Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family––How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual, and Financial Assets for Generations

James Hughes’ Family Wealth is not the financial how-to book the title suggests. It’s more philosophical — about what “wealth” actually means across generations, and why so many families lose it within three generations even when the money is technically still there. Hughes argues that the real wealth is human, intellectual, and social capital, and that money without those things falls apart fast. The framework around family governance, family mission, and treating the family as a long-term enterprise is genuinely useful, whether you’ve got serious money or just want to think about what you’re passing on. Some of it reads dry, and some of it reads like it was written for ultra-wealthy clients, but the core ideas translate down.

Libro fantastico

Libro buenísimo. Aún voy por la mitad pero me están gustando muchísimo. No trata de inversiones financieras directamente pero da mucho que pensar sobre la educación a tus descendientes una vez que tu patrimonio es elevado.

Good condition. Great book

James Hughes presents a very inspiring way of thinking about families, and of thinking about wealth. Most importantly, it helped me start to see things from a very long term perspective, which is the exact opposite, of course, of living hand-to-mouth. As well as many practical details, the book outlines a structure for planning the long term security, prosperity and fulfilment of your children, grandchildren and beyond, and thus at the same time creating an extremely empowering context for the things you are doing TODAY. Much recommended.