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For many ultra-wealthy family clients, implementing estate planning strategies to minimize income, estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes is a top concern. Recent changes to income and transfer tax laws have opened new avenues to transferring wealth. Bryan Austin discussed the use of power of appointment strategies and their tax impli...

Family Office Exchange has been leading the charge to examine essential elements of the client experience and the influence these elements have on today’s families as well as families of the future. Key to this assessment is defining what family office executives, advisors with whom families will engage, and of course families themselves need to do...

Establishing a Private Family Trust Company (PFTC) is a significant step in a family’s evolution from managing its wealth to institutionalizing its family governance, trustee processes and strategic direction as a family enterprise. In this session, the PFTC Network community comes together for a discussion around lessons learned when forming...

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...

As an advisor responsible for providing holistic and integrated family wealth services, leadership is an integral part of your every day responsibility. Sarah Biggerstaff, noted coach and lecturer in the practice of leadership at Yale School of Management, will walk participants through a process to unlock their potential and explore their personal...

Sustainability of the family and wealth for the long-term is critically dependent on current conditions and trends that impact families today and well into the future. Family Office Exchange is pleased to provide a panel of industry leaders whose experience, position and knowledge of the industry places them at the forefront understanding the work ...

Critical to the success of any design-build project is creating and managing a highly-functional, cooperative and collaborative team of internal and external resources to meet the needs of the family. Building such a work team necessitates thoughtful and preemptive conflict resolution processes as well as effective communication strategies. Ben Dat...

The Advisor as the Master Builder. Among the many benefits of deploying design-build project delivery methodology for complex construction projects is a single point of responsibility. As such, the master builder team is responsible for all aspects of the project—leaving an owner free to focus on the project’s scope and general decision...

To build a successful integrated wealth plan, advisors need to collaborate and cooperate as a fine-tuned team. They cannot afford to think of themselves in compartmentalized terms, or the family will suffer. During the Forum, speakers examined how individual expertise integrates with that of the other advisors in a family’s advisor ecosystem,...

Policy and Taxation Group commissioned important research by leading pollster Frank Luntz to understand why resentment toward high net worth individuals has increased so much in recent years and what the impact of heightened class conflict has been and will be on the future of the fight for estate tax relief. As Policy and Taxation Group has ...

Poor trust risk management and family disunity remain major if not the major threats to families seeking to remain together from generation to generation. Often embraced hesitantly by families, the most important risk management actions are basic and logical, only requiring families to understand and commit to them. Communication is often the...