FFI GEN Certificate

Professor Randel Carlock, INSEAD, and Ms. Carmen Bianchi, former FFI President, lead the 2010 workshop.	Multi-disciplinary dialogues to expand understanding of family business issues.
Our program participants earn their certificate in the FFI Global Conference in Brussels in 2012.

Program Features

In collaboration with the Family Firm Institute (FFI) in the United States, the Center successfully organized the first Certificate program in Family Business Advising / Family Wealth Advising in Asia in 2010. The workshops were over-subscribed and highly competitive participants were enrolled. These included managing directors at private banks, management consultants, lawyers, accountants, investment professionals, and academics. The participants came from Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, France, London, and Switzerland.

Who Should Enroll?

• Professionals: Lawyers, accountants, family office directors, philanthropy managers, financial advisors, management consultants, and psychologists
• Educators, including entrepreneurial/business professors, forum directors, and researchers
• Family business owners and next generations

GEN202 Families of Wealth: A Multi-disciplinary Approach

Goals

Participants in this seminar will:

• gain a firm understanding of the nature and complexities of families of wealth
• identify and explore management structures used by families of wealth
• appreciate the unique challenges and opportunities encountered by professionals working with families of wealth
• acquire a set of multidisciplinary tools needed to work with families of wealth

Course Outline

Lesson 1:     About Families of Wealth
Lesson 2:     Understanding and Recognizing Management Structures used by Families of Wealth
Lesson 3:     Challenges and Opportunities for Professionals Working with Families of Wealth
Lesson 4:     Case Study

Admission and Graduation Requirements

The course is scheduled on Wednesday, 9 December 2020.  Completion of GEN202 is one of the steps to the Certificate in Family Wealth Advising. You are also required to complete 3 other online modules. The details are as below:

Course Requirements

• GEN 101:     Family Enterprise (online by FFI)
• GEN 102:     Self in Systems (online by FFI)
• GEN 202:     Families of Wealth (by CUHK)
• GEN 501:     Myths, Realities and Trends (online by FFI)
• Attendance in the FFI Global Conference or CUHK's '50-50 Family Business Conference' on Tuesday, 10 December 2013.
• Mentorship program (optional)

For more information about the certificate, please refer to FFI’s website: http://www.ffi.org/page/traditional

Application and Fee

Standard Rate:     HK$18,000
Special Rate:       HK$15,500

The rate includes the course fee of GEN202 and a one-year FFI membership.  Special rate applies to early bird applicants (application by 22 November 2020), group applicants (3 or above nominees from a firm), FFI members, and CUHK-FBLN members. Participants will enjoy a complimentary admission to CUHK's '50-50 Family Business Conference'.

Application opens till  2 December 2020.

Enquiries

FFI Global Conferences

To encourage practice exchange and scholastic development, our Center works with program participants to present in the FFI Global Conferences:

• 'Next Generations in Asian Family Firms Seeking Funding to Initiate New Ventures: Why and How?' by Kevin Au, Paul Chung, Florence Ho, Anurat Kongtoranin, and Eric Landolt (Brussels, 2012) 
• 'Rising “Pink” Capitalists, Falling Family Enterprises? A Career Development Perspective in China' by Jeremy Cheng (Brussels, 2012)
• 'Co-developing the Ecology for Family Enterprising and Advising in Hong Kong and China' by Kevin Au, Jeremy Lu, and Jeremy Cheng (Boston, 2011)