James Beech

Deputy Editor

James Beech is the Deputy Editor for CampdenFB, its website CampdenFB.com and its social network. He is a qualified and internationally experienced multimedia journalist with a career in daily and weekly newspapers, consumer and financial magazines, plus video production, digital journalism and public relations.

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Employee ownership offers alternative for family business successions

Business principals looking to secure their legacy, but missing a family successor, could take inspiration from the founder of Richer Sounds who is transferring the bulk of his shares worth $4.4 million into an Employee Ownership Trust.

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New ‘Core Characteristics of Impact Investing’ a roadmap for family investors

The “Core Characteristics of Impact Investing” have been unveiled to help family offices interested in creating positive change navigate the growing $502 billion impact market.

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Dame Stephanie Shirley: Making the lasting difference

Dame Stephanie Shirley brought the same trailblazing zeal to philanthropy over the past quarter century as she did as an IT industry pioneer. She tells James Beech what she learned from starting and finishing charitable giving

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Global sustainable investment assets worth $30 trillion

Sustainable investment assets have rocketed by more than a third in value in two years to $30 trillion worldwide, according to the new Global Sustainable Investment Review out this week.

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‘Shame’ of Reimann family’s Nazi slave past revelations

Germany’s second wealthiest family, behind global brands Pret a Manger, Dr Pepper, and Krispy Kreme, say they are “ashamed” by their ancestors’ brutality towards slave labour during Nazi rule.

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Wallenberg family issues green bonds and targets for Electrolux

The Swedish family controlled appliance giant Electrolux is setting the benchmark on sustainability with its launch of green bonds this week and ambitious renewable targets on track for 2020.

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Family takes Edmond de Rothschild bank private

The only matriarch of a Rothschild company is about to complete a four-year project to bring the dynasty’s billion-dollar private Swiss bank into full family ownership, with ambitions for growth through buy-outs.

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Latin American economies at risk when families fail to plan succession

Latin American family businesses must create value and thrive for the economic well-being of their home countries, but succession planning is the most common reason why family firms fail.

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Morgan Motor Company accelerates car development by selling to Italian investor

The family behind Britain’s last domestically-owned carmaker says it sold its majority stake to an Italian family private equity firm to secure the future of its 110-year-old business.

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Wealthy families invest in succession and safety in property in era of uncertainty

More family offices are looking to get involved in co-investments with other families and the best advisers in emerging property sectors could be the next generation, says a new report on wealth.

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