The Book of Proverbs treats cosigning—called surety, striking hands, or becoming responsible for another person’s debt—as a serious transfer of risk. The central warning is not merely that the borrower may fail.

Saint Henry II offers an unusually powerful model for family offices and ultra-high-net-worth families because his life unites inherited privilege, executive authority, marital partnership, public responsibility, spiritual discipline, and legacy without direct descendants. Born into European nobilit

“When you pray, you only have to ask for two things: You should ask for the light to see the will of God, and you have to ask for the courage to be able to do the will of God.” — Venerable Msgr.

"Avoid worrying, then, about anything else for your children except whatever may contribute to bringing them up virtuously. For the rest, having entrusted them to God, try to see what His will for them is, to help them along the path in life He has chosen for them.

In a family office, collaboration is often treated as visible activity. Meetings fill the calendar.

Not Something to Check Off a To-Do List This week’s blog comes from the combined inspiration of a couple of posts I came across on my favourite social platform over the past few weeks. As I consider their authors, it strikes me that one is from a man and the other from a woman, one […]

New data shows a stark divide in values-driven investing across wealth channels.

The Four Seasons Costa Merlata complex was approved for Ostuni, near Brindisi. Hands off our land, locals say

The Berkshire Hathaway legend once got rejected by Harvard Business School. That “failure” led him to the mentor who changed his life. Jul 6, 2026 Warren Buffett. Illustration: Inc.; Failure has become one of those business words people like to dress up in inspirational wallpaper. We write about it on Inc., slap it on keynote slides, call it “learning,” and pretend every setback is secretly a TED Talk waiting to happen. Let’s be honest. Failure usually feels awful. One of my biggest failures —

A cash hoard, a patient CEO, and a market not worth chasing yet.

From AI to homebuilding, here's what Berkshire Hathaway's new CEO is buying, and how it might signal the firm’s future strategy.

If you have a high net worth, you need the kind of estate planning that navigates complex tax landscapes to ensure you pass on the maximum amount of wealth.

The British Overseas Territory is considered an attractive location for high net worth people due to its low personal taxes. There is also no inheritance tax or capital gains tax.

Family Offices Are Shifting From Investment Platforms To Governance InstitutionsThe Wealth Advisor Contributor

July 10, 2026, 3:27 PM ET It's a hot IPO summer, and that means a whole new class of liquidity kids with ultra high net worths. With SpaceX trading around $2 trillion, Anthropic raising at a $965 billion post-money valuation, and OpenAI is expected to follow, we’re in for a hot IPO summer. Add in a steady stream of smaller offerings—from Jersey Mike’s to Bending Spoons—and wealth advisors are bracing for a fairly compressed window in which employees who joined these companies on modest salaries

Phoebe Gates' "Phia" tool is supposed to help shoppers find discount codes for purchases, but it seems the 23-year-old was the one really cashing in.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is the richest person in the world, with a net worth of $1.05 trillion. After Musk is Larry Page, co-founder of Alphabet (Google). Other billionaires with some of the largest net worths include LVMH’s Arnault, Amazon’s Bezos, and Meta’s Zuckerberg.

You wouldn't think of tech and fast food mixing, but one prominent billionaire has diversified into growing potatoes — earning him an exclusive Gold Card.