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How families pass on wealth and responsibility is one of the key issues in wealth succession. Benjamin Vetterli, Senior Family Advisor at LGT, has been helping high-net-worth families structure their wealth across generations for 25 years. In this interview, he explains why open dialogue is...

Children who grow up with every advantage can miss out on something essential: the experience of limits and earning something for themselves. Andrew Carnegie understood this risk well. Psychology helps explain why that concern still resonates today.

Experts are sounding the alarm about large language models increasingly being trained on synthetic or intentionally false data. This could have disastrous real-world consequences.

Succession planning has become one of the central challenges for wealthy families. What determines whether this wealth transfer succeeds is often less about markets or structures - and more about how families communicate, decide and govern. We look at a specific use case to learn about the six...

Contemporaries called Henrietta "Hetty" Green a miserly eccentric - yet her disciplined approach to investing made her one of the richest people of her time.

Generation Z is starting to take on leadership roles in family-owned companies. Along the way, it is questioning long-standing ideas about work, leadership and responsibility - without dismissing the importance of hard work and results. What does that mean for succession in family businesses?

Few cities balance contrasts quite like Bangalore - unhurried yet ambitious, deeply rooted yet constantly reinventing itself. Aisha Singh of LGT Wealth India shares a portrait of the city she proudly calls home.

For wealthy entrepreneurial families, passing a business on to the next generation isn't just an operational challenge, it's an existential one. Succession is about power, responsibility and identity, and ultimately about knowing when to let go. These tensions are very real - and from...

We may think of portraits as artworks that focus on capturing the physiognomic likeness of a sitter. Think again. Today’s artists are using everything from objects and smells to AI-generated images based on human DNA to reflect the presence and spirit of their subjects.