The dramatic growth of the family office industry in the 1980s was sparked by new liquidity running through hundreds of business-owning families. In an effort to preserve and expand their wealth, they needed a professional financial office so they could focus on broadening their business endeavors or living unencumbered lives.
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Why the Modern Family Office Matters
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Wealthy families have a significant positive socio-economic impact around the world, but lasting impact depends on those families prospering for generations. This is not guaranteed, however, and more intergenerational wealth transfers succeed if families adopt a modern Family Office model that suits their needs and goes beyond managing and growing the family’s financial capital over the long-term.
For families with substantial diversified portfolio investments, costs are an important consideration when devising an overall wealth management strategy. While there are a range of cost estimates drawn from real world examples, each family’s wealth management cost formula is different when analyzing it through a framework and analysis of four parts: the evaluation of costs; factors that can cause costs to fluctuate; key questions to ask when evaluating wealth management costs; and best practices.
2023 Rising Gen Research Brief
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This research brief uses direct feedback from members of the rising gen to identify their top concerns and shed new insights into the important goals they have with their family. With the data and recommendations gathered, you can learn more about the group—including the challenges and pressures they face—to create a roadmap that leads to productive family engagement and communications, action planning, and problem-solving.
Retaining and recruiting top talent has been a challenge for employers over the last few years, with companies struggling with how to best hold onto and reward employees. Even though there have been some layoffs, many employees are finding new positions quickly and negotiating their compensation and benefits. With a broad range of compensation vehicles available, companies can weigh their options to determine which one will work best for them and ensure they are staying competitive to recruit, retain, and reward desirable employees.
Welcome to Day 2 of the 2023 FOX Global Investment Forum. Scott Muench, Managing Director, Core Membership, FOX
Compensation Committee Priorities for 2023
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The importance of talent continues to be a factor in driving an organization’s success. As a result, many compensation committees have expanded their roles and responsibilities beyond executive and board compensation into increased human capital and social issues impacting the organization. This requires staying abreast of compensation trends, enhancing the human capital experience, and providing frequent and transparent communications and reporting.
Protecting Family Office Assets
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Family offices are like wealth management businesses, and like any business, there is a need to be governed and managed with a prudent and practical set of processes that steward the family wealth for multiple generations. Taking an “Investment Operational Risk Management” approach, an overview of ten key areas is provided to help your family office reduce the exposure to various risks that could jeopardize the long-term sustainability of the family wealth.
2023 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. Please share it broadly with your family, your office, and your advisors. 2023 FOX Foresight is presented in 8 chapters:
2023 Employee Benefits Market Outlook
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As businesses look to grow and thrive, they will face tough choices between balancing budgets and addressing the employee benefits outlook. With a focus on ways to reduce the impact of cost-driving issues, this Employee Benefits Market Outlook report provides insights and actionable solutions employers can use to address the rise of healthcare costs, leave management challenges, emerging genetic therapies, and other benefits challenges.