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The Monaco Yacht Show, taking place September 27-30, 2023, is the world's most prestigious yachting event, attracting primarily high-net-worth individuals and yacht owners. Held in Monaco's stunning Port Hercule, this annual event showcases the latest and most luxurious yachts and offers a range of exciting experiences and networking opportunities.
The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Reports provide comprehensive analyses of the state of the global art market over the past few years. In this article, we explore key findings from these reports, shedding light on the growth of the art market, the performance of different markets, the role of online sales, and the influence of women artists and collectors.
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Paris attracts the ultra-wealthy as a global hub for luxury, investment, and culture. This article explores how La Ville Lumière evolves into a luxurious lifestyle and wise investment as it provides a lavish lifestyle as well as a variety of financial opportunities.
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Family offices were built to endure, not to expand without limit. Their strength has always come from clarity: knowing how capital is structured, why decisions were made and who carries responsibility forward. For decades that clarity emerged naturally. Teams stayed small. Structures stayed understandable. Decisions remained close to memory. Today wealth is scaling faster than that inherited model can absorb, and complexity is accelerating beyond the reach of informal understanding. The real risk is not volatility. It is losing sight of the structure that holds everything together.
Most family offices believe they are preparing the next generation. The evidence suggests they are doing something considerably more modest: including heirs in governance without equipping them to participate in it. The distinction matters because presence and preparation are not the same thing, and the gap between them is where succession risk accumulates.
Family offices take measuring investment performance seriously. From benchmarks to fee tracking, the infrastructure for investment measurement is continuous, detailed, and increasingly automated. Apply that same question to governance — how effective is your board, your family council, your oversight function? — and the answer is different. The structures may exist, but the measurement often does not.
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The defining question in Swiss wealth management is not whether artificial intelligence will replace the advisor. The more important issue is whether the information environment is coherent enough for productivity gains to hold in practice. AI has attracted attention because it promises speed, efficiency and automation. The real test is whether information across banks, entities, asset classes and documents can be brought into a form that is visible, current and usable in day-to-day work.
