The survey, which involved 230 family office clients from 30 countries, showed that only 42% of them had a strategy for wealth succession.

Early bets on Brazil’s agricultural promise have made a third-generation family of German immigrants ultra-wealthy as land values surge and technology drives ever greater gains on crop yields.

Over the course of three generations, the secretive Besnier family has grown what began as an artisanal cheesemaking operation in northwestern France into Groupe Lactalis, one of the largest global food companies. 

No wealthy family wants its financial fate sealed by Logan Roy.