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Succession

Why blocking next-gen succession in the Gulf is a zero-sum game

September 11, 2019

The coming decade will see a transition event hit a majority of family businesses in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. This may represent a change of hands of business assets in excess of $1 trillion, according to the Family Business Council—Gulf.

In this context, family businesses in the region appear to be seeing decreasing levels of management or operational involvement by the next generation.

David Koch and Ferdinand Piech: A tale of two successions

August 30, 2019

Controversial family business titans David Koch and Ferdinand Piech, who died within days of each other, shaped the era they lived in, but their approach to succession was very different.

Controversial family business titans David Koch and Ferdinand Piech, who died within days of each other, shaped the era they lived in, but their approach to succession was very different.

New millennial family chair Jaimie Mayer calls for succession mentoring, accountability, impact investing

August 13, 2019

The first fourth-generation family member to chair the Nathan Cummings Foundation says the next generation should not be seen as a “threat” by family principals and urges more entities to mentor their next gens shoulder to shoulder.

How families can attract millennials into their succession planning

August 1, 2019

Millennials take a communal approach to engage friends, family and colleagues to address the social issues they care about—an approach family principals could adopt as they look to bring their next gens into the fold.

Passing the Vanderbilt test: How to preserve your family wealth

June 24, 2019

Most families fight a losing battle to sustain wealth past their third generation. Alison Ebbage asks four experts what families can do to avoid becoming another statistic

The Gilded Age was a defining period of massive economic growth in the United States during the late 19th century. It fuelled a period of extraordinary wealth generation for some of the young nation’s wealthiest families, a period that was tinged with the darker shadow of inequality.

Getting fit for the future: Prioritising cybersecurity, investment and succession

June 3, 2019

As operating environments become increasingly competitive and complex, the family office of the future will need to become savvier about their investment strategies while tackling challenges such as cybersecurity and succession, experts say. The ones that do not risk sleepwalking into disaster.

Early in 2019, a 20-year-old German man admitted to police that he was behind one of the country’s biggest data breaches where hundreds of documents containing private information of a thousand public figures were leaked online.

Employee ownership offers alternative for family business successions

May 16, 2019

Business principals looking to secure their legacy, but missing a family successor, could take inspiration from the founder of Richer Sounds who is transferring the bulk of his shares worth $4.4 million into an Employee Ownership Trust.

Latin American economies at risk when families fail to plan succession

March 21, 2019

Latin American family businesses must create value and thrive for the economic well-being of their home countries, but succession planning is the most common reason why family firms fail.

Latin American family businesses must create value and thrive for the economic well-being of their home countries, but succession planning is the most common reason why family firms fail.

Ladies first: How daughters are playing the succession game

February 26, 2019

Succession is one of the most widely-discussed issues in the family business realm, but it is still relatively newsworthy when a daughter—rather than a son—takes the reins. Alexandra Newlove explores the upsurge in women inheriting ownership and management

For more than half a century, 80-year-old Marchese Piero Antinori has been a driving force behind one of the world’s oldest family businesses—Italy’s Marchesi Antinori.

But the 26-generation wine dynasty nearly slipped out of family control in the 1980s, partly due to the fact that the Marchese had three daughters and no sons, and thus assumed he had no successor.

Irish family businesses alert to Brexit, succession and cybercrime

January 30, 2019

Slowing growth with Brexit as the obstacle, loose succession planning and the rise of cybercrime are the challenges keeping Irish family business leaders awake at night, according to research.

Slowing growth with Brexit as the obstacle, loose succession planning and the rise of cybercrime are the challenges keeping Irish family business leaders awake at night, according to research.

However, Ireland performed slightly better than global counterparts on particular areas of diversity. A quarter (25%) of Irish family business board members were female compared to 21% global and 28% of Irish family management teams were women, PwC’s 2019 Irish Family Business Survey discovered.