Description
Book SynopsisThe book offers crucial advice in helping entrepreneurs and their families find or found a family office that fits their goals. The authors survey the key considerations in this process, including: What are the different models for family offices, and what are their respective benefits? What costs can be expected from a family office, and how much wealth must be under management to justify them? What are the role and responsibilities of the Family Officer and his staff? Which are best practices for family governance, succession planning, and philanthropy at a family office? These insights are then supplemented by a wide-ranging set of interviews with family members, family officers and consultants from around the world. Both family office professionals and families themselves will benefit from this thorough but highly approachable examination.
The author team of Boris Canessa, Jens Escher, Alexander Koeberle-Schmid, Peter Preller and Christoph Weber are each experts in a specific field related to the family office. They apply their professional and personal knowledge as family office specialists to provide details on organization of the family office, governance structures, asset allocation, succession and family governance planning and more.
Table of Contents
1. What is a family office?
2. How is a family office structured?
Interview with Simon Foster
3. What are the fundamental success factors for a family office?
Interview with Klaus Kuder
4. Structures for Managing Wealth
Interview with Christoph Zapp
5. Reliable Handling of Legal and Tax Issues
6. Succession Planning
Interview with Christian-Titus Klaiber
7. Organizing the Family: Family Governance
Interview with Larry Donckers
8. Effective Structuring of Philanthropic Engagement
Interview with Nour Abou Adal & Maissa Abou Adal
9. Concierge Services by the Family Office
10. Organizational Framework for the Family Office
Interview with James Fleming
11. Client Structure and Communication
12. Committees, Guidelines and Professional Management Systems
Interview with Tom McCullough
13. Leadership Structures in the Family Office
Interview with Leslie Voth
14. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats: Avoiding Traps, Preparing for the Future
