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Join a panel of family office Chief Investment Officers as they recap their direct investing journey over the last twelve months of having to navigate uncertain times. Explore with them as they discuss adjusting their profiles, lessons learned, and where they see opportunities in 2023 and beyond. John Martin, Chief Investment Officer, LDI, Ltd. ...

Many of the wealthiest and most sophisticated families are reconnecting to their family roots in entrepreneurship and are investing in, and managing, direct investments using thoughtfully designed trusts and private trust companies. In this program we explored how trusts and private trust companies can be designed in tandem to enable an afflue...

This webinar analyzed the meaning and understanding of “situs” as it relates to Private Family Trust Companies, and focused specifically on the concepts of trust company situs, trust situs, and tax situs. Many people, in and out of the trust industry, utilize the term “situs” without a clear understanding of its many meanings. The speak...

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...

You’ve created a great trust structure, but is the family interested and engaged? To garner buy-in, interest, and commitment from the family the trust company structure must be designed in a way that is both functional and empowering for current and rising generations. In this webinar, Thomas C. Rogerson, Senior Managing Director and Family Wealth ...

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 ...

Managing fiduciary responsibilities within a private trust company can sometimes feel like more of an art than a science. Developing effective and meaningful relationships with the beneficiaries, overseeing distributions and investment policy, understanding how and when decanting a trust is the best solution, while also being aware of the statutes ...

As families prepare for an unprecedented $30 trillion transition of generational wealth, the focus is turning from “WHAT” needs to be done to the all-important “HOW” this will occur? Jay Hughes, author, strategist and sculptor of knowledge on the impact wealth has on families guided the FOX community on an exploration of the Office of the Ben...