning and estate planning.

Legacy Planning — The Family's 100 Year Plan
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A hundred years is a long time. It is especially long in an age of the Internet, cell phones and Blackberrys. Society is also very much focused on instant results. Nevertheless, planning for the next 100 years is one of the most critical tasks a wealthy family faces today. With this 100-year plan, a family sets in motion a culture and philosophy that can guide future generations to perpetuate the family's financial and intellectual capital.

Family Business: In Safe Hands?
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Based on a global survey of high-net worth individuals, including almost 300 family business owners, the eighth instalment of Barclays Wealth Insights provides fresh analysis into the state of family businesses around the world today. The report will assess the current situation and prospects of family businesses, and examine in detail their unique characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, with particular reference to today's challenging economic, financial and operating environment.