How to manage the challenges of an embedded family office

Many successful family businesses have a form of family office embedded in the company. It may start with the CFO helping family members with their taxes, or someone in accounting setting up the books for a family member’s outside business, or perhaps someone advising a family member through the purchase of a house or car.

Over time, this often becomes two or three employees supporting the owners’ outside needs, plus one-off support from staff in IT, legal and other departments. Many families don’t think of this as a family office. As one founder told me, “The business is my family office.”

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Charlie Carr

Charlie Carr is president of Big Canyon Advisors LLC.


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