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David has been writing and blogging for over 10 years

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10 Must Reads for any Family Office Executive

Photo by Sylvia Yang on Unsplash Here at Family Capital Strategy, we spend a lot of time thinking about what is required to build world-class professional services firms. A great family office is ultimately a tightly integrated, multi-disciplinary...

The Path of Family Wealth – Part 1

Today, we want to continue our series looking at the challenges of a family compounding its wealth over time. In our first piece, "How Fast Must a Family's Assets Grow?" we looked at the significant headwinds facing families - from the growth of the family...

Society, Not Your Life, Will Change Post COVID-19

Photo by Harold Mendoza on Unsplash There is much speculation about life after COVID-19, and how society will change following the ultimate resolution of the crisis. From journalists to the Twitterati, nearly all are speculating about what industries, organizations...

Don’t Fear the Reaper? – Where are We and What’s Going On?

Photo by Robert Wiedemann on Unsplash In January 2019 I gave a presentation called “End of the Market Cycle and the Path of Prudence” discussing how to think about capital allocation given the phase of the market cycle we found ourselves in at the time. ...

My Favorite Family Office Saying

Photo by Daniil Kuželev on Unsplash A number of years ago I had the pleasure of hearing Jay Hughes speak at a family office conference. Hughes, the author of a number of classics in the family office / family wealth realm, remarked offhandedly during Q&A...