Article by Russ Prince The global super-rich have personal fortunes of US$500 million or more. In most cases their wealth is considerably more. Their personal and business interests span countries and continents. Most have multiple citizenships by design. Also, they tend to – in one manner or another – leverage the single-family office business model, broadly defined. It is [...]
Article by Russ Prince Private placement life insurance is the most transparent life insurance structure. It can also be exceedingly cost-effective with the ability to mitigate or eliminate the financial drag of taxes. According to Evan Jehle, partner at FFO Business Management & Family Office, “Private placement life insurance for the rich and super-rich can be an excellent way [...]
Article by Russ Prince Asia is producing a great number of new super-rich families (net worth = $500 million or more). At the same time, those families new and older are establishing single-family offices. With respect to established ultra-wealthy families, the children or grandchildren of the wealth creators, depending on when the family fortunes were initially founded, are [...]
Article by Russ Prince More than 30% of financial advisors currently have some sort of joint venture arrangements. This is according to a study of 803 financial advisors. From the perspective of the three types of business models, 45% of multi-family offices, 40% of wealth managers, and slightly more than a quarter of the financial advisors have [...]
Article by Russ Prince “The tremendous accumulation of wealth is occurring in a time of great uncertainty leaving many at political, financial and personal risk. This, coupled with increasing meddling by governments – often with unclear motives – in one’s personal affairs, necessitates that creative jurisdictional planning be part of traditional wealth planning. Too often [...]
By and large, there are limited legal protections for fashion designers despite the size of the industry and their contributions to it. Technology makes copying fashion designs or some variation of fashion designs sadly very efficient. There are basically three approaches based on intellectual property that can be applied to fashion designs: • Trademark law [...]