estate planning

Barriers to multi-generational wealth

The barriers to making wealth multi-generational

It’s one of the great cautionary tales in financial history. For accountants and wealth managers, it is equal parts baffling and unsurprising. How one of the United States’ greatest industrial families squandered an immense fortune estimated at around $140 billion in today’s dollars (but potentially much more) is difficult to fathom. But the Vanderbilt story […]

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Business succession: Do your kids really want to take over the family company?

Looking to transition your business to the next generation so you can enjoy retirement, or simply because you’ve decided that it’s time to hang up the entrepreneurial reins? You may want to take some lessons from the popular HBO series Succession to ensure things don’t go seriously awry, creating irreparable family rifts—and even loss of

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