Lesson · Facts First
Run a Family Office
A family office is a chief-of-staff for your balance sheet - the model scales down to a spreadsheet, a vault, and a rhythm.
The facts
- 01The core functions are the same at any size: consolidated reporting, tax coordination across entities, risk/insurance management, and a calendar of decisions.
- 02The true family-office tax win is coordination - entity elections, retirement layers, charitable timing, and asset location planned together instead of in silos.
- 03A private trust company or formalized office has real costs (staff, compliance, registration) - most families implement 80% of the value with a family LLC holding company, a trusted CPA/attorney pair, and a quarterly board meeting of one.
- 04Governance beats software: who decides what, when, and with whose input - written down - is the actual product.
Sources
- Family-office governance practice
- IRC coordinated-planning concepts (entity election, asset location)
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