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Category: Consultoría y apoyo para un Family Office

Why does every investor need an EAFI or a Family Office?

Perhaps for those of us who are professionally engaged in it, the answer may seem obvious. Especially for those of us who have suffered for decades in our own flesh the miseries and shortcomings of private banking. It is no coincidence that, in addition to being advisors, we were, are and will continue to be essentially investors, and as such, our interests are still, unfortunately, at the antipodes of those of the banks and their misnamed advice. Having said that, let us now analyse the transcendental decisions that every investor should take to advise on the correct management of their assets.

To begin with, the ordinary investor should analyse his or her asset situation and determine whether, in addition to purely financial advice, he or she also needs tax, legal, commercial, corporate or real estate advice. In other words, they may need to put their companies/businesses in order, their real estate investments or divestments, the administration of these properties, inheritance and family matters, their investments in the stock market and in unlisted companies, the generation of the necessary income for their family or projects, optimising the taxation of all of this, etc. (more…)

Have you won the lottery jackpot? The first 5 decisions you need to make.

Most lucky lottery winners end up losing their entire fortune within a few years. This is a quasi-universal law that affects the vast majority of lottery winners, as bad decisions start as early as the first minute after the draw. Let's see how bad decisions can be avoided in the first days or weeks after being chosen by the goddess Fortune. We will summarise them in 5 essential decisions and present them to you in the usual chronological order in which they should be taken.

The first The golden rule would be maximum discretion. The fewer people who know that we have won the jackpot or any other lottery, euromillions, etc., the better, much better. Not only for security reasons, but also to avoid, as far as possible, becoming a tempting lure for fraudsters, tricksters and unscrupulous and unscrupulous investment hunters. And bankers should also be included in this bag, as they will immediately be on the lookout for their prey as soon as they smell the blood of the nouveau riche and its irresistible liquidity. However, some bankers will have to be told, since the winning tenth or tenths must be deposited in a bank for collection and the corresponding 20% withholding, in other words, the first tax bite from the State. But be careful, (more…)

What is an Outpost Family Office?

The concept is new and meets a logical and increasingly common need in a globalised world. It is common knowledge that Family Offices are companies or groups of professionals that are essentially dedicated to the management and control of the assets of one or several families, as well as to attending to all aspects that may affect these family groups, such as taxation, legal advice or assistance in family logistics and concierge services (concierging), among others. But the new figure that has appeared for the users of a Family Office (whether they are Clients of a Multi-Family Office, or owners of a Single-Family Office), is that of the Outpost FO, or global support network for a Family Office.  (more…)

Old Money and New Money

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A distinction must be made between two clearly differentiated types of estates: Estates that have been created by a single generation, and which are passed on to one or two subsequent generations at the most, since they die out along the way due to their smaller size and the usual dilapidation by the recipients of inheritances. And the large estates that are passed on from generation to generation, impersonally and in large family groups over many, many years. We call the former New Money and the second Old Money. (more…)

Médicos, abogados, economistas o empresarios: Todos somos Inversores.

Parece que el mundo se divide entre las personas que ahorran y las que no lo hacen. Pero muchos de los que dicen vivir al día, en algún momento de sus vidas (mayoritariamente en su madurez) y con el permiso de los azotes de esta crisis, tienden a ahorrar algún dinerito para su vejez o para el futuro incierto. Sin embargo la mayoría de estos previsores jamás se han considerado Inversores, sino simples ahorradores. Warren Buffett dijo que invertir es gastar menos hoy para que en el futuro podamos gastar más, y dio en el clavo, como casi siempre. (more…)

Los Fondos de Inversión y la madre que los parió…

Resulta muy curioso comprobar que la mayoría de inversores españoles tienen una imagen pésima de la calidad de la gestión en general de los fondos de inversión. Tanto es así, que muchísimos inversores optan por la simplicidad, diversidad y el low cost de los ETFs, hartos de pagar comisiones elevadas a cambio de pura mediocridad, por decirlo de forma educada. Pero no olvidemos que los ETFs no son más que puras réplicas de índices y benchmarks de todo tipo, y su bondad no es otra que su diversidad, bajo coste de comisiones y ausencia de gestión activa (suponiendo que eso sea una virtud). De ese modo los inversores se aseguran de que los resultados no estarán por debajo de los respectivos índices de referencia, ya que ninguna decisión mediocre por parte de los gestores puede empeorar el rendimiento vinculado… pero a su vez se resignan a no tener ni tan sólo la posibilidad de que la gestión activa supere a los mercados. Y es que lamentablemente cada vez son más los invesores españoles hastiados, que renuncian a que sus inversiones superen al Mercado de forma clara y sostenida en el tiempo. Lo consideran una quimera, un sueño inalcanzable y utópico. Y los culpables no son otros que el asesoramiento bancario y la regulación española. (more…)

El Criterio de Mediocridad en cifras

No hay peor fracaso que el de quien renuncia al éxito. Algo parecido les ocurre a los fondos de inversión que se ciñen a sus índices de referencia, confiados en que, a pesar de su mediocridad, las entidades para las que trabajan no van a tener ningún problema en comercializar masivamente dichos fondos, y jamás les culparán por no brillar. La capacidad comercial de una entidad bancaria es directamente proporcional a la mediocridad de sus productos de inversión. Será por aquello de que el hambre agudiza el ingenio, y los gestores de fondos de gestoras independientes (que no pertenecen a bancos, al menos directamente) sólo pueden competir por hacerse un sitio en el escenario de la venta de inversiones, demostrando pura calidad y superioridad en los rendimientos en comparación con sus competidores. (more…)

The perversion of counselling

First of all, we must tell you that the subject we are going to deal with today is complex and may offend some professional sensibilities. But that is not our intention at all, but rather our interest is focused on clarifying a situation that is currently generating a lot of confusion and, more importantly, is damaging families with a certain amount of wealth. Both large fortunes and small savers. We will therefore discuss, for example, Santander's convertible bonds, the recent inflammatory statements by Greg Smith (ex-Goldman Sachs), the types of assets that a properly diversified wealth should contain, the Spanish and Luxembourg regulators, banking, EAFIs, Family Office, or how to distinguish between a perverse advice and a perverse advice. comme il faut. We apologise for the length of the post, but we have chosen to publish it in its entirety so as not to lose the thread in the middle of the reflections that follow. (more…)

Customer Risk: Cause or excuse for bad management?

This week I came across an article published in FundsPeople titled «Client risk in private banking management«. These are obviously arguments put forward by bankers and former private bankers, which already distorts considerably the reality of what wealth management in general and financial investment in particular should be, as we said back in 2008 in «...".«The unbearable lightness of management»(private banking). We advance this warning because the FundsPeople article only deals with the management of bank investments, i.e. money invested in bank investment products, shares handpicked by the bankers and ex-bankers on duty and other investment funds listed in the bank's sales catalogue. We want to make it clear that there is a fundamental deviation from the way we should treat families' money, which should include investments in unlisted companies (private equity), real estate investments and other assets in which, in order to invest, the money must come out of the bank's account. Obviously, private banks do without such investments, as their mission is to keep their clients' money in the bank that generates their income at the end of the month.

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El Tarot Financiero para el 2012

Saber qué tipos de activos o las acciones de qué empresas van a dispararse en los próximos meses, es la quimera de aquellos que en lugar de invertir, especulan. De los que pretenden un pelotazo que les saque de los apuros en los que han incurrido por su mala cabeza. Pero aún suponiendo que la Diosa Fortuna les sonría, su cabeza seguirá siendo igual de mala. Por lo tanto se creerán hábiles inversores en lugar de meros afortunados, y sus secuencias apuros-pelotazos-apuros se repetirán cíclicamente, en el mejor de los casos. A largo plazo el resultado para la mayoría de ellos es que sus incursiones como especuladores (aunque ellos se autodefinan como inversores), lejos de complementar sus ingresos, les cuestan buena parte de sus rentas laborales conseguidas con el sudor de su frente a lo largo de los años. Y si en algún momento hiciesen un cómputo objetivo de sus ganancias y pérdidas, algo que evitan hacer consciente o inconscientemente, el saldo les demostraría la cruda realidad: Que a lo largo de su vida inversora, buena parte de su bienestar y el de sus Familias se lo llevó Mr. Market. (more…)

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