Most people love their children, and would do anything for them. This love sets up one of the greatest paradoxes of family wealth: Many parents work day in and day out to amass wealth for their children and grandchildren, and…
Each month at Northwood, we gather the partners, client team and investment team together for our monthly investment meeting. This meeting has a variety of purposes. It’s a chance to review the performance of our preferred investment managers and their…
In this quarterly feature, we help our readers get to know some of the people who work at Northwood Family Office. This quarter, Barrett Lyons interviews Bhawna Verma. Bhawna joined us in 2017 and works on the client service team…
As soon as I qualified for my CA degree in 1981, I transferred out of the audit group at Ernst & Whinney (one of the Big Eight accounting firms at that time which through subsequent mergers is KPMG today) into…
We wanted to let all of our regular readers know that Wealth of Wisdom: The Top 50 Questions Wealthy Families Ask is still available for sale on Amazon. The book came out in December 2018, but would make a great…
There is not much in life that is more important than trust. It is the elemental glue in personal interactions, business relationships and society itself. It allows people to feel safe, collaborate, disclose important information, receive benefits and thrive. It…
In this quarterly feature, we help our readers get to know some of the people who work at Northwood Family Office. This quarter, Andrew Jeffery interviews Viraj Samani. Viraj joined us in 2018 and works on the client service and…
This is the third instalment in a series that explores a number of finance and investment concepts in both theory and in practice. Chemists use the term “volatility” to describe the tendency of a liquid or solid to evaporate at…
The following article was written by Northwood’s Chairman and CEO Tom McCullough, and was published by Barron’s magazine in April 2019. Read the original article on Barron’s In 1978, Prince Charles was 30 years old and had a bright future…
I’ve always loved to travel. Whether it be for work, school or pleasure, travel to new and unfamiliar destinations has been one of the few constants in my life over the past 10 years. I have now been to over…
