NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY: HOW FAMILY OFFICES CAN PREPARE FOR TODAY'S COMPLEX RISKS
Global Guardian Founder and CEO Dale Buckner joined UBS Family Office Quarterly to discuss how family offices and organizations can prepare for today's increasingly complex risk environment.
"You need to have on a Rolodex, a phone number, and an email to write in and say, I have someone kidnaped, I have someone stranded, I have someone in a terrorist attack, I have someone in a natural disaster—and know that someone's going to go get them out of that environment."
Dale outlined three areas where family offices consistently fall short:
- Assuming insurance will cover a crisis when most policies exclude terrorism, natural disasters, and conflict zones
- Relying on situational awareness platforms that alert you to a problem without solving it
- Waiting too long to act when a crisis unfolds, when the first 48 to 72 hours are the critical window
Dale also addressed the growing cyber and digital privacy vulnerabilities specific to family offices, and why the threat environment families face today—from deepfakes to kidnap and ransom—looks fundamentally different than it did a decade ago.
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