Private Family Office Funnel

The nine workstreams a family office should never leave uncoordinated.

Investment process is rarely the gap. The gaps live between the advisors — income, liquidity, succession, risk and the next generation. Walk the nine workstreams, see which are live for your family, then book a confidential coordination call.

The nine workstreams

Each workstream is scoped to the gaps your office actually has — and each ends in a written deliverable your existing advisors can act on.

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

04

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.

05

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.

06

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.

07

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.

08

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.

09

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.

How the review works

01

Request the coordination call

A confidential 30–45 minute conversation with a Senior Retirement Expert. No product presentation — just a read on which workstreams are live for your family.

02

Map the gaps

We walk the nine workstreams against your current advisors and documents, and identify where specialist capacity would actually change the outcome.

03

Scope only what's missing

You receive a responsibility matrix and next-step workstream plan. If a gap is better handled by someone already engaged, we will say so.

  • Confidential — nothing is shared outside the engagement
  • Integrates with your attorney, CPA and custodian — never replaces them
  • Written deliverables for every workstream in scope
  • If a gap is already covered, we will say so

Booking

Book your family office coordination call.

Thirty to forty-five minutes with a Senior Retirement Expert. Bring the picture as it stands — we'll map it against the nine workstreams and tell you plainly where the gaps are.

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Common questions

What are the nine family office workstreams?
Principal retirement-income and longevity planning; insurance and estate-liquidity review; executive, key-person and buy-sell coordination; beneficiary and succession coordination with counsel; outside tax, legal and insurance specialist introductions; family-member education and retirement transitions; specialist due diligence and role clarification; risk, healthcare/LTC and business-continuity conversations; and coordination around philanthropy and charitable intent.
Does My IRA Hero replace our family office or current advisors?
No. The workstreams are scoped to the gaps the office actually has. My IRA Hero provides targeted external capacity — identifying the issue, matching the relevant specialist, and integrating them with the professionals already serving the family.
What happens on the coordination call?
A confidential 30–45 minute conversation with a Senior Retirement Expert to map which of the nine workstreams are live priorities, which are already covered, and where specialist capacity would help. No product presentation.
Who is this for?
Principals, spouses and family-office executives of private wealth households — especially those approaching succession, a liquidity event, a principal's retirement transition, or a review of outside vendors and specialists.

My IRA Hero facilitates education, specialist matching and coordination. It is not your attorney, CPA, custodian, bank or investment adviser unless a specific affiliated professional or entity is separately identified as holding that role. Insurance and annuity recommendations are made through appropriately licensed insurance professionals and remain subject to state availability, suitability and best-interest requirements, carrier approval and contract terms. Tax, legal, securities and investment-advisory services come from the qualified or registered professionals responsible for them.

Source notes

Superscript numbers in the copy above correspond to the claim sources below. Third-party research is cited as published; figures reflect the surveys named and are not statements about My IRA Hero clients.

  1. 5. UBS, Global Family Office Report 2026 — official release, May 28, 2026. Only 35% of surveyed family offices had a defined succession plan for the family office itself, and 27% had an organized process to educate or prepare the next generation for future roles. UBS surveyed 307 family offices across 30+ markets with average family net worth of about USD 2.7 billion. Open primary source
  2. 7. Deloitte Private, The Family Office Cybersecurity Report 2024. 43% had experienced a cyberattack, 31% had no incident-response plan and only 26% described their plan as robust. Open primary source
  3. 9. Deloitte Private, Family Office Insights Series — Global Edition. 34% planned to rely more on third-party service providers to scale initiatives and gain added expertise. Open primary source
  4. 10. UBS, Global Family Office Report 2026. Claim source for the 35% succession-plan and 27% next-generation preparation statistics used in the research section. Open primary source
  5. 11. Deloitte Private, The Family Office Cybersecurity Report 2024. Claim source for the 43% cyberattack, 31% no incident-response plan and 26% robust-plan statistics. Open primary source
  6. 12. Deloitte Private, Family Office Insights Series — Global Edition. Claim source for the 34% third-party-provider, 41% succession-plan gap and 30% next-generation preparedness statistics. Open primary source
  7. 15. Deloitte Private, Family Office Insights Series — Global Edition. Outsourcing, succession, next-generation preparedness, technology and cyber-risk gaps. Open primary source

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