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.

We hope you’ve been enjoying the articles published in FFI Practitioner so far this year. This week, we’re pleased to share the most popular editions from the second quarter of 2024!

Thank you to co-authors William Kambas and Linda Meade for this week’s FFI Practitioner, which begins a periodic series of editions dedicated to topics related to private trust companies.

In this week’s FFI Practitioner, FFI Asian Circle Virtual Study Group member Aik-Ping Ng discusses how family enterprise advisors can use the Enneagram, a personality assessment tool, to help guide their clients through conflict and improve communication.

Thank you to Doutzen Groothof and Don Opatrny for this week’s edition of FFI Practitioner. Doutzen and Don recently traveled to Japan, and this journey gave them a renewed appreciation for the power of curiosity, both in family advisory practice and beyond.

FFI Practitioner is pleased to feature a podcast conversation with Sasha Lund, Jessica McGawley, and Larisa Miller, discussing a recently published Special Report from Globe Law and Business publisher: The Rising Role of Women in Family Offices and Family Businesses.

Continuing our curated editions this year, we have asked FFI GEN faculty members to choose their favorite articles or podcasts for our “Articles and Podcasts We Love” series.

In this week’s edition of FFI Practitioner, Matthew Erskine explores how the principles of disaster theory can be adapted for single-family offices.