Nanotechnology holds great promise and is hyped by many as the next industrial evolution.
Medicine, food and cosmetics, agriculture and environmental health, and technology …

Single family offices (SFOs) manage trillions of dollars worldwide. The enormous value of
assets under management highlights their key role as a cohesive wealth management tool …

The chapter discusses the contemporary and emerging socio-cultural mechanisms through
which dynastic business families reproduce themselves as units of wealth accumulation in …

This article discusses the Family Office (FO) theme and describes how this organization
promotes financial education for future heirs of Brazilian business families. FO is an …

During the past 4 years of my dissertation process, I have acquired valuable understanding
of the impact of international research initiatives on global advancement. My dissertation …

The present dissertation is the result of my research endeavors as a scholar at the
Management Chair of the University of Trier. The journey of completing the dissertation was …

vi Preface advisor. I discuss this phenomenon in Chap. 2—“How Families get Rich (and Why
It Matters to You).” One issue I often encounter is advisors who have worked with mass …

Although the practical importance of family office is rising to sustain the dynastic wealth of
business families, there is comparatively little academic research on such phenomena. In …

for family enterprises once they reach a certain size in terms of wealth. 5. Multi-FO: a Single
FO may evolve into a Multi-FO where it expands to provide FO services to unrelated family …

In the family office industry, there'sa common saying:“If you have seen one family office, you
have seen one family office.” While this statement should not undermine efforts to identify …