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In order to preserve and enhance a legacy, successful families must be armed with a communications strategy that gives visibility to the next generation’s position and involvement in the family business.

More than 50 percent of ‘wealth-originators’ do not trust the next generation to look after the family’s business, wealth, and investments. In the latest version of our monthly newsletter, The Lede, we looked at how families can overcome intergenerational animosity when planning succession.

Effective PR, communications, and media strategies are essential to a smooth succession event in a family business. While financing planning and tax strategies are almost always carefully thought through, public relations and reputation capital is often forgotten or sometimes ignored.

Over recent months, families have had more time to think about succession. In the latest version of our monthly newsletter, The Lede, we looked at why it's essential for families to focus on the communications side of succession planning.

The holders of significant private wealth are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their moral compass, writes Simon Rylatt, a partner at Boodle Hatfield.

Communication is one of the most important factors in managing a successful succession event. We sat down with Lucy Birtwistle, Relationship Manager in Stonehage Fleming's Family Office team, to speak about the challenges families face when thinking about transitions wealth, and business to the next-generation.

Family businesses contribute far too much for them to stay quiet. As anti-wealth sentiment continues to rise, the stakes have never been so high to rebalance the narrative.

Luke Thompson writes about why ultra-high-net-worth families need to get on the front foot to communicate their work in the ESG space.