The Key To Family Business Success
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Understanding Family Business brings you articles and tips from Family Business Experts who understand family values and business systems.

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Understanding Family Business

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Family Wealth Management...
Teaching the Next Generation

Family wealth management is critically important - family-owned businesses are the economic engines that drive America’s and many other nation's prosperity. Many generational family businesses are “rags to riches” stories – the success stories of which dreams are made.

It is estimated by family wealth management experts that $41 trillion of private wealth will be transferred from one generation to another over the next 40 years. Yet, a survey of families of significant wealth done by a wealth management company in Pittsburgh found that only 27% of the respondents have discussed family budgets with their teenage children.

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