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Wipeout Of Credit Suisse's "AT1" Bonds Hits Asset Managers, Stirs Possible Litigation – Media
The Additional Tier 1 bonds were created around the time of the eurozone debt crisis more than a decade ago as a way for banks to acquire capital buffers. They are relatively high risk in terms of their seniorit...
As Silicon Valley Bank Collapses, How Former Clients Can Resist "Clawback" Lawsuits
A mark of the litigious culture of the US is how those who withdraw money from a stricken business, even weeks before bankrutpcy and failure, can be open to lawsuits from those seeking to "claw back" such money ...
What's New In Investments, Funds? – Nuveen
The latest news in investment offerings, financial products and other services relative to wealth advisors and their clients. ...
Pitcairn Appoints Alternative Investments MD
The new appointee has more than two decades' experience in the investments and wealth space. ...
Family Businesses See Biggest Growth Increase In 15 Years – PwC Survey
PwC has released its 11th Global Family Business Survey, entitled Transform to Build Trust, covering over 2, 000 family businesses across 82 countries between October 2022 to January 2023. ...
Worried Investors Take Equities Lower, Digest UBS-Credit Suisse Deal
The UBS takeover of Credit Suisse – a move backed by the Swiss state and which is not subject to shareholder approval – hasn't managed to quell investor fears. Shares of banks fell today. Commentators say th...
Fixed Income Favored Vs Equities After SVB Collapse – Invesco
With fears rising over the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and concerns emerging over the impact on the broader financial sector and global monetary policy, experts at Invesco and Franklin Templeton discuss the...
Preview: Eighth Family Wealth Report Family Office Fintech Summit 2023
The event, to be held on September 13, is the eighth such summit to be held by the publisher of this news service. ...
Cerulli Scrutinizes Passive Investment, Advisor Compensation Trends
In two separate reports, the Boston-based firm examines trends in advisors' use of "passive" investment entities, and looks at compensation practices among wealth management professionals. ...
UBS Acquires Credit Suisse For $3.23 Billion, Shares Drop
The banks, with support of Swiss government regulators, and its central bank, worked through the weekend to consummate the deal before markets opened today. The transaction will see UBS consolidate its status as...
WealthTalk: Behavioral Insights For Difficult Times
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Global ETF Sector Held $9.6 Trillion Of Assets At End-February
The rise of these index-tracking entities, which typically carry lower fees than conventional funds, have continued to expand, if not quite at the pace seen in some periods. ...
JP Morgan To Depose Former Executive Over Epstein Relationship – Media
The former bank executive has been caught up in legal action concerning the nature of his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein. ...
Deals Of The Day: The Latest In Wealth Management M&A – Carson Group
The latest deals and transactions in and around North American wealth management. ...
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INTERVIEW: How Fintech Affects RIAs, The "Mainstreaming" Of Alternative Investing, And More
A frequent contributor to these pages interviews a global fintech firm's head on matters such as how businesses like this affect wealth managers, the rise of alternative investments as a regular area, and why VC...
GUEST ARTICLE: Improving The Odds With Managed Futures In An "Up And Down" World
Here, Diane Harrison argues that 2014 is going to have opportunities for a range of markets to show some life, and and that it has become an up-and-down world that investors need to embrace. ...
GUEST OPINION: Investing In Film - Time For Another Take?
Kirsty Bell, partner of Nyman Libson Paul, explains how measures like better finance structures will encourage more investors to get involved in film....
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Webinar: How Family Offices, Advisors Handle Data Challenges, Accelerating Tech
In a recent video panel, this news service was joined by senior industry figures, including the firm FundCount, to consider why, for example, manual tasks have gone up rather than down; the impact of the pandemi...
Bite Investments: High Expectations For Digital Growth In Private Capital Industry
We talk to Bite Investments about what's driving asset managers to spend money and time on their technology. ...
Critical Strategies For Turning Heirs Into Clients
A webinar, hosted by the publisher of this news service, covered the vital topic of what wealth managers must do, and what sort of tools they can employ, to make sure they retain business from the next generatio...
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An Integrated Model: How "AITi" Moves Forward From Tiedemann-Alvarium Merger
One of the top figures at the merged MFO business said the merger of the two is a full integration – the firm isn’t interested in just buying businesses and leaving them largely alone. ...
Space Tech's Investment Case Is Increasingly "Normal"
In a wide-ranging conversation, we talk to a lawyer with strong investment connections about spacefaring, Elon Musk, satellite costs and the wealth management attractions of space. ...
US Real Estate Wealth Manager Unveils Enhancements, Sees Big Potential
FWR talks to the business, overseeing about $1.5 billion of property assets, about how the sector is ripe for the kind of asset management techniques and approaches that have been working in the equities and bon...
California's Proposed Non-Grantor Trusts Crackdown Will Backfire Badly – Advisor
FWR talks to a wealth advisor in the Golden State about proposed changes to the taxation of out-of-state trusts. The change could, the advisor says, drive even more affluent citizens from California and shrink t...
What Does PE Buyout Of Focus Financial Mean For RIAs?
This news service delves into the details around the recently-reported private equity bid for US-listed Focus Financial, a firm that's made a name by aggregating scores of wealth management firms in the US and o...
How Investment Limited Partners Can Advance With Fintech
In this guest commentary, a firm argues how limited partners' investment lives are being changed by technology, in ways that go far beyond the disruptions wrought by the pandemic. ...
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New Research: An Update On Family Office Efficiency In Accounting, Investment Analysis
This news service is joining forces again with FundCount to examine how technology is making family offices' work processes more efficient and effective. ...
Tenth WealthBriefing Tech & Ops Trends Report
Here is our 2022 Technology and Operations Report, a regular overview of the trends affecting the wealth management industry and the technology that it uses. ...
The Bahamas And Resilience Through Testing Times – Latest Report
This is a mini-series on The Bahamas Financial Services Industry. ...
An Overview From EY On Tech Traps Facing The Sector
EY has once again partnered with this publication on our must-read annual report "Technology Traps Wealth Managers Must Avoid." Here, two of its senior consultants highlight key issues for decision-makers to con...
New Research Explores ESG And Family Governance Models
WealthBriefing and Jersey Finance have teamed up to survey and interview family governance experts internationally to discover how sustainability and ESG priorities are playing out in the UHNW space. ...
New Research: Wealth Tech Traps, As Told From The Front Line
WealthBriefing/Family Wealth Report and EY have joined forces to offer cutting-edge insights from those right at the technology coal face. Download our new report to learn what some of the wealth tech sector’s...
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US Real Estate Wealth Manager Unveils Enhancements, Sees Big Potential
FWR talks to the business, overseeing about $1.5 billion of property assets, about how the sector is ripe for the kind of asset management techniques and approaches that have been working in the equities and bon...
Florida's Strong Real Estate Story Needs Expert Guidance
FWR talks to a real estate investment and development specialist that has recently rolled out a fund in Europe and is broadening its international appeal so that more investors can capture the Florida story. The...
Advising Investors And Collectors Of Gold
This brief commentary explains the sort of considerations that investors and advisors should entertain before holding gold. In the current high-inflation environment, gold is understandably getting attention. ...
Get Ready For More Assets To Be "Financialized"
We talk to a business using cryptocurrency and blockchain tools to make diamonds a more efficient commodity market, overcoming historic factors that have previously prevented this. So far, only 1 to 2 per cent o...
Regulators Must Craft New Rules For Growing Private Markets
Private market investing has been a constant theme in wealth management over recent years. Are regulations keeping up with this? Given the issues at stake, the industry must work with watchdogs such as the SEC t...
Family Offices, Venture Capital And World We Seek
There is a need for innovation in business and technology, as demonstrated by the pandemic and the drive to find viable, reliable alternatives to fossil fuels. And that means venture capital – a natural destin...
How Wealth Managers Approach Thematic Investing
This article examines the topic of thematic investing, an approach portfolio managers use for choosing assets with certain shared characteristics that drive returns. ...
ETFs Driving Custom Benchmarking Boom
The range of indexes that track markets, themes and specific sectors continues to mushroom. New forms of financial engineering give wealth managers new ways to tap into a business area, and customized benchmarks...
Asset Managers Flex Muscles In Share Voting Season
There have been calls to improve transparency and the way shareholders participate in the proxy voting season as social and governance issues take on new urgency. ...
How Sustainability Is Redefining Asset Management
Sustainability has undeniably been the buzzword of 2019. This guest piece from the strategy team at Liquidnet examines the appetite for ESG and where the challenges lie. The author notes that in Europe alone, la...
What Does The Risk Of No-Deal Brexit Mean For Investors? RBC Commentary
RBC Wealth Management's head of investment strategy comments after an extraordinary week in Westminster. ...
Private Investments: Three Things To Consider Before Joining The 40 Per Cent Club
The 40 per cent club refers to institutions with 40 per cent of total portfolio allocation committed to private investments. They do this for good reason argues Cambridge Associates' managing director, and more ...
Web 3.0: Planning For Art NFT Collectors
NFTs are popular in applications which require unique digital items, including crypto art, digital collectibles and online gaming, where some guarantee of authenticity and ownership history adds value. As far as...
Online Art Auction Growth Here To Stay - Citi Private Bank Study
The fine art auction market can act as a temperature measure for how high net worth and ultra-HNW people feel about the state of the economy and their own finances. Growth of online art auctions has increased ra...
Donating Tangible Assets: Alternatives To Selling Art, Collectibles - Part Two
This second half of a two-part article examines ways of transferring art without actually selling it, in order to reduce tax liabilities and retain art within a family or some kind of structure enduring beyond t...
Donating Tangible Assets: Alternatives To Selling Art, Collectibles - Part One
This two-part article examines the ways of transferring art without actually selling it, in order to reduce issues around tax and also to retain art within a family or some kind of structure enduring beyond the ...
The Art Market: What Has Changed, What Should Stick
The pandemic offers art world players a chance to make big industry changes. This view, from a long-time collector, marks a fresh look at this important asset class for coverage in August. The last few months fo...
Managing the Family Art Collection As A Family Business
The author of this item, an expert on fine art and investment, argues that just like a family business, every family collection needs management both for itself and in order to share it with the outside world. ...
When Financial Storms Build, Consider Excess Deposit Bonds
Many wealthy people want to park their wealth in financial institutions to ride out market storms, but there are risks to this option. What tools exist to give peace of mind? ...
Advising Clients On New Asset Classes, Advanced Planning, And Philanthropy
With so many financial market changes, planning challenges and complexity around investment, there's only so much one can expect from ultra-high net worth individuals' in their ability to learn their way through...
WEALTH TALK: Cross-Border Financial Products, Services - Examining The Risks
This is the eighth edition of a video series by this news service in partnership with international law firm, Kobre & Kim. ...
WEALTH TALK: Anti-Corruption Probes, Extradition Risks In Africa
This is the seventh edition of a video series by this news service in partnership with international law firm, Kobre & Kim. ...
WEALTH TALK: Exploring Cross-Border Reputation Management
This is the fifth edition of a video series by this news service in partnership with international law firm, Kobre & Kim. ...
WEALTH TALK: Focus On Tax, Estate Planning Scramble Pre-US Elections
In this video, we discuss the kind of workload US wealth managers must contend with in the days ahead of the US elections on Tuesday next week. ...
The FTX Collapse: The Lessons
The author of this article argues that the failures with FTX are little to do with regulation or lack of it. Without proper controls, management integrity and attention to detail, most businesses will fail event...
The Pandora Papers One Year On – Lessons, The Way Ahead
The author of this article argues that however much anger is justified at those who stash illicit funds in various financial centers, that does not excuse law-breaking by those claiming to expose wrongdoing. Onc...
A Walk Around The World's Regulatory Landscape
This news service speaks to BNY Mellon Pershing, a business with considerable interplay with compliance and regulatory issues around the world. ...
Choosing Your Estate Attorney – Part 2
This is the second half of a two-part article looking at the process of hiring an estate attorney and why it is so important to get this right. ...
Wealth Managers Can't Relax As Gensler's SEC Marches On - Baird
One of the top men at Baird, the US wealth management house, recently spoke to FWR about his thoughts on what the Securities and Exchange Commission's new boss means for wealth managers and the regulatory landsc...
Wealth Industry Must Be Bolder, Better At Advocating Privacy Rights
After another big leak of data, the wealth management industry must become less reactive and more assertive in making the case for legitimate privacy. And firms must co-operate with other stakeholders to foil ba...
Pushback Against ESG: Collective Action Or Collective Suicide?
The supposedly remorseless drive against carbon-based energy toward areas such as wind, solar, hydrogen, biomass and other sources has, among other events, been interrupted by Russia's squeeze of gas exports to ...
Wealth Industry's Force For Environmental Good Accelerates
We talk to an investment firm at the cutting edge of putting money to work in businesses that cut the use of carbon and promote a cleaner planet. ...
Pricing Carbon: What Are The Options?
Putting a price on carbon emissions makes polluting energy sources expensive and provides an incentive for emitters to reduce them. That's the theory. What it looks like in practice is assessed by the head of in...
EXCLUSIVE: LNG – A Growth Driver For Three Groups Of Single Family Offices
Demand for liquified natural gas, aka LNG, is high amidst a global energy crisis, magnified by Russia's attempted conquest of Ukraine and the aftershocks of the pandemic. We look at family offices that are tappi...
The Essential Tool That Family Offices Ignore
It’s no secret that private banking, which includes credit and lending services, is an essential tool for those who wish to preserve their wealth. So, why are family offices behind on adopting these useful str...
Single-Family Offices' Tech Shyness – How To Overcome It?
For all kinds of reasons, single-family offices have not rapidly embraced technology, although Covid-19 has jolted some into action. We talk to a variety of individuals about the market. ...
Single-Family Offices Fret Over Transparency, Data Demands – EY
The pace of regulatory change continues to change and with it demands – not always wise – for ever more transparency and disclosure. Family offices around the world are finding the process increasingly conc...
EXCLUSIVE: Europe And North America – Single Family Offices Compared
The extended coverage of single family offices on the database of Highworth Research – an organization working with Family Wealth Report – throws up all kinds of useful data points for people tracking the se...
Charting Family Offices' Needs
What should family offices do in-house and what should they outsource? Should certain families create these structures at all, or choose another course? And what do different generations want, and need help with...
EDITORIAL ANALYSIS: Will Funds Woo HNW Clients In Tough Times?
The drop in markets this year and prospects for sluggish growth even after lockdowns end will create a new environment for fund managers who in the past have sold their wares across a range of client groups. In ...
Q&A: Pioneer On Why The Insurance-Linked Securities Market Deserves Some Attention
Here is a Q&A with Pioneer about its insurance-linked securities fund and why it may appeal to the high net worth sector. ...
Springtime Is Here For Global Fund Managers But Inflation, China Are Worries - Merrill Poll
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Fund Companies: Few Clients Trust Them
Few American consumers trust their primary mutual fund company or believe it’s an especially good money manager, according to a survey from ......
Swiss Pension Funds Not Subject to US Tax on US Dividends
In a Competent Authority Agreement (“Agreement”) between the Swiss and United States tax authorities, issued 10 December 2004, the question ......
Understanding New SEC Hedge Fund Rules
On December 2, 2004 the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued, after a considerable delay, its formal written release (the “Adopting ......
ESG Investment And Arms – How Ukraine Changes The Conversation
ESG investors might once have assumed that weapons were off-limits, and divested from stocks of firms making fighter jets, guns and missiles. But as the Russian attempted conquest of Ukraine shows, weapons used ...
Behavioral Finance’s Next Step To Going Mainstream
The investment approach shaped by ideas about behavior and how humans actually conduct themselves is becoming more a part of the regular wealth sector conversation. Controversies and questions remain. ...
Investing Amid Stagflation: US Wealth Managers' Perspectives
US wealth managers have a lot to absorb with geopolitical worries, inflation, a shrinking economy and demands from investors for returns. We talk to three organizations about their views on everything from bond ...
How The Pandemic, Inflation And China Will Affect Financial Markets
Putting investment returns on the table at a time when inflationary pressures - and higher interest rates from historically low levels - are a concern, is going to take more work. This news service reports on co...
SPACs Lose Momentum, But Here To Stay - Industry
After rising explosively over the past two years, blank check companies have slowed down, as SEC noises and investor nerves weigh on deals. But in the US and overseas, the model of these blank check entities ret...
How Should US Investors Approach Chinese Equities Market?
US investors are arguably under-invested in Chinese equities and should change to diversify. But China's regulatory landscape and corporate governance - or the lack of it - are big concerns. Trade tensions, such...
New Research: An Update On Family Office Efficiency In Accounting, Investment Analysis
This news service is joining forces again with FundCount to examine how technology is making family offices' work processes more efficient and effective. ...
Tenth WealthBriefing Tech & Ops Trends Report
Here is our 2022 Technology and Operations Report, a regular overview of the trends affecting the wealth management industry and the technology that it uses. ...
Family Offices Gradually Fall More In Love With VC
A report casts its eye over how family offices around the world approach venture capital. Such organizations are often thought of as holders of "patient capital", making them logical partners for VC as an asset ...
Family Offices Remain Overwhelmingly Male-Dominated - Study
The family office industry remains male-dominated, but those who work in it aren't perhaps as old as might be assumed. A new report seeks to illuminate the population characteristics of people who toil in the in...
Can SPACs Work In The RIA Market?
The number of special purpose acquisition companies entering the market has risen by more than four times this year. These entities provide buyers with a low-cost entry into the vehicle and the stakes become a l...
WEALTH TALK: Focus On US Regional Markets
This video features a discussion on the work this publication has done to map two important regional markets in the US. ...
The Bahamas And Resilience Through Testing Times – Latest Report
This is a mini-series on The Bahamas Financial Services Industry. ...
Reflections On Pandemic's Impact On IFCs: View From The Cayman Islands
As part of a set of articles looking at how offshore centers have tried to cope with the pandemic and how this frames their status as wealth hubs, we talk to Ogier, the international law firm. ...
Pandora Papers: The Rich Are Back In Firing Line
Entrepreneur and surveyor of public attitudes toward wealth, Dr Rainer Zitelmann, takes aim at the latest "leak" of masses of data from firms catering to high net worth individuals. He argues that the affair sho...
Offshore Centers Look Back, Forward In Uncertain Times
We talk to industry figures in various IFCs in Europe to ask how international pressures and the global pandemic have shaped business and strategy. ...
The Bahamas: The Clear Choice For International Financial Services
Here is the 2021 edition of a report about The Bahamas, prepared in partnership with The Bahamas Financial Services Board. ...
New Wealth House Serving US Expats Explains Investment Angle
UK-based Shard Capital created a new service a year ago for US expats. The business has a very particular view about risk, asset allocation and investment, and talked recently to this publication. ...
Asset Allocation For Philanthropists Gets Tough
Rising inflation, falling stock markets, pleas for help and donors' own financial constraints mean that charities' coffers are strained. How should asset allocation and liquidity be managed at such a time, or sh...
Supporting The Rising Generation Of Philanthropists – Thoughts On "Giving Tuesday"
The author of this article sets out approaches that a rising generation of philanthropists can use to make the most of their goals in the years to come. ...
Philanthropy For Testing Times – How Donor-Advised Funds Are Working
Here are more thoughts from those in the philanthropy space about how markets and requests for aid are affecting the landscape. ...
Tough Markets, Increased Pleas For Help – Challenges For Philanthropy
Philanthropists have a lot to contend with this year: a period of falling market values that hit assets, a potential squeeze on donations as people watch their finances more closely, and rising requests for help...
Movement Building And The Rising Generation Of Wealth
The author of this commentary argues that movements will continue to have a strong audience with young people who receive their social and philanthropic education through voices in media that resonate with their...
Impact Investing Guidance For Private Foundation Clients – Part 2
This article looks at the so-called field of "mission-related investing" and examines the approach that private foundations should take. ...
Back To School: Columbia University's New Wealth Program
It is the first time, its framers say, that an Ivy League university has developed a program of this kind. It also plays to a theme of how talent management and development is a key area for the industry at a ti...
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Healthcare Entrepreneur Solicits Family Offices, Others, To Finance Remuneration Revolution
A complete change in how healthcare professionals such as physicians are paid is part of how the US will wrestle with surging costs, an entrepreneur and veteran of the sector argues as he taps family offices and...
Interview - Cheap Valuations Look Tempting In Argentina
Argentina has been through difficult economic times but it is still the second biggest LatAm economy and there are signs that developments are turning more positive, an investment firm argues....
An Integrated Model: How "AITi" Moves Forward From Tiedemann-Alvarium Merger
One of the top figures at the merged MFO business said the merger of the two is a full integration – the firm isn’t interested in just buying businesses and leaving them largely alone. ...
What Does PE Buyout Of Focus Financial Mean For RIAs?
This news service delves into the details around the recently-reported private equity bid for US-listed Focus Financial, a firm that's made a name by aggregating scores of wealth management firms in the US and o...
How Investment Limited Partners Can Advance With Fintech
In this guest commentary, a firm argues how limited partners' investment lives are being changed by technology, in ways that go far beyond the disruptions wrought by the pandemic. ...
Five Big M&A Questions for 2023
Here is the second in a series of analyses of the North American wealth management scene by US correspondent for FWR, Charles Paikert. ...
MFO Battle: RIAs Vs Global Giants
What can US advisory firms do in order to take market share from international players and win a larger slice of the business for serving ultra-high net worth individuals? In this is article, we talk to industry...
Business Travel – An Expanding Frontier For Airbus
The world’s business aviation industry is a barometer for the wealth management industry to follow. Financial hubs also compete as registration locations for aircraft; the sector also attracts investment from ...
Millennials' Financial Habits Revealed – And Why They Need Advice
A study by Ameriprise Financial found that Millennials are more likely to transfer money to charity during their lifetimes, raising questions about whether they're thinking hard enough about long-term financial ...
Summary Of Wealth Management-Related MBAs, Post-Grad Courses - Updated
There is much talk in the wealth industry about the importance of talent management but what institutions work to develop the skills and aptitudes? Here is a list from organizations around the world. ...
COVID-19 Hammers Billionaires, Some Escape Downdraft – Report
The market slump has wiped hundreds of billions from the portfolios of the world's richest men and women. A study from Asia shows that among the handful who bucked the trend, all of them were from China. ...
Emerging Millionaires: An Opportunity For Advisors - But Expect A Change In Demographics - Survey
An alarming 77 per cent of those on the cusp of entering millionaire territory don’t have a written financial plan, while a similar percentage aren’t confident in their ability to invest, a new study shows. ...
Advanced HNW Planning Benefits "Negated" By Outdated Estate Plans - New Study
Three-quarters of estate plans relating to HNW clients are at least three years old, yet an overwhelming 95 per cent of these clients have experienced “significant changes” since the plans were drawn up, a n...
What The Wealthy Are Holding - Tiger 21 Reveals Member Asset Allocations
While the worst of the financial crisis may be over, members of the exclusive Tiger 21 peer-to-peer network feel “we are no way in the clear,” according to their asset allocations for the first quarter. ...
California's Proposed Non-Grantor Trusts Crackdown Will Backfire Badly – Advisor
FWR talks to a wealth advisor in the Golden State about proposed changes to the taxation of out-of-state trusts. The change could, the advisor says, drive even more affluent citizens from California and shrink t...
Mitigating Tax Hikes, Creating Alpha With Cash Value Life Insurance - Part 2
This is the second half of an article setting out what the author says are the tax and value-building qualities of life insurance in the various forms in which it operates in the US. ...
Mitigating Tax Hikes, Creating Alpha With Cash Value Life Insurance - Part 1
This is the first half of an article setting out what the author says are the tax and value-building qualities of life insurance in the various forms in which it operates in the US. ...
Retroactive CGT Impact Thwarts Some Client Moves - Rockefeller
A continued theme from this and other conversations with wealth managers is how clients should not let "the tax tail wag the investment dog." ...
Tax Burdens Increase, But Shouldn't Dominate Thinking - Industry
It is pretty certain that the tax burden is going to rise, but while certain adjustments make sense, this should not dominate how people address estate planning, transfer and investments. ...
Do The Super-Rich Really Only Pay A 3.4 Per Cent Tax Rate?
The group called ProPublica recently claimed data on America's 25 richest people which showed that some of them paid very little tax. It published masses of records about wealthy individuals, such as Jeff Bezos,...
Space Tech's Investment Case Is Increasingly "Normal"
In a wide-ranging conversation, we talk to a lawyer with strong investment connections about spacefaring, Elon Musk, satellite costs and the wealth management attractions of space. ...
Family Office Members Want Fast Data – Time To Step Up Pace
Shortly after launching a new app designed to give family office clients faster access to their net worth and other financial information, we talk to Eton Solutions about what it sees as the state of the family ...
Wanted: “All Rights Reserved” For NFTs
Non-fungible tokens are all the rage, and they are a talking point in areas such as the art world. But what about the intellectual property protections for NFTs? How robust are they, how do they work, and what n...
An Overview From EY On Tech Traps Facing The Sector
EY has once again partnered with this publication on our must-read annual report "Technology Traps Wealth Managers Must Avoid." Here, two of its senior consultants highlight key issues for decision-makers to con...
Crypto Assets, Distributed Finance And Wealth Managers' Menus
Family offices, private banks and wealth managers are considering using the infrastructure of digital assets to run their businesses, or investing in them to make money. ...
Undisclosed Digital Assets? - Decision Time Is Now
Those individuals buying and holding cryptocurrencies - aka digital assets - may have mistakenly thought they are shielded from tax and other state actions. That's a mistake, argues the author. Owners must plan ...
Special Needs Trusts: Protecting The Whole Family With Wealth Planning
The authors of this article argue that trustees of special needs trusts should have a deep appreciation of the circumstances and aspirations of the beneficiary. ...
What Many People Don’t Know About Power Of Trusts
The author writes that regardless of current uncertainties there remains a suite of planning opportunities and techniques that can make trusts and estate plan far more effective. ...
When Should An Elderly Person Stop Driving?
The author of this article examines an issue that seems both mundane but also significant – when is it time for an older person to stop driving, and how can family members direct this conversation? The issues ...
Can I Leave My Truck To My Dog?
The author of this article argues that pet owners should act to have someone care for their animals after the owner dies or is incapacitated. And people should consider alternative ways to provide for pets, and ...
What's In Your Wallet? – Estate Planning For Cryptos, Tokens
How should assets such as bitcoin and NFTs be handled when it comes to estate planning and wealth transfer? How does modern technology affect the kind of considerations that advisors have wrestled with for decad...
A Master Exit Plan Protects Family Wealth For Generations
What sort of considerations apply when a business owner chooses to hand over the reins, either by selling or transferring to others. With many Boomers and even younger owners moving on, there's never been a more...
RIAs' Digital Revolution Has Barely Begun - White Paper
There has been a lot of commentary recently about how wealth managers are having to embrace digital technologies of all kinds to stay relevant. A year ago, a study found the changes were not that far advanced. G...
Understanding The Psychology Of The Super-Rich
An academic and investor is exploring the psychological drivers of entrepreneurship and wealth. Here are some of his thoughts. ...
Smart Strategies For Growth: A Study Of The UK Wealth Management Industry
Smart Strategies for Growth: A Study of the UK Wealth Management Industry has now been launched, a whitepaper produced by WealthBriefing, in partnership with SS&C Advent. ...
Q&A: Learning From The Industry's Growing Group Of "Super-Ensemble" Advisory Firms
A group of around 250 "super-ensemble" firms, those with over $1 billion in AuM, are setting new standards for the advisory industry, according to a new report. This publication looks at what have been described...
Issues Will Always Exist In A Family Business – White Paper
A new white paper, Issues Will Always Exist in a Family Business: Tackling Them Is the Real Trick, outlines the issues and opportunities the Myers family is tackling in the journey to build and maintain their le...
Investors’ Attraction To The Asian Consumer - Rockefeller White Paper
A white paper published by Rockefeller Financial concludes that investors cannot ignore the ongoing trends of urbanization and wealth generation in Asia and the investment opportunities they create. ...
Does Your Firm Really Offer Integrated Family Wealth Services?
What is the value of "integration" in a family office, why does it matter, and how do we know if it has been achieved? This topic is discussed by two experts in the family offices industry and the business of se...
Family Office Solutions For Physical And Health Issues - UHNW Institute White Paper
Families often need to be supported so they can work through complicated medical and psychiatric problems, and handle sometimes fraught conversations when problems arise. The author of this White Paper sets out ...
UHNW Business Models: The Registered Investment Advisor
This article delves deep into the business model of the Registered Investment Advisor, exploring what should be its defining qualities and some of the associated controversies. It is part of a series of analyses...
The Evolving World Of Broker-Dealer Platforms
In this latest exclusive commentary from the UHNW Institute, author Bill Woodson considers what is happening in the broker-dealer space. ...
A History Of Wealth Management - UHNW Institute
The authors of this article for the UHNW Institute set out a narrative of how US wealth management came to be what it is today. ...
The Skinny on UHNW Wealth Management Models - UHNW Institute
Many UHNW individuals are and can be confused about the array of business models pitching for their business. This article - the first of a five-part series - explores the terrain. ...
What’s Wrong With Envestnet, Goldman Sachs And CI Financial?
Family Wealth Report's US correspondent Charles Paikert takes a hard look at three firms that have been through big changes and M&A decisions, and talks to industry figures about how their strategies are working...
Why Mercer Advisors Is The Leading RIA Acquirer
Mercer Advisors has been by far the most energetic acquirer of wealth management firms over recent years. US correspondent Charles Paikert talks to experts on what is driving the business's strategy, and why it ...
M&A Decline: New Trough Or Brief Bump?
There has been a notable drop in mergers and acquisitions involving registered investment advisors; we ask a firm tracking trends in the space whether this is the start of a bigger trend or a temporary halt to w...
RIA Mergers, Acquisitions At Mid-Year - State Of The Market
There's no reason, wealth industry figures say, why there won't be more busy M&A activity affecting the RIA space. So far this year there has been a burst in transactions, then a drop, followed by a recovery. Wh...
Critical Transition Lessons For Wealth Managers
DeVoe & Company, a firm that covers the mass of M&A activity that has been happening in the North American wealth industry, recently held a conference exploring business transition and the challenges it raises. ...
Europe's Investment House Makes "Significant" Investment Into Sanctuary Wealth
The Milan-based business is tapping into what it sees as an important wealth management growth model within the US sector. Terms of the transaction weren't disclosed. ...