Maurice Smith is a business journalist with 20 years' experience in newspapers and broadcasting. He is the author of Great Scots Families in Business.
Increasingly, family business members expect a far more specialist knowledge in asset management from their advisors and it is up to the potentional advisors to be able to supply relevant and informed advice, taking into account their client's individual needs
A successful British business-owning family decides to sell out to an American rival, after months of deliberation.