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Alternatives

The FO and alternative investment: a global profile

November 1, 2003

Melanie Stern examines the use of alternative investments in family office portfolios across the world

Melanie Stern is Section Editor of Families in Business magazine.

Melanie Stern examines the use of alternative investments in family office portfolios across the world

Family business in Chile

November 1, 2003

Family businesses are the backbone and the engine of the dynamic and market-oriented Chilean economy. And the signs are that they could become an even stronger force in the future

Jon I Martinez is the Jorge Yarur B Professor of Families in Business at ESE, the business school of University of los Andes in Santiago, Chile. He is also a counsellor and board member of several business families.

Family businesses are the backbone and the engine of the dynamic and market-oriented Chilean economy. And the signs are that they could become an even stronger force in the future

Family business M&A: bigger, better, best

June 1, 2003

Big business or big bucks is the choice presented to a family business through mergers and acquisitions, depending on how it views its future. Melanie Stern explains how the challenges faced by this sector proves that size has never mattered more in either case

Melanie Stern is Section Editor of Families in Business magazine.

Taking family businesses public

June 1, 2003

At a time when banks are increasingly cautious about lending money, the stock market can be an attractive alternative source of capital for a family business – and, explains Georges van Erck, an IPO need not mean the family loses control of the business

Georges van Erck is Managing Director at JPMorgan, London. He has more than 30 years of investment banking experience, most of which have been spent providing corporate finance services to family-owned companies.

German family businesses hit a financing squeeze

June 1, 2003

There were 30,000 insolvencies in Germany last year and family businesses are finding it harder to procure credit from banks with their increasingly stringent lending criteria. Private equity managers may be the answer to a tailor-made financial strategy, explains Max Burger-Calderon

Max Burger-Calderon is a partner with Apax
Partners Group and is also chairman of the EVCA (European Venture Capital Association).

Venture capitalists and family business: romancing the stone

June 1, 2003

While global IPO and share market returns languish at historical lows, venture capitalists could step in as family business capital providers – but both sides need to work on their perceptions of one another to build a successful marriage, says Melanie Stern

Melanie Stern is Section Editor of Families in Business magazine.

Microfinance: responsible investment for family business

September 1, 2002

Globalisation has revealed the widening gap between the wealthy and the poor of the world. But instead of pouring yet more aid into poverty-stricken areas, responsible investment, in particular the provision of financial services to poor entrepreneurs, has been found to be a more effective social and economic development tool – and a great way for family businesses to give back to society

Melchior de Muralt is Vice President, Blue Orchard Finance Ltd and Partner at Pury Pictet Turrettini &Cie Ltd. Jean-Philippe de Schrevel is Director of Blue Orchard Finance Ltd.

Gold market fundamentals

June 1, 2002

In the February issue of Families in Business, Katharine Pulvermacher explained that gold, as a portfolio diversifier, can help families protect their wealth. In this issue, she takes a closer look at the fundamentals of the gold market

Katharine Pulvermacher is Manager of Investment Research at the Head Office of the World Gold Council. Her background is economics and econometrics.

Property investment for family businesses

April 1, 2002

It is no longer just the larger institutions dominating the commercial property investment sector. There has been a significant increase in private investors making long-term investments in commercial property. Here, we explain some of the reasons for this and offer a few tips on those considering it as an option

Property investment has taken centrestage for family businesses and wealthy individuals as a safe haven for cash as well as an opportunity to seal complex deals that are protected from some of the ravages of the financial markets.

Family business in India

February 1, 2002

In this issue’s guest editorial, Dr Manesh L Shrikant examines the Indian family business scene and the challenges it faces in achieving future growth and prosperity

The landscape ofIndian family managed businesses (FMBs) is in a state of disequilibrium, even turmoil, as evidenced from certain performance paradoxes given in Table 1, on the next page. Analysis is not easy and future prognosis is even more difficult. However, by examining the evolution of India and its businesses, it is clear that certain challenges must be met for Indian businesses and India as a nation to move forward and prosper.

The business context