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Compliance with employment law is increasingly complex and the issues are ever-expanding. It may seem as though three new regulations surface for every one that you’ve tackled. While no one has a compliance crystal ball, the Society for Human Resource Management has identified a top 10 list of Employer compliance issues for 2016. In thi...

Statistically, every day 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach the age of 65, a phenomena that will occur daily until 2029. And, according to the Small Business Administration, half of small business owners are currently over age 50. As a result, waves of small businesses will be sold or transitioned. When you couple these statistics with the emergent meg...

Family success over generations is often contingent on the health and vibrancy of family culture. Family culture can destroy legacy, decimate planning, and wreak havoc on even the best laid plans of founders, professionals and family leaders. This session helps to bring clarity to the confusing dynamics of family culture and, more importantly, prov...

More than 58 million Americans use social networking sites several times per day. Social media has created a new sense of reality—a reality that its benefits have outweighed the risks. Liability risks involved with the use of social media include defamation, invasion of privacy and negligence. This session provides awareness into the risks as...

This session is a review of the latest trends in cybercrime and why it’s growing exponentially. There is big money in hacking secure financial information, no matter the size of the business and for these criminals, the opportunities are limitless.In this session, practical steps were provided that will help secure and monitor business networ...

Our world is becoming more complex and interdependent. Business cycles, planning horizons, and even generations are all getting shorter in a world where everything affects everything. To be a leader today requires the agility to develop how you think, not just increasing what you know. This concept is known as vertical leadership, the number one tr...

Family education is critical to wealth sustainability. In this session, participants will hear directly from families who have successfully implemented family education programs and the challenges and obstacles they have had to overcome to design, develop and deliver quality programming. In addition, family members will share information about the ...

With the aging of the Boomer generation comes the challenge of eldercare and its ultimate impact on families and designated caregivers. Often those caregivers are a part of the Sandwich Generation—a generation of people, typically in their 30s to 50s, responsible for both bringing up their own children and caring for their aging parents. Marg...

Distributions have many implications for the Private Family Trust Company (PFTC). The responsibilities of the PFTC in preserving the corpus and being true to the role of the trustee must also align with the changing needs of the family. This peer dialogue centers on a case study examining the art and complexity of family distributions and provide t...

In a session dedicated to discussing global investment transparency and data governance, Pamela Pecs Cytron, CEO Pendo Systems, a global financial technology company, and Steven Draper lead a discussion on automating the challenges of managing portfolios, exposure and inventory.

Over 100 families shared their compensation data and practices as part of the 2015 FOX compensation Benchmarking Survey. The report, distributed in late September, includes a comprehensive analysis of individual compensation categorized by size of staff. Included in the survey results is an analysis of incentive compensation—methodology and a...

A multigenerational family can benefit from a visioning process when moving from one stage of the enterprise to another— perhaps facing a change in leadership or a change in ownership of key family assets. The time for a Family Visioning process has come when family members can see a major change coming, but are uncertain as to how the transi...