Wealth Manager Web January 2009
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MANAGING RISK
Today's family offices handle an increasingly large volume of wealth. Too often, the management structures and procedures for overseeing a family's assets fail to keep...
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FIRMWIDE RISK: MULTI-FAMILY OFFICES
Although families and single-family offices certainly need to be aware of their risks--and how to mitigate them--the firm-wide risks of multi-family offices may be even...
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MARK IT TO MARKET
Global equity markets lurch in waves of volatility. Banks are loathe to lend, withholding the lubricant that makes economies function. At the epicenter of the...
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MEASURING THE IMMEASURABLE
In an interview on November 21, legendary investor Jeremy Grantham, chairman and co-founder of GMO, declared that, "It's a nicely cheap market, but bear in...
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THE NEXT CHAPTER
Barack Obama's historic victory last month proved that the American people are ready for a new era in government. Limited disclosure is now pass?. More...
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A GLIMPSE INTO THE MIND OF OBAMA
Depending on your political preferences, you may be depressed or delighted with the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States....
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PROFESSIONAL GROUPS UNITE
"Exploratory meetings" are underway between the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Financial Planning Association and National Association of Personal Financial Advisors to establish "appropriate...
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SKINNY-DIPPING
Warren Buffett says that "it's only when the tide goes out that you get to see who has been swimming with their trunks off." Well,...
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BY THE NUMBERS
What do we know about wealthy individuals and their charitable inclinations? Quite a bit, actually, and perhaps far more than is generally recognized. But much...
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FLEXIBLE AND SRI
With credit markets in disarray, intermediate-term bond funds have slumped. During the first 10 months of 2008, the funds lost 8.4%--a particularly disappointing performance because...
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THE REPUTATION FACTOR
Reputation counts for much in money management--nowhere more so than in the hedge fund industry. Everyone understands this, although exactly how reputation influences investing strategies...
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IMPAIRED RISK ADVOCACY
The current state of the financial markets has forced high-net-worth clients and their advisors to scrutinize their wealth protection strategies. As a result, many advisors...
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MUNIS TO THE RESCUE
As the economic turmoil of the third quarter continued into the fourth, the domestic equity markets produced one of the worst 12-month periods in decades....
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TO THE EDITOR
As we close the books on a tumultuous year, it's hard to predict what lies ahead. A new president, changing economic conditions, major industry evolution--the...
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RISK MANAGEMENT REDUX
True learning only comes through pain, Aristotle observed. If that's the case, investors endured one heck of an education last year. The source of their...
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BALANCING ACT
The vintage scales displayed in the conference room of Focus Financial Partners' midtown Manhattan offices are not the only collection CEO Rudy Adolf has his...
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DEDUCTING WHAT COMES NATURALLY
Every year natural disasters like hurricanes strike repeatedly, affecting tens of thousands of Americans. Fortunately, individuals whose homes, household goods and other properties are damaged...
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A SILVER LINING
There are times when--even for the highest-net-worth clients--wealth transfer becomes secondary to the issue of wealth preservation. Clearly, this is one of those times! The...
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CAREERS IN TIMES OF RECESSION
As much energy and empathy as we are all spending on our clients, we may be overlooking another group of stakeholders whose portfolios have been...
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