By Lori Elliott, Retail Market Leader at First Merchants Bank A recent study revealed that more than a million older Americans lose $2.6 billion annually to financial abuse. The abuse comes from strangers, caregivers and even family members. In fact, AARP reports that about sixty percent of Adult Protective Services cases of financial abuse involve […]
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Protect Your Cash Cow by Choosing the Right Entity Structure for Your Family Business by Bea Wolper, Emens & Wolper Law Firm In a recent session of the Women in Family Business Peer Group at the Conway Center for Family Business, we discussed the importance of choosing the right entity structure to protect your family
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This is an excerpt from an article Conway Center Co-Founder Bea Wolper wrote for Columbus CEO: Setting aside politics and conflicts, the process of quickly transferring President-elect Trump’s interests to his children will be difficult at best—especially without the “journey of succession” that needs to occur when a family business transitions to the next generation. Successfully
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By Jennifer Griffith, Ohio-Area Regional President of First Merchants Bank Perceptions of value, convenience and ability are central to how we weed out the massive number of potential companies we choose to do business with. Knowing the importance of client perceptions, we recently engaged with Saperstein Associates to conduct focus groups with our retail customers
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From KeyBank, a Conway Center Service Provider.
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Our 18th Annual Family Business Awards and Expo will be here soon! Please join us for lunch on November 7th at the Hilton Easton as we celebrate the accomplishments of outstanding family businesses in Central Ohio. We will announce the winners and hear from our Family Business of the Year, Highlights for Children and our Lifetime
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By Jennifer Griffith, Conway Center Service Provider and Ohio Regional President of First Merchants Bank. Last summer, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced plans for a redesign of the $10 bill, marking the first time in more than a century that a woman will be featured on a United States bill. We will be joining ten other
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How do compaines engage and motivate employees? Don’t know? Come find out on March 19th at our next educational program facilitated by Skip Murray of Murray Associates. He’ll lead a discussion on “Keys to Engaging and Motivating Non-Family and Family Employees in oyr Family Business.” Skip really knows his stuff and will have a great panel of
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If so, you need to read this! Here’s a link to a guest blog post by Conway Center Service Provider Holbrook & Manter in Columbus CEO.
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From time to time, we’ll post Bea Wolper’s “A-Z Keys to Family Business Success” followed by a question from one of our members on the topic – here’s B: B – Board of Directors. This is the statutory group of people who make decisions about the direction and long term strategy for the company. The
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