This guidebook takes a critical look at significant challenges and opportunities in family office operations and offers comprehensive guidance with a future-focused lens. Gain expert insight, strategies, and best practices on the top-of-mind issues that include strengthening your cybersecurity, leveraging your technology, the role of the chief investment officer, starting a direct investment function, and choosing an appropriate trustee.
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Cybersecurity: A Self-Defense Guide
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As the world becomes more digitally connected, cybersecurity risks will keep rising. The larger your digital footprint, the greater your cyber risk. With this self-defense guide and best practices by William Blair & Company, you can safeguard your online identity and protect yourself against the loss of personal data and assets.
Regulatory Trends Impacting Household Employment
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Employing service providers in your home carries considerable risk. If not handled with extreme care, the process of hiring, termination, and managing day-to-day responsibilities can create liability—and even result in claims of discrimination and retaliation by the employee. This report provides a snapshot of an increasingly complex employment landscape, including laws and trends that are critical to not only protect you and your employees, but create a safer and happier work environment for all parties.
College-Bound Planning and Checklist
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Departing for college is a major life event for your family, marking a significant step toward your child's independence. Whether your child is going near or far, planning is critical. Follow this checklist to address critical healthcare, insurance, personal safety, and financial decisions.
Navigating the Risks of Household Employment
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Taking on the role of a direct household employer can be complicated—even for households with a single employee. This guide includes best practices for navigating the complex environment of household employment and provides practical advice on how to avoid the legal, financial, and reputational consequences associated with non-compliant employment.
Managing Rising P&C Premiums in an Evolving Insurance Landscape | 2022 FOX Family Office Forum
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This session will help attendees understand how to manage the challenging insurance market including steeply rising insurance P&C premiums and canceled policies. Speakers will discuss how to keep premiums down as much as possible and how to work with brokers to ensure you’re considering the best strategies for dealing with this challenging insurance environment.
Wealthy families embark on a voyage of important mile markers, as well as inevitable excursions and pleasant surprises. No two journeys are alike, but this insurance road map can inform you of lurking hazards, help you and your family avoid them, and get you to your destination safe and sound.
Cyber Threats: Key Takeaways from a Global Financial Firm | 2022 FOX Technology Showcase
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Cybersecurity is by no means novel, but in an evolving landscape affected by new technologies, geopolitical tensions, and a larger-than-ever digital footprint, the importance of your family office’s cyber strategy cannot be overemphasized. Join us to learn how SEI’s experience as a regulated financial firm translates to a hyper awareness of existing threats, so that you can ensure your family office is truly doing enough to protect and secure your private client data. Dave Detweiler, Managing Director of Sales, SEI
This fireside chat will focus on the challenges that family offices are facing today and how to maximize insight into financials. We will identify solutions that Sage Intacct can offer to help streamline your multi-entity management, data security, and transaction automation with artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. Karen M. Hays, Principal Marketing Manager, Financial Services, Sage Kelly Gonyea, Principal Consultant, Financial Services, Sage
2022 Cybersecurity Update
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Our annual cybersecurity update will discuss one of the leading cybersecurity risks to your firm and your clients—ransomware. With the instances of ransomware attacks rising every day, wealthy family offices are particularly attractive targets to cybercriminals. In this webinar, Baker Tilly Cybersecurity Principal Joe Shusko provides insights on managing your family office’s risk against a ransomware attack. He will discuss the impacts and trends of ransomware attacks, how ransomware attacks are executed and leading practices to minimize your ransomware risk.