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Trust Estate
August 29, 2025

Administering An Estate With Artworks – Strategic Options

The challenges of managing artworks in estate plans can be complicated and financially – and emotionally – draining. This is the third article in a series looking at how such issues can be addressed. ...

Trust Estate
August 25, 2025

What The Sector Has Gotten Wrong About “Great Wealth Transfer”

The wealth management sector has talked about a multi-trillion transfer of assets and liquid wealth from Baby Boomers to younger age cohorts for years. And yet changes made in the industry haven't always kept up...

Legal
August 21, 2025

Executor Survival: Navigating Legal, Emotional Turbulence – Lawyers And Family

The emotional and financial costs of handling estate-related litigation can be severe, and not always fully understood. In the second article in a series, the author looks at important considerations for people ...

Family Office
August 11, 2025

Getting Service Right For Family Offices – In Conversation With Northern Trust

We recently talked to the US-headquartered group about how it goes about serving family offices and the trends it sees unfold. ...

M and A
August 6, 2025

After The Honeymoon: How To Handle Post-M&A Integration Blues

Our US correspondent looks at the flurry of big merger and acquisition deals and how to handle the post-M&A integration blues. ...

Asset Management
July 7, 2025

Index Investing – How To Solve The "Reconstitution" Problem

We talk to Dimensional Fund Advisors about why index investing in the conventional sense raises a number of challenges that aren't widely appreciated. ...

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People Moves
November 14, 2025

Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? – Cohen & Steers, Raymond James

The latest moves, appointments and personnel changes in North American wealth management. ...

People Moves
November 14, 2025

Withers Builds Out Fine Art Legal Expertise With Hires

Both hires joining the US art and advisory practice come with solid pedigrees - one formerly a specialist at Christie's and the other a counsel and art historian who has handled "record-setting" private sales....

Strategy
November 14, 2025

Book Review: Where Are Wealth Business Opportunities? – A New Guide

The editor reviews a new study which examines commercial opportunities around the world for wealth managers and sits down with the writers to discuss what they have learned. ...

People Moves
November 13, 2025

Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? – Sapient, UBS, Raymond James

The latest senior moves, appointments, and personnel changes in the North American wealth management sector. ...

Alt Investments
November 13, 2025

What's New In Investments, Funds? – Corastone, Morgan Stanley, Others

The latest news in investment offerings, financial products and other services relevant to wealth advisors and their clients. ...

Investment Strategies
November 13, 2025

Natixis IM Opts For European, Emerging Market Equities Over US

Paris-based Natixis Investment Managers delves into the 2026 market outlook, providing perspectives on both global and local trends, and insights into the investment landscape. ...