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There’s no doubt that leveraging new technologies and cloud-based solutions offers family offices opportunities to innovate, lower spending, and align their overall technology strategy to current and future-state needs. But the selection and implementation process can be a challenge. Having a structured approach around it will be critical in ...

Financial firms can have multiple holding and operating entities that can create complex inter-company workflows. This buyer’s checklist is provided to help you evaluate accounting software vendors, and it includes the must-have features of a modern accounting system formatted in a way that makes it easy for you to do a head-to-head...

Everyone has a relationship with money. However, money itself is neutral as a tool used to get what you need and want. And yet it impacts nearly every aspect of life, beginning with how parents teach their children about money. From this view, there’s also a need to recognize its resulting effect. While money is powerful, you are in charge of that ...

Most small businesses begin their financial lives using Intuit's QuickBooks, but if your business has moved beyond the entry level, your organization may be facing a number of challenges as you hit the limits of QuickBooks’ functionality. With the right framework and guidelines, you can assess the hidden costs of continuing to use QuickBooks along ...

Eton Solutions discusses the current trends and challenges happening in the family office.

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the latest advancement in the ongoing evolution of the blockchain market. Putting this phenomenon into context, a series of papers will examine NFTs from various perspectives, including the legal issues arising from this new technology. This paper is part one in the series: introducing NFTs from the technological and ...

Eton Solutions discusses the current trends and challenges happening in the family office and presents an operating model solution in this video.

Losing a loved one can be very difficult. Yet, as an executor, spouse, or family member, you need to take steps to ensure that your loved one's financial affairs are properly settled as part of the family’s end-of-life planning. To help with the process, this step-by-step guide outlines the key tasks, including selecting an executor, considering th...

To succeed, any organization needs to develop, maintain, and adhere to well-defined business processes and workflows. For family offices, which manage the complex financial and business affairs of ultra-high-net-worth families, best practice business processes are paramount to ensure efficiency and employee productivity, reduce risks, and improve o...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are poised to drastically alter the way businesses and governments operate on a global scale, with significant regulations already under way. To avoid overburdening businesses with the compliance requirements that aim to maintain the accountability, transparency, and fairness of AI, it is important for regulator...

Eton Solutions discusses how to mitigae cyber secuirty breaches in family offices.

The artificial intelligence (AI) predictions of 2019 are insightful as ChatGPT and other AI platforms are becoming mainstream. Most executives knew then that AI had the power to change almost everything about the way they do business—and could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. But what many business lead...

The 5G network puts us at the precipice of another change in technology with the potential to unlock brand new applications, many of which are still nestled deep in entrepreneurial minds. As the introduction of 5G networks looms over the horizon and continues its evolution of innovation, so do new technological possibilities, challenges, and opport...

Profound political, economic, societal, technological, and environmental transformations are occurring at an unprecedented scale and have become a part of day-to-day business life. In this 14th edition of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report, undertaken with Marsh & McLennan Companies and other partners, we examine the evolving ma...

In this webcast, experts from Marsh’s Cyber Practices take a closer look at how changing cyber risk exposures, regulations, and best practices will change the cyber risk management landscape in 2019. Download and view the Cyber Landscape 2019 slides as you listen to the discussion that includes:The impact of new regulations and laws on the wa...