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Zev Mandelbaum, chief executive officer and president of Toronto-based Altree Developments: “Our family history is one of resilience and perseverance. Both sides survived the Holocaust, and my grandfather got knocked down repeatedly over his life and business career, and always got back up.”

How Zev Mandelbaum’s developer family aims to avoid ‘shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves’

Toronto-based CEO of Altree Developments is a third-generation member of the family behind H&R REIT

June 27, 2024
Family Business

A photo collage: Left, father Jacques Maurice, who established the Jacques Maurice Group, now with over $9 billion dollars of AUM; and son, who founded the Guillaume Maurice Group in 2017, where he handles the discretionary management side, with AUM of about $800 million and average portfolio size ranging from $250,000 to $20 million.

Gaining trust of father’s clients one key to son’s success

Montreal wealth manager Guillaume Maurice shares what he learned from dad before founding his discretionary management firm, trends in clients’ needs, and what he might invest in

June 25, 2024
Family Business

Claudine Blondin Bronfman and Stephen Bronfman (grandson of Samuel Bronfman, of Seagram’s fame) created the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation, which supports a variety of local, national and international programs with an emphasis on creating and innovating.

Claudine and Stephen Bronfman have donated over $100 million

When Claudine Blondin married into Montreal’s Bronfman family, she pivoted from a marketing career to work with her own and the larger family’s philanthropy

March 28, 2024
Philanthropy

A photo illustration of a child's hands holding the world, with diffuse lights in the background. Changing the world through philanthropy requires a thought-out plan.

Family giving: From personal tragedy to family legacy

Stories of family giving and advice on how to approach philanthropy from archive stories in Canadian Family Offices

December 22, 2023
Philanthropy

From left: Jyoti Stephens, vice-president of mission and strategy; Arjan Stephens, president; Arran Stephens, chair and co-founder, and Ratana Stephens, member of the board of directors and co-founder of Nature’s Path.

Nature’s Path: how next gen was inspired to lead at firm

Richmond, B.C.-based breakfast and snack-food company grew from a journey to India and a meeting of the minds around sustainable food

November 20, 2023
Family Business

Straight from real business families: how not to mess up the next gen

Ten recommendations for fostering intergenerational dialogue and engagement, based on advisor interviews

October 13, 2023
Commentary

How can a family’s generations better stick together? ‘Generative alliance’ to the rescue

Key family-office advisors form a critical glue that helps families thrive together and survive transitions

September 8, 2023
Commentary

From left, siblings Gavin Brauer, Kerry Grossinger, their father Cecil Brauer, and sibling Dean Brauer.

Bikes and helping kids: the directions these family business next-gens took

How growing up in an enterprising family formed what the children of Cecil Brauer, an immigrant who built and sold a mattress business, ended up doing with their lives