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One in six family offices lack succession plans

September 22, 2017

More than a sixth of family offices managing on average close to $1 billion of assets have no plan for generational transfer, while only a third of offices have written succession plans.

More than a sixth of family offices managing on average close to $1 billion of assets have no plan for generational transfer, while only a third of offices have written succession plans.

The newly-released Global Family Office Report 2017 (GFOR) found while family office succession planning has increased in the past year, with nearly half of family offices (47.3%) having a succession plan, either written (33%) or verbally agreed (15%, a fifth had no plan or did not know if a plan existed.

Daaboul Industrial Group: Governance and leadership in the Middle East

April 14, 2016

Daaboul Industrial Groupstarted as a family business in Syria and is now one of the largest aluminum producers in the Middle East. In the first of a four-part series of case studies, Zita Nikoletta Verbenyi reports on three governance challenges overcome by the Daaboul family.

Peer-to-peer lending, family offices dialing up on risk, and big bets on gold: Top 10 stories of 2015

December 23, 2015

Peer-to-peer lending, family offices dialling up on risk, and big bets on gold– these were just some of the themes that kept CampdenFB readers hooked during 2015. What were the most read news stories on CampdenFB in 2015? The results may surprise you.

1) Luxembourg based family office launched P2P-focused asset manager

Ferrero's folly?

January 20, 2010

We can only speculate as to the real reasons the Ferrero family abandoned its consortium bid for the UK’s Cadbury for at least the second time in a decade, write Ben Harper and Shonali Sashikant of Peter Leach LLP

We can only speculate as to the real reasons the Ferrero family abandoned its consortium bid for the UK's Cadbury for at least the second time in a decade, write Ben Harper and Shonali Sashikant.

The proud third-generation Italian business, with a turnover of €6.2 billion and a string of industry awards to its name, recently shocked the business community with its sudden withdrawal in the high profile battle against, amongst others, the US goliath Kraft.