The 6th Annual Family Wealth Management for Latin American Families Conference Rio de Janeiro - September 15 & 16, 2010 
We are delighted to hold this year conference in Brazil which is part of the emerging economies that forge the main drivers of worldwide economic growth. Over the last two years, the developed countries lost $920 billion in GDP while the emerging countries gained $360 billion; the developed countries lost 14 million jobs while the emerging countries gained 22million.
The debasement of many western currencies revives the status of gold and the conference will quick –off with a fresh macro forecast that sets the prevailing environment to Family Wealth Management in the next decade or so.
As Brazil takes off, so do the Brazilian family-owned businesses that are transitioning to the second generation and therefore need to rethink their corporate and tax structures and align the shareholders interests through shared code of conduct and properly defined rights and responsibilities of the partners.
Managing the intersection of family issues with family business operating structures and family wealth is not an easy task and the creation of a family office with the primary role to establish and utilize best practices to ensure wise long term management of the family wealth for current and future generations is highly desirable and has been a proven investment.
In a recent single family office survey conducting by IESE Business School, Barcelona, and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and supported by MGI, findings have highlighted that multi-billions family offices with higher control of the family wealth and involvement in operations show better performance than others.
The role of the family in Brazil is key and networking with the family members essential.
There exists like in other countries a dependence-independence tension between the immediate family and the extended family and therefore enabling & enhancing communication amongst family members is paramount as well as reflecting the different perspectives and stages of life of two generations. We will bring you live a useful family case-study presented by a next generation family member who created with a peer family an innovative platform to foster family communication. Asia, Europe and Brazil it-self are increasingly the destination and the source for investments; consequently the conference will give an insight of co-investment opportunities addressing the structuration of investment vehicles including the tax aspects. In many respects the consequences of the financial crisis prone for more transparency and discard offshore non transparent financial centres and structures. New EU regulation such as the AIFM Directive aiming at regulating alternative investment funds and their managers will have far reaching consequences for cross-border investment and is therefore to be taken seriously into consideration when comparing offshore to onshore jurisdictions.
Finally, in the interest of both Latin American and foreign investors and participants, the conference will give a strong overview of the VC/PE drivers in Brazil and in comparison with ROW. Understanding the mindset of prominent Brazilian PE investors is paramount to forge a deep VC/PE market in Brazil.Yours Sincerely,  François Golbery
Chief ExecutiveOfficer
MGI SWITZERLANDS.A. PROGRAM
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