Our boats are designed to run as quiet as it is right here in this room. [ more... ]

Managing your clients’ health is as important as managing their money. [ more... ]

Advisors are helping ultra-rich clients with everything from planning million-dollar weddings to finding new airports for their private jets. [ more... ]

Hot rods are hot investments right now, and that is true for all types of automobiles, from the true hot rod American muscle cars, to classics, antiques and rare sports models of American or European vintage. But the rule of thumb for car collecting is that a person should love cars first and think of them as investments second. [ more... ]

Grayson had a normal physical at age one, but months later was rushed to the emergency room and diagnosed with a brain tumor. A pediatric neurologist there told the parents his condition was life-threatening and that he needed to be taken immediately to either Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center or Yale New Haven hospital.
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It’s no secret that demand for private jet travel is in a growth mode, and the Federal Aviation Administration projects hours flown aboard private jets will grow 300% in less than a decade. More than 4,000 airports are available for private jets, com-pared with 400 used by commercial airlines. Since many airports for private jets are convenient and uncongested, those who can afford such travel may get more of what they often are short on—time. [ more... ]

Financial services providers are feeling greater pressure than ever before to acquire new clients and new assets in the quest for profitability, an important metric for analysts and shareholders. To accomplish these goals, advisors and their firms must think beyond the scope of their core competency-whether it's brokerage, investment management, life insurance, estate planning or tax preparation-and begin to think like a marketer. It will take a creative approach for one advisor to differentiate him or herself from another advisor, and even more innovative solutions to expand the reach of business development efforts while increasing the servicing capabilities available to a high-net-worth client. [ more... ]

Everyone likes a hot, gooey cookie right out of the oven. Some will pay as much as $3,000 for one. Ask private chef Mike Foss. He got a call late one night from his boss, an actor filming a movie in Europe, asking if Foss would fly from Los Angeles to London to bake him a batch of his peanut butter macadamia and dried cherry cookies. “I figured out how to make them just right: crispy on the outside, soft on the inside,” Foss says. “I could have just baked them and sent them, but no—they wanted them hot out of the oven.”

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Bridging the gap between private jets and claustrophobic passenger aircraft, many major airlines have been stepping up with better services and seating targeted specifically to the high-end international traveler.
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Increasingly demanding schedules, deadlines and social commitments require meticulous planning, savoir-faire and execution—and the rarified world of superwealth demands much more. As a result, today’s affluent elite are relying more and more on concierges to help plan their lives as smoothly as possible and ensure a spectacular experience. Today, concierges provide their services to corporate VIPs, private individuals and, most recently, to some of the most high-profile and talkedabout residential properties in major metropolitan wealth centers.
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