The Chancellor laid out a supportive package of measures to help businesses, while having one eye on a longer-term plan to balance public finances. Despite recent speculation about changes to Inheritance Tax, Capital Gains Tax, and the introduction of a Wealth Tax, the current thresholds have been maintained for the time being.
The Chancellor laid out a supportive package of measures to help businesses, while having one eye on a longer-term plan to balance public finances. Despite recent speculation about changes to Inheritance Tax, Capital Gains Tax, and the introduction of a Wealth Tax, the current thresholds have been maintained for the time being.
It is not only the world’s leading business and financial families that require the use of a family office; one of America’s most successful entertainment stars has this week announced that she is creating her own single family office, writes Katie Baker.
It is not only the world's leading business and financial families that require the use of a family office; one of America's most successful entertainment stars has this week announced that she is creating her own single family office, writes Katie Baker.
2009 closed with two notable family office mergers. Is a new era of consolidation unfolding or do family offices require more creative solutions to succeed?
The volatility in global asset prices and the regulatory response to that volatility has lit a torch paper under the family office model. Almost every family has had to assess, to some extent, whether the model they have in place proved sufficiently robust and whether it continues fully to serve their needs. Contemplating some kind of consolidation or merger comes as part and parcel of that process, writes Cherry Reynard.
Two US-based multifamily offices have signed a letter of intent aimed at creating a single, independent and family-owned wealth services firm for families.
Two US-based multifamily offices have signed a letter of intent aimed at creating a single, independent and family-owned wealth services firm for families.
Threshold Group, a wealth management and family services firm headquartered in Washington state, and Ashbridge Investment Management, a Philadelphia-based family wealth management office, were independently founded and owned by the Russell and Grace families respectively.
George Russell Jr has been awarded the Smithsonian Institute’s Woodrow Wilson award for corporate citizenship.
George Russell Jr has been awarded the Smithsonian Institute's Woodrow Wilson award for corporate citizenship. The award marks a lifetime of progress and achievement for Russell, a US family business leader whose success has allowed him to engage in philanthropy and business education. Today, he is chairman of the multifamily office Threshold.
