Zed Ayesh's 2026 book on Gulf family enterprise, ranked by ten most important lessons for family offices and ultra-high-net-worth families, and checked its numbers against today's data. What is this book, and why does it matter to a family office? Why GCC Family Businesses Fail: The Hidden Governanc

What a Calabrian family that has outlasted kingdoms, world wars and financial crises can teach today's family offices about keeping wealth, values and unity alive for seven generations and beyond. HENOKIENS PORTRAIT SERIES · AMARELLI, EST.

The most valuable lesson St. Narcissus offers wealthy families is that authority is a responsibility to serve, and legacy depends on what continues after personal control ends.

Ten lessons for family offices and UHNW families from Family Business Dynamics in Unpredictable Contexts (De Gruyter, 2026) Most books about family wealth are written for calm weather. This one was written for storms.

Every family office faces the same question each morning: what changed, and does it matter for a portfolio built to last generations? This edition of The Market Insight Report reads S&P Global's Essential Intelligence for October 29, 2026 and turns it into plain language. Three stories stand out.

Family businesses rarely collapse because the product stops selling. They collapse at the handoff, in a divorce, or in a courtroom between siblings.

Japan is home to the world's longest-lived family enterprises, including a hot-spring inn founded in 705 and a temple builder founded in 578. A 2024 study from Germany's Witten Institute for Family Business explains how they did it.

What Sandro Boscaini's history of Masi teaches family offices and ultra-high-net-worth families about structure, succession, outside capital, pricing power and purpose, with every figure checked against 2025–2026 data. In the autumn of 1772, a young man named Giobatta Boscaini picked grapes on a sun

October 24, 2026, 9:21 AM ET Jeff Bezos offers advice on how to handle stress. When life feels chaotic and unmanageable, it often feels easier to just procrastinate or ignore snowballing problems. But one of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world says that’s not the real cure for anxiety and stress. “I find if I’m stressed about something it’s usually because I’m not doing anything about it,” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said in 2017 during a visit to the Museum of Flight in Seattle

Her 48-hour rule balances candor with restraint, offering a practical model for difficult conversations at work. Oct 21, 2026 Melinda Gates. Melinda French Gate’s approach to a gentle but firm feedback style highlights the struggle faced by women in leadership roles to handle conflict with employees. In an interview on the Bloomberg podcast Leaders with Francine Lacqua earlier this year, French Gates said that she is unhappy with an employee, she will always give constructive feedback within 48

In an exclusive interview with The Observer, the Microsoft founder says ‘robots will drive wholesale labour disruption – and billionaires should pay more tax

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Steve Ballmer, banished from the NBA for bad behavior, was pushed out as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO in 2014 and is the world’s 7th-richest person, with a net worth of $186 billion.

The Microsoft co-founder says AI could bring abundance, but not before "a lot of disruption."

Today, I’m talking to Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation.

As investor anxiety over an artificial intelligence bubble mounts, SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang have offered starkly divergent outlooks on whether the specialist cloud providers powering the boom can survive their mounting debts. While…

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When you build a strong foundation on solid profits, the growth of your company can snowball.

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October 24, 2026, 9:24 AM ET Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon and Cathy Baron-Tamraz attend A Book Party For Tap Dancing To Work: Warren Buffett On Practically Everything, 1966-2012 By Carol Loomis at The Lambs Club on November 26, 2012 in New York City. Jamie Dimon poached a senior figure from Warren Buffett’s inner circle, and the legendary investor was surprisingly OK with it. The longtime JPMorgan Chase CEO hired former Geico CEO Todd Combs away from Berkshire Hathaway in December 2025, hand-

Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio’s five largest positions are in Apple Inc. (AAPL), American Express Company (AXP), Bank of America Corp (BAC), The Coca-Cola Company (KO), and Chevron (CVX).

October 28, 2026, 3:05 AM ET Mark Cuban is now worth an estimated $10.6 billion. When Mark Cuban became a millionaire, his first move wasn’t to buy something luxurious. It was to get rid of something. “The day I sold MicroSolutions, I took off my watch and I said, ‘I’m never going to wear a watch again because that means I’m working on somebody else’s time,’” Cuban said on a recent episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. He made about $2 million from selling that software