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Since its inception in 2001, CampdenFB (previously known as Families in Business) has been a valuable resource for wealthy families who own businesses. This magazine offers essential knowledge and insights that help them effectively run their businesses and manage family dynamics. Each quarterly edition is packed with exclusive interviews with family members, focused sections covering finance, governance, and the next generation, as well as timely special reports, commentary, news analysis, and lifestyle articles. Backed by the Family Business Network, CampdenFB is a controlled circulation magazine, reaching a select audience of 10,000 qualified families.

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The European Family Office Report 2024: the importance of philanthropy

Dec 3, 2024 | campdenfb.com | Adrian Murdoch

As CampdenFB reported last week, Bernie Marcus, founder of American multinational home improvement retail corporation Home Depot, recently passed away at the age of 95. Lauded as the founder of American multinational home improvement retail corporation Home Depot, he is rightly held up as an example of American capitalism. But what is less well known, perhaps is his dedication to philanthropy.
The European Family Office Report 2024: a good year for investment returns

Dec 2, 2024 | campdenfb.com | Adrian Murdoch

This year is likely to have been a good year for investment returns with 28% of family offices expecting a return in excess of 10%, and hardly any anticipating a negative outcome. This optimism could have proved misplaced if markets had suffered a material setback during the later part of the year. But despite some volatility over the period of the US election, a drawdown has not materialised, leaving positive expectations intact.
Diversified towards green investments

Nov 11, 2024 | campdenfb.com | Adrian Murdoch

A Next Gen leader, Ankur Dana is chief executive of the Dana Group of Companies and its key industrial divisions of steel, oil and petrochemicals. A doctor by training, he also managed the family office which is mostly focus on investments in healthcare. He talks to Campden FB about the challenges of being a Next Gen and his focus on sustainability. Could you talk to me about how the Dana Group was founded? Ankur Dana: We are a 100% family-owned business, and I am the second generation involved.
FB Roundup the family office of Paul Allen, the Tanoto family, Bernard Arnault

Nov 7, 2024 | campdenfb.com | Adrian Murdoch

Family office of Paul Allen invests in PicnicCercano Management, the investment firm launched inside the family office of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is the lead investor in the latest round of funding for food-production automation company Picnic. Picnic raised $5 million from a group which also included new investor Unlock Venture Partners, as well as existing investors Thursday Ventures, Flying Fish Ventures, and Creative Ventures.
Family remains a touchstone

Nov 5, 2024 | campdenfb.com | Adrian Murdoch

Cynthia Abou Khater is a shareholder and the Strategy Manager of Technica International, a family-owned business that provides automation and robotic solutions out of three locations in Lebanon, Poland and Canada. The chief executive-in-waiting of the company founded by her father in 1982, she talks to CampdenFB about how she managed the transition from first to second generation and why a framework for governance is so important for business. Can you talk me through the background of the company?
Step out of the lab

Nov 5, 2024 | campdenfb.com | Ithai Stern

When inventor CEOs should let others lead innovation. Back in the early 1980s, plenty was written about the decline of American business on the global stage. One of the main criticisms levelled at US firms was their over-reliance on administrator chief executives. As a famous 1980 HBR article pointed out, these experts in finance and operations were too focused on short term objectives to fully appreciate or embrace innovation’s importance to long term success.
FB Roundup Enthoven family, Bernard Arnault, David Thomson

Oct 31, 2024 | campdenfb.com | Adrian Murdoch

Enthoven family looks to take over The Observer newspaperThe Enthoven family is gearing up to launch a long-rumoured takeover of Britain’s The Observer Sunday newspaper. According to The Daily Telegraph, the family is backing the plans of former BBC News director and The Times editor James Harding who is expected to launch his bid through his Tortoise Media group. The Enthoven family already hold a stake in Tortoise via their private office Yellowwoods.
A new fiscal landscape: how Labour’s budget impacts wealthy taxpayers

Oct 30, 2024 | campdenfb.com | Aidan Grant

After weeks of speculation, leaks, and briefings, Rachel Reeves was yesterday (30 October 2024) the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer to deliver a Budget Statement to the House of Commons. As expected, her speech was sombre, though intensely political – criticising the Conservative Party now in Opposition for what she repeatedly called their 14 years of failure and promising to “fix the foundations to deliver change”, especially in improvements in public services.
A dynamic and engaging environment

Oct 29, 2024 | campdenfb.com | Adrian Murdoch

Raju Shroff is the Managing Director of the Regal Group in Dubai. Founded in 1952, it has grown to become one of the region's most successful textile companies diversifying along the way to sports, technology, investments, industry and real estate. Here, he talks to CampdenFB about the shift from first to second generation, the challenges facing the family office now, and his approach to philanthropy. How was the Regal Group founded?
40 Years of Innovation: Bernard Fairman on Foresight Group’s Growth and the Future of Energy

Oct 17, 2024 | campdenfb.com | Adrian Murdoch

You founded Foresight in 1984. What was your original vision for the company, and how has it evolved over the past four decades Bernard Fairman: In the early 1980s, the venture capital landscape was very different from what it is today. My co-founder, Peter English, and I were working at 3i, which at the time was focused on private equity, investing across a variety of sectors globally.