New Podcast Episode Alert: Creating True Wealth and How Financial Planning Can Help Your Intentional Legacy with Vicki Wusche

Vicki Wusche, our guest for episode 14, has her own take on what constitutes wealth – Do you, too, want to live the way you want? What would you do if you never had to work another day in your life?
Read more

The COVID-19 Crisis – What are the Implications for Family Wealth?

Preliminary Observations & Opinions

by Sascha Janzen

as per 28/04/2020

Like most people, I am closely following the news and debates about the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the respective responses by governments across the world.

As a family business responsible for preparing investment advice and decisions, we keep asking ourselves what the ongoing COVID-19 crisis means for us and our investors. We are firmly grounded in property investment but are asking ourselves if and how we should re-allocate or diversify to be more robust in times of crisis. We are looking beyond the current challenges to position ourselves for the next phase of the crisis. Read more

Family Business Janzen & Co.

The Magic Moment We Became a Family Business

Following on from my previous post about how to define a family business, I remembered the moment when we became a family business.

Of course, bearing in mind my comments about the difficulty in finding a common definition of the term, the moment we “became” a family business was more in our minds than following a specific event that put our business within such a definition. Read more