Onboarding the Next Generation of Family Council Members
Nov 12 2018
Recently, a FOX member inquired about the best practices of onboarding a next generation family member into the Family Council. "What does the first year look like for them...
Water Damage: Protecting Valuables and Property from the Most Frequent Disruptor
Nov 08 2018
While folks residing on the coasts are keenly aware of the threats that hurricanes can pose in terms of water damage, most families are unaware that the main risk of water...
Building a Sustainable Family Enterprise
Nov 06 2018
Measuring success
Sometimes the greatest challenge for a family is to agree on how they will measure the “success” of the enterprise in each generation. The metrics of...
Global Risks and Opportunities for the Family Enterprise
Oct 16 2018
The global risk landscape is shifting. Ten years ago, the most critical risks were related to the global financial crisis and the economic challenges created for governments...
Wildfires: Preparing Your Family and Property Ahead of Disaster
Oct 05 2018
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. -Benjamin Franklin
You’ve seen the news- wildfires are becoming a common occurrence. So much so that the term “megafire” is...
Why Family Office Boards are Indispensable
Sep 26 2018
Transitions within families, increasing complexity on a global scale, and the dynamics of managing families are making governing boards more indispensable to families. A...
The Coming Great Transformation in the Global Macro Environment
Sep 25 2018
Demographics, automation, and inequality have the potential to dramatically reshape our world in the 2020s and beyond. Our analysis shows that the collision of these forces...
Family Office Advisors Thinking Outside the Box: Finding Innovative Solutions to Common Problems
Sep 21 2018
As lawyers, we are taught to zealously advocate for the client or the position we represent. At its best, this advocacy almost always entails thinking outside the proverbial...
Is “Impact Investing” the new norm?
Sep 10 2018
Everyone these days is talking about “impact investing”. A Google search returns over 150 million results for the phrase. There are hundreds of investment managers managing...
Why I Left ETFs to Join a Crypto Asset Manager
Sep 04 2018
Matt Hougan was the CEO of ETF.com, a three-time member of the Barron’s ETF Roundtable, and the co-author of the CFA Institute’s Monograph on ETFs. He was also a presenter at...