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Investors Pursue Unconventional Real Estate Assets
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Nov 12- 16. 2018
Family offices and institutional investors are increasingly making contrarian bets on unconventional real estate assets. Mobile home parks, billboards and forestland are all experiencing a growing flow of private and institutional capital. ...
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Increasing Global Regs Mean Higher Compliance Costs for Family Offices
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Oct 08- 12. 2018
An increasing global regulatory burden is leading to higher compliance costs for some family offices.The cost of wealth management has been steadily rising over the past few years, as governments demand more transparency and tighter controls on the financial services industry. The wealth management industry faces a cost of £4.5 billion ($5.9 billion) in the U.K. alone, much of which can be attributed to complying with added regulations, according...
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More Next-Gen Women Taking the Lead in Family Businesses
- Succession Planning
- Trends
In 2013, attendees at the Reliance Industries annual general meeting in Mumbai were stunned when a 21-year-old woman took the stage alongside the company’s leadership team. Isha Ambani was joining h...
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Selling the Family Business: Letting Go While Preserving a Legacy
“I’ve worked in the company for the last 42 years. And I never until this year even imagined the possibility that we might think about selling.” That’s what Don Graham, the head of the legenda...
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Facing Argentina’s Currency Crisis: Q&A with Praxis’ Diego Ros Rooney
- Investments
- Latin America
After an economic boom in 2017, Argentina’s currency has spent much of this year plummeting. The peso has lost nearly 54% of its value against the U.S. dollar (USD) since the start of the year.Nervous about the economy...
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Q&A With India’s Impact Investment Pioneer: Avishkaar’s Vineet Rai
Vineet Rai set up what is widely considered to be India’s first social impact investment fund in 2001. What started as a micro-fund management company with approximately $60,000 has grown to nearly $300 million. Rai’...
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Investment Trends : October 2018

MarketCurrents’ second annual investment trends report brings you the highlights of an invite-only summit which gather...
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Emerging Markets : September 2018

The phenomenal growth of private wealth in emerging markets in the last few decades shows no sign of slowing down. No...
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