Family Inc.: Using Business Principles to Maximize Your Family's Wealth - Hardcover

McCormick, Douglas P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119219736 ISBN 13: 9781119219736

Publisher: Wiley, 2016

Synopsis

Actionable, intelligent CFO training for the Chief Family Financial Officer

Family Inc. is a roadmap to financial security for the family CFO. Too much personal wealth management advice essentially boils down to goal-setting, which isn't helpful or effective in terms of overall financial planning. This book takes a different track, giving you a crash course in corporate finance and the tools to apply the field's proven, time-tested principles in the context of your family's financial situation. You'll learn the key principles of wealth creation and management, and learn how to make your intellectual and real capital work for you. Your family situation is unique, and your principles must sometimes differ from the standard financial advice―and that's okay. Life is not a template, and even the best strategy must be able to adapt to real-life situations. You'll learn to chart your own path to financial security, utilizing the author's own tools that he developed over 15 years as an active board member, chairman of the board, or chief financial officer of multiple companies.

Oversimplified wealth management advice does not leave you equipped to manage your real-world finances. This guide is written with intellectual rigor, but in the language of family discussion, to give you a real, practical guide to being an effective family CFO.

• Create your own financial prosperity and security
• Align financial acumen with your family's specific situation
• Adapt to real-world situations and make your financial advisor work for you
• Utilize powerful financial tools to help you build financial independence

Every family needs a CFO to manage wealth, and the principles of corporate finance apply from the boardroom to the living room. Family Inc. delivers actionable advice in the form of CFO training to help you plot a real-world family financial plan.

About this title

About the Author

DOUGLAS P. MCCORMICK has a lifetime of experiences that provide the foundation for the framework, principles, and tools in Family Inc. As a professional investor, he has spent two decades managing money for institutional clients such as insurance companies, pension funds, entrepreneurs, and high net worth families. Unlike Wall Street money managers who seek to generate paper profits through passive investing, Doug partners with families and entrepreneurs to build and grow their businesses to create sustainable value. Holder of a BS in Economics from West Point and an MBA from Harvard, he is a cofounder and a Managing Partner at HCI Equity Partners. His motivation for writing this book started with his own challenges finding good personal finance advice as a young adult and his belief that financial literacy is one of the largest problems facing Americans today. He is optimistic this problem can be solved through awareness, education, and hard work.

From the Back Cover

Praise for FamilyInc.

"Financial illiteracy is not only an individual problem; it is a threat to our national welfare and global competitiveness. In today's world, it's more important than ever for individuals and families to understand how to create financial independence and security. Family Inc. offers a new perspective on personal financial security, applying time-tested business principles to real-world family situations."
Carlos Gutierrez, 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce; Former Chairman and CEO of the Kellogg Company

"Personal finance books have always had a problem. The people who know what they are talking about can't write. And the people who can write are often charlatans. Not any longer. Family Inc. delivers something that families across the country desperately need: a clear, accessible guide to making financial decisions based on the best available data and research. No gimmicks, no get-rich schemes just sensible and intellectually honest guidance for making good financial decisions at every stage of life."
Charles Wheelan, author of Naked Economics and Naked Statistics; Professor at Dartmouth University

"By taking a different perspective seeing a family's full financial situation the way an experienced private equity investor would McCormick shows us how to appreciate the full range of our choices and opportunities as a family 'CFO.' Family Inc. is an easy read which offers a solid blueprint for making sound financial decisions."
Charles D. Ellis, Author of Winning the Loser's Game and The Elements of Investing

"Family Inc. provides a fresh perspective for the important financial decisions that families face at each stage of their lives. I particularly like the chapters on career choices and on family budgeting. Readers will learn how to approach personal budgeting and investment decisions as dispassionately as any business would."
Richard C. Marston, Professor of Finance and Director of Private Wealth Management Program, Wharton School, and author of Portfolio Design and Investing for a Lifetime

"McCormick makes a compelling case that at some level we are all entrepreneurs selling our labor and skills like any business owner. Most importantly, Family Inc. provides actionable advice on how to maximize the value of your labor through education, career choice, and skill development while combining it with your capital to achieve financial independence."
Patricia Greene, Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies; Academic Director, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses and 10,000 Women

From the Inside Flap

Managing your family's wealth is complicated. It involves much more than simply balancing a checkbook, and if you've tried to educate yourself on the topic before, you know just setting goals isn't going to get you there either. Your family is like a business, and it needs a chief financial officer who can assist in career and education decisions, budgeting, investing, managing risk, and retirement planning. Family Inc. is the step-by-step guide to handling your family's finances with the insight and strategy of a corporate CFO.

The CFO of the family must effectively manage two types of assets your labor and your financial capital. Before you can manage wealth you must acquire it, and here this peerless resource offers expert insight where others don't by showing you how to approach the way your family earns money with sophisticated, simple, and proven techniques businesses use to succeed. Drawing from his investing and boardroom experiences regarding every aspect of a business, from strategic planning, financial analysis, budgeting, capital raising, and acquisitions, McCormick prepares you with the mental agility and practical tools to take control of your family's financial security by:

• Calculating your Expected Lifetime Labor Value and determining how you can improve that value through education and career choice
• Determining the kinds and amounts of insurance your family business requires
• Building your family's unique asset management program based on its goals and managing it with income statements, balance sheets, and analytics, as well as online tools available at familyinc.com
• Planning for later in life when you will optimize your assets differently, protect your spending power, and eventually pass wealth to your heirs

Regardless of your life stage or financial situation, Family Inc. will help you manage life's financial risks to make the most of your opportunities. Because the financial security of your family is the bottom line, make Family Inc. part of your new job description.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119219736
• ISBN 13: 9781119219736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272