Concentration to resilience: founder diversification
A founder held most of their wealth in a single asset: the business they had built. That concentration had created the wealth, but it also carried it, as one event could reshape the family's position. They wanted to build resilience deliberately, without a forced sale and without stepping back from a company they still intended to help lead.
We designed a staged diversification strategy to bring exposure down at a measured pace rather than in a single step. The work was portfolio-led: reallocating realised capital across asset classes, building liquidity into clearly defined tiers matched to near-term needs and longer horizons, and shaping the whole around the founder's objectives and tolerance for risk. Good governance of each investment decision kept the strategy on course, with tax consequences weighed at every step.
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