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.

Thank you to Vern Glaser, Jennifer Sloan, and Matt Knight for this week’s FFI Practitioner article about intelligently implementing AI in a family enterprise, with strategies for both family enterprise advisors and their client families.

This issue is the second in our series of “Articles We Love,” curated by GEN faculty members. This week Natalie McVeigh, GEN 201 Faculty member and FFI Fellow, has chosen the articles.

Thank you to Peter Jaskiewicz, James G. Combs, Klaus Uhlenbruck, Amlan Datta, and Katrina Barclay for this week’s FFI Practioner issue, a commentary on their research about the effect of family board involvement on family firms.

Thank you to Susan Kaye and Jack Troast, from the FFI Mediation Virtual Study Group, for this week’s FFI Practitioner issue.

As with the April 16 FFI Practitioner issue, today’s article is a conversation starter in which Emily Bouchard and Charles Feltman use a model and a case to open conversations that can repair conflicts and build trust among client families.

FFI Practitioner is pleased to feature a podcast conversation with Sir Andrew Likierman, 2025 recipient of the 2086 Society’s FFI Scholar-in-Residence grant.

Periodically in FFI Practitioner, we include articles that are “conversation starters” for family enterprise advisors to use with their clients.

Thank you to Claudia Binz Astrachan for this précis of the FBR article “Do Family Owners Hold Nonfamily CEOs More Accountable Than Family CEOs for Firm Performance? A Dynamic Perspective,” from the September 2024 issue.

Thank you to Dennis Oteng, member of the 2025 Conference Program Committee, for this article about the 360 Legacy Wheel, a model that can help client families consider which resources to share outside of the family and which to protect within the family.