FOX Foresight keeps you up to date on our latest thinking about matters affecting families, family offices, and their advisors. It gives you our forward look on what we're learning from our members and subject matter experts. Please share it broadly with your family, your office, and your advisors. 2023 FOX Foresight is presented in 8 chapt...
From a global crisis triggering a family’s restructuring, to an entrepreneur-turned-global-investor’s commitment to change the world, six case studies demonstrate how some international champion enterprise families are assessing their threats and opportunities, reinventing themselves, and delivering the full potential of family capital to realize t...
Some trends move slowly until they reach a point of inflection, at which time they seem to accelerate at almost blinding speed. So it has been for the rapid emergence of The New Era of Family Wealth. The departure from the past has been driven by four trends (transitions, talent, technology, and time) introduced by FOX in January of 2022. As these ...
This research brief uses direct feedback from members of the rising gen to identify their top concerns and shed new insights into the important goals they have with their family. With the data and recommendations gathered, you can learn more about the group—including the challenges and pressures they face—to create a roadmap that leads to productiv...
The dramatic growth of the family office industry in the 1980s was sparked by new liquidity running through hundreds of business-owning families. In an effort to preserve and expand their wealth, they needed a professional financial office so they could focus on broadening their business endeavors or living unencumbered lives. Over the past 40 y...
Beyond an investment, a collector car is a highly personal possession that embodies your many dreams brought to life and should be treated differently when choosing the right collector car insurance. View the video below to learn more about how insuring a collector car is not the same as insuring a standard car under a regular auto policy.
Senior leaders increasingly take opportunities to sit on boards or serve as executives of outside entities. But while serving in that capacity, is an individual director or officer covered under his/her organization’s directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance policy? Although such opportunities may benefit all companies involved, it also...
Don’t be blinded by the sun reflecting off the dancing blue water; there’s more to consider when purchasing a vacation home than where you like to vacation. Protect your investment with some sunscreen in the form of a little knowledge—to help keep you from getting burned.
We hear a lot today about the cybersecurity risks we face but to protect our families, it’s crucial not to forget the importance of effectively managing personal and physical security. In this chapter, we explore a risk-based approach to the personal and physical dimensions of family security and offer actionable insights you can put into pra...
A new FOX study, “Capturing Opportunity and Managing Risk in the Next Decade,” is now available for members who are interested in taking a proactive approach to risk management across the enterprise. Complexity and risk are inevitable consequences of building and perpetuating wealth. Therefore, the issue at stake for families of wealth is not risk ...
Given this period of uncertainty, we are re-releasing two chapters on Managing Uncertainty and Risks in the Enterprise from the 2019 FOX Foresight.
We hope you and your families are safe and healthy as we navigate this challenging time together. FOX stands ready to help you. As place to start, our Crisis Checklist for the Family Office identifies critical issues and actions your office may need to consider.
In time of crisis, it’s crucial to keep your focus and priorities straight, while ensuring all stakeholders are informed. Consider the following as you steer your family and business through unchartered territory.
Families are becoming more complex, but a shared family vision and strategy are becoming easier to define. Business-centric families are becoming enterprise-centric and risk assessment is more sophisticated. Having impact in the future will require new strategies and new ways of thinking. The Family Office of old will need to make substantial adjus...
One of the most discussed topics is to what degree entrepreneurial and vital drive and “hunger” are determined by nature or by nurture. That is, can drive and hunger be taught and developed with the proper education, incentives, influences, or conditions? With a closer look and analysis based on existing literature on the topic and interviews with ...