Winter-related claims add up to over $1 billion each year across the insurance industry. One common—yet often overlooked—cause of costly damage is ice damming. By taking proactive measures and making crucial upgrades to your home, you can help prevent ice damming damage.
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Collecting can be an enjoyable hobby, an educational pursuit, or even a financial investment. So how do you look after a collection now that you’ve assembled one? While every collection is unique and has its own specific needs, you can take some simple loss prevention steps—including tips on shipping art and other valuables—to help protect yours from loss or damage.
Cybersecurity is a risk for children and adults alike. If you’re online, you’re visible around the world—and with more than 10 billion internet-connected devices, opportunities for hackers abound. Learn how to protect your family from identity theft and cyberattacks at home and while traveling. By knowing what to look for, you can dramatically reduce the risk of a cyberattack.
One of the most important, yet most forgotten, parts of estate planning is keeping track of who will benefit from those assets, including life insurance, which are not governed by your will. Providing for your family includes knowing which types of assets are not governed by your will; ensuring your assets are going to where you want them to go; and keeping your beneficiary designations updated.
Whether you’re building a new home, rebuilding after a loss, or completing a significant renovation, adhering to best practices—including creating defensible space—can greatly increase a home’s ability to withstand a wildfire.
Based on decades of firsthand experience, the Hurricane Protection Unit of AIG provides insights and lessons learned from the front lines to help enhance your home’s resiliency in the event of a major storm.
Although water damage is the most frequent cause of loss to luxury homes, most people don’t appreciate the specific impact it could have on them—and therefore don’t take proactive steps to avoid it. By anticipating and dispelling water damage assumptions and the myths up front, you can sidestep costly losses in the future.
Experience has shown that many families of wealth unwittingly outgrow their coverage and can be severely under-protected. To help assess the insurance choices available, there are factors to consider when evaluating an insurance advisor and uncovering the right insurance resource.
To advise more effectively, financial advisors to the rich seek to develop a profound understanding of their clients’ attitudes toward money and life. But there is so much more than the amount of a client’s assets that can affect his or her attitudes, goals, and tolerance for risk. In this full research report and through the lens of risk tolerance, family office advisors can learn ways that will not only help improve their wealthy clients’ risk-adjusted investment returns, but their emotional security and happiness as well.
Family offices can be complex, requiring forward thinking and collaboration on a variety of initiatives. Learn more about family office market trends that may impact your organization and key considerations to help you plan your strategy.