Thank you to FFI Fellow Rocki-Lee DeWitt for this précis of a December 2024 FBR article entitled “Why and How Do Family Firms Go Public? A Socioemotional Wealth Perspective of IPO.” This précis is the third in the 2025 FBR précis series.

Thanks to Paul Edelman and Julia Chu from the Mediation Virtual Study Group for this article describing how mediation, in addition to being a tool for resolving conflict in family enterprise, can also be used as a proactive governance strategy, particularly in the context of long-term investment decision-making.

Thank you to this week’s contributor, FFI Fellow Sajjad Hamid, discussing how the use of digital newsletters can help advisors increase their skills in today’s communication environment.

FFI Practitioner is pleased to feature a podcast conversation with Mary Duke, Aik-Ping Ng, and Peter Vogel about the future of family offices worldwide.

Thank you to Guillermo Salazar, Ritu Julka, and Maria Milanetti from the Systems Thinking Virtual Study Group for this week’s edition.

Thank you to Kristen Heaney and Stephan Lindenthal for this week’s FFI Practitioner discussing peer learning programs as a resource for advisors working with the rising generation.

FFI Practitioner is pleased to feature a podcast conversation with Dr. Kris Verburgh, who presented the keynote at the 2019 Global Conference.

This week, we’re pleased to share the most popular editions from the second quarter of 2025! We hope you’ve been enjoying the issues published in FFI Practitioner so far this year.

In this week’s FFI Practitioner, FFI Asian Circle Virtual Study Group members Laurent Roux and Kimberly Go discuss embedded family offices—what they are, how they became prevalent among Asian enterprise families, and their risks.

Thanks to William J. Kambas and Linda B. Meade for this article, the second of a periodic series of issues dedicated to topics related to private trust companies.

The second part of this two-part series by FFI Fellow James E. Hughes, Jr., and Keith Whitaker, commissioned by the James E. Hughes, Jr. Foundation, picks up where Part I ends.

Thank you to FFI Fellow James E. Hughes, Jr., and Keith Whitaker for this two-part article series, commissioned by the James E. Hughes, Jr. Foundation.