Family Office

By Rick Durfee
Family Office

The Family Office The “Family Office” is a tool that has long been used by the “ultra-wealthy.”  It’s primary function is to consolidate control of family wealth.  Such control is, by its nature, necessarily a business activity.  In other words, the Family Office runs the business of managing the family wealth.  In today’s world, the…

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Family Councils: The Prosperity Key

By Rick Durfee
Family Councils: The Prosperity Key

The Durfee Family Council in this sketch could have been based on actual Family Councils my family has held.  Its charts, tripods, business agenda, candid performance reviews, bad news delivery, weird humor, conflict resolution, and parental double teaming are very familiar to my children.  It is no accident that it is about a “Durfee” Family meeting.  Of all…

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