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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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M and A
September 15, 2025

Summit Financial Advisors Joins MAI Capital Management

The California-based firm brings $570 million in client assets to MAI’s national platform ...

ESG
September 15, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: French Private Bank More Optimistic About COP30

Despite three years of disappointing results, Jean-Philippe Desmartin at Paris-based Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, is more optimistic about the outcome of the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conferen...

Technology
September 15, 2025

Eton Solutions Exalts Its AI Progress

The international group, created by Eton Advisors, a multi-family office, isn't shy about showing off its AI capabilities. ...

Practice Strategies
September 15, 2025

The Wealth Advisor Attrition Problem – In Conversation With Broadridge

At a time when the wealth advisory industry faces a talent crunch – and simultaneously needs to handle a multi-trillion dollar transfer of assets from Baby Boomers and others – how can the sector square the ...

People Moves
September 12, 2025

City National Bank Names Private Banking, Wealth Head

Operating in different parts of the US, the lender said the appointee has worked in the sector for over a quarter of a century. ...

M and A
September 12, 2025

Deals Of The Day: The Latest In Wealth Management M&A - Bluespring

The latest mergers, acquisitions and other corporate actions in the wealth management sector. ...