Financial Planning Tips for the Sandwich Generation with Sherry Finkel Murphy
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Planning for Your Digital Legacy
[Podcast] Unlocking the Potential of Alternative Markets with HighVista Strategies’ Raphi Schorr
Family Owned Real Estate: Managing Lack of Planning in Family Business Transitions
Family Owned Real Estate: Impacts of the Current Real Estate Market on Transition Planning
Family Owned Real Estate: Avoiding Pitfalls When Transitioning Family Real Estate
Family Owned Real Estate: Common Real Estate & Asset Management Issues
[Podcast] Scoping Out Secondaries with Portfolio Advisors' Liz Campbell
John Wick - What You Need To Know about the Corporate Transparency Act
Family Owned Real Estate: Legal Challenges & Opportunities
Once Removed Episode 24: Expressing Goals and Intent for the Trust
Once Removed Episode 23: Naming Guardians for Minor Children
Once Removed Episode 20: Helping a Beneficiary Purchase a Home
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Planning for Influencers
Life After Love Gone Wrong Podcast: Season 3, Episode 6 - Reshaping Your Legacy: Estate Planning After Your Divorce
Unraveling the Crypto Code: California's New DFAL Explained – The Crypto Exchange Podcast
A Primer On Trusts - A Podcast with Janathan Allen
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Exploring DAOs
Current Landscape of Cryptocurrency Regulation and Enforcement - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Current Landscape of Cryptocurrency Regulation and Enforcement - The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has delivered her second Mansion House speech and announced the “Leeds Reforms” in conjunction with publication of the awaited Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy and related...more
On 26 June 2025, ESMA published its keenly awaited technical advice to the Commission on the review of the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive 2007/16/EC (EAD). The report assesses EAD implementation across member states and...more
Guernsey has established itself as a sophisticated, stable jurisdiction for the structuring of alternative investment funds and bespoke vehicles. Among its suite of offerings, Guernsey permits the formation of unregulated...more
The growth of High Net Worth Individual (“HNWI”) allocations to alternative investments is a hot topic in fund finance. In what is widely acknowledged to be a challenging fundraising environment, fund managers have focused...more
The wealthtech industry is deploying AI to create more efficient, bespoke, user-driven, and data-intensive portfolio management strategies, and to streamline analytics and administration. AI can be used in a vast number of...more
In uncertain economic times, many individuals are concerned about the value of their investments, and for good reason. When the stock market dips or real estate prices fall, the effect isn’t just felt in personal investment...more
Recently, BlackRock released its “2024 Investment Stewardship Annual Report” – here’s a 25-page executive summary. Here are six lessons learned – although note this is all about last year; not the latest proxy season...more
“Family offices are continuing to actively allocate substantial funds to real estate as a core component of their overall investment strategy. There is continued preference for multi-family and industrial projects and...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched the investment advice assessment tool (IAAT) to help personal investment firms assess the suitability of their investment advice and disclosures to consumers (excluding...more
The 2025 SuperReturn conference in Berlin last week once again solidified its position as a cornerstone event for the global private markets community, offering a vital platform for insights, networking, and a palpable sense...more
On 3 June 2025, the Financial Reporting Council (“FRC”) published its new UK Stewardship Code 2026 (the “Code”). The voluntary Code applies to asset managers, asset owners and services providers with the aim of providing...more
On June 3, 2025, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published the UK Stewardship Code 2026 (the “Code”), following the conclusion of its consultation on the proposed amendments to the UK Stewardship Code 2020. The revised...more
On May 12, 2025, the House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) released an amended 389-page bill, entitled “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation released a...more
What’s ahead for the infrastructure market? Ropes & Gray lawyers gained insights from attending the Infralogic Investors Forum in New York, held on April 25. We heard from experts in the global infrastructure and energy...more
Right after Patrick Calves wrote about “continued momentum in the secondaries market, supported by both cyclical and structural tailwinds” in last week’s FFF, Yale University’s plans to sell up to $6 billion is dominating...more
A challenging fundraising environment, the rise in M&A activity and the capital requirements necessary to bridge funding gaps are key developments which have led fund managers to increase their offering of co-investment...more
The NAIC Spring National Meeting was held in Indianapolis from March 23-26, 2025. This update reports on some highlights of the Spring National Meeting sessions relating to insurance company investments....more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled its ambitious strategy for 2025-2030, with growth identified as a cornerstone of its forward-looking approach. This theme permeates the entire strategy and is one of only...more
Sponsors of 401(k) plans are increasingly recognizing the need to provide personalized investment options for their participants; however, access to managed accounts still remains limited....more
The European Commission has unveiled its strategy for the Savings and Investments Union (SIU), an initiative to improve the way the EU financial system channels savings to productive investments. Alongside the communication,...more
Intro. The Uniform Trust Code (UTC) is a mere aggregation of tweaks to the corner of equity jurisprudence that long ago gave birth to and currently stewards the trust relationship, hereinafter “the background trust law.”...more
Key Points - - The IAIS has issued a detailed analysis of the structural shifts in the life insurance sector related to the increasing allocation to alternative assets and prevalence of asset-intensive reinsurance...more
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange has announced the launch of a new segment on its Euro MTF market, called EM3S, which stands for Euro MTF Specialist Securities Segment. This new segment may be an interesting option for issuers...more
During the last decade, the shape and source of capital flows and investment have fundamentally shifted. Private capital continues to flow into all asset classes including real estate, infrastructure, private credit, and...more
Setting up a tokenized investment fund with an approved manager in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) offers many strategic advantages by combining the innovative benefits of blockchain technology with cost-effectiveness and...more