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Why the Next Generation should get their licence to operate now
In my previous ViewPoint, I highlighted the crucial test that the COVID-19 crisis poses for the values…
Family office direct investing model takes a hammering
Risk appetites have largely evaporated as families are starting to question the validity of a direct…
Coronavirus blowups – bankers, family businesses, non-family managers…and rats
Expanding on a characteristic of nature, the writer C.S
How your values as family business owners will help during the COVID-19 crisis
It’s often said that when a storm comes, some people build windmills – and others build walls. Th
Viewpoint: Golden handcuffs – the challenge of moving jobs in the family office sector
Too few family office executives make adequate contingency plans to find their next job in the sector
Update: Time to shut down the markets
Not content with doing its worst to humanity, coronavirus is infecting the capital markets, due to fear…
The challenges of retaining quality family office staff
Family offices which fail to manage their staff will not only lose income and suffer a drain of capital
Coronavirus, capital markets, and Soros’ theory of reflexivity
Amid the gathering storm, it is worth asking why it took so long for coronavirus to make its impact on…
Saving the Planet? Don’t rely on big corporates, even less so finance companies
Companies are happy to talk about the need to fight climate change but reluctant to join the war, according…
UK family capital vs. US family capital
Recently, we wrote about Pearson, one of the UK great family businesses, or at least it was
Assassinations and why they might actually be good for long-term market stability
The price of gold and oil surged, to no one’s surprise, following the US killing of Qasem Soleimani, t…
Fiscal stimuli are on the way in 2020 – investors like family offices will benefit
Few would argue that Quantitative Easing maintains its potency, more than ten years after it helped to…