Consolidated Reporting & Family Office Services

Consolidated Reporting & Family Office Services

This piece will focus on consolidated reporting and technology for managing family wealth. Across every level of wealth, it is important to have continuous insight on the immediate financial picture of the family. As the scale and complexity of wealth increases, so does the need for the ability to observe the totality of the balance sheet. Similar to an air traffic controller, it is imperative that a family office team have the ability to monitor each element of the assets and liabilities of the families they serve.

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Emerging Investment Themes for the Next Decade - Fintech

Emerging Investment Themes for the Next Decade - Fintech

Fintech is the abbreviation of “financial technology” and likely plays a bigger part in your current day-to-day life than you may even know. A company is said to be involved in fintech if it dedicates a significant portion of its operations to developing or offering products that are particularly innovative in the way our current financial system works. As such, these companies have the distinct opportunity to massively disrupt current financial operations and completely change the way these functions are conducted through their technology.

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What is Fintech? The trend towards mobile payments and a cashless economy.

What is Fintech?  The trend towards mobile payments and a cashless economy.

Recently, my wife and I stopped by our local Costco, which was rare for me because I had not stepped foot in a retail store in a while, particularly since the COVID-19 period began. I was surprised at what I saw.

Rather than the social distancing and other COVID-related protocols that the store had implemented, it was the check-out process that intrigued me.

Behind a protective plexiglass shield there was an attendant who used a scanning device for all steps in the checkout process - including scanning through the plexiglass our credit card which was displayed on my wife’s mobile phone.

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