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Helping your children learn to become financially self-sufficient can be one of the most satisfying jobs of parenthood. By “forcing” your children to make choices about how to spend limited resources, you’re creating opportunities to help them find their interests and passions and discover what is truly important to their happiness. The more you ca...

When you make more money than your friends, it can set up awkward and uncomfortable money dilemmas. However, there are ways to get around them by having a few good verbal comebacks and a dose of niceness to help you sidestep a lot of cringe-worthy money situations.

It’s not uncommon for parents showing signs of mental or physical decline to need assistance from their children from time to time, and today that help primarily comes from their daughters. Daughters spend more than twice the amount of time caring for aging parents that sons do, and women make up 60% of all caregivers in the United States. Here is ...

As a young adult moving from college to your first real job and your own apartment, it's time to start adulting and being responsible for your own financial life, insurance coverage, and building your wealth. Here are a few items and easy steps to take that can help make sure you’re ready to succeed in the adult world.

It’s both a special and critical milestone when your children turn 18. At that age in the family life stage, they become legal adults with many new rights and responsibilities. While there are certain ways to help them get started on ensuring their financial future, there are also rights that you as a parent lose when they reach adulthood, like gua...

When it comes to budgeting, there are a few basics: Track your spending, know where your money goes, and don’t spend more than you earn. These fundamentals can boost your financial well-being and put you on a path toward reaching your goals—but going beyond these basics can help you accomplish so much more. With this easy-to-follow guide and worksh...

No matter your role – whether you’re a family business leader, family office executive, family member – how are you preparing your family for significant wealth transfer or liquidation events? Said differently, how can you make inheriting wealth less like being hit by a comet?

In The Time is NOW for your Rising Gen, FOX Chief Learning Officer, Mindy Kalinowski Earley, cautions families on waiting too long to involve their future family leaders. Outlaying personal quotes from members of the rising generation and relaying best practice first steps, Early argues that when starting family learning and leadership skills…there...

Managing multiple short- and long-term financial goals can feel overwhelming at times. With this guide by Vanguard, a three-step financial wellness framework is provided for determining the next best actions you can take to bring you closer to your goals and improve not only your financial situation but also your overall holistic well-being, no mat...

For young adults learning to achieve their financial goals, it's essential to know where their money is going. This is why having a budget is important. And what's even more important is to find a budget that matches your personality. From the first video, it will help you discover the different types of budgets available to fit your personal budge...

We are pleased to announce that the 2016 FOX Value Price Study: The Critical Link in Ultra-Wealth Market is available for FOX members. Key Insights found in this study include: Advisors have lost at least some pricing power with prospects as fees quoted to prospective clients have dropped 17% since 2008 and 15% since 201...

The 2016-17 FOX Thought Leaders Council Report: Strengthening the Partnership Between Families and Advisors is a great resource for those who are seeking ways to construct sustainable partnerships and how to make them productive. Inside, you’ll find why partnerships are key to successful family/advisor relationships, what makes partnerships endurin...

The ultra-wealth business continues to perform well, but not without some growing pains. While advisors to families of wealth benefited from a strong rebound in the markets during 2020, for some firms costs are rising faster than revenue. Now that we are in the midst of a receding pandemic, what does this look back on 2020 tell us about how prepare...

Families of wealth often want to help their relatives financially but are justifiably concerned about what those individuals will do with the money and how having access to significant sums might affect their values and behavior. While making family trust distributions is a way to provide discretionary income, it’s a framework that gives the truste...