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Roughly 15% of ultra-high net worth individuals worldwide rely on private aircraft for most personal and business flights. When weighing your options on aircraft ownership, there are pros and cons that should be considered. It's also important to know the key players to help you navigate the selection, purchase, management, financing, and disposition of an aircraft.

As with any important undertaking, the first steps are critical. Nowhere is this truer than when building a second home. Failing to make the right moves early often spells disaster. You can avoid the headaches and build the home of your dreams more easily than you might think. Follow the five essential steps—including assembling the right team—to begin an effective process, and to ensure the creation of a second home you will treasure.

In practice it can be challenging to find an advisor who is truly independent and has your best interest at heart. As part of your due diligence and investment advisor selection and oversight process, it’s a good starting point to check if the advisor has a Code of Ethics—one that underscore the importance of avoiding activities, interests, and relationships that might interfere with, or give the appearance of interfering with placing the interest of clients first.

Finding professional service providers—including lawyers and certified accountants—can be difficult. Challenges include working with excessive complexity, conflicts of interest, and dramatic changes within the legal and accounting business model. But there are ways to address the challenges and make the most of your professional relationships.

Art collections are unique and very personal assets. Planning to build and maintain a collection, and ensuring its future, requires balancing special rules applied to collectibles and the personal and financial realities of individuals or families. When collectors, their families, and their trusted advisors engage in purposeful planning for art collections, they will be in the best position to preserve their collections and provide for a seamless, workable ownership succession.

As healthcare acuity continues to rise among assisted living and independent living residents, savvy providers are finding ways to expand their reach across the care continuum. While this often means branching out into services such as in-home care and insurance products, increasingly providers are opting to stick to the business of service-enhanced real estate. The difference is a new focus on enticing the younger segment of older adults—with an active adult strategy.

Intuitively, many business managers recognize that their decision window has been shrinking with each passing year. Information dissemination has become real-time and on-demand. What is required is an analytical approach that enables management to monitor and measure the development of the important strategic drivers and make decisions with confidence. Learn why ad hoc reporting is failing to fill the gap, the changing role of the modern finance leader, and the three new approaches to attaining deeper financial analytical insight.

Choosing a technology platform is a time-consuming process leading to a critical decision. You need to be confident that the platform supports your multi-year benefits strategy, and that the HR technology vendor you select will meet your needs today—and in the future. When it comes to choosing the right vendor and solution, it is crucial to ask the right questions.