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Inheriting Family Wealth: How to Prepare
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For many high-net-worth individuals with children, amassing wealth may be the easy part; successfully passing down that wealth to their children is where things can get difficult. If you’re the parent, you want to prepare your children for what’s to come. If you’re the one inheriting your parents’ wealth, and if you feel overwhelmed, you’re going to want to create your own game plan.

Align to Your Purpose: 5 Steps to Unlock Your Entrepreneurial Superpower
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Being an entrepreneur provides the opportunity to express your creativity and values through the work you do and to have ownership over every stage of that process. It also means honing an almost superhuman ability to keep track of every stage of operations, business goals, and business needs, while also trying to live your purpose. As such, it is especially important to take time to understand what your goals are and how you want your business to express itself in the world.

Angel Investing: When Hearts and Minds Converge
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Conventional investing is all about diversification and maximizing returns. While both of these are still fundamental, some investors also want to use their economic influence to drive meaningful change. As these investors make financial decisions informed by both heart and mind, traditional barriers between making money and making a difference are dissolving. That’s good news for young companies that are seeking "angel investors" for capital.

Empowerment Through Tradition - The Role of Leadership in Uncovering Hidden Family Wisdom
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Join us for an inspiring an interactive webcast as we explore the value of family heritage and traditions, emphasizing the role of storytelling in preserving family legacies. Participants will learn how to connect with past generations through shared stories, anecdotes, and family artifacts. Key topics include uncovering lost wisdom, with interactive segments where attendees share lesser-known family tales, and the importance of oral histories.

2025 FOX Foresight
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We are excited to welcome you to the 2025 edition of FOX’s Foresight. This year’s collection of articles is designed to inspire, inform, and guide our community as we navigate the evolving complexities enterprise families face along their multigenerational journey. Drawing on insights from our own FOX subject matter experts, foremost industry thought leaders and practitioners, as well as the collective experiences and knowledge of FOX members, Foresight 2025 captures the pulse of transformative themes shaping the path ahead.

2025 FOX Foresight: Mastering Complexity
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As multigenerational families evolve, they all face one universal challenge—growing complexity. Smart and intentional management of this challenge is central to sustaining family unity, achieving the family’s purpose, and ensuring the family and its enterprise flourish over the long run. 2025 FOX Foresight is presented in 8 chapters and can be viewed here, or individually in the "Related Resources" column below.

2025 FOX Foresight: Leaning into Learning: Four Top Practices of Enterprise Families
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The Five Capitals, Wealth 3.0, and the prevalence of Chief Learning Officers in family offices underscore a growing recognition among UHNW families of the value of investing in their human capital. Cultivating skills, stewardship, and personal growth is foundational for a legacy led by an educated, empowered family collective. We explore why learning is essential, how leading families are approaching it, and how you can initiate this journey.

2025 FOX Foresight: A Difficult Transition: Proactive Planning and Support for Aging Principals
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We’ll examine how to successfully navigate the challenges that arise with the aging and cognitive decline of a family member and/or board member from the perspective of the family office. Aging experts emphasize several strategies for identifying cognitive impairment and ensuring early detection, along with resources and approaches for handling these sensitive and often stressful situations.

FOX Public Webcast: Managing Complexity: Helping Families Succeed Along Their Evolutionary Journey
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In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, multigenerational families face unique challenges and opportunities that demand thoughtful strategy, robust governance, and the effective utilization of private family capital. This webcast will delve into the essential pillars that enable families to thrive over the long term: mastering complexity, building robust governance, cultivating a learning mindset, and harnessing the transformative power of private family capital. This webcast will further participants’ understanding of how to: