Wealth of Wisdom: The Top 50 Questions Wealthy Families Ask, Hardcover

Description

A critical resource for families managing significant wealth

Wealth of Wisdom offers essential guidance and tools to help high-net-worth families successfully manage significant wealth. By compiling the 50 most common questions surrounding protection and growth, this book provides a compendium of knowledge from experts around the globe and across disciplines. Deep insight and thoughtful answers put an end to uncertainty, and help lay to rest the issues you have been wrestling with for years; by divulging central lessons and explaining practical actions you can take today, this book gives you the critical information you need to make more informed decisions about your financial legacy. Vital charts, graphics, questionnaires, worksheets and other tools help you get organised, develop a strategy and take real control of your family's wealth, while case studies show how other families have handled the very dilemmas you may be facing today.

Managing significant wealth is a complex affair, and navigating the financial world at that level involves making decisions that can have major ramifications -- these are not decisions to make lightly. This book equips you to take positive action, be proactive and make the tough decisions to protect and grow your family's wealth.

• Ensure your personal and financial success and legacy
• Access insight and data from leading experts
• Adopt the most useful tools and strategies for wealth management
• Learn how other families have successfully navigated common dilemmas

When your family's wealth is at stake, knowledge is critical -- and uncertainty can be dangerous. Drawn from interactions with hundreds ofwealthy individuals and families, Wealth of Wisdom provides a definitive resource of practical solutions from the world's best financial minds.

About the author

TOM MCCULLOUGH is Chairman and CEO of Northwood Family Office, a multi-family office which serves the comprehensive financial needs of families of significant net worth. Northwood was founded in 2003 and has quickly risen to prominence as an international leader in its field. Tom has spent over 30 years in the field of family wealth management and is also an adjunct professor of Private Wealth Management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, and co-author of Family Wealth Management (Wiley, 2013).

DR. KEITH WHITAKER is President of Wise Counsel Research, a think tank and consultancy focused on families with significant wealth. He served as Managing Director at Wells Fargo Family Wealth and currently serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Scholars. For many years, Keith has helped enterprising families develop their rising generation, organize their estates, and plan leadership transitions.