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Family Meetings Come of Age: How to create an effective forum for all generations
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on WealthManagement.com, 2013 As older members of the Baby Boom generation were reaching adulthood, I spent many an hour watching the bevy of TV shows that were focused on the ways that the…
Island Hopping: An archipelago can be a model for healthy relationships.
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, December 2012 Last month, I had the opportunity to walk through a city that’s connected as much by its bridges as by its land. In the dim grey winter light…
New and Improved: Do we run the risk of discontinuing advice and services that are quite good?
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, November 2012 Lately, it seems everywhere I turn, things are “new and improved.” Perfectly good items that have served me well no longer exist. Recently, I needed new running shoes…
(Re-)Building Bridges: Reflections on All Hallows’ Eve 2012: Lessons learned from our response to crisis
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, November 2012 I’m writing this “Building Bridges” column on Oct. 31, 2012, “All Hallows’ Eve,” an appropriate holiday for this week of devastation and destruction on the East Coast. Hurricane/Superstorm…
What is a family council and when should a family consider establishing one?
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published by National Center for Family Philanthropy, October 15, 2012 Many families with multiple branches may elect to set up a Family Council. While the particular roles and responsibilities of Family Councils vary across…
Client Engagement: How to improve participation to achieve better results
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, September 2012 For more than a decade, lawyers in New York State have been required to have an “engagement” letter signed by each client to whom they provide legal services.…
A View of the Bridge: An enduring Italian landmark offers up lessons for private wealth advisors
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, August 2012 While on vacation recently in Florence, Italy, I took a stroll across the Ponte Vecchio–the aptly named oldest bridge in that city and perhaps one of the most…
Being “Good With Clients”
Four common assumptions to avoid
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, July 2012 As an aspiring lawyer interviewing for an associate position at one of the top law firms in 1991, I received some interesting feedback. Rather than being told that…
Know Your Client?
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Private Wealth Management in 2011 It is hard to discuss private wealth management, especially in the international context, without using the term “KYC’; the acronym for Know Your Client. Since 9/11, and for…
Family Governance Meets Family Dynamics: a Survey and Strategies for Successful Joint Philanthropy
By Patricia M. Angus and Fredda Herz Brown, Ph.D. – Originally published on NCFP Passages in 2007. The Smith family* had been running their foundation for about four years when it hit a roadblock. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, in their…
A Road Map: Choosing Advisors To Help Your Family With Governance and Family Dynamics
By Jane N. Abitanta, Patricia M. Angus, and Fredda Herz Brown – December 7, 2006 General Tips for Your Selection Process 1. Consider this a learning experience having a number of firms and/or individuals to choose from will help your…
The Family Governance Pyramid: From Principles to Practice
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Journal of Wealth Management in 2005 Virtually every family of significant wealth lives within a family governance system, yet few know that this is the case and even fewer know how to…
How to Start on the Path to Long-term Wealth Preservation and Growth
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Private Wealth Management, 2005 Although each family is unique, all wealthy families face the challenges of how to preserve and build wealth over the long-term. Families struggle with managing property that is jointly…
Sharing the Family Vacation Home
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in WealthManagement.com July 2015 Five tips for making frolicking more likely than fighting. Ahh, summer. A time to get away to the family vacation home, kick back, bask in the sun and gather…
Family Governance: A Primer for Philanthropic Families
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on NCFP Passages in 2004. Families who engage in philanthropy together have a unique opportunity to make a positive impact on the world and to share an experience that can enrich their lives…
Maximizing Profits While Minimizing Costs: The Key Legal Issues
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Families in Business, 2003 A family business that is mindful of the need for proper planning, monitoring and maintenance of legal issues will ultimately be more profitable and successful over the long-term.…
Ten Facts Every Trust Beneficiary Should Know
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Private Wealth Management in 2003. After years of working with families to establish trusts, and with individual trust beneficiaries, it has become clear to me that there is a need for better…
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Who We Remember: Every Life Has a Story
“Whose life story from your own family would you most want to have documented on film?” In this moving episode of Who We Remember, host Jamie…
Themes for Family Businesses in 2023:
Uncertainty and digitalization are among the challenges.
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, December 2022 Will 2023 be the year that the pandemic is put behind us? Will…
From Textiles to Multi-generational Wealth: The Shah Family Enterprise
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on Columbia CaseWorks, Spring 2024 What are the factors that drove a family-owned chemical company’s success, and how…
Trust Ownership of Family Businesses:
Planning for the Future
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, February 2024 The scenario is all too common. The founders (or non-founding owners) of a…
Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Family Enterprises in 2024
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, January 2024 The 2023 Academy Awards ceremony was quite a sweep for the film Everything…
Audiobook – The Beneficiary Primer: A Guide for Beneficiaries of Family Trusts
Have you been named as beneficiary of a family trust? Does it feel overwhelming? Are you looking for some practical information to get up to…
Wealth Transfer Between Generations, Primer for Trustees and Beneficiaries
In this episode of the podcast Talking Billions, Patricia talks with Bogumil Baranowski of Sicart Associates, LLC. Together they explore:Trusts: what they are, where they…
Complex Family Enterprise: A new way to describe a growing phenomenon
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, March 2023 Trusts and estates practitioners (for example, lawyers, accountants and investment advisors) take their…
Review of Reviews: “How Should Inheritance Law Remediate Inequality?”
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, November 2022 Inequality—or rather, disparity—of wealth is perhaps the most complex and vexing issue of…
Your Family Business Needs a Board
By Patricia M. Angus, published in Harvard Business Review, September 08, 2022 A board should be at the helm of any family business, steering the business…
Mental Health and Estate Planning
Patricia joins Arden O’Connor of the Beyond the Balance Sheet podcast in a discussion about estate planning with mental health and addiction issues in mind….
In Tax We Trust: Implications of growing societal and client trends
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on WealthManagement.com on February 13, 2022 Most private wealth advisors (including trusts and estates lawyers, accountants and investment…
Virtual Fireside Chat with Leading Family Enterprise and Family Office Experts
The role of family offices in structuring and advising families with regards to liquidity events and family dynamics. Strategies for families to intelligently run and manage the risks associated with private wealth and operating businesses concurrently…
The Family Governance Pyramid: Enhancing and Guiding Your Family Philanthropy
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in NCFP’s Passages July 2021 OVERVIEW Family philanthropy is a very important expression of a family’s commitment to…
Sustainable Growth Drivers for Family Enterprises
This webinar draws from the experiences of different stakeholders, explores how family businesses in Africa have evolved, the challenges faced, and the main drivers behind…
The Purpose and Power of Family Governance
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published as a blogpost for NCFP, June, 2021Excerpt from “Passages Issue Brief: Enhancing Your Family Philanthropy with The Family Governance…
How Should Wealthy Parents Treat Wayward Offspring?
By Emma Jacobs – Originally published in Financial Times on May 26, 2021Giving children too much money, too early, risks indulging them and making them…
Tamarind Learning Podcast: The Beneficiary Primer
In this podcast, Patricia Angus, Managing Director of the Global Family Enterprising Program and Faculty Director of the Enterprising Family Executive Program at Columbia University…
Primer on Family Trust Beneficiaries:
Things to Consider
In this episode of FFI Practitioner‘s weekly podcast, FFI Fellow Patricia Angus discusses her most recent book, The Beneficiary Primer: A Guide for Beneficiaries of Family…
Tamarind Learning Podcast: The Trustee Primer
In this podcast, Patricia Angus, Managing Director of the Global Family Enterprising Program and Faculty Director of the Enterprising Family Executive Program at Columbia University discusses her book, The Trustee Primer, with Kirby Rosplock, PhD, Founder and CEO of Tamarind Partners.