How to effectively transfer wealth—including that which is tied up in illiquid but valuable collectibles—to family, other beneficiaries and charitable organizations; how to establish trusts (and oversee trustees) and other estate planning vehicles.
The Third Generation Bounce
Founder-CEOS create value in family businesses. Second-generation CEOs destroy it. And third-generation family CEOs build it up again.
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United We Stand
The grandchildren of entrepreneurs must pull together to overcome the governance and succession issues that cause nearly 90 percent of family businesses to fail by the third generation. more »
Divided We Fall
Keeping the family business intact into the third generation. more »
Advise and Incent
Incentive trusts require heirs to meet benefactors’ conditions in order to access their inheritances. more »
Separation Anxiety
Founders often must clear daunting emotional hurdles before they can successfully pass their businesses on to their children. more »
Best Intentions
Special-needs trusts ensure that our disabled children will be well cared for after we are gone. more »
Behind a Behemoth
Children of entrepreneurs often struggle to fill their parents’ shoes and make their own mark on the family business. more »
Wrestling for Control of the Business
The chasm in expectations and experience that often separates a powerful, dynamic wealth creator from his or her children can make family business succession a perilous battle of wills. more »
Telling Tales
In the context of our families, we tell ourselves stories so that we may understand who we are and are not, what we value, where we come from and where we expect to go. more »
Trust Busting
How can we untangle the complicated web of trusts that grows alongside wealth? more »
A Hybrid Haven
Private placement insurance offers customized strategies that blend life insurance with asset management. more »