This session will explore the transformation of an investment office into a fully integrated family office over the past decade. Attendees will gain insights into how progress is measured through ten key performance metrics developed over the years, supported by real data and analysis. The session will also highlight a compelling case study of a multi-generational investment in Ballyfin, a meticulously restored 200-year-old estate turned Michelin-starred resort in Ireland—demonstrating the intersection of legacy, vision, and precision in long-term family investments.
Generational Transitions
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We will share three inspiring stories about family evolution, impact and engagement in the family’s collective enterprise. Each of these families has planned for key transitions and managed unexpected challenges with innovative solutions that bring insights for all of us.
Welcome to the Forum and Leading Through Change | 2025 FOX Family Office and Wealth Advisor Forum
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Welcome to day 1 of the 2025 Family Office and Wealth Advisor Forum. Scott Muench, Chief Membership Officer, FOX Kent Lawson, Chief Operating Officer and Technology SME for Membership, FOX
The transition of wealth and leadership between generations poses unique challenges for a family, their family office, and their business and investment interests. These risks go beyond financial concerns, often focusing on obstacles that threaten successful generational transitions and the preservation of the family’s legacy.
Partner Webcast: The Uncertainty of TCJA: Navigating Estate Planning in a Changing Landscape
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Wealth transfer planning is a dynamic process influenced by evolving tax laws, economic shifts, and family priorities. This session explores key decision points through the lens of past, present, and future considerations, helping you anticipate possible changes like the estate tax exemption sunsetting at the end of the 2025.
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.
Engaging the Rising Gen: Practical Advice from Future Family Leaders and Family Office Execs
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Engaging and preparing the rising generation is often top of mind, as the wellbeing of future family leaders is of great concern. Setting out to understand the needs and wants of the rising generation, this research tapped into the wisdom and experience of 55 families, 28 future family leaders, and 38 family office executives.
Partner Webcast: Succession and Transition Planning: Actionable Strategies for Preserving Wealth and Enhancing Value
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Join us as we consider conceptual, technical, and qualitative issues and how they can significantly impact wealth transfers at all stages of the succession and transition planning process. The session will provide proven insights, strategies, and actionable steps for attendees to consider when planning and executing transfers of wealth. Whether beginning a new venture or approaching an exit of a privately-held company, there are many ways to achieve your goals while preserving wealth and enhancing value.
Join FOX for a lively discussion addressing the roles and obstacles of the rising generation, with author and innovator in financial education and well-being for families, Joline Godfrey, and FOX’s Director, Relationship Manager, Heather Abramson. We will highlight vexing obstacles the rising gen faces, the possibilities for claiming one’s roles and place in the family, and strategies that can be employed to claim identity and roles, inside and outside the family.
2024 FOX Foresight: Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Spirit to Sustain the Enterprise Family
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One of the most discussed topics is to what degree entrepreneurial and vital drive and “hunger” are determined by nature or by nurture. That is, can drive and hunger be taught and developed with the proper education, incentives, influences, or conditions? With a closer look and analysis based on existing literature on the topic and interviews with successful businesspeople, entrepreneurs, and enterprise family members, there is a clear view of how cultivating an entrepreneurial spirit plays an important role in the future success of an enterprise or business family.