Each workstream is scoped to the gaps your office actually has — and each ends in a written deliverable your existing advisors can act on.
Principal retirement-income and longevity planning
Turning a complex balance sheet into a reliable personal paycheck for the principals — sequencing distributions across entities, trusts and accounts so income survives long retirements and down markets.
Deliverable: A principal income map with sourcing order, tax drag noted, and stress-test scenarios.
Insurance and estate-liquidity review
Confirming the estate can actually pay its own bill: coverage adequacy, ownership and beneficiary alignment with the trust structure, and liquidity for estate tax without a forced sale of the business or property.
Deliverable: A liquidity gap estimate and a coverage inventory mapped to the estate documents.
Executive, key-person and buy-sell coordination
Where an operating business anchors the family's wealth, key-person risk, buy-sell funding and executive benefits need to work as one design — not three separate policies written years apart.
Deliverable: A review of buy-sell funding and key-person coverage against current valuations.
Beneficiary and succession coordination with counsel
Only 35% of surveyed family offices report a defined succession plan for the office itself. We coordinate the beneficiary, fiduciary and successor-trustee picture with your attorney so the documents and the accounts tell the same story.5,10
Deliverable: A succession and beneficiary matrix reconciled against the titling of every account.
Outside tax, legal and insurance specialist introductions
34% of family offices plan to rely more on third-party providers to scale. When a gap exceeds internal capacity, we make a vetted introduction and define the specialist's role inside your existing process.9,12,15
Deliverable: A specialist-gap map with named, vetted candidates and a written scope for each.
Family-member education and retirement transitions
Preparing the next generation — and the retiring generation — for the decisions ahead: how the wealth is structured, what each account is for, and what changes when a principal steps back.
Deliverable: A family education agenda and transition timeline the whole household can follow.
Specialist due diligence and role clarification
When five professionals touch the same decision, someone has to confirm who owns what. We document responsibilities, check for overlaps and blind spots, and clarify each engagement.
Deliverable: A responsibility matrix covering every outside firm and internal role.
Risk, healthcare/LTC and business-continuity conversations
43% of family offices have experienced a cyberattack and 31% had no incident-response plan. Long-term care, cyber and continuity risk are reviewed as one exposure, not afterthoughts.7,11
Deliverable: A risk register covering healthcare/LTC funding, cyber posture and continuity triggers.
Philanthropy and charitable-intent coordination
Charitable structures, donor-advised funds and family foundations work best when sequenced with the tax and estate plan — coordinated with the appropriate advisers rather than bolted on.
Deliverable: A giving strategy aligned with the tax picture and the family's stated intent.