Any owner at any age can gain ownership-related perspective and skills contributing to greater family harmony and business success. With two other authors, Gaia Marchisio, executive director at Cox Family Enterprise Center at Kennesaw State University, has written a book providing enterprising families and their advisors examples and practical advi...
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Rob Wolcott, Co-Founder and Chairman of The World Innovation Network (TWIN), will explain the ‘great unwinding’ of 2021 and how organizations can harness the powerful yet chaotic energy that will be unleashed on the world as society opens back up. Now more than ever, organizations need to identify what objectives they’ll prioritiz...
At the 2020 FOX Family Forum, family members, office executives, and their trusted advisors heard how other families have built plans to achieve positive change and successfully transition to future generations. Attendees came away with ideas, tools, and frameworks to help them map out next steps on the road to being a positive and productive enter...
With almost all meetings now happening virtually, how are firms establishing and growing client relationships? Demonstrating your firm’s capabilities, better understanding client needs, maximizing touchpoints, and building deeper client relationships are all important client engagement goals. In this session, leading family learning and events prof...
Moderated by FOX’s David Toth, we’ll hear from three prominent wealth advisors regarding the advisor role, how they see the role evolving, the technology influencing what they do and how they do it, and the skill sets they seek in the next advisor generation. Presenters: Thomas P. Melcher, Managing Director, Director of Family Wealth, Glenmed...
A trustee of family trusts must understand the legal duties and deliver them with a keen appreciation of family dynamics. We will discuss the range of trustee and beneficiary responsibilities as well as practical tips for making the trustee-beneficiary relationship work effectively. Members will share their experiences as trustees.Katherine Dunlevi...
Explore the good, the bad, and the ugly around succession and generational transitions of power and control within families of wealth. Hear from one Gen 7 family on their recent generational succession, what prompted the transition, and how they navigated the practical and emotional challenges.Nate Imfeld, Attorney, Foley & Lardner, LLPTor...
What does it mean to be an engaged and responsible beneficiary? We will explore the roles and responsibilities of a trustee, and learn from a father-daughter team about how they make the trustee-beneficiary relationship work. We will understand the roles each party plays and how to effectively approach trust-related communications.Robert Hammett, V...
Major disruptions to the normal course of business are heading our way, and enterprise families will be uniquely challenged by unforeseen risks and opportunities. As trusted advisors to ultra-wealthy families and enterprises, our industry needs to understand how to have effective conversations to prepare clients for these looming disruptions. To ad...
Upon the sale of the Knell family’s operating business, Harvey was confronted with a new set of challenges. How could he work to “let go early” like his father did so effectively, how he would support the transition of his family wealth, and most importantly to Harvey, how would he ensure critical skills were developed within his ...
A panel of FOX Enterprise Leaders will share best practices that global families use to strengthen their family enterprises. When the family values the continuation of the family and their enterprise beyond the original operating business, a set of guiding principles and practices lead the way for generations to come. Topics in this session will in...
FOX’s annual estate planning review session for 2017 featured Tom Abendroth of Schiff Hardin and Susan Gell Meyers of Warner, Norcross & Judd. They led FOX participants through a thoughtful discussion of some of the most important topics and developments that were covered at the 51st Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning. Key legislati...
The announcement of proposed regulations under Internal Revenue Code Section 2704 has many families and their advisors scrambling to mitigate the potential impact the regulation could have on their estate planning efforts. Owners of family businesses have traditionally relied on valuation discounts to curb the estate and gift tax burden associated ...
Establishing a Private Family Trust Company (PFTC) is a significant step in a family’s evolution from managing its wealth to institutionalizing its family governance, trustee processes and strategic direction as a family enterprise. In this session, the PFTC Network community comes together for a discussion around lessons learned when forming...
To make decisions about the future, families need reports that provide a full view of their integrated risk exposure and their allocation across all family entities. Yet such aggregate reports remain the elusive Holy Grail of our industry. It is often promised by product providers, but product capabilities often still fall short of expectations. On...