FS Private Wealth - Volume 1 Number 2

Volume 1 Issue 2

Philanthropy

Structured Philanthropy Gives Certainty to Medical Research

ANDREW THOMAS | Comments | MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012

In this article Perpetual Private Wealth's Andrew Thomas champions the role of philanthropy in fostering medical research. ... Read more

Technology

Steps to Success: Technology Implementation and the Family Office

SEAMUS O CONCHEANAINN | Comments | MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012

Managing director of Foxrock Consulting Seamus O Concheanainn looks at the steps needed to move towards the appropriate level of back ... Read more

Taxation & Estate Planning

Legacy Planning: It's Not About The Money

LINDA BEERMAN | Comments | MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012

Family legacy planning is an opportunity to define, reflect on and express what wealth really means to the family. For most families, it means ... Read more

Generation Wise

PAUL LUCAS | Comments | MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012

All too often the skills and values that created wealth in the first place don't make it through generations. Paul Lucas looks at how to assist the ... Read more

Investment

Understanding the Entrepreneur

SHANE GALLIGAN | Comments | MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012

Entrepreneurs have the extraordinary effect of shaping the industry they occupy, and as a result, have the contingent effect of generating wealth ... Read more

The Family Office's Guide to Fund Manager Selection

RICHARD WILSON | Comments | MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012

This white paper emphasises the importance of putting fund managers through a rigorous selection process. Choosing the wrong fund manager could result ... Read more

Why China, why now?

ANDREW DALRYMPLE | Comments | MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012

With Europe immersed in an ongoing crisis and the US economy barely keeping in positive territory, investors are continuing to look for attractive ... Read more

The psyche of high stakes investing

JANE WATTS | Comments | MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012

BT Financial Group's Jane Watts answer questions on the psyche of high stakes investing. ... Read more

Alternative investments: Chasing the puck

MARK SOWERBY | Comments | MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012

Mark Sowerby, managing director of Blue Sky Alternative Investments, takes a closer look at the Harvard Endowment Fund and compares the US experience ... Read more

Family Office Management

Return of the Homme d'Affaires

ANDREW NOLAN | Comments | MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012

Head of Stonehage Family Office division Andrew Nolan exaplins why he thinks the trend towards specialisation among the advisory community has gone far ... Read more

Latest News


Aussie millionaires are cashed up: Report KARREN VERGARA A new report finds the majority of Australian millionaires are cautious investors and prefer to leave their wealth in cash rather than risk capital erosion.	Aussie HNWIs slip down global rankings KARREN VERGARA Australia's high-net-worth population slumped in the rankings of a global wealth study as millionaires shifted their portfolio to cash amid share market uncertainty.

Myer Foundation backs new strategy KANIKA SOOD Myer Foundation and the Australian Government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation are among the early investors in a global manager's new Aussie equities strategy.	Forrests donate $655m to foundation KANIKA SOOD Mining magnate Andrew Forrest and wife Nicola have donated $655 million to their philanthropic foundation.

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How to safeguard your estate

If you live in New South Wales or have assets connected with that state, your estate can be susceptible to a notional challenge after you pass away. Writing ...

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Positioning portfolios for a late cycle environment

As Rudy Dornbusch said in 1997: "None of the U.S. expansions of the past 40 years died in bed of old age; every one was murdered by the Federal Reserve." ...

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Ten investment lessons for non-profits (Part two)

September 15 marked marked the 10th anniversary of the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers and the onset of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).

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