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The most important risk to a family is not meeting your goals, not loss in your portfolio, according to Ashvin Chhabra, author of The Aspirational Investor and the landmark paper Beyond Markowitz: A Comprehensive Wealth Allocation Framework for Individual Investors. Ashvin will offer a practical, innovative framework for making smart...

Like the Fink Family, a growing number of families are investing directly into impact companies and for good reason. There are great investment opportunities and investors can pick the specific type of positive impact they would like to see (sustainable fishery, renewable energy, financial inclusion, etc.). But investing directly into companies eff...

Families of exceptional wealth enjoy abundant resources to achieve family goals, but also face peculiar, idiosyncratic risks not easily managed through traditional means. This session explores a framework for managing those risks while taking advantage of the unique edge which families can have over other investors.In this session, an experienced g...

As new social and geopolitical conflicts arise, threats to a family’s security and well-being change. This landscape has materially shifted over the last few years and, as a result, families need to be prepared to address a variety of personal, physical, and cyber risks.In this session, family security directors from three single family offic...

In Skin in the Game, a proposed TV show with a format similar to Shark Tank, the audience effectively runs the game, deciding which businesses get funded. Audience members also have the option to invest their own capital in the Skin in the Game fund. More than fun and games, it was designed with projections for job creation and ...

This session will discuss how traditional asset allocation has been impacted by the phenomenal growth of indexed products and share Mr. Bregman’s view that investors who believe they are appropriately diversified—by traditional standards—may be exposed to systemic and valuation risk.

When families and family offices become involved in direct investments, whether as lead or coinvestors, they take significant additional risks that need to be appropriately managed. Such risks include regulatory exposure and potential lawsuits from coinvestors, employees and other stakeholders in the investee companies, and sellers and potential bu...

This session will focus on public (liquid) and private (illiquid) approaches to infrastructure investing. It will highlight risk factors as well as investment considerations and review deployment opportunities including fund-of-funds, direct private equity infrastructure funds and syndicated coinvestments in the infrastructure sector.

What do families tend to underestimate or overlook in the due diligence process? A single misstep in understanding the market of the target business, in evaluating the sustainability of product-line and customer-level profitability, or in assessing and motivating the management team, can wipe out a generation of wealth. The discussion will focus on...

Investors have been moving significant capital out of active long-only strategies due to the relatively small number of active managers that outperform the passive benchmark over time, especially relative to their fees. While indexed ETFs have been the primary beneficiary of this trend, many investors hesitate to accept the perceived inefficiencies...

It’s a big wide world, full of perils for investors and, for that very reason, replete with opportunities, especially for those who have carefully pondered whether and to what extent the past is a reliable prologue to the future. This session will outline a framework for assessing boundary conditions confronting long-term investors circa 2017...

Originally presented at the July, 2017 FOX Regional Member Briefing in Philadelphia, PA.Presenter:Meg Bricker, Principal, Mercer