Family Office & Billionaire Report - Empowering Family Dynasties

October 18, 2026, 9:23 AM ET Melinda French Gates shares her mantra for giving feedback. Melinda French Gates shared her secret formula for handling conflict at work. “If I’m unhappy with work you have done, you will hear from me within 48 hours,” French Gates told Bloomberg’s Leaders With Francine Lacqua podcast in March. “I’m not going to tell you right away, because I need time to think it through. | Newsletter “If I’m angry about something [I do this] to calm down,” she added. “That‘s on me.

October 17, 2026, 9:26 AM ET Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, who came from humble beginnings, was always searching for ways to make money. Before you knew him as an investor on Shark Tank, the owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks, or just one of the richest people in the world, Mark Cuban was hustling in unexpected ways. To pay his way through junior year of college at Indiana University in the early 1980s, Cuban set up a “chain letter” in his dorm, he told the San Francisco Standard’s Life in

The trader who called Black Monday in 1987.

“And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his span of life?” —Luke 12:25 A family can build a remarkable fortune and still struggle to feel secure. Its investments may span continents, its advisers may include leading professionals, and its estate arrangements may anticipate many possibl

Ten lessons from Matthew R. Kerzner's new book on family business succession, ranked by importance and explained for family offices and the families they serve.

Wealth gives a family choices. Stewardship gives those choices a purpose.

What Andrew J. DuBrin's Leadership: Research Findings, Practice, and Skills (11th edition) teaches family offices and ultra-high-net-worth families, ranked by importance and checked against the most current data available.

UAE scores a perfect 100 on regime and tax and recorded a 36% rise in family business entities at the DIFC, but a new 33-jurisdiction index finds that what suits the office rarely suits the family

A REVIEW OF FORTUNE, OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2026 · VOL. 194, NO.

Review of Bloomberg Markets - Vol 35 Issue 5,October-November 2026 India’s transformation offers a valuable lesson for wealthy families everywhere: expanding markets create opportunities, but enduring wealth depends on how carefully those opportunities are selected, financed and governed. IThe ranki

REVIEW OF THE ECONOMIST · 10–16 OCTOBER 2026 Ten lessons for family offices and UHNW families from one of the most important issues of the year, ranked by how much they matter to a family's wealth over the next generation. The cover of this week's Economist asks a blunt question: will bonds blow up?

Faith, stewardship, and the responsibility of building a legacy beyond one lifetime St. Ignatius of Antioch offers family offices and ultra-high-net-worth families a demanding lesson: wealth becomes a meaningful legacy when the people responsible for it remain faithful to a purpose greater than poss