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Our speaker has requested to not share his presentation. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating tremendous uncertainty – and amazing opportunities – for families, business owners, and advisors. Understanding the possibilities AI unlocks and integrating its transformative power into the family’s systems, governance, and busines...

Professor Wolcott will preview his new book, PROXIMITY, forthcoming from Columbia Business School Publishing March 2024. While everyone witnesses the dramatic changes underway as a result of digitally-enabled technologies from Generative AI and data analytics to rooftop solar and additive manufacturing, few have noted one common force they all exer...

Join our FOX Chief Technology Officer and a panel of Partner experts for a discussion on new software, future paths of technology, A.I., and technology services for advisors and family office. Use this opportunity to ask your own questions to a group of experts in the family office technology space. Jeff Coyle, Founder & CEO, Libretto Ni...

Wendy McCoy, former Global Offering Leader for IBM bringing AI solutions to market, shares her insights into the advances of Artificial Intelligence and how Family Offices are likely to be impacted by these technologies, both now and in the future. Walk away with practical information you can use today, as well as tips for approaches to avoid and w...

AI is revolutionizing family office services by automating administrative tasks, improving decision-making, and enhancing security. Through automation, AI streamlines back-office operations, freeing up time for strategic endeavors. It enables personalized services by analyzing client data and delivering tailored advice. AI tools strengthen data pri...

At some point, most families ask if they should have a family meeting, recognizing the importance of providing a forum for sharing news, concerns, opportunities, and challenges in an open and direct way. Family meetings are often seen as a great place to learn, whether the topic is investments, business, legal matters, or the family itself. Further...

If you are wondering how it is possible that everyone in your family is offering an excuse for missing the family meeting date, then it is time for some new ideas or approaches to turn these meetings into events that no one wants to miss. How? By planning a purposeful family event that also happens to include the family meeting. In addition, it wil...

This handbook is designed to support families connected through wealth understand the importance and value of family meetings. It provides the concepts, tools, and resources with the intention of helping them optimize their family meetings and build towards a more cohesive, resilient, adaptive family.

Poorly structured family meetings that lack a clear purpose and agenda can do more harm than good. Failing to get buy-in from all family members can cause irreparable damage to relationships, despite the best of intentions. There are five key tips for holding a successful family meeting, which is an essential ingredient for managing wealth across g...

Even if you are not yet ready to share the family's wealth numbers, communicating your intentions to the next generations promotes family harmony and is a best practice for successfully sustaining and transferring family wealth. It may also be time to schedule a family meeting for this purpose. There is no right way to conduct this meeting, bu...

Over the past decade, matriarchs and patriarchs of successful families have been shifting their focus from their children to a broader group of individuals, such as grandchildren, siblings, and nieces. Often, they choose to create family banks, which are typically trusts that are funded to help individuals pursue entrepreneurial opportunities, vent...

Succession is not just about money or property. It means confronting family relationships and taking the time to make sure that the drivers for succession planning connect personal motivations, the purpose of wealth, and specific family issues. It requires an emotional commitment to a process that once started must run its course, including having ...

For most families, a large part of multigenerational success hinges on how they approach challenges and create opportunities. In unprecedented times of social distancing and school closures, there are ways you can use this unexpected “family time” to your advantage, including enhancing education for younger generations and foster family communicati...