A family office’s ability to recognize talent is part of its ability to protect wealth. The people entrusted with a family’s affairs influence investment decisions, confidential relationships, governance, and the preparation of future generations.

By linking himself so closely to Musk's rockets, Trump risks damaging a once world-leading space agency

Musk first hit trillionaire status briefly in June.

Updated Oct 5, 2026, 6:09 PM GMT Sam Altman says you need to accept some level of drama if you want him and Elon Musk to work together. "I think once in a while you've got to punch a bully back in the nose," Altman told Vanity Fair during a wide-ranging interview. "And I also think Elon, like many bullies, only respects people who do." Altman and Musk had a famous falling-out that has since been recounted and is at the center of multiple legal battles. Their drama, which is far from the only

September 28, 2026, 10:57 AM ET Tesla CEO Elon Musk says humanoid robots will usher in an “age of abundance”—and advises young people to embrace broad learning to better work with AI. Elon Musk’s net worth has increased by some $300 billion this year alone—more than the second-richest person, Larry Page, even has to his name. But money itself may soon be a worry of the past, Musk says, thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence and robotics. “My prediction is that there will be effectively

Buffett’s snowball metaphor shows how small, steady gains build wealth, skills, and relationships over time. Reinvesting earnings fueled Berkshire’s long-term compounding, with the company paying only one dividend in 60 years.

October 4, 2026, 9:24 AM ET Warren Buffett filed his first tax return at age 14. Warren Buffett, who is worth $142 billion today and was once the richest man in the world, started out making mere pennies as a teenage paperboy. The Oracle of Omaha filed his very first tax return in 1944 when he was just 14 years old for his earnings delivering newspapers in Washington, D.C. He owed only $7 in federal taxes, according to the two-page tax filing he shared with PBS News Hour in 2017. This content

Tech Billionaires Made $845 Billion This Year. Everyone Else On The Rich List Lost Money.The Wealth Advisor Contributor

Money and assets moved out of UK as tax rises take toll on wealthy

A ranked, in-depth review of Hughes, Massenzio and Whitaker’s Complete Family Wealth: Wealth as Well-Being (Second Edition, Wiley, 2022), written for family offices and ultra-high-net-worth families and checked against the market as it stands in October 2026. Every family office knows the old prover

A family office review of Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac, The Gender of Capital (Harvard University Press, 2023) The law promises daughters and sons, wives and husbands, equal rights. Twenty years of fieldwork show how the business, the house and the land still drift toward men, and why the stew

The wealthy merchant’s son who embraced poverty presents a searching question for every family of substantial means: What should wealth make possible—and what should it never be allowed to control? St. Francis of Assisi offers family offices and ultra-high-net-worth families a demanding perspective

“Start by doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Commonly attributed to St.

"Furthermore, let us produce worthy fruits of penance. Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves.

Rebel royals are up in arms against the de facto head of the principality’s ruling family over reforms that threaten to erode their wealth and power. Jane Lewis reports