Family Office & Wealth Management Course

Course description

LAST CHANCE TO SAVE UP TO £345 – OFFER ENDS 25 MARCH!

We offer 3 editions of this programme:

  1. Virtual: 22-24 Apr 2024 – 3 x 4.5 hour sessions at 10 a.m. UK /2 p.m. Gulf / 5 a.m. EST/ 6 p.m. SG & HK time. REGISTRATIONS CLOSE BY 5 APR
  2. Dubai: 6-7 May 2024 – REGISTRATIONS CLOSE BY 29 MAR
  3. London, Mayfair: 26-27 Jun 2024 – REGISTRATIONS CLOSE BY 5 JUN

* In order to qualify for special offer payment has to be made within time specified on the invoice.

Join family members and family office representatives from around the world in this practical, virtual family office course, led by a family office expert with nearly 30 years of international experience. Learn about the most effective ways of setting up a family office and managing the wealth, as well as the latest trends from the sector.

This family office course is a live interactive experience where you will have a chance to get your questions answered in real time by our senior expert as well as network and participate in discussions with other delegates.

  • You will receive a very comprehensive set of course materials as well as a family office and wealth management course certificate on completion.
  • If you are based outside of the EU there’s no VAT tax for the online editions.
  • We can also provide it as an in-company or private online session – contact us to discuss your requirements.

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This practical family office training for family office representatives, family members and wealth managers explores the best strategies for setting up a family office, preserving family wealth and managing a modern family office.

You will have a chance to explore the family governance mechanisms, intergenerational wealth transfer, managing complexities of international wealth mobility and succession planning. You will also learn about the operational settings and asset allocation, cost and risk management, tax advisory and philanthropy.

Conducted by a family office expert with many years of experience in providing services for high net worth clients worldwide, this course focuses on the latest market trends and effective wealth preservation strategies.

What will you learn

By the end of this family office course you will:

  • Have an in-depth practical understanding of the structure of a family office and effective family office management approaches
  • Learn about family governance mechanisms
  • Explore how to structure wealth and manage intergenerational wealth transfer
  • Manage family office from choosing an advisor, to cost and reputation management as well as asset allocation strategies
  • Explore different services provided by family office and how to arrange them
  • Understand the latest changes in the wealth management sector

Register at the same time for one of the programmes below:

and save £100 + VAT (in total, not per course). We offer bespoke private courses as well as consulting on setting up Family Office. Contact us to discuss.


Main topics covered during this training

  • Structuring of family office and governance mechanisms
  • Developing the family “mission and values”
  • Dealing with complex family structures
  • Understanding change over the life cycle of family businesses and succession planning
  • Mobility of wealth & the family business
  • Intergenerational wealth transfer
  • Services provided by a family office
  • Selecting advisors and cost management
  • Asset allocation mechanics and optimisation
  • Investments of passion
  • Tax management and advisory
  • Performance measurement and reward systems
  • Wealth structuring and fiduciary services
  • Financial planning
  • Philanthropy
  • Reputation management
  • Valuation of the family business
  • Current challenges and the changing role of the family office

Who should attend

Heads and Members of:

  • Multi and Single Family Offices
  • Wealth Managers
  • Private Bankers
  • Client Relationship Managers
  • Consultants
  • Heads of Family Services
  • Head of Business Development
  • Financial Planners

The family office and wealth management course is designed for family office professionals and wealth managers and will give you an insight into the best practices for wealth management and wealth preservation.

Family Office & Wealth Management Course - A 2 Day Course

Introduction

  • What is a Family Office?
  • Evolution of the Family Office concept
  • History and origins
  • Typical objectives and structures
  • Overview of different operating models: single family office, boutique multi family office, financial services multi family office and wealth manager
  • Current issues and challenges
  • The future  – the changing role of the family office
Managing the Family office
  • The “make” or “buy” decision
  • Considerations when establishing a Family Office
  • Multiple family office vs private bank
  • Selecting advisors
  • Managing advisor networks – coordination and collaboration
  • The role of technology
  • Cost management
  • Risk management – wealth preservation and protection
  • Asset protection
  • Dealing with investments of passion
  • Behavioural and emotional aspects to investment decision making
Family Governance and dynamics
  • The Family Constitution – formal or informal?
  • Structure and governance mechanisms
  • Performance Measurement and reward systems
  • How motivated are family members?
  • Dealing with “complex family structures”
  • Conflict Management
Succession Planning
  • Transition management
  • Grooming the next generation(s)
  • Educating and training future family leaders
  • Intergenerational or multi generational planning?
  • Distribution or growth?
An overview of the services of a Family Office
  • Investment strategy and asset allocation
  • Implementation and monitoring the portfolio management process
  • Access to alternative assets – special considerations for Family Offices
  • Tax management and advisory
  • Cash flow management and budgeting
  • Wealth structuring and fiduciary services
  • Multigenerational wealth transfer and succession planning
  • Financial planning and advisory
  • Philanthropy
  • Family Dispute Resolution
  • Residence and citizenship planning
  • Managing the Family Businesses
  • Legal support
  • Reputation management
  • Bookkeeping
  • Concierge
  • Luxury Assets

Understanding Asset Allocation

  • Essential elements
  • The investment management process
  • The risks and rewards of Asset Allocation
  • The “process”
  • Types of asset allocation: strategic and tactical
  • Integrated
  • Phases and cycles

Mechanics of Asset Allocation

  • The theoretical backdrop
  • Risk and return
  • Diversification, correlation  and risk
  • Asset and Portfolio Risk
  • Optimisation
  • Rebalancing and reallocation
  • Relationship with other investment disciplines
  • Portfolio Construction
  • Alpha generation
Valuation of the family business
  • Entry
  • Expansion
  • Exit
  • Mergers and acquisition
  • Marriage
Trends in the Family Office industry
  • Developing new sources of knowledge
  • The “globalization” of the high net worth family
  • “Specialization” with multiple providers or “one-stop shop”
  • Networking groups

 

Trainer

Our Course Director is currently working as a trainer and consultant focusing on the wealth management needs of high net worth private clients, their families and their businesses.

Prior to this Bill worked in the international private banking market for almost 20 years. His private banking career began with Royal Bank of Canada where he spent 15 years in a variety of senior roles covering all aspects of the international wealth management business both onshore (London) and offshore (Bermuda).

Bill has broad general wealth management experience but his particular area of expertise is developing financial planning solutions for international high net worth private clients and their businesses who have complex cross border planning issues. In addition to wealth structuring, tax and estate planning the practice also advises on the specific challenges in establishing and growing a successful family enterprise.

During his career Bill has had responsibility for designing and delivering financial education programmes for professional staff and wealthy families in the Middle East, Europe, USA, Canada, South America and Africa. Bill is currently developing and delivering training programmes for international banks, private banks, wealth managers, family offices, professional bodies and regulators covering a broad range of financial, investment and soft skills subjects.

Bill is a Chartered Accountant (FCA), Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) and Financial Planner (DipPFS).

 

FAQ

We offer banking and finance courses as well as soft skills and business management training. You can either attend an open public course in London or Dubai or arrange customised in-house training to be delivered in any of your offices worldwide.

Most of our public courses are run over 2 full days. Some programmes are offered as a 1 or 3 day training.

In-house training is tailored to client’s requirements and can be organised over 1 day, 2-3 weeks or longer.

Public courses are organised mainly in London and Dubai. Occasionally we organise courses in other centres like Paris or New York. Check our public course calendar for the current list of programmes. We use a range of training venues, all in the centre of the cities and with excellent transport links to the airports and train stations.

In London we use venues in the centre (near Oxford Circus station or in Mayfair) or in the City (near Liverpool Street or Moorgate stations).

In Dubai our courses are organised in one of 4-5* hotels in the Deira district. Once you register we will send you detailed information together with accommodation options if required.

Our in-house courses can be delivered anywhere in the world. We work with over 25 trainers worldwide. Contact us do discuss your requirements. Check our list of available programmes.

Our courses are run in central locations from 9 a.m until 5-5.30 p.m. There are 2 coffee breaks and a lunch break. Lunch is always provided in the venue.

Dress code is smart casual.

All our programmes are taught by senior specialists who have spent many years in their respective sectors, working as senior managers and head of departments, so they understand very well the market and the challenges you are facing.

The experience of our trainers allows us to create very practical programmes, focused on current market trends and challenges. You can be sure that you will gain the knowledge which can be instantly applied in your workplace after the course. You will be analysing real life case studies, take part in group exercises and discussions as well as role plays, whenever applicable.

We want our courses to be as practical and interactive as possible so we limit the number of participants in order to optimise your time with the trainer and allow you to ask questions which are important for you.

In order to understand your requirements and expectations, we will send you a pre-course questionnaire.

You will also receive post-course support so if you have any questions after you left the training, you are welcome to contact us.

There are 2 easy ways to register:

  1. Go to the course of your choice and click Register Now button to fill the registration page
  2. Email us to enquiry@eurekafinancial.com

After you register, we will send you registration confirmation and an invoice so you can arrange the payment. Please note that your place is not confirmed until we receive it.

If you register within Early Bird discount period, there’s limited time to arrange the payment in order to be eligible for the discount. You will find all the details on the invoice.

We don’t advise to make any travel and hotel arrangements until you receive full course confirmation from us.

We will send you venue and course details as soon as possible but most likely about 3-4 weeks prior to the course commencement.

You can pay by:

  • Making a bank transfer
  • Debit/credit card
  • Cheque payable to Eureka Financial Ltd. - only within UK

Just mark preferred paying option on the registration form. Whichever form of payment you choose we will always send you an invoice.

If you pay by card, a 2.2% processing fee will be added. We will send you authorisation form so you can give us your card details.

Included in the price of a public course are:

  • Course tutorial
  • Take away course materials
  • Course Certificate
  • Lunch on the days of the training as well as drinks and snacks throughout the course

The price doesn’t include accommodation, flights, transfers and any additional costs outside of the training venue.

Yes, we always offer Early Bird discount, so the sooner you register the more savings you can make. We also offer group discounts and if you register for 2 or more programmes at the same time.

If you are a full time student or unemployed, we offer a 25% discount of the full price of the training. Student ID or unemployment status confirmation is required to claim this discount.

If you attend one of our courses you will be entitled to a special discount for a year after the last course you attend with us. Also, if you have attended and recommended us to a friend, both you and your friend will receive a special discount. You will receive more information about it after you attend the course.

See our Customer Loyalty Discounts page for more details.

All our courses based in the UK are subject to the VAT charge of 20%. This fee is irrespective of the country of residence of the delegates.

You can, however, claim the VAT back by contacting UK tax office - HMRC, and filling the relevant form, as long as you comply with the following rules:

For Delegates coming from the EU countries

If you represent a registered business in another EU country, you can use the Refund Scheme to reclaim VAT you pay in the UK as long as all of the following apply:

  • You're not registered for VAT in the UK and don't have to, or can't be, registered here
  • You don't have a place of business or a residence in the UK
  • You don't make any supplies in the UK

You can find some more information here. In order to claim the VAT you have to fill Form 65.

For the Delegates from Non EU countries

If you represent a registered business in a non-EU country, you can use the Refund Scheme to reclaim VAT you pay in the UK as long as all of the following apply:

  • You're not registered for VAT in the UK and don't have to, or can't be, registered here
  • You don't have a place of business or a residence in the EU
  • You can only use the Refund Scheme if your own country operates a similar scheme and makes it available to UK businesses. If your country has its own Refund Scheme but doesn't let UK businesses use it, you can't claim under the UK Refund Scheme.
  • You don't make any supplies in the UK

If the following rules apply to you, please fill the 65A form and send it to HMRC.

Webinars

You can cancel your participation up to a month before the course and receive a refund minus 10% of the full course value. Between 2-4 weeks before the course you will be charged 50% cancellation fee and if you cancel less than 2 weeks before the course you can only offer your place to a colleague. Up to 2 weeks before the course you can reregister for another edition for 10% reregistration fee if there is another webinar offered or you can rebook for a course in London by paying the difference in price plus 10% reregistration fee.

Classroom Courses

If there is any official travel restriction or difficulty related to the COVID pandemic around the time of the course we will convert the training into a webinar or offer to attend the next classroom edition at no extra cost.

If you are unable to attend the course, you can either send a replacement at no extra charge or, up to 10 days before the training, you can transfer your booking to another edition within the next 6 months paying administrative fee of 20% of the full course price. For any cancellation requests received between 11 days and 4 weeks from the course we offer 50% refund or reregistration to another edition for 25% of the value of the booking. For any cancellation requests received more than 4 weeks before the course date we will offer a refund less an administration fee of 10% of the full course price.

Cancellations must be made in writing (letter or email) and reach our office four weeks prior to the course date. We regret that only limited refunds can be given after this period as per points above. Non-attendance without any notification will be charged at full rate. Your place on a course is not guaranteed until we receive the payment. All payments must be made in full before the course date.

All our trainers have been working for many years in their respective sectors before they begun to teach so they bring a wealth of practical experience to the classroom.

Most of them used to work for 15 or more years in the financial sector and corporate world, and were holding positions of Directors, VP and Senior Managers. Some of them have published books and have written articles for specialised magazines and newspapers including FT, The Independent, The Times etc. You can find detailed biography of each trainer on the page of the course you want to register for.

Yes, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance at the end of the course you attend.

If you have to apply for a Visa to attend a course in the UK, we will issue a letter to support your application. The letter will be issued only after the payment for the course has been made.

It is delegate’s responsibility to obtain a Visa and failure to do so will not make the participant exempt from the cancellation policy.

Anyone suspected of applying for a training course simply to gain a Visa letter will be reported to their embassy.

We will need the following information to issue an invitation letter:

  • Full name as it appears on your passport
  • Date of birth
  • Passport number
  • Passport issue date
  • Passport expiry date

22 - 24 Apr 2024, Online / Virtual

Register by 28 Mar to save £170

Early bird price £1925 + VAT

Regular price £2095 + VAT


BOOKINGS CLOSE BY 5 APR! 5% discount for 2 and 10% for 3 people. There is no VAT charge for participants based outside of the UK / EU.


6 - 7 May 2024, Dubai

Register by 25 Mar to save £300

Early bird price £2095 + VAT

Regular price £2395 + VAT


BOOKINGS CLOSE BY 29 MAR! 5% discount for 2 and 10% for 3 people.


26 - 27 Jun 2024, London

Register by 29 Apr to save £270

Early bird price £1925 + VAT

Regular price £2195 + VAT


5% discount for 2 and 10% for 3 people. Bookings close by 5 Jun!


This topic can be arranged on in-house basis. If you have a group of 4 or more we can customise it and deliver in any location worldwide. Contact us to discuss your requirements


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