With wealth comes responsibility—a challenge that daunts some families, but inspires others. Two families, from the myriad of FOX families who engage their wealth in high impact activities, shared their personal stories of what they did more, better and differently to initiate a Butterfly Effect within their family and community. Below ...
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Challenges of Family Investment Decision-MakingCliff Hurd, Hurd Enterprises, Ltd., John Goddard, Investment Resources Corp and Charles B. Grace III, Senior Consultant, Family Office Exchange When families make major investment decisions regarding asset allocation, tactical asset allocation, opportunistic investments, and selection and terminat...
For-Warned is For-Armed: The Value of Due DiligenceMatthew P. Morris, Director, Grant & Eisenhofer PA; and Charles B. Grace III, Senior Consultant, Family Office Exchange In the world of alternative investments, it is important for investors to protect themselves and know their rights. This session will explore strategies such as how to ex...
All in the Family: The Risk and Rewards of a Family BankWarner King Babcock, AM Private Enterprises, Inc.; and Karen Neal, Managing Director, Consulting, Family Office Exchange Stimulating…and funding…entrepreneurship within a family enterprise can become risky business. How do you find the balance between encouraging the next ge...
This seminar supports members engaged in direct investments and family-owned funds. The programs offers perspective on the motivations and best practices of families involved in direct investing. The FDX partners will introduce the FDX online deal platform which can be used to access deals sponsored by other families. Members in th...
Families often complain about the challenge of getting siblings and cousins more engaged in business and family activities. There is a great divide between the “make it happen” people and the “watch it happen” people in the family, and a risk of burnout for the family members who are providing the leadership. Hea...
Families often complain about the challenge of getting siblings and cousins more engaged in business and family activities. There is a great divide between the “make it happen” people and the “watch it happen” people in the family, and a risk of burnout for the family members who are providing the leadership. Hea...
Wealth owner and family office investment performance bounced back in 2012. So how are these investors feeling about the economy and planning for 2013? FOX will dig into the results of two recent investment surveys to provide a look at both ends of the market - self-directed wealth owners with less than $100M investable and families with family off...
Goals-based wealth allocation sets forth the premise that upward mobility is unlikely without the assumption of idiosyncratic risk. And wealth mobility, as defined by keeping up with one's wealth segment, requires structuring a portfolio within three dimensions of risk: personal, market and aspirational.
The commercial real estate market in New York, San Francisco and Washington may have become overbought in the past year, but wealthy investors can still find attractive opportunities for capital appreciation via direct investment in second-tier markets such as Seattle, Austin and Dallas.
This research report explains what private equity has to offer, answers many of the questions being asked by investors today and explains why now may be an opportune time to make a commitment to a private equity fund of funds, particularly for first-time investors.
Producing alpha over long periods of time requires keen investment insight, leadership in exploring untapped opportunities and inefficiencies, and integrating a robust risk management process that addresses concentration, illiquidity, and transparency. This paper addresses how each of these inefficiencies may be exploited to help generate alpha.
Senior investment professionals look beyond the near term and develop five-year forecasts for economic activity and financial market instruments, including fixed income, equities, real assets and alternatives. Their work can serve as a guide to risks and thematic developments that bear watching by investors.
As the balance of growth shifts from developed to developing nations, the world clamors for natural resources. Land capable of satisfying that demand can help investors reduce portfolio volatility and protect principal while providing steady income or appreciation as well as a hedge against inflation.
While high yield spreads are likely to remain volatile until Europe's problems are resolved, the purge of high leveraged credits during 2008 and 2009, coupled with a lack of aggressive re-leveraging of balance sheets thereafter, should limit the severity of the next default wave absent a severe recession or systemic bank failure in Europe.